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A85832	Englands complaint: or, a sharp reproof for the inhabitants thereof; against that now raigning sin of rebellion. But more especially to the inhabitants of the county of Suffolk. With a vindication of those worthyes now in Colchester. / By Lionel Gatford B.D. the true, but sequestred rector of Dinnington, in the said county.	Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing G332; Thomason E461_27; ESTC R205193	55,099	61

such cause only they made use of that suggestion to further their mischievous designe of murthering the innocent had at last the Romans brought upon them indeed and were utterly ruined by them The factious tumultuous people of this Nation have in all other things the most resembled the pharisees that ever did any people God of his mercy grant that they do not also resemble them in this 3. Next to the consideration of the dangerous and deplorable condition of Religion here in this Kingdome be pleased as many of you as have any spark of Religion in you timely to consider the state and condition of your King I forbeare the assaying any description of his condition because 't is so well knowne and so far beyond the being comprehensible in a description by the best of Artists as I likewise abstaine from all Epithetes or Periphrases to set it out by or to set mens passions on worke to condole it the condition of our King being above all sympathie of passion even of his most loving and compassionate Subjects as well as expression of language of the most fluent and passionate of Orators I have heard it objected against a reverend and deare brother-sufferer in these times though without any just cause alledged that he ascends too high when he compares so many of our Kings sufferings with some of our Saviours which I am assured he did neither with the least intent of flattering his Majestie then in no condition to be flattered nor without all due feare of approaching neer the verge of Blasphemy then and ever so much abhorred by him but on the other side with all due honour to our blessed Saviours sufferings and with no small comfort to the King and to all that suffered with them that his sufferings were and are so conformable to them and he himselfe therein to his and our Saviours image And although I sleight the objection Phil. 3.10 Rom. 8.29 yet I shall avoid the occasion of having any such throwne in my way and because I may not without some scandall taken make use of any such comparison I shall not compare them at all with anie other sufferings there being none other that ever I have read or heard of that do in all respects match them Take them therefore in their bare narration thus Charles King of Great Britaine the first of that name the only surviving Son and the immediate successour to his royall Father King James to whom this whole Kingdome by their Representatives in Parliament after a large commemoration of the inestimable and unspeakable benefits as they truly called them powred upon this Nation by his becoming our King 1. Jacob. 1. and after great and high expressions of joy and rejoying at the same not forgetting their thanks to Almighty God for that blessing as also after a modest repetition of that their Soveraignes personall gifts and graces and the assured fruits and effects thereof which they had tasted in that little time of his Government together with an humble and hearty profession of constant faith obedience and loyalty to his Majesty and to his Royall Progeny made this acknowledgement and promise in these very words We therefore your most humble and loyall Subjects the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottome of our hearts yeeld to the diuine Majesty all humble thanks and praises not onely for the said unspeakable and inestimable benefits and blessings before mentioned but also that he hath further inriched your Highnesse with a most Royall Progenie of most rare and excellent gifts and forwardnesse and in his goodnesse is like to increase the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most excellent Majesty that as a memoriall to all posterities amongst the Records of your high Court of Parliament for euer to endure of our Loyalty obedience and hearty and humble affection it may be published and declared in this high Court of Parliament and enacted by authority of the saute that we being bounden thereunto both by the Lawes of God and man doe recognize and acknowledge and thereby expresse our unspeakable joyes that immediately upon the dissolution and decease of ELIZABETH late Quéen of England the Imperiall Crowne of the Realme of England and of all the Kingdomes Dominions Rights belonging to the same did by Inherent birthright and lawfull and undoubted succession descend and come to your most excellent Majesty as being lineally justly and lawfully next and sole Heire of the Blood Royall of this Realme as is aforesaid And that by the goodnesse of Almighty God lawfull Right of Descent under one Imperiall Crown your Majesty is of the Realmes and Kingdomes of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent and mighty King and by Gods goodnesse more able to protect and gouerne us your louing Subjects in all peace and plenty then any of your noble Progenitors And thereunto we most humbly and faithfully submit and oblige our selues our Heires and Posterities for euer untill the last drop of our bloods be spent And do beseech your Majesty to accept the same as the first fruits in this high Court of Parliament of our loyalty and faith to your Majesty and your Royall Progeny and Posterity for euer O the shamelesse degeneration and falsification of these times CHARLES to whom his Subjects each one for himself and in particular every Member of the House of Commons when he was admitted a Member of that House solemnly sware That he did testifie and declare in his conscience that he the Kings Highnesse is the onely supreme Gouernour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse Dominions and Countries as well in all Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall things or Causes as Temporall c. And that he would beare Faith and true Allegiance to the Kings Highnesse his Heires and lawfull Successors and to his power assist defend all Iurisdictions Priuiledges Preheminences Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highnes His Heires and Successors c. as followes in the Oath of Supremacy as also againe in the Oath of Allegiance That he would beare Faith and true Allegiance to His Majesty his Heires and Surcessors and him and them would defend to the uttermost of his power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoeuer which should be made against his or their Persons their Crowne and Dignity by reason or colour of any sentence of Excommunication or Depriuation made or granted by the Pope c. or otherwise and would do his best endeauour to disclose and make known unto His Majesty his Heires and Successors all Treasons and traiterous conspiracies which he should know or heare of to be against him or any of them Oh the damnable perjury of these times CHARLES whose Person Honour and Estate the same Members of the House of Commons did on May 3. 1641. in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest to maintain and

