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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66769	Anarchia Anglicana: or, the history of independency. The second part Being a continuation of relations and observations historicall and politique upon this present Parliament, begun anno 16. Caroli Primi. By Theodorus Verax.; History of independency. Part 2.	Walker, Clement, 1595-1651.	1649 (1649)	Wing W317B; ESTC R219912	224,193	273

Anarchia Anglicana OR THE HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCY THE SECOND PART BEING A continuation of Relations and Observations Historicall and Politique upon this present PARLIAMENT Begun Anno 16. CAROLI PRIMI By THEODORUS VERAX PSALM 8.8 Virum sanguinum dolosum abominabitur Dominus Printed in the Yeare M. DC.XL.IX In the 103. Page in the Catalogue of those Persons who did actually sit upon the Tryall of King CHARLES the First These following Names are omitted who ought to have been inserted William Say Esquire Col. Math. Thomlinson John Blackston Gilb. Millington Abraham Barrell Col. Jo Downes Master Norton L. Gen. Tho Hammond Nich Love Vincent Potter Augustine Garland Sir Miles Lyvesey Jo Dixwel Simon Mayne Daniel Blagrave Col. Robert Lylborne Col. Rich. Deane Col. Huson L. Col. W. Goffe Master Carewe Jo. Ioanes TO THE READER READER having spoken to thee in the First Part I might have forborne thee in this Second did I not feare to seem guilty of the sullennesse malignity of these times The subject-matter of my Booke is à Combination or Fraction of Pseudo-Politians and Pseudo-Theologitians Hereticks and Schismaticks both in Divinity and Policy who having Sacrificed to their Francies Lusts Ambition and Avarice both their God and Religion their King and Countrey our Lawes Liberties Properties all duties Divine and Humane are growne so farre in love with their prosperous Sinnes as to entitle God himselfe to be Father and Author of them from whose written Word revealed will held forth to us in the Scriptures as the onely North Pole and Cynosure of our Actions where they find no warrant for their doing the appeale to the secret will and Providence of God to which they most Turkishly and Heathenishly ascribe all their enormities only because they succeed and from that abysse of Gods Providence draw secondary Principles of Necessity and Honest intentions to build the Babel of their confused Designes and Actions upon not considering that wicked Men performe the secret will of God to their Damnation as good Men doe the known will of thir Father to their Salvation If a Man lie sick to death and his Sonne wish him dead this is sinne in the Sonne although his desire concurre with the secret will of God because the Sonne ought to desire the perservation of his Fathers life whereto the will of God revealed in his word obligeth him and vivendum secundum Praecepta non secundùm Decreta Dei The secret will and providence of God can be no rule and law of our actions because we know it not nor can search into it without presumption We must not therefore altum sapere thinke our selves too wise and well gifted to tie our selves to the Scripture of God lust after Revelations and Inspirations exspecting God should raine Bread from Heaven for us Manna Exod. 16.4 but be wise unto sobriety But prosperum scelus virtus vocatur Thus casting off the written word of God unlesse where by an enforced interpretation they can squeeze Atheisme and Blasphemy out of it as they doe sometimes rack Treason Murder and Nonsense out of our Lawes and Parliament-priviledges conducible to their ends they insensibly cast off God himselfe and make themselves both the supreme cause and finall end the Alpha and Omega of all their doings whilst they use the Hidden unsearchable Providence of God but as a Disguise and Visard to Maske under like Caelius the Atheist in Martial Prosperity is become a snare to them and a Topick place out of which they draw Arguments to satisfie themselves there is no God no Religion but a prudentiall one to foole the People with Nullos esse Deos inane Coelum Affirmat Caelius probatque Quòd se videt dum negat haec beatum But O wretched unholied men What are they that thus commit Burghlary in the Sanctum Sanctorum of Gods Providence That presume not onely to prie into but to thrust their hands polluted with blood and rapine into Gods mysterious Arke Thus much for the subject matter For the manner of my writing I confess as to the style it is not aequabile scribendi Genus all of one weaving and contexture It is a History writ with a Satirique style and veyne Nam quis iniqui Tam patiens orbis tam ferreus ut teneat se It is a virtue to hate and prosecute vice The Scripture tells us there is a perfect hatred a Holy Anger And our Chaucer tells us The words must be of kynne unto the deeds otherwise how can they be expressive enough I detest vitiae pulcherrimè mangonizata vice trik'd up in virtues rayment and prostituted under her modest dresse to stirre up Adulteres quicquid agunt homines nostri est farrago libelli A huge Gallymaufry an Oglio of all villanies I here set before thee it cannot be all of one dressing and seasoning it must be a mixture a Hogo of all Relishes like Manna in the Wilderness it must be applicable to all Palates wherefore according to the variety of every present subject-matter vel ridenti rideo vel flenti fleo I become all things to all Men I assimilate my affections and humors to every Mans humor as well as to the present Theme that I may take every Man by the right hand and lead him out of this Vr of the Chaldeans this Land of Aegypt this House of Bondage in judgment and conscience though not in person and estate which must onely be the mighty handy-work of that God who is able to divide the Red Sea and give us a safe march through it upon drie Land Which that he would vouchsafe to doe let us all joyne our hearty prayers and that we may instrumentally serve him in it let us all joyne our heads hearts and hands together since God neglects faint-hearted and cowardly prayers Let us not lie in the Ditch and crie God help us But let us help God to help us and keep cor unum viam unam in the doing of it The Ordinance passed 20. Aug. 1647. To null and voyd all Acts c. passed under the force of the Apprentices Die Veneris 20. Aug. 1647. An ordinance for Declaring all Votes Orders and Ordinances passed in one or both Houses since the Force on both Houses Iuly 26. untill the 6. of this present August 1647. to be null and void WHereas there was a visible horrid insolent and actuall force upon the Houses of Parliament on Monday 26. Iuly last whereupon the Speakers and many Members of both Houses of Parliament were forced to absent themselves from the service of the Parliament and whereas those Members of the House could nor returne to sit in safety before Friday the 6. August It is therefore Declared by the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled that the Ordinance of Monday 26. Iuly for the Repealing and making void of the Ordinance of the 23. of the said Iuly for setling of the Militia of the City of London being gained by force and violence