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A91269	The second part of A seasonable legal and historical vindication, and chronological collection of the good old fundamental liberties, franchises, rights, lawes, government of all English freemen; their best inheritance and onely security against all arbitrary tyranny and Ægyptian taxes. Wherein the extraordinary zeal, courage, care, vigilancy, civill, military and Parliamentary consultations, contests, to preserve, establish, perpetuate them to posterity, against all tyrants, usurpers, enemies, invaders, both under the ancient pagan and Christian Britons, Romans, Saxons. The laws and Parliamentall great councils of the Britons, Saxons. With some generall presidents, concerning the limited powers and prerogatives of our British and first Saxon kings; ... are chronologically epitomized, ... By William Prynne of Swainswick, Esquire.; Seasonable, legall, and historicall vindication and chronologicall collection of the good, old, fundamentall, liberties, franchises, rights, laws of all English freemen. Part 2	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing P4072; Thomason E820_11; ESTC R203292	115,608	151

Representative body of the whole Kingdome since dissolved by the Army is a Faction of Malignant Schismaticall ambitious Persons whose DESIGNE IS AND ALWAYES HATH BEEN TO ALTER THE WHOLE FRAME OF GOVERNMENT BOTH OF CHURCH AND STATE AND TO SUBJECT BOTH KING AND PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN LAW●ESSE ●●BITRARY POWER AND GOVERNMENT and that they DESIGNE THE RUINE OF HIS MAJESTIES PERSON and OF MONARCHY IT SELF and consequently that they are TRAITORS ●nd all the Kingdome with them for 〈◊〉 act is the act of the whole Kingdome And whether their punishment and ruine may not also INVOLVE THE WHOLE KINGDOME IN CONCLUSION AND REDU●●● INTO THE CONDITION OF A CONQUERED NATION as some ARMY-OFFICERS and SOULDIERS openly averred we are now reduced to by and under them NO MAN CAN TELL BVT EXPERIENCE SHEWETH V● and now we finde it most true in the ARMY-OFFICERS COUNCELL SOULDIERS THAT SVCCESSE OFTEN DRAWS MEN NOT ONELY BEYOND THEIR PROFESSION but also many times beyond their first intentions Surely as the Armies and their Confederates late proceedings in relation to themselves though not unto the forced dismembred dissolved Parliament and secured Members have fully verified this charge in every particular then reputed most false and scandalous which I thus press upon their consciences at this time and so largely insist on not to defame or asperse them to the world but to vindicate the Innocency Integrity of the Majority and secluded Members of both Houses against the scandalous printed aspersions of Militiere and other Papists to preserve and justifie the Honour of our Reformed Religion and of the most zealous Professors thereof to restore re-establish if possible the Priviledges the Freedom of all Future Parliaments much impaired endangered by their heady violent Proceedings to convince them by what Jesuitical Popish old Court-Principles Counsels Practises they have hitherto been mis-guided and to reclaim them as much as in me lieth for the future from the like destructive Practises for the publick Safety Peace Settlement of our distracted Kingdoms and do most earnestly beseech them as they are English men Souldiers Christians seriously to repent of and lay to heart lest they perish eternally for them at last So the Army-Officers Souldiers Great Successes in all their Wars Designs and forcible Proceedings against the King Parliament Kingdom Government Laws and Liberties as it hath caused them not onely beyond their Professions but also beyond their first Intentions Commissions Protestations to forget that Gospel-Precept given to Souldiers Luke 3. 14. to advance themselves to a more absolute Soveraign arbitrary Power over them then ever any Kings of England claimed or pretended to as their late Proceedings Remonstrances and transcendent Instrument of the Government of the three Kingdoms manifest so it hath been the principal Ground whereby they have justified all their unpresidented forementioned Exho●bitances as lawful commendable Christian and that which hath struck such a stupyfying pannick fear such a stupendious cowardize baseness sottishness into the Generality of the Nobility Gentry Ministery and Commons of our late most heroick English Nation that there is scarce a man to be found throughout the Realm of any Eminency though we should seek after him like Diogenes with a Candle that dares freely open his mouth against the most irregular illegal violent destructive arbitrary Proceedings Usurpations Innovations Oppressions Taxes Projects to the shaking and utter subverting of our ancient Fundamental Laws Liberties Rights Properties Parliaments Parliamentary Priviledges Government and taking away of the very Lives of some and thereby endangering the Lives of all other English Freemen of all