Sectarist is so nor an Independent nor will I now engage to In the Prelates time they were puritans men of tender consciences c. faithfull to death tell thee but be it as thou saist yet thou saist nothing to the purpose Oh madnesse what 's this to thee in this case one hath thrown down Baals altar Ergo Gideon the sonne of Joash must dye but the wiser Joash answered those fooles if * Shew Baals order or leave your bauling shew us the same of God c. Baal be a God and be offended hee will right himselfe Sure if the Mahumetan Turk were faithfull to our State and would fight to deliver it I would fight with him a Sectarists Independents so cal'd have saved the king dome City for none else would c. and for him and owe we not him also thankes honour and reward Different religions nor irreligion quit not humanitie and justice God by Rom. 14. enjoynes them to be Sectaries and Independents till convinced and joyes in it if in sincerity see and be satisfied Why condemnest and judgest thou him b Let each one be perswaded in his owne conscience note it in his owne not any others If the doubter be damn'd force not the doubter lest thou damne him thy selfe Is it nothing to condemne damn he is Gods servant not thine Thou shalt not answer for him therefore be answered and suffer him to Independent it as well as he thee to Presbyter it is it not just Thou unjust one who denies him this liberty yet wilt licentiate c. Promulgators against fundamentals I am against but yet reservedly to hold none can with-hold so I am against prophaners and blasphemers what wouldst thou more Know weaklings know that the beauty of sincerity and justice love peace and humanity though accompanied with errors in Religion not against so also with many occular deformities and seeming giddinesses and fooleries are preferrable before a forced and ignorant Classicke beauty and order c. without sincerity or any the rest aforesaid c. why art thou against what God is for 55. But are not such Royallists so all sorts under what notion soever Traitors Murtherers thieves c. that fight against themselves and their posterities and against the Kingdome their Soveraign c. under pretence as for its Steward the King c. Doth not shame and infamy attend them besides base slavery to them and theirs c. And though you be offended at the Parliament yet why against your selves and yours and the Kingdom and yet why also against the Parliament you say they have taken your estates c. Oh fooles have you neither witt nor honesty to reason wisely and rightly Foole know they act but secondarily also justly and inforcedly Is it not the King and your This is spoken only to Malignants who have forfeited all selves by the Scots owne sayings for all they seeme to stand so for the King who have plundered you of your estates by turns and now you would turne it upon the State Why charge you not the King as doe his owne Countreymen Doth not the scot charge him as the Originall cause of all the blood shed c. in the 3. Nations know its a Nation of Divines thus charge him discharge him if thou canst If hee be the first cause thou art the second for seconding him against hoth States the large and contract Kingdome and Parliament so the Parliament justly for thy treachery to the whole and in behalfe of it did force from * Shall a murtherer coÌ„demn the Judge or Executioner for taking life or estate whereas himselfe is the condemner executioner of himselfe by theÌ„ thee but part of thy estate to helpe to secure what thou wouldst have betraid whereas thou hast forfeited all yea life also Foole or Knave or both art thou not engag'd to them for thy life and the remainder of thy estate all being at their command considering how forfeited in behalfe of the Kingdome thy Soveraign Learne wisdome and honesty hence-forward to acknowledge what 's right and their goodnesse to one so unrighteous and make amends for future by dedicating thy life and estate to the State for the State c. Fight against the Stewards yea all Stewards for thy Soveraigne the Kingdome thy King c. 56. But many are desperate for the Parliament as they say hath abused them and opprest them more then ever the King did and they are as very slaves under them as the King can make them and yet they have been as faithfull and deserving of the Parliament as can be having ventured limbes life liberty estate also such and so much wages is due to them but not a penny can they get though they so their wives and children are ready to famish also they are contemned slighted villified c. If it be so as afore it s a hard and urging case c. For men are but men not Gods c. It becomes not the fountain of Justice to send out such foule streames nor to be the cause of such floods of teares nor of rending and tearing complaints c. Yet here answer thee as at Sect. 47. whether repaire for satisfaction and implore them to doe as they would be done by 58. If the rising of the people be not from some of the grounds following Quaere As first The licentiat reading of lying Ballets and books to defame the State and the Armie and so to incense the people against both also to divide the people amongst themselves which is most infamous in so famous a Citiie to suffer such insufferables and implies as if they fided with such base ones against both States which is not only great weaknesse but wickednesse also may they be accepted for Protecters of Parliament and Kingdom which prostrate both as afore Another thing that befooles the people and so cause them â—o rise against Parliament and Armie yea themselves and theirs is Ignorance of the Kings state degree and condition c. and an opinion of him beyond what is c. which we intend to resolve by Quaeries in due season only one or two instances here c. under the notion King and other titles of sacred Majestie c. They are besotted to an Idolatrizing as if rahter a God then a man Also as if all were his own selfely cause King relates not as doth Steward which sends to a Lord See sect 46. where the end of Kings is K. as justice safety peace c. of the people c. whereas all his Titles Glories Crowne Throne Scepter c. are the States at large and his only by way of steward-ship and Deputi-ship As are the Sword Cap of Maintenance so traine of Officers the Cities not the Majors This ignorance crafty knaves especially depraved Clergy-men and men of lost fortunes make use of to incite the people for their own ends as at Sect. 6. and 8. But
