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A81540	A discovery of the iuglings and deceitfull impostures of a scandalous libell against the Parliament. Published in the forme of a petition to the Houses of Parliament, in the name of the inhabitants of London and Westminster, and inhabitants of Southwarke, pretended to be distressed in point of conscience. Hereunto is added the said petition, in the name of the inhabitants of London and Westminster, &c. Together with a free, cleare and conscientious answer in way of petition, to the foresaid scandalous pamphlet.		1643 (1643)	Wing D1657; Thomason E247_8; ESTC R206810	9,439	7

to shelter themselves from the hand of justice and keepe the good subjects from all use and benefit of the Laws and destroy their properties by forcible pillaging and plundring which every man sees to be the ends of their said practises and therefore first in their intentions but also Alexander like by the Sword to cut the gordian knot they could not otherwise untie I meane to destroy this perpetuall Parliament before the grievances of the Kingdome contracted before by their wicked counsels be redressed that the reformation intended and desired shall never receive birth and perfection distilling into the Kings mind a wicked and irrationall conceit that a perpetuall Parliament and his Kingly office and power cannot consist The Parliament I say to defend themselves and the Kingdome from these diabolicall designes and practises and to bring these grand-Delinquents to justice and rescue his Majesty out of their hands tooke up Armes and at Keinton and else where made use thereof Shall the Parliaments performance of their duty and trust become Treason or unlawfull by what Lawes reason or sence Is it no Treason for an inferiour Court to raise force to execute the Proces thereof though the King expresse his Personall will ever so strongly even under his great Seale to the contrary and shall it be unlawfull or treasonable in the supreame Court to do it which hath power to stay and check the proceedings of all inferiour Courts which the King cannot doe by his Personall command Hereby may appeare that the Parliament hath proceeded in the way of Religion in this great case and this Libeller hath his desire but that he cannot see the wood for trees and there is no need of troubling such able Divines as he Names to convince his ignorance they are or may be better imployed And for Brownists and Seperatists it is notorious that the Kings taking up Armes is so farre from being against them as it is the only cause that wholesome provisions for the right governing of the Church are not made and setled that they may be suppressed and wholy rooted out and that they are fomented incouraged and increased daily by the continuance of those Forces in obstruction of the Parliaments power and proceedings against them If a right discipline according to Gods word and a painefull preaching Ministery were once setled in this Kingdome such Sectaries and Schismaticks would be quickly subdued To the two most honourable Houses of Parliament the representative body of the most glorious legitime and Christian Kingdome of England the humble Petition of some Well affected Patriots dispersed here and there WHereas there is a Petition spread abroad pretending the number of millions alledging distresse of conscience who in all likelihood never felt any except in the feare of a pure Reformation as may appeare by their verball arguments abusing the Scripture to their politick end viz. Dan. 4.17.25.32 1 Sam. 26.9 Psalm 89.20 Isa 45.1 with the Booke of Common Prayers attributing to the King Gods authority from which they urge a literall appearance to their own overthrow and the enslaving of all to more then Turkish servitude Not understanding or considering that Cirus is onely stiled God Annoynted in a figurative phrase for the service of Christ whereunto he was destined even the restauration of the Temple otherwise no more the Lords Annoynted then was Eglon King of Moab whom Ehud stab'd to the heart for the deliverance of Gods Church and people Jud. 3.12.19 20 21. Then grossely distorting that of Rom. 13. for though it be onely a direction unto particular Christians that they should not living under such government or ordinance abuse their Christian liberty to the scandall of profession or the Gospell 1 Pet. 2.12 13 14 15 16. yet would these politick glossers hereby over-rule the irrationall rabble if not to a rebellious opposition against at the least to an absolute disdaine and desertion of Gods ordinance Rom. 13.1 2. a necessary counsell and indissoluble by the people elected and the King established as the onely soule and intelligence of the English State the last remedy and only security against those pernicious