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A56220	A true and perfect narrative of what was done, spoken by and between Mr. Prynne, the old and newly forcibly late secluded members, the army officers, and those now sitting, both in the Commons lobby, House, and elsewhere on Saturday and Monday last (the 7 and 9 of this instant May) with the true reasons, ends inducing Mr. Prynne ... thus earnestly to press for entry, to go and keep in the House as he did, and what proposals he intended there to make for publike peace, settlement, and preservation of the Parliaments privileges / put in writing and published by the said William Prynne ... to rectifie the various reports, censures of this action, and give publike satisfaction ... of his sincere endeavors to the uttermost of his power, to preserve our religion, laws, liberties, the essential rights, privileges, freedom of Parliament, and all we yet enjoy, according to his oaths, covenant, trust, as a Parliament member, against the utter subverters of them ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing P4113; ESTC R937	104,117	112

Scripture in your sense and never yet read of in the militant or triumphant Church of Christ Let Mr. Prynne a little expostulate the case with you not as a Lawyer but as a Christian Do you indeed believe the Scripture to be the very will and word of the Great King the Soveraign Lord and Iudge of all the Earth and of Jesus Christ the King of Kings the Lord of Lords and King of Saints which you are bound in Conscience under pain of eternal damnation to believe and obey If not proclaim it as loud to the world with your Voyces as you do by your Swords Actions and then all will know you in your Native colours to be no Saints but real Atheists and all reasonings with you will be in vain But having better perswasions of you That you believe the Scripure to be the only rule of your Consciences Iudgements Lives both as Souldiers and Christians Then answer clearlie to these interrogations The Lord of Hosts himself most peremptorilie and preciselie commands you To fear God honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 Rom. 13.7 Yea to fear the Lord and the King coupling both these together as unseperable and not to meddle with those who are given to change Prov. 24.21 How can how dare you then dishonour vilitie reproach destroy both your natural Kings and Kingship too without the least fear at all of God or the King and change them into a New Republican Conventicle He commands you to subject your selves to the King as Supream both by the Ordinance of God and man and that for the Lords sake and avoiding scandal to Religion 1 Pet. 2.12 13. To be subject to the Higher Powers and amongst them more especiallie to Kings and Principalities and that not only for fear of wrath but for Conscience sake for these Reasons clearlie expressed Because they are of God and ordained by God Because they are the Ministers of God for your good Because they are Gods Avengers to punish you if you disobey resist or do evil Because they who resist them resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13.1 to 8. Tit. 3.1 2. VVith what face heart confidence conscience then can or dare you not onlie not submit subject your selves to but exalt your selves above against your lawfull Soveraign Kings and Higher powers so far as not onlie to resist but destroy their Persons Powers Kingships Principalities themselves though Gods own Ordinance and that out of pretended Zeal and Conscience too and hope to receive a Crown on Earth or in Heaven for it when as God himself denounceth Damnation to you for your verie unwarrantable resistance of them alone and much more for their destruction God requires you to make Prayers Supplications Intercessions and giving of thanks first of all FOR KINGS that YOU may live a peaceable and quiet life under them in all Godliness and honestie for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour To make prayers to the God of Heaven FOR THE LIFE OF THE KING AND OF THE KINGS SONS Ezra 6.12 13. To pray with all the primitive Church and Saints of Cod Psal 72.1 Give the King thy Judgement O God and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Sun How can how dare you then not onlie neglect these Duties but prohibit condemn punish them as no lesse than High Treason in others and not onlie fight but curse revile pray against the King and the Kings Sons too and take away their lives livelihoods instead of praying for them reputing it both your godlynesse honesty yea a Duty acceptable and well pleasing unto God Hear O Heavens and tremble O Earth at this great impietie God commands you Eccles 8.2 To keep the Kings Commandement and that in regard of the Oath of God And dare you against all your Oaths of Fealty Homage Supremacy Allegiance Protestation League Covenant printed Declarations and your own Propositions 1 August 1647. That the Kings Person and Royal issue may be restored to a condition of safety honor and freedom in this Nation without diminution of their personal Rights doth abjure eradicate King Kingship and the Royal Posterity that you may no more keep nor obey anie