intelligence with the Cardinall Mazarine Though I will not swear saies he that Lenthall says true yet I am sure 't is fit for thee to know Pap. 1. Here was another Clandestine businesse And further he doth consult with her about supplies of Men Monies and Powder for defence of his life against them of Westminster Pap. 3. and gives her direction for the conveyance of it in some other Papers a businesse Clandestine and shrewd too And in Paper 6. he assures her in private that Hertogen the Irish Agent was an arrant Knave a particular which might concerne the men of Westminster and touch them more close then perhaps every body will yet beleeve Besides in most of these Letters we shall finde the King and his Queen comforting and supporting each other under their heavy burdens with mutuall intimation of perfect love and patheticall expressions of conjugall affection All which are notable proceedings indeed against them at Westminster and great obstructions to their endevours which are to breake the Hearts of both and sinke them to their graves presently And thus we see the nature and danger of the first particular in the Charge concerning Clandestine proceedings which are so evident that we can say nothing against it The 2. followes the proof whereof is more and obscure and that is condemning all that are in any degree Protestants in Oxford by which they would have it beleeved that the King is so great an Enemy to Protestant Religion that his very friends at Oxford who have forsaken all they had for his sake are hated by him for their Religion sake so many of them as are Protestants in any degree But how this is manifest in these his Papers we are to seek for though these men have forehead enough to affirme it yet their fortune is not good enough to prove it Indeed we find the King in his Letters to Ormond Paper 16. and in his Directions to his Commissioners at Uxbridge taking great care and giving strict Charge for the preservation of his Protestant Subjects in Ireland but in no place can we see so much as a sillable tending to the condemnation of Protestant Religion But these men cannot leave their old trade of Taxing the King with their own Conditions Heaven and Earth can witnesse that never was there in England greater enemies to Protestant Religion then themselves have been never was there so much Protestant Bloud spilt in this Nation since the beginning of the world as hath been by their meanes within these foure years Never was London so full of Prisons never the Prisons so full of Protestant Divines Protestant Nobles Gentry and Christians of all sorts as they have been since these good men kept Court at Westminster Besides how they have Countenanced and brought into the Church all kinde of Sects and Heresies to the ruine of Protestantisme which the King for the Honour and Health thereof was alwayes carefull to suppresse and keep out How have they maintained and preached Doctrines of Devills scil of strife murder of Brethren Rebellion against Princes oppression of neighbours and practised the same which are all directly opposite to the Religion of the Protestants How have they abolished the Book of Common-Prayer established by Parliament to be the Protestants publick forme of Worshiping and serving God in this Kingdome Had the King done but any one of these things or were he not himselfe a most constant and zealous Professour of Protestant Religion in his daily practice these men might happily have had some Colour for this their confident Charge against him and so to have created suspitions of him But seeing all things are so cleare contrary we learne onely thus much from this particular on their charge that they are men whose hearts are not overspiced with honesty They passe not what they say nor with what face so they say no truth The third particular which they load their King withall is Tolleration of Idolatry to Papists which they speak as if Idolatry sub eo nomine were already allowed and set up by the Kings Authority in contempt of God and true Religion and so doubtlesse they would have it apprehended Reasonable men will yeild that there is a difference betwixt Idolatry and the Penalty thereof the penalty may be suspended altered or taken away for the time and yet the sinne it selfe not tollerated or allowed These doubty Champions will not yeild that their Parlia have granted a tolleration to Adultery though they have abrogated the penal Lawes against that sin and so taken away the meanes to punish it Nor can they prove that the King hath promised any more to Papists then the Parliament hath already granted to fornicatours In their after-notes where they make repetition of this matter they referre the Reader to Paper the 8. for their ground of it In which we finde the King relating to His Queen how the English Rebells had transmitted the Commands of Ireland from the Crowne of England to the Scots an expression worthy by the way to be observed by all Englishmen that regard the honour of their Nation considering that the King Himself is a Scot and that the men of Westminster intend if they cannot kill Him to thrust Him and His Children as some of their Hang-bies have whispered to His Ancient Inheritance in Scotland when they have made use of His People of that Nation to help to destroy His Kingly Power here not one Scot of them all shall have any footing or any more to doe in this Kingdome I say considering this every true Englishman hath cause most highly to reverence the King for His Justice unto and His care of the dignity of the English Crown But to proceed the King tells His Queen that by that Act that base and ignoble act He found Reformation of the Church not to be as they pretended the end of this Rebellion and concludes it would be no piety but presumption rather in Himselfe not to use all lawfull meanes to maintaine His righteous Cause And as one mean to that purpose not thought of before He gives His Queen leave to promise in His Name that all penall Lawes in England against Roman Catholicks shall be taken away as soone sayes He as God shall inable me to doe it upon this Conditiion so as by their meanes I may have so powerfull assistance as may deserve so great a favour and inable me to doe it Now how truly from these words that accusation is collected let the Readers Judge Here they see is no absolute grant or tolleration of Idolatry as they pretend but only a conditionary promise of withdrawing the penall Statutes against the Papists His Subjects if by their meanes He may be delivered from this bloudy raging and malicious persecution of the Puritans and settled in His power and throne again And well may the Papists expect as much favour from the King for such a service as Adulterers have had already from the Parliament gratis Nor perhaps