our loyalty to our Lord Salus enjoyns a plaine discovery of all particulars concerning him to prevent if it were possible murthers massacres c. Quaere if it be not treachery not to treat hereof or to intreate amisse Quaere the intreater thereof c. The Parliament and peoples rights also are not known which cleered would cleere all c. and make all cleere up c. Pressures from Parliament as said to be incite also so want of justice c. the remedies known the cure may be easie if care be The bounds of obedience so of Treason and rebellion not by lawlesse law only but by law rationall and so binding are not knowns and so the ignorant are bound to their good behaviour against all good behaviour c. 59. Is this or that treason c. against the K. Steward of the kingdom Queries concerning rebellion and treason so of disobedience as selfly considered so much in every mans mouth or not rather as hee relates to the State at large his Lord so it 's for his Lords sake not his Quaere also If it be not as he continues in his sphear of government or Quaere The State at large rather in the execution of government according to the will of his* Lord exprest in his Lawes so in all faithfulnesse to him c. Quaere If out of his spheare he be not a privat man c. so not obeyable but resistable c. St. Paul I knew him not to bee Gods high Priest Quaere Why Because his actions were below his place as a Judge Ignorant he could not be that he was the high Priest c. 60. If to raise Armes against the kingdomes Army the Kingdome being King by Sect. 46. if it be not treason the said Army continuing Quaere faithfull to the kingdome in its defence is it not to take up Armes against the kingdome itselfe 61. If an abusing the Army it continuing faithfull before be not an affront to the Kingdome which is King 62. If newtralizing that is not helping siding and taking part Quaere with the Army against the Kingdomes enemies be not treason to the kingdome how then to take part against it to suppresse or enslave it by raising Forces of their own Faction to keep it under or to leave the Kingdom naked to self insurrections or forraign invasions c. also to have brought the King forcibly home to have born out and coloured all their designes c inforcings c. If it be not lawfull to make the foresaid quaeries and the like without Quaere querelous inquisitions and exceptions 63. Oh thou Citie of London so all the Cities and Countries of England Application c. yea each individual man therein read reason and call to mind as thus These Rakeshames that pretend the King intend themselves and are the same that fought against us as afore to inslave us and we against them for our liberties c. why expended wee our blood and meanes What to yeeld and entertain them at the last Much better might we have yeelded at first and spared all then now at the last seeing also by our affronts their revenge is aggravated to the uttermost even to the nullifying our Religion and enforcing upon us a Regiment or imperious government under its name so our lives liberties and estates are gone and we are in their hands like Rogues and Gally-slaves * King of England c. befools fools the wise have eyes Lord Mayor of London c. Are they any any more then Titles Is not each ones life land liberty and estate his owne by Law and Nature It s onely the highest Title of honour allowed by the State So Prince of Wales Earle of Essex c. As for the King we now understand our selves better then before he is by Sect. 58. the kingdomes Steward the peoples and kingdomes welfare as the end of Kings and all Governours is Lord and King He hath also forfeited all by his faithlesnesse to his Lord he is to the kingdome as is the Lord Mayor to the Citie and no more chiefe Deputie Governours both of them yet not by any selfnesse but as in favour conferred on by and for the State the Citie †The Lord Mayor is by Râ—x King of the City in respect of all subordinate Rulers 32 Kings that is Lieutenant Governours of Câ—ties Joshua conquered on this side Jordan May the Mayor take up Armes against the Citie or rob them by Sea or Land or rebell and traytor them or burn their houses c. And must the Citizens for all that petition intreat and treat with their abusive treacherous servant c. Is not the Mayor a traytor a rebell for so doing Apply them c. Rex is Ruler not King So by Rex all are Kings or none are c. It 's falsly translated Kiâ—gâ— or applied onely to one more then another the word will not beare any thing but Ruler yet that will hardly be rul'd nor will the Hebrew or Greek beare the translation King at all c. Why then to these more then others Ruler is also unruly so not right as too selfly Steward sends to a Lord c. May the Mayor master the Citie will the Citizens side with him against themselves hath hee any commission to kill rob rape c. As for the Parliament and Army if they have wronged us yet will not we wrong the kingdome to right our selves of them but let 's help them all we can if not for themselves yet for our selves so ours c. Yet why not the Army for themselves also seeing they have done us no hurt Newtrality will nullifie us in our Religion Liberties and Lives we have experience of their trustinesse and we have experience except we want sence of the perfidiousnesse and treachery of the other Armies they are generaâ—ly Atheists their commanders men of no Religion onely politick pretenders to deceive their actions and designes define them as afore As for the Army if Sectaries if Independents c. yet we know not well if so because the true definition of either is not agreed on However what is it to us If faithfull to us and the State it 's to God not to us They suffer us to Presbyter it Justice requires we suffer them to Independent it Destroyers of Fundamentals so Blasphemers they allow not of often declared by them Thus qualified how is it we allow not of them seeing God himselfe doth by Rom. 14. Well let 's weigh all aforesaid and let 's immediatly send them all the help we can if not for their sakes yet for our own and ours and the Kingdomes to set a period to these troubles c. For if the adverse Army have the better we have the worst of it We are politickly called Fomenters of Warre we must be wise and not feare words we must foment if foment they call it that is we must
stir up and second defensively against such offenders who would surprize us by preventing resistance by such aspersions they foment all they can by raising the Countries to raise them to the Countries razing If we foment not just defence against their unjust offence we are great ofders In short let 's not traytor it to our King the Kingdome nor to the Parliament nor the Army wherein they continue faithfull c. so nor to our selves nor ours but now before we part resolve to dissolve these fomenters these Achans these troubles of Israel c. And let 's learn to beare till we know how to help it lesser injuries from Parliament and Army if so ' rather then the great intollerable the inexpressables from the other side c. and consider and doe not we our selves foment our own miseries there was likelihood of a period before this but we cry out of Parliament and Army for not setling the kingdom and that they doe nothing thus long when as we our selves breed and * In that Some amongst us in plotting against the State the Army and Independents so called and inviting in the Scots also fiding it with the Roy and his Royalists c. Lastly to force home the King under pretence of a Treaty increase new work new troubles to them and our selves And now Oh State Representative a word or two to you and I have done onely to minde and hint you for more sure I need not doe if you be noble minded generous and genuine but if contrary as ignoble c. What shall be done to set you right I tax not but preventively caution Remember the universall naturall rationall precept Doe as you would be done to c. Is not this enough to Naturalists Moralists Gentiles How then if Christianity be added Shall it adde nothing If deducted lesse you cannot be and be men