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religion_n	exercise_v	good_a	great_a	252	4	2.0921	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34156	The Complaint of the kingdome against the evill members of both Houses who have upon designe brought in ruine under a pretence of reformation, relating to that former complaint made by the citie and counties adjacent.		1646 (1646)	Wing C5616; ESTC R17392	35,451	48

the very Becons that being set on fire themselves with their prodigious blazes have raised so many Countries in Armes to their owne ruine These are the grand Projectors to raise men and money making their Ministry but a Pander to Rebellion Their stratagemes have beene to awaken them by sounding this Alarm in their eares That Gods cause the Protestant Religion Lawes Liberties Properties Priviledges of Parliament yea their lives with the lives of their deare wives and children ly all at the stake They went a step higher in the beginning perswading them they were to fight for the defence of the Kings Rights and to rescue His Sacred Person from the hands of the Cavaliers so in a disgrace they termed His Majesties Illustrious Nephewes with the chiefe Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome who as they said had surprized Him When they were supplied with men animated by these devices what course did they leave unattempted to raise money to maintaine them Under the name of the publike faith a chest that is bottomelesse and insatiable they have erected a new lotterie to cheat our faith and begger the publike From hence the adventurers were sure to carry away nothing but blankes the prizes being designed for themselves and the Officers that were neere them some of which are not ashamed to sound the Trumpet for it When the free Contrbutions were exhausted from Voluntiers men came to be prest to these prodigall expences After they had lent some they were justly paid the use by having the rest taken from them Men were not onely forced to part with their own but to disburse others money also or committed to prison for their refusall This was ●angh●rne and Vivians case who were committed to Colchester Goale for denying to pay 2000l which was due to the Prince from them and yet the Receiver plundred of the money These men are no lesse carefull for the maintenance of the Kings children then of his Majestie provided it may be done by taking away their Revenues and thus all the Rights as well of King as People have beene secured by an Antiphrasis of Parliament When the Merchants were in dispute about the lading of the Ship called Sancta Clara these charitable men that love no strife betweene brethren umpir'd in the businesse and to reconcile the difference seized upon the goods which must not be redeemed to the use of the right owner under the loane of 20000l I pray God they have not this trick to comprimise all the differences of the Kingdome To raise money they have robbed both the Church and the Spittle six thousand pounds being collected for the repairing of S Andrewes Holborne were fetcht away by the Earle of Manchester and others in the night If this Church fall they have ingaged themselves to build God a new house in bloud We reade of Hezek●ah that he gave all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord to make his peace with a forreigne and idolatrous King but for subjects to take Gods money to wage Warre against a pious Prince we beleeve this may be made one of the first precedents They have not beene more favourable to the mysticall then to the materiall Temples of God A great collection was made for the reliefe of the poore Protestants in London Derry and besides those vast summes raised by Subsidie for the Armies there this was all converted to the use of this bloudy War whilest those our miserable brethren are ready to perish as many that went before them in their distresses To recompence them from this wrong they have imployed their Preachers to advance another collection for them which comming into the same hands we suspect will be conveighed the same way They tooke like care for the disposall of that collection made for Brainceford for the poore of the Parish have not beene a farthing the better for it hitherto and we beleeve the Spring will have so well recovered them that their Physitians will thinke it needlesse to administer what was so long agoe provided for them Whether these men that would have no summe passe by their owne bagge care more to relieve the poore then Judus did may appeare by diverse instances amongst the rest they brake into the Hospitall at Gilford in Surrey and tooke 400l from them and a fine device was lately set on foot to raise another summe There is a pretence for poore children to be sent over to get good breeding in New-England a collection must be made for them and this must be committed to the hands of their trusty and well-beloved Alderman Pennington which is like to be imployed to the use for which it was pretended as faithfully as those summes gathered for London Derry and Branceford were Now lest the peoples zeale should wast with their purses they keepe them warme by a continuall breathing of reports upon them If Letters come that speake but upon heare-say they first expunge so much of the relation as might tend to the discouraging of their party and then publish them as the History of some great defeat and if need be as there is need enough they have their Observatour to write Commentaries upon them lest the people should mistake the rare passages of Gods providence on their side Another while they declaime against the Kings Army as Popish forgetting that their good wroke is supported by men of any Nation or Religion and that the Lord Say and the Lord Brookes two leading Cards of that faction have often protested they would dispence with all sorts of Religions though now they make an exception of the true Protestant so they might exercise their owne freely and that such a generall Toleration ought to be granted is their avowed opinion and indeed their independency cannot consist otherwise for if I be accountable to none I will use what Religion I please without controule It hath been well observed that when there hath beene any businesse of consequence to be debated in the Houses they have still had the good fortune to be encouraged by the newes of some strange successe or exasperated by some great provocation suggested by such as made the discovery for advantage But they have beene so provident as to lay reports of this nature at a considerable distance that they might not be confuted before the present turne were served Thus wee were made beleeve whilest His Majesties Army was in Yorkeshore and in those remote parts that they consisted of none but Papists and Delinquents but this mist cast before the peoples eyes to blind them was soone dispelled by the rayes of our Soveraignes piety as He drew neare us And however the Earle of Newcastles Forces lie all under the same scandall now yet as great a cloud as this hath vanish'd into nothing and 't is possible they may draw so neare us that notwithstanding their duty and alleagiance have brought some Papists into that Army we may distinctly understand that the Masse which they say is so commonly used