oppose God whose Vice-gerent the King is and indeavour in vaine to doe a great work without him I desire the English Protestant Nation to think seriously of this 1. Sam. 11. 2. 2 King 20. 2 King 18. 29 30. Libell §. 1. 2. Gen. 4. Gen. 10. 1 Sam. 19. 2â— Act. 9. 1. 2 Sam. 16. Mic. 7. 4. §. 3. * And I hope through Gods mercy to them in Gods time they may to their own eternall comfort honour the recovery of the Kingdoms lost glory Nemo parere gnarus nemo imperare Strenui lingua multi ignavifere omnes opera Denique in duribus ipsis non consilium non fides Lips 2. 3. Jer. 5. 4. Rev. 13. John 19. 11. 1 Pet. 4. 17. Jer. 8. 6. Isay 26. 11. §. 4. Psal. 73. Jeremy 12. Jer. 5. 26 27. Hab. 1. 13. 15 16. Rev. 12. 14. Rev. 13. 13 7. Dan. 11. 36. c. Esay 53. 4. Luke 24. Act. 28. 3 4. Luâ—e 13. 2 3. §. 5. Isai. 36. 10 19. Fox Martyâ—ed â—ypr dâ— Valer. in his Book called The lives of Popes Stulius ab eventu sacta notanda pâ—â—at â— Sam. 4. Heb. 10. 39. Libell §. 1. 1 Thes. 5. 21. §. 3. * Pag. 80. 1 Sam. 26. 19. 1 King 2. §. 2. §. 3. Libell §. 1. Rom. 13. 4. * Yea all the bloud that hath been shed by them and by their meanes in this unnaturall war which themselves for no cause have raised not only against the Kings will but also against his person and his friends must and is by them laid to the Kings Charge their Militia successe perswade them to it Libell Fox Martyr Libell §. 1. Libell * This particular digression was inserted from my own observance of her Majesties goodnesse in France * This was written when the Duke of Yorke was either in Oxford or supposed to be there * It was generally believed when this was inserted that the Kings trusting the Scots with his Person could not possibly but make them ashamed to prove unfaithful but their late Act hath given all men to understand that though Judas for the love of money may keep touch with the Pharisees yet he is no fit or safe man to be of the Guard unto his Master * At Perin in Cornwal when the King defeated Essex and his Army * My selfe did heare in Avignion a Gentlemen belonging to the Cardinall Barbarine mention by name one of their Agents at Rome and how many thousand pounds a yeare he beleeved he did there spend in his Negotiation for them * Had His Great Councel shewn but half that zeal in their Master the Kings behalf as of late they have done in their owne concerning a like tumultuous businesse He had not departed from them * Luke 4. 30. John 18. 16. * Let the people observe by this how they have beene cheated 2 Sam. 2. 30. Rom. 9. 6. John 8. This was inserted be reason of the late Accident Lev. 19. 17. 2 Tim. 2. 25. Heb. 4. 15. Heb. 2. 10. Rom. 8. 17 Phil. 3. 10 Mat. 9. 3. 4 John 10. 33. Mat. 10. 36 10. 24 25. Luke 17. 1 2. Col. 1. 24 Heb. 12. 1. Luk 10. 32 1 Pet. 4. 13 Preface to Accomplishment of Prophecies Mâ—t 7. 1 2. Job 12. 7 8. In the Pref. at the beginning of the Book p. 5. l. 15. for commonly r. commendable and p. 6. l. 20. r. masked Joh. 1. 11. Act. 3. 14. Luk. 19. 14. Mat. 8. 20. Mat. 4. 3. Mat. 4. 68. Joh. 7. 12. Joh. 9. 29. Joh. 8. 48. 52. 10. 20. Mar. 3. 6. Mar. 12. 13. Mar. 2. 16. Luk. 15. 4. Joh. 8. 59. 10. 31. Joh. 11. 56. * Experience since this was written hath given a full confirmation to this particular Luk. 22. 67. Joh. 10. 20. Joh. 7. 48. Luk. 22. 67. Joh. 1â— 10 11. Joh. 13. 19. Joh. 18. 8. Joh. 11. 57. Mark 15. 28. Luk 23. 39. Mar. 9. 34. Zach. 139. Joh. 6. 66. Joh. 2. 24. 25. Mat 26. 40. Es. 63. 3. Isai. 63. 3. Mat. â—6 41. Joh. 10. 32. Jo. 11. 48. Joh. 11. 4â— Joh. 18. 29. 30. Joh. 19. 13. Mat. 27. 3â— Joh. 19. 29. * It is one of their Tenents that evill may be done to further a publick good and that only is what they so declare yea and some of them have vented their intentions to this purpose even since he hath been in their power in such black expressions as I tremble to â—ehearse Joh. 19. â— Esay 9. 16 â—at 27. 4. Joh. 16. 2 3. Esa. 6. 10 11. Act. 2. 40. Prov. 1. 10 c. Rom. 13. 7. Math. 17. 27. Math. â—2 21 * In the Charge against the Earl of Strafford Gen. 2533. Gen. 27. 19. c. 1 King 21. Fox Martirâ—logy 2 Pet. 1. 19. Esay 8. 20. Gal. 1. 8. * Yet that omission and change was by the Kings own selfe dictated and not by any Bishop and the Kings reason was because he judged that old phrase at that time the more improper he having then no children * See Mr Goodwins Book called Calumny arraâ—gned and cast about pag. 12. 13. 2 Tim. 3. 2 3. 2 Pet. 2. 10. Es. 39. 3. 7. Vers. 5. 2 Cor. 11. 13. 14. Es. 58. Jer. 7. 9. 10. Dan. 11. 38. Esai 66. 5. Joh. 18. 26. Act. 23. 21. * Besides the Oxford Reasons lately published which all the Assembly of Divines are never able to confute Gen. 41. 32. * Indeed this day this Scripture is fulfilled in our eyes Es. 8. 12. Heb. 13. 17. 2 Cor. 11. 13 Mat. 16. 2â— 2 Cor. 11. Act. 9. 1. Rom. 10. 1. 2. Esa 58. 1. Fox Martiâ—ol 1 Sam. 15. Gen. 39. 8. 9 Gen. 41. 40. * Consulere patâ—iae parcere afflictis fera caede abstinere tempus atque irae dare orbi quietem seculo pacem suo Prov. 30. 21. 22 Jam. 3. 17 Prov. 30. 28. Job 8. 14. * It begins to work already as evidently appeares by that free and broad language which in all places is uttered against you * People begin to see this now for they say the 80000l a moneth lately layed upon the Kingdom is to maintain a War against the kingdom the people must give so much to keep an Army on foot onely to awe and undo themselves Psalm 12. 8 See for all this and that which followeth Burtons Vindication of Independent Churches against Prynne his Brother * Calumny arraign'd pag. 33 2. 3. * I wish all his brethren of that Church were but men of his temper and spirit 2 Tim. 3. 4 5. 1 King 12. 25 c. * And for the peoples willing obedience to the same it was that they were so oppressed broken in judgement and had Gods curse like a moth or rottennesse seizing upon them witnesse the Prophet Hos. 5. 11. 12. * As the Remists among the Papists did set out a false and corrupt Translation of Scripture with Notes of their own upon it to make it speake for them so some here as is said are in hand with a like worke in the behalfe of their Faction Act. 8. 22. Jer. 18. 7. 8. Ezek. 22 30. Esa. 48. 9. 11. Ezek. 36. 12. Zach. 9. 12. Prov. 18. â—0 Psal. 12. 5 Jer. 30. 17. * God calleth himselfe the gatherer of the out-casts Esay 56. 8. Esay 66. 5. Mat. 28. 18. Mich. 7. 8. c. Gen. 4. 11. c. Gen 49. 6. Num. 16. 30. 31. 2 Sam. 17. 23. 2 Sam. 18. 9 Esa. 9. 21 Esa. 19. 2. Judg. 15. 4. Esa. 8. 9. 10. c. Jer. 50. 23. Esa 13. 14. c. Esay 10. 5. Esay 51. 22 23. Psal. 125. 3. Es. 10. 25. Deut. 32. 35. Deut. 32. 36. Esay 50. 10. 1 Sam. 30. 6. Esay 26. 11. 13. Psal. 119. 126. Dan. 5. 3. 5. Es. 36. 37. ca. 1 Sam. 17. 1 Thess. 5. 2. Es. 10. 6. 12. Esay 5. 21. 23 Gen. 50. 15. Act. 2. 3. cap. Zach. 1. 14. Obad. 12. Esay 16. 3. Jer. 48. 27. Read Esa. 16. and Jer. 48. Lev. 19. 17. Eccles. 11. 6. 2 Tim. 2. 26. 2 Cor. 12. 10. 1 Cor. 1. 27. 2 Thes. 2. 10. Esay 59. 8. Jam. 4. 7. Psal. 15. 4. Psal. 83. 16. Eccles. 3. 1. Math. 16. 22. 1 Cor. 6. 19. 1 Chro. 22. 16. Isal. 37. 1. 7. Vers. 2. Prov. 23. 17. Pro. 24. 19 c. Rev. 22. 20 21.
