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A discovery of the rebels by J.V., prisoner.
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Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. Great antichrist.
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Wing V301; ESTC R20945
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they shall declare unto thee the wonderfull Reformation in this Nation the slavish Invasion by Water the Hellish Gunpowder-treason by Fire and how God hath brought thee through fire and water wherein thou couldest not live into a moyst place wherein thou hast lived so many yeares in plenty but Jesurun hath waxed fat and kicked and for ingratitude is justly with a Civill Warre consumed Sixthly Unholy or unquiet and restlesse are the Hypocrites they are all for Warre and accuse Petitioners for Peace of a Carilinarian conspiracy it is God that creates peace man cannot do it it is as hard a work as the Creation Our Land is without forme and voyd darknesse is on the face of the deepe nothing is but confusion in our Church and State it is the spirit of the Lord that moves on the face of these darke waters saying Let there be light and there was light this light that God creates is peace secondly this peace is a fruit a fruit of the spirit Love Joy and Peace but whence comes warre and fightings from the spirit of malice and envy thirdly it is said a fruit of the lips of the messengers of peace How beautifull on the mountains are the feet of those into whose lipps grace and peace is poured fourthly God creates a double peace Peace peace nationall and personall which cannot be without truth but there are restlesse men whose sinnes torment their conscience and love no peace the Text saith They are the wicked emphatically remarkable wicked men these Hypocrites revile others as wicked when themselves are by the spirit of God styled the most wicked that disturbe the Nationall peace and trouble our Israel by killing and stealing They are like the troubled Sea that cannot rest Raging waves of the Sea foming out their owne shame whose waters rage continually and cast up mire and dirt into the Royall face both by word and writing Woe to these Sectaries of Cain who loved bloud and slew his brother and was called the first Disciple of the Devill Abel was a Shepheard and a man of peace and he slew him because his works were righteous These covetous hypocrites run greedily after the error of Balaam who would have cursed defied Israel for reward they shal perish in the gainsaying of Core who rose up and rebelled against Moses the King and against Aharon who was the Priest of the Lord so these endure neither God the King or any Ministers but of the lowest of the people To conclude with Isay There is no peace saith my God with the wicked these wicked will have no peace for then all is lost which they have spent in warre their restlesse disposition appeares in all the ensuing particulars they are Covenant-breakers False-accusers Traytors heady high minded c. of each word and so an end Seventhly they are Covenant-breakers they have made a covenant with the King and taken the oath of Allegiance but this oath they regard not they have their Pope to dispense with it Achitophel made a Covenant with David but broke his Covenant and therefore is accursed in Psal. 55. 21. He hath prophaned his Covenant Zedechias rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar the King who was a Tyrant also as they say when he had made him sweare by God and hardned his neck so that the wrath of God came upon them and there was no healing 2 Chron. 36. 12. King Solomon chargeth all Subjects to obey the Kings commandement and that in respect of the oath of God Eccles. 8. 2 3. but these urge the Kings oath legibus quas vulgus elegerit but themselvs keep no oath Besides these men make Covenants with the Subjects of the King and the same day like Jesuits break the same their Jesuiticall faction like Antichristians dispenseth with the oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance and their subscription was forced and therefore they revolt Deus bone is there any Religion in these no Heathen story is able to parallell their sophistication In 2 Sam. 23. 1. there was a Famine three yeares for Saul and his bloudy house because he slew the Gibeonites the reason was because of the oath of the Rulers though taken out of errour to avoyd the scandall of the Nations and the seeming not reall prophanation of the name of God but these Hypocrites are Truce-breakers and hold it lawfull so to doe Eighthly they are without naturall affection witnesse their zeale in killing and spoyling of Fathers Sons Brethren Sisters Kindred c. but of this before Ninthly they are false-accusers in Greeke Devills in Syrian Hypocriticall mockers at feasts that like the Devill their father tell lyes for morsells Psal. 35. 15. In my affliction they rejoyced the abjects viler then the earth they rent me with their teeth and ceased not they print preach speake lyes against the Lords anoynted as David was every day Lord deliver him from lying lipps and from a deceitfull tongue Tenthly Incontinent what shall I say of their incontinency both in the concupiscible and irascible no penalty is now inflicted and it is a shame to speake of the things done of them in secret Eleventhly these Hypocrites are fierce Let Jehu speak for them all Come see my zeale saith he to Jonadab he killed the King and Queene and seventy sonnes of the royall Progeny all his kindred and Priests and destroyed Baal out of Israel he would have no peace What peace as long as the whordomes of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many his Zeale was all for truth as he said so the Sectaryes and others are all for truth and no peace while Jezebel lives their driving is like the driving of Jehu the sonne of Nimshi for they drivefuriously or madly but when by warre and bloud they have obtained peace I wish they set not up a worse Idoll then they have put downe as Iehu their father did Baal was Mars the planet Ralbag or Iupiter Belus which Iehu destroyed and set up the Calves a farre worse Idoll and made the common people Priests so I wish that these set not up as they begin the meanest of the people and drive out the sonnes of Levi as Iehu did Twelfthly they are haters of good that is moderate men who are not carryed with their turbulent zeale by which many a good Ionadab is deceived and their hatred is irreconciliable to eradication of their familyes expulsion of their wives and children and banishment from Countrey and friends because they cannot endure to see them or heare of them and this to a politicall creature is worse then death in Ioel 2. what have you to doe with mee O Tyre and Sydon who have taken my silver and gold and brought them to your palaces and the children of Judah yee have sold to the Grecians to remove them farre from their border and doe not these haters of good men send