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A93345	England and Scotland united, disjoyned. Or, A gentle corosive, and healing plaister, applied to two dying kingdoms: with some balsamum for wounded Ireland; humbly presented to both kingdoms, and communicated to all good subjects, that wish peace and good to the kingdoms, or to either of them. Wherein is represented, the grievances of the people, and their several murmurings. By Ethog Grimes Gent.	Smith, George, 1602 or 3-1658.	1648 (1648)	Wing S4034; Thomason E447_30	26,358	32

lost all means used to weaken us at home and the Protestants in other Countreys all done to give way to Popery Nor can our Brethren of Scotland forget how a new old Mass Liturgy was forced upon them such as was contrived at Rome prepared by the arch Enemy Canterbury which they refusing were threatned by an Army a Parliament in England was called to raise money to engage in a War with Scotland the Parliament refused to contribute in that War and was presently dismissed yet an Army was raised and Scotland in their defence brought their Army into England how much they were engaged to England for their brotherly love and good affections the people generally refusing to contribute any thing to hurt them they cannot but remember nor can they forget what humble supplicants and petitioners the Lords and Gentlemen of all Counties of England were in their behalf which I hope shall never be repaid by any ill from that Kingdom I would reminde them of these things Let me again put England in minde of the Plots and Designs of the Hierarchy to corrupt our Religion by Superstition and prophaneness you had Canons Articles and Lyturgies given you as gilded pills to purge out sound Doctrine And to plant prophaneness a Book was commanded to be read in all Churches to give liberty to prophane the holy Sabbath forbidding afternoon Sermons and there was injunctions penal to keep holy Popish Saints days all Church-service was adulterated In a word Religion was choaked with the lawn of Heirarchy the mouthes of godly Ministers stopped their persons persecuted imprisoned banished Bishop Wren will not deny it as it was with Jeremiah and Baruch in the days of Jehoiakim and with Micaiah in the time of Ahab so was it unto them because they spake the word of God to the people and said Go not up to Ramath-Gilead Good men were also cauterized pillory'd and stigmatized for like causes and who knows but the Protestants in England should intentionally have acted the first scene in that Bloody Tragedy that Ireland hath done it was not that the common Enemy had greater love or more pity to us but Gods mercy to us And shall we now destroy one another Consider how we cryed out in those times for a Parliament a Parliament a Parliament saying Nothing but a Parliament could deliver us and keep our posterities from bondage God gave us a Parliament and made our Parliament a blessing to us till we idolized them and now because we finde they are not Gods but men and men of infirmities you cry out against Parliaments and calumniate them ready to stone them O ungrateful people because God tryeth you as he did the Israelites in the wilderness to humble you and will not suffer the Parliament to establish your peace so soon as you desire you will like the Jews murmure and sin against God notwithstrnding God hath done very great and miraculous things for you Why do you lust and look back to Popery and say as the Idolatrous Israelites It had been better for us Exod. 14. 12. to serve the Egyptians then to dye in the wilderness you would eat the sweet but you will not endure to taste of the sowre you would have your sore healed but will not endure the plaister you say many Members in Parliament are self-seekers not minding the common good I pray who sent them thither If you were fools in your choyce your backs must bear the fools reward will you therefore destroy Parliaments and make your posterity-Slaves wil nothing satisfie you now but a King a King upon any terms Truly I wish and pray that we may have a King and a blessing with him But why do ye cry out as ye do A King upon any terms Is this less then madness in you you have forgot the bondage of Egypt and think onely upon the flesh-pots onions and garlick c. O silly men why do ye break your Covenant with God and men Take heed ye be not like Israel in sin lest ye be like Israel in punishment they murmured and were disobedient to God but therefore they were destroyed by the sword of the destroyer Num. 14. 37. by the Pestilence by Serpents Korah and his company were swallowed up by the earth consider that the Apostle tells you and me even all us at this day that All those things 1 Cor. 10. 11. hapned for our ensamples and are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come Now we know that the many thousands that came out of Egypt dyed all in the wilderness except Joshua and Caleb and their little ones that were born in Num. 14. 34. 35. the desert Let not us flatter our selves to think though we do the same things that we shal escape but let us be admonished do our duties in all obedience that it may be wel with us in the later end I blame none simply for desiring a King nor for petitioning for a Treaty with the King for I wish honor to his person and bliss to his soul and so shall ever pray But I cannot Idolize any King Kings are but men and all men have failings what hath been may be again the burnt childe dreads the fire and men once deceived trust not again without assurance Though Kings cannot erre their Councels have erred and for ought we know will erre again first let the Kingdom have its rights which Nature and Law hath given to free Subjects then make the King as great as he can be that his Honor and just Greatness may be ever splendant in Justice and Clemency God forbid that because through evil Counsel he hath erred and infringed the Subjects Liberty that therefore we his Subjects should utterly cast him off or take from him or his posterity any of his or their Rights I hope none will say that because his Majesties Councel put on by Romes Hierarchy hath caused a War that we will have no more a Peace We know our War was to defend Priviledges of Parliament our Liberties and Religion all which are involved in Parliaments not to destroy the King nor his posterity But it highly concerns us to take heed what peace is made and how for there is a destructive peace as there is a depopulating war And herein we have made our respective Members in free Parliament our Judge and so long as a free Parliament and of free Election we are not to judge their actions but are bound to maintain their Freedom and Priviledge for therein stands our Peace and welfare to our posterities you know what Jehu said to Joram when he asked if it were peace What peace 2 King 9. 22. so long as the Whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many There is no peace saith the Lord unto the wicked Will Isa 48. 22. God give peace to a wicked Nation when blood and oppression and horrible hypocrisie cryeth for vengeance and for desolation

