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Bloody Babylon discoverd
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[Londinatus, Christianus].
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Servants nay Submissive Slaves to the imperious Propositions of their owne Created Servants That they who in prosecution of an unchristian unlawfull bloody designe of taking away the power of the King justly by law and reason declared His of forcing away his Negative Voyce in a Lawfull Parliament depriving him of the Command of the Militia of bloodily changing the Civill and Ecclesiasticall Goverment from Monarchicall to Aristocraticall from Episcopall to Presbyterian Witnesse the transactions to passe over other Treaties of that too-late tedious and most unfortunate Treaty in the Isle of Wight in the managing whereof neither Law Reason nor Religion urg'd by our dear Soveraign could work the Commissionated Treatours or rather the factious Commissionating Rooting Traytors in the House to Condescentions more than what ranne paralell and agreed with their most unjust demands of all his Regall Power and wholly altering the government of his Kingdomes Witnesse also the first insisted-on Proposition wherein Good Prince before they will proceed He must contrary to Reason Religion and Law declaratorily Justify their unjust Actions of Rebellion and treason against him and Condemne his own Just defence as unjust The prevaling faction in the Houses still upon Receipt of his Majesty's Concessions and Answers to their demanding Propositions Voting Not Satisfactory Not Satisfactory O fatall Word Not untill his Princely tender Care of his Subjects perceiving the * First Plotters Faction's resolutions to perfect their bloudy designe and his desire of Peace reconciliation and stopping of that issue of blond by themselves first made in his Kingdoms at last his own Royal Interest laid aside condescended so much to their demands that as a King he had nothing more to condescend unto nor they more of his Regall Power to demand These men who thus unlawfully prosecuted and persecuted his Sacred Majesty with distroying Armies thereby to wrâ—st away his lawfull power upon Pretences of a Fundamental Law never heard of never practised before in the Houses not so much as groundded upon the least imaginary authority of Common Reason much lesse the law of the Land and the Protestant Religion had all their bloudily acquired power snatched from them by * Army those I say whom first they impowered to offer bloudy force to his Majesty upon grounds as ayry groundless and unlawfull as pretences of Common Right and distribution of Justice as if Confusion were that Right and unparalelld injustice were the distribution of Common right and Justice year 1641 Some of these Ambitious and Factious Members who by invited tumults of the Citty-rabble forced his Majesty for the Security of his person from his royall pallace at Whitehall and soon after many of their then fellow-members contrary to the Priviledge of all reasonable parliaments were uncivilly forced out of the House by their menaces and conspiring Votes because they would not be voting Conspirators with them in their Trayterous designes against their King Country the truly fundamentall Laws of the Land Some of these I say Parl. were as absurdly thrust out of the House by Pride and his Complices the army 's imps birds of their owne hatching instruments of their owne framing upon accusation of being fomenters of a New War hinderers of Perfecting an intended Reformation or more truly of Com-pleating a pre-resolved resolution or rather a Jesuitized independent designe somwhat more bloudy than the Presbyterian Thus Deus omnipotens in aetennum Justus Thy actions O Lord are all Justice thy deeds Righteousness it self Thou therefore the fountain of all wisdome that dost oftentimes proportion and symbolize both for quality and quantity mens punishments to their Sins thereby by plain demonstrative signes inviting them to repentance Grant good Father that all such guilty persons thus reading their iniquities in their punishment may repent them of their fo mer Sins that so thou mayst pardon their transgressions and remember their offences no more To this purpose restore O Lord unto them the Purity of reason as men A Zealous unmoved fixednesse in thy true religion the Christian Protestant faith Loyalty and faithfull obedience to their undoubted Soveraign and Lawfull King Cha. the Second c. and these not verbally but really expressed by actions beseeming men whose reason not humorous opinion is their guide By deeds befitting Christian Protestants whose * Scripture directing rule is the unerring Word not groundlesse faincyed revelations the Suggestions of the deceiving Angelicall Divell and not