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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64162	The conversion, confession, contrition, comming to himselfe, & advice, of a mis-led, ill-bred, rebellious round-head which is very fitting to be read to such as weare short haire, and long eares, or desire eares long / written by John Taylor.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T444; ESTC R1357	11,175	17

vowes any reasonable man may beleeve had been sufficient and fit to be held and kept inviolable but as if those were of no validity and that we might Equivocate Juggle and play at fast and loose with the searcher of all hearts I with thousands more of fooles and wicked wretches some voluntary and malitiously and some upon constraint fearfully foolishly took and bound our selves by oaths vows protestations of combinations associations and contracts quite contrary to all that we had formerly sworne for our last swearing were to continue Rebells all the dayes of our lives Fourthly we have in generall or for the most of us remembred to unsanctifie the Sabboth day that whereas the Lord commanded it strictly to be observed for a day of rest we have frequently prayed preached and practised on that day chiefly nothing but disturbant Rebellions Treasons commotions seditions and most horrible blasphemies wherein the Lord and the Lords Anointed were either ridiculously or treacherously abused and neither the peace of God or the Kingdome so much as mentioned Fiftly whereas we are commanded to give honour to Parents or our Fathers and Mothers whether they be Kings Queenes or any other spirituall or temporall Fathers and Magistrates or our naturall Fathers and Mothers or Maisters who should rule and governe us In stead of honouring them we have trod all honour obedience allegiance loyalty respect and duty under foot The Subjects have fought against the Soveraigne the people have despised the Magistrate the servants have resisted against their Maisters and the sonnes have drawn their swords and sheath'd them in the bowells of their Fathers The sixth Commandement forbids doing any Murther and we have observ'd it so well that we have by committing most barbarous and inhumane Murthers and slaughters made this sometimes Kingdome of Peace an Aceldema or field of Bloud a very Golgotha of dead mens sculls as if it were the slaughter house of the world and shambles of Butcher'd mans flesh for all the Anthropophagie of man-eating Canniballs Seaventhly Adultery is forbidden and for the defence and maintenance of Adultery we have providently forbidden all power and authority that should punish it so that we having freedome as Beasts have have done worse then beasts would do for some Sons have made so bold with their owne Mothers that they have proved with Child by them so that with Incests Adulteries Rapes deflowrings Fornications and other veneriall postures actions which daily passe and escape uncontrolled unpunish'd and as it may be conjectur'd tolerated England is almost chang'd in that point to the Isle of Paphos and if this world hold Venus is like to be mother of the Maydes Eightly Thou shalt not steale Alas the breach of this Commandement hath been the only prop supportation in maintaining this unmatchable Rebellion and all the Rebells that are in it were it not for stealing theft robbery plundering and forcible extorting we might all go hang our selves for if once we give over theeving then comes Peace to which we are mortall Enemies Ninthly we should not bear false witnesse against our Neighbours and we hold none to be our Neighbours that love or obey either God or the King therefore we hold it no sinne to traduce slander scandalize belye and falsely to testifie accuse and beare false wicked witnes against any honest man whosoever and in our testimony we have been beleeved and rewarded countenanced and defended Concerning the tenth and last Commandement which saith Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy Neighbours be it either house wife Servant Cattle r Goods It is written that Covetousnesse is the root of all evill and had we not coveted things that were none of our owne and with an avaritious greedy desire raked and ransack'd that which belong'd not unto us then had the King still had our bounden obedience tributary duty then had all true Subjects quietly enjoyed their owne then had his Majesty not been depriv'd of his Townes His Ships his Castles his Magazines his Houses his Lands his Customes his Children his Revenue his Ammunition his Subjects and as neare as we could of all that was neare or deare unto Him then had these mischiefs never have been begun this Kingdom had not lain weltring in her own bloud we had not then been involved in unspeakable misery nor kept in this perpetuall slavery under the Abortive and usurping power of a pretended Parliament-Everlasting Thus have I with the rest of my wicked Brethren broken all the ten Commandements but we should have broak the 11th too if we had heard of it and infringed all the Lawes of God of man of nature of Nations of Arts and Armes and in brief of all goodnes both divine and morall so that to make a particular confession of all the abhorred crimes we have committed I am perswaded that auricular confession would be wearied and all the race of mankind would be return'd to the first matter or nothing of which it was made but I humbly and heartily desire that this my acknowledgement contrition may not only have remission but also admission againe into my most wronged Soveraignes grace and favour of which happines I am in certain hope though I doe almost despaire that too many of my malitious and stiffe Brethren though they know they have been accursed Rebells yet they will rather go on desperately with Iudas be hang'd or hang themselves then with Peter Repent and weep bitterly for their Apostacie As naughty Boyes when they first practise pilfering begin to steale Pins and proceed to poynts and passing unreproved fall at last to be perfitly Grammard in the Art of filching theeving and robbery and make no scruple to commit any felony or villany so I at first was but drawne in like an ignorant Sot and shortly came to the degree of a malitious Knave and in a little time with the help of the Devill I grew to the high Calling of a Rebell and shortly after me thought Treason was the only way to be secure and the impregnable Bulwark to defend me from the stroke and battry of Law and Iustice for all my former notorious crimes committed any manner of Roguery whereby the King might be injurd was as good as Cake and Custard to me and every scurvy song Rime Lecture or Libell against the office and persons of Bishops Courtiers and Cavaliers was as sweet Musique to me as the fat end of a Pudding I was at a Market Towne called Mansfield in the Forrest of Sherwood in Nottinghamshire where my Brethren bravely threw pull'd and haled downe the Market Crosse and after that they spied a Carved round piece of wood in the forme of a Crowne which was fairly wrought painted and guilded and stood for the Signe of the Crowne which we like most violent valiant villaines did pluck from the Signe post and in reverence to the Crowne duty to the King we drag'd it through the dirt and kick'd it about the