of their Superior Commands and prefer the Commands of anie undutifull Army-Officers raised onlie to defend the King and Parliament from all force and violences before both their Ordinances Proclamations Commissions Votes to both their ruines God injoyns you not to Curse the King no not in your thoughts not to revile or speak evil of the Ruler of your People Eccles 10.20 Exod. 22.28 Acts 23.5 Tit. 32. And can you like those wicked Idolators Isay 8.21 Curse your King and your God and look upward and like those unjust carnal bruitish Beasts made to be destroyed and reserved to the day of Judgement to be punished despise Dominion speak evil of Dignities Kings Kingship 2 Pet. 9. to 14. Jude 8.9 10. for which the Cospel it self denounceth Woe unto you perishing in the gain-saying of Core Jude 11 that you shall utterly perish in your own Corruption and receive the reward of unrighteousnesse 2 Pet. 2.12 13. Christ himself more tha● once enjoyns you in the Cospel To render to Caesar the things that are Caesars to wit all his Dues Tributes Custom Fear Honor Mat. 22.17 21. Mar. 12.16 17. Lu. 20.22 24 25. Rom. 13.7 how can or dare you then wrongfully forciblie take away and detain from your rightfull King Caesar not onlie all these his Dues and Crown-lands too but his verie Crown life to boot instead of making restitution of them to his Son when he came to demand the fruits of his Fathers Vineyard do and say with those wicked Husbandmen in the Gospel Mat. 21.38 39. Lu. 20.14 this is the Heir come let us kill him and the Inheritance shall be ours and cast him out of the Vineyard O remember the sad doom which Christ himself and all his Auditors have denounced against you for it in these Texts Luke 19. 27. then tremble at it If all these Precepts will not affect nor reform you Consider That it hath been the general constant importunate desire of all Nations and Gods own People too wherin God himself hath gratified them to set up Kings to judge rule them and fight their battels Deut. 17.14 15. 1 Sam. 8.5.19 20 22. Jer. 25.18 to 27. For all the people unanimouslie to rejoyce and expresse their gladnesse contentment satisfaction delight triumph at their Kings solemn inaugurations with Trumpets Feasts Shouts Acclamations to eccho out this unanimous publick Ovation again and again God save the King Let the King live O King live for ever and to use the self-same expressions in all their private and publick Addresses 1 Sam. 11.24 2 Sam. 16.16 1 Kings 1.25.34 39. 2 Kings 11.12 2 Chron. 23 11. Ezra 6.10 Psal 72.10 15. Dan. 2.4 c. 3.9 c. 6.6.21 Mat. 21·5 9 And

Staves to apprehend him he said unto him Mat. 26.52 Put up thy Sword again in to its place for they that take the Sword shall perish with the Sword Nay the state of the Gospel is so inconsistent with Souldiers Arms VVar That upon the sincere profession of it God requires the Professors thereof to beat their Swords into Plowshares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation Neither shall they learn VVar any more but to live in peace with all men and keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Isay 2.4 Mich. 4.3 Luke 2.14 1 Cor. 7.15 c. 14.53 Gal. 5.22 2 Cor. 13.11 Eph. 4 3. Col. 3.15 2 Thes 3.16 Heb. 12.14 Never was the Kingdom Gospel Church of Jesus Christ promoted advanced in any Age or place by war Swordmen but many Churches have been utterly destroyed extirpated depraved corrupted none ever edified planted enlarged much lesse reformed by them Our present armie-Armie-Saints and new Military-Apostles by their fighting praying preaching fasting instead of promoting the Gospel Protestant Religion and Church of England have almost totally subverted them by broaching countenancing protecting all sorts of Heresies Blasphemies Sects Schisms Errors Opinions Religions setting up new Conventicles of Sectaries Seducers in all places opposing slighting traducing the very Church Doctrine Ministry of England the very Function Ordination of Ministers by decrying detaining their Tithes and former maintenance as litigious Jewish Antichristian by swallowing up all the Lands Revenues of Bishops Deans Chapters Arch-Deacons and a great part of our Ministers maintenance by sequestrations and monthly Contributions to maintain their Army Evangelists now ready to swallow up the remainder that is left and continuing in a body for that purpose by the very Jesuites instigation who not only professedly teach in their publick University at Madrid the Art of War by Land and Sea the making of Guns Gunpowder fireworks all manner of Military Engines of which they read Lectures as most agreeable to the Name Profession of their Martial Father Ignatius as Alphonsus Vargas a Spanish Priest records but boast That the General of the Jesuites can bring into the Field more Souldiers of his own order in a shorter time than any Christian King whatsoever and likewise expresly affirm That their Gopsel and Religion is to be propagated set up the Heretiques and Evangelical Sectaries who resist them refuted extirpated abolished with Fire Armies Sword and War in England elsewhere as Jacobus Cruciger Rector of the Jesuites at Lansperg in his explication of the Rules