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A96590	The discovery of mysteries: or, The plots and practices of a prevalent faction in this present Parliament. To overthrow the established religion, and the well setled government of this glorious Church, and to introduce a new framed discipline (not yet agreed upon by themselves what it shall be) to set up a new invented religion, patched together of Anabaptisticall and Brownisticall tenents, and many other new and old errors. And also, to subvert the fundamentall lawes of this famous kingdome, by devesting our King of his just rights, and unquestionable royall prerogatives, and depriving the subjects of the propriety of their goods, and the liberty of their persons; and under the name of the priviledge of Parliament, to exchange that excellent monarchicall government of this nation, into the tyrannicall government of a faction prevailing over the major part of their well-meaning brethren, to vote and order things full of all injustice, oppression and cruelty, as may appeare out of many, by these few subsequent collections of their proceedings. / By Gr. Williams L. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2665; Thomason E60_1; Thomason E104_27; ESTC R23301	95,907	126

veritatis occidi We conceive this to be so execrable an act and so odious to God and man that we are made thus miserable and abused beyond measure to have our Religion which is most glorious our Laws that in their own nature are most excellent The miserable consequences of their wicked doings 1 Mischiefe and our Liberties that make us as free as any Subjects in the World under false pretences and the shadows of religion lawes and liberties to be eradicated and fundamentally destroyed whereby 1. We are made a spectacle of scorne 1. Mischiefe and the object of derision to our neighbour Nations that formerly have envied at our happinesse and we are become the subject of all pitty and lamentation to all them that love us 2. As in the Roman civill wars in the time of Metellus 2. Mischife the the son did kill his own Father so now by the subtilty of this faction we are cast into such a war as is 1. A most unnaturall War the son against the Father and the Father against the Son the Earle of Warwick fighteth for the Parliament and my Lord Rich his Son is with the King the Earle of Dover is with the King and my Lord Rochford his Sonne with the Parliament so one brother against another as the Earle of Northumberland with the Parliament and his brother with the King the Earle of Bedford with the Parliament and his brother with the King Master Perpoiat with the Parliament and the Earle of Newark with the King Devoreux Farmer with the parliament and his brother Thomas farmer together with his brother in law my Lord Cockain with the King and the like and of Cosens without number the one part with the King and the other with the parliament and if they doe this in subtilty to preserve their estate I say it is a wicked policy to undoe the kingdom which all wise men should consider 2. A most irreligious war when one Christian of the same professed religion shal bath his Sword and wash his hands in the bloud of his fellow Christian and his fellow protestant that shal be coheire with him of the same Kingdome 3. A most unnaturall irreligious and barbarous Warre when the Subject shall shal take Armes to destroy or unthrone their owne liege a Religious and most gracious King 3. 3 Mischiefe The Service of God in most Churches is neglected when almost all the ablest gravest and most O thodox Divines and Preachers are persecuted plundered imprisoned and driven to fly as in the time of the Arian or Donatist which was worse than the heathen persecution from City to City to wander in Desarts from place to place to save themselves from the hands of these Rebels against the King and persecuters of Gods Church which is a most grievous and a most cruell persecution far more generall than that of the Anabaptists in Germany or of Queene Mary here in England the Lord of Heaven make us constant and give us patience to indure it 4. 4 Mischiefe The whole Kingdome is and shall be yet more by the continuance hereof unspeakably impoverish'd and plunged into all kind of miseries when the I'ravailer cannot passe without feare nec hospes ab hospite tutus the Carrier cannot transport his commodity but it shall be intercepted the Husbandman cannot till his ground but his horses as my selfe saw it shall bee taken from the Plough and his Corne shall bee destroyed when it is ready for the Sickle which must be the fore-runner of a famine that is ever the Usher to introduce the Plague and Pestilence and all other kind of grievous Diseases and these things put together doe set wide our gates and open our ports to bring forraigne foes into our Coasts to possesse that good Land whereof we are unworthy because with the Israelites we loathed Manna we were weary of our peace and happinesse we would buy armes and be voluntiers and every Town being too wanton would needs traine and put themselves into a posture of defence as they termed it to be secured from their owne shadows and though the King told them often there was no cause of their Jealousies and therefore forbade these disloyalties yet just like the Jewes they were willing to be deceived by this miserable faction that contrived that Act whereby they have persidiously over-reached both our good King and the rest of our wel-meaning brethren either to perfect their designe or else to make themselves perpetuall Dictators and to betray the felicity of all our people