Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegypâ— of old for their crying sins Isay 19.2 3 c. I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour City against City and Kingdom against Kingdom Aâ—d the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the Counsel thereof Surely the Princes of Zoan the Juncto and Armies General Council are become fools the Princes of Noph are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of â—erversâ—ties amongst them they have caused Egypt yea England to erre in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomitâ— Neither shall there be any work â—or Aegypt which the head or toyl branch or root may doâ— to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet unâ—â—â—med Free-State And may not they all then and others 〈◊〉 the consideration of all the promises justly cry 〈◊〉 with the Apostle in an holy admiration Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the Riches bâ—â—â— of the wisdom and knowledge of Godâ— how unsearcheable are his Iudgements and his wayes part finding out 4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Injâ—stice-men who had any hand vote in the Traiterous Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King the head of the Parliament dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords the Majority of the Commons House the whole old Parlâ—â—ment Kingdom Kingshâ—p the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crowâ— the rights privileges freedom of Parliament the fundamental Laws Liberties Government of the Nation and our established Protestant Religion against all their Oathes Allegiances Trusts Duties Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Vows Solemn Leagues Covenants obliging them to the contrary can with any faith boldness confidence piety or real devotion appear before the presence of God Angels Men in any of our Congregations on the 5. of November the * joyful day of our deliverance from the Popistâ— Gunpowder Treasonâ— publikely celebrated every year to render publike thanks to Almighty God and ascribe all honour glory and praise to his name for hiâ— great and infinite mercy in delivering the King Queen Prince Lords spiritual and temporal when assembled in the Lords House Nov. 5. An. 1650. from this plot of malicious devillish Papists Iesuites Seminary Priests who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm Church and Religion under a Protestant King and its promising continâ—ance to all posterity in his most hopeful royal plentiful Progeny intendâ—d to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder but were â—hrough Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain boâ—rid Treason by a woâ—derful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to be executedâ— when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing accomplishing far more than what they only intended but could not effect yet repute themselves Protestants and the emineniest of all Saints Whether they can without the 〈◊〉 est horror of conscience confusion of face spirit â—â—â—â—sternation of mind and grief of heare henceforth â—â—â—sume to appear before the presence of God or any English Protestantâ—â—t any time especially on this day before they have publickly lamented confessed repented and made some open eminent satisfaction for those transcendâ—nt new Gunpowder-Treasons far worse than the old of the Iesuits and Papists by whom they were acted in this especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners Ps. 50.16 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth Seeing thou hatest Instruction and hast cast my words behind thee When thou sâ—west these Powder Traytors thou consentest with them and hast been partaker with these Murderers and Adulterers And that of Rom. 2.1 2 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self For thou that judgest dost the same things But we know that the judgement of God is according to Truâ—h against thâ—se who commit such things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and dost the same nay worse that thou shalt escape the judgement of God c 5. Whether those turn coat Peace-abhorring self-seeking shameless Members and Lawyerâ— who though not fifty in number sitting under a force aâ—ter the seclusion of the Majority of their â—ellow-Members Decemb. 13. 1648. resolved that the Vote passed in a full House Iuly 28 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight with the King in Person by a Committee appointed by both Houses upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom And that the Vote of 5. Dâ—cemb 1648. passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it That the answers of the King â—o the Proposition of both Houses are a sufficient gâ—â—und for the House to proceed upon * for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom is highly dishonorable to the Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom And in their Declaration of 15. Ianuary 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vacâ—ting these Votes in this manner declared them to be â—igâ—ly repugnant to the glory of God greatly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliamenâ— and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom adding Yet we are resolved and that speedily so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliamentâ— in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings Which they never since performed in the least degree but the direct contrarie embroiling us in endless Wars Seditions Tumults Successions Revolutions of new-modelled Governments oppressing destructive Anti-Parliameâ—tary Conventicles ever sithence After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government as the Instruments Occasions of Tyranny Iâ—justice Oppression Luxury Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them together with the whole House of Lords as Dangerous Uselesse Dilatory tâ— the Procéedings of Parliament c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and * Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their lute Proceedings and seâ—ling the Government in way of a Free Stateâ— Next prescribed subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by â—hem without a King or House of Lords Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament aâ— they reputed it April 1657. by their Petition and Advice as first penned passed and presented to Cromwell for his assentâ— Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations advised peâ—iâ—ioned and pressed hiâ— to accept the Name Title Power and Soveraign Authority
