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A86729	Digitus testium, or A dreadful alarm to the vvhole kingdom, especially the Lord Major, the aldermen, and the Common-Councel of the City of London. Or a short discourse of the excellency of Englands lawes and religion. Together, with the antiquity of both, and the famous Kings that England hath had to defend both the religion and the laws against the heathen Romish emperours, and against the Romish power, under Popes. With the several plots the Popes of Rome have used against the Kings of England, to throwe them down, and how of late he hath prevailed against the magistracy and ministery of England, his new designes, and manner of progress: together, with a serious view of the new oath or ingagement, with 22. queries upon the same. And also objections made against the non-subscribers thereof answered. Let the ingenuous reader take so much pains, as to read that incomparable peece of vindication of a treatise of monarchy by way of discovery of three main points thereof.	Hall, Henry, d. 1680, attributed name.; Hall, Edmund, 1619 or 20-1687, attributed name.	1651 (1651)	Wing H339A; Thomason E621_13; ESTC R206419	34,005	37

all the World and their damnation sleepeth not be not found amongst the number of Hypocrites Apostates Atheists and Papists persecuting the poor Church the sword is put into your hand for the preservation not for the persecution of a godly zealous Ministery The God of all wisdom direct you for the Churches good and his glory for which ends we dedicate these our Papers to you A short Discourse of the excellency of Englands Laws and Religion c. IT is not unknown to us the Free-born Protestants of England that our Nation claimeth the priority of all other Nations in the World for ancient and famous Laws and Peace and Religion The Laws and Customs of England saith Learned Fortescus are ancienter then the Laws of the Romans yea of the Venetians which are esteemed the ancientest in the World they are more famous then others because better then the Laws of other Nations and that in a threefold respect in the subject matter in the form and 3. in the disposing of them The ras substrata of the statute Laws of England is reason which indeed is the totum compositum of the common Law Common Law is a vast mine of right reason out of which all other Laws are digged and fitly squared to the good of the Kingdom he therefore is esteemed the best Lawyer that spoke the best reason and herein the People of England excel all other Nations in that they are only subjected by the Law to reason and the purest reason which to be is doubtless perfect freedom yea it may truly be affirmed that by the Law they are subjects only to divine reason for we have such a standing Law upon record that whatsoever Custom maxim or Statute shall be faind directly contrary to the Law of God that Custom Maxim Statute or Case shall be ipso facto void and so adjudged And as for the matter for the form the Laws of England are the absolute and undoubted best in the World for as there is universal obedience required and injoyned to every Law inacted for there is a general assent in the acting and constitution of that Law There are 3. estates which concur as joynt causes of the same effect in making of a Law These 3. Conjunctions do make the supreme Authority of the Nation the Apax or Culmen potestatis being set upon the Kings head all Writs and procession issuing out in his name with him are joyned the House of Lords and the House of Commons these 3. divisions are limitted by Law but compunction they have power to repeal or make a Law and none can say unto them why do you so but either of these apart are limitted by Law Limitations of royal power have been made and acknowledged by Magna Charta and several other acts and no obedience acknowledged any otherwise then according to Law and King Charles acknowledged that the measure of his power was the Law and he desired no more then what he was invested with by Law And so of the other two estates of Lords and Commons these three have negative voices alike have freedom in their several places a like freedom to make motions and freedom to reject what they dislike This is the absolutest best Government in the World as is clear from God and Nature God himself who is the Almighty Monark of all Spirits hath pleased to reveal himself to Man in a Trinity of persons and governs the universe by himself Angels and Men Celestical Bodies by Sun Moon and Stars the little World Man by understanding will and affections and the Kingdom of England by King Lords and Commons The King of himself cannot make a Law of himself if he do t is tyranny nor the Lords in a part by themselves nor the Commons by themselves against the other two if they do it is usurpation exceeding presumption perjury and Treason for they are sworn to the contrary by their Oaths of allegiance and supremacy to act nothing against the Crown and Dignity of their Soveraign Lord the King besides they are sworn to maintain the Priviledges of Parliament The King makes the first of these three Estates by a right which is not by election nor by Conquest simply but by inheritance for the Saxon Kings laying the plat-form of good Government here in England continued it succesfully until the Danes drove them into Corners subduing them for a time the which they soon recovered again and so recovered their ancient Customs and Laws again and continued them Edward the Confessor who was of the Saxon line having no Heir descending of his body intended to make Edgar Ethling Gran-child to Ironside his successor but Edward the