of their Order Parlus Windeck De extirpandis Heresibus Antid 10 11. p. 404 412 480. Thuanus Hist l. 65. p. 238. l. 66. p. 299. Franciscus Verona Apol. pro Johanne Castle par 5. c. 13. Hospinian Hist Jesuitica l. 4. p. 212 213 214. Hasenmullerus Hist Jesuit c. 1. Spec. Jesuiticum p. 61. unanimously attest O then discern at last whose Gospel Kingdom you are now propagating by your Army Arms and Westminster Conventicle not Jesus Christs but the very Jesuites his greatest Underminers Many of you especially Millinaries and Fifth Monarchy-men pretend that Jesus Christ is now comming to reign personally on Earth a thousand years and that you shall all reign together as Joynt-Kings with or Vece-royes under him But the setting up of a New Republick and Aristocracy is wholly inconsistent with this Kingdom and Monarchy of Christ you now expect which suites only with a Temporal King and Kingdom How this Opinion will accord with Christs own description of it John 18.16 My Kingdom is not of this World or Pauls Rom. 14.17 The Kingdom of God is not meat and drink nor yet Arms and Armies but Righteousness● and Peace and Joy in the Holy Ghost which Souldiers Armies usually destroy not produce or propagate let those who maintain it consider When Mr. Prynne was kept close Prisoner in Pendennis Castle by John Bradshaws and our New Republicans illegal warrant in July 1651. some four dayes after his imprisoment there divers Officers and Souldiers of the Garrison who had long debated every day for sundry Months befo●e their present expected personal reign of Christ on Earth repaired to him to know his Opinion conce●ning it as he was taking fresh Ai● in the Bowling-Alley standing in a ring about him Upon which he fi●st demanded their Opinions of it when they had all fully utte●ed their Conceits in the Affirmative with much considence M. Pryn briefly answered That now they had beheaded one of our Kings and almost conquered another and o●r 3. Kingdoms they tho●ght talked of nothing but being all Kings themselves and of reigning person●lly on Earth cheek by joll with Christ himself as his Fellow-Kings no Earthly King being fit to be a Companion for such transcendent s●blinated Saints as they thought themselves But they were all most grosly mistaken for that very Text of Rev. 20.4 5. which he read out of one of their Bibles whereon they principally g●ounded thei● Opinions and Reign was pointblank against them And I saw the Souls OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED not of them who took off their own Christian Protestant Kings and Nobles Heads for the Witnesse of Jesus and the word of God and which had not worshipped the Beast nor his Image neither had received his mark upon their foreheads nor in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years is it not added on the Earth and Chap. 22.5 rather proves their reign to be in the New Jerusalem in Heaven But the rest of the dead who were not thus beheaded lived not again much lesse then reigned with Christ till the thousand years were past By which it is most apparent That if Christ shall reign personally on Earth for a thousand years as they all conceived and that this time was now at hand yet not one of them should or possibly could reign with him if this Text be Vmpire For the words are most positive that none else shall thus reign with Jesus Christ a thousand years but only the souls of those who were beheaded for the testimony of Iesus Christ c. It being expresly averred in the affirmative then in the Negative But the rest of the Dead lived not till the thousand years were past Upon which account the late King and other Protestants whose Heads they had cut off and those Godly Christians they had slain murdered in the Wars and perchance himself and others who had lost their Ears Liberties Estates and were shut up close Prisoners for the Testimony of Iesus Christ and had not worshipped but opposed the Beast of Rome his Image Superstitions innovations Proceedings against the late King Parliament Religion nor received the mark of the Beast in their Foreheads or hands might peradventure reign with Christ a thousand years But as for themselves and other Army Saints who made it their businesse and reputed it their honour Saintship to cut off the Heads of their own Christian

Kings Nobles Brethren to destroy Kingdoms Parliaments their Privileges secure imprison close imprison their Members worshipping the very beast and his Image and visibly receiving his mark in their Foreheads hands by these their Jesuitical practises keeping up an Army and Iron-Sword still drawn amongst us to the great oppressing undoing of their Native Country of purpose to keep off the wooden Crosse of Iesus Christ which he expresly enjoyned them with self-denying Spirits to take up daily and follow him and that other Crosse their own Consciences tell them these perfideous treacherous practises of theirs justly demerit they could have no ground at all from this or anie other Text to reign with Christ in his Heavenly or earthly Kingdom out of which these their seditious unrighteous and bloody practises did eternally exclude them as the 10 14 15. verses of this very Chapter Rev. 22.11 15. 