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A51719	A discovery, or Certaine observations, concerning the crafty and cursed proceedings of the conspirators, or rebbells of England against their owne King, Queene, church, government, then established; to wit 1639. And the liberty, peace, fafety [sic], & quiet-beeing, of that our nation, and other kingdomes thereunto belonging. By whom the people of other nations have beene also cheated and troubled. Observed by J. M. whose hart hath for many yeares together mourned in secret, for the calamity by the sayd rebbels, brought upon his owne, and other nations.	J. M.	1657 (1657)	Wing M35; ESTC R217014	62,961	63

that all stryffe difference and contention that is betweene them may happyly cease and that godly Loue and a blessed and continuall Vnion might bee obtained betweene the two Kingdoms afore sayd And so much the rather because the enemies of them both and of all vnfained Christians doe strive with all their might and pollecy to hinder it Thirdly Because it would bee matter of gladnesse and great joy of harte vnto all the people of God to Liue peaceably and quietly in all Godlynesse and honesty which is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior 1. Tim. 2.2 Forthly Because it is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour Who will haue all men to bee saved and to come vnto the knowl●g of the truth Neither can the Spirit of God 1. Tim. 2. nor the hart of the Pope vers 3.4 bee more greeved then when their Children Associate them selues with evill Contentious men Therefore greeve not the holy Spirit of God Ephe. 4.30 by which you are sealed vnto the day of Redemption For God is not the God of confusion 1. Cor. 14.33 but of peace Wherefore SIR my hart doth humbly pray your Majesty to propound Reasonable Conditions of peace to your owne Vncle the King of Spaine and to all other Christian and Righteous Princes who desier to liue at peace with you And that for to prevent the shedding of Christian and Innocent blood in time to com Thereby you shall exedingly obleage al Christian and Righteous Princes and People that liue in the feare of God but especially your owne Cousin the King and his subjects of great Brittain and Ierland who are greatly opressed by the Impudence of a generation of Rebbells and hyppocrits And also the Duke and the State of Venice whose indeavour hath allwayes beene to liue in amity and frendshippe with the Kings and Nation of France who is in great danger of an enemie that is much too mighty for them Wherefore SIR if it may please your Majesty by a speedy cessation from all hostillity of both sides by which means you will bee the better able upon occasion to withstand your secret enemys as also to helpe your best Friends in time of neede namely your Cuzon the King afore sayd and his subjects whose distressed Estate and Condition hath beene greevous to mee and to divers others these many yeares Likewise the Duke and the State of Venice shall the better obtaine helpe in their great distresse from your Majesty or some other Christian Princes or else by Reason of the peace a foresaid the said State shall obtaine the more honourable and speedy peace with that enemy who otherwise will bee too mighty for them Neither can that at all bee good or safe for your Majesty nor your subjects nor any Christian Prince Neither can I possible thinke of any other persons who under God are more Indifferent Just and Impartiall Mediators Composors of all manner of differences or any greevances betweene such Christian Princes as your Majesty and the King of Spaine or the like of you then the Popes Holynesse who is vnder God undoubtedly for all such Princes and people as both You and your Subjects are And for oft I know for all other who are unfained Christians even as a carefull and a naturall Father for his owne Children And therfore an able emenant and righteous Judge fit for so waighty and necessary Imployment as that is Because he is one that feareth God and hateth covetousnesse who in Gods behalfe and in the place of Meyses will provide reasonable and able men as in Exodus chap. 18. vers 21.22 And for the removing of all suspition and scrupell the said Pope being of late yeares Nuntius for the late Pope at Munster and by his great abillities and his Loue vnto Equity through Gods assistance made and occasioned such an agreement betweene the King of Spaine and the Lords the States Generall of the Vnited Provences as that neither parties doth complaine but rather thanke him And that because hee knows that hee doth not Judge only for man but for the Lord who is whith him in Iudgement 2. Chron. 