c. Statues you may be but not Statute-makers except as afore Would you be abused or treacherized with in the least of your trusts Surely no then doe not so Would you not traytor and skellom and base fellow that fellow that should so abuse you in the meanest betrust c. If so inferre * Which you may lose in a moment cause you are momentary Also are they of moment like your honour fame so the love and welfare of your friends and posteririties your quitting them from slavery Consider c. what 's due in just retaliation for failing in the greatest betrusts mortality is capable of as of Life Livelihood Liberties and Religion c. See to it O see to it I speak onely to the guilty if any be blemish not nor bespot your Honours by treacherous aspersions c. though many be laid upon you never the like on any Parliament before and that without controll or commination yet let it not be justly Remember the love of the people in chusing you so of their great hopes and joy in your faithfulnes forfeit them not we intreat you but free your free choosers so all your friends so your own posterities that they may blesse you in future times and your names and remembrances may be famous for ever else infamy for ever attends you so the cryes and curses of your choosers so of your children and posterities so of all your friends and kindred yea of the whole kingdome or people your true King who made you what you are and commissioned you c. but not to commit them c. On beslave not nor vassalage your Lords to any their Stewards Consider and digest what I say and digresse not c. O let not any insinuations flatteries hopes promises * Or in your power to keep as to give c. I adde to the aforesaid cautions nor let envy hate malice or revenge to or against any hurt the Generall quit thy self if thou canst if not reserve it till thou canst not offend preferments or dishonorable honours circumvent you and so begâ—t contempt and jeering from your circumventers Is there any thing so comfortable and cheering as a cleare conscience even as a moralist c. None can give you or preferre you but you must first inable them by giving to and preferring them reserve rather then give to such to receive againe and so to be beholden and give thankes for what 's your * own But what are such givers and receivers also receivers again from such given to givers c. of what also is neither the givers nor receivers own but their Lords the Kingdomes their King What I say are such c. c. but c. Oh consider consider c. and comply to justice equity and all honorable things Honour your selves by your wisdomes and fidelity as you have done which preferre as more noble and withall immortall in that it shall live when you are dead before all other base and by-ends which shall when you are gone infamous you and leave a base and sordid stench of you to all eternity c. Give forraigne States cause to honour you and make not your selves a jeering stock to the whole world till it come to a proverb As ill as an Englishman as base as a Britain c. How wisely and ably did the Holland State quit themselves of their Tyrannous King continue faithfull to the people that followed them and govern them with peace and love cause with justice protection and safety Sure the same wayes would have had the same effects with us What shall I say It 's with the latest but not too late if this you will do Inform the people aright of their own rights yours and their Viceroyes when at the rightest also as now postur'd qualified and conditioned with all kind of wrong doings to a most righteous people to him Why spare you or feare you to speak May yea doth it not betray us If we have doe and must venture our lives what is' t if just and right and withall conducing shall silence us Had Hester been silent where O let not one woman put down so many men for courage faithfulnesse c. being also not so engaged as are you bad she and hers been You have fought against and dare you not speak nor give way to speak against in what 's just also when it is for the Kingdome and the people c. Conducingly give way and you shall finde men will speak out Justice and your ingagements the Kingdomes welfare and to prevent its illfare claimes this at your hands and we dare however quaere if it be not treachery to the Kingdome the people in generall our Generall or King c. Not to allow the exhibiting of the aforesaids as conducing to their delivery c. the children are come to the birth give strength to bring forth Now we have done and deliver up what is said with our selves to the judgement of the ingenuous And the blessing of God be with you c. DIXI Postscripts THis Book
to be insensible of the most pittifull object that can be objected doth ill and to manage these As so many murthers humane and feminine passions man like doth best of all Sure Samuel was pittifull yet hee hewed Agag in pieces and David pittifull yet delivered hee up 7. of Sauls innocent sonnes to the Gibeonites for the Gibbit c. None hath power to quit or qualifie but the wronged who cannot ' cause they are not and who are cannot cause they may not Nature reason justice and the Covenant besides the end of Governors all I say demand Justice how comes it then wee are justled out of it oh irreligious atheisticall inhumane and bloody Nation to drink swallow down at a draught so much blood never reluctate Justice and retaliation in and by justice is not cruelty its 79. Of cruelty cruelty not to be so cruell it multiplies offenders and murthers the offended Samuel nor David as afore were not cruell in satisfying Justice though the act seeme cruell Justice is the Queen of vertues injustice is the Queane of vices The first establisheth the latter demolisheth Thrones Much may be said 80. Justice of the aforesaids but we have transgrest beyond pardon yet if murthers may be pardoned what may not However will not our zeal for the common good procure a pardon c. 81 We could not have conceived had we not said one word of the Kings subordination as Servant Officer or Steward to the State at large that there is no understanding so short but would selfly at one present apprehension have comprehended and reacht it but we finde it other wise c. -But now that which we have said seconding their capacities how can we question it but that each one is fully satisfied which if yet they be not no endevour shall be wanting of our side c. Would God they would not in weaknesse or wickednesse be wanting to themselves and theirs so to their native countrey their true King We shall then define a King which rightly done will right all understandings but unrighteous ones A true and righâ— King then to whom the title may be rightly applied is such a one who by a right self-power selfly commands and is selfly obeyed 82. A right self-power is not any self-power unjustly inforced gained Note or usurped Which is thiefe-like and Tyranny though cal'd Conquest Note again A Self-power not Deputative Kings it Selfes are Parents and Pay-masters and just Conquerours c. By this no Deputy powers can be rightly cal'd Kings All are Deputy-powers that are not Self-powers as afore c. Who is King then whether he that doth and ought execute the laws The wills of * The Lawes are the wills of the State at large or the