1 Cor. 6.8 9 10. Gal. 5.20 21. resolve Therefore if ever they desired or expected thus to reign with Christ they must all presently repent of these their former Exorbitances put off their Swords from their sides take up Christs daily crosse lay down their own heads upon the Block and then willingly chearfully lose them not for their 7 reasons and Rebellions but for the Testimony of Iesus Christ and the word of God and opposition of their former treasonable Plots of the Beast of Rome then they might expect to reign with him otherwise they had no hopes by the resolution of this Text and that parallel'd place 2 Tim. 2.11.12 which excellently explains it If we be dead with Christ we shall also live with him If we suffer we shall also reign with him If we deny him by refusing to suffer with or for him he will also deny us With which words these formerly confident Swordmen were so non plassed that they had not one word to reply and gave over all future discourses of this subject ever since being as unwilling to lose their Souldiers pay or Heads for the testimony of Christ as the young man in the Gos●el was To sell all he had and give it the poor to gain eternal life and Treasures in Heaven Lastly consider That as it is the highest glory excellency of God himself the greatest comfort felicity security of his Church Saints that he is the living God stedfast for ever Dan. 6.26 That he is the Lord and changeth not Mal. 3.6 That with him is no variablenesse or shadow of change James 1.17 That he is the same immutable God for ever from everlasting to everlasting That his Counsels thoughts of heart purposes truth faithfulnesse commands loving-kindnesse Covenant stand fast firm unalterable to all generations for ever and ever Psal 3 11. Psalm 90.1 2. Psalm 100.5 Psal ●02 16 17 Lam. 5.19 Hebr. 8.13 Psal 110.4 So it is the most transcendent Honour Dignity Glory of God the Fathers and Jesus Christs Kingship Kingdom and the chief consolation exultation Beatitude of their Subjects and chosen Saints That the Lord is and fitteth King for ever That he is an everlasting King which reigns and shall reign for ever and ever that his Kingdom Dominion Throne are all everlasting established and enduring for evermore for ever and ever throughout all Generations that they cannot be moved and shall have no end Psalm 10.16 Psal 29.10 Psal 9● 8 Psal 45.6 Psal 145.13 Psal 146.10 Isay 19.7 Dan. 4.3.34 c. 7.14 27. Jer. 10.10 Mar. 4.7 Lu. 1.32 33. 2 Pet. 1.11 Rev. 11.15 Hebr. 12.28 Lam. 5.19 So also it is the praise honour glory of all Nations Churches People Kingdoms Governments and every particular person both as a man Christian Counsellour or publick Minister of State to be constant stedfast fixed resolute immoveble and unchangeable in their Oath Religion Worship Faith Principle● Co●nsels resolution● con●●●● when true ju●● honest upright ●incere commendable and in their Kingly publick Government evidenced by its Antiquitie the experiences of many successive generations to be beneficial safe ju●t profitable honorable for the gegeneralitie of the people and firmlie established by Laws Oaths Covenants prescription with all other civil and sacred ratifications as is most apparent by Josh 24.15 16. to 28. P●al 15 4.1 Chron. 28.7 8 9. Prov. 24.21 Psal 57.7 P●al 46.1 2 3. Ps 27.1 3. Jer. 2.11 Rom. 8.35 36 ●6 37 38 39. 1 Cor. 15.58 cap. 7.37 Heb. 6.18 19. Col. 2.5 6 7. 2 Thess 2.17 c. 3.3 Eph. 6.13 14. Col. 1.23 Acts 20.24 c. 21.13 14. Rom. 13 1 2 3. 1 Pet. 2.13 14 15. Tit. 3.1 2 Chron. 13.5 6. c. 11.13 14 15 16 17. c. 23.1 2 3 4 c. c. 26.1 c. 33.24 25. 2. Sam. 7.13 20 29. 1 Chron. 17.13 14 22. to 28. c. 22.10.2 Chron. 9.8 c. 21.7 Ez. 37.45 Prov. 29.14 worthy special observation But it is the sinne shame reproach infamy dishonor r●in of any Nation Church peopl● kingdom State Counsel person to be addicted to changes unstable variable unconstant fickle mutable t●ss●d to and fro backward and forward upward and downward this way and that way like children fools reeds Vanes weathercocks empty clouds wandring stars the restless sea and its waves t●ssed and turned about with every wind and storme like wild asses dromedaries traversing their wayes or whorish women gadding about to change their lovers wayes and doting upon every Novelty or New lover they meet with as Gen. 49.4 Ps 78.8 9 10. to 40. Ezech. 16.25 to 60. Jer. 2.11 to 37. Pro. 7.11.12 Jam. 1.6.8 Hab. 1.14 15. Pro. 24.21 22. I●ay 24.5 Ps 106.20 Mat. 11.7 Rom. 1.23.25 Acts 28.6 2 Pet. 2.1 2 14. to 22. c. 3.17 2 Tim. 3.6 7. Eph. 4.14 Jude 6 12 13 16 24. resolve Why then are you alwayes ringing the changes in our Churche● Kingdoms Parliaments Government Religion modelling unmodelling chopping changing altering building them up and pulling them down again from day to day against all Oathes Vowes Covenants Laws Establishments Policy Prudence Justice Safety Settlement by which you become the highest transgr●ss●rs Gal. 2.18 Is this to shew your selves Saints men of God or prudent Senators or Statesmen No no but to be that generation of spoylers and treacherous men no more to be believed trusted by any though you speak fair words may swear and vow who have spoiled and dealt very treacherously with your brethren and the House of your Fathers who raised entrusted you for their defence and preservation against whom God denounceth a Woe and answerable retaliation in conclusion to be spoiled and dealt treacherously with your selves as some of you your new Protector and those now sitting have been already dealt with and others who made them treacherous Is 33.1 Jer. 12.1 2 6. c. 3.4 Yea such Neighbors brethren as will utterly supplant deceive slander their very nearest dearest relations whose habitation is in the midst of Deceit whom God himself commands us to take heed of and not to trust for they are all an assembly of treacherous double-minded men unstable in all their wayes