19.6 With whome there is no respect of persons nor iniquity with the Lord our God nor taking of gifts for the gift doth blinde the eyes of the Wise Deutro 16.19 And though I humbly show my weake Judgement in that I conceave the King of Denmarks and the State of Venice to bee emenent and indifferent Judges which are needfull for such waighty affaires neither of them having any more Relation to your Majesty of France then to the King of Spaine or to bee sure his Majesty of Denemarcke hath no more Relation vnto the King of Spaine then hee hath vnto your Majesty but rather lesse of the twoo yet I remember that when the late difference was betweene the Lords the States Generall of the vnited Provences and the Vsurpers of Engeland they chose for theyr Arbitrators the Lords of Switscherland the Lords of Geneva and of the Kingdom of Sweaden and therfore I humbly present unto your Consideration and the Advise of your most honourable Privy Counsell together with the Advice of your most Graue Learned and Reverent Cleargy whether the three Spirituall Electors of Germany bee not nutrall and indifferent Judges for to giue theyr Advise and Assistance in a buisenesse which concerns all Catholicks in so high a nature the King of Spaine and your Majesty being both Catholicke Kings neare neighbours and neare of Kinne he being bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh Iudges 9.2 Why then will your Majestye bee the Last 2. Sam. 19. vers 12. that shall Resolve vpon a happy Peace with the King of Spains who is one of your best and your nearest Frends Peace being a thing pleasing vnto God and vnto all that feare him in trueth It is no disparidgment to any King or Prince in the world to follow the Example of Abraham who was very Rich in Cattell Silver and Gould yet for peace-sake gave choyse to Loth Genes 13. vers 2.7 his brothers Son who was the meanist and the joungest man Either to goe to the Right hand or to the Left which he pleased in the 8. and 9. verses of the same Chapter you haue it SIR Abraham being the Eldest man and the mightyest might so much the better haue clamed some kinde of prehemenence yet the cleane contrary appeares in Abraham who was the first that prayed Loth that there might be no striffe betweene them and that for these three Reasons First his Loue vnto peace Secondly because the Canaanites and the Perizzite were in the land which was a people whom Abraham did not much Confide in and who he was not willing that they should see striffe betwene them two who weare so neare friends And yet I doe hartely wish that you had not in you Lande for the most part if not continually those who are farre worsse

good men as well as others by mis-informations Thirdly By reasonable Reparation given me such as have abused mee by mis-information not wilfully much lesse so Mallissiously as others then they would have vnderstood that I was much wronged Fourthly That those which are Impudent will then see to their shame that they have often wronged mee without any cause at all in mee Fiftly That I may thereby live quietly and in peace with all men in time to come Sixthly that such and the like might see and consider the evill of theyr doings and doe no more so wickedly nor any others against mee nor any others hereafter by the evill example of the former so evill shall bee put away from amongst you and others shall heare and feare and commit no more any such evill amongst you see Deut. 19. from the 16. verse to the end Seaventhly Because my selfe others have found by longe and woefull experince that because sentence or Iustice against the evill workers hath neither in the short nor long been executed much lesse speedyly therefore the harts of the Children of men hath been fully set in them to doe evill Eccles 8.11 12. Is it not a wonderfull thing that men should so despise the Word and cast of the feare of the Lord like men who are so desperately wicked as to tyrannise so much over others as to make them halfe or wholy distracted as them selves say by exstreme violence and greefe donne by themselves and then Insult the more over them by taunting termes Imputing such to be mad for the great troubles and vngodly dealings brought vpon the opressed by them selves These doe aprove themselves to bee Lovers of wrong more then of Right neyther are they ashamed to condemne the Innocent nor to Iustefye the vngodly Eccles 7.7 These men seeme to scorne Gods owne Word seeing it is sayd that oppression maketh a wise man mad Jeren 17.9 A gift destroyeth the harte and so doth feasting too when it is done to a mischievous end Now because the evill smell of theyr detestable projects is come abroad into a great part of the world which in the short or long will make Crumwell and his Helpers for to spuw vp or leave the pray againe by them vnjustly taken from theyr betters both of our owne and other Nations And this is the Reason that the Traytors of England first made vse of Strangers against theyr owne King and Country I meane such as were mis-informed and deceaved by the falshood of the sayd Traytors Secondly the strenght of theyr delusion and the necessity of the sayd Rebbells