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A40040	The history of the wicked plots and conspiracies of our pretended saints representing the beginning, constitution, and designs of the Jesuite : with the conspiracies, rebellions, schisms, hypocrisie, perjury, sacriledge, seditions, and vilefying humour of some Presbyterians, proved by a series of authentick examples, as they have been acted in Great Brittain, from the beginning of that faction to this time / by Henry Foulis ...	Foulis, Henry, ca. 1635-1669.	1662 (1662)	Wing F1642; ESTC R4811	275,767	264

were so farre for liberty of subject and Conscience that they hoped by their hands that God would fulfill the desires of him who prayd to Almighty God in the Kirk of St. Andro That He would carry through the good cause against all his Enemies especially against Kings Devils and Parliaments Are not these precious souls to promote the Holy League or to put forward the cause of Muntzer or John a Leyden Well if you will have any more of this Caledonian doctrine Then what do you think Was not he a dapper Covenanter that could thus twit his late Majesty We must not lose you and the Kingdome by preferring your Fancies and groundlesse affections before sound reason you should complain to the heart that the head is much distempered The Lyon must be cured of the Kings Evill Is not this a pretty reflection fitting to prompt a Rumper to do what he will against a King But if this be not enough Bradshaw may pick a small vindication from the Covenanters who thus assure Kings that The people may be well enough without them for there was NONE TILL Cains days Happy souls that have the sole power of understanding Scripture and History Nor is their knowledge stinted here only but they can as if they had a strange spirit of Divination even know the hearts of their betters for thus one of their Grandees R. B. from the Pulpit could assure his Beloved that the Lord hath forsaken our King and given him over to be led by the Bishops the blind brood of Anti-Christ who are hot Beagles hunting for the blood of Gods Saints Is not this fit stuff from the jaws of an hot-headed Covenanter I can tell you also that when his Majesty sufficiently provoked by these furious Rebells went himself to reduce them to obedience one of these Tub-Pratlers told his Hearers that they of the Holy Covenant were like Israel at the Red sea and Pharaoh and his host comming upon them And another H. R. was as forward as any of them when he compared the King to a Wicked Italian who delighted to kill men both in soul and body And was not the King highly beholden to these his gude Subjects And had no the reason to thank Mr. Cant. for his good opinion of and wishes for him when in his Sermon at Glascow he could dapperly pray to God To take away the Kings Idolatry But words are but winde and therefore deeds must do the feat for obtaining of which they think themselves obliged to vindicate any manner of murder or bloodshed Thus one of their Zealots highly applauding John Feltons stabbing the Duke of Buckingham God hath chalked out the way unto you God offer'd himself to guide you by the hand in giving this first blow will you not follow home The sprinkling of the blood of the Wolfe if we can follow the Lord in it may prove a means to save us c. But because the life of a Subject is too small a recompence for their Revenge the pouring out of Sacred Royall bloud would not be amisse as appears by the words of a Covenanting Brother Tell the Head it 's sick presse the people to Arms to strike the BASILIKE VEIN since nothing but THAT will cure the pleurisie of your Estate And is not this a good way to plead for Zion Is it not an hard case that none but these blood-shot eyes can discern the Pattern in the Mount Would not a man think King Charles the I by these Characters to be a stranger Monster than ever Aldrovandus heard of And can any man think that these Kirkers spoke like subjects when they publickly declared that We deserve and expect a proper word to their betters Approbation and Thanks from his Majesty And all this only for Rebellion according to Mr. Andrew Ramsey Minister of Edenburgh his Doctrine viz. That it was Gods will that the primitive Church should confirm the Truth by suffering and that now the truth being confirm'd It 's his will that we defend the Truth by Action in Resisting TYRANTS And what was meant by this word Tyrants the Time when the word was spoke doth sufficiently demonstrate And so little respect have these Brethren to the Supream Powers that a great Grandee well known in England if you say but Thomas Cartwright did thus proudly give his judgement concerning this Question Whether the King himself might be Excommunicated That Excommunication should not be exercised upon Kings I utterly mislike And how exactly these Disciplinarians Quadrate with the Jesuites in Politicks the learned Mr. Corbet under the Name of Lysimachus Nicanor hath Ingeniously discover'd which Book so handsomly exposed the Zealots that the Author being after murthered by the Irish Robert Bayly that Scavinger of Presbytery betwixt snarling and rejoycing could not refrain from crying out O the judgement of God! The Aethiopians