people c. others and that for Them not Himself Or those that set those Laws also enjoyns him an Oath to execute them and none other Also for Themselves not Himselfe And doe also allow Honours and Revennues respectively as the said Lawes are lookt to not over-lookt Judge all men of what we say Finde me any other use of a King or any Governour if you can then Justice Safety and the Welfare of the People c. This lost he is uselesse For what saith our Saviour Salt which hath lost his savour is uselesse and so good for nothing but c. Just Conquerours are Who defensively conquer their unjust offending adversaries These set their own Lawes and so command and are obeyed Selfly and are justly Masters of Liberties Livelihoods and Lives of the conquered And this is our just right at this time over those Scots we have conquered in this their unjust Invasion But had they conquered us it were Thief-like Murther and Theft as it is neverthelesse in all they kill or take 83. Will you have Scripture to second our Arguments in behalfe of the Kinghood of the State at large Whether saith our Saviour so St. Paul is greater Woman or Man the Sabbath or Man for whom both Woman and the Sabbath are made Whether is greater the God or the Temple which sanctifieth it Apply between the State and the King c. 84. Lastly will you have an Argument from the State or Parliament Doe they not King the State at large and Servant and Officer the King in their taking up Armes in loyalty to their said Lord and King the Kingdome against the King so call'd for his disloyalty to the said State And doth not this taking up Armes against it accuse him of c. c. c. We from the premises quaere it If Justice and Loyalty can allow any Self-titles of Kings c. to any Deputy powers to defeat the State at large of its Kinghood Yea to its Serviling to its Servant to the hazarding of Life Liberty and Estate Consider of it O States consider of it Steward sends to a Lord Vice-roy to a Roy. Much more I could have said in poynt of Reason to a full satisfaction of all scruples and objections but we have not time to doe it so must contract our selves though for contract understandings we wish we could have inlarged c. 85. But we have Atheisticall yet hypocriticall adversaries to deale withall who will pretend Religion c. These however presume to conquer us by Scripture though they cannot by Reason and to subdue all our Reasons yea our Reason our Sense and our Senses thereby so they fetch out of Scripture all that seemingly makes against us in behalfe of the King of rather themselves under colour of his name and then demand of us what we can say to this to that c. Yet the particulars are answered might we exhibit them Bidding us quit our selves if we can It were infinite to answer to all particulars which cause we cannot we will discharge our selves by one generall Position which shall prostrate all their positions c. We then say this of Kings and Governours is a poynt Rationall and of the Senses and not of Faith and as so it falls under their Regiment for triall and not under that of Faith So then whatsoever is brought out of Scripture and however rendred must have a construction that agrees with and overthrowes not neither Justice Reason nor the Senses c. This is enough in it selfe however it 's as much as time will allow us to say at this present c. onely we remember thee of our Saviours and St. Pauls sayings at Sect. 83. so at 42. 45. which are as rationall though in Scripture as are these 86. But yet againe they have not done with us For if neither Reason nor Scripture will doe the deed Lawlesse Law shall So Judge Jenkins comes marching on furiously Jehu-like so as hee admits of no opposition and now are we conceived put to flight yet are we not fled nor will so much as turn our backs c. but keep both our station and posture and so make head against all his impostures as
followeth We have not time I say to deale with each of his particulars which had we we would c. so we must as we may Wee therefore in our Generall Position as afore answer and so put to silence all he or any one can say c. We then say Law so called is the Creature of its Creator the State at large made for its service and not to its dis-service much lesse to servile it by the States the said States Commissioners and that is way of Justice and Safety so all other accommodations of the said State and not to the King or any other against it Now if a Law so called which should be made as afore for the use of the State at large by the said States trusted to make lawes in behalfe of their Lord and not in behalfe of any his servants against him if they shall I say make and so call that a Law which is not so as being quite contrary to their betrust and the end of Law as in accommodation of some of their servants against their Lord. Quaere If it be not absolute treachery in them to betray the liberties and rights of their Lord to any of his Servants c. nay we say then it 's no law though made as afore also called so and complemented with * If a known long practis'd Physitian prepare as hee calls it physick for his patient and ceremonies it with the complements of a viall or galli pot and all other circumstances can all this make it physick if apparantly destructive to its ends and in stead of saving will kill may not such Physick be kild c. Apply c. ceremonials to make it passe so we say again it 's no law so binds noâ— nor may nor can nor shall it bind the Lord or any of his retainers so as to be abused by any his servants except in behalfe of the said Lord which just necessity warranting is sufferance no abuse In short we care not what Judge Jenkins nor any or the law it selfe so called saith or doth or would doe as to binde us to Kings or any Governours alias the kingdomes and peoples Stewards and Servants if contrary or destructive to its ends the freedomes and rights of the Generall c. whereas it ought rather to binde all Kings and Governours who are indeed most bound to accommodate the LORD * The State at large GENERAL though to their owne selfe-sufferings c. Thus much in short to Law so to Judge Jenkins his large and famoused Law-piece most infamous in that he aimes to treacherize it to his Lord and King the State at large c. and servile him to his servants c. Thus our just our rationall and as so our true and lawfull definitions of treason and rebellion c. stand good against Judge Jenkins his unjust irrationall and destructive and therefore illegall though called legall-definitions c. 87. Only I will tell thee thou hâ—st now no colour of ignorance left to prevaricate c. nor to beare out thy former perpetrations Forgoe them then and once at last turn wise and honest all thy undertakings against or neglect of thy Lord Salus must now needs proceed from impudence not impotence thou now knowest what the King so called in reality is I hope nor Titles nor Names nor rich Rayment nor a great Train or State shall now deceive thee Nothing can make a man more then a man lesse they may A Magazine is the richest place indeed but let each fetch away his treasure what is it 88. I am not factious nor partiall I am against both Parliament and King as they forfeit their ends and betrusts and are against the kingdome And