for it Proverb 6.19 they yeare after yeare have made vse of one Catholike to destroy another Catholike so that it seemes theyr Trade and Profession is to sowe and to make discord strife and devisions amongst Brethren Rom. 16. vers 17.18.19.20 from whence commeth desolation ruying and bloodshed and they warme themselves by the coales of other mens Houses whom the sayd Rebbels set on fyer Thirdly they have not onely severall times stirred vp Protestants against Catholikes but also Catholikes against Protestants Witnesse the Hents of theyr owne Creators saying They had helpe of the Subjects of the King of Spayne or some of them against the Lords the States Generall of the Vnited Provences or against the peaceable Inhabitants I confesse if they speake trueth it is to themselves mis-fortune Judges 9. vers 2.3.4.5.6 because their custome is constantly for lyes but if it bee true it is but like as Abimolochs boldnesse So that if any of the King of Spaynes Subjects were drawne thereunto Nota 15. it was by the shamelesse importunety and strong delusions of the sayde Rebbells Vpon which account they would have broken the Peace betweene the King of spayne if the sayd States before mentioned had proved so wicked as themselves So that the Read or may vnderstand that by smooth words fayre pretences and other vngodly shifres there is no end of the hurtfull ploddings of mischiefe by the sayde Rebbels For first they will procure others to doe what is vnjust and then will be the first to stirre vp yet others against them for it It were greatly to bee desired that all people especially Protestants who have beene most deluded by the sayd Rebbells did perfectly vnderstand how much the Conspirators have beene beholden to slaunder fraude and falsehood and thereby have prevayled with severall other Nations for to condemne and judge wrongly of such eminent and innocent Persons at home and abroad as were more righteous then themselves And sometimes they joyned with Spayne against Portingall and severall times secretly as openly they jugled with Portingall against Spayne and after that the like againe with Spayne against Fraunce and now with Fraunce against Spayne Neyther is it possible to mention halff the mischiefes that the deceavors of England hath practised in theyr wicked proceedings But the Indifferent Reador may bee pleased to remember that when I mention the Make-bates or Conspirators of England I doe not meane the Oppressed nor the deluded people of England but I meane the present Traytor Crumwell the Officors of his Army and such others of his Right-hand Mates as fell first from that Religion they first had and since have changed theyr Religion from Presbiterians vnto Independants then to Annabaptists but what Religion now they have I know not But this I am sure that so by Antionomismi Adamites and Quakers Relligion and others which I can not remember but I am sure they are all countenanced if not first invented or devised by Crumwell and his chiefe Helpers and by this means they keepe the people of England elssewhere in continuall contention stryffe and envye one against another least by Love and Vnity they should set themselves against the Rebbells who have brought dishonour infamy and distresse vpon the Nation And this is the Reason that the mindes of many people abroad are corrupted by the false Reportes of those who have donne so much mischiefe and doe cause good people to doe much evill by theyr bitter censurings and condemning not only the King and Queene the Bishops and many a thousand others who are peaceable quyet and faithfull in the Land that for some small punishment inflicted vpon 3. or 4 presumptious Persons who after severall warnings continued to trouble the State and disturbed the Church the Common-wealth also by Rebellious and false Doctrine they declared their impudence like Rabsaketh in their Books or Pamphlets Sermons Lybels seditious Feasts c. against the Government then Established Which by Act of Parlament to wit the Lawes of the Land besides the Proclamations of the King the Bishops were enjoynd and expresly charged and commanded to maintaine and to punish Offendors and such disturbers as by Lyes new Doctrines of theyr owne-framing stirred vp part of the People to Rebellion against the King the Church and the State to the losse of many a thousand good mens Lives

