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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76450	An epistle directed to all iustices of peace in England and Wales.	Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641.	1642 (1642)	Wing B2025A; Thomason E133_12; ESTC R19844	8,211	18

and extirpation of the infectious heresies of the man of sinne which are incompatible both with salvation of mens soules and the safety of imperiall Crownes as there is curiousnesse and cruelty in Popish Kingdomes for the continuance of Antichristianisme and by a bloody inquisition into the very thoughts of men the greatest slavery that ever the sunne or the world tasted for the banishing and barring out even of all possibility so far as in them lies of reformation plantation of primitive truth and profession of grace Thirdly and above all the plantation and protection of a conscionable learned ministery must doe the deed when all is done and strike the deadlyest and irrevocable blow into the heart of the Pope if the never-erring Spirit of God have told us the truth 2. Thes 2.8 The Lord will consume the wicked man with the spirit of his mouth Policy State wisedome confederations of Christian States invention and execution of good lawes the disarming and disabling of the Popes vassals and the like are very notable and needfull meanes glorious attendants and assistants unto this holy worke But the sword of the Spirit managed by the hand of a powerfull ministery must strike off Holofernes head and knocke out the braines of the great Goliah of Rome which with intolerable insolency doth revile the host of the living God and trample upon the neckes of the Lords anointed The Champions of Christ in the battell of the great day of God Almighty at Armageddon may beare themselves bravely and triumphantly but the spirit of the mouth of the Lord Jesus shall carry away the chiefest glory of the day in that conquest and confusion of Antichrist and in laying his triple crowne in the dust But in the meane time untill the Lord put to his helping hand for setting those meanes on foot with resolution and constancy it is a matter of prodigious amasement to consider how mightily impunity of popish idolatry provokes the wrath of God against us and in what danger we stand the State the Gospell the royall person of the King the dayly invaluable hope of the succession of his children and particular welfare of every loyall subject in the land For if any man be so voyd of braine to doe himselfe and the State that wrong as to thinke that there are not still new mischiefes on foote and secret workings against us still by powder-plots Parisian Massacres or some proportionable vilanies let him thinke there is no divill in hell no Pope at Rome no malice in the heart of a Iesuite Me thinks it is an astonishment beyond the comprehensions of nature reason religion policies of State that such an intollerable generation so odious both to heaven and earth with abominable Idolatry so visibly infamous both to this and the other world with many capitall characters of blood so endlesse and implacable in their ragefull designments against the crowned Majesty of the Kings Throne so prodigious in their plots that they have cast an inexpiable and everlasting aspersion upon the innocency of Christian Religion such furious Assasins and Incendiaries for murthering or Princes butchery of people and e firing of States so inraged even like Wolves in the evening to swallow us up quicke if the time did serve I say that such in so orthodoxe a Church and noble a State should by allowance toleration connivencie or remissenesse and paraliticall distempet of the arme of Iustice or some thing be suffered to receive encreasement and multiplication both in number and insolency to the great dishonour of God Almighty the continuall vexation of Gods people and good Subjects and the most certaine hazard of the whole State and the peacefull succession of the Kings posterity It would never be but that the Lord in his just indignation intends prepares us for some dreadfull judgement And I am afraid Papists will be the men to execute Gods heavie wrath upon us because they are a principall matter in the meane time of high offence against his Maiesty To let passe infinite more of very speciall and materiall ponderations to this purpose consider I pray you but this one point with feeling apprehendsions which is able to inflame the heart of an ingenuous Heathen with extraordinary indignation I am perswaded there was not a Papist in this land whatsoever may be pretended or protested to the contrary but did heartily rejoyce at the taking away of that thrice nay thousand times noble and blessed Prince P. H. of sweetest memory for which the heart of every true Subject did shead most worthily even teares of blood Now what a rufull case is this that such vipers should bemourished in the bowels and bosome of this Kingdome the breath heart and life whereof they hartyly wish and would rejoyce to have extinguished To conclude the whole point for the present it is the generall joynt consent and current conclusion of all the Christian orthodox reformed Churches upon the face of Europe and it is worthyly and unanswerably demonstrated by our gracious Soveraigne that the Pope is Antichrist and Rome mysticall Babylon K. I. Some particular men out of curiosity and conceit of their owne wit affectation of singularity doting addiction to popish writers want of further illumination in the point partiall inclinations towards the divinity of Rome or the like may dissent without prejudice of a truth so universally resolved upon by Divines of best learning and sincerest judgement If so then