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Bloody Babylon discoverd
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[Londinatus, Christianus].
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Servants nay Submissive Slaves to the imperious Propositions of their owne Created Servants That they who in prosecution of an unchristian unlawfull bloody designe of taking away the power of the King justly by law and reason declared His of forcing away his Negative Voyce in a Lawfull Parliament depriving him of the Command of the Militia of bloodily changing the Civill and Ecclesiasticall Goverment from Monarchicall to Aristocraticall from Episcopall to Presbyterian Witnesse the transactions to passe over other Treaties of that too-late tedious and most unfortunate Treaty in the Isle of Wight in the managing whereof neither Law Reason nor Religion urg'd by our dear Soveraign could work the Commissionated Treatours or rather the factious Commissionating Rooting Traytors in the House to Condescentions more than what ranne paralell and agreed with their most unjust demands of all his Regall Power and wholly altering the government of his Kingdomes Witnesse also the first insisted-on Proposition wherein Good Prince before they will proceed He must contrary to Reason Religion and Law declaratorily Justify their unjust Actions of Rebellion and treason against him and Condemne his own Just defence as unjust The prevaling faction in the Houses still upon Receipt of his Majesty's Concessions and Answers to their demanding Propositions Voting Not Satisfactory Not Satisfactory O fatall Word Not untill his Princely tender Care of his Subjects perceiving the * First Plotters Faction's resolutions to perfect their bloudy designe and his desire of Peace reconciliation and stopping of that issue of blond by themselves first made in his Kingdoms at last his own Royal Interest laid aside condescended so much to their demands that as a King he had nothing more to condescend unto nor they more of his Regall Power to demand These men who thus unlawfully prosecuted and persecuted his Sacred Majesty with distroying Armies thereby to wrâ—st away his lawfull power upon Pretences of a Fundamental Law never heard of never practised before in the Houses not so much as groundded upon the least imaginary authority of Common Reason much lesse the law of the Land and the Protestant Religion had all their bloudily acquired power snatched from them by * Army those I say whom first they impowered to offer bloudy force to his Majesty upon grounds as ayry groundless and unlawfull as pretences of Common Right and distribution of Justice as if Confusion were that Right and unparalelld injustice were the distribution of Common right and Justice year 1641 Some of these Ambitious and Factious Members who by invited tumults of the Citty-rabble forced his Majesty for the Security of his person from his royall pallace at Whitehall and soon after many of their then fellow-members contrary to the Priviledge of all reasonable parliaments were uncivilly forced out of the House by their menaces and conspiring Votes because they would not be voting Conspirators with them in their Trayterous designes against their King Country the truly fundamentall Laws of the Land Some of these I say Parl. were as absurdly thrust out of the House by Pride and his Complices the army 's imps birds of their owne hatching instruments of their owne framing upon accusation of being fomenters of a New War hinderers of Perfecting an intended Reformation or more truly of Com-pleating a pre-resolved resolution or rather a Jesuitized independent designe somwhat more bloudy than the Presbyterian Thus Deus omnipotens in aetennum Justus Thy actions O Lord are all Justice thy deeds Righteousness it self Thou therefore the fountain of all wisdome that dost oftentimes proportion and symbolize both for quality and quantity mens punishments to their Sins thereby by plain demonstrative signes inviting them to repentance Grant good Father that all such guilty persons thus reading their iniquities in their punishment may repent them of their fo mer Sins that so thou mayst pardon their transgressions and remember their offences no more To this purpose restore O Lord unto them the Purity of reason as men A Zealous unmoved fixednesse in thy true religion the Christian Protestant faith Loyalty and faithfull obedience to their undoubted Soveraign and Lawfull King Cha. the Second c. and these not verbally but really expressed by actions beseeming men whose reason not humorous opinion is their guide By deeds befitting Christian Protestants whose * Scripture directing rule is the unerring Word not groundlesse faincyed revelations the Suggestions of the deceiving Angelicall Divell and not the Perswasions of thee who art the God of Spirits By