other Nations I wonder then why the same tittle of being Souldiers of Fortune should not Iustifie Theeves and rued fellows which by night sett houses on fier Robbe Churches Banks of Exchanges the houses of Marchants and others for which Crimes all suth Theeves that can be taken are forced to suffer at the Gallows and such as Crumwel and his Consorts who hath donne a thousand times more mischiefe against God and man then any such Theeves and yet they escape And it seemes the only Reason thereof is because their Party with the helpe of that Army is so strong that they can not bee aprehended which the Rebbells Compell the Kindome to paye against the King and them selves and because the souldiers shoud not in time set them selves against the Conspirators therefore they at the charge of the Country give them as good as dubble paye ●ll things being considered Also the strength of their subtilty is of such force as that they have from time to time not onely prevailed with many to Iustefie them the said Rebbells But even to joyne with them against Opressed Peaceable and Innocent men so that besydes them selves they have caused good men to erre in helping them in that which was evill Therefore I say of them as good ould Jacob sayd by his two gracelesse Sons They are Instruments of Cruelty Oh my soule come not thou into the secret of their Assembly bee not thou vnitted vnto such men for in their woolfe-like anger they have slaine the King himselfe and many more and that in their selfe will Cursed bee their anger for it was fierce for the spoile Gen. 49.5.6.7 and their wrath which did and doth consist of Cruelty Which hath caused many an honest hearted man of England and Schotland to bee Dispised and Reviled by other Nations by Sea and Land who had no hand at all with the Conspirators but haue beene constantly greeued for their malicious tyrany Yet it is not ane asie matter to make those of other Nations to vnderstand who is gilty and who is free wherefore such as my selfe continues subject to bee blamed and some times other wayes troubled for what the Rebbells have done namely for killing the Iust and taking possession who have also devided the spoile among the Officors of the Army and the like of them 1. Kings 21 19. Neither will they ever cease from condemning and killing the Iust vntill it shall please God to stir vp men of Courage to subdue them For they have killed James 5.6 and Condemned the Iust and that in divers kindes neither are those that are left Ren. 9.18 able to resist because they have an Army of their owne breeding who like young Wolves the oulder they grow the more hard-hearted and wicked they are especially the Officors thereof and some others such-like who like vnto Argile some of the Leshlies and others of Scotland who for the greedynesse and the pride of their owne hartes hath brought their severall Nations into a condition almost as if they were solde for slaves These things have grieved mee long and very fore because the Lies and subtilty of these Murderors should be of that strength force and longe Continuance as yet still so to blinde the mindes of some of our owne and other Nations that to this day they doe not vnderstand the mannor or way of their preparations vnto the Rebbellion in England at the beginning nor the Arte of the proceedings of the said Conspirators ever since For besides their pernicious pretences needlesse jealosies slanderings backbitings against those who by God the King and the Staet were Lawfully set ever them as of many of their hurtfull Lies which are yet unmentioned they have done much evill by this which followes to witt The King of Spaine being destressed by Reason of a longe warre with the high and mighty Lords the Staets Generall of the Vnited Provences and about twenty yeares a goe the King of France was provoked or moved to make warre against the King of Spanie on the other side of his Country to wit against Artoyes and West-Flanders which were Invaided by the Armyes of the King of France therefore the King of Spaine was greatly constrained to send a strong Fleet to the Coast of Flanders for to Land there Men and Mony for the preservation of those Contryes which at that time were in danger to bee wholly lost Which Fleet having had a long and a sore fight with a considerable Fleet of the Lords the States aforesayd When they came neare the Length of Dover there met them 10. or 12. more lusty Men of Warre belonging to the foresayd Vnited Provinces and the Spanish Fleet having many hurt Men in their Shippes and their Powder and Shot being almost spent were there by necessitated to put into the Downes from which the Conspirators of England who then lay in waite to make use of all Advantages by the suggestions and lyes they caused many to beleeve that the Spanish Fleet came into the Downes with an Intent to conquor England and that by the Consent of our own King And by this malicious wilde they stird up selfe-ended Men like them selfes and others who understood not the businesse against the King and the State of England for to make way for their cursed Rebellion which they then intended First As it apeares by that their Calamerous Contention against the King and the State for punishing of those three presumptions Firebrands to wit Prin Burton and Bastwicke by whose pernicious Impudence thousands were stird vp to trouble and disturbe not onely the King Church and State but also the whole Nation Secondly