tell me the meaning of such places as these and to whom the spirit of God directs the edge and execution thereof Reward her even as shee hath rewarded you and give her double according to her workes and in the cup that shee hath filled you fill her the double Rev. 18.6 And the ten hornes which thou sawest upon the beast are they that shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire Revel 17.16 This prediction by the judgement of the best divines hath the power and passeth into the nature of a precept and therefore is charged as a commandement upon those of whom it is spoken These and the like doe indeed strongly confirme and make good those three propositions of that learned man and excellent light of Heildelberge in his booke de iure regum pag. 6. sequ The summe whereof may bee contrived into this conclusion Princes and Magistrates with their swords and scepters Preachers by the word and writings private men by Prayer and all lawfull opposition ought to doe their their best and utmost to bring confusion upon that man of sinne and his accursed doctrine And thus to follow the councell of the blessed Spirit in rooting out the limbes of Antichrist and Antichristianisme is so farre from being persecution that it is a very glorious service unto the Majesty of the God of heaven The neglect whereof and impunity of Idolatry is able in short time to shake the pillers and distrengthen the sinewes to decrowne the head and shorten the raigne of the strongest State and most potent Prince in the world Delayes are dangerous Policy to the contrary is pernicious and counivency cruelty in such places where these sayings have place blessed shall he be that taketh and dasheth her children against the stones Psal 137.9 All yee that bend the bow shoot at her spare no arrowes for she hath sinned against the Lord Ier. 50.14 In as much as she glorified her selfe and lived in pleasure so much give you to her torment and sorrow Revel 18.7 In the meane time vntill the holy Spirits counsell and commandement to this purpose be taken to heart and throughly put in execution I pray the Lord to stay their rageful malice and to turne their popish murtherous hearts for whetting any more swords to shead the blood of the Lords annoynted or else to turne the sharpest swords from the point with a cutting edge on both sides even up to the very hilts in their owne hearts blood And in despite of hell and Rome good Lord wee pray thee let King Charles flourish still with a crowne of glory on his head and a scepter of triumph in his hand and still wash his Princely feet in the blood of his enemies Thus much I thought good to Epistle at this time for the discharge of my owne conscience and the needfull refreshing your memories with the apprehension of those dreadfull dangers which howerly hang over our heads by reason of the impunity of Popish Idolatry and the endlesse inevitable malice and machinations of the Papists We have had provocations and warnings enough from this place from the Parliament house from heaven by Gods messengers from hell by the powder-plot from Ireland by their heathen Tyranny from Rome by the roring of their Buls from France by their massacres and butchery of their Kings by more mediate and politicke by immediate and miraculous revelations discoveries deliverances by a blacke and bloody catalogue of most hatefull and prodigious conspiracies which runne parallell with the golden fine of Queene Elizabeths life by the dayly villanous libels of the swaggering runagates of our countrey base and illiterate pamphlets stuft with ribaldrie and railings and personall slanders impudencies out-facings utterly without any passage or impressions of grace or gracious spirit A thousand times a thousand wayes And yet what good have they done sith nothing will serve the turne Gods will must bee done For mine owne part I have delivered mine owne soule If any will not take warning whom it concernes his blood be upon his owne head But blessed is he who forc-sees the storme and hide him selfe in the meane time vnder the winges of Christ and shelter of a good conscience With which Conclusion as hee ended I also conclude commending this pithie speech of my so learned afreind to your wisedome and godly consideration your selves to Gods holy protection and all your iust proceedings to his gracious blessing that you may confidently look for a reward of your well doing in the end of your dayes FJNIS

attempt for the advancement of his triple infernall crowne Fifthly hee that with wilfull inlargement of conscience and secret sturdie resolution takes the oath will easily and naturally grow revengefully inraged against the righteous Torturers and conformers of his corrupt and exorbitant conscience The conscience receiving a sting transfuseth the smart into the affections Which when they feele they are presently furiously inraged against the occasioners of that their bitter misery And therefore I am perswaded such a fellow so taking the Oath howsoever he may beare himselfe reservedly is afterwards transported with more violent and implacable spite against the power of that truth and patrons of that profession a sacred zeale whereof hath justly brought a racke and vexation upon his misguided conscience then he was before And assuredly if the times should turne which God forbid wee should finde the Church-Papist and the politicke conformable Pseudo-Catholicke more mercilesse blood thirsty against us then the Recusant Though the best of them no doubt at that day would be as a Brier and sharper then a thornie hedge nay even as a woolfe in the evening For there is no malice neere unto the malice of Popery save the malice of Hell Vpon these