Accusers in so close obscurity that his sparkes if he had any in him to this purpose could not possibly flie abroad But let me ask a question did not the wisemen of the Kingdome quench these fire-brands to prevent the flame how came it then to break forth after they were extinguished had they lived been both at liberty and afforded their full concurrence could possibly the flame have been more great and detrimentall Againe why was not the imputation proved at least against Canterbury who lived almost three years after the war was begun when they wanted matter to put him to death Surely the Law hath so well provided in a case of this Nature that if there had been any such matter His Enemies should not have needed to solicite for the peoples Votes and Hands to get him dispatched But it was Canterburyes Honour to drink of his Masters cup The voices of the people and of the Priests prevailed And indeed these quenched fire-brands were so farre from kindling this fire that we apprehend rather they were quenched to this end lest they should have hindred it from being kindled When Charles was King and Strafford Deputy of Ireland and Canterbury Metropolitan of this Church we had no warres in England Straffords bloud we grant was a fire-brand which we with the King beleeve still burnes upon us his Prayers at his death to the contrary could not stop the cry of it from pulling downe of vengeance And Canterburyes bloud we feare will cry louder yet against the people of this Land who by giving their Votes where the Law gives none to take away his life have cryed out against themselves His bloud be upon us and upon our Children But say these men who never slandred any but their betters Strafford and Canterbury were two evill Councellours and yet Strafford and Canterbury dyed like two Christian Martyrs and might the latter end of their Accusers be but like theirs it would be their happinesse in one kinde and ours in another They chiefly incensed the King against the Scots but they did not stir up the Scots against the King in provoking them to an insurrection nor did they hinder the Kings Act of mercy and pardon towards them afterwards much lesse did they after that Act of Pacification with that Nation send for those Scots into England and hire them with English money to cut the throats of English men Had they been Councellours in such matters they had been ill Councellours indeed But say they Strafford and Canterbury endeavoured to submit all these three Kingdomes to a new Arbritrary Government and were duely executed for attempting that subversion of Law which the King hath perfected since It was wel they did but endeavour a new Arbritrary Government not erect it they did but attempt a subversion of Law not effect it but some others since their times have gone further and turned all Law into Vote and all Justice and Reason into Violence and Will For if there be this day in Europe a more Arbritrary cruel and butcherly Government then hath been exercised in England by some since Strafford and Canterbury were set aside from having to doe in the world my reading failes me if to take away lands estates goods good name and lives from men without any allegation of Law or reason but only the Parliament judgeeth so or the People will have it so if this be not Arbritrary Government I know not what is therefore if Strafford and Canterbury were justly executed as these say for attempting let all men judge how deservedly ought these others to be executed for accomplishing such designes But these men tell us further that the King hath since perfected that subversion of Law which those his ill Councellours had formerly attempted 'T is too well known that the customary way of these mens Honouring the King is by casting on him the scandall of their owne doings The Law we confesse is subverted and overthrown but the King can no more be said to have done the same then David could be said to have killedd Abner and Amasa because he was the Soveraigne to those sons of Zeruiah who did the deed and were so subtile and strong that he could neither restrain them from it nor bring them to condigne punishment for it And let all modest and ingenuous men observe how desperate and bold these men are in their aspersions against the King they affirme He hath subverted Law and walked in the Councell of the ungodly to the ruine almost of 3. whole Kingdomes They could have said no more if when the Militia and Power were in his sole hands things had been as now they are But we and themselves too can all witnesse that when the Parliament met no drop of bloud was yet spilt in Ireland no Commotions were stirring in Scotland for the King by his Grace and Goodnesse had allayed all nor was there any complaining of Souldiers nor plundering in the streets of England all the three Kingdomes were in peace and to continue them therein the King calls a Parliament and gives power to the Members thereof and encouragement withall to settle all things both in Church and Common-wealth for the Subjects benefit even as firmly as themselves who were intrusted and chosen by their fellow Subjects for that purpose could possibly devise He denyes them nothing in pursuance thereof suffers them to call all suspected officers and persons to account not excepting Strafford or Canterbury and further to assure His people of His strong desires to continue their happinesse He settles a Trienniall Parliament as the most speciall mean to prevent ill Councellours in after-times yet these Accusers tax the King of perverting the Law and speak as if the three Kingdomes had been at the very brim of destruction and quite ruined ere this if the power had not been taken out of His Hands by those who by their meeknesse wisdome and frugality have put all the said Kingdomes into a more hopefull condition of preservation as it must be beleeved though against all sense and experience then they were in before Indeed had those undertakers done that work for which they were summoned and called together the Kings good Subjects in all His Kingdomes might have had cause of mentioning their names with perpetuall Honour but they as it seemeth envying that happiness which their fellow Subjects were likely to enjoy by those new enacted Lawes and especially by the Trienniall Parliament fairly pretending other matters did get the same Act presently made uselesse by another for the continuation of this which hath created themselves as they suppose and intend perpetuall dictators and all their fellow Subjects perpetuall slaves For let these perpetuall great Councellours approve themselves never so evill and detrimentall to-Church and State yet the poore Subject must be forced by the Militia which they have got into their hands to beleeve them unerring for He shall have no benefit by the Trienniall Parliament to examine their doings