As it further apeares by that those Traytors of Scotland which were like vnto those in England who by a wicked and a forced Combination some of that Nation were deceaved and stird vp as Traitors to Invade England without and against the Consent of the King and the State and against the Will and Consent of many of the Nation of Scotland who would not make Covenants and sware falsely as others that were Traytors Hosea 12.5 did Who have caused Iudgement to spring vp as Hemlocke Wherefore such as were vnwilling were threatned to bee Plundered and some of them have since beene Imprisoned and Murdered Thirdly As the Marqueses of Huntly Muntros and others And that which should have beene first when those distressed Subjects of the King of Spayne their Shippes being suddenly contrary to their expectation suncke and fiered who escaped drownding and the Sword of the Hollandors who were then their Enemies in the yeare 1638. Being at Peace with vs they came into the Downes to refresh and to fit them selves for the Reasons afore sayd and in that their great destresse by swimming and other wayes made hard shift for to get to shore to save their lives some of them who were Innocent and harmlesse men were by some of the Conspirators or some of their Adherance Barbarously Murdered in time of

France who hath bewitched you that you should Love and joyne NOTA. with the enemyes of God and your Majesty who trouble those that gladly would live in peace and deceave all such as vnderstand not their evill Intentions nor their divellish wiles Who like cunning Juggelors secretly worke out theyr owne ends by slijte of hand and will doe by you as the Phillistens did by Sampson Judg. 14 17.18 when they plowed with his heyffer That is the Rebbells of England will bee exceeding vigelent for to stir vp or procuer such as shall advise your Majesty and your Honorable and faithfull Councell by such means as none but them selves and such as are like them selves doe vse to practise vnto such things as shall be contrary to equity godlynesse and honesty because their practise is to bring those that are blamlesse to bee so wicked as them selves 1. Tim. 2.2.3.4 and by that meanes they will worke out their owne ends or that which shall tend to their owne advantage namely that which shall bee contrary to the futor safty and peace of you and your people vnlesse you and your honorable Councell bee very carefull to prevent the said Conspirators in time And this I mention from long experience of their evill example towards our owne and other nations the trueth whereof the world can witnesse with me Therefor the advise of Ecclesiasticus is very proper namely Chap. 6. vers 6. to have many friends and but one Councellor of a thousand T is needefull that one bee wary of his secrets as the apple of his eye A faithfull friend in time of need is a stronge defence and he that hath found such a one hath found a treasure The whole chapter is worth the consideration of those that desier to bee Rightly informed Vers 14. which the Rebbells of England doe strive to hinder all persons High and Low from being rightly Informed by what soever means lyeth in them therfore they have caused many thousands of Bibles to bee printed in Holland and else where within these thirty and odde yeares leaving out all the bookes of the Apocripha and saying London printed whenas they were printed in other places before the beginning of the Rebbellion But the Lord who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars who have beene imployed or incouraged by the Rebbels of England Isai 44.25 Hee will also direct all Righteous Princes aright in their procedings if they constantly cleave vnto the Lord their God and his Servants And take the advise onely of those who seeke not great things for them selves Amazia Jerem. 45. vers 5. being forbidden by a Man of God to let Israëll goe with him to battell chose rather to loose an hundred Tallents of Silver which he had payd vnto them because the Lord was not with them So hee separated them 2. Chron. 35 7.9 because the Lord is able to give much more From whence I infer Vers 10. that God seldom or never will have any good worke done by evill men neyther will God himselfe imploy evill men about his worke which quiet overthrows the doctrine of the Rebbells of England who say and would have all men beleeve that all their Rebbellious wickednesse which they have don was and is the worke of the Lord as Theft Murther Slander and violence so that there neede no Assirian Rabshakehs So long as there is so many in England Another Reason why it is dangerous for any Righteous Prince or State to have to doe with any such fellows Is because it is questionable whether they have any soules of theyr owne or none to loose Muchlesse have they any Crowne or Crownes to loose or any thinge else but what they possesse by fraud false-hood perjury deceat violence