under the name of Parliament which though as I said before I honour and love as much as any of the truest Patriots of either House both in the institution and the right prosecution thereof that is as it was constituted to be the great Councell of the Kingdome graciously called by his Majesties writ considently to present the grievances of the people and humbly to offer their advice and counsels for their reformation yet I doe abhorre those men that would abuse the word Parliament only as a stalking-Horse to destroy all Acts of Parliament and I hate to see men calling the fanatique actions of a few desperate seditious persons the proceedings of Parliament and others making an Idol of it as if their power were omnipotent or unlimited and more than any regall power their judgement infallible their Orders irreprehensible and themselves unaccountable for their proceedings to be so besotted with the name of it that this bare shadow without the substance for it is no Parliament without the King and the Major part of both houses is either banished or imprisoned Ingeniosus ad blasphemiant or compelled to reside with his Majesty should so bewitch us as Master Smith blushed not to say nothing could free us from our dangers but the Divinity of a Parliament out of our owne happinesse to become more miserable then heretofore this Kingdome hath ever beene by any civill War for if you will consider the Treasons and rebellions the injustice cruelty and inhumanity the subtilty hypocrisie lying swearing blasphemy prophanesse and Sacriledge in the highest pitch and many other the like fearefull sins that have been committed since the beginning of this Parliament by the sole meanes of this faction and observe the ill acts that have beene used by them to compasse things lawfull and the wicked acts that have beene daily practised to procure things unlawfull when by bloud and rapine and the curses of many fatherlesse and widowes they have gotten the Treasures of the Kingdome and the wealth of the Kings loyall Subjects into their hands and wasted it so that their wants are stil as notorious as their crimes wee may admire the miracles of Gods mercy and the bottomlesse depth of his goodnesse that the stones in the streets have not risen against them or the fire from Heaven had not consumed these Rebels that thus far and thus insolently had tempted Gods patience and provoked him to

the eager prosecution of our Sectaries to take off the Earle of Straffords head how he answered for himselfe the Bishops right of voting in his cause his excellent vertues and his death 1. 1. Impediment THey get Master Pym the grand father of all the purer sort and a fit instrument for this designe in the name of the House of Commons and thereby of all the Commonalty of England The Earle his charge to charge Thomas Earle of Strafford of High-Treason a high charge indeed and yet no lesse a crime could serve the turne to turne him out of their way because nothing else could subdue that spirit by which he was so well able to discover the plots and to frustrate the practices of all the faction of Sectaries for as the Jewes were no wayes sufficient to answer Saint Stevens arguments but onely with stones so these men saw themselves unable to confute his reasons and to subdue his power but onely by putting him to death and cutting off his head for that fault which Pym alleadged he had committed But then I demand how this great charge of high Treason shall be made good against him It is answered How sought to be proved that England Scotland and Ireland and every corner of these three Kingdomes must be searched and all discontented persons that had at any time any sentence though never so justly pronounced against them by him that was so great a Judge Yet conceited to be otherwise by themselves must now be incouraged and countenanced by the faction and most likely by this grand accuser to say all that they know and perhaps more then was true against him for what will not envy and malice say or what beast will not trample upon the Lion when they see him groveling and gasping for life in an unevitable pit and it may be compassed with so many mastife dogs I meane his enemies and discontented witnesses as were able to teare more then one Lion all to peices so by this meanes they are enabled to frame neare thirty Articles against him ut cum non prosint singula multajuvent that the number might amnze the people and thinke him a strange creature that was so full of haynous offences and so compassed with transgressions But si satis accusasse quis innocens The Earle his answer if accusations were sufficient to create offenders not a righteous man could escape on earth therefore the Law condemneth no man before he be heard what he can answer for himselfe and the Earle of Strafford comming to his answer made all things so cleare in the Judgment of the common hearers and answered to every article so well that his enemies being Judges they much applauded his abilities and admired at his Dexterity whereby he had so finely untied those Gordian knots that were so fouly contrived against him and as his friends conceived had fairely escaped all those iron nets which his adversaries had so cunningly laid my popular countreyman with the rest of the more learned Lawyers had so vehemently prosecuted to insnare him in the linkes and traps of guiltinesse and in breife the Lords who as yet were unpoysoned by the leavened subtilty of this bitter faction could finde not any one of all those articles to be Treason by any Law that was yet established in this Land sic te