also noted the same that this was the course which Julian the Apostate took in his dayes He having a purpose as these have to ruine the profession of Christianity Used not the sword as Dioclesian did though these indeed to make the work more speedy doe act Dioclesian too but he took away the means of the Clergies subsistance knowing full well that if maintenance once failed the number of Preachers would not long continue The said Julian also would tell the Bishops and Pastors when he stripped them of all they had that in so doing He had a speciall care of their soules health because the Gospell commended Poverty unto them Such like flowts at the Doctrine of Christ doth often fall from lips of the Apostates of these days 5. By their pulling downe all Christian order and formes of publicke Worship and Service tending to decency and edification by casting down defiling and defaming the Houses of God turning many of them into Stables Slaughter-houses Prisons and Jakes they have made close-stooles of Fonts and Pulpits and done as bad to Communion Tables they have rent the holy Bible in pieces scorned at the Sacraments Baptized Horses robbed Churches of Sacramentall Utensils as Plate Linnen calling it Idolatrous and Superstitious because it had been only used in Christs service nay the poore innocent Bells because they have been the meanes of calling people together to Worship God and to adore the Saviour of the World must be pulled down and turned into Guns that they may be another while Instruments of destruction to the Members of Jesus this indeed as I read was the manner of the Turkes when they tooke Constantinople they melted the Bells into Ordnances In a word what ever evill or impiety the Enemies were wont to slander our Church withall these men have acted or suffered to be done by those whom they maintaine insomuch that now the Priests of Rome shall not speak only lyes as heretofore when they tell the people That in England they abolish Church Sacraments the meanes of Salvation they either raze or rob Churches wheresoever they come and make Stables of them that they will neither have Temples nor forme of Religion nor doe they serve God any way yea the English Nation is growne so barbarous that they are very Canniballs and devoure one another God knowes my Soul abhorres to thinke much more to name those things that are acted done amongst as nor should my pen be fouled with the mention of them were they not visible to so many eyes and did not necessity of defending impugned Truth and an abused Church restraine me But I would have all the Papists understand for to that end do I thus speak that we who are of the true Protestant Christian Religion do abhor and loath these practices as much as any and are persecuted to death by them that do them for our dislike of them 6. By their suppression and demolition of all Monuments of Christianity that there might be seen no more tokens of it in the Kingdome as if they intended that no man should be able hereafter to say this Land was once Christian The very festivall times when the Birth Death Resurrection Ascension of our Saviour is commemorated which next to the Preaching of Gods Word and Administration of the Sacraments have been the most speciall means to confirme mens faith in the History of Christ these they have inhibited and forbidden as if they hated his very remembrance Gods wisdome appointed the Feast of Passeover to be kept as an Ordinance for ever among the Jewes to minde them of their deliverance from Aegypt and to be a mean to assure their Children in after-Ages of the truth of that great mercy And the Church conceiving that our deliverance from sinne and Satan by the Birth Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ to be as a great a deliverance as that other and to deserve as well to be remembred did also apprehend that way or mean to be the best to convey the notice of it to Posterity which Gods owne Wisdome devised and that was by celebrating Annuall Festivalls in memoriall thereof but these men it seemes have resolved to the contrary for they will not have the same kept any longer in remembrance Nay that miraculous Thorne at Glassenbury which was wont to celebrate the Festivall of Christs Nativity by putting forth its leaves and flowers was cut in pieces by these Militia men that it might no longer Preach unto men the Birth day of their Saviour But what doe I speake of dayes and times and teaching Trees the very Doctrine it selfe which Christ himselfe taught and practised viz. the Doctrine of Peace Patience and passive obedience unto Princes is reckoned obsolete and uselesse by these men it was publickly maintained by a certaine worthlesse Member at a great Committee in the Checquer Chamber that such Doctrines were out of date in these dayes and had been onely proper to former times when the Church was in a low Condition and under the Persecution of Heathen Emperours Nay these men would not that any true Christian Protestant should have leave to live to relate unto posterity the Doctrine of his Saviour as seemeth by their doings their thirst for Protestant Bloud appeareth to be such as if they desired that all of that Profession in the world had but one Head that so they might cut it off at one blow for they have shed already more of it within these foure yeares then ever was shed in Great Brittaine since the world began and that for no other cause that we yet know for they never durst come to dispute it with us then for holding to the Doctrine of Christs Gospell because we will not contrary to that lift up our hands with them against our Soveraigne By these particulars and many others which I might alleadge it is evident what ever they pretend to the contrary that their endeavours are to destroy the Christian Protestant Religion Our Saviour doth warrant us to judge of men by their fruits wherefore t is no marvaile if the Reader being a true Protestant Christian be not well affected to that cause of Liberty and Religion which the two Parliaments of England and Scotland do seeme to maintaine SECT VIII 1. Of the feigned Combination against the Parliament 2. Our judgement of the Papists and of their assisting the King 3. Our abhorment of the Cruelties of the Irish and how they are out-gone by the English Rebells 4. Our Opinion of the Court Faction of what flock we are 5. How the Libellers call themselves the more beleeving sort of people BUt the Reason insinuated by our Subtile Brethren why men should be affected to that their cause is taken from the Consideration of the Persons against whom as they say t is maintained viz. against a combination of all the Papists of Europe almost especially the bloudy Tigres of Ireland and some of the Prelaticall and Court Faction in England That
all power and authority and what ever else is good upon the earth of right belonging unto them as their proper inheritance though hitherto it hath bin kept from them by usurpers such as Kings and Princes are and all others that be not of their Faction therfore if now by any means they can but be stated in their own rights it is very probable that they wil see the whole Kingdom destroyed rather then part with the same again for the Israelites did never deliver back the Aegyptian Jewels after they had once borrowed them nor did they ever resigne to Og the King of Basan his Kingdom any more when once they had gotten possession of it Ergo because these good hands are such sure hands such hold-fasting hands they would have the Militia setled in them Indeed we do remember that for the space of two seven years before this unhappy Parliament did begin vulgar hearts were seasoned with this Doctrine that Gods people only have a right to the things of this life and all others Kings and all are but usurpers of what they do enjoy and therfore may justly be dispossessed of the same by them who call themselves the people of the Lord. But we do not believe this to be a true Doctrine because Christ hath said His Kingdom or that which properly belongs to his people is not of this world Therfore we conceive the Argument and reason built upon the same to be neither substantial nor sufficient but only a bare pretence to gul the ignorant and to seduce the simple 2. They desire as they say to have the disposal of the Militia that so they may go through-stitch with their Reformation as they call it For say they it is an hard task we have undertaken and like to he long in doing for we shal meet with many rubs and therfore have need of Power to remove obstructions Indeed we grant that Rome was not built-in one day it was many years before she had gained her present height of wickedness and