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A89005	Ochlo-machia. Or The peoples war, examined according to the principles of Scripture & reason, in two of the most plausible pretences of it. In answer to a letter sent by a person of quality, who desired satisfaction. By Jasper Mayne, D.D. one of the students of Ch. Ch. Oxon.	Mayne, Jasper, 1604-1672.	1647 (1647)	Wing M1472; Thomason E398_19; ESTC R201695	27,844	40

deluded fancy they must at length confesse unlesse with their Faith they have cast off their Charity too Let your Friend Sir read over any one of His Majesties Declarations and what sacred Thing is there by which he hath not freely and uncompelled obliged and bound Himselfe to live and dye a Protestant By what one Act have these many Vowes been broken Who made that Court Faction which would have miscounselled him to bring in Popery Or let your Friend if he can name who those Miterd Prelates were who lodged a Papist under their Rotchet If he cannot let him forbeare to hold an Opinion of his Prince and Clergy which Time the mother of Truth hath so demonstratively confuted And let him no longer suffer himselfe to be seduced by the malitious writings of those who for so many years and from so many Pulpits have breathed Rebellion and Slander with such an uncontrouled Boldnesse and Sting that I cannot compare them to any thing so fitly as to the Locusts in the * Revel 9. Revelation which crept forth of the Bottomlesse pit every one of which wore the Crowne of a King and had the Tayle of a Scorpion In short Sir If he have not so deeply drunke of the Inchanted cuppe as to forget himselfe to be a Subject let him no longer endanger himselfe to tast of their Ruine too who for so many years have dealt with the best King that this Nation ever had as Witches are said to deale with those whom they would by peece meale destroy first shap't to themselves his Image in waxe then pricks and stab'd it with needles striving by their many Reproaches of his Government and Defamations of the Bishops to reduce his Honour by degrees to a consumption and to make it Languish and pine and wither away in the Hatred and Disaffection of his People But perhaps Sir your Friend and I are not well agreed upon our Termes If therefore he doe once more strive to perswade you that notwithstanding all this which I have said to the contrary the King would if he had not been hindered have destroyed the Protestant Religion pray desire him to let me know what he mean by the Religion which he calls Protestant Doth he mean that Religion which succeeded Popery at the Reformation and hath ever since distinguisht us from the Church of Rome Doth he meane that Religion which so many Holy Martyrs seal'd with their Blood that for which Queene Mary is so odious and Queene Elizabeth so pretious to our memories Lastly Doth he meane that Religion which is comprised in the 39. Articles and confest to be Protestant by an Act of Parliament If these be the Markes these the Characters of it let him tell me whether this be not the Religion which the King in one of his * Cabinet Opened Letters to the Queene calls the only Thing of difference between Him and Her that 's dearest to Him whether this also be not the Religion in which if there be yet any of the old Ore and Drosse from whence 't was extracted Any thing either essentially or accidentally evill which requires yet more sifting or a more through Reformation Any thing of Doctrine to offend the strong or of Discipline or Ceremony to offend the wenke His Majesty have not long since offered to have it passe the fiery Tryall and Disputes of a Synod legally called To all which questions 'till He and his Com presbyters give a satisfying Answer however they may think to hide themselves under their old Tortoise-shell and cry out Templum Domini the Temple of the Lord They must not take it ill if I aske them one question more and desire them to tell me whether this be not the Religion which they long since compelled to take flight with the King and which hath scarce been to be found in this Kingdome ever since the time it was deprived of the Sanctuary it had taken under the Kings Standard This then being so hath your Friend or his fellow Assemblers yet a purer or more primitive Notion of the Protestant Religion which compared with the Religion which we and our Fathers have been of will prove it to be Idolatrous and no better then a hundred years superstition Let them in Charity as they are bound not to let us perish in our Ignorance shew us their Modell If it be more agreeable to the Scripture then Ours have more of the white Robe and not of the new invention we may perhaps be their Converts And their Righteousnesse meeting with out Peace may mutually Kisse each other In the mean time Sir I hope they will not define the Protestant Religion so by Negatives as to make it consist wholly in No Bishops No Liturgy or No Common-Prayer Booke These we not yet convinced to the contrary doe hold to be good Conservatives but not Essentialls of that which we call the Pretostant Religion of our Side Their Negation then can be no true Essentiall Constituent of the same Religion on theirs There is but One positive Notion more in all the world under which I can possibly understand Them when They say They have all this while Fought for the Defence of the Protestant Religion That is that by the Defence of the Protestant Religion if they meane any Thing or if this have not bin the Disguise to a more dangerous secret They meane the Defence of their New Directory and their at length concluded Government of the Church by Presbyters If this be their Meaning And truely if I should rack my Invention I cannot make it find another The Second part of that most Holy and Glorious Cause which hath drawne the eyes of Europe upon it and renderd the Name of a Protestant a Proverbe to expresse Disloyalty by That Pure Chast Virgin without spott or wrinkle-Cause which like the Scythian Diana hath been fed with so many Humane Sacrifices And to which as to another Moloch so many Men as well as Children have been compell'd to passe through the Fire resolves it selfe into this Vnchristian Bloudy conclusion That an Assembly of profest Protestant Divines have advised the Two Parliaments of England and Scotland confest Subjects to take up Armes against the King their Lawfull Soveraigne Have thereby set Three Kingdoms in a Flame been the Authors of more Protestants slaine in a Civill then would have served to recover the Palatinate by a Forraigne Warre for nothing but this vnnecessary novell accidentall Consideration That the King vnlesse compell'd by Forces would never consent 〈◊〉 indeed without Perjury could to the Change of an Ancient Primitive Apostolike Vniversally received Government of this Church by Bishops for a new vpstart Mushrome Calvinisticall Government by a Motley Presbytery of Spirituall Lay-Elders Which being As I have hither to by Principles taken both from Reason and Scripture proved to you in the most favourable sense a Resistance if not an Jnvasion of the Higher Power that Higher Power being * Rom. 13.2 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gods Ordinance must needs be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or a Warre made against God Himselfe And the Authors of it unlesle they repent and betake themselves to a timely returne to their Obedience in danger to draw upon themselves this other sad tragicall irresistible Conclusion which St * V. 2. Paul tels us is the inevitable Catastrophe of Disobedience which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 you may English it swift Destruction And thus Sir Though all weake Defences have something of the Nature of prevarication in them and he may in part be thought to betray a Cause who feebly argues for it I have return'd you a large Answere to the two Quere's in your sh●●● Letter which if you shall you 〈◊〉 to call Satisfaction you will very much assist my 〈◊〉 which will not suffer me to thinke that I in this 〈◊〉 have said more then Others Only being so fairely invited by you to say something to have remain'd silent had been to have confest my selfe convinced And my Negligence in a Time so seasonable to speak Truth in might perhaps in the Opinion of the Gentleman your Friend have seemed to take part with those of his side against whose Cause though not their Persons I have thus freely armed my Pen. Sir I should think my selfe fortunate if Any Thinge which I have said in this Letter might make him a Proselyte But this being rather my wish then my Hope all the Successe which this Paper aspires to is this that you will accept it as a Creature borne at your Command And that you will place it among your other Records as a Testimony how much greater my Desires then my Abilities are to deserve the stile of being thought worthy to be From my Chamber June 7. 1647. Your affectionate servant JASPER MAYNE