afterwards beaten and his Army scattered by the women of the City of Argos in revenge of their husbands that he had treacherously slain and after this Cleomenes kild himself with a knife It would be great happiness if England would enquire as holy David did wheter Gods hand now against us be not for our breach of Covenant though not National for I hope better but as to particular men it is manifest Consider I pray why is it that the common people of England rise up tumultuously against Authority and Priviledges of Parliament contrary to their Covenant is it not a just Judgement from God because Authority have been remiss in their Covenant and many have absolutely broken it with God therefore God suffereth a Covenant-breaking people to break Covenant with them now tumultuously risen against them in ESSEX SVRREY KENT c. that God may destroy the one by the other If it be so it concerns every man to humble himself before God renew his Covenant and in the strength of the Almighty to resolve to keep it to the death or let it be done to the persisters in breaking as to the seven Sons of Saul for if we suffer the Covenant to be broken We cannot prosper nor shall we be delivered Besides consider Ezek. 17. 15. Isa 26. 9. we are not onely reformed Nor have learned righteousness though Gods judgements are in the earth and upon our selves but are grown more impious in finning then before I will Instance in ten particulars for God which is now in controversie with us First Pride pride of the inward man or of the outward man is a sin transcendent to what it hath been witness mens and womens high conceits of themselves boastings of gifts c. Their high looks antick gestures c. Their new invented fashions rich Clothes painted and spotted Faces costly Coaches and empty Purses c. Pride we know is a sin of Sodom God hates it makes war against it He resists the proud therefore saith He Iam. 4. 6. Ier. 13. 9 2 Chro. 32. 25. will mar the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem God saith for the pride of the women the men shall salt by the sword and mighty men in the war the pride of Hezekiahs heare caused wrath upon all Israel Secondly Covetousness This is a sin no less hateful to God then hurtful to men but never more evidently seen to rage in men then at this day Witness men in places of trust in the Common-weal see if as the Prophet saith From the least to the Ier. 6 13 greatest every one be not given to covetousness Covetousness is a sin that excludes men from the Kingdom of Heaven when they dye Eph 5. 15 Ier. 8. 10. 1 Tim. 6. 10. and covetous men are burthens to the earth while they live The love of money causeth men to erre from the faith and pierce themselves through with many sorrows Thirdly Oppression This sin and the fear of God are opposite they dwell not together in one Kingdom Thou shalt not Levit. 25. ●7 oppress but thou shalt fear thy God Where the fear of God is there is no oppression where oppression is there is no fear of God Oppressors are in Scripture set forth by nature and names of cruel Beasts Bulls Bears Wolves Dogs Kine of Bashan c. Now let me appeal to all men if there were ever more beasts of this kinde in this Kingdom Are there not sound amongst us wicked Ier. 6. 26 27 28. men that lay wait as he that setteth snares they set a traps they catch men their houses are full of deceit they are become greats and waxen rich c. Fourthly Robbery is a sin abounding in England open and secret Robberies are committed and connived at many more have been Executed for Robbing then now but never so many Robbers as now they that will crucifie Christ will set Barra●●● free there are men not onely like the men of Shechem liers in wait in the mountains but those that rob the Kingdom by a kinde of Toleration yea that rob the poor and the fatherless That turn Isa 10. 2. the needy from judgement that widows may be their prey yea they will be found to be robbers of Gods people distressed in Ireland and some will even rob God himself Mal. 3. 8. 5. Murther This is a crying sin it cryed to Heaven against us before our great afflictions came upon us and now it cryes double as much as before it call'd the Sword upon us and the Sword hath increased our guilt God stirred up the Caldeans Syrians Moabites and children of Ammon against Jeboiakim to avenge the blood that Manasseh had shed in his days the blood of Rochel and of Germany still cryes against England and the blood of Ireland will not be satisfied but blood for blood Ireland once bled by Massacre now bleeds by flattery we feed them with words but destroy them by withholding actions the contenders for Self interest and unjust Stewards in England are the slaughtermen of consumed Ireland Not to save is to kill this is not to cleanse the Land of blood but to make it more bloody we would not endure to be so dealt with 6. Excess In eating and drinking to gluttony and drunkenness it hath long been Englands sin but is now greatly aggravated by the circumstance of time God by his great scourge calls us to humiliation To fasting and to weeping but behold feasting and drinking Isa 22. 19. wine in bowls lie upon beds of ivory invent instruments of musick eat the lambs out of the flock and the calves out of the midst of the stall for this cause God said He hated the excellency Amos 6. 4 5 6. Vers 8. of Jacob and abhorred his pallaces and saith Therefore will I deliver up the City and all that is therein God may as justly deal so with us and will if we reform not And lay to heart the afflictions of Joseph and relieve the objects of pity every hour before us who have lost all but they give nothing that have gained much 7. Whoredom A sin punished by death by Gods Law and the sinner shut out from heaven by Christs Gospel but in England neither punished nor excluded from the seat of Justice at this time he is counted gallant company that will whore and boast of it when he hath done remember Zimri and Cosbi that sin cost Num. 25 ● twenty four thousand lives themselves also slain for that sin by Phinehas 8. Prophanation of the Lords day A sin of which this Kingdom hath been much guilty in many parts of it and is at this day by doing the works of our calling using sports and recreations for pleasure idle speaking and omission of holy worship contrary to the precept Thou shalt not do thine own work nor speak Is● 58. 13. thine own words but shalt honor God wholly on that day But of late days men