before â—he could reach the same she did wrest the Militia out of the Emperours hands wherby she was able to bring her Soveraigns neck under her Popes feet by making him glad to hold the stirrup And now a like design being here on foot it must be pursued in a like method the Militia must first be seised upon beside the doctrine of Christian obedience hath bin so long rivetted into peoples hearts that though it be shrewdly shaken already by these Militia-men yet it is likely to settle and appear again unless they have the strength continued in their violent hands to suppress and keep under the growth therof And then further too that Publick form and manner of worshipping God wherin people have bin bred and nourished in the Church hath bin so decent and Reverend that this beastly and slovenly way which these New Reformers as they call themselves would introduce in the room therof is never like to be wel digested and therfore as the Papists on the one side have need of a bloudy Inquisition to uphold their ridiculous fopperies and superstitious vanities in their worship of God so these on the other side have as much need of the Militia to maintain and force their unhandsome carriages and proud undecencies in their serving of him But these men pretending to reform a Christian Church do they not make use of a wrong instrument Was the Militia of kingdoms ever appointed of God to such an end We have always believed that the Word was the ordained mean for such a purpose the Sword of Christs mouth and not of mens hands must both cut sin from Christs members and subdue his enemies Had these men set up a faithful teaching Ministry in all parts of the Kingdom we might have hoped for some good by them but as that Pope who cast away his Keys and betook himself to his Sword so do they betake them to their iron and steel they desire the Militia of the Kingdom with which they persecâ—te and destroy the faithful Preachers and this they call Reformation Indeed Antichrist and Mahomet went this way to work for the erection of their Religions and our men coveting and exercising a like power to a like end may be truly called their Disciples whom they imitate we would fain have them declare unto us how this course which they take and which it seems by this their desire they are resolved to proceed in can possibly consist with that Religion whose root is truth whose branches are charity and whose fruit is good deeds both towards friends and enemies we find in Micah the Lord complaining of some wicked Heads of the people and false Prophet who jugling together did endevour to build up Sion with bloud and Jerusalem with iniquity and had got the Power and Militia into their hands to that purpose and that the silly people might think that God was wel pleased with that their way they would saies the Text lean upon the Lord and were so impudent as to say the Lord is among us or on our side But how did the Lord take this at their hands It follows in the next Verse For your very sakes saies God to them Sion shal be plowed like a field and Jerusalem shal become heaps and by those unfit means wherwith they pretended to build up the same was brought to pass its destruction Wherfore doubtless this second Reason which is alleaged to get the Militia setled in their Hands is not only weak but extreamly wicked and tendeth not to Reformation but to the destruction and ruine of Christian Religion and of the Nation Thirdly They pretend it would be for the Peoples greater preservation to have the Militia of the Kingdome setled in their own good Hands for say they we stand for the People we are the men whom the People have chosen and therfore it is most likely that we shal imploy the strength of the Kingdom best to the Peoples safety which above all things is to be looked unto Thus they speak and wel have they evidenced their pretended care for us the People since they got the sword into their hands for therwith the first thing they did for our preservation was Mustapha or Mahomet or Amurath-like to cut off fair Irenes head with whom indeed the whole Nation had formerly too much wantonized and what have they done beside but often strewed our fields and high-ways with heaps of mangled carkasses and filled our Channels with the spilt-out bloud of our murdred Country-men O wo wo and alas they have done that quod nulla posteritas probet quod nulla taceat what true English heart without most bitter Lamentation can think or speak of their doings What persecution What banishment What confiscation of goods What corporal bondage Yea What cruel tortures What merciless burnings What secret murders What publick massacres have they committed upon the people of this Nation only because they refused to renounce
nobis esse hic 't is better to stay at home and play 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then to adventure abroad How would the King then appear so abundantly glorious Do they imagine it could be any thing to his glory to have it reported in the Courts of forrein Princes that the Monarch of Great Brittain after twenty years managing his inheritance left him by his predecessours and weilding the Scepter of three Kingdoms to the great prosperity and wealth of his Subjects hath submitted himself to Pupillage under the Command of a few ordinary Gentlemen his own vassals at their requests who think themselves wise enough and therfore take upon them as his Tutors and Guardians to Govern not only himself and his Kingdom but also his very Family and Houshold they appoint him what Servants shal wait upon him and have power to dispose of his Children in marriage without his consent or if they please against his wil. Can any man think that such a report would speak the King in a Glorious Condition Would not Strangers reply and say Is this the Honour of the English King and his great Priviledge above other Princes He may enjoy it sure without Emulation no man wil ever envy him this glory But is this indeed the English mens kindness to their Common Father their gratitude for all their happiness and peace under him Is this the upshot of all their great promises to him Is this that Royal Prerogative that happy freedom which those who stand so much upon their own liberty can in their good nature find in heart to afford unto their Soveraign Would not the meanest of them all disdain to be in that Condition What Neither have Command over his Subjects nor yet over his houshold servants Neither have power to chuse a Wife for his Son nor to bestow his Daughter in marriage Must the Right Worshipful his Tutors and Guardians have the sole disposing of his Children No doubt but they wil have a care to match them into such Haggard stocks that the English Nation shal never more be blessed with any Right-bred Eagles Thus would Forreiners descant upon our Kings Condition should he yeild to the desires of these men and this they would have us believe would be to his great glory Yea and furthermore they have bin teaching the People ever since the Parliament began that the Kings office properly is but only to put in Execution what the Parliament shal Decree to see offenders punished according to the minde and pleasure of his great Councell From whence we learne that there is a preferment waiting for him if he have but a care to please his little Great Masters well and be dilligent to come when they call to go and do as they bid in lieu of his settling the Militia of the three Kingdomes in their hands they will bestow upon him the grand Executionership of the Kingdome which He and His after him shall hold of them and their successours quà m diù se benè gesserint which may be an Office not onely of profit in such Tyrannicall times as we are like to have under their Government but also