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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81694	The Dovvnfal of Dagon: or, Certain signes of the sudden and unavoidable ruine of this Parliament and Army. With a caveat to the City of London.		1653 (1653)	Wing D2085; Thomason E804_20; ESTC R207373	6,580	8

The dovvnfal of Dagon OR CERTAIN SIGNES OF The Sudden and Unavoidable Ruine Of this PARLIAMENT And ARMY With ACAVEAT To the City of LONDON Printed at LONDON 1653. Feb 16 1652 The DOWNFAL OF DAGON I Having in a former Treatise laid open the rise growth and some of the practices of this everlasting Parliament and Army I shall now enlarge my self a little farther to shew you the Fate that is hanging over their heads and the unavoidableness of their fall with some signes that the present Government is in a declining state I shall first lay before you their breaking Covenants and sweating their souls to the devil to promote their wicked ambitious ends having raised themselves from the very scum of the people to Lord it over their Superiours and all by an Arbitrary power being backed on by a few Coblers and Shoo-makers and a company of Desperado's As for their Perjury Swearing they regard not nor Forswearing so it conduce to their profit and in that they imitate their elder brother the Turk who holds that there are no Oathes to be kept with Christians any longer then they serve for their advantages Nay these Independents go beyond the Turks for they are Heathens but these are Atheists these acknowledge not Christ many of them witness that blasphemous Book intituled THE THREE GRAND IMPOSTORS written by an Honourable Member forsooth and printed for Giles Calvert dwell●ng neer the west-end of Pauls at the signe of the black Spread-Eagle that pure Saint who if he had had his desert should have been hanged long since for the many blasphemous Pieces by him dispersed And now my hand is in pray take notice of another Book by him lately printed in English called The Racovian Catechism This Book full fraught with damnable doctrines denies the Divinity of Jesus Christ O horrid Blasphemy One of these I bought of Calvert and he told me That in that Book there was contained more sound Divinity then in any book that over was printed O England wh●t a pass art thou brought unto In stead of a pure Reformation and a propagating of the Gospel with an establishment of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ here is nothing but holding forth Confusion as their Ranting spirit moves them Nay I must needs say they are very zealous for the Cause of Christ as they pretend when they make a Laughing-stock of the holy Scripture denying the Holy Ghost to be God and taking away the Divinity of Jesus Christ and withal terming the Sacrament of the Lords Supper a holy Fiction You may plainly perceive what temper our Sword men are of when lately there came forth a small Pamphlet intituled A Beacon fired humbly petitioning these Saints for a suppressing of Popish Books which lately are come forth without controul whereupon Colonel Pride takes up the Buckler against the Petitioners and stands in defence of Popish Books which made the Petitioners at first much to admire seeing him write so contrary to the Principles that he had always seemed to profess so that upon good considerations they answered him so effectually that they have stopt his mouth with a Non obstante Here you may plainly see that the Turks are better Christians then these men for they acknowledge Christ for a great Prophet sent from God but these Saints in their Book as I mentioned before called The three grand Impostors the main scope whereof is to prove Christ Moses and Mahomet to be Impostors have the impudence to do their endeavour to prove Christ an Impostor These are the men that do stand up in the Cause of Christ to pull down Anti●hrist while they set up the Devil But what will not these men stick to do that have by a base Arbitrary power and an unheard-of Barbarism after they had sworn Allegiance to their King and taken a solemn Oath in the presence of God to bring him home to his two Houses of Parliament and make him the most glorious Prince that ever reigned over Great Britain and yet CROMWEL with his Minions hurried him into the Isle of Wighl and kept him a close prisoner but then these Cameleons that can turn themselves into any colour began to shew themselves in their right hue And first Cromwel in the House of Commons standeth up with his nose flaming like some prodigious Comet that threatneth devastation to some Kingdom and with his hands laid upon hss hypocritical brest told the Speaker that it was unsafe to trust the King a man of Blood one that had betrayed that Trust which the people had reposed in him and therefore he desired them that he might be brought to a strict account for all the blood that had been shed in this Nation in the late War I shall insist no longer upon their perfidious and barbarous dealing about the King seeing it is so notoriously known all the world over No sooner had they murdered the King contrary to their Oathes of Allegiance and solemn League and Covenant the many Imprecations whereby God hath been called to witness that they never intended any harm to the Kings Person but now you may see what force an Oath is of to binde these Miscreants that rather then they will miss of their ambitious ends will damn their souls With what face can these men appear before God at the last day having their hands imbrned in the blood of their native Prince to give an account of all their diabolical actions They have not onely stretched out their hands against the King God's Vice-roy but also against the M●n●stery by sending some to heaven where I am very sure none of them will ever come imprisoning of others and sequestring their estates These are pure Saints that thus do tyrannize over the Church persecuting Christ in his Members and in as much as in them lieth endeavour the utter subversion of the true Protestant Religion by tolerating of all manner of Heresies and Blasphemies advancing Schismatical persons both in Church and State their main end being to bring in Atheism and Confusion And thus they do like Julian the Apostate by taking away the maintenance of the Ministery that so by Poverty they may of necessity beforc'd to leave their Call●ngs and betake themselves to some other employment to keep their wives and children from starving And thus Julian the Apostate as we read when his persecuting Sword prevailed on the Christians but little took this course to make them leave Christ and follow his wicked example But there can be no men let them be never so infamous for wickedness but these men will as nigh as they can tread in their steps O what a miserable thing it is to see Great Britain that hath been the most free and flourishing Monarchie upon the face of the earth that hath been famous for the many Expeditions this English Nation hath made both by Sea and Land to vindicate its honour against its forraign enemies and by Land how many Trophies of their Victories have they erected in