servavit Apollo so God delivered him as he thought and his friends hoped out of all these troubles Yet as a rivelet stopped will at last prove the more violent The nature of malice viresque acquirit ibidem and recollect a greater strength in the same place so rage and malice hindered of their revengefull desires will turne to be the more implacable quia malitia eorum excaecavit eos because the malice of men bewitcheth them and hath no end till it makes an end of its hated foe therefore those men that hated and maligned the Earle like the Jewes that because their tongues could make no reply to the just defence of the holy Martyr Act. 7.51 guashed upon him with their teeth and stopping their eares ran upon him with one accord all at once because they had no Law nor learning to make those articles treason they say with the Poet hac non successit aliâ aggrediemur viâ seeing we failed herein we will attempt another way and to that end they frame a Bill of attainder against him and this if it passe by the major part of both Houses and have the royall assent will bring him to his iust deserved death and herein I will not say they shewed themselves worse then the Iewes because that when their malice was at the hichest pitch against Christ they said we have a Law and by our Law he ought to dy and these haters of the Earle seeing they had no Law will have a Law to be made that shall bring him unto his death because the House might have reasons which my sence cannot conceive Yet some of his friends have said that after a former prosecution according to Law to make a new Law where there was none before to take away a mans life is almost as bad as the Romance Law The rubs of the Bill how taken away that I read of to hang him first and then judge him afterward to whom I assented not and not many lesse then 60 worthy Members of the House of Commons would never yeild to passe that Bill it had a greater rub among the Lords where it is not thought upon any slight conjectures it had never passed but that this rub must be taken away by a new device for that the faction judging some of them might be more timorous then malicious and remembring that primus in orbe Deos fecit timor feare is a powerfull passion that produceth many strange effects the Apprentices and Porters Water men and Car-men and all the rascall rout of the ragged Regiment were gathered together by some Chedorlaomer came as they did against Christ with swords and staves without order with great impudency to awe them and to cry for Iustice against him and this was done and done againe and againe untill the businesse that they came for was done a course not prevented that may undoe all Justice and bring us all to be undone And yet all this will not do this deed untill the King passeth His assent The Kings great paines to search out the truth for as yet the new Law of orders and ordinances without the King was not hatched and the good King having so graciously so indefatigably taken such care and such paines in his owne person every day to heare and see all that could be laid unto his charge and how he had answered each particular was so just and of such tender and religious conscience that he was not satisfied as men conceived with the weight of those reasons that were produced to passe the same therefore here I finde another Stratageme used such as

doth not make their hearts to tremble if their consciences were not seared to be senslesse of all fear 2. 2. To whole Nations The sin of sacriledge extendeth it selfe not onely to the persons committing it but also to the whole Nation that suffereth it as the sin of Achan was not onely a snare to catch him to be destroyed but it troubled all Israel so that they were still discomfited and never prospered till the sacriledger was punished and the Lord appeased If you say the sin is taken away when the Parliament takes these things away I answer that we must not idolize the Parliament as if it were a kinde of omnipotent Creature and like the Pope such an infallible Lord God upon earth as that their Votes and Sanctions were the supremest rule of justice that cannot be unjust because they are enacted by the whole State because as no conclusions are therefore truths because determined by a whole Counsell so no Lawes are therefore just because done by a whole Parliament but when they do agree with the common rules of truth and justice which God hath given unto men and shewed the same in his holy Word which he hath left to be the right rule of our actions And therefore if the greatest Assemblies Parliament or Counsell make not the will of God the rule to guide their proceedings thereby their Sanctions are so farre from taking away the nature of the sin that they do increase the evill and make it the more out of measure sinfull and to become a nationall sin that before was but personall and the more exceedingly sinfull when the same is confirmed by a Law so that none dares speak against it and the sinners are become senslesse in their sinnes and therefore the Prophet demandeth how any man that feareth God dares meddle with such a people that will thus justifie their sinnes saying Shall the throne of iniquitie that is any unjust course have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by a Law And the Lord doth extremely threaten them that walke after unrighteous ordinances as that they should sow much but not reap tread the olives but not anoint themselves therewith Mich 6.15 16 Hos 5.10.11 and sweet wine but not drinke it because the statutes of Omri are kept and all the workes of the house of Achab and