Degrees in mischristened High Courts of Justice Such a strange Charm is there in Success alone to metamorphise Men into meer temporizing slavish sordid sotts and beasts yea to cause not onely persons truly honourable but the very Devil himself and the worst of beasts to be wondred after applauded adored not onely as Saints but Gods We read Rev. 13. of a Monstrous deformed BEAST to whom the Dragon the Devil gave his Power Seat and Great Authority whereupon all the world wondred after the Beast and worshipped not onely the Dragon that gave him power but the Beast likewise saying Who is like unto the Beast WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM And there was given unto him a Mouth speaking Great things and blasphemies and power was given him to continue and make war forty and two months And power was given unto him to make war with the SAINTS AND TO OVERCOME THEM and power was given him over all Kindreds and Tongues and Nations And HEREUPON IT FOLLOWS all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him whose names are not written in the Lambes Book of Life And another Beast under him caused the earth and all that dwell therein to set up the Image of this Beast and to worship it and he caused all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive the mark of the Beast in their right hand and in their foreheads and none might buy or sell but he that had this mark and as many as would not worship this Beasts Image were ordered to be killed Yet this Blasphemous Beasts reign and power continued but twenty four Months Rev. 13. 5. This Beast in the height of his Power and Victories was by God himself threatned to go into captivity and be killed with the Sword as he had led others into captivity and killed them with the Sword ver 10. All his followers and worshippers shall soon after drink of the wine of Gods wrath and be tormented with fire and brimstone c. Rev. 14 9 10 11. The Saints at last shall get this victory over the Beast Rev. 15. 2. And the Beast himself notwithstanding all his former Victories Friends and great Armies was at last taken and his false Prophet with him and were both cast alive into a lake burning with fire and brimstone and all his Forces were slain with the Sword and the fowls were filled with their flesh Rev. 19. 19 20 21. From which Texts I have frequently silenced confounded some of our conquering Army-Officers and Souldiers whiles prisoner under them when they were vapouring of their Great Victories Successes and concluding from thence both their Saintship and the Goodness of their Actions saying oft-times like the Beasts followers here Who is able to make war with us And that with these genuine deductions from these Texts which they could not reply against worthy all Souldiers their saddest meditations 1. That God may nay oft-times doth give great power to the very worst and most blasphemous of all Men and Beasts that not only over one or two but many Tongues Nations as in this Text and Dan. 7. 3 to 29. c. 8. 4. to 27. 2. That such Beasts many times may and do not onely make war with but even overcome the very Saints themselves in battel as the Babylonians Assyrians and other ungodly Beasts did the Israelites Gods own Saints and People Psa

79. 1 2 c. Dan. 7. 21 23 24 25. Isa 10. 5 c. c. 14. 16 17. Jer. 26. 6 7 8. c. 25. 9 c. yet they were but blasphemous Beasts and wretches still not Saints 3. That if such Beasts have but Great Power and Success in their Wars Enterprises against their Enemies or the Saints themselves though their mouths utter blasphemies against the God of Heaven his Name Tabernacle Saints though their Actions Designs be never so impious atheistical treasonable detestable their Power but short and fading yet whiles they are in Power and Prosperity the whole world will wonder run after worship flatter Saint Deifie and Adore them for Gods as Alexander the Great and Julius Caesars friends flatterers did them and some wicked Popes Favourites them too yea set up and worship their very Images receive their marks in their hands foreheads and extol them to the skies saying Who is like unto the Beast who is able to make war with him 4. That such adulatious Speeches Vaunts Practises as these and such Arguments of Saintship or the Goodness of mens causes undertakings actions onely from their present Power Victories and Successes are the arguments practises of worldly earthly beastly men of worshippers of the Beast and Dragon of Assyrians Turkes Popes not of the Elect real Saints of God whose names are written in the Lambes book of life who will neither flatter worship nor adore such Beasts nor receive their marks in their hands or foreheads though they be prohibited to buy or sell or slain for refusing it by their instruments Rev. 13. 8 15 17. Dan. 3. 12. to 29. 