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A48787 Cabala, or, The mystery of conventicles unvail'd in an historical account of the principles and practices of the nonconformists, against church and state : from the first reformation under King Edward the VI. anno 1558. to this present year, 1664 : with an appendix of an CXX. plots against the present govenment, that have been defeated / by Oliver Foulis ... Lloyd, David, 1635-1692. 1664 (1664) Wing L2636; ESTC R9208 72,091 97

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of all these Treasons was it Liberty Religion No some three hundred thousand Soules perish an hundred Millions of Treasure is spent some five thousand Families are undone the principal men are brought to shameful ends some eight thousand persons are ruined by publick faith King and Bishops Lands Vane glozeth but dieth on a Scaffold Pym debaucheth the Parliament but ends his dayes miserably Hampden takes Armes but falleth on that place where he first Rebelled Lenthal Collogues but dieth in much horrour and trouble of Conscience Cromwell Ireton Harrison Scot Carew and others domineer but are hanged drawn and quartered and set up to assure the World that the punishment of Treason may be slow but is very sure and that a Rebell labours in vaine The late Purchasers lived nobly and now begge their Bread the approving ejecting and sequestring Ministers are now silenced themselves the Church Government is most firmly setled the tender-Conscienced are more closely held in and the Reformation it self become a by-word and an hissing among all Nations Argile and Warreston had their time and now in the place of Traytors scattered up and down in several places of their Country § 23. Anno 1660. But to mention no more of those thousands that were ruined by the late defection his Majesty is restored by a Wonder received with the applause and satifaction of all men And yet one Venner a Fifth-Monarchy man and many of his followers are perswaded that now was the time to set up the Kingdome of Jesus Christ they first preach it up then they draw such a Declaration for it as might draw in all dissenters against the Government whatsoever they agree upon such rules maximes and Principles as suited with most mens humours they pray'd and preached themselves to very great resolutions and all this very closely upon Sunday Twelfnight 1660. they continue at their exercise in Coleman street till late at night when they arme themselves to attacque a secure City in the dead of night being assured that one man should chase an hundred and ten men a thousand but alas do they promote their cause or advance the Kingdome of Jesus Christ nothing less they are discovered by the Owner of the meeting house yet they march through the City without controule but Sir Rich. Brown then Lord Mayor drawes towards them the Kings Guard surroundeth them the Train-bands engage them of some thirty of them six die upon the place Venner Hodskins and the chief of them are hanged drawn and quartered their flesh rots and their memories are rooted out from the Earth and all people even they of their own perswasions detest them and in several Remonstrances declare against them Anno 1662. when some severe Lawes were made against dissatisfied persons and the Government grew towards a settlement Tongue Philips Stubes Sallows Gibbs Baker and others lay a Plot to deliver themselves from those at Whitehall they first set up a Councel of forty for satisfying all Interests and reconciling all differences and out of this Councel they chose another of 8. which was not to sit twice in any one place to consider of Officers Ammunition Musters and particular designes upon whose dissolution the Plot was to begin viz. to secure Windsor Castle by a Gunner there and the Tower by a party following the Lords Mayors Coach late at night to admit of Ludlow for General to engage some of the Trained Bands to spread abroad a rumour of a Popish Massacre to buy up all the Armes that could be met with to list their Country friends under the old Officers of the Army that were then scattered up and down to set up a Magazine in Crutched Friers and seize the City Magazine to seize Whitehall by the way of the Privy-Garden the General and Sir Rich. Brown being beforehand dispatched to set up the old Parliament and the Kingdome of Jesus Christ But is any of these things done or were not these men betrayed by their own brethren Hill and Riggs hanged drawn and quartered by the Common Hangman and made a prey for the Foules of the aire rotting upon the face of the Earth are not their Families undone and their parties under more severe Lawes and confinements to this day their liberty lost their meetings dispersed and all his Majesties Indulgence towards them forfeited Anno 1663. Yet some Anabaptists taking advantage of some generall discontents lay a Plot in the Bishoprick of Durham in March 1. To reconcile all their Brethren of different perswasions 2. Upon an Oath of secrecy to send Agitators all over England with propositions most comprehensive of all Interests who met at one Ouldreds house the Devil of Dewsbury as they call him and afterwards at Stankebouse in that County from whence Marsden and Palmer are sent Agitators to London to the secret Committee there whence they bring a Resolution to rise Octob. 12. with assurance that the Insurrection should be general 3. To attempt White-hall upon some Shew-night to secure New-castle for a passage to Scotland and Bolton in Lincolnshire for correspondence with Forreign Parts for succour and Ammunition 4. To lay hold upon the Gentry 5. To oppose Subsidies and Chimney-money to restore the Long Parliament to establish a Gospell Magistracy and Ministry and to check the Clergy the Gentry and the Lawyers 6. They preached all over the Nation in Order to the Generall Rising calling it Following the Lamb and inferring from that expression the lawfulnesse of the Designe so it were carried on for love of the Cause and for no by-ends 7. They were to Garrison Nottingham Glocester c. and 〈…〉 They drew a 〈…〉 the sectaries against the Government 10. They were to begin in Ireland 11. To seize the Lord Fauconbridge and the Lord Fairfax his Horses and Armes and indeed all the Gentry and Clergy thereabout But what was the issue of all this The Parties are treacherous to one another the Design is discovered and some thirty are gone into another world To see whether God said FEARE GOD HONOUR THE KING AND MEDDLE NOT WITH THEM THAT ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE FOR THEIR CALAMITY SHALL RISE SUDDAINLY AND WHO KNOWETH THE RUINE OF THEM BOTH LET EVERY SOULE BE SUBJECT UNTO THE HIGHER POWERS FOR THERE IS NO POWER BUT OF GOD THE POWERS THAT BE ARE ORDAINED OF GOD WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POVVER RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD AND THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE UNTO THEMSELVES DAMNATION Whether it be not certain as an Article of Faith that by Christ Kings reign and Princes decree justice that Power is given of the Lord and Soveraignty from the Highest and therefore that Mankind must be Subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake and that we must needes be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience sake and as to Christ i. e. by the same necessity for the same reason to avoid the same punishment to have the same rewards and by the force of the same Religion and that they may