of pleasure if the King will but put off his mercifull disposition and learne of them to delight in slaughter and shedding of bloud And thus we see what great Dignity and Glory upon his resignation of the Militia is like to be conferred upon Englands King But what man now not void of Reason considering withall the tearmes these Demanders stand in at the present with the King will not conclude this their pretence of making the King Glorious to be onely one of their Flouts which in their pride and bitterness they are pleased to put upon their Soveraigne even for his easiness and goodness in giving credit at first so far to their Oathes and Honesties as to suffer them already to over-reach him truly as a plain scorn we apprehend it for let them Answer us a question or too Would dutifull and loyall Subjects as they call themselves desire any thing in earnest of their Prince and not first lay down their Harness Do not these their weapons speak that by violence or dread they intend to obtain their purpose Have not these very men seized already by fraud and force upon that very thing without the Kings leave which they require of him to grant them Do they not by calling themselves the Militia declare Evidently that they account themselves the everlasting Masters of it Do they intend if the King shall think meet to deny their request to yeeld up presently that possession which they have already of the same We suppose not for they claime in their Tenents all earthly power and Authority to be theirs by right as they are Gods Children They are so bold as to say Gods Providence hath cast into their hands that strength of the Militia which by unjust meanes they have seized upon and they have entred into an Oath and Covenant in effect to keep the same in despight of the King and with it to suppress and destroy all them that shall ayde and assist the King to recover His own again And what is all this but as Micha speakes to oppresse a man and his House Yea a King and his Heritage and to resolve to continue in so doing even because they have gotten a power into their Hands But tell us O you pretenders to Piety where in the meane time is that Subjection to the King for Conscience sake which S. Paul calls for and that obedience for the Lords sake which Saint Peter requireth will you all hold as some of your fellow-members have maintained that these Precepts were onely in date in the Primitive times when the People of God lived under Heathen Persecutors and are of no concernment in these dayes now Gods people have got strength Or do you think the bare calling your selves His Majesties most Dutifull and Loyall Subjects a sufficient observance of those injunctions We beleeve neither of these excuses will satisfie Christ Jesus at the reckoning day But in the interim doth not your desiring the King that the Militia may be setled in your hands plainly infer that in your own Consciences you have done him wrong in seizing already upon it without his leave Surely if the right of settling it be now in him the right of seizing upon it before was not in you but you did a manifest injury to His Majesty in meddling with it against his will and a far greater yet you intend to do him by your resolving still to keep it by force if you may not have it confirmed by his Approbation unlesse you will yeeld that this your demand proceeds from the scorners Chaire you must of necessity grant us thus much But in very deed these men have other reasons for this their unreasonable request though they are ashamed to name them I shall do it for them for mine aymes are like those of Christ my Master in his preaching
away what ere he had to defend himself they made a shift to beat him with his own Weapons after four long years pursuit of him and what extraordinary matter is there in all this Nay some say too they had not prevailed then neither but that they plowed with the Kings Heifer as they also did in their taking those Townes and Castles which since they entred upon Had not some whom the King trusted been perfidious these great Conquerours had not been so prosperous Wherefore the case being rightly stated it was not altogether Victorious Sir Thomas Fairfax but partly also victorious treachery and victorious money which was the procurer of such their late extraordinary great successe And yet perhaps Sir Thomas Fairfax may be a right valiant man in his way as many other Commanders on that side are worthy all to be engaged in a more noble and righteous quarrell and I wish with my Soul for their Soules sake and for the honour of the English Nation that either the cause which they strive to maintaine were better or that their industry wherewith they maintaine it were not so good But that none may think that the extraordinary successe which these perverters of Order these underminers of Government have had and which these troubles of Israel these over-turners of Christianity do boast of is to be attributed to any goodnesse in their cause or to any Celestiall or Divine benediction upon it I shall desire them to consider of the true Grounds and Reasons of it I shall name only those that are most visible amongst which I might mention private divisions between our Chieftaines who to revenge themselves of one another seemed not to care what advantage they gave to the common foe nor what detriment to the King but this hath been too sufficiently yea too shamefully visible without further notice I might mention also the Indiscretion or inability of those who have undertaken to manage the Kings Affaires The greatest talkers sayes the Proverb are not always the wisest men He that can make a witty speech is not alwayes meetest to sway a Councell nor are men of quickest gust or relish always men of the best and sagest spirit 't is one thing to give directions for dressing of a good Dinner and another thing to give orders for the governing of a great Army Beside the Genius of some men is neither publick nor noble enough either to gaine or keep the Hearts of people who by a certaine instinct from above are most regardfull in troublesome times of those whom they apprehend to be most neglectfull of themselves Assuredly the King and his Cause both have received the greatest wounds from the hands of Friends I might also mention mens dishonesty in falsifying the trust imposed in them when they have by their oppression and violence beggered the people committed to their care by their excess and harshness weakened their hearts and loosened the joynts of Loyalty in them and made the places strong and fensible as if they had been there set only to enrich themselves and to make preparation for the Enemy and this being done their work were done they have delivered up all into the adversaries hand and so departed But to omit these and many more particulars which might be named which have occasioned that great success so gloried in I shall mention only three viz. Remisnesse in the best of ours Prophanenesse in the worst and Popular fury 1. Remisness The best on our side in generall being not armed or quickned with such stings of Hatred as they on their side are have been more heavy and dull in their opposite desires and inferiour to them in their attempts and practises They by tumbling and tossing like heaps of snow rowled up and down have grown great and mighty and we by our frosty coldness have given them leave to harden Whereby they are encreased to that stupendious heap we see though 't is possible yet that a thaw may come for rota fortunae is in gyro notwithstanding their present bigness they may be sensible of a diminution might but the glorious Sun-shine of Gods Countenance return again upon our Soveraign And yet perhaps this Remisness which I seeme to tax in these of ours hath been more