of a King over our three Kingdoms and the Dominions thereunto annexed Voted him to be King thereofâ— with a constant revenue of no lesse than Twelve hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity and five hundred thousand pounds more for 3. years space out of the peoples exhausted purseâ— after most of the antient Crown-lands and Revenues sold when as they themâ—elves affirmed and published in their Decl. of March 17. 1648. p. 19. that the justiâ—iable legal Revenue of the Crown under King Charls beâ—â—des the Customs and some other pâ—â—quisâ—â—es chaâ—â—ed with the maintenance of the Navâ—e and Forts fell shors of â—nâ— hundred thousand pounds yet 〈◊〉 This new-augmented Revenue for their New King Olivers support being above 3. times more than any of our lawful Kings ever enjoyed And when Cromwell pretended dissatisfaction in point of conscience to receive the Kingship and Kingly Government on him the â—ery * Lawyers Members Officers who drew the Declarations and Reasons for abolishing Kingship Kingly Government and House of Lords were the Committee appointed to confer with him 3. several times draw up reasons to satisâ—ie him why he might and ought in reason law policie conscience to accept the Kingship and Kingly Title for his own and the publike Safetyâ— Which he râ—â—using â—gainst hiâ— * desire they voted him their Royal Protector took an Oath to be true and faithfull to him and to his Son Riâ—hard after him and to act nothing against their Persons or Power created themselves Anoâ—her Houseâ— assumed to themselves the Title of Lords and THE HOUSE OF LORDS notwithstanding their Engagements against it under all their hands Yet soon after dethroned their young Protector nulled all his Conventions wherein they sate with all Lordships Knightships and Offices granted by their Protectors as illegal revived their Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto after it had layen buried in oblivion above 6 years space in May last and in Iuly following prescribed a New Oath and Ingagement to all Officers others who would enjoy the benefit of their Knack of Indemnity To be true faithful and constant to their Common-wealth though yet unborn without a Single person Kingship or House of Lords Whether such treacherous perjured double-minded men unstable in all their wayes Jam. 1.8 can ever be deemed chosen instruments ordained of God to settle the Peace or Government of our Nations Whether the Prophâ—t Isay c. 59. and the Apostle Paul Rom. 3.9.10 c. have not truly characterized them There is none righteous no not one there is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God they are all gone out of the way they are all together become unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one their threat is an open Sepulcher with their Tongues yea Oathes Protestations Declarations Covenants they have â—sed deceit the poyson of Asps is under their liâ—s Their feet are swift to shed bloud the bloud of their Protestant King Peers Brethren Alliâ—s Fellow-Subjects by Land and Sea at home and abroad in the field and in new Butcheries of Highest Injustice destruction and misery are in their wayes and the way of peace they have not known there is no fear of God before their eyes they have made them crooked pathes whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace Therefore is judgement far from us neither doth Iustice overtake us we wait for light but behold obscurity for brightness but we walk in darkness we grope for the wall like the blind as if we had no eyes we stumble at noon-day as in the night we are in desolate places like dead men we roar all like Bears and mouâ—n sore like doves we look for judgement but there is none for salvation but it is farr off from us 6. Whether God himself hath not given the Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto and General Council of Army Officers hitherto in their Iesuitical Project of bringing forth a mis-shapen monstrous Commonwealth and whymfical Freestâ—tâ— to establish thingâ— amongst us a miscarrying womb and dry brests so as we may justly say of them as the Prophet did of Ephraim Hos. 9.12 14.15 16. Ephraim is smitten their râ—â—t it dryed up it shall bear no fruit yea though they bring forth yet will I even slay the beloved fruit of their womb their glory shall fly away like a bird from the birth and from the wâ—mb and from the conception as their Commonwealth whimfieâ— have done Whether Gods signal over-â—urning and forcible dissolving the Iuncto by the Army-Officers twice onâ—â—ftâ—r another in the very generation of this Iesuitical brat before it was formed in the womb to disinherit our antient hereditarie legitimate Kings and Kingship and their turning of all things upside down our Kings Kingdomâ— Parliaments Lords House Lawes Liberties Oathes Church Religion to make way for its production hath not been like the Potters clay a rude deformed Chaoâ— without any lineaments or shape at all so as the work yet saith of hâ—m that made it he made me not and the thing formed saith of him that formed it he hath no understanding Isa. 29.16 Whâ—ther these new Baâ—eâ—-builders whiles thâ—y have been building this new City and Tower to keep them from being scattered upon the face of the whole earth * have not like the old Babel-builders been confounded in their language by God himself that they might not understand one anothers speech and scattred abroad thence upon the face of the earth though guarded by their faithfull Army on whom they relyed for protection so that they left off to build their Babel like them Their City of ConfusioÌ„ is broken down every house yea their own Parl. House shut up In the City is left desolation and the gate is smitten with destruction Isay 24.10 12. It shall lie waste from generation to generation none shall passe through it for ever and ever But the Cormorant the Bittern shall possess it the Owl also the Raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness Whether their and the Armies endeavours to set up an Vtopian Commonwealth instead of our old Hereditarie Kingship is not a * direct fighting against God and the express precepts ordinances of God himself Prov. 24.21 22. c. 22.28 c. 8.15 16. Rom. 13.1 2. 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3. Tit. 3.1 1 Pet. 2 13.17â— Yea against the good providence mercie favour of God towards our Kingdoms and Nations for their establishment the want of a lawfull hereditary King to reign over a Kingdom and Nation and a multiplicity of Governors Kings especially of inferiour rank and reducing the people to such a confused sad condition That they shall call the Nobles thereof to the Kingdom but none shall be there and all her Princes shall be nothing * so that she hath no strong rod left to Rule being a matter of present and future lamentation a severe judgment of God for their sins and wickednes yea an occasion