they walked in their counsels and the Prophet Hosea doth more fully set down the wrath of God both against the makers and the observers of all unrighteous Lawes If you say Object the Lands and Lordships of the Bishops were not the patrimonie of the Church but were onely in superstitious times given by our Kings and others unto the Churchmen and therefore now the King being in want they may be restored to the Crown again I confesse the Lands of the Church are the free bequests of godly Kings Sol. and of other pious men dead long ago with most fearfull imprecations made against all those that should seek to alter their Wils and Testaments and the Apostle saith If it be but amans Testament no man altereth it that is Gal. 3.15 no honest man ought to alter it though perhaps his Will might have been made wiser and his goods bestowed to better use for our Saviours maxime when he gave a Penny to him that laboured but one hour and but a Penny to him that had endured the heat of the day is unanswerable Is it not lawfull for me to do what I will with mine own and therefore 1. As others daily leave their estates of great amount to whom they please many times to strangers perhaps to idiots or debauched persons of wicked lives and noxious manners and yet no man grudgeth or endeavoureth to take away those just Legacies which their good Benefactours had bestowed upon these unjust men so there is no reason that any mans eyes should be evill for the goodnesse of their Ancestours unto the Clergie but that their Wils should stand to those uses after their death as intemerate as if they were now alive to dispose of their beneficence 2. They are most injurious to the King who is wise as an Angel of God and therefore holdeth this sacriledge odious to his princely heart that would seek to enrich his Crown with that which will shake it on his head and endanger all his Posteritie to such fearfull judgements as his Progenitours have denounced and God hath executed upon many Kings and Princes for the like sinnes for as Moses prayeth against the sacrilegious enemies of Levi Deut. 33.11 Smite through the loines of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not again so we finde that many ancient families having by the Statute of Dissolution taken some of the Lands and Tithes of the Church into their possessions Pierius in Hieroglyph have found the same like the Gold of Tholous or the Eagles feathers pernitiosa potentia that will consume all the feathers where they shall be mingled Who so is wise will consider these things Aelian l. 5. c. 15. Var. Hist and will not to satisfie these Anabaptisticall dregges of the people and the enemies of all Christian Religion sacrilegiously take away with Aelians boy the golden plate from Dianas Crown the Lands and Revenues of the Church but having not so learned Christ they will do that which becommeth Saints and suffer the dead to enjoy their own will in that wherein they put them to no charge and if they do intend to promote Gods service they will not rob Saint Peter to pay Saint Paul but will rather say with holy David God forbid that I should offer sacrifice to God of that which cost me nothing 15. As any wooden Preachers like Jeroboams Priests de face plebis scarce worthy to be compared with the Groomes of their stable Iob 30.8 or such humi serpentes poor abjects as Job speakes of The sonnes of villaines and bondmen more vile than the earth they crawle upon are fit enough to be their teachers and beggarly pensioners so any place a thatched barue a littered stable What prayers and Sermons please these men or an ample Cow-house is thought by these to be very fair and fit to be the House of Him that was borne in a stable and laid in a manger and any service prayers without sense such as our Saviour blames and preaching without learning without truth such as their Euthusiasts conceive in illa hora quicquid in buccam venerit without any further studie of meditation is justified to be most acceptable to God witnesse the Authour of one argument more against the Cavaliers where that great Scholar in his own opinion railes against our grave Bishops and most impudently reproacheth a very reverend man of known worth and great learning by the scandalous epithite of The ceremonious Master of Baliol Colledge Doctour Lanrence whom for a most learned and pious Sermon preached before the King upon these

words of Exodus Put off thy shooes from thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground he doth just like the eldest son of his dear father the devill as Tertullian calleth Hermogenes primogenitum diaboli most falsely and shamelesly charge him with the wearing of consecrated slippers which was never done but is one of those scurrilous invented imputations of this malicious Accuser of his brethren now thrown at him whose shooes either for learning or pietie I am sure this rambling Arguist and railing Rabsheka is not worthy to bear and for the service of God in our Churches Musicke ever used in the Church thogh the holy Prophet which was A man according to Gods own heart praised God in the beautie of holinesse upon all the best instruments of musicke and commanded us as well in the grammaticall sense as in the my sticall sense Psal 147.1.149 3. 