I am for one or both as they are faithfull to their Trusts c. 89. More I hope I need not say but yet if any shall in pretence of love and duty to the King so call'd alias the kingdomes Steward be so treacherous to the Kingdome their true King so to themselves their posterities kindred and friends to oppose us in defence of the said King or Steward against the kingdome we heartily desire them to decline all base and treacherous ends to the aforesaids And if it be only their injuditious judgements after all we have said they will rectifie them and let them with ingenuity pursue the acquiring and purchasing the truth with us as wee will with them and let the convinc'd comply And we further heartily intreat them that they would as beseems the civil if they will needs reply perform it not perfunctorily but with Nervous and strenuous Arguments not idle and fallacious to abuse the people and lose time and as if they sought rather a vainglorious conquest then the true glory of truth Also that it may be without scurrillity or contempt and they shall be answerably dealt with For we hold exclamations jeerings and contempts to proceed of ill natures ill educations or weaknesse c. like Schoole-boyes who when 〈◊〉 weake in dispute doe in wickednesse fall to scolding and fifty-cuffs c. Dixi. Onely If nothing will do we are undone and so are most of our undoers FINIS ⧠AN APOLOGIE AS we have Cautioned in case any write against us c. So we hold it necessary also to say something lest any one in a pretence of love and loyalty to the King or Kingdomes Steward although it may be Demetrian selfe-love and not to Diana also hate to Paul c. may be the true ground and not love to the King but admit love c. to him it s not right nor just in opposition to his King the Kingdome However least they should in a purposed revenge upon us under the pretences aforesaid suggest This man writes against the King also dishonours him c. by meane Objection expressions and rendrings also intimates this or that of him c. Also the title is tart and offensive To the aforesaids I answer as followeth To the last first If the Title Answer should offend thee yet be not offended For thou either hast or wilt finde that those who conspire against the Welfare Crowne Peace and Dignity of our Soveraigne Lord King Salus are farre worse then Knaves for they are Traytors why then should we fear to offend them And those who are ensnared or deluded by them may they not rightly at the least be cal'd Fooles And to the former objection I answer I doe not intentionally to wrong dishonour or abate any thing of the Sâ—ewards just Dues and The neglect of others necessitates us Rights but what I must doe of necessity in defence and vindication of King Salus And if so he suffer it 's sufferable what also if it be his insufferables are the cause of his sufferings But ther 's not any thing his due in opposition to the Kingdomes sufferance in safety justice and Rights for if more be given him then his due to the wronging of the universall so
particulars in their Rights of Justice and safety c. Reason Justice necessity require a reducing all to rights that so hee may have his owne due and not beyond especially to the encroachment upon what 's his Lords the Kingdomes However if he should lose any of his just Rights for Salus sake its just and right But if it be conscience and justice in any thus to plead for his Rights How is' t they plead not for the Rights of * Here 's adoo about the King the King with pretences of love loyalty to him c. Well now we have shewed you the true right King make good your precences else you are only a Pretender the true King indeed to whom they are first and principally bound in nature and reason so by Covenant the 3d c. So it appears to be craft not conscience Nor doe we intimate any thing injuriously against him for Deserts are no injuries only we inferre from the Scots sayings and their taking up Arms against him so from our States taking up Armes also and traytering those that side with him against the States and thus both States Actions are directions and Warrants for us what we may say doe For if we are enjoyned to fight against him sure it s as he is c. c. c. Sure also we are enjoyned and so may speake and write as well as fight the last being the lesser of the two and contained in the Greater fighting c. being also never forbid and were wee forbid we conceive forbiddings cannot justly discharge us of our just duties to our Lord and King the State Again to forbid us were to forbid the Covenant which also enjoynes us as doth reason and justice also to support the Kingdomes rights first and absolutely The Stewards secondarily respectively and conducingly but what rights are due to universall wrong-doers Now the kingdoms Rights are safety peace and justice so to have its honour maintained and its innocency cleared though the Steward should suffer in his honour or any way for the accommodation thereof how then if the sufferance be just For the means must suffer for the End and any way is just that necessarily conduceth to it And how can we be able to make good the Covenant except the means that conduceth thereto be allowed that is to speake write and act any right things in behalfe thereof and to oppose any its opposers whosoever Also to render the Steward in such expressions as that his condition place may be plainly distinguisht from that of his Lords who must be allowed rendrings thereafter that his dues may be rendred him Again we are necessitated to what we have done and it s our offensive Adversaries that write all this not we by enforcing us to write it Shall any one or any thing bind us from defending our King being clearly convinced hereof and that it 's our duty and high time to speak God forbid for if treacherous bookes be writ and opinions held so generally to the ruine of King Salus is' t not treachery in all not to bestir themselves in their power and place in his behalfe And shall such wicked treacherous ones goe unpunished and shall the loyall Defenders forced by such disloyall offenders suffer c. truly better is expected c. though we will not presume to say what So now we have done and appeale to justice and ingenuity hoping our love duty and zeale to our Lord King Salus which in the presence of God is our only aime will save us from any rigid censures of any our triviall slips and failings in his behalfe c. In which we being Humanes must needs humanize it If now wee suffer by injurious Censures c. it s as Martyrs c. Two Cautions for thy better understanding this Booke which should have beene placed at the beginning Reader 1. WHerever thou readest or hearest the expressions Kingdomâ— People State at large or Salus Populi c. thou wouldst in thy mind put in their places Kings Prince Soveraign yea Emperour or Gods Anointed c. or any rendrings as high as thou canst for there is none higher but God Himselfe not Religion his honour worship service c. as see in Quaere before 66. also at 83. So Salus is Head Chiefe c. And so do thou apply in thy thoughts so in thy actions c. This we say is the right King to whom the Name is due and to whom thou owest more then thou canst pay and for whom thou maist pay any one be it whom it will if justly occasioned in his behalfe 2. Again whereever thou hearest or readest the Titles King Prince Gods Anointed Sacâ—ed Mâ—jestie or Soveraign c. in their stead conceive in thy mind Stewâ—rd Servant or Officer to the aforesaid Lord and King for 〈◊〉 right by all the preceding arguments The Contents will send thee whereto make good both the aforesaids Valâ— A further Addition or continuation of the Contents of the Booke for better direction and satisfaction which through hast were left out at the first 17. THe Scots chiefe arguments for their Invasion answered at Sect. 37. to 45. 