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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90234	Divine observations upon the London-ministers letter against toleration: by his synodicall, priest-byter-all, nationall, provinciall, classicall, congregationall, superlative, un-erring, clericall, accademicall holynesse. reverend yongue Martin Mar-Priest, sonne, and heire to old Martin Metrapolitane. Wherin the toleration of his sacred person with the whole Independent fraternity, (by what name or title soever dignify'd or distinguished, whether Anabaptists, Brownists, or the like,) is justifyed by the reasons of the London-ministers, which they urge against toleration; and themselves, by their own reasoning, condemned. The reverend authour desires such as have received offence at the 6, 7, and 8 pages in his Ordinance for tythes dismounted, to repaire for satisfaction to the last clause hereof.	Overton, Richard, fl. 1646.	1646 (1646)	Wing O628; Thomason E317_15; ESTC R200544	11,517	16

Civill Power preserved intire in its own proper Magesteriall compasse are not in the least Anti-Magisteriall But Reverend MARTIN with his Independent Brethren would have it intirely preserved in its own Magesteriall compasse they would not have it wrested or perverted to this or that Sect to this or that Religion but would have it yea expose their lives to have it preserved precisely in its own property Therefore Reverend MARTIN and his Brethren are not Anti-Magesteriall But in all faithfulnesse acknowledge themselves not onely ly bound to pray for all in lawfull Authority but even to spend their Lives and Estates in their Just Defence against all opposition encroachment and usurpation thereof whatsoever And to this our practise hath given Witnesse even when Magestracy was in greatest danger of subvertion for when the Parliament had no other helpe under God then we stuck closest to them even when the King came in a Hostile manner for the 6. MEMBERS in the House while the degenerate Temporizing Presbyters stood as farre off as from Scotland to Westminster and have continued unspotted in our Fidelity to them even unto this very day And this I dare be bold to affirme That if the King should conquer and confound the Parliament the now Parliamentized-Presbyters even the Clergy in generall would therewith be Royalized rather then loose their severall Parsonages and that which is now Antichristian Episcopacy would then be as Christian as ever it was in their esteemes for they 'l tell you That they must submit unto the Higher Powers and the Powers that are are of God and that cures all If you doe but consider they have even reserv'd an help at a dead lift they tell us now That a Bishop and a Presbyter is all one and thereupon retaine their old Ordination derived from a forraign Power and so goe forth and ordaine other young Bishops So that if the King should subdue us they are still in their Episcopall Ministry and a little Royall Reformation would continue their places Then they would take Covenants Preach and pray ag●inst the Parliament as much as ever they did against the King Thus rather then they would be confounded themselves they would let true Magesteriall Parliamentary Government goe to confusion and in that Day of Tryall scarce any would be found to witnesse against Him except the now despised handfull of Separates And yet wee must be cast out of the Parliaments Protection by this Temporizing Faction of Presbyters Ingratefull inhumanity Heare O Heavens and judge O Earth BUt whereas his Holiness out of a late spirituall Rapture at that Inquisition Ordinance of the Supper hath in the 6 7. and 8. pages of the Ord. for Tythes Dismounted even spurn'd at Synodean prodigy in the Highest O●be whereupon through the weaknesse of some and malice of others I am misconstructed to be Anti-Parliamentory I would have such the Two Honourable Houses of Parliament and the whole World know That there was not nor is to this day the least thought or intent in my heart against Magesteriall Government either therein or in any thing else that I have written And of this I take God to Record as I shall answer it at the great and Dreadfull Day of Judgement when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed Onely respecting Presbyterian deprivation or corruption too much diffused to my hearts grief into the Two Houses by the bewitching subtilty and over-powering Policy of that prevalent deceitfull Synodean Faction and so my writing there is not against that High and Honourable Gou●t or any thing in their Magesteriall capacity but simply against the Presbyterian Exorbitancy in the Names of the LORDS and COMMONS stretched beyond the limits and Precincts of their Magesteriall Function As for the Congregational Classicall Provinciall Nationall Courts and grievances there mentioned I was forced in Equity and Justice to use them in their Names in whose they were owned and published else how could I have discharged my Duty in the reproofe of the one or discovery of the other so that my virulency and bitterings there is onely against Presbyterian Competitors and Intruders into the Office and Royalty of my most Soveraigne Lord the King of Kings CHRIST JESUS against all tyrannicall encroachers and usurpers of our Birth-rights Liberties and freedoms in Persons and Estates under what pretence notion or Title soever So that in plain English the proper morrall and genuine intent of those 3. pages is a meer contestation and defyance of your Presbyterian Tyranny whether in the name of the two Houses or otherwise gloss'd or presented labouring thereby only to brush off the superiour Title of the Two Houses from it that it might be cleerly discovered in its proper ugly Presbyterian shape unto the Kingdome only to pluck off its Parliamentary cloak that we might the better discerne that Synodean Presbyteran Monster That the People under that specious Magisteriall vizor may not entertaine that deadly venomous Presbyterian Serpent into their bosomes and be destroyed unawares Thus I am resolved to oppose Tyranny it selfe where ever I find it maugre the malice of Devills and terrour of the mighty Rulers of this Earth yea even of the sturdy Presbyters themselves though I and all that 's mine perish I le doe it were there a Parliament of no lesse then Emperours Kings and Princes competitours with it I would spare them in my just testimony against it no more then I would so many beggers upon a dunghill for I have not the truth of my GOD nor the love of my Country in respect of Persons And this my contestation and defyance of Presbytry is no otherwise against it but onely as it is Exorbitant Tyrannicall Prelatticall Cruell and Ambitious as for honest meek Evangelicall Presbytry I am ready through the Power of my God to seal it with my blood even ou● of an unfained love thereunto So that in brief my emnity is onely against Tyranny where ever I find it whether in Emperour King Prince Parliament Presbyters or People Thus Reader thou hast my own proper sense as being best expounder of my own words for no man knoweth the heart of man but himself All other I utterly disclaime and onely own that fore-mentioned Sense and thereto subscribe MARTIN MAR-PRIEST DOUBT Who hath wonne the Coat of Divers Colours MARTIN or the London-Ministers FINIS