murder and the like Wherefore it is of great necessity that Righteous Princes take heed in time how they meddle with such Sophesters who have their Spyes and Spirits in all places where any mischieffe is possible to bee done who doe subsist and stand and still injoy what they have formerly stolen by breeding and making Contention with and betweene all others who are better then themselves both of our owne and other Nations Wherefore my most harty desier and prayer vnto God is that not onely your Majesty but all other Righteous Princes and States with all other people of what degree soever they may bee that they may beware of following such an vngodly multitude of evill doers or their evill example in any case but rather remember to keepe them selves farre from every false matter and the innocent and righteous slay thou not Exod. 23.2.7.8 for I will not justefie the wicked and thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise and perverteth the words of the Righteous being the Lords owne words SIR therefore bee pleased to Consider whether such Servants as was Eliezer who served Abraham or Joseph vnto Pharow or Daniell vnto Darias or Samuell vnto God him selfe and vnto the Israëlits It is worth observation to take notice of Abrahams Servant what care hee tooke in the absence of his master and how he craved the Blessing and Assistance of the God of his master Abraham that he might the better performe his oath vnto Abraham and his duty vnto Isaack and before hee had done praying Gen. 24.13.14.15 the damsell came which God had apoynted for his masters Son namely Rebeckah see Josephs integrety faithfulnesse and honesty towards Pottepher his Master who intrusted him with all that he had and how God blessed the Egyptians house for Josephs sake Gen. 39.4.5.6 7.8.9.10.11.12.13 Yet as godly as vpright and as innocent as Joseph was that did not excuse him from being wrongfully Imprisoned and as good a servant as hee was yet his Masters wrath was kindled against him Vers 13. to the 19. by misinformation It pleased Darius to preferre Daniell above the Precedents and Princes because an excellent Spirit was found in him for which they sought occasion against Daniell but they could finde no occasion for as much as hee was faithfull Dan. 6.3.4 neyther was there any errour or falsehood found in him It were wel if every one could make his Integrity and his vprightnesse appear as Samuell did his in the presence of the Lord and his Annoynted Hee called the people to witnesse saying Whome have I defrauded Whome have I oppressed 1. Sam. 12.3 or of whose hand have I receaved any Brybe to blinde myne eyes therewith Happy were it for all Righteous Princes States and good People that all their Subjects and Servants could say so it would shortly hereupon follow that the Raigne of the Conspirators of England would be of no long continuance Now for to know who are most Faithfull vnto God their Righteous or Lawfull Prince or at least these are most likely Who walke constantly Act. 24.16 vprightly and indevour to keep a good Conscience towards God and towards Men. Secondly such

ready to perish came vpon jobe Such helpers doth the King the oppressed subjects of England now stand need of See the Example of Daniell and those that were with him that brought the wickednesse of the wicked which they malliciously intended to their neighbour vpon theyr owne head put them to death Thus the Innocent bloud was saved the same day in the 62. verse of the History of Susanna And I have with deliberation observed that it hath all wayes been the custome of the Righteous to set them selves against oppressors as may appeare by the example of Abraham who as soone as he heard that Loth and the people amongst whom hee lyved was taken Gen. 14.14 15.16.17 hee presently Armed his Servants and rescud them without any Prophet to himselfe Secondly Not the Souldiers of Crumwells Army which take vpon them to preach but the Priests shall make an atonement for the sinnes of Ignorance for the soule of the Ignorant before the Lord. But the soul that doth ought presumtuously the same reproacheth the Lord. And that soule shall bee cut off from among his people and it follews Numb 15.28.30.31 because hee hath dispysed the word of the Lord and hath broken his Commandement that soule shall bee vtterly cut off The Ephraëmyts destroyed Oreb and Zob who were vsurpers in Israëll Judges 7.25 Gideon with his three hundred men who desiered bread to refresh his faint and hungery men were obrayded by the men of Sucooth and Penuell Jud. 8. vers 5.6.7.21 yet persued and slew Zebah and Zalmanna And Samuell sayd vnto Agag the Amallakite 1. Sam. 15.33 As thy sword hath made women Childlesse so shall thy Mother bee Childlesse amongst women and Samuell hewed Agag in peeces before the Lord in Gilgall Davids servants whom hee sent to comfort Hannan in kindnesse 2. Sam. 10. vers 6. being reproched and villenously intreated For which David made them to stinke And David slew the men of seaven hundred Charrets of the Assirians and forty thousand horsmen who helped the Amonits Vers 13.14 18.19 By which you may see that wicked men and those that helpe them are oft times distroyed to gether Beware of false Prophets Zachar. 