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A64188
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The noble cavalier caracterised, and a rebellious caviller cavterised by John Taylor.
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Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
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1643
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Wing T490; ESTC R2370
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for Religion when as God knowes there is no Religion for Rebellion nor can they shew any Reason why or wherefore they are thus mad against all obedience order and loyalty to God and their Soveraigne But as poore silly Sheep run all together And in confusion send they know not whether So those mad People pray disburse and fight Not knowing truths from lyes or wrong from right The Multitude like Dogges with open jawes One bawles cause t'other barkes yet knowes no cause Aske Rebells what 's the reason they rebell And aske Dogges why they barke They cannot tell Thus with the deluding and threatenings of lying Lecturers and printed Lyes the Gates of London are shut and guarded so strongly that Truth or Honesty can get no entrance for it is a most dangerous thing for a Protestant or a true subject to live there they may be perhaps perswaded to have a King but they would have that King to have no Kingdome they might be brought to call Him their Soveraigne Lord but withall that he shall be without any Dominion and they may be entreated to be called his subjects provided that he will be subject to them but I advise them that as they have made bold to call themselves a Parliament and been bolder to make a counterfeit Great Seale so they may fill up the measure of their iniquities and by Master Prinnes Law by as good right make a fresh and new counterfeit King or if no man will be so impudent or insolent to accept it take a suit of John Pym's cloathes well brush'd pick'd and lowsed and stuffe it with straw which being placed in the Throne will be a suitable Soveraigne to support the power of your Seale Orders Votes and pretended Soveraigne Power of your Vtopian Parliament If rebellious and bewitched London would with her many headed mislead Beasts but examine themselves truly of two things they would then perceive what falsities the grand Cavillers have blinded them withall and to what misery their cavilling hath brought them and if God prevent not will bring them into irremediable destruction The first thing I wish them to call their consciences to an account of is why they were Rebells at all The second is wherefore they do obstinately and execrably continue in Rebellion If every Caviller would catechise himselfe they would finde that they have wandred in vanity and followed after Lyes They would hang down their heads with shame and acknowledge themselves worthy to be hanged for their treacherous disobedience and open hostile Treasons against so good and gracious a Soveraigne they would then consider to what a ruinous Desolation they have brought this famous flourishing Kingdome whose Government was admired and honoured through the whole world till now of late a multitude of mis-begotten and worse bred Rebells have done their best and worst to bring all to confusion For which wicked purposes they have made bold to make Mercury their counterfeit poste poste-horse and pack-horse who under the names of Civicus Britannicus Scoutes Scottish Pigeons and other pretty ill-contrived sweet filthy sophisticated Titles and Epithites hath beswarmed all the Christian world over with English Lyes written by as very Villaines as could be spew'd from the bottomlesse Pit disperst by as arrant Rogues as ever dropped into the Hangmans budget and believed and countenanced by none but malicious Traitours superstitious nose-wise Schismatickes or ignorant logger-heads the fruits and damnable events that have been produced from these Diabolicall practices Contrarily the Cavalier knowing his cause just applies himselfe onely to Truth both in fighting and writing they have used three sorts of Christian Discipline to the Cavillers in a charitable desire to conforme them First they have given them kinde admonitions wherein they have told them truly that the Publique Faith in which they have too much confided is no Faith either to be saved by or to be made savers they have further advertised them to beware of Sects and believing seditious Counsels because they were motives to Rebellion which is as the sin of Witchcraft 1 Sam. 15. 23. Secondly when Admonition would do no good with these Cavillers the Cavaliers did take a little stiffer course and from exhortation they fell to reprehension telling them roundly that they were seduced and blinded by feares flatteries and jealousies out of their earthly estates and lives and extremely hazarding the losse of a better life to come But when neither kinde Admonition or wholesome Reprehension would worke upon their perfidious and benummed consciences then were the Cavaliers inforced for their own safety to take defensive Armes and to use the meanes to save the Cavillers soules by beating them Northerly Westerly and most brotherly both in Wales and England and by those wayes to belabour them out of their bad conditions into better manners to this end and purpose the Cavalier party have not onely used the Spirituall and Temporall Swords but also they have with their pennes so banged and basted their libellous and rebellious forgeries and ridiculous fopperies that their Ballad-makers and Pamphletteers are defunct the bright lustre of Truth hath eclipsed them and gulleries so that like rotten Sheep they would be glad to sculke under a hedge for shelter and it is manifest that the Pen of a true Writer will cut keener than a Sword when a lying scandalous Knave cuts his own throat with his own Goose Quill Of the which scribling number the nine times thrice valiant conquering commanding Captain George Withers hath written a pretty foolish witty loyall traiterous Book called Campo Musae composed of the two most delicate Simples Flattery and Treason but I leave him and the rest of the railing Rabble of Rabshekaes to amend or be hanged and that is a FINIS