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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88805	The debauched cavalleer: or the English Midianite. Wherein are compared by way of parallel, the carriage, or rather miscarriage of the cavalleeres, in the present reigne of our King Charles, with the Midianites of old. Setting forth their diabolicall, and hyperdiabolicall blaspemies, execrations, rebellions, cruelties, rapes, and robberies. / Penned by G.L. and C.L. for publique good.	Lawrence, George, 1615-1695?; Love, Christopher, 1618-1651.	1642 (1642)	Wing L656; Thomason E240_43; ESTC R2897	7,576	8

Norton a Minister now about the Army received from his mouth and sent up in a letter to Mr George Walker a Reverend Pastor of a Church in Watlingstreete here in London which Letter by him was delivered to the Parliament that the worthies also might read those horrid Epistolarie Execrations VI. (f) Oh to what senslesse stupiditie are these men grown to who have forgot their maker and know not the Answer to the first question in the childs Catechisme Who made you instead of answering God they say The Divell The Divill that made us Damme us This was avowed in a Pulpit by that reverend Preacher of Gods word Mr Simpson who came lately from Holland VII (g) It is well we know who are the Round-heads in the Cavalliers opinion viz. All those who will not wish their owne damnation rather our tongues should cleave to our mouths than such hellish language should proceed from us as this 2 Parallel A great Company of Cavalliers comming to plunder a Town they swore that they would robbe and slay all the Round-heads in the Towne but some of that Rascally Crew demanding how they might know the Round-heads from the rest of the Inhabitants Answere was immediatly returned they would make them wish God Damme us and all who would not wish God to Damme them they would rob and slay for Round-heads And thus by their Notorious Blasphemies they doe some notable despight and wrong even to the Spirit of Grace the Holy Ghost Heb. ch 10 v. 29. Wherefore we lift up our hearts to Heaven in the words of the Psalmist Remember this O Lord that the Enemies have reproched thee and that this foolish people have blasphemed thy Name read Psalm 74.18 Thus we leave them to God to whom Vengeance belongs that he may execute on them the Iudgment written And thus we have done with the first charracter 2. The second Character of the Midianites They were men of Cruelty and Oppression Iudg. 6.2.4 because of the Midianites The children of Israell made them Dens which are in the Mountaynes and Caves and strong holds and they Encamped against them and destroyed the Increase of the Earth and left no Sustenance for Israel neither Sheepe nor Oxen. (h) O quot Nerones quot Domitiani quod Commodi quot Bassiani quot Imites Dionisii hasce peragravere terras Sic Benzo in Histor Indica c. and thus the Holy Ghost proceeds to emblazon and set forth their opressing Cruelties Now let the world judge whether * the Cavalliers of our time do not fully answer the oppressions of those Midianites spoken of in the world and many parts of this Kingdome can by sad experience give testimony hereunto How many of the Kings faithfull and loyall Subjects have beene forced to leave their dwellings and as the Israelites when pursued by the Midianites to run to the denns and caves of the earth Those who were able to relieve and feed others how are they now forced to beg their owne bread and those who had faire houses to dwell in good beds to lie on how are they constrained to lie in the open fields lest he should be exposed to (i) Vivitu● ex●apto non hospes ab hospitutus Ovid. Vitur ex rapto non hospes ab hospite sospes Palin their rage and robberies who have nothing but a Stone for their Pillow the Bank for a Bolster the Earth for their Bed the Grasse for their Rugg the Trees for their Curtaines the Hedges for their Vailance and are like to have if not seasonably supplied the Winter Snow for their Sheet the Skie for their Canopie and the chirping Birds of the morning to be their Alarme to awake them To bring up the Parallel close as Midian did destroy the encrease of the Earth and left no sustenance for Israel (l) They may well say of themselves as the people said of themselves in Salvians dayes Iniusti sunt Barbari nos hoc sumus Avari sunt Barbari nos hoc sumus Infideles sunt Barb●ri noc hoc sumus Impudici sunt Barbari nos hoc sumus Omnium denique Improbitatus impuritatum pleni sunt Barbari nos hoc sumus Salvian l. 3. de Gubernat Dei 3. Paral. neither Sheepe nor Oxen nor other beasts so have (k) Populus Inviden●io● Inimicior Implacabilior sub Sole Solis nullus est Judaeis Buxtorf Synag Iudaic. c. 22. p. 426. these cruell Cavalliers destroyed the fruits of the Earth in many parts of this Kingdome spoiled Corne in the ground burned much up when gathered into the Barne or standing in the Reeke and as for taking away their substance they have by violence broken into houses taken away all houshould stuffe and provision left nothing but naked walls insomuch that men had not bread for their Wives and Children And as for taking away the beasts as the Midianites did from Israel to make that true they have driven mens Deere out of their Parkes mens Sheep out of their Folds mens Oxen out of their Ploughes and Horses from their Harrowes constraining men to part with their horses to further them in their unwarrantable Designes And thus we have also done with the second Character The third Character of the Midianites They were rambling Renagadoes now here now there one while at Gaza Iudg. 6.4 another while by Ophrah Iudg. 6.11 another time at Baals Alter and the Grove Iudg. 6.28.29 another time in the Vally of Iezreel Iudg. 6.33 another time at Bethshittah towards Zererath another time at the border of Abel-Meholuh unto Tabath Iudg. 7.22 and another while at the Rock of Oreb and the Wine-presse of Zeeb v. 25. one while in Karkor Iudg. 8.10 and another while at Tabor Iudg. 8.8 and still to surprize Israel Thus do (m) who are like the vaine and Light persons of Abimelech whom the Septuagint call persons maz'd and affrighted out of their senses who were hired with 70. pieces of silver out of the house of Baol-Berith whom Vatablus termes Instabiles unstable rowling from Towne to Towne from Citie to City from Shire to Shire and from one Kingdome to another our Cavalliers rove from one place to another First from London to Yorke from Yorke to Hull then to Beverley then to Yorke againe thence to Warwicke thence to Banbury then to Warwicke againe thence to Coventry thence to Nottingam thence to Worcester thence to Shrewsbury and the Lord knows how soone they may come againe to London Nam toties versa est fortuna locorum And thus we have done also with the third Character The fourth Character of the Midianites * They were a crafty and a subtile Generation to beguile Israel and ensnare them with their wiles seeking to get Israel at an advantage Numb 25.18 So are our Cavalliers it seems the Serpentine brood a subtile Generation witnesse the faigned Letters they send the false Alarms they sound the suddaine surprisals they make to take us at an advantage by Policie