seducers and crafty politicians which alwayes aime more at their owne ends then either at the publike good or their Masters honour authorized thereby if our Divinity and reason faile us not Prov ch 25.5 1 Cor. 7.27 not only to the declaring of Law but the executing of that which being according to the divine Law and our municipall right no way thwarting the principles of nature or universall reason doth best conduce to the enfranchizing of the Gospell and worship from all servile bonds and superstitious obligations the establishing of the subject in his true and native liberty the King and his Progeny in a constant glory and durable felicity And whereas these deceitfull workers 2 Cor. 11.13 15. pretend the divine constitution of particular Kings in their severall Kingdomes This shaddow of reason they have greedily catched from the superficiall Pamphlets of Court parasites who being infected with that Popish errour in the cacozelous imitation of the Aaronicall Priesthood which was first practised by that flattering Pope who annoynted Charles the Great unto the Empire and then madded to astonishment with the eye dazeling splendour of Courtly glory they would of a King create a demi-god though to the utter subversion of the Churches rights the English glory and the scope of Scriptures as shall be maintained against them in a faire dispute at the forfeiture of life upon defailance Thus we say infatuate and made furious they would foster in the people a pernicious opinion of the Kings superiority not only to the State as it is now established But to the Church also which is Gods annoynted truly so called according to the tenour of the old and new Testament Psal 105.14.15 2 Cor. 1.21 with 1 Joh. 2.27 and the apple of his eye Zach. 2.8 for whose liberty protection and edification the King as chiefe member of the same is tyed by the tenour of his Baptisme for the maintaining of unity and uniformity according to the Law of charity and a sincere conscience regulated by the word to improve all the power and prerogative wherewith be is vested Isa 49.7 23. with 1 Tim. 2.2 Tho' these prophane Esaus renouncing both their Baptisme and birth-right would make gracious Princes of nursing Fathers to become hard Masters tyrannizing over the Church by their Praelaticall vassals who ever contrary to their office and the Kings authority Ezek. 34.4 Heb. 5.2 3. are found to have shorne the sheepe of Christs pasture to the quick under pretext of suppressing some silly fantasticall Sectaries who in their obstinate self particular humours are more shame then assistance to the Parliament and insensibly side with the Caviliers designe being much more justly and effectually to be quell'd by a sincerely judicious Synod and found government sutable to the word then either by an high Commission or any servile and typhonicall Synod derived

THE Petition in the Name of the Inhabitants of the Cities of London and Westminster And the Borough of Southwarke In the behalfe of themselves and of Millions in this Kingdome distressed in point of Conscience WHereas your Petitioners having formerly contributed freely and literally to the King and Parliament in coniunction deo now refuse further to contribute or pay conceiving them in opposition as by reson His Maiesties person was invaded in battell at Keinton contrary to the many Declarations of taking of Armes for the safety of His Maiestiesties person so in regard theat is no expresse care of His person and honour in your late Ordinance for the assessing the Twentieth part in London nor in your Declaration for levying of moneyes in the Counties And whereas this their refusall is meerely out of Conscience according to that information they have concerning the Divine constitution of particular Kings in their severall Kingdomes and of Subiection to them both Active and Passive and of the Damnablenesse of Resisting from First The Word of God Dan. 4.17 25.32 where thrice in one Chapter it is said That the Kingdomes be Gods and he gives them to whom he will 1 Sam 26.9 Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse And the same blessed spirit which calls David the Lords Annoynted Psalm 89.20 doth call Cyrus a Heathen Prince the Lords Annoynted also Esa 45.1 Rom. 13. Let every soule be subiect to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Yea we acknowledge in our Book of Common Prayer that King Charles is Gods Minister and that he hath Gods Authority and so fighting against him we fight against God himselfe Secondly M. Calvin and other Protestants their exposition on Rom. 13. 