Confessor dying Harrold-Earl Godwins Sonne being popular for his Victories usurped the Crown and dispossessed the right Heir deluding William of Normandy to whom he had promised by Oath the Government of the Kingdom after the death of Edward William Duke of Normandy hereupon pleads a right to the Crown of England by promise as he said from Edward the Confessor and hereupon brought an Army with him from Normandy and gave battel to Harold the Usurper at Hastings in Sussex where he overthrow'd him by whose overthrow there was way made for a Treaty betwixt Duke William and the Nobles and Citizens then at London Duke William pleaded his right by promise as having a grant of the Kingdom made to him by Edward the Confessor and confirmed by Harrold who forswore himself and usurped the Crown hereupon Duke William was received and acknowledged King by the Nobles and City of London after this Edgar Ethling who indeed was the right Heyr compounded with Duke William and for a royal allowance which Duke William granted him he reconciled himself to him and thus William came in as Successour to Edward the Saxon King and so it succeeded from the Normans to the Plantagenets Henry the 2. being the Sonne of Maud Henry the 1. his Daughter whom he married to Jeffery Plantagenet who begat Henry the 2. and so it passed from the Normans to the Plantaginets in whose unquestionable time eight Kings succeeded each other afterwards they divided Henry the 4 of the younger house usurped the Crown being of the house of Lancaster but Edward the 4. of the house of York coming in upon a better Title then those of Lancaster overthrew those that opposed his Title this Division continued and lived until Richard the 3. died who breathed the last of the Plantagenets The Tudors next succeeded the Plantagenets Henry the 7. matching with Elizabeth the eldest Daughter to Edward the 4. of the house of York united both houses of York and Lancaster laying the white Rose and the red together in the royal person of Henry the 7. the Scepter fell back into the Current of the old brittish blood together with the German Norman Burgandian Castalian and French atchievements with the intermarriages which 800 years had acquired incorporated and brought back into the old royal time

Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe that neither the Pope nor any other can absolve me from this Oath and all these things I do plainly swear according to the plain and common sence and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evation or secret reservation This Oath with the Oath of supremacy the supreme Authority of the Nation thought fit to impose upon all the Protestants and other subjects in the Kings Dominions The Protestants rejoyced that there were such Oaths whereby they might manifest their loyalty to their Soveraign Lord the King only the Papists refused it having and using no other plea but tenderness of Conscience and fear to offend the Church of Rome these Oaths distinguished Protestants from Papists a long time in England during which time the Kingdom indured much peace and prosperity but after the death of K. James K Charles succeeding him in the Throne and matching with one of the Popish Religion a gap was opened for Priests and Jesuites to enter into the Kingdom and Romish designs were set on foot for the setling of Jesuites in the Kingdom under the name of protestants the Pope granting dispensations and Jesuites writing books as Ortwinus and several others of the Church of Rome that it was lawful for a Roman-Catholique to make profession of the ●rotestant Religion to go to their Churches and outwardly comply with Protestants and yet be a sacred Catholique and that it was lawful vulpirare cum vulpibus to play the knave with a knave they are their own words Hereupon subtil Jesuites under the name of Protestants seated themselves in England undiscovered held correspondence with the Conclave of Rome and carried on the Popes design professing all obedience to the King but keeping their poysonous treason against him in their brests ready to spit in the Kings and his Posterities face when they had fit opportunity for they had learned their lesson within book that it is lawful to spoil an Heretique King of his Goods melius tamen est quod Authoritate judicis fiat but 't is better to do it by a Court of Justice this is not a new opinion of the Popes nor of the Jesuites though newly acted And this is another opinion of theirs that uxor Catholica viro haeretico bene volentiam reddere non tenetur that a Papists wife may refuse to submit to her Husband she may plot and conspire his death by the Popes Law and this is another Cardinals opinion whose Books are licensed Pater qui filium habet haereticum exh●reditare talem filium tenetur that the Father may disinherit his Son being a Protestant Simancha episcopus saith propter tonne haeresin patris filii non sunt sui juris by reason of the Fathers Heresie the same freed from his allegiance Nay they hold that Subjects may lawfully refuse to obey Protestant Princes saith Beliarmine Non licet Christianis tolerare regem haereticum That Christian Subjects ought not to tolerate a Protestant King to live for in the Papists sense they are the Hereticks With these poisonous opinions did many subtil Jesuites and Priests lie about the Court get into Vniversities and other places in the Kingdom under the name of Protestants many of them These with the Popes Nuncio having won the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury to their party as States-men conceived drove on a subtil design to overthrow the Government of the Kingdom by a