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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82314	The city-ministers unmasked, or The hypocrisie and iniquity of fifty nine of the most eminent of the clergy in and about the city of London. Cleerly discovered out of two of their own pamphlets, one intituled, A serious and faithful representation; the other A vindication of the Ministers of the Gospel, in and about the City of London. Together vvith a prophesie of John Hus, touching the choosing of a new ministry; and an ancient prophetical farewel of Hildegards, to the old corrupt ministry. Both very useful for the knowledg of the long deceived nations. / By a friend of the Armies, in its ways to justice and righteousnes.	Dell, William, d. 1664.	1649 (1649)	Wing D920; Thomason E546_2; ESTC R206085	24,534	40

against his Person or against his shadow but now I minde it his Person was then but the shadow of Regall power for Mr. Pryn published a book in those times that the Parliament and Kingdom were the supream Power themselves But to return back to the Covenant You did covenant to defend and preserve the Kings Person and Authority not absolutely good men but in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and liberties of the Kingdom do you minde this now for would any men of Religion or Reason in the world have covenanted to maintain the person of a man what ever wayes and wickedness he should walk in or to protect a man further then God himself promises protection to any which is only in his wayes O most excellent Covenant-takers and Covenant-expou●derslto covenant to give a man a blessing where God hath d●nounced a curse against him to covenant to defend and preserve a man in those wayes wherein the most righteous God hath threatned destruction to him c. to covenant to defend a man in his wickedness treachery curelty murder tyranny and in the constant and manifest breach of all the Laws of God Nature and Nations Be astonished at this O all ye people that these Clergy men of the highest form should take so good a Covenant in so ill a sense and according to this perverted and evill sense should lift up their hand as they say to the most high God would any man in England have thought these men shauld have so little conscience in taking this oath if themselves had not discovered it yea would any man have thought that they should so strangely forget themselves as to go about to make the world believe that they have taken an oath of God to uphold the Kingdom of the devill in the world and to maintain the open enemies of God against God himself No wonder now you should be so strict against Toleration which let it be what it can yet is righteousness to this sworn and covenanted sin of yours But I pray you who take upon you to catechise all others I pray suffer your selves to be catechized a little for I perceive you stand in need of it To whom did God give the Morall Law and whom meant he when he said Thou shalt do no murder did he meane men of low degree only and excepted men of high degree or no Pray answer And when God said He that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed that is he that sheds mans blood unjustly by man shall his blood be shed justly Do you finde any Kings name excepted here And have not the generall Assembly of the Church of Scotland declared the King to be guilty of the innocent blood shed in England and Ireland even an ocean of innocent blood And did not you your selves quote this Scripture in your own discourse out of Rom. 2. That there is no respect of persons with God which I wonder how you would suffer it to shew its face among the rest of your Writings Wherefore if there be any light of the Scriptures yet shining in your hearts or any sparks of right reason remaining in you you may soone perceive how grosly and odiously you have prevaricated in this matter and how you have turned backward and forward for your advantage first preaching Curse ye Meroz because they went not forth to help the Lord against the mighty after curse Israel because they did goe forth to help the Lord against the mighty So that hard it is for the best men at all times to escape your curse but the best of it is it will do as little harme now as the Popes That which you talk of the tenents and practises of Jesuits the worst of Papists in killing and murdering Kings is but a fallacie to intangle simple people It is true indeed that some Jesuites have taught and others have practised the private killing and murthering of Kings but what is this to the present case of the Parliament and Army calling the King to publique tryall for his treasons and murders and judging him according to the known Law of God and the Kingdome and what is this so much as in one tittle to the Jesuits killing of Kings But you must be medling though you talk no reason And whereas you say The tenor of the Scriptures is against this thing and the constant Judgment doctrine of protestant Divines at home and abroad I shall make it appear you mistake in both First you say The constant tenor of the Scriptures is against this thing But you erre neither knowing as it seemes nor understanding the Scriptures For the Scriptures say that they that do such things shall be punished with death and are any of you or all of you who have subscribed your names or all of your generation able to give any man an Indulgence in this matter or to dispense with the unchangeable Laws of God yea in this case the Scripture priviledges a King no more then a beggar what ever your flattery can pretend to the contrary Besides the Scriptures shew how ten Tribes together did revolt from Rehoboam for his threatned tyranny in matter of exactions ond unjust taxes how then would they have dealt with him in case of cruelty and murder And also 2 Chr. 25. 27. it is written That after Amaziah King of Judah turned from following the Lord they bound themselves in a bond or covenant against him which our translation calculated for the Meridian of Kings renders conspiracie whereupon he fled to Lachish but they sent to Lachish after him and slew him there and having done so they brought him upon horses and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah which shewes it was not done privately but by the publique Justice of the Kingdome And to passe by many other Scriptures which might be named how clear is it in Dan. 2. that the best Monarchy which Daniel cals the Kingdome of the God of Heaven shall smite the feet of the Image of worldly Monarchy and dash all the toes of it that is the ten Kingdomes in peeces which is foretold again by John Rev. 17. 12. c. And where he saith the ten hornes that is ten Kings of Europe all which have one mind and give up their strength and power to the beast shall all of them wage war with the Lamb and the Lamb should overcome them for he is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull When Christ shall call together such a company of people as these about him then shall the Tyrants of the Earth come down apace the first fruits of which the godly people of this Nation are counted worthy to reap And so they say with the Angel of the waters that is the Ministers of the true Doctrine Just art thou oh Lord which hast judged thus for they have shed the blood of Saints