paint the Devil white and look upon our Europians as not beautiful because not of their black and obscure Complexion And our dark-souled Puritans censure all Vertue and Loyalty as abominable because contrary to their Principles which perswades them to espouse such Maxims as these I. That it is lawful for Subjects to make a Covenant and Combination without the King and to enter into a Band of mutual defence against their King and all persons whatsoever II. After a Law is made and confirmed yet if the Subjects or rather as appears by practise if onely a part of them protest against such established Law or Laws Then that doth void all obedience to those Laws and the Protestors are discharged from any obligation to live under them although the Protestations and the validity of them be not discussed before the competent Judges of them III. A number of men being the greater part of the Kingdome because they are the greater may do any thing what they themselves do conceive to be conducible to the glory of God and the good of the Church notwithstanding of any Laws standing in force to the contrary And that these especially met in a Representative Assembly may not onely without the Authority of the King but against the express Commandement of the King and his Council and Judges declaration of it to be against the Laws of the Land sit act and determine of things concerning the Church and State as if there were neither King Council or Judges in the Land and several other such like dangerous positions as these whereby they ruin and destroy Kingdomes Which can never be upon a sure foundation as long as such Bonte-feu's are tolerated Schism being the chief overthrower of Nations Upon these Principles our English Presbyterians rebell'd against their Soveraign and upon the same account their Neighbours did in Scotland and then trudg'd forwards to the assistance of their Southern associates declaring the necessity of such a Rebellion Unless we will either Betray our Religion Liberties and Laws and all that we and ours do possess

trouble of a journy thither yet not without some notable observators No sooner he being departed but our Parliament ordering some members to go also into Scotland in notion of a Committee to inform them of all passages in Scotland Yet when the King went into Scotland the Parliament adjourn'd though appointed a Committee of the Commons consisting of 50 of and over which Mr. Pym was the chief Lord and Maister of mis-rule and him I find nominated at the very beginning of this Parliament with the Emphasis of the great parliament man And the truth of it is that he was so farre the dominus fac totum in this juncto that his words were laws all things being acted according to his desire Here many things of Church matters were by these Gentlemen purely innovated and then prosecuted with such violence that the Episcopal clergy durst not gainsay him as Dr. Fuller Mr. Hutton Mr. Fletcher and others of St. Giles Cripplegate Mr. Booth the Minister of St. Botolphs Aldersgate Dr. Heywood of St. Giles the Ministers of St. George Southwark of Margarets new Fish-street c. could very well testifie by experience Although the house of Lords would not consent in these things to join with the Commons yet did they so farre supinely wink at the others actions that their Authority was now so much intrench'd upon by the Commons that their priviledges slipt from them unperceived though without all question the presbyterian party both understood and smiled at such proceedings About this time there was a great deal of noise and clamour about a Letter forsooth against Mr. Pym with I know not what plaister in it and written God wot when and delivered by no body knows whom but a Gentleman forsooth in a gray-coat on horseback and great searching and inquiring for this man in the moon was made but all to as little purpose as the Northwest passage or the philosophers stone And many times hath it been printed and spread abroad to let the good people see the wickedness forsooth of Malignants and with such chaffe as this have many of our old fools been taken Yet when that impudent Libel stuft with as much malice as either this letter or hell could afford was vented against that great prop of learning the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Laud no notice was in the least wise taken of it nor did he himself any thing regard it though it thus threatned his destruction Laud look to thy self be assured thy life is sought as thou art the fountain of wickedness Repent of thy monstrous sins before thou be taken out of the World c. And assure thy self neither God nor the world can endure such a vile Councellor or Whisperer to live Than this what more implacable destructive and abominable considering his nearness to the Kings person his trust and beneficial endeavours for the publick good Yet had he been better or if I may say here the best and the designes against him more devilish yet would our Non-conformists have hug'd and blest themselves at this opposition had it been as after malicious experience proved to his ruine and all this because he was an absolute opposer of the Presbyterian innovations who though but of a very little body