grounds also I have thought that as the state of a Church-Papist obstinated in popery is most damnable in it selfe even the popish Doctours themselves being witnesses as I have proved elsewhere see my book of legall repentance p. 59. so it is most dangerous to the State I speake not this to drive or detaine any Papist from the Church for I pronounce unto him out of the word of life and truth hee must flie out of Babylon into Sion if ever hee will save his soule but to let him know that comming to our congregation he ought with humility reverence and prayer to submit his understanding to illumination with truth and his heart to sanctification with grace both for the procurement and comfort of his owne salvation and the contentment and safety of the State Otherwise as his dangerousnesse to the State is evident and extraordinary so his owne damnation sleepeth not For if popery were truth as it is not but the very doctrine of Divels yet his State is damnable because he should so deny Christ before men if it be false as indeed it is and most accursed from heaven then hee justly perisheth in his heresie But it may be some will here reply what can possibly be more required and exacted from these men then conformity in outward obedience to the State what better security or surer bond can be thought upon then an oath the sacred and soveraigne instrument of all justice and obedience amongst men what further invention of State shall be able to stay the fearefull mischiefes that hang hourely over our heads from this malicious and murtherous generation I answere none in the world while they stay amongst us not the most exquisite and quintessenticall policy of all the wisest States that lie under the face of the Sunne can affoord helpe in this case I dolatry is ever attended with this inseparable curse that it will plague the kingdome that nourisheth it and pay it home at length with a witnesse except some right round and resolute course betaken in the meane time for the rooting of it out And indeed the depthes of the mistery of iniquity are so unfathomable that they cannot be sounded by the Plummet of any honest and Christian policy without diving into the bottome of Hell It is a right just and holy thing to give them the oath and to bring them to the Church But their violations of oathes dispensations equivocations mentall evasions corruptions of conscience and execrable transgressions of all lawes both of God and man of nations and nature are so infinite and endlesse and they so mingle their conclusions of State with the very confusions of hell that it is even in proportion as easie to chaine up those damned spirits from tempting men upon earth as to bridle those blood-thirsty monsters from undermining and overturning those States which professe the truth of Christ if power and meanes were answerable to their malice and revengefull humours K. Iames It was a royall providence of our gracious Soveraigne in his first speech in the Parliament to admonish the Papists that they would not so farre presume upon his Lenity as thereupon to thinke it lawfull for them daily to increase their number and strength in this Kingdome whereby if not in his time yet least in time of his posterity they might be in hope to erect their religion againe But it is more then manifest by daily and woefull experience that their maine end all their plots practis●s strange insolencies the whole spheare of a world of Papist that swarme amongst us hold a strong opposition and counter-motion to that gratious counsell and first motion of his Majestie A blessed and happie thing had it beene had his Princely pleasure beene followed in that point For assuredly were we rid of the Papists and were Idolatry banished out of the Kingdome as in conscience and policie reason and religion it ought the King and his posterity by the mercies of God might sit upon the throne of England as fast as the strong and mighty mountaines upon their sure foundations Oh then would the forraigne mint and forge of popish mischiefe discontinue and expire Iesuites the devills Iourneymen would take breath from hammering any more their hellish powder-plots in hast That malicious and murthering generation would grow dishartened and unspirited for matter of project and conspiracie against this noble State The royall person of the King would have none about it but Angels and good subjects The concurrent furie of the greatest enemies in the world durst not entertaine a thought of invasion or stirre a finger against the unconquerable glory of our peace For certainely the crowne of this kingdome is incircled and surrounded with such infinite and endlesse variety of popish insidiations and stands farre more liable to the furious thirst of forraigne ambitions upon this ground principally because they hope when time serves to finde amongst us a side and faction of Papists to serve their turne Cut the thread of this hope and cut the throat of all plots against the Kings person and crush the Popes heart for any probability or possibility of ever re-establishing and erecting his accursed tyrannie in this Iland againe Now this blessed businesse of most important and highest consequence for the pleasing of God security of the State and preservation of his Religion and royall seed that now fits with incomparable glory upon the Throne would bee happily furthered First if lawes worthily provided in such cases might have their course and current without opposition diversion partiality interception by false friends or any cunning defraudations and delusions of the holy intentions thereof Secondly if on our side there were but halfe the care and conscience for the maintenance of Christs truth