the Perswasions of thee who art the God of Spirits By actions becoming Subjects whose obedience without interruption willingly followeth the smooth Current of an Established Law not hurryed along by the tumultuous Torrents of arbitrary Ordinances nor Obedientially swimming in the troublesome Waters of mens Corupt wills O Father of mercyes whatsoever punishments Thou in thy Just judgment for our manifold sinnes shalt inflict upon us give us not over to a generall infatuation of Spirit a benummednesse in our Understanding and Reason lest we degenerating into the nature of beasts with Nebuchadnezzar be design'd to graze in the feilds with beasts that perish O everliving God Deprive us not of thy Candlesticke thy gospell of truth lest for want of true guides we all become blind and like them leading one another irrecoverably fall into the Ditch of everlasting destruction O Let not my Lord be angry and thy Servant shall speak but this Once Father of Mercies as we desire that thy word may still Continue a Lanthorn to our feet and thy Precepts a directing Light to our Paths so we humbly beseech thee that out of thy infinit Loving kindnesse thou wouldst look upon us and not take from us our Established ancient fundamentall Lawes That so our Corrupt Natures may still by them be rectified the extravagant excurrences of our Obstinate perverse Wills and actions may be limitted lest Ambition Sedition Treason Perjury Rebellion Murder Sacriledge Regicidism Envy Hatred Tyranny Oppression and all manner of wickednesse becoming particular Commanding Lawes we like Ravenous Wolves devour one another And in order to this great mercy good God restore unto us our great Law-maker Preserver and Protectour thy Servant our Soveraign the much wronged Princely Son of a more injured Murdered Martyr'd Royal Father Cha the Second of Great Brittaine King c. Put the Sword and Scepter into his hands Place the Crown upon his Head Thou who art able and Powerfull in Extremities in this his extremity shew thy Ability and Power O Lord as thou hast designed him our Supream Governour so in order to his possession of thine own designed Government prepare the hearts of all his Subjects with submissive obedience unto him as to thy Vice-gerent on earth work into their spirits a sensiblenesse of their former erroneous practises against his Royall father and let their endeavours for the restoration of his Princely son to his father's Throne evidence to the world their unfeigned repentance for their sins committed against Thee the King of kings in
together against the reall Protestants who onely maintain truths fundamentall against Jesuiticall Heretical and Schismatical tenents witnesse the new-coined distinction of these Jesuitized factious persons between the Kings Vertuall and Personall power To this purpose how have they bawled out their pretences of fighting for the Kings personall defence yet brought Armies to fight against his Person an Argument left onely to be maintain'd by the cruell yet silly non-distinguishing Bullet or others as irrationall as it How often have they in their Pamphlets declared that they onely took up Armes against his Majestie 's evill Councell when as they could produce no witnesse nor example of any Counsell that was evill unlesse it were ill for a man to be Rationall a Christian or a Loyall Subject How have they Notwithstanding their Declarations of making him a most Glorious King excelling all his Royall Predecessours First Collect Ord. Par. F. 21. Protesting to maintain his Honour Crown and Dignity yet baited him with Propositions altogether destructive to his Honour and Power as a King 19. Prop. the end of their taking up of Armes appearing nothing lesse then the end of their pretences Unlesse they intended thereby as indeed some of them have done to make him a Glorious Saint in Heaven And all this nay more than this acted not by heathens who knew no better nor by profess'd Papists whose rebelliously-religious Principles teach no better but by Pretending-Protestants O let not this be told in Gath nor published in the streets of Askelon lest the Daughters of the Philistines rejoyce and the Daughters of the uncircumcised triumph How have they rattled out Resolves to maintain the established Lawes vid. Collect Ord. Parl. especially that part thereof which concerneth the liberty of the Subject View all their Declarations not one but speaketh somewhat to that pretended purpose Neverthelesse how have they in the beginning and progression of their designe trod down all appearance of Law Witnesse their unjust imprisonments Sequestrations Taxes and Excise and many more illegall squeezing Engins Contracting the liberty of each particular subject by a written Law his owne Right into the narrow Compasse of some few mens unwritten