as his Ministers Officers Viceroyes Deputies and are appointed commissioned accountable to judged removed by him alone as subordinate Kings were by the Emperors Kings of Babylon Assyria Parthia and our Edgar who were stiled King of Kings because Kings were Subjects to them held their Crowns by from and under them and did homage to them as their Subjects as you may read at large in Mr. Seldens Titles of Honour part 1. ch 3. sect 2. and Dan 2.21.37 38.47 c. 4.17.25 many of these Kings losing this Title of King of Kings when their subordinate Kings and kingdoms revolted ceased or escheated into their own hands In relation to these Titles of Christ it is expresly prophecied Ps 72.10.11 The KINGS of Tarshish and OF THE ISLES shall bring presents principally intended ve●ified of this our Island of Great Britain which had the fi●st Christian King we read of in all the world Lucius the first Christian Queen Helena the first and most glorious Christian Emperor Constantine the Great the first Christian King who opposed abolished the Popes Supremacie Henrie the 8. the first Protestant King who by publike Acts of Parliament abolished both the Pope and Poperie and established the reformed Protestant Religion the first Protestant Queen who did the like to wit King Edward the 6. and Queen Elizabeth and more devout pious Kings Queens martyred for religion canonized for SAINTS and reputed such in the Churches of Christ and Kalendars of Saints than anie other Kingdom or Countrie in the world how great or populous soever as our own and forein Histories record to our immortal Honor. It then follows the Kings of Sheba Seba shall offer gifts yea ALL KINGS shall fall down before him in way of adoration by their president and leading example all Nations under them shall serve him How can how dare you then abolish Kings Kingship Lords especially in our Island without committing the highest Treason not only against our Kings and Lords but the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Since REGNUM ANGLIAE EST REGNUM DEI IPSE SIBI REGES PROVIDEBIT as our Historians inform us And can you resist his power with all your armed forces are you stronger than he when he shall enter into judgment with you for depriving him of these Title 2ly Consider It is Gods special promise covenant made to Abraham the Fat●er of the Faithfull Gen 17.6 I will make thee exceeding fruitful I will make Nations of thee Kings shall come out of thee And his extraordinarie blessing on Sara v 16. I will bless her she shall be a Mother of Nations Kings of People shall be of her 3ly It was Judah his blessing Prerogative Gen. 49.8.10 Thy Fathers children shall bow down before th●e The Scepter shall not depart from Iudah nor a Law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come 4ly When Balaam prophecied of the happiness prosperity of Israel he useth these as the highest expressions thereof N●m 23.21 c. 24.7 The sho●t of a KING is among them and his KING shall be higher than Agag and his Kingdoms shall be exalted 5ly It is recorded by the Spirit of God 2 Sam. 5.12 David perceived that the Lord had established him King over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israels sake And when God after he made him King over them had promised by the mouth of the Prophet Nathan 2 Sam 7.10 Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own and move no more neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them as before time under their Judges How did God effect this promise but by establishing an hereditarie kingdom amongst them in David during his life whom he caused to rest from all his Enemies round about And when thy dayes be fulfilled and thou shalt sleep with thy Fathers I will set up thy seed after thee which shall proceed out of thy bowels and will establish his Kingdom And thine House and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee and thy Throne shall be established forever Ver 11 12 16. How much holy David was transported yea ravished with this News from heaven and with what enlargement of Spirit he bl●ss●d God for and prayed for the accomplishment of it as the greatest blessing and confirmation of his people Israel by God himself v 23 24 and the highest honor blessing to his own house you may read to the end of the Chapter Thus again amplified by him in his Speech to his Princes to his Captains of thousands of hundreds Officers and other mighty men 