yet had a soul more large and vast for the good of Church and Literature then a whole Parliament of Disciplinarians But let us now think of his Majesties return from Scotland in whose absence some of the Parliament had rais'd large reports of strange and terrible plots and designs against John an Oaks and John a Stiles by which means many people were endeavour'd to be whisper'd into dissatisfaction of the King and such a jealousie was grown by the noise of this Chimaera that many did according as they were bid think that things were not then well carryed and this was cunningly aimed at the King and his Favourites by those who had their Coy-ducks in such obedience that their Commands was not unlike that of Madam Fame to Aeolus in our ingenious Chaucer Bring eke his other claviown That hight Sclaunder in every Towne With which he wont is to diffame Hem that me lyst and do * hem shame But these Alarums served the Parliaments turn being a Cloak under which they might deceive the People in their pretences for raising a Guard the which they did and it may be to defend them from a Pedicularie disease of which possibly they saw some symptoms then in the House Of these Romantick Jealousies Frights Alarums and unheard of Plots and Designs his Majesty tells the Parliament and of the evil consequences of such slanders in his first Speech to them after his return from Scotland And in his next earnestly desires them to prosecute the Irish affairs and perceiving them considering about pressing of Souldiers with a check at his Prerogative He desires that the bounds of his ancient and undoubted Authority might not then fall into debate however that it may pass with a Salvo jure he is willing rather then such disputes should take up time in such an hour of extreamity for whilest the Grass groweth the Horse may sterve Upon this they clamour against his Majesties dealings professing the Priviledges of Parliament were broken by these his Exceptions for which they demand satisfaction and earnestly desire his Majesty not only to declare the names of but also to deliver up to punishment those persons who had given such counsel Nor was this mode of dealing one of their least Plots upon all occasions desiring the King to betray his faithful Counsellors by that means not only to leave him naked but to the discretion of the Houses But these things carryed no great shew of unhandsomness though like the Apples of Sodem beautiful without yet stuft with filthiness in respect of their after Thunder-claps which like Brutus shew'd their malice in their fronts For the next day after their Petition they welcome him home with a Remonstrance as they call it in which maliciously they endeavour to rip up all the faults and none is good but God of his Majesties Raign and that in as civil a way as their zeal could allow them as you may see in the Paper it self for in it through his actions they tax him with Cruelty Injustice Oppression Violence and what not They out-braid him for putting forth untrue scandalous false and impudent Declarations in it they highly commend the Schismatical Non-conformists blaming the King for punishing them Nor is this all but the Scotch Invasion of England too is extoll'd and defended and the King scandalized as if he endeavoured to root out the true Religion and bring in Popery nor are they silent against the Bishops and their Orthodox Divines by which it is plain the Presbyterian ruled the Parliament nor must the Innocent Ceremonies and forsooth Superstition escape a scouring And yet in this very same mogende-Paper they confess they must acknowledge that his Majesty hath

and at last fairly took the Old Knave by the beard giving him a swing from the seat of Correction to the utter discredit and defilement of his short Lecturing Coat and Sister-visiting black and white Caps for Two Caps he had and turns up that within You 'd think he wore a black Pot tip't with Tin These three younkers being now on Cock-horse so tryumph'd over their old wicked Parent that he durst scarce say his soul was his own not allowing him his will in any thing and by a just judgment of God paying him home in his own coyn as the learned and judicious Patron of our Church observeth For as this old jugler had impudently quiped the Reverend Church of England with what command or example have you for kneeling at the Communion for wearing a Surplice c for Lord Bishops for a penned Liturgy for keeping Holy-days c. So these three Mad-caps thus retort upon their amazed Father where are your Lay-Presbyters your Classes c. to be found in Scripture where your Steeple-houses your National-Church your Tithes and Mortuaries your Infant-sprinklings nay where your Meeter-Psalms your two Sacraments your observing a weekly Sabbath Shew us say they a Command or Example for them in Scripture Thus did these three hopefalls retort tearming all the old Knaves actions selvish worldly wicked and onely of humany institution which proceeding from his own Brats so perplext old Father Schism that being naturally of a cholerick temper he could no longer endure the injuries and ingratefulness of these three Hot-spurs who received life and nourishment under the shadow of his fiery zeal