18. The Scots charge the King with the blood-shed of 3. Nations so doe they charge him also in their taking up Armes against him c. by both which they accuse him so and so c. From whence may much be inferd and this amongst the rest that the wel-fare justice peace safety of the State is King Chiefe c. and the King a servant thereta Sect. 55. 19. Some causes of the Peoples rising c. explained at Sect. 58. to 59. 20. Of oaths c. made to the King when binding when not at Sect. 66. 21. An answer in behalfe of the State to a Catalogue of Exorbitances charged upon them Sect. 71. at M 22. The State and King discrimen'd shewing what the King hath done and intended to doe against the kingdom but not any thing freely for its good Also what the State hath done for us and what accidentally against us examined at Sect. 71. all especially at O. S. 23. Pitty and Compassion at Sect. 78. Cruelty at Sect. 79. Justice at Sect. 80. rightly defined 24. A true King tâ—uly defined Sect. 81. to 83. 25. The State at large proved King chiefe head c. by Scripture which is reason also and the King so called is the said Kings Steward and Servant c. 83. the end there being King and Chiefe c. the Meanes Meaner as servant to the Lord its end 26. All that may be collected out of Scripture in behalfe of the King answered in a position at Sect. 85. 17. Judge Jenkins all of him in the Kings behalfe answered by a Position Sect. 86. 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Knaves and Fooles IN FOLIO Discovered and then Advised that once at the last they will grow both wise and honest Or A Meanes to undeceive and so to beget a right understanding and judgement throughout the three Kingdomes hitherto deluded by the aforesaids Dedicated with all respectivenesse both for discovery and caution against the aforesaids to all the wise and honest of the three Nations whom wee highly prize and honour especially the Honourable Citie of London whose goodnesse piety easie betrust and credulity of such unworthies hath been too much wrought upon and abused by depraved Polititians of all sorts In which Tract is shewed the wickednesse of the one side in their severall pretences and the weaknesse on the other side in being through too much credulity surprized and circumvented by such pretenders who intend not what they pretend but bave their own self-ends to compasse under such pretexts Conceived very usefull to be taken knowledge of by all sorts whatsoever For that wee hope the Reader will finde himselfe fully satisfied thereby which may probably much check if not totally break the neck of this Vncivill Civill Warre The deafe Adder will not heare charme thou never so wisely nor will fooles bray'd in morters forsake their follies But rebuke a wise man and he will love thee whereas a foole rebuked will hate thee The Contents of the Booke are in the next Page LONDON Printed by M. Simmons for R. H. In Queens-head-Alley 1648. The Contents of the Booke in general are about divers errours and mistakes of the people concerning the Kingdome the Parliament the King and lastly themselves in particular fully cleared and all or most of their Objections answered The severall particular Contents are as followeth 1. THat the State at large is King and the King so called is but its Steward or highest Officer also not selfely highest but made so by the favour of the people in opposition to particulars not the generall see Sect. 46. 58 59. 2. That the welfare of the same State in Peace Justice and safety c. is the end of the said Steward and Officer and so is it the Highest power and so King and Soveraign of all Deputy-powers whatsoever c. see 46 58 59. 3. The peoples errour in their vast acceptation of the title King of England c. cleered at Sect. 63. the margent also So concerning his Dues or Rights any way as the Crown Throne Scepter c. see 53 â—'th margent so all of 58. 4. The peoples unjust Objections and Exceptions against the Parliament answered and their just ones complyed too and provided for at 29. 30. 47 48. to 56 57. As for Royallists and Malignants in speciall See 55. 5. That the Parliament as they say hath wronged them more then the King and that they are as very slaves as the King can or will make them c. see the next afore so also in full sect 71. 6. Till the King come home as they say no Peace nor settlement will be Answered at 72. 7. Their mistakes and errours about the Treaty also the wicked policy of some to deceive the simple about the same discovered see Sect. 21. and Isewhere 8. That they as they say fight for the Kingdome and themselves and not against c. In fighting for the King against the Parliament also that they ought to fight for the Kings Rights Dues cs the Covenant likewise binding tbem thereto 73. 9. They fight against the Parliament as wrongers of the King and themselves c. 74. 10. Concerning Religion so Independents and Sects the peoples mistakes and exceptions about them cleered sect 54. see the margent also 11. Divers Quaeries concerning Treason Rebellion and disobedience in relation to the State at large the Parliament the King and the Army also concerning sideing with or against any of them or newtralizing usefully resolved satisfyed and cleered from sect 59. to 63. 12. An addition of some Quaeries or Particulars more concerning the next aforesaid Subject set downe because omitted there as at sect 65 66 67. 13. The title King not rightly translated from any Language see sect 63. all the margent 14. Also who are Murtherers and Theeves in this Warre who not see sect 68 69. 15. An application to the Parliament at sect 64. 