1 Chron 28.4 to 10. The Lord God of Israel chose me before all the house of my Father to be King over Israel for ever and he hath chosen Iudah to be Ruler of the house of J●dah the house of my Father and among the sons of my Father he liked me to make me King over all Israel and of all my sons he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the Throne of the Kingdom of the Lord over Israel And he said unto me I will be his Father Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever if he be constant to doe my commandements and my judgements as at this day Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation of the Lord and in the audience of our God keep and seek for all the commandements of the Lord your God that you may possess this good Land and leave it for an Inheritance for your children after you for ever An hereditarie Kingdom being the chiefest means and blessing under God to preserve the inheritances not only of the Princes Nobles and mightie men but even of Colonels Captaines and Souldiers themselves in Gods and Davids computation who lost all they had by ●orsaking their lawful Hereditarie Kings and were carried into captivitie 6ly The accomplishment of this Promise to David his seed was reputed an extraordinarie blessing to the Israelites not only by King David Solomon God himself the people o● Jerusalem and the whole Land as you may read in the 1 of Kings 1.36 37 38 39 40 45 46 47 48. c. 2.4.12 c. 3.6 to 15. c. 8.20 25 26 27. worthy perusal but even by foreign Kings and Queens Witness that memorable Letter of Hiram King of Tyre to Solomon 2 Chron. 2.11 12. Because the Lord hath loved his people he hath made thee King over them Bl●ss●d be the Lord God of Israel that hath made heaven and earth who hath given to David the King a wise son endued with prudence and understanding that might build an House for the Lord and an house for his kingdom And that speech of the Queen of Sheba to him 1 King● 10.9 2 Chron 9.8 Blessed be the Lord thy God which delighteth in thee to set thee on his Throne to be King for the Lord thy God Because

after that they had slain Athaliah with the Sword 2 Kings 11.4 c. 2 Chron. 23. This Ioash being afterwards slain by the conspiracy of his Servants against him Amaziah his Son reigned in his stead by hereditarie Succession who when he was established in the kingdō slew his Servants that had slain the King his Father but not their Children according to the Law of Moses After this Ammon the Son of Manasses succeeding his father worshipping his Idols following his Sinnes and trespassing more and more without humbling himself his Servants conspired against him and slew him in his own House But the People of the Land slew all that had conspired against King Ammon and made Josiah his Son King in his stead not disinherited him for his Fathers and Grand-Fathers crying Sinner as the only means ordained by God for their safety peace and settlement Which sacred Presidents of Gods own registring and his peculiar peoples making in obedience to his Commands for our imitation in like cases are a more real sacred means to our present peace safety establishment than any the Army-Saints Sectaries Iesuites and Westminster Conclave can prescribe and the Parliament Statute of 27 Eliz. c. 1. have declared enact●diit to be legal as well as scriptural 11ly When God himself promised restitution from Captivity and resettlement re-establishment to his people he doth it by promising the restitution of their lawfull hereditary King and kingdom to them and the re-uniting of their kingdoms formerly divided by rebellion against and revolt from the House of David and hereditary Royal line into one Mich. 213. c. 4.8 Their King shall pass before them and the Lord on the head of them even the first Dominion the Kingdom shall come to the Daughter of Jerusalem Zech. 9.9 c. Rejoyce greatly Oh Daughter of Zion behold thy King cometh unto thee be is just and having Salvation c. and his Dominion shall be from Sea to Sea and to the end of the Earth Isaiah 32.1 2. Beho●d a King shall reign in Righteousnesse and Princes shall rule in Judgement And he shall be as a hiding place from the wind and a Covert from the Tempest as Rivers of Water in a dry place as the shadow of a great Rock in a weary Land Ezech. 37.22 24. And I will make them one Nation in the Land upon the Mountain of Israel and one King shall be King to them all and they shall be no more two Nations neither thall they be divided into two Kingdoms any more And David my Servant shall be KING over them they shall all have one Shepheard over them they shall also walk in my Judgements and keep my Statutes and do them And they shall dwell in the Land that I have given to Iacob my Servant even they and their Children and their Childrens Children FOR EVER and my Servant David shall be their Prince for ever Which is likewise repeated and amplyfied Ezech. 