Parl and so to pull down the Protestant Magistracy and all their wholsome Laws and by insinuating Altars Crucifixes Images and Image-worship with several other popish Ceremonies and imposing them on the Ministery of England thereby they intended at once to root out the Protestant Ministery and Protestant Religion This took effect according to the Popes desires so fully and raised the hopes of the Popish party so high that they resolved like Haman to destroy the Church in every of the Kings Dominions Scotland they intended to new-mould to the Popes model which Nation though poor and weak intemporals proved to the world that they were rich and strong in spirituals for they discovered the Popes designes and the English Jesuites the plots of the Spanish faction insomuch that the Protestant Nobility of England petitioned the King for a ●arl which was granted and the etcaetera Oath a Popish new Engagement on purpose devised to supplant the Protestant Ministery was utterly broken The Parl was by the gracious consent of the King established to sit until by their own Act they dissolved themselves This as it was great joy to the Protestants so it was exceeding terror to the Papists and Popish faction many of which fled beyond the Seas to Rome and other places Several others like subtil Foxes got on Sheeps-Cloathing and walked amongst the Separatists who during the Prelates tyranny were counted the most religious and zealous Protestants with these did they joyn and quickly learned their language fitting them in all things to a hair crying out against Antichrist the Pope of Rome Common Prayer or Antichrists Bible and Bishops as Antichrists brats this pleased the Separatists and no whit displeased the most of Protestants who too far lost their discretion through the violence of their blind passions who thought to much could not be said against Episcopal Government it had been so exceeding tyrannical hereby the subtil Jesuites under the name of zealous Protestants pluckt the Protestant Ministery and the Protestant Religion and the Protestant Magistracy as much into danger on the other hand as it had been before by the Popish Prelatick party for upon a true bottom did the Romish Sophists build a false Argument thus The Pope is Antichrist that 's true the Pope made Bishops say they and the Bishops made Ministers therefore the Ministers now were set down for Antichristian Ministers here the Devils Cloven foot appeared and mark what progress and advantage they made of this The next consequence was If Ministers be Antichristian then the Ordinances they administer are Antich Baptisme is Antich singing Psalms observing the Lords day meeting in Churches all this was Antichristian so that the Pope set up two designes for the miscarriage of that of Scotland for what with the Parl just and strict proceedings against the Popish party about the Court and what with their prevalency at Court with the Queen and the King designes by the Court factions were on foot to bring the Northern Army against the Parl to over-awe them as appears in the preamble of their Protestation made May 5. 1641. Thus whereas the designes of Priests Jesuites and other adherents to the See of Rome have of late been more frequently and boldly put in practice then formerly to the undermining and danger of the ruine of the true reformed Protestant Religion and the subversion of the fundamental Laws of England and Ireland by wicked plots and conspiracies and breach of Parliaments whereby the Kings Maj. person is indangered and an Army

intended to be brought up against the Parl to force them to condescend to the lusts of a Popish party Hereupon the first Protestation was framed and sent throughout the Kingdom no body refusing to subscribe it except Jesuitish Separatists J. A. B. do in the presence of Almighty God promise vow and protest to maintain and defend as far as lawfully I may c. Soon after this the breach between the King and the Parl. fell out the King giving too much ear to evil Councel and that Popish faction which was the ground of all the former persecution and the civil War the King raised an Army to defend himself and the Protestant Religion the Parl did the like upon the same grounds which at that time was doubtless real their end propounded was to defend Religion Law the Kings Maj. Person the Parl. priviledges and the Peoples Liberties The Parl cause seemed the best in most Protestants eyes at that time in regard the Courts designs were long before discovered to the Parl The Queens departure with the Crown-Jewels into Holland and the numerous flocks of Papists going to the King with all the corrupt part and guilty persons of the Kingdom which made haste to the King after his departure made the Protestants afraid what would become of Religion Parliament and the Kings person should that party about him have prevailed however they professed the Protestant Religion though many of them convicted Papists Hereupon the Lords and Commons made a second Vow and Covenant with this preamble Whereas the Lords and Commons now assembled in Parl have declared that there hath been and now is a Popish and Traiterus plot for the subversion of the true Protestant Reformed Religion and the liberty of the subject c. And after all this still perceiving the Popish party to increase grow great victorious bloudy and blasphemous the Lords and Commons professing to the World that they had nothing before their eyes but the glory of God the advancement of Christs Kingdom and the happiness of the King and his Posterity with the true publique liberty safety and peace of the Kingdom against the plots of the