of calling them out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Certainly if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these most transcendent unpresidented unrighteons ungodly sinners who obey not but coutradict all these Gospel Texts appear and what shall their end be Verily the Gospel it self resolves and O that they would with fear amazement of spirit now seriously consider it when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeâ—nce on them they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1.7 8 9. * and shall receive judgement without mercy because they have shewed no mercy but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and Bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship were not the direct Plot of the Spaâ—iâ—lized Priests and Jesuitâ— as well in France as England Spain and elsewhere who contrived and promoted it to their power as I evidenced in my Speech Memento Epistle to my Historical Collection My true aâ—â— perfect Narrative and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large and shall fâ—rther clear by this ensuing Letter the original whereof I have twice read â—ound by Mr. Sherley a Book-seller in Little Britain in whose hands â—t is amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke â—arre Priest to Don Alonso de Gardenas the Spanish Ambassador which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain 1653. within a year after this Letters date which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen one of them who took a copy thereof promising to shew it to Cromwel himself The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed as is conceived and the Letter imports to this Patricke Carre an Irish Priest and Iesuit under the name of * Don Pedro Garsia the Letter it self is in English written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit sent as an intelligencer by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland and France with whom the English were then in hostility but the direction for Letters to him is in French In the cloze whereof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris expected our Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto whom they stile our brave Parliament as set up by and acting for them should espouse their quarrel and act their paâ—ts against the French and joyn with the Prince of Condee to câ—t off the King of France his head and all Kings else as they did the King of Englands by their instigation such Antimonarchists Traytors are these Jesuits Irish and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchy Paris 10. of Ianuary 1652. SIR I Was no so ner in Holland then I writ to you but hearing nothing from you I concluded either you were very sick or that you received not my Letter I came hither in an ill time for the Kingdom is in great disorder upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal against all his Declarations This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army If your dull * Archduke make no more advantage of this than of the disorders of the last Summer it 's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE * PRINCE for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE * SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD I le say no more untill I hear from you but that I am Your unfeigned Friend T. Danielle I pray remember me to both my Cozens Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons-Marchant a la rue de pulle The Superscription is thus viz. A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que * Dios garde En Londres 9d There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish some concerning the affairs transactions of the late wars in Ireland found amongst these Books whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite and that the * Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion From the cloze of this Letter let all consider Whether it can be safe for any Popish as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms Courts who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Iustice as well as the late King of England by Cromwell and his Army or their own Subjects and how much all Kings ought to detest his president of the Jesuits contriving let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish Freers in and about London by the Iunctoes and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots Counsels they have vigorously pursued be not the principal contrivers fomentors of all our changes of Government New Sects Opinions Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant there being multitudes of them in and about London under several masks some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day of which there are some late particular Instances I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge Two English Gentlemen of quality one of them of mine acquaintance travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage three strangers who came from London desired leave to passe over with them which they condescending to suspected one of them at least to be a Jesâ—it by his discourse and during their stay at Paris saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Iesuits habits In August following they being at Angiers in France there repaired to their lodging an Englishman in his Friers weeds who informed them That he was an Englishman by birth but a Dominican Fréer by profession newly come from Salamanca in Spain and bound for England that he had been at Rome where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit who promised to return monies on them in France but had failed to doe it whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England desiring their favour to furnish him with monies which he would faithfully repay in London and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England he would see them safely delivered The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and eduâ—â—tion entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging till they could furnish him