5. That such Beasts in power will never want under-under-Beasts and Instruments nor yet false Prophets to perswade or enforce Obedience Subjection to them even by disfranchisements death lying wonders flattering Prophecies Speeches Sermons c. 6. That the Power and Dominion of such Beasts is given and derived to them immediately by the Dragon the Prince of the power of the air onely by Gods permission not his approbation Rev. 13. 2. Hos 8. 4. 2 Thess 2. 4 8 9. And that in wrath for the punishment of the peoples sins and destruction of the beasts themselves at last Hos 13. 11. Rev. 13 and 14 and 19. Psal 64. 23. Jer. 51. 24 c. c. 52. throughout Hab. 2. 6 7 8. 7. That this their Dominion Raign and Triumph is commonly very short like this Beasts here for twenty four Months Rev. 13. 5. which is but three yeers and an half Julius Caesar that great first Conqueror of this Island and a great part of the World usurping the Supream Power over the Roman Senate and changing the Government lived onely FIVE MONTHS A SOVERAIGN LORD IN PEACE and then was suddenly stabbed to death in the Senate-House by those friends in whom he reposed greatest trust for his Tyrannical Usurpations and alteration of their former Government for endeavouring as was suspected to make himself KING OF THE ROMANS though he rejected the Title of King when offered unto him by M. Antonius saying That Jove was onely King of the Romans that so he might seem to be compelled to receive it by the people being their King in deed though not in name and for saying That the Commonwealth was but a Voice or Name without a Body or Substance Nullum violentum est diuturnum See Isa 10 and 14. Job 20. 4 5 c. Psal 37. and 73. Psal 92. 6 7. Isa 17. 13 14. 2 Chron. 23. and Sir Wa●ter Rawlies Preface to his History of the World worth serious perusal by the Grandees of these times 8. That in conclusion such Conquering Usurping Beasts notwithstanding all their Power Friend Followers Confederates Armies Poli●ies are usually conquered taken slain on earth and cast into the lake burning with fire and brimstone for ever for their Tyrannies Blasphemies Bloodsheds Oppressions of the People and Gods Saints and their Confederates Arm●es false Prophets followers adorers destroyed with them even on earth and then made to drink the cup of Gods wrath fury and torments for ever in hell Isa 10 and 14. Jer. 50 and 51. Rev. 19. 12 20 21. 9 That though they continue Conquerors and victorious for many yeers and conquer not onely one two or three but many Kings and Kingdoms cut off not onely the thumbs of their Kings that they might not lift up a Sword against them and their great toes that they may not run from them but their Heads too Yet God at last in his retaliating Justice doth usually pay them home in their own coyne as is e●ident not onely by Bajazet the Turkish Emperour our King Penda and others in prophane Stories but by that memorable History of Adoni-bezek● who after his Conquest of no less then seventy Kings who ever in this later age conquered one quarter so many and tyrannizing over their persons was by a small party of Judah and Simeon fought with on his own dung-hil his victorious old Army totally routed ten thousand of them slain himself forced to fly pursued and taken prisoner by these contemptible Enemies who cut off his thumbs and his great toes Whereupon Adoni-bezek though an idolatrous Canaanite used these memorable words worthy all Conquerors and Tyrants memorial recorded by God himself to all Posterity Judg. 1. 7. Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs and their great toes cut off have gathered their meat under my table like so many Dogs rather then Kings AS I HAVE DONE SO GOD HATH REWARDED ME and they brought him Prisoner to Jerusalem and there he died See the like retaliation threatned inflicted Hab. 2. 6 7 8. Isa 31. 1. Dan. 7. 23 to 27. Obad. 15. Ezech. 35. 5 6 15. Rev. 16. 5 6. Jer. 51 and 52. Nah. 3. 1 c. Rev. 13. 10. Joel 3. 6 7 8. 2 Chron. 22. 10. compared with c. 23. 12. to the end 10. That the Elect Saints of God do by faith in the Word of God and upon consideration of the usual Providence and Justice of God towards such Beasts and bloody Conquerors most assuredly foresee their downfal and with patience expect it Rev. 13. 9 10. If any man have an ear let him hear HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAPTIVITY SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY HE THAT KILLETH WITH THE SWORD MUST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD Here is THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS O that we had this Faith and Patience within us now 11. That upon this Faith and Assurance the true Elect Saints of God neither will nor do nor dare to admire after follow worship or adore such Beasts or their Image nor receive their marks in their hands or foreheads though all the world else readily do it without opposition enduring patiently rather to be warred upon killed secluded from buying or selling any thing then unchristianly to adore subject or enslave themselves unto them Rev. 13. 2 15 17. Esther 3. 1 to 7. 2 Kings 3. 13