actions becoming Subjects whose obedience without interruption willingly followeth the smooth Current of an Established Law not hurryed along by the tumultuous Torrents of arbitrary Ordinances nor Obedientially swimming in the troublesome Waters of mens Corupt wills O Father of mercyes whatsoever punishments Thou in thy Just judgment for our manifold sinnes shalt inflict upon us give us not over to a generall infatuation of Spirit a benummednesse in our Understanding and Reason lest we degenerating into the nature of beasts with Nebuchadnezzar be design'd to graze in the feilds with beasts that perish O everliving God Deprive us not of thy Candlesticke thy gospell of truth lest for want of true guides we all become blind and like them leading one another irrecoverably fall into the Ditch of everlasting destruction O Let not my Lord be angry and thy Servant shall speak but this Once Father of Mercies as we desire that thy word may still Continue a Lanthorn to our feet and thy Precepts a directing Light to our Paths so we humbly beseech thee that out of thy infinit Loving kindnesse thou wouldst look upon us and not take from us our Established ancient fundamentall Lawes That so our Corrupt Natures may still by them be rectified the extravagant excurrences of our Obstinate perverse Wills and actions may be limitted lest Ambition Sedition Treason Perjury Rebellion Murder Sacriledge Regicidism Envy Hatred Tyranny Oppression and all manner of wickednesse becoming particular Commanding Lawes we like Ravenous Wolves devour one another And in order to this great mercy good God restore unto us our great Law-maker Preserver and Protectour thy Servant our Soveraign the much wronged Princely Son of a more injured Murdered Martyr'd Royal Father Cha the Second of Great Brittaine King c. Put the Sword and Scepter into his hands Place the Crown upon his Head Thou who art able and Powerfull in Extremities in this his extremity shew thy Ability and Power O Lord as thou hast designed him our Supream Governour so in order to his possession of thine own designed Government prepare the hearts of all his Subjects with submissive obedience unto him as to thy Vice-gerent on earth work into their spirits a sensiblenesse of their former erroneous practises against his Royall father and let their endeavours for the restoration of his Princely son to his father's Throne evidence to the world their unfeigned repentance for their sins committed against Thee the King of kings in
BLOODY BABYLON DISCOVERD Or the Mystery of Iniquity Reveal'd Written long since And now Published for the Instruction and Information of Great Brittaine in generall more particularly intended for that once Famous Flourishing and for Civill Government Admired Honourable City of LONDON By CHRISTIANUS LONDINATUS Melius est inter Barbaros sub specie Captivitatis esse liber quà m sub specie liberâ—atis esse Captivus Salv. de gub Dei Quaerendum est mihi apud Barbaros Angliae humanitatem quia apud Anglos barbaram inhumanitatem ferre non Possum Salv. If thou warne the Wicked and he turne not from his wickednesse nor from his wicked way he shall dye in his Iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul Ezek. Chap. 3. vers 19. Printed in the year 1659. The Mystery of Iniquity REVEAL'D AS the Compassionate bowells of a tenderly-affecting father toward his Sonnes though refractorie in their demeanours un-naturall in their returns of expressive unsonne-like disobedience for his dear expressions of a father-like affection still continue wooing with intermixed sighs and tears those obstinately wicked Children Nature working as it were against Nature his naturall affection as a father prevailing over his angry inclination by nature as a man with weeping Rhetorick perswading their return from those self-destroying paths By such winning meanes inviting them to the avoiding of approaching misery and injoyment of their almost irrecoverably loâ—t felicity Even so Notwithstanding these lines like that passionately wooing-father onely aime at the temporall and eternall happinesse of all those whose past and present worst of actions so Obvious to the World's eye need not argito Monstrari plainer words to speak the concern'd Persons because for these lines alone I cannot but expect to be met with by Envy so unwilling guilty men are to read their Crimes though but in a silently speaking line pursued by Malice ill requitall for really Conferr'd favours to return discourteous persequution and overtaken by bloody revenge though perchance palliated with that false and cheating veile of new-minted Law and Justice strange men to endeavour the ruine of those whose endeavours tend onely to the preservation of them from Ruine My inward thoughts Notwithstanding all these Contrary perswading dangers inhumane and un-christian requitalls inclined