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A96054	No nevvs, but a letter to every body. Prescribed, to your truly beloved self; any where: so that you be not resolved to be, who and where you should not be; with care and speed, these be presented. / And subscribed, your daily orator at the throne of grace, R.W.	R. W.	1648 (1648)	Wing W101; Thomason E526_12; ESTC R205656	20,082	16

this Divine Authority unto Kings and unto none else The guilt of Blood where upon Record in his Registry Then it appears where lyes the guilt of all the Blood spilt in the fields or strangled upon the Tree in these dayes of calamity If they have any plea in this particular let them produce it We find the Power of the Sword throughout the whole current of holy Scripture committed unto Kings and to none else If the Scriptures be silent concerning their claim then it appears who are the usurpers upon GOD to take the Sword which must be given or not medled with Then who are the Blasphemers of GOD and the King who the miserable Sheme'is that curse the Lords Anointed David with the loud crying imputation of being A Man of Blood If these things be so then it behoveth every man timely and sadly to bethink himself how far he hath been an agent assistant or consentient herein Who Incendiaries yea how far he hath not been an opposer of this wretched Sacriledge committed against the Almighty Creator yea Redeemer of mankind who is able to punish all that rob him but will most severely those that rob him of his Prerogative But especially those who stile themselves the Assembly of Divines and their subordinate Pulpiteers who as Rabshekah did lead on all these mischiefs with The Name of the Lord. But chiefly Mr. Marshall who led on the Cause but seems to take no care for the bringing of it off And if this be not the Case they may not be accounted worthy of any crumme of their own much lesse of other mens bread if they do not vindicate the two Houses clear themselves from the imputation of being the publick Incendiaries and free themselves from the generall curses of the poore suffering and exhausted people But in the next place If the Mr. of the House be called Belzebub can or may the servant think to escape If GOD be usurped upon Vsurpations on the Church shall any man marvell if his Church be so used in the prophanation and robbing of all the Houses of GOD in the Land But will they indeed cause that which we suppose to be the daily Sacrifice to cease And in the roome thereof set up the Abhomination of Desolation Are not they of the other belief bad enough to be supposed to have tender Consciences And will they not vouchsafe to justifie themselves or to rectifie us The English Liturgie for whom also CHRIST dyed Let their Rabbi's to their Honour shew us who never heard that ever there was untill these dayes a Church constituted upon the face of the Earth without a publick Liturgie That ever God was so dishonoured as to have his publick worship entrusted to the weaknesse or wickednesse of all presumers It will be supposed till the contrary be made apparent that the present out-cast Liturgy contains the Flowers and Marrow of all the Liturgies of the pure Primitive Ages cleansed from the weeds and rottennesse which the envious man in the worlds declining times had powred forth into the Earth Otherwise why do they not cast out of their Creed the Article of the Catholick Church if we have nothing to do with that which was before us And why do they not satisfie the poore offended people Directory Religion complaining that their whole Religion is now become ridiculous or odious As being turned into Pulpit-justlings or else praying or giving of thanks for the effusion of the blood of their Christian Brethren and for the encrease of Heresies Schismes Rebellion Robberies c And that it is now come to passe that we have such a Religion as we should have weather if every mans wish might be heard and every Almanack-maker made a true Prophet yea that they put upon GOD such a Service that it is impossible for him to remain One and the same and to accept of it That were he never so gracious his Almightinesse cannot grant all their requests For that there is not one Congregation whose prayers if it were possible for them to be all of one minde are not contrary to the prayers of many For GODS Cause let there be something wherein all Israel may which they ought as one man The Communion of Saints and the Lords Prayer joyn in the worship of the One GOD otherwise why do they not put out that part of the Article The Communion of Saints But since the Lords Prayer is reprobated what can be saved Did not he who is the wisdom of the Father know or would not he whose charity dyed for his Enemies take care for what was absolute when he appointed his Disciples that when ever they prayed they should say Our Father c. Is any thing that is made by GOD himself unperfect or were they while the Bridegroom was with them novices in respect of us Did not he teach them then to pray in the Spirit when he taught them so to pray and bade them alwayes to do so or did he not provide against our pretended Spirits when he forbade them Battologies the fruits of unpremeditated vain bablings And is not this all the hazardous publick Service worse then none wherewith the most high and most deserving Majesty must casually every where be contented or none Must he be forced from all his visible Temples here on Earth into his dwelling place in Heaven Which as it gave the fashion to Moses Solomons and to our materiall Churches So ought it in the daily one Service thereof prescribe unto ours that his great Name may be hallowed and his Monarchicall will so done on Earth as it is in his exemplary Temple in Heaven In a word why do they not Assemble to the Answering of Dr. Taylors Book concerning Set Prayer But yet further then this it is considerable whether or no they take the course as with the souls of many thousands condemned alive so for the strangling before the wombe of all the souls of all succeeding Generations in this Land For if this be a true principle which was delivered for such a one Posterity undone by the Grandees and leading men of that side in the Conference at Hampton Court that no Sacrament can be administred but by the Consecration of a lawfull Minister i. In our English Liturgy Priest Then apparent it will easily be no Bishop no Priest no Priest no Sacrament now little used and lesse regarded And then no Sacraments no Church no Church no salvation That unto the Bishop and to the Bishop alone is committed the Authority of sending Labourers into GODS Vineyard for the continuance of a visible Church of CHRIST upon Earth until his coming hither again That usurping in matters Ecclesiastical against or without them yea when the Ark of GODS Church doth indeed totter is the dreadfull and destructive sin of Schisme which St. Jer saith is more abhominable then Murther Adultery c. That Bishops are the men whose perpetuitie for the perpetuating of his Church the

