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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57626	A rope for Pol, or, A hue and cry after Marchemont Nedham, the late surrulous news-writer being a collection of his horrid blasphemies and revilings against the king's majesty, his person, his cause, and his friends, published in his weekly Politicus.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1928; ESTC R19527	33,291	50

wings of Popery and Prelacy one who hath been bedabbled in all the bloud of England Scotland and Ireland We have cause to cut off this accursed Line of Tyranny bloud and usurpation in this young Pretender That Tyrannical Line Charles the Father is gon to his own place and so is Charles the Son likewise he being in his own proper Nation Scotland The execution of Iustice is then most proper when an Offender appears incorrigible and by a setled obstinacy puts himself out of the capacity of mercy surely then now or never is the time that men may expect an administration of Iustice without respect of persons this being an Age that is able to take a full Prospect of such Delinquents through all the sacred Colours of Title and Function The time was when this Nation was wedded to the vanity of admiring Kings placing them in a lofty seat of impunity like Gods that were not bound to give men an Account of their Actions but had a Liberty to thunder at Pleasure and put the world into combustion so that there was no Love but Lust no Rule but the Princes will which so vassalized the Spirits of this great and mighty people that they were content to establish the highest piece of Injustice by such Maxims of Law as said The King can do no wrong as if whatsoever he did could not make him a Delinquent or Traytor nor was it Law onely but those antiquated Cheats of the Clergy too made it pass for Divinity so that the Common-wealth of England for almost 600. yeares hath been pinion'd like a Captive with that twofold Cord of the Law and the Gospel which the corrupt Professors have made use of after their own Inventions Yet notwithstanding that this glorious Idol of Royalty was elevated to such a Height over the Liberties of the Parliament and set upon the very Pinnacle of the Temple we have lived to see a noble generation of English hearts that have fetcht it down with a vengeance and cured the Land of that Idolatry by one of the most Heroick and exemplary Acts of Iustice that ever was done under the Sun Nothing farther speaking of transactions in Parliament and news a little before save that the Lord Chancellour Lowdon hath been found in bed with a Scotch Officers wife getting Privy-Counsellours so that without the mercy of the Kirk he must once more to the Stool of Repentance So great was the stupidity of Elder Times being ridden by the Clergy that in all our Chronicles we can hardly meet with a piece of Iustice done upon any of that Tribe till the time of Harry the VIII when Bishop Fisher was brought to the block as a Martyr for the Popes Supremacy and yet from Sodomy and private murder to publick Treason and Rebellion there is not any crime whereof they were not guilty and from the penalty whereof they were not guarded by impunity and exemption from secular power This having been so in time past may prompt us upon the consideration of the present Actions of many of our Ministers to believe that we may be still at the same passe that our forefathers were and that our new Clergy are still the same Idol onely a little disguised with a new dresse of Mummery they have taken a new Form but labour to hold up the old Grandeur and Punctilio's of Veneration onely here is the difference heretofore they got an outward power to controul the temporal Jurisdiction from which Plea being now non-suited in all civil Courts they now renew their sanctimonious pretences by tampering every where in the Court of Conscience but a Conscience well inform'd knows that with God there is no respect of persons and methinks in those dayes it ought to be so too among men yea it must be so since he that sate in the Royal Throne in the midst of his iniquity could not rest secure but being disrobed of all his sacred Titles laid him down upon the Block to shew all inferior Orders of men how vain it is to hope for impunity and that they must all expect to submit and bow before the Throne ofe Justice It is the old Cavaliers Interest speaking of his Majesties leaving Scotland and now coming into England that comes in new clad with a new Cloak of the Covenant after the Scottish fashion and it comes attended by the Scot the apostatizing Scot that will cide any way for a thriving voyage into England Let the Presbytery remember that though they laid not the old Tyrant down upon the Block yet the young one knows they were the men that brought him to the Scaffold and they are the old enemies of his Family in which respect he ever bore a mortal hatred to their whole faction and a little after and we will allow both Cavalier and Presbyter so much sense were their spleen never so high as not to embarque their heads and Estates in the bottom of a beaten rabble for the sake of a Toy call'd King who as he first sail'd into Scotland so now he is driven out again by pure necessity yet for fashion sake he pretends great matters and playing the second part of Perkin Warbeck who once invaded the North after the same manner with a crew of Scots at his heels and had every jot as good a Title as himself or as his Predecessour Henry the 7th and play'd the King with as good a Grace issuing out Proclamations and Declarations calling folks Rebels with as brazen à considence and tossing pardons about to no purpose till at length poor Perkin and his Scots were pack't out again with a vengeance as that Lowsy Nation ever hath been upon every offer of Invasion as may be seen in the Chronicles of both Countreys Let not the Presbyters flatter themselves upon a change that they shall scape any better than others because they never opposed this man's Person viz. his Majesty it would be ground sufficient for his hatred and the spleen of his Prelatick Clergy that they first bandied against his Father the Prerogative and Prelacy And let them consider before they feel it that revenge is reckoned inter Arcana Imperii a prime mystery in the Cabinet counsel of Royalty even the best of Kings could not refrain it as may be seen in the practise of David and Solomon Let them consider too how he hath rook't all their Party in Scotland Let the Cavalier and Compounders consider they will get nothing by this change they can be but Masters of what they have already the high Ranters and Fugitives are they that will be lookt on at Court those Belweathers of Tyranny will bear away the Bell of preferment while the poor Countrey Royalists both Gentry and Yeomen shall be glad to drudge and plow to pay those yet unknown Taxations which must needs be collected to satisfie the forlorn Brethren of the sword the Plunderers and hungry Scots that