enemies they entred into the solemn League and Covenant containing 6. Articles which every Parl. man publickly and solemnly at the Chappel of St Margaret Westminster with his hand lifted up to Heaven in the sight of the Scots Commissioners and the whole Congregation did subscribe 1. That we will sincerely really and constantly through the grace of God indeavour in our several places and callings the preservation of the reformed Religion of the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government against our common enemies the reformation of Religion in the Kingdoms of England and Ireland in Doctrine c. 2. That we will in like manner without respect of persons endeavour the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Schisme Prophaneness c. 3. With the same reality sincerity and constancy in our several places and Callings indeavour with our Estates and Lives mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of Parl and the liberties of the Kingdoms and to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom that the World may bear witness with our Consciences of our loyalty and that we have no thoughts or intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatness 4. We shall also with all faithfulness endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be incendiaries or Malignants c. 5. And whereas the happiness of a blessed peace between the Kingdoms formerly denyedt our progenitors c. 6. We shall also according to our places c. This solemn League and Covenant being entred into by both Nations of England and Scotland made the deepest and strongest Politicians of the Roman faction to tremble yea as Mr. Hinderson the Reverend and Learned Minister of Scotland then Commissioner well foretold the news of this Covenant which was soon carried to Rome with the names of all the Subscribers made the Pope and his Conclave of Cardinals amazed and tremble insomuch that they doubled their diligence to work the destruction of the Covenanteers at this time The Duke of Lorane was solicited by Sir Kelem Digbies meanes who was then the Queens Agent for the English Affairs at Rome to help the King of England with an Army against the Covenanters in England Sir Kelenem Digby was the Popes right hand to promote and further all designs against the Covenanters party in England At the same time a Nuncio was forthwith sent from the Popes Court into Ireland there to make a Cessation with the Protestants and to further by all means possible the King of England against the Covenanters which was concluded with the Popes good liking as hath been confessed The old and sage Statesmen in Parl perceiving the designes of the Pope to drive furiously on towards the destruction of the Parl and Covenanters called in the Scots to their aid against the Popes designes The English A●my and Scots Army admitting no Officers or Souldiers in their Armies but such as took the Covenant the Covenanters through Gods providence beyond all expectation prospered in the field against their enemies and the Parl and Assembly of Divines prospered at Westminster and went on successively both of them being unanimous in the pulling down of Popery and Tyranny and establishing and maintaining the liberties of the Kingdom and Laws of the Realm and true Religion in Doctrine Discipline and Government for this purpose the Assembly of Divines first went over the Articles of faith drew them up after most deliberate serious and learned debates upon each of them and humbly presented them to the Parl under 33. heads 1. of the Scripture 2. of Gods Covenant and the holy Trinity 3. of Gods decrees 4. of Creation 5. of Providence 6. of mans fall and sin 7. of Gods Covenant with man 8. of Christ the Mediator 9. of free will 10. of effectual Calling 11. of Justification 12. Adoption 13. Sanctific●tion 14. saving faith 15. Repentance 16. good works 17. of perseverance 18. of assurance of grace 19. of the Law of God 20. Christian liberty liberty of Conscience 21. of religious worship and the Lords day 22. of lawful Oaths 23. of the civil Magistrate 24. of marriage and divorce 25. of the Church 26. of Communion of Saints 27. of the Sacraments 28. of Baptisme 29. of the Lords Supper 30. of Church-censures 31. of Synods and Councels 32. of the Resurrection 33. of the last judgement Then they regularly proceeded to settle Church-Government first proving Presbytery to be the Government which is most like to the primitive Government and coming nearest of all other Governments to Gods word next they drew up a Directory for Church-Government with an Orthodox learned and pious Catechisme and thus the Covenanters Magistracy and Ministry went on and prospered until they threw down their

three Estates cannot be molested yet the instruments that he implies against Law may be tryed This Law is most agreeable to the Law of God and the Law of nature to the Law of God for Kings are the Representatives of God on earth and none can touch them we see this clear in two famous instances in Saul who could crimes have brought him under the censure of men had enough to dethrone him for he was a Tyrant a murtherer and a publick enemy to the Church and State yet David when he could have done justice upon him said God forbid for he is the Lords anointed the declared King of Israel And David that was guilty of murther and adultery both of them deserving death by the Law yet was not questioned by his Subjects because God only hath the power of punishing Kings and not man This is most agreeable to the Law of nature for if Kings should be subject to their Subjects then the order must needs be confounded and