16. Another to London at sect 63. TO THE READER Courteous Reader IF our Adversaries write all or any thing and we nothing at all the conquering Sword will bee conquered by the Pen so also Justice Piety and Purity by pravities It may not bee which rather then it shall we the meanest of many have in love to justice and integrity for the common good of this our distracted and almost destroyed Nation adventured the combat For we expect rather wicked though weake Sophisticall and brangling oppositions then a genuine Reply or Compliance So rest I thine S. H. GOod Reader our earnest desire to give full satisfaction hath inlarged the Margine which I pray thee faile not to read lest thou come short of our intention thine instruction Knaves Fooles In Folio Discovered and advised SECTION I. I Alwayes took Men for Men till now of late and now I finde them Fiends and Monsters and withall monstrous Fooles Monsters they are as murthering men like themselves and in murthering themselves also by in inforcing others defensively to kill them which in the inforcer is murther in the inforced killing I say unjust offenders or defenders are murtherers But the just offender or defender may kill but cannot murther 2. But to the poynt There is a crew of * Lunsford Langdale Goring the Monopolist Culpepper Hopton Glenham c. Under the Kings the Princes or Dukes names which the silly people idolatrize they proclaim summon or demand Forts Towers Towns Castles c. And bribe for them write letters give commissions and all is for themselves c. Will the Lords of their own yeeld them up to the treacherous Steward their right and might c crafty knaves and traytors lately returned into the Kingdome who formerly pretended the King but intended themselves onely so politickly to deceive the people they made use of the Kings name to draw the people on their side who thought they fought for the King but it was to raise the fortunes of these fellowes by raising themselves And thus those crafty knaves caused the poore ignorant sottish people to murther one another to make themselves great for which the Fooles were jeered by these Knaves c. And withall these Knaves applauded and magnified themselves for this their act of gullery and knavery 3. The same persons are now come again to act the second yet The Scot will also gull fools under the same pretenses and then Beavers must vaile Bonnets to Blew-caps the same part or Tragedy to the same Tune under the same pretences for the King Liberties Lawes c. But it 's for the same end of selfeinvestment and advancement as afore unto their own and above
c. if I disarm and withstand him judge your selves doe not I save him So the designed object also from destruction c. 34. There 's no such for 's as such againsts c. 35. And why rather feare you not this greater feare that for want of aiding the Army against as you say but I say for the Countries against the Goreans and all disloyall treacherous Royalists why cast you not I say the Army may be cast and the Royalists remaine victors where are you then when the whole kingdome out of weaknesse some out of wickednesse other some shall overwhelme you like an inundation or deluge who shall then check them from giving you check-meat by plunderings and massacres and what not c. 36. But these adverse youngsters will politickly pretend they only intend to stand on their guard and to defend not offend and fooles like themselves think this is very faire as foule as it is but may it not be to ingratiate themselves into the opinion of weaklings why they are honest men defence is according to Nature and Reasons law but may they not intend also by this to make us secure improvident on purpose to surprize us may it not be to gain time to multiply their multitudes ad infinitum and then over-power and finite us Is it wisdome in warre to beleeve suggestions Doth not Nature and reason teach us also to secure our selves And how shall that be but by dissipating them at first not suffering them to body or numerous it The nature and malignity of their petition the nature cōposition of the leaders and the led shewes that their glistering pretenses are not gold though gilded but lead their words expressions and postures shewes their intended prostration of us c. though we know also they will by these courses prostrate themselves and their own in conclusion who offends them so as such offensive defence need bee Doth not their arming inforce arming Doth not their universall violence as they will have the King home fas aut nefas import them virulent and what may be presaged from such depraveds but pravities much more may be inferred from the contents of their discontented petition so from the leaders and the led so from their words expressions and postures but comprehensive understandings will save us the labour and incomprehensive or wilfull ones will make us labour in vain c. 37. Lastly comes * Sinon a slye fellow a Grecian traytor Scotes darknesse Clandestiner Idam Sinon or Scotos the Scot or the Clandestiner he comes mouthing it Breach of Covenant breach of Covenant It 's queried In what He bawles out Oh Templum Domini Templum Domini Religion the Kirk Gods honour worship service suffer insufferables Sects also must be diffected and his King erected in his rights c. and our State dejected or else all is not right c. 38. But oh the hypocriticall villany of this cheating world Religion with the rest aforesaid are made the Bawds to all villany Oh shame to all such Atheisticall inhumane and barbarous Barbarians for they care not for Religion nor the rest a rush but as religious oculars are conducing to their occults their Clandestines c. their ends are our endings and the beginnings of themselves it 's plunder the milk and the honey and the clusters of our Canaan Grapes they gape after yet our fooles are foild with these follies and herein also to trust the trustlesse with Life Liberty and Lands on any tearmes their security being onely a few pious pretenses which possesses with a security like to that of foolish Lakish a retchlesse Citie and so a Citie soon wrackt c. 39. Well well wee have broken the Covenant about Religion How trow Why we Presbyter it not Answ Nor should wee as qualified for it 's contrary to Gods word so to the covenant which enjoynes the nearest to Gods word which Presbytery as quallified is not as qualified it may so we except against our excepters and require their compliance c. But doth the covenant allow to invade and that also without covention or conviction c. in what conventicle was this Doctrine forged trow c. 40. Surely if the Covenant be strictly seen into we shall be forc'd to call our Clandestiner to an account that we may see into Synon or the Trojan horse c. 41. His next reason of invasion is the Kings erection our States dejection That is the Scots owne Kinging it over us under pretence of the King a fine piece of gullery 42. Well how proves the Scot we have broke this Covenant oh well enough well enough It s so indeed if his ill enough be well enough Thus he proves it we are to maintaine His Majestie in all his Might and Mightinesse Is not this proofe sufficient are wee not gone by this Well thus we yet recover our selves Doth not the Scot deal Divel-like For the Devill saith to Christ cast thy selfe downe yet thou shalt not be cast for God hath promised that the Angels shall secure thee c. But oh Sir Sinon Sathan leaves out in his or thy wayes So our Clandestiner Devill-like deviates the Kings High-way which is as the King continues us in our Religion and Rights c. How now Clandestiner is this done how is it then we are undone For what meanes all the yellings and bleatings over the Kingdome c. Of infinites for murthers massacres and undoings c. How doth Synon or our Senate or our Synod so our Citie yea all the Cities and Countries in England yea each Individuall answer this I am at a stand c. yet I will stand to it Had the Covenant been absolute oh Scot it had been so much the more desolate like thy selfe that urgest it For to Is not the covenanting to protect blood-shedders blood-shedding in the Covenanters protecters sure it is or nothing is sure What had Saul done to lose the Kingdome c. oh consider can or doe his finites paralell our infinites Are dumbe Divines of God O profitlesse Prophets covenant to protect him in all his greatnesse who by thy owne confession is guilty of infinites of blood-shed I aske thee What are intentionall bloody and knowing blood-shedders and that of Infinites contrary to oath and betrust are they not mighty Mrs and Trs Resolve my weake judgement and scrupilous conscience for so thou art bound in conscience to doe Did not the Prophets of old say Thou art the man And againe thou hast done foolishly therefore the Lord that is Justice hath rent away thy Kingdome from thee Thou David hast slaine Vriah drab'd his wife retaliation shall retaliate the sword for the sword and thy ten Wives for his one and that occulalry for thy occults c. So shall justice also retaliate a Jezabel though a Queene for a Naboth though a Naball For as the Dogs lickt the blood of Naboth so shall they that of Jezabel 43. To except