but that which touch'd his heart most was their plucking from him all Rule and Authority so that his credit could scarce obtain a beast to trott it to the next Lecture These affronts sufficient to make the Father run horn-mad and the multitude of Conventicles may allow some Presbyterian Cockolds or else what would the Sister-hood do prompts him to a resolution to free himself from the lash of these his three boys who out strip'd him in new inlighten'd zeal and being thus grown mad with dispair and willing to submit to any thing so he might be freed from this yoak and having consulted his pillow with aboundance of time and leasure he saw no way to quel these his insulting Children but the restauration of his Majesty And because a late repentance is better then none he hoped by thus working his own benefit to obtain his own pardon knowing the King's mercy to be as great as the Presbyterian wickedness Thus for his own advantage to obtain the return of his Majesty he procured a Parliament which to the joy of the Nation recall'd the King yet not according to the Presbyterian hopes who expected not a free but conditional return The truth of this Application must be left to the understanding Reader who shall be minded of the Spanish Proverb Hagase el milagro y hagalo Mahoma Let us but have our desires though the Devil or Turk be our instruments or Assistants And with this I am pretty confident the Brethren did not disagree is appearing by their long compliance yet hatred to be kept under that they did not care so be that they were but relieved from the Independent slavery though it were done by him whom they always hated and was the son of him who they always held for the Common enemy and whose friends they had solemnly sworn to punish and ruin What good wishes these people had for the King was meerly for their own ends as I am apt to credit when I consider their high complying with Richard one of their Chieftains viz. Master Baxter applying himself several times to him by way of a faithful subject and advising him how to behave himself the better to perpetuate his usurp'd authority and seem'd very discontented at his deposing And though many of them disliked Oliver yet if you do but inquire of Doctor Manton for so he is now for which he may thank the negligence of the Proposer I suppose he can inform you who it was that when Oliver was re-made Protectour 1657. pray'd so heartily for him in Westminster Hall And for the Saints of the Committee of Safety you would bless your self to see how the Brotherhood of Leicestershire accosted them humbling themselves under the protection of those Lords of Wallingford house declaring their utter dislike to the intentions of those who in Sir George Booths business stir'd for the King Nay should I say that some of this faction were a part of the very Rump it self I supposed the Brethren would be puzzel'd to prove the Contrary Thus like Diogenes's Archer do they hit every where but the right mark and this through an innated spirit of wickedness and inconstancy which puts me in mind of a story Robert King of Naples having desired Giotto then famous in Italy to paint him out his Kingdome drew an Asse with a Saddle on his back and smelling to another new Saddle and upon each Saddle a Crown and a Scepter the King demanding what he meant thereby he replyed Such is your Kingdome and Subjects for they desire new Lords daily I am confident that the best Hieroglyphick of a Time-server would be a fat-beneficed Presbyterian yet did that Faction but once grow powerful they would be like Giotto's Asse still smelling after new Governments and Neapolitan Courser in Boccalini always ready to cast his Rider So that if one should ask many of them Where was the binding force of their Covenant in Oliver's Richard's the Rump's and the Committee of Safety 's time there would be but a shuffling Answer return'd Thus I suppose the Query is sufficiently satisfied information being particularly given of their Opinions and Actions all running cross-grain'd to the King and his Interest and therefore I suppose little beneficial to his restauration A tast of which you may see in these few instances I. The late war against the King was lawful and commendable II. It is lawful for Subjects to fight against their King and so the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy of small validity III. The King is not above the two Houses of Parliament and so they not subject to him IV. They are bound to oppose all Arch-bishops Bishops Deans Prebends c. having exactly sworn against them in the Covenant and so against Church-government appointed by the King and the Laws V. They are by the same Oath obliged to bring to condign Punishment all Malignants that is all those who assisted the King and were sufferers with him here or beyond-sea so that had these men been such a main stake in the King's restauration they would according to their Oaths and Cruelty either have stopt the King's friends as the Scots did from returning with him or have proceeded against them as Malefactors and Malignants and so have butcher'd them out of this world as they formerly did with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury Sir