39.23 24 Zeph. 3.13 14. Jer. 23.4 5 c. 33.14 15 16. Which Texts though mistically meant of our King and Saviour Jesus Christ hereditary Son of David according to the flesh sitting upon his Fathers Throne and ruling for ever over his mystical Kingdom and Church as is evident by comparing them with Isay 9.6 7 18. Dan. 7.27 Lu. 1.32 33. yet since King David Solomon and other pious Kings of Israel and their hereditary kingdom were types of our Spiritual King Iesus and of his everlasting spiritual kingdom And Christ Jesus under the very Title Name Notion of an hereditary King alone not of an Optimacy Oligarchy Popularity Democracy or elective King is thus prophesied to be a Saviour Redeemer Restorer Establisher Preserver Defender of his captivated oppressed inthralled dissipated divided unreformed Subjects Kingdom Church People and his perpetual presence with and reign over them is made the only ground of the restauration unity felicity prosperity safety perpetuity of his kingdom and people as David Solomon and other good Kings of Israel were to their Subjects during their successiive Reigns and seeing Christs mistical Church and Saints are alwaies thus stiled his Kingdom a Kingdom but never a Free-State or Common wealth at least but once Eph. 2.12 the only Text throughout the whole Bible where this word is mentioned in any kind and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom but as the very same thing with it as our Kingdom in some Statutes is stiled a Common wealth as being the excellentest honourablest durablest freest happiest of all other forms of Republick under which general name it is comprised It thence infallibly follows that an hereditary Kingship kingdome is the best happiest durablest securest honourablest desireablest of all other Governments whatsoever being the verie Government of Jesus Christ himself who according to the flesh was born King of the Iews and sits upon the Throne of David his Father Mat. 2.2 Lu. 1.32 33. and was not chosen King by his Saints like an Elective King but elected them to be his Subjects as he expreslie resolves Iohn 15.16 1 Pet. 1 2.9 Rev. 17.14 And that the restitution of this our antient Kingly Government not of a new Jesuitical Spanish Outlandish Republick is the true and only way to our restauration redemption peace settlement safetie and future prosperity as the Parliament and most excellent preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22 worthy perusal resolves Wherin after many long intestine civil wars for the Title succession of the Crown and Soveraigntie of our Realm The Nobles and Commons assembled in Parliament calling to mind That the unity peace and wealth of this Realm and the Succession and Inheritance of the Subjects in the same most specially and principally above all worldly things let our Republicans and Westminster Juncto observe it well consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the procreation and posterity of the Kings Highness in whose most Royal person at this present time is no manner of doubt nor question as the Statutes of 1 Jac. c. 1 2. resolve there was none at all in King Iames or King Charles did thereupon by this special Act and a strict Oath declare aad establish the surety title or succession of the Crown of England in him and his Heirs for ever upon which dependeth all our joy and wealth as they more at large expresse 13ly God himself in direct terms declares that it is a matter and badge of honour and prosperity for any Nation to be advanced from a Commonwealth or Principality into a Kingdom Ezech. 15.13 14. Thou didst prosper into a Kingdom And thy renown went forth among the Heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comelynesse which I put upon thee saith the Lord which compared with Rom. 13.1 Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that are ordained of God Col. 1.16 For by him are all things created that are in Heaven and

all the publick wealth Lands Revenues of the Crown to enrich themselves and maintain a seditious Army utterly to devour the small Remainder of our publick and private wealth almost drained to the dregs and bettay us into the hands of our forein Enemies when they have left us neither hearts hands wills mony nor means manfully to resist their invading power and reduced us to that slavery as rather to live under any forein Tyrannie than an oppressing Sword of their own domineering Hirelings As for the thing they stile Sedition it is but scorsum itio when a sew confederated Innovators shall seperate themselves from the General body or Assembly of the Kingdom Church Parliament House whereof they are Members and act a part by themselves as a divided Republick Church Parliament House without and against the Generalitie and true lawfull Members and seperate them from their company And if this be truth as our Statutes Lawbooks Casuists Canonists and Historians accord we shall know in whose Hearts House Sedition truly dwells And if Aristotle Aquiuas Angelus de Clavasio and p sundry others who write of Sedition may be credited He who disturbs the Rule or Government of any unlawfull Vsurper is no seditious Person because such a usurped Government or Power is not ordained for the common good whatever pretended but for the private advantage of the Vsurper Therefore the disturbance of such a Vsurper hath no● the reason of Sedition yea it is to be commended because it freeth the Generality of the People from a Tyrannical Power usurped over or forcibly imposed on them against their wills and it is the usurping Tyrant only who truely is seditious as they all define in direct words And whether Mr. Prynne and other secluded Members and Lords being five times their number or those who seclude them be seditious let the whole Kingdome resolve Mr. Prynne not knowing whether he shall have the like opportunity again shall for a Conclusion of this Narrative addresse himself and direct some things he intended to have spoken 1. To the Army-Officers and Souldiers Remember I beseech you in the bowels of Jesus Christ what your own Army-Chaplain John Sedgewick in his Justice upon the Armies Remonstrance from St. Albons Nov. 16. 