against us for this quereing and alleadging Scripture to satisfie our scrupulous conscience is against Scripture and Religion and so against God and what 's that but irreligion and atheisme and what are such but such c. 44. But our Covenant is first both in place and worth also absolute in rendring and in nature for rights of Kingdome and Parliament if conscience you make as you urge and pretend why then doe you so unconscionably invade the Rights of either for the unrighteous Your owne position as afore the Kings guiltinesse allowes not his erection to the prostration of both States Againe the Kings supportment in his height and priviledges are but respective and so of no respect if forfeited Consider can respectives both in nature in rendring answer to absolutes in both being forfeited also as afore c. 45. Oh English oh Scot oh all sorts consider what fell on the Jewish Nation for that their 12. Tribes did not call Saul to an accompt for some triviall wrong done to a paltry Pagan City did not 3. yeares of famine fall on them because Sauls plottings for their destruction and the blood he shed was not answered for Sure Saul would not punish himself who then but the 12. Tribes should have done it which cause they did not they are punished till Saul's 7. sonnes expiated for all and so retaliated satisfaction in being hang'd up by the Gibeonites which City demanded Justice and petitioned not for Sauls supportance against justice much lesse for his honor greatnesse Oh wise-headed Gibeonites oh foolish and giddi-brain'd English oh depraved Scot c. 46. Thus much for Land men let 's now see if Sea-men have more wit or more honesty so have any thing to say to this businesse Oh madnesse ther 's nothing but weaknesses or wickednesses in this world for Sea-men say the same and so Land and Sea and Aire are I thinke nothing but aire Well I will land the Sea-men and referre them for We say as much for the Armie if you will not helpe them for their own sakes yet help them for the Kingdomes sake your King if the end of Governours be King of all Governors what I have said to the Land-men and so let them goe For I resolve on brevity for to say againe what I have said is to present you with Coleworts twice sodde only hints the Reader cannot doe lesse then comment I conclude then is it not madnesse and folly if the Parliament have offended you or you are offended with it you will like Will Somers strike who ever is next you Is it not Treason to strike at the Kingdome which is the King King and yours If you know it not are you not weake If you know yet will not know are you not wicked Is it not a striking against the Kingdom not to strike its strikers or to bring in it's Vice-roy to strike and conquer it but you neither see nor intend any such thing ah weakenesse c. Your intentions we know not but your actions portend no lesse will you King the Vice-roy above the Roy Is a people for a King or a King for a people Whether is the meanes or the end King whether is physicke or health King If the Parlaiment have wrong'd you right your selves in a faire way so as you may not wrong the Kingdome like a foolish fellow who saith the Mr. of the ship hath wronged him and to revenge himselfe will drowne the ship that he may drown his Master though withall he drowne himselfe and all the rest in it c. 47. It may be I have suffered by the Parliament as much as any what then I will not Will Somers-like strike my next man or any much lesse my Lord and King the Kingdome no I will suffer againe and againe yea to death yea death it selfe rather then endanger or be the death of my Lord. I scorn to Traytor or Rebell it so so I will not oppose my wrongers to the wronging of my Lord yea I will helpe them to the righting of him c. And if I cannot right my selfe without wronging my Lord I will never be righted yet count I am right c. 48. Oh but some will newtralize it and not take part with either but defend against both or if they offend any it shall be the State who Are not these Traitos to K. Salus have offended them c. But are these sayings for Seniors for sage wise and grave Governours or for any If you travell and some of the formost of your company are set on by thieves and rogues c. will you newtralize it Are not those Thieves and Murtherers that oppose not Thieves and Murtherers to their power For by not helping you helpe to rob and kill the rob'd and kill'd c. 49. What if your Parents and Masters under whose roof you live so owe duties to them answerably If these were set on will you newtralize also and only sefly defend is not this murther and theft as afore if they miscarry so is it not treason in nature and reason to Parents and Pay masters or Maintainers to whom you are engaged in all faithfulnesse and loyalty and so to leave them will you to them turne Loyallists and treacherous 50. Again if they are conquered are not you your selves conquered they help you as well as themselves and doth not retaliation and relation so duty and reason say the same concerning you 51. Know you not oh weaklings that you are more engaged to the Kingdome then any child or servant can be to his Father or Master For parents and children are parted oft times you see to take the Kingdomes part to part it from dangerous encounters 52. Sure in a journey I will help my enemie how then him who is not mine but I am his and maligne him I know not why nor wherefore for he hath done me no hurt nor will but much good had I the goodnesse to acknowledge it Doth he not help me and fight for mee in fighting for himselfe yet for want of help may be conquered and then the conquest of me is more probable and easie Well foole fight The maligned Armie for thy enemie if so that 's engaged on thy side and side with him that he may be thy friend fight then for thy friend whose enemie thou art c. that he may continue thy friend But yet if thou beest so malicious thou wilt not fight for either fight yet with them though not for them yet for thy selfe and thy Father and Mr. in company c. 53. Thus fight with or for Parliament and Armie though they be So the Kingdome thy enemies or thou art theirs according to the premises apply and save me the replication Fight with or for them as it conduceth to the Kingdome 54. But the Armie is a company of Sectaries Independents c. Truly thou knowest not well what thou saist if well and wisely examined what a