the Law of nature utterly rooted up which orders approves no further then the supreme Authority which if judged by any is not the supreme and so produceth confusion and infinition Therefore we conclude that the Laws of England are the best Laws in the World in every respect both for matter form and distribution And as for Laws so for pure Religion it is beyond all other Nations it received the Apostolick faith almost if not all out as soon as Rome that brags of its antiquity Gindas telleth us that England received the Gospel in the Apostles dayes Joseph at Armathea bringing it into the Kingdom and Origen and Turtullian tell us that it received the Gospel as soon as any Natian in Europe This we are sure that it hath retained it in its purity the longest of any Nation it had a great share in the Presevitians under the Heathen Emperours of Rome after that under the Arrian and Entichion Heresies and after that under Popus the bloudiest and cruellest enemy to the Church so that from the Apostles time till this day Christian Religion though sometimes obscured never was obliterate nor extinct in the Kingdom And as this Kingdom hath been famous for Laws and Religion above others so it hath been the famousest in the World for Religious and valiant Kings to protect it and eminent Ministers to divulge it Lucious the Son of Coilus who was King of England was the first Christian King Jesus Christ smiling upon this Nation above all others in blessing it with a righteous King which was a miracle in the World at that time Constantine the 8. King of England after Lucius who was the Son of beautiful Helea King Coil his Daughter of England whom she brought forth at York he becam Emperour of Rome conquering the Heathen Emperours with a Brittish Army and so converted Rome Heathen into Rome Christian the famousest Reformation that ever was wrought in the World so that England is famous for being the first Christian Kingdom and setting up Christian Empire English Kings having been the only great friends to true Religion in the time of Paganisme And as they were the greatest friends to Christs Church against Rome Pagan so they have been the greatest friends to the true Chucrch against Rome Antixfian for about the year 1070. when the Pope was in his full height of soverainty the Normons line succeeding the Saxons in England were the first Kings that contemned the Popes Authority William the Conqueror spit at him and Wilt Rufus who succeeded him openly spake against the Popes usurped power of binding and loosing withstanding and rejecting his intrapped fopperies declaring against the Pope the folly of invocating Saints he plucked proud Arch Bishop Anselmes nose under his Girdle in despight of the Pope and so did the royal Family of the Plantagenets The Tudors and the Stuarts got their several parts in greater degrees against the Pope as they succeeded each other So that the Normans may be said to resist the Pope the Plantagenets to grapple with the Pope the Tudors to unhorse the Pope and the Stuarts to stob the Pope King James being the first King that writ against him proved him to be Antichrist Against the Kings of England the Popes have born an old grudge and indeavoured to destroy those Kings or Queens which resisted their Authority at least 12. Treasons against Q. Elizabeth were discovered and prevented which so frustrated Pope Pius Quintus projects that it broke his heart for malice that he could not with his Bulls which with his own hands he sealed depose and dethrone the Protestant Queen for she took occasion from the Popes wickedness and the Papists treachery to extirpate Priests and Jesuites out of the Kingdom whereupon Pope Gregory 13. erected a Colledge on purpose for English Priests and Jesuites that fled from England to Rome and another at Doway which was much nearer England that they might there both frame their granadoes of Treason against the English Court and receive such persons as were succesless in their Treason and made escapes out of England Against King James besides that Treason of Warson and Clarke the prodigious Gunpowder-plot was contrived by the Papists to destroy the King the Prince the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the twinkling of an eye upon this ground because Pope Clement 8. by a Bull Commanded that the King should not be crowned without a toleration of Popery but God prevented that prodigious blowe Hereupon the King and the Parl framed the Oath of allegiance to be taken by every subject in the Kingdom 't is thus I. A. B do truly and sincerely acknowle●ge profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World that our Soveraign Lord K. James is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other His Maj. Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power of Authority to depose the King or dispose any of his Majesties Kingdoms or Dominions or to authorize any forraign Prince to invade or anoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his subjects of the allegiance and obedience to His Majesty or to give license to any of them to bear Arms or offer any violence or hurt to His Maj. person State or Government or to any of His Maj. Subjects I do swear from my hear● that no withstanding any Declaration or excom. against the King his Heirs and Successours or any absolution of the said Subjects from their obedience I will bear faith and true Religion to His Maj. His Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever and I do detest and abhorre as impious and heretical the damnable Doctrine of the Pope that Princes may be excommunicated and deprived of their Kingdoms deposed and murthered by their