from others restraint then their owne sluggishness for alas the chiefest care of too many amongst us hath been to damp the endevours of good men in such places where they might have been most serviceable yea to prevent if possible their being trusted or imployed at all for fear I think the Kings Affaires should thrive too well if such had had the managing of them many of the Kings friends as they have been called have been so faithfull to Him that they would neither do their own duties nor suffer others to do theirs having themselves deserved ill they could not abide that others should deserve better it hath been one of the hardest things for a known honest man to obtain leave of them since the Kings troubles began to doe His Majesty faithfull service yea I have heard it often said that the surest and speediest way for one to bring himselfe to ruine among many of the Kings men was to be more active and honest then others in doing the Kings worke Nay if a Minister of Christ hath but laboured earnestly and zealously in his proper way according to his Office in the behalf of God his Soveraigne and his Country He hath growne remarkable on the suddaine and been noted by many that should have encouraged him for an unsufferable fellow fit for nothing but for slaughter unless presently silenced and dismissed for they have cryed He will spoile the Kings Cause if let alone and make all the Souldiers stark Puritanes rank Round-heads or else stirre up all the people against us and all this but for his faithfull and true dislike of that which spoiled it Remissenesse therefore in good men is granted a mean to preserve their own safeties but withall t is undoubtedly one of the special things that hath damnified the Kings Cause and advanced that of the Enemy 2. As Remisnesse in some so prophanesse and high impiety in some others of our side hath weakned us and aided them t is a true saying A divine blessing doth alwayes accompany good causes where wickednesse and wilfull witlessenesse doth not bar against it but when either of these oppose the blessing is obstructed and alas Hinc dolor Hinc lacrymae hence also is the source of our sorrows and of our enemies good successe Sir Edwin Sands in his Europae speculum tells us that the Jewes in their speculations of the causes of the strange successe of worldly affaires doe assigne the reason of the Turkes prevailing against the Christians to their Blasphemies and horrid Oathes which doe wound the eares of the very Heavens and cry to the throne of Justice for Divine vengeance whereas the Turkes hate prophanation and will not suffer Christ to be
themselves in the hearts of these very men and of their Masters at Westminster that they may look with better eyes then ever yet they have done upon Charles their Soveraign whose honour they have pierced and may have better breathings then ever they have had after Christ their Saviour whose Gospel they have scandalized Amen SECT XX. What good use might have been made of these Letters Of the faults laid unto the Queenes Charge specially in loving her Husband I Have done with their Prologue to the Kings Letters and in a manner with their Annotations upon them too which for the most part containe but the same over againe with the mixture of more malice therefore in examining the one I have also in a sort dispatched the other Nor doe I love any more then needs must to busie my selfe in repetitions There are I confesse a few particulars in these their Annotations which as I remember have not been touched upon in the discussion of the former Generall these I shall cull out and only shew them which will be enough and so leave them to the world to be judged of They begin at the end of the Kings Papers their Observations thus Much use may be made of these Precedent Papers and many things therein will appear very worthy our notice In which they speak truth and had not themselves been of too spiderous a nature they might have made much good use of them indeed and have noted from them such dexterity of understanding such undantednesse of resolution such fortitude of spirit in adversity such conjugall faith and affections such paternall care and pitty to his people and such true Christian patience and piety to be in their Soveraigne as cannot be altogether Paralell'd at this day in any Prince of Christendome In a word these Papers speak our King to be compleatly a Councellour a Souldier a Gentleman and a Scholler and had he but trusted to himself more and lesse to the advice of others in the management of his Affaires thousands of his Subjects from these his Letters are most confident that his enemies had not now been triumphant But the notice of such mattters serveth not the turnes of these men nor can their coloured eyes see any thing of this nature in these Letters faults and errors only are thought worthy their observance of which they fancy they have espied great plenty in the King and Queen both The Queens faults though for shew sake they have branched them out into many particulars may all be reduced to one and that is Loving of her Husband Indeed they begin their Complaints against Her with saying She is implacable to our Religion Nation Government but they can instance neither in word or action to make the same appear conjecturall only they tell us afterward of her great care that our Bishops be provided for and the blessing of God be upon her for it they hope that people doe still beleeve that Bishops were enemies to all good and therefore if the Queen doth but manifest any respect to them in their present affliction and persecution it doth sufficiently speak her implacablenesse to our Religion Nation Government Well I wish with my soul that the men of Westminster had proved themselves no worse affected to our Religion Nation and Government then the Queen hath done for then I am sure they had all still been in a most flourishing and happy Condition But the Queen being the Kings Wife must help to bear her Husbands Burden of blame as well as Sorrow even as it shall please these His vassalls to cast it on Her Indeed they tell us also afterward out of Paper 27. that the Queen desires the disbanding of the Parliament in which perhaps they would have her thought an Enemy to our Religion Nation Government But we shall first read Her words and then we may judge whether they import such an interpretation the Queen writing to the King from York saith I understand to day from London that they will have no cessation and that they treat at the beginning of the two first Articles and afterward of the disbanding of the Army certainly I wish a peace more then any and that with greater reason but I would the disbanding of the perpetuall Parliament first and certainly the rest will be easily afterwards I doe not say this of mine own head alone for generally those that are for you and against you in this Country wish an end of it These be the Queenes words entirely She desires a peace more then any and in order to that she wisheth a disbanding of the perpetuall Parliament because otherwise peace is never likely to be had and this is not the judgement of herselfe alone but of all in generall that are both for and against the King in that Country wherefore if this be an Argument of the Queenes enmity against our Religion Nation Government then all those that are both for and against the King in that County of York-shire are Enemies as well as she because they joyne with her in wishing an end to the Warre and restoration of peace unto the Kingdome But by the way I wonder why they should Tax the Queen with implacablenesse to our Government is not that of our nation Monarchiall and that of our Church Episcopall and her Husband the Head and upholder of both can the Queen