me to a passionate Compassion of my dearest Country still by the prevailing rule-lesse over-ruling bloodily-destroying faction of that head-lesse dismembred thing falsely styled Parliament with the additionall treachery of some stupid passivenesse of others grasping those flames which already have sensibly destroyed their once flourishing peace consumed their formerly-happy government into an ashy heap and ere long unavoidably will render each particular man abounding in nothing but in the aboundance of misery wanting store of all things but of want unhappy even beyond the addition of greater unhappinesse being already become Obedientiall slaves to the peremptory Commands Wills and Pleasures of irrationall irreligious lawless blood thirsty and Sacrilegious men these having under unjust pretences of freeing them from a former falsely-supposed tyranny freed them from hopes of being what formerly by vertue of the Law 's Protection they were Free-men indeed To this purpose by the assistance of the God of Heaven who is my shield buckler and defence now even while it is yet day before the approaching night of darknesse over-spread these three Kingdomes with a generall Cloud of destruction I shall by drawing the Curtain of errour which hath overcast the Judgments of the most even to the visible deprivation of that distinguishing Character between men and beasts REASON endeavour hominem homini ostendere shew unreasonable man himselfe in the glasse of reason again dispelling also that thick Misty veyl of Atheism for it is no better let them give it what seeming * The Cause of God Saint-like Title they please which many with as much boasting Confidence put on as if it were the white Robes of Christ's Righteousnesse The Pulpit too often wilfully declaring the irregular faction of that Monstrous House impudently Promulgating Painted Truths which indeed are no other than reall falsities and many people but I hope ignorantly embracing them instead of Substantiall verities being lead by these * Independent Pratlers Lights which like the last blaze of a spent Taper quickly vanishing leaves them as lost men in the dark in stead of that glorious Sun of Light Christ Jesus whose unmixt pure beams apparent onely in his revealed will the holy Scriptures are the directing means able alone to guide them to that celestiall place where there is eternity of light for evermore And because these Kingdoms notwithstanding those many Recipe's for spirituall diseases left us by the Physitian of our souls in the Cabinet of the Scriptures and these repeated in almost a daily application by true Protestant Divines his faithfull servants continue still sick of obstinately progressive sins which like insensibility of a disease in a diseased man is a sure presage of destruction I shall by reviving some medicines proper for our present distemper for what are truely-Orthodox Books but like Physick to consuming bodies as so many restoratives to a languishing Nation endeavour the recovery of them to a re-possession of their former peace now breathing their last The re-enjoyment of truth Gospell-truth lost almost under a confused heap of Hereticall Schismaticall and Atheisticall errours and the return of their not-long since admired plenty now declining into a necessitous and almost unavoidable poverty But because man is but a dully perswading Orator unlesse the God of spirits speak effectually also to their obdurate hearts Therefore O thou Omnipotent Omniscient All-working Lord God the fountain from whence streameth every good thing in whose hands are the hearts of all men and canst turn and wind them at thy pleasure Cause all the people of England Scotland and Ireland to return unto Thee by an obedientiall subscription to thy everlasting truth and a practicall obedience according to its direction In exchange for their hearts of stone give them O Lord hearts of flesh mollifi'd by thy gently yet prevalently malleating Spirit Throw down all those bulwarks of prejudice raised against the truth of Reason and the reason of thy religious Truth Levell O levell those high-built Forts of perverse resolves wilfully to persist in ill-begun courses because successe for a time waits upon attempts as if the commanding bloody Sword had by its prevalency power as easie to create new commandements and evangelicall truths as by treachery dissimulation tyranny and oppression it hath had to overthrow an antient Government and as if a short prosperity in wickednesse were the certain mark of those that travell in the high way to eternal happinesse When as thou O Lord hast said Psal 92.7 that though the wicked spring as grass and the workers of iniquity do flourish yet they shall be destroyed for ever Summon them by the effectually sounding Trumpet of thy Spirit to a condescention to thy blessed will and pleasure which is