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A62103	A vindication of King Charles: or, A loyal subjects duty Manifested in vindicating his soveraigne from those aspersions cast upon him by certaine persons, in a scandalous libel, entituled, The Kings cabinet opened: and published (as they say) by authority of Parliament. Whereunto is added, a true parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our soveraign, in divers particulars, &c. By Edw: Symmons, a minister, not of the late confused new, but of the ancient, orderly, and true Church of England.	Symmons, Edward.; Symmons, Edward. True parallel betwixt the sufferings of our Saviour and our Soveraign, in divers particulars.	1648 (1648)	Wing S6350A; ESTC R204509	281,464	363

them he was surely in that his Tartarean Extasie which his brother John Goodwin affirmes him to be sometimes in and then sayes he he speaks the Dialect of Dragons And by the way that the world may the better know him let but the Testimony be remembred which the said learned brother of his gives publickly of him Since the mountains saith he were brought forth and setled it may probably be thought that there was never any son of Adam whose pen made a broader digression from that Christian brotherly way which himself speaks of then his own for look as low as the earth is beneath the Heavens so far is Mr. Prins way of dealing with his friends beneath that which is Christian and brotherly and if so we cannot suppose him to deale better with those whom he accounteth his enemies He can spie Beares and Tigres Lyons and Dragons where other men can see nothing but Doves and Sheep and hath eyes given him to condemn all the world beside of blindnesse this is the very Testimony which John Goodwin one of the Parliament Ministers giveth to the world of William Prin and He professeth solemnly withall that himself can hardly refrain from taking a solemn Vow and protestation in the sight of God Angels and men to have no more to doe with him either in word or deed untill He turnes Christian But as I said before I leave him to the torture of his own Conscience as well as to John Goodwins censure and return to my proper business I remember the fore-named Sir Edwin Sands in his fore-mentioned discourse tells us that when he writ the said book which is above 50. years ago the Papists in their hatred against the Church of England did give out that they had a Booke in hand of the lives of the Ministers of England viz. of defamation against them if that Booke be not yet out as for ought I know it is not for want of matter perhaps to make up or strength to bring forth they may now spare themselves the labour for John White and William Prin by strong Authority have done the work for them and with as perfect spight and vilenesse as the worst of them could possibly have done it I wish with my soule that dissolute and corrupt Ministers upon sufficient testimony of their guilt had in a d●e and orderly way received exemplary punishment to expiate the scandall and reproach which by their meanes hath been cast upon our Holy Office and function but undoubtedly the course which Prin and White have taken and which these Abolishers of Bishops have countenanced them in is most base and beggerly and altogether unworthy ingenuous and true Noble spirits Sure had their delights been to have soared on high in the pure and candid paths of verity they would have disdained in that sort to have raked in the puddles of obscenity but in that to their basenesse of discoveryes they have added Injustice too and suffered Malice to prefer Spight to increase and Slander to taint all that was done in this nature they have deservedly purchased to themselves a place with the grand Calumniatour himself whose title is The ●●cuser of the Brethren And thus we have seen what their grand pretences are for their Abolition of Episcopacy now we shall note their true reasons which are these some say 1. Because Episcopall Government confines people as Gods word doth to the Bonds of Wedlock and punisheth those that vitiate themselves in forbidden pathes by ordering them to stand in a White sheet or to pay a good sum of money for a Commutation Yea some persons of place and note in the world who think it no shame to commit folly but to be reproved for it are liable to suffer rebuke and so disgrace as they take it for their wantonnesse if Bishops continue still Honourable and in esteem amongst us for the outward dignity of the reprover adds much vigour to the reproof with some men Wherefore that people might be free and enjoy their Liberty without check or Controule the Persons of Bishops must be vili●ied their Estates and revenews taken away from them and their Jurisdiction from henceforth quite abolished Indeed it makes all modest men blush to hear what Harlottry and filthiness is voiced to be practiced and countenanced even by them that would be esteemed the Reformers of our Church and Nation since the Courts which punished that sin have been suppressed notwithstanding Gods heavy judgements upon the Nation ever since nor must men now speak their minds freely for feare of being accounted disaffected persons Enemies to the State and to the Priviledges of Parliament But as Saint Paul said in his time to the Corinthians so I must say for I am Gods Minister to those above board in these dayes I hear there is such f●●nication committed and such filthyness suffered to goe unpunished amongst you as is not to be named among Saints much less to be connived at by them that would be esteemed members of the High and Supreame Court of Justice It was not thus when Episcopacy was in force nor when Bishops had their place in Parliament O might there but come forth an Ordinance to warrant and encourage all men to bring in Complaints against Bawds Panders and Harlots with their abetters and maintainers as there was once to invite all that would to bring in accusations against Gods Ministers the world might haply see or heare some new Centuryes of ill livers yea and proofs too into the bargain Yea perhaps they might hear how some unworthy Members have attempted to ravish and defloure Ladies of Honour and no punishment inflicted for the same How some others neglected their own wives have kept divers lewd women yea and allow yearely pensions to filthy Bawds to furnish them with such Commodities for the satisfying their brutish lusts and base appetites How some have defloured young Virgins whose Parents in respect of their abused Children are unwilling to publish their dishonour to the world How some having committed this vile wickedness with young Gentle-women have used or advised to meanes to hinder conception yea and to destroy the fruit in the wombe when conceived which I beleeve in the sight of God is no lesse then rank murder How some having undone Gentlemen of good quality by taking away their estates have taken advantage of the poverty of their Children and allured their daughters personable and proper women unto their own basenesse to the losse of their Honours and precicious Soules for ever and to continue in these courses without controule is thought by many to be one of the chief designes which divers of these new reformers ayme at I say these and many such like things might haply be evinenced to some mens shame if they have any left in them might but as free leave and Countenance be granted to impeach such persons as was once to accuse Gods Ministers Well some men imagine this to be one

