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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85527	The grand rebels detected or, the Presbyter unmasked. Shewing to all loyal hearts, who were the first founders of the Kings Majesties ruine, and Englands misery, under the pretence of reformation, who in truth have proved the instruments of destruction both to church & kingdom. By a lover of his countrey, whose design is to undeceive the deceived, make known the deceivers, and himself also in convenient season.		1660 (1660)	Wing G1511; Thomason E1019_13; ESTC R208312	9,416	12

and they such as made his heart bleed within him He must acknowledge to these traytors that his innocent Father was guilty of blood and many crimes which these horrid wretches was pleased to impute to him and he must confess his sin his Fathers sin and the Families sin c. and as it 's reported brought his Majesty into their Stoole of Repentance but I conceive this untrue and therefore I pass it Indignities many and that most unsufferable and intollerable ones they put upon him they are such unworthy and deceitful people that it 's hard to say what they dare not do as to force his Majesty to take Oaths and Covenants what they please or else give him up as they did his Father to the slaughter I shall here present to your view an Oath he was necessitated to take which is as follows viz. J Charles by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland c. do assure and declare by my solemn Oath in the presence of Almighty God the searcher of all hearts my allowance and approbation of the National Solemn League and Covenant and faithfully oblige my self to prosecute the ends thereof in my State and Calling and that J for my self and successors shall consent and agree to all Acts of Parliament enjoining the National Solemn League and Covenant and fully establish the Presbyterian Government and that J shall give my Royal assent to all Acts and Ordinances of Parliament passed or to be passed injoining the same in my other Dominions and that J shall observe these in my own Family and shall never make opposition to the Presbyterian Government or endeavour to make any change thereof This being done they raised an Army for his assistance and defence engaging they would indeavour to restore his majestie to all other his Dominions but kept him that he must not converse with his and his Fathers old friends that lost all for them and was forced to leave their Country for his sake neither would they suffer his Majesty to prefer any of them in the Army nor permit them to be of his Council but Sir John and his Kirk-party must do all govern their Governor and rule their Soveraign who must do whatever their Royal pleasures are else this Covenant is broken at any time whenever they please to say it 's broken and his poor Majesty exposed to all dangers and cruelty for all the people are freed from their Allegiance when Mass John tells them their King hath broken Covenant so that they are worse then the Pope and their Doctrines as bad as Romes and that this is the Presbyters opinion I shall make a recital of a few places out of their own Authors VVhittingham in his preface to Goodmans book saith That if Kings and Princes refuse to reform Religion the inferior Magistrates or people by the direction of the Ministry might lawfully and ought if need require even by force of Arms to reform it themselves Buchanan in his Presbyterian Maximes out of his Book intituled De jure Regni pag. 61. saith Populus R●ge est praestant●o● melio● the people are better then the King and of greater authority Again pag. 13. Populo sus est ut impertum cui velit deferat the people have right to bestow the Crown at their pleasure De Jure regni pag. 25. P●ncs populum est ut leges ferat sunt reges veluti tabulariorum custod●s I might bring plentiful proofs but this with their practice is a full demonstration of their Principles which if they deny their practice where ever they had power is as famously known as the Anabaptists of Germany c. And as for all that shew of Loyalty now seeming to be in them unto his Majesty it is most manifest that it is out of selfish designs to advance their own interest and upon no other account I am bold to affirm that if he amongst them all who pretends the Highest friendship to the King were asked whether he would have him come in his Royal Prerogative without shakles at his heels and a Persbyter at his Elbow if it were possible to make him speak truth he would say Away with him crucifie him Do they not say they will fight against him rather then he shall come and not establish their way of Church Government c. which is an infringing of his Just Prerogative and below his Royal Dignity and Soveraign Jurisdiction 't is true they are willing he should come because they are afraid of the Phanatique Sectaries least they should overcome them and therefore they have revived their Covenant by which they swore a Confederacy with their Brethren of Scotland against Episcopacy and Bishops the ancient Government of our Church A Monarchy they are for but it must be a limited Monarchy a King they are for but they must rule him and the people too else curse ye Meroz curse him bitterly c. Again the King they are willing to have but not his mother Brother nor any other person that have been faithful to him or may be serviceable if they prove false and who dare trust them For all that is as they iudge below their Reformation is Popery and all above it Heresie when alas they themselves are the grand Hereticks and Schismaticks in the Nation it was they made the breach in and brought all those sorrows and pains upon our mother the holy Church and I wonder with what face these men think their sin should be either forgotten or forgiven without repentance and a return from whence they are fallen Is it imaginable that so sober vertuous and pious a Prince as his Majesty is will change those Principles of Religion he hath been brought up and confirmed in by his Gracious and most Renowned Father of bl●ssed memory who suffered Martyrdom for it and thereby sealed to the truth of it with his precious blood Neither let it be thought a Prince can be so dis ingenuous or guilty of such ingratitude as to neglect his own and his Father's Friends for the favour of false Rebels Prov 27 10. Thine own friend and thy Father's friend forgot not c. This was the sacred saying of a King and not a King onely but the wisest of Kings FINIS