Lawlesse Wills nay Is not the Liberties of Nineteen Parts of the People of Great Brittain swallowed up by an One twentieth who revell it in Libertinism upon the Ruines of their liberties and the unjust possession of the Estates Handling * Englands liberties Confirmed Magna Charta so absurdly in their furious and hot declarations that like Parchment against the fire it is now shrunck up almost to a Non-appearance How have some men of all degrees actively contributed their assistance in Men Money and Plate upon invitations literally different from the ends of these Eradicating Conspiratours although I must acquaint them upon no reall grounds of Reason Religion or Law but my Charity telleth me they were abused by such specious pretences into such ill actions Witnesse that Ordinance of the 12th January 1641. whereby Skippon was made Serjeant Major Generall of London who commanded the imployment of the Trained Bands for the reall they are the words of that Ordinance good Service of his Majesty the Parliament and City according to his Duty Protestation and Lawes of the Land Fine words truly in appearance but deeds lurking under as black as hell Witnesse the progressive and Conclusive part of their ugly Designe Again 19. Prop. Coll. Ord. Parl. pag. 173. in their Declaration of the 5th of May 1642 concerning the Militia all mens obedience is invited to the Execution of their Commands according to the fundamentall Lawes of the Kingdome as they tender saith that Ordinance the upholding of the True Protestant Religion The safety of his Majestie 's Person And his Royall Posterity with the Peace of the Kingdome Alas what fundamentall lawes do they mean Aiery lawes surely whose existence is no where to be found but in their meer verball asseverations and that also in a reall opposition to those Lawes whose Established foundation as Lawes indeed should plainly appear to every Loyall Subject's Obedientiall eye True Protestant religion saith the Ordinance But more truly Erroneous Protestant religion falsly by them styled True whose practicall principles overthrow the principles of all religious truth and fight against the practicall piety of the true Protestant Religion Established and the practice of all the primitive Christians and truly-Christian * Mr. John Bradford advised all to be obedient to the Queen and by no means to resist vid. Book Martyr fol. 1491. 1477. Martyrs Safety of his Majesties Person and Royall issue Dangerous safety of their Royall Persons whose security must depend on the sure rock of Certain danger opposing Armies under pretence of their preservation with ready-drawn Swords and surely-destroying bullets endeavouring their absolute ruine O strange Paper-protection vaine and weak from a pretended hazard of being untimely deprived of life thus to expose them to a reall danger of an unnaturall Death Peace Stranger peace whose fruits must be a bloody war Ord. and its effects nothing but murder perjury sacriledge oppression tyranny and indeed a generall poverty Kingdom A dumb Kingdom without a speaking King Ord. or rather to expound their then intended monstrous sense mysticall onely to the common people a deformed Anarchy in place of an unparalle'd Reformed Monarchy But O Lord of Hosts that judgest righteously Jer. 11.20 and tryest the reins and the heart grant them suddain repentance or let thy servants see thy vengeance on all such obstinately persisting sinners for unto Thee I have and shall open Great Brittain's cause Consider Isaiah 29.13 O Father how these people seem to come near to thee the God of truth with their mouth and to honour thee with their lips but their hearts are far from thee Again In the Propositions and Orders of the Two Houses for as yet the * Presb. Indep Factions like Simeon and Levi remained united in the bonds of iniquity for bringing in of Plate and Mony to maintain Horse Horsemen and Arms c. you were all promised you I mean the contributers upon such quaintly-deceiving invitations that your mony so brought in shall onely be employ'd to maintain the Protestant Religion the King's authority and his person in his royall dignity A free course of Justice Collect Ore Parl. fol. 343. June 1642. the Laws of the Land and the Peace of the Kingdom when as in the prosecution of their Rooting designe the irreligiously religious Turk and Pagans by their actions may rather claim them as adherents to their Principles nay the Jesuite embrace them as his dearest dear obedientiall darlings than the Protestant Church of England own them as her children The Kings Authority and Person after a retrograde manner by them maintained their Ordinances Declarations Oaths and actions speaking a denyall of their obedience to the one and but a verball protection onely of the other themselves not then so