then be beleeved to be disaffected to either of these the men doubtlesse have lost their senses together with their Loyalty Concerning her Majesties affection to our Religion and Nation let me be bold though one of the meanest upon this occasion to give a Testimony unto my Country-men from mine own experience Those English Protestants who have been in France in these times of persecution cannot but witnesse the same with me and say That the Queen hath been to the uttermost of her power a most tender carefull nursing Mother both to our Religion and Nation in that her Native Kingdome for by her sole meanes and great industry we had places allowed us to meet together to serve God in even publickly after the English manner in each of which Gods Word was faithfully Preached on the Lords Day and truly read together with Divine Service twice a day throughout the week wherunto she was careful that her own Servants of our Nation and Religion whereof she hath many should duly and constantly resort which great priviledge and favour to us was looked on with much regret and spleen by some Jesuited Papists who wickedly reproached Her Majesty for the same exclaiming upon her for a Lutheran and a Protestant even because she had manifested such love to our Nation and Religion in providing for us these Sinagogues which rebukes and reproaches she good Princesse was content for our sakes to bear with meeknesse and patience undoubtedly it may be easily believed from this sweetnesse and goodnesse of her nature after her receipt of so many abuses from some amongst us that had our
their Soveraigne and his meeke and gracious carriage towards them since the beginning of these troubles related by themselves and their impudency therein noted pag. 224. Sect. XXV Their pretence of bringing Delinquents to punishment made a ground of the war the King acknowledged by his enemies to be on the defensive part His Majesties good opinion a long time of the Parliament objected as a fault against him by themselves The King makes no war against his Parliament evidenced This Conspiracy of Traytors at Westminster no true Parliament fully proved The conclusion of the answer to the Libell pag. 229. Sect. XXVI A true Parallel between the sufferings of our Saviour and our Soveraigne in divers speciall particulars pag. 241. Sect. XXVII A serious and brotherly discourse to the seduced and oppressed Commons of this nation their dangerous condition related divers speciall and necessary considerations propounded to their thoughts to perswade them to desist from their present ill way Their objection of keeping their Oath and Covenant to the pretended Parliament answered pag. 257. Sect. XXVIII A consciencious and home discourse to the pretended Parliament at Westminster who are evidenâ—ed to be neither Patriots to their Country wisemen nor good men Their Religion discovered to be nec una nec vera nec bona pag. 274. Sect. XXIX A consolatory speech to all the Loyall hearted that suffer for conscience sake in these times Arguments to assure them of Gods help in due time Foure markes to know the approach of that time how they are to demeane themselves in the mean time living and dying pag. 296. Post-script The reason why this book was not published sooner The necessity and benefit of writing books of this nature with an exhortation thereunto pag. 305. The End Jer. 26. 14 15. Rev. 12. 3. * A Book so called Printed 1643. * The stirrers up to a new Warre Job 32. 18. Mat. 21. 15. Luk. 19. 40. Rom. 5. 7. Rom. 5. 6. * Orcham or as some say Luther â—â— Joh. 3. 16. 1 Sam. 16. 9. Psal. 22. 6. Joh. 8. 44. Luke 6. 28. 1 Cor. 1. 27 28. * A Lover of his King * A Lover of his Country §. 1. Esay 8. 20. §. 2. §. 3. Rom. 1. 32. §. 1. Jer. 20. 7. 1 John 2. 16. Mat. 24. 24. 1 John 4. 1. Mat. 7. 20. Libell §. 2. Acts 23. 5. 1 Sam. 22. 2 Sam. 16. Esay 36. 11. Psal. 50. 16 c 1 Sam. 24. 4. 1 Sam. 26. 8. c. 1 Sam. 26. 25. Libell §. 4. Gen. 9. 22. Gen. 9. 23. Rom. 7. 7. §. 5. Gen. 3. 1. Esay 47. 10. Mat. 23. 15. Joh. 5. 3. Gen. 3. Mat. 24. Libell §. 6. Judge ver 8 9. Libell §. 1. 2 Pet. 3. 16. 1 Cor. 4. 3. §. 2. 2 King 18. 28. Gen. 10. 9. Mat. 21. 38. §. 3. Mat. 5. 3. Jer. 3. Ezek. 16. Libell §. 4. Basilic Doron Lib. 2. Libell §. 1. Libell Eccles. 1. 9 10. Rev. 3. 9. Rev. 2. 9. 3. 9. John 7. 20. §. 3. Prov. 22. 1. Prov. 16. 10. Canon Alius causa 15. deâ—â—â—t quest 6. Object Answer §. 1. Job 34. 18. Act. 23. 5. 2 Cor. 5. 20. Esay 49. 14. Vers. 15. Esay 50. â— Mat. 13. 58. Mar. 6. 5 6. §. 2. Psa. 123. 4. Psal. 2. 2 3 4. Psal. 73. 11 12 Prov. 3. 34. Prov. 24. 9. Numb 16. 1 Kings 18. 17. Jud. 16. Psal. 123. 4. Psal. 31. 20. Prov. 3. 34. 19. 29. §. 1 Pag. 49. Libell p. 49. * Yet should God incline the Heart of Sr Thomas Fairfax to adhere unto his Lord and Soveraign no doubt but some of them would as much revile him in their language as now they seem to honour him with the title of Victorious Which indeed they have sufficiently done since the Kings deliverance from Holmeby Libell pag. 49. §. 2. Luk. 23. 23. Mat. 27. 25. Libell p. 49. §. 3. Libell p. 49. §. 4. Prov. 1. 10. Libell §. 1. * See the looking-glasse of Schisme by that Learned Minister of Christ M. Peter Studley §. 3. §. 2. Sands Europae Speculum pag. 119. Exod. 12. 24. 25 26. §. 1. §. 2. §. 3. §. 4. Libell Thes. 2. 10 11. James 2. 18. Verse 26. Libell §. 1. 1 Cor. 4. 4. Mat. 19. 30. John 8. 39. Vers. 40. §. 2. Libell Libell §. 1. Psal. 64. 6. Jer. 11. 18. Luk. 6. 7. Dan. 6. 4. * This hath oft been related to me with tears of affection to him by diverse Inhabitants of that poore Loyall Town who heard the expression from His Majesties Lips Libell §. 2. Libell Libell Mat. 7. 1. Rom. 14. 4. Jam. 3. 1. 1 Thes. 4. 11. * That free famous City cannot say that the King in all his time did ever imprison so much as one Lord Major * The abundance hath appeared by the many millions of treasure which they have â—ent within these six yeares * Tho. Case in his Sermons of waiting on God §. 3. * Committee-men and Sâ—questrators were not yet known * 26. Children taken at once by the Turkes from off the Coasts of Cornwall July Anno 1645. §. 1 Libell §. 2. Isa. 1. 19 20. 2 Cor. 15. 2. Mat. 13. 58. Mark 6. 5. 2. Ps. 13. 1 2. c. Mat. 14. 30. 1 Sam. 21. 7. Gen. 12. 12. Gen. 20. 2 Psal. 125. 8. * In Cornwall when Essex his Army was there defeated by his Majesty Libell 2 King 21. 16. 2 Cor. 23. 12. * And now of late they have been payd home in their own coyn so many wayes even as themselves have dealt with their Soveraigne that they would confesse with that Heathen King Jud. 1. 7. had they but as much sence of the Deity as He and say As we have done so God hath rewarded us 2. 3. 4. Mat. 18. * Calumny arraigned cast Or answer to Prins rank passages in his book intituled Truth Triumphing over Falshood Pag. 14. Pag. 13. ejusdem Pag. 12. §. 2. This reason I received lately from the judgment of others and therefore thought fit to insert it in the first place with these that follow * In the daily Collects or prayers for the King * Stet pro ratione voluntas Bas. Dor. p. 42. §. 1. Rom. 13. 4. 1. Sam. 13. 2. 2 Sam. 23. 1 Chro. 11. Pap. 1. Micah 3. 9 11. Vers. 10. Vers. 12. * I am not certain which of them it was and I want Books to help my memory * Maerentia tecta Caesar hâ—bet vacuasque domos legesque silentes clausoque justitio tristi foro Lucanus Mic. 2. 1 2. Rom. 13. 5. 1 Pet. 2. 23. §. 2. 4. Amos 6. 17. §. 3. Ezek. 16. 51. Vers. 54. * Vntill the sword be restored into that hand where God did put it and he whom God hath appointed be the orderer and disposer of the affaires in Ireland we must never expect Gods continued blessing upon our Forces that are sent thither therefore in their desiring the sole management of the Irish affaires with exclusion of the King they doe but