he apprehended to be according to the judgement of the times in point of liberty of Conscience when I heard this and observed how liberty of conscience was every where contended for I no longer wondered at the cooling Cards which the Priest gave me for I perceived they of his part had plaid their Cards so well that they might afforded any of us the knowledge of such a triumph nor did I then think it strange which but a few dayes before I admired that so many Jesuits and other Priests did daily flock into this Kingdome from France Flanders and the Countries adjacent and all by the way of Holland there having been nine or ten such newly shipt at the Brill under the same Convoy if not in the same Vessell that Master Strickland the Parliaments Agent for Holland came over in about Michaelmas last and multitudes of them more have been there and in other Parts of the Low Countries past for England within few moneths when God knows many worthy Ministers of the Church of England driven beyond the Seas choose rather to endure some hardship there amongst strangers then yet to adventure the hazard of worse usage here in their own Country These things I thought it my duty to acquaint you with as I have done others already upon all occasions both in publike and in private and though perhaps they may be sleighted by some engaged with the Sectaries calling themselves Protestants or quarrelled by others that are professed Papists I solemnly avouch before the Almighty God of truth that I have not falsifyed in the least particular of what I have spoken upon mine own knowledge nor varied so far as my memory would serve me from what others and they men of known honour and honesty have informed me I know well that t is a foule sinne to speake wickedly for God or to talke deceatfully for him Job 13.7 as Job sometimes intimated to his friends and I abhor to be charged with a Romish trick my self whilest I endeavour to discover some of theirs Had divers of this Nation but that courage and spirit as to speak what they know to this purpose and but that love and zeale to the established Protestant Religion as to thinke it worthy of their adventuring that courage and spirit which they have in that service you would finde that all this little that I have said is scarce the gleanings to their harvest or an handfull to their Barnsfull for the clearing this discovery of the Jesuits and Jesuited Papists having their hands deep in all our miseries and a desperate designe upon our Religion And let such take heed that God doe not one day require it at their hands in vengeance for that they did it not when he required it of them in dutie I know there are some in this Kingdome of the Romish Religion that have given ample and honourable testimonies of their Allegiance and fidelity to their Soveraign and of their love to their Country for which they deserve all Christian and civill respect and honour that can be shewn them and that makes me so often to use that limitation of Jesuites and Jesuited to distinguish them from such which as hath been often and truly said like Sampsons Foxes look contrary wayes to our furious Separatists and other Sectaries but joyn with them in the setting this Kingdome on fire But t is to be feared that if Religion should come again to be contested for betwixt the Protestants and Papists here in England which God of his mercy forbid the most moderate and loyall amongst the Popish party would loose no advantage that they could catch or lay hold on for the exalting of their own Religion and the pulling down and destroving ours And t is certain that since the first Reformation of Religion in this Kingdome they never had so great advantages given them to that purpose It was a frequent saying of an ancient and knowing Dr. in Cambridge that had very much observed as well as too much served the times in alteration of Religion and I have heard it severall times cited by a most learned and reverend Professor of that University in his Commencement Orations That if ever Popery came into this Land again to have any power it would be by the Precisian called then the Puritan And what an open broad way the Precisians or Puritans properly so called have made for Popery to march in or to use the Prophet Ezekiels expression how they have opened the sides of this Church to those enemies of that Faction to enter and repossesse her Ezeck 25 v. 9. and what arms and amunition of all sorts they have furnished them with and what ayde and encouragement of all kindes they have given them to make good their entrance and keep their possession is very deplorable to consider and much more deplorable that t is not considered as it should The most learned and acute Divines and Artists are driven from the Schools and Colledges in both Universities The most Orthodox and conscientious Pastors and Teachers are forced from their Pulpits and Pastorall charges The most reverend and renowned Bishops are cast out of their Bishopricks and Episcopall power and jurisdictions and all these are robbed and deprived of their lively-hoods and necessary subsistance yea many of them of their lives and all others that shall succeed them of all hopes of any honourable encouragements And what then may not the enemies of our Religion doe when so much is already done to their hands towards the undoing of this lately most flourishing but now languishing Church of England Who shall dare to take up the weapons or venture on an encounter with the Adversary when all our stout Champions are gone and onely Children and weaklings with unexpert Tradesmen and Mechanicks are left to graple with Giants and experienced warriers Take away the encouragements and you take away the sin●ws of warre who will goe to war at their own costs especiall when they know where good pay and good preferment too are to be had in another service There are too few that serve God out of pure zeale and meer conscience In the combate between the Flesh and the Spirit the Flesh ought to be mortified and kept down as much as possibly may be but in all incounters wherein the Flesh is to joyn with the Spirit against a third adversary there t is best to let the Flesh have its neceslaries yea and its honest allurements and encouragements to or else the Spirit will be but ill assisted and served by it It hath been severall times attempted and the poore simple Country people have been put upon it and incited to it with much earnestnesse and no little deceit That all Tithes should also be taken away from the Clergie and the Ministery be provided for by way of Pension or Benevolence And truely were I one of the Church of Rome or wisht well to the returning of her power and tyranny into this Nation I would