150 3 4 5. to sing praises unto our God with Tabret and Harpe to praise him in the sound of the Trumpet in the Cymbals and dances upon the well tuned Cymbals and upon the loud Cymbals yet this zealous Organomastix gives us none other Title than Cathedral Roarers and Squeakers Pag. 14. and good reason it is he should be very angry with roaring and squeaking in Churches for that having been possest of a very competent Living with cure of soules these four or five yeeres together if I am not mistaken in the Authour he never yet either read or preached in that or any other Church so necessary is non residence and so usefull are dumbe dogges when they are willing to snarle and barke against Government and Religion but it is strange to me that such a divine harmonie which hath made others sober Musicke how usefull should make this spawn of the red Dragon mad for we know some Lawgivers commanded children to be taught 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Theodorie Epist l. 2. Plutarch de Musica after the grave composed tones of the Doricke way ad corda fera demulcenda to soften the fiercenesse of their dispositions and All mentis fervorem temperandum to cool and allay the hear and distempers of their mindes as Achilles was appeased in Homer Niceph. l. 12. c. 43. and Theodosius was drawn to commiseration luctuoso carmine by a sad poëm sung to him at supper when he intended the utter destruction of Antioch and the Scripture testifieth the like effect of Davids harpe in King Saul yet all this sweet and hallowed aire which ravisheth devout soules hath onely filled this envious Malignant with nastie windes and stinking expressions So contrary to the words of God himselfe Exod. 3.5 and against the judgement of all Divines and the practice of all Saints â primordiis ecclesiae from the first birth of Gods Church Pag. 15.18 he most ignorantly denieth any place to be holier than another which makes me affraid that Heaven with this man and his faction is deemed no holier than Hell or the Lords day no holier than monday no more than they hold the Church holier than their barnes or the holiest Priest though he were Aaron himselfe the Saint of the Lord holier than the prophanest worldling for I finde no difference that they make either of persons times or places but such a commixtion of all things as if they intended to reduce and bring the whole world into that confused Chaos which God first created before he disposed the parts thereof into their severall stations But I am loath to spend any more time about this ignorant ' Argument that is as all the rest of their Writings are as full of railing and unsavoury speeches as any mortall pen can diffuse therefore Heave him to do with his heart and mouth as that Morussian Cabares whereof he speaketh did with those Churches which the Gothes and Vandales had defiled Thus you have some and I might adde here abundance more of their absurd impious Doctrines which their ignorant simplicitie produced and their furious zeal published out of mis-interpreted Scriptures not that all these points are taught by every one of their Teachers but that all these many more are taught and maintained by some one or other of them as I could easily expresse it if it were not too tedious for my Reader but the bulke of my Book swels too big and their fancies are but Dreames fit for laughter and I brought these onely as Vineger to be tasted and then to be spit out again CHAP. X. Sheweth the great Bug-beares that affrighted this faction the four speciall meanes they used to secure themselves the manifold lyes they raised against the King and the two speciall questions that are discussed about Papists 5. 5. The setling of the Milit. a. FOr the setling of the Militia and putting the whole Kingdom in a posture of Defence as they termed it 1. They dreamed of a desperate Disease 2. They devised an empericall way to cure it and 1. 1. The disease The Disease was a monstrous fear of Poperie and the re-establishment of abolished superstitions in our Church to invade their consciences and of the Papists with fire and sword to wast their estates and to take away their lives and liberties and through that groundlesse feare they looked on the innocent ceremonies that were established in the Church as dangerous innovations and introductions to idolatrie And in the State they feared the practised wayes and endeavours to produce an arbitrary government by our advancing of a boundlesse prerogative even to the dispoyling of the Subject of his property and robbing him of the benefit of the laws these were their feares And the grounds of these feares were lying fictions and most scandalous detractions and defamations for their invented letters that should come from Holland and from Denmarke and some other places beyond the Seas where we were better believe them then go try whether they were true wh ich informed them sometimes of a fleete of Danes sometimes of another Nation that should come to assist the King for the setting up of Popery and the securing of himselfe in a tyrannicall and arbitrary government over them What terrible things frighted them and every day almost produced a discovery of new treacheries against the Parliament what terrible things frighted them as the stable of Horses under ground for indeed they were invisible Horses such as Elisha's servant saw terrifying their guilty consciences and that of the Taylors in Moore-fields and the like horrid machinations that were to come against them I know not from whom and God knowes from whence which things how false they were time which is the mother of truth hath long agone made manifest and ridiculous to any man that is not bewitched with these lying fancies therefore lest these dreames of their distempered braines should be too soone descryed and so prove defective to produce their intended project they alleadge the Queene is a Papist and I would to God they were