1648. and Rebukes of that evil Spirit that leads them in their Counsels and Actions hath written to them therein and to the Lord Fairfax then General and the General Counsel of war in his Epistle Dedicatorie to them when they first espoused their present Good Old Cause His words are home and piercing Destruction you practise it is your work it is your end you cannot see beyond it and you are hastning to it it is the center to which you tend and therefore I cannot but shew it to you that you may stay your course b●fore the pit shut her mouth upon you You are full of glorie in the great things you have done wonderfull things a mighty presence of God But in sum what is it You have torn a poor sinfull Kingdom in pieces you have executed wrath upon your Brethren Friends and Countrymen you have laid desolate your Father the King the Parliament your Mother your own Country This is your glorie to be Executioners Assyria the Rod of mine Anger what a Crown is this Have you restored blessed healed comforted saved any No You have but plunged the Kindome and your selves into a Pit of Darknesse and Confusion You drive furiously over the King Parliament Laws Conscience Loyalty Privileges so as no human nor sacred thing can stand before you It is high time to withstand you for it is not men onlie that suffer from you but the Lord Your Sword goeth so deep that it pierceth through his Soul also You are gone so farre in dissolving the Foundations of Government that you are come to him who upholds the Pillars of the earth you reach to the head of Principalities and Powers to the Lord who is the Author and Upholder of all these things He is in these despised broken Ordinances of his and sensible of everie blow that is given to them You have digged through the wall of Flesh and men and through the partition wall that divided them from God and now you are in the bowels of the Lord these miserable broken Powers are now the Lord. Go on tear and rend you will at last look upon him whom you have pierced and mourn O that you would now do so in good earnest as you pretend only in your Declaration of May 6. 1659. and yet go on still in your former Trespasses for which God will wound your hairy Scalps O consider that Jesus Christ whose Servants ye pretend to be is both a King of Glory a King of Saints That the Gospel you professe is the Gospel of the Kingdom not Republick yea the Kingdom of God and of Heaven in Gospel-language That his Church whereof you pretend your self Members is frequently styled a Kingdom never a Common-wealth or at least but once and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom which is the first excellentest of all Common-wealths as Heathen Philosophers Polititians and Devines accord but as the verie same with it That the Saints themselves are styled the Children of the Kingdom not Republick Companions in the Kingdom of Christ even in this world yea a Kingdom of Priests a Royal Priesthood Nay Kings and Priests to God the Father and that by Christs own constitution Consider yet further that Heaven it self into which you expect at last to enter is ever stiled the Kingdom of Heaven an heavenlie and everlasting Kingdom a Kingdom which cannot be moved a Kingdom which shall have no end never a Common-wealth That in this Kingdom we read of nothing but Crowns Scepters Thrones Robes of Glory and Majesty and of reigning in it for ever and ever That Christ himself hath promised appointed and his Father given to all his Saints the Kingdome of Heaven Upon which account they are now stiled Heirs of the Kingdom and shall hereafter inherit possesse this Kingdom receive the Crowns wear the Royal Robes sit upon the Thrones provided for them in it How then have the Enchanters of Rome Spain France so far insatuated your understandings blinded your Judgements intoxecated your Brains perverted your Wills corrupted your Affections seared your Consciences engaged your unralie Passions as notwithstanding all this to make you Bedlam madde against all Kings Kingship Kingdoms Crowns Scepters Thrones Principalites and Kingly power as to a abhor and engage against both the things themselves and their verie names yea to extirpate them root and branch against his expresse Evangelical procepts word and practise of all his Saints in either Testament to dote upon such a strange Vtopian Common-wealth and new Freestate the verie names whereof much lesse the things you find not once in