1 Pet 2. Thirdly The Harmony of Reformed Churches concerning Magistracy Fourthly The Doctrine of the Church of England in the Bookes of Homilies delivered concerning civill obedience Fifthly From the Lawes of the Land which declare it to be Treason to Levy Warre against the King in this Kingdome and to encounter in fight and kill such as are assisting to the King or come to helpe him or to aide in those cases And the Action of the Earle of Essex was adiudged Treason though he pretended nothing but removing evill Councellours from the Queene Now that which is evill in its owne nature cannot be the subiect of any Command nor induce any obligation upon any man by any Authority whatsoever Remonstrance May 19. And we may not doe evill that good may come of it Rom. 3.8 Sixtly Also in regard of the late Protestation relating to the said Doctrines and to His Maiesty respectively which Protestation you have bound your selves to maintaine and all those that doe any thing in pursuance of it You would at least be pleased in your present undertakings for Religion and for the Law of the Land and the Liberty and Property of the Subiects to proceed in the way of Religion without violence to the Conscience in a case that concernes no lesse then Salvation or Damnation As you professe your tendernesse of the Conscience even in matters of Indifferency And that first your Authenticall Divines D. Burgesse M. Marshall c. may publish something for the resolving of Conscience in this way cleerely out of the Word of God and home to the Action of Keinton taking notice also That his Maiesty tooke up Armes for the maintenance of the Lawes concerning the publick worship of God and for the priviledges of and freedome of Parliament notoriously invaded by Brownists and Separatists and that now He continues them also for the necessary defence of His Person manifestly in danger since the battle at Keinton To which satisfying the Premises your Petitioners farre from contemptuousnesse and obstinacy against the cleere Word of God and Lawfull Authority shall ingeniously condescend and readily make payment of these severall Rates accordingly And pray for c. A Discovery of the juglings and deceitfull impostures of a scandalous Libell against the Parliament Published in the forme of a Petition to the Houses of Parliament In the Names c. THE Author of the Libellous paper stiled A Petition to the Houses of Parliament of the Inhabitants of London and Westminster and Bourough of Southwarke in the behalfe of themselvs and of millions in this Kingdome distressed in point of conscience like the Devill disguises himselfe in Samuels mantle and takes upon him the forme of an Angell of light pretending conscience and falsely personating the honest inhabitants of those Cities and that Bourough who remaine to all posterity and future ages justly and worthily renowned for their love and zeale to Religion the liberties of their Countrey and to the Parliament the great and chiefe conservator of them under Heaven But you may discerne him by the cloven foote by which he enters into his Petition deviding it selfe into two apparent lyes one that he hath freely and liberally contributed to the King and Parliament conjoyn'd and the other that his Majesties Person was invaded in battle at Keinton The grounds of his pretended conscience are of like nature manifestly fallacious for first in his Scriptures cited by him as the Devill did in tempting our Saviour he changes divine truth into a lye by curtailing it For it is true God gives Kingdomes to whom he will but it is not all the truth for God also gives them in severall manners with severall sorts of power Some Kingdomes he gives to one man alone and invests him with absolute power that his will is law which is commonly called an Absolute Monarchy But such power he hath not given to the King of England as this man would have us beleeve His Majesty in his Declarations disclaimes it and pretends to no other power then to governe according to the Lawes made by the supreame power of this Kingdome residing by divine providence and ordinance in the three estates which are coordinate and not subordinate in authority though the trust of convening them be by them committed to the King in confidence that he will according to Law call them together when there shall be neede thereof for the Kingdomes good and in the meane time see to a just execution of the Lawes made by them And when Parliaments are conveened to them belongs the care of the Kingdome and of the Lawes and the examining punishing and reforming of whatsoever is done against the Lawes and Kingdome by the Kings personall command or pretence of his authority And farewell Religion Law Liberty and all good if the Parliament be and continue obstructed as now it is from questioning examining or punishing and reforming things done against Law by colour and countenance of the Kings Personall will which is subject to be deceived misled corrupted to the prejudice of the