13.4 which come to you in sheeps Clothing or weare a ruffe garment to deceave I meane such who oy crafty and suttle Arguments seeke to make difference betwixt you and your best friends whose friendship you neede and they neede yours Therefore they seeke to worke out their owne ends by the ruying of you and your friends who therefore by Christ are called Ravening wolves And Right well may you know them if by the advise of your vnfained Councell you please to looke backe vpon the fruits of them Matth. 7.15.16 who vnto England and many other Nations hath proved the worst shepheards that ever the world bred Neither are they lesse slacke or negligent in following theyr hurtfull designes then the Pharisees were who compast Sea and Land to make Procelites for their owne vse which Procelites being prevailed withall and instructed by such Conspirators they become two-fould more the Children of hell then themselves Matth. 23.15 These are they who smitte with their tongues partly murdered the King Queen others of the best of the Nation of England as well of Low Jer. 18.18 as of High degrees of men by their mallitious slanders with their tongues 1. Kings 21.9.10 These are those sons of Beliall like those who boare false witnesse against Naboth the Ieserellite for the taking away his Life and his Inheritance Such were they who by the Conspirators of England and the false Prophets together were incouraged against the Duke of Buckingam and his Mother and it seems were imployed to murder Doctor Lambe by day in the streets of London Acts 7.52.57.58.59.60 with stones like Stephen the Marter And the fore said Lords Canterberry and Strafford these and many others of the most emenent and faithfullest of all the Kings Subjects were murdered by the false Accusors First in their Honour And Secondly their Lives by wicked hands by the contrivance of their Leadors which caused them to erre Iesa 3.12 who distroy the way of theyr path Neither will theyr conscience sticke to make Marchandise of you 2. Tim. 3.3 and your people if you take not heede in time and make such a peace as you can with your owne Vnckle the King of Spaine these are the Men that sell the Subjects of theyr owne gratious King for handfuls of Barly and peeces of bread to slay the soules that should not dye for feare least they should gather together to call the Traitors in question for their Theft Treason Murder against the King the Nation of England they save alive the soules that should not live because in matter of trust Ezek. 13.19 they dare not confide in any other but who are Children of wickednesse like themselves and have made shipwracke of a good conscience in some measure like the Conspirators them selves Consider this all ye who are Lovers of Equity doe expect to find mercy in time of need who reverence the God of trueth who would not bee as them that mocked the Messengers of God and dispised his Word vntill the wrath of God did arise so that there was no Remedy lest 2. Chron. 36.16 For there shall bee judgement mercylesse to them that have showne no mercy Remember the dubble and the bitter cursses of Meras and the Inhabitantes thereof 2. Iames 3.13 Cursse ye Meras saith the Angell of the Lord Cursse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof Because they came not to the helpe of the Lord Iudg. 5.23 against the mighty And that the King and the Kingdome of France and all other Princes States and Cities may prevent them selves and their good Subjects from the like cursse it were an exceellent thing 2. Chron. 20.3 that your Majesty your Nobillity and your Reverent Archbishops and the rest of your Learned Cleargy of France would set them selves first to seeke the Lord as Jehosophat set him selfe And without delay advise with others of your Subjects Friends and Brethrem whom God hath been pleased to blesse with Courage Wisedom and Learning the feare of the Lord and with harts that are content with what they Justly possesse and that such men may bee forthwith appointed by the King Nobillity and Cleargy as afore sayd diligently to inquier and search out the matter how why and by whome some of the Kingdome of France have joyned with the Oppressors and Troublors of all good Christians and who are aproved enemies vnto the King and the best of his people and vnto all his most vnfained friends and that they would make it their businesse to finde our where this cursed Serpent lyes hid who hath procured all this mischiefe against those that gladly would live in peace The Righteousnesse of Jobe cloathed him and his judgement was as a