Sacriledge if possible 7. Authorize all base Libells all scandalous and lying Pamphlets that any one hath a minde to publish against Him though they be such as not onely the Authours themselves but the very Devill himself would blush to own 8. Kill Slay and Destroy all that love Him and think well of Him suppresse reproach ruinate banish imprison or murder all those Ministers of God that shall dare to alleadge Gods Word in their Kings behalf and fail not to shew speciall favour and countenance to all such Preachers as have mouth and forehead to belie Him and to defame Him from the Pulpits and that will speake of Him as if He were an Infidell an Idolater an Apostate 9. When you have brought Him to a most low and desolate condition be sure you Flout lustily at Him and hire fellows that are skilfull in scorning to write weekly Pamphlets on purpose to expose Him to be Ludibrium Hominum oppro●rium Populi for this was the condition of Christ His Saviour to which He as well as others who are Godly must be conformable 10. Let all your Consultations be only to throw Him down from that Excellency wherein God hath set Him although to bring the same to passe you hazard the destruction of all His Kingdomes But be sure you hold your own still call your selves His Great Councell and when ever you write unto Him let it be in this submissive form and stile We your Majesties most Humble and most Loyall Subjects considering with great grief and sorrow of Heart c. Can any men that have but the least spark of grace or modesty in them affirm that the Councellours who walk towards their King according to these or such like rules do deserve the name of the Kings Councell Truly we who are accounted Seduced having been brought up in the plain honest Protestant Christian Religion dare not either think or say they do we know there will come a day when all men shall be judged according to their works and therefore in the mean time our subtile Brethren must pardon us if we so judge of men for the present as their works speak them nor indeed dare we so much disparage the most High and most Honourable Court of Parliament in England to which alone the Title of the Kings Great Councell belongeth as to fasten the same upon such a Disloyall Hypocriticall unchristian and bloudy Faction as this now above-board is and which walketh according to the fore-mentioned Rules But what are those Titles or Language which in these his Letters we may see the King bestowes upon his Great Councell as they call it we find him therein Lamenting their pertinacy complaining of their Stubborunesse and bewailing the perversenesse of their spirits as Christ could not look upon such conditioned persons without Grief and Anger so the King cannot speake of them without sorrow and indignation for they were once his people though now they have plucked their necks from under his yoak perhaps sometimes he calls them by the name of Rebells and is there not a cause did not Christ call some that walked in such wayes as they goe in Vipers and Children of the Devill When the Jewish Nation whom God had formerly owned for his people did act the part of an Impetious whorish woman he called her Harlot 't is fit every thing should be called by its owne name and that the name Rebell is proper to them whom the King entitles with it we are able to shew by such strong Arguments as these their Champions for all their Subtilty can never answer for what ever wickednesse is or has been in any Rebels of former Ages is superlatively apparent in these men Let themselves but say what things do make and denominate a Rebell and it shall be Evidenced clearly that themselves have the same Conditions Are they Rebells that lift up a violent hand against the Supream Magistrate or that open a foul mouth against Him or that publish and Authorize base Scandalous Pamphlets to His defamation and dishonour that violently break all Laws both Humane and Divine If any one of these or all these together be the properties of Rebells then these men are compleatly qualified for the Title Or again is it the custome of Rebells to slight the Kings Authority to deny Him to be Gods Anointed to rob Him of His rents and revenues to cheat Him of His Arms His Ships His Castles and Hearts of His people to hunt Him up and down his Kingdome like a Partridge upon the mountaines If these be the Actions and works of Rebells then these men above all men have fully merited to be so called In a word if Absalom and Achitophel if Sheba the son of Bichri if Korah Dathan and Abiram were Rebells in their Generations then so are these in this for these have done over all the same things which every of them did do though with greater impudence and violence Nay if Satan himself in his seduction of our first Parents did act the Rebell against the Almighty then also have these against their Soveraign for they have directly proceeded in his method and way as might be shewed in all the particulars But these Examples are all so Evident in Scripture to peoples eyes that I shall leave the matter wholly to their own observance and listen to what these men say further having told us of Language and Titles which the King bestowes upon his Great Councell they adde Which we return not again but consider with Sorrow that it comes from a Prince Seduced out of his proper spheare What the King bestowes we have heard already what they return we shall see anon only in the first place we cannot but observe their Sorrowfull Consideration because 't is a phrase in great fashion even with them also whom they call his Great Councell who have many a time and oft told the King in their letters to him of their own great griefs and sorrowes But let their Consciences speak what is the true ground of their sorrow is it not this Because they that are able to doe so much to the Kings damage to raise so many Armies against him of his own people to corrupt so many of his Officers and Commanders for to betray the places committed to their trust should not yet by all their injurious and contumelious dealings which have been more then was ever offered to a Christian Prince by Protestant people be able to break his heart and sink him to his grave still they see he is strengthened by the help of God to beare his burden and they have heard haply of that his pious expression viz. Though God hath pleased to lay on me a greater Burden of Affliction then upon other Princes my Predecessours yet withall he hath in his goodnesse inlarged unto me an answerable measure of patience Let their own Consciences speak whether in very deed their grief doth not spring from this Consideration For if