NO NEVVS BUT A LETTER TO EVERY BODY PRESCRIBED To your truly Beloved Self Any where So that you be not resolved to be who and where you should not be With Care and Speed these be presented And Subscribed Your daily Orator at the Throne of Grace R. W. Piscator nisi eam imposuerit hamis escam quam appetituros esse noverit Pisciculos fine spe praedae moratur in Scopulo Petr Arb. Beloved Sir VVIthout some at least seeming insolency and little above the price of 2 d. nothing now will be read But pardon his presumption in writing to all since he faithfully and truly does as he is commanded in praying for all Let him have leave to send to thee who must send to GOD for thee of what spirit soever thou art who neither dares nor can exempt thee from his Prayers who dares not but daily make use of the most pretious and Christian English LITURGIE So that since Personall Treaties are so difficult let me treat with thee thus as I may The subject is of most High and Generall Concernment our Nationall Miseries Causes and Cures thereof Nor can this Treaty be more beneficiall to any then to those who without an hardened Heart are most Averse from it or engaged against it and the Conscientious moments thereof First concerning those who are now the first in the eye of all the two Houses The two Houses 2. Oaths c. And first it is worthy of Consideration whether or not they have blasphemed GOD and the King by the foule sins of Perjury and Treason As having given unto GOD and the King their Oaths for his Supremacy and their Allegiance But have made themselves Supreme imprisoning and denying to the King not onely his Native Rights but also the poore comfort of Addresses so much as by Letters of Wise Children friends or servants Whereas neither the meanest worm nor odiousest Serpent in the Kingdom by the Laws thereof either is or ought to be soused And if so who in Justice may make Addresses unto them who may give Credit unto them or what Hopes can any man have from persisters in wilfull Perjury or who may dare to be any wayes Assisting Aiding or of Councell in most barbarous Treason Such as should not be so much as named among Heathens CONCERNING PRIVILEDGES OF PARLIAMENT Priviledges of Parliament If they be so great as is pretended It is great pitie that some reasonable and peaceable course is not taken for the manifestation of them their just Grounds When whence and How they had their Beginnings That men might understand How farre they are engaged to them and how far they ought to engage for them If in this point matters be clear How comes it to passe that in all this time care is not taken for the Answering of the FREEHOLDERS GRAND INQVEST which with other Books of that Nature tels us of Sir Edw Coke no friend to the Prerogative that in his whole Section of Parliamentary Priviledges He sets down but one viz. Freedom from Arrests and brings no proof for That If Freedom of Speech wherein GOD forbid that Blasphemy and Treason should be included be one of them Freedom of Speech How come so many to be ejected daily by the prevailing Faction as the winde sits out of both Houses Or how shall their mouthes be stopped that Affirm That for these many yeers there hath been no Freedom for any thing but Blasphemy and Treason with their Appendants The direct Contrarieties to all the Ten Commandments of GOD either in the whole or a principall part of each Or that the Priviledges of Parliament have more need to be defended against themselves then against the King and the whole Kingdom besides Or that whereas the Army was formerly the Parliaments Army Now the Parliament is the Armies Parliament It is likewise considerable Invasion of Priviledge whether or no as the Grandees have done by the rest of the Members the pretended Priviledge of the House of Commons hath like Pharaohs lean kine eaten up the Priviledges of the House of Lords If no How comes it to passe that for the satisfaction of the world and for the clearing of the Accused punctuall Answers are not given or Ordered to the forecited Books If yea How shall any other man rest secure from their Invasions who invade one another and rob amongst themselves being empowred to do so by every one else So also Vsurpation over the Laws whether or no Both Houses have invaded and trampled down the Laws of the Land heretofore celebrated as the most glorious Birthright of the English people above all other Nations If no why is not satisfaction given or endeavoured to the honoured writings of that Death-Defyer Justice Jenkins who assuredly hath a very good Cause or else is a very unadvised Man And certainly if his Cause proves good He deserves to have his Statue erected in all Places of publick Judicature and Societies of the Laws yea his Memoriall in each Heart and his Picture in each private House which with the hazard of his head he endeavours to defend from violence Do your Lawyers indeed know that he is an impregnable Defender of those Laws which they pretend to but fight against If the Laws be not invaded How comes it to passe that it is generally even in all mens mouthes that nothing is now so punished as keeping of the Laws And that as the greatest of all guilts But if yea and the Laws be indeed trampled down who shall dare to be so undaring as to prefer before them by which he glories to hold all three either Liberty Propriety or Life Against any Opposers whatsoever under any lawfully retriving the same Which Laws if they be not in force How comes one man to exercise lawfull Authority over another If they be Is not the Murderer murthered who is puc to death by virtue of a Commission under the present Broad Seal And the whole Land involved in the guilt of nocent as well as of innocent Blood And are not they deepest in that gulf who sit judge against the Laws But it is far more considerable whether or no Vsu pation against the King they have invaded the Prerogative Royall Inasmuch as the Lawmaker must needs be of more sacred Authority then the Law it self In the violations of particular Statutes the Fruits of Justice are either spoiled or stolne or else a Branch is murdered In the Body of the Laws the Body of the Tree of Justice is hewen down But in the Regall Authority the Tree is plucked up by the Roots Neither do the Laws of the Land acknowledge any other Root then the King If it be otherwise why then are not all our Law-books burnt yea Mr. Pims and St. Johns Speeches If it be so Alas poore Rootlesse Headlesse People Amongst whom nothing is visible but devouring Crowes or devoured carkasses And doubtlesse it is not more unnatural to have no Head then