Religion the establishment of lawfull Magistracy and the establishing and reforming of the State as the tenour of the Covenant runs we do again professe that we will with all joyfulnesse submit and subscribe thereunto But if upon cleer and manifest grounds it appear to be destrctive to the Parliament Religion Laws Liberty Kingdom and Army and a meer design to introduce Popery they will be so far from promoting it we hope that they will speedily remove it out of the way as a burdensome stone upon Christians consciences and the Kingdoms Gangreen We could wish them to take notice of the hand of God against it since is came forth the same night that the Act for the taking the Ingagement was printed the same night a dreadfull blow by powder which blew up 70. and odde persons and slew them all in the twinkle of an eye Lieut Coll Smith who was Sir Hardresse Wallers L Coll he that was the busie man in pulling the Members of the Commons House out of the House and imprisoning the Members he was blowed up in the midst of his cups and slain and since that one of the promoters of the Ingagement we tremble to mention it on Jan 30. through the terror of conscience and temptation of the devil hanged himself We cannot but take notice of Gods displeasure and wrath which breaks out daily amongst us in fires and murthers since this Ingagement came forth We therefore resolve as we hate perjury rebellion and treason not to touch with this Ingagement until upon evident grounds of humane reason or Divinity it be made clear that it is for the good of Religion Laws Magistracy and Ministery and this our resolution is so reasonable and just that we conceive none but unreasonable men and the enemies of Church and State Parliament Army and people will speak against it or oppose this our resolution Ob. There is one objection or false glosse which the Ingagers make and that is in the clause of the 3d. Article of the Covenant concerning the King that we covenanted with the Parliament to defend the King so far as he defended the Protestant Religion but if he act contrary then to bring him to Justice according to the Covenant that injoyns us to bring Delinquents to condigne punishment But say they the King was a great Delinquent and an enemy to the Protestant Religion A. To this we answer briefly 1. The two former Articles of the Covenant speak wholly of the preservation of the reformed Religion the 3d. Article speaks wholly of the preservation of the King and Parliament and kingdome which together with the preservation of Religion we covenanted to defend To defend his Majesties person in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of the kingdom is not inserted conditionally as I will defend his person no longer then he shall defend Religion and the Laws If so then t was taken with the like condition to be subject to the Parliament and then it must necessarily follow that we the Subjects make our selves the Kings Judges and that man or party may revolt from the King and indevour to pull him down because he maintains not his Religion and therfore we renounce that Interpretation of that Clause as Jesuiticall We Protestants took it in this sence that we would together with our Religion preserve our King and Parliament absolutely And if they did act any thing con●rary to Religion or Law we were resolved to yeeld passive obedience and in no wise to resist the higher Powers But grant it which we will not that it had been meant conditionally so long as he preserves Religion how comes it that when the King had fully determined and yeelded to root out Popery and to establish the Protestant Religion in the three Kingdoms and to establish Church government and put the Militia in the Parliaments hands and when the Parliament voted his concessions a ground to proceed on to settle the Kingdom then he was snatched away and both King and Parliament thrown down This plea of theirs joyned with their practice would make any man beleeve the Ingagers flat Papists How can they say they sincerely maintain the rights and privileges of Parliament when they contradict their Votes and take the boldnesse to tell them they are all treacherous and lay violent hands on them and exclude them from sitting in the House and imprison them And how can they say they defended his Majesties person in the maintaining of true Religion when they cut him off even then when both the Houses of Parliament and He had even concluded the Treaty to root out Popery and establish the Protestant Religion What Subject especially hired servants dare presume to contradict the Parliaments Votes upon serious debate shall any one party of Subjects surmises out-weigh the grave and serious debates of a Parliament T is true subjects duty to submit to higher Powers not resist them But this was a resistance at that very time when all things were concluded in a manner for setling the kingdome in peace and true Religion So that they that upon this ground plead for the necessity of cutting off the King must plead it because he would no longer defend the Popish Religion And therfore from the Ingagers own Argument of cutting off the King we cannot subscribe to this Ingagement lest the world take us for most rank hypocrites vile Apostates and absolute Papists Reader the times are such that they will not admit such Papers to be perused and corrected to thy hand therefore be pleased to amend with thy pen these grosse mistakes of the Printer P. 1. l. 4. for and peace and religion r pure Religion and famous Princes to defend both l. 5. for Fortescus r. 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