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A28828	The history of the execrable Irish rebellion trac'd from many preceding acts to the grand eruption the 23 of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII.	Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?	1680 (1680)	Wing B3768; ESTC R32855	554,451	526

unto us in the holy Scriptures and of the other Laws against Murther And herein consider first The Law against Murther in the beginning in the infancy of the World before the Flood a general Deluge over the World The Law against Murther immediately after the Flood The Moral Law of God The Judicial and Political Law of the Jews The Law under the Gospel The Law of England The Law of Ireland Jus Belli the Law of War This same horrid sin of Murther this Devil crept into the World it began in the beginning what can expulse this Devil We find in the holy Scriptures that the Devil was the first Murtherer and Lyar and that he is the Father of Murtherers and Lyars The unbelieving Jews bragged they had Abraham to their Father and yet they sought to kill Christ whereupon our Saviour tells them that they are of their Father the Devil and the lusts of their Father they will do He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a Lye he speaketh of his own So that from hence the Lyars and Murtherers take their beginning and from hence these inseparable Twins make and derive their Pedigree and Descent from the Devil viz. He was a Lyar and a Murtherer from the beginning and he is the Father of Lyars and Murtherers The first and eldest of these in the Stock and Progeny was Cain Non sicut Cain qui ex maligno erat occidit fratrem suum propter quid occidit eum quoniam opera ejus maligna erunt fratris autem ejus justa And therefore John saith Not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous Wo unto them saith he for they have gone in the way of Cain This way of Cain is chalked out unto us in the beginning of the holy Bible Gen. 4. 8. that he talked with his brother Abel and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his Brother and slew him As soon as this innocent Blood was shed upon the Earth the cry thereof ascended up to Heaven And the Lord said to Cain What hast thou done the voice of thy Brothers blood crieth to me from the ground Gen. 4. 10 11. And now thou art accursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy Brothers blood from thy hand When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the Earth The Learned Divines observe upon the Text that whereas our Translation is The voice of thy Brothers blood crieth unto me the Original is The voice of thy Brothers bloods in the Plural Number for in killing Abel he did not onely kill him but also all that posterity the whole Line that should have descended from Abel and therefore thy Brothers bloods crieth unto me from the ground It is not the single blood as one of the murthered that crieth for vengeance but even the blood of all that Posterity as should have descended from him crieth to Heaven for Vengeance against the Murtherer We find this innocent blood of Abel shed in the begining of the World still in remembrance uttering her voice in the highest strain and crying against Murtherers even to the Worlds end Our Saviour denouncing several woes against the Scribes and Pharisees tells them that they should kill the Prophets that should be sent unto them that on them may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth even from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom they slew between the Temple and the Altar By faith Abel offered unto God a more acceptable Sacrifice than Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gift and by it he being dead yet speaketh And we are come to Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel The blood of righteous Abel is still in remembrance and yet speaking And in the latter end of the Bible Revel 6. 9 10. we find the Souls of them that were slain for the testimony of Jesus under the Altar crying with a loud voyce How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not revenge our blood on them that dwell on earth So that the blood of righteous Abel and all the innocent blood shed on the Earth yet speaketh and still crieth for vengeance and justice against the Murtherers And to conclude the Case of Murther before the Flood we find that one of the main causes which provoked Gods wrath and brought that great destruction of the whole World by Noah's Flood was because the earth was filled with violence Gen. 6. 11 18. And will not that which destroyeth the whole World over-whelm these Nations if they be not purged by Justice The Law against Murther after the Flood Now because the Old World perished through violence God in his new re-establishment of the World provided against violence and for the preventing of Murther ordered this to be one of his first Fundamental Laws Surely the blood of your lives will I require at the hands of every beast will I require it and at the hands of man and at the hands of every mans brother will I require the life of man Ver. 6. Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man The Moral Law of God delivered upon Mount Sinai and written by God himself in Tables of Stone and by his Spirit engraven in every mans heart Thou shalt do no murther Exod. 20. 13. The Judicial Law Next to the Moral Law of God I come to the Judicial and Political Law of the Jews He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death There are several Cases of Murther put and upon every of them the Law is delivered That the Murtherer shall surely be put to death Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a Murtherer which is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death Ye shall not pollute your Land wherein you are for blood defileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that sheddeth it Thine eye shall not pity but life shall go for life Upon these Laws I will onely put a case or two which I conceive may be useful to us upon these points in the discharge of this service The case of Agag King of the Amalekites whose life Saul spared being brought before Samuel the great Judge in Israel And Samuel said unto him As thy sword hath made women childless so shall thy Mother be

that in all likelihood he shall not live to come to that place the second time which we humbly conceive will be a great discouragement to any person of Honour and Fortune to serve your Majesty in that high Trust and for their purchasing Lands in that Kingdom your Majesty may be pleased to leave them to the Laws and punish them severely if they commit any offence or exercise any oppressions under colour of purchasing of any Lands or Estates whatsoever 15. Pro. That an Act may be passed in the next Parliament for the raising and setling of Trained-bands within the several Counties of that Kingdom as well to prevent foraign Invasion as to render them the more serviceable and ready for your Majesties service as cause shall require Answ. The having of Trained-bands in Ireland for the present cannot under favour be for your Majesties service or the safety of that Kingdom for that the Protestants by the said sad effects of the late Rebellion are so much destroyed that the said Bands must consist in effect altogether of the Confederates Catholicks and to continue them in Arms stored with Ammunition and made ready for service by Mustring and often Training will prove under colour of advancing your Majesties service against foraign Invasions a meer Guard and Power of the Popish Confederates and by force of Arms according to their late Oaths and Protestations to execute all their cruel designs for extirpation of the Protestant Religion and English Government both which they mortally hate however in cunning they dissemble it and to prevent the setling an Army of good Protestants without which your Maiesties good Subjects cannot live securely there 16. Pro. That an Act of Oblivion be passed in the next free Parliament to extend to all your Majesties said Catholick Subjects and their Adherents for all manner of Offences Capital Criminal and Personal and the said Act to extend to all Goods and Chattels Customs Mesne Profits Prizes Arrears of Rents taken received or incurred since these troubles Answ. We humbly pray that the Laws of force be taken into consideration and do humbly conceive that your Majesty in Honour and Justice may forbear to discharge or release any Actions Suits Debts or Interests whereby your Majesties Protestant Subjects who have committed no offence against your Majesty or your Laws should be barred or deprived of any of their legal remedies or just demands which by any of your Majesties Laws and Statutes they may have against the Popish Confederates who are the only Delinquents or any of their party for or in respect of any wrongs done unto them or any of their Ancestors or Predecessors in or concerning their Lands Goods or Estates since the contriving or breaking forth of the Rebellion the said Confederates having without provocation shed so much innocent Blood and acted so many Cruelties as cannot be parallel'd in any Story and we conceive it to be high presumption in them upon so weak grounds to propound an Act of Oblivion in such general terms some of the Confederates having been Contrivers or Actors of such cruel Murthers and other Acts of Inhumanity as cry to God and your Sacred Majesty for Justice and they having of your Majesties Revenues Customs Subsidies and other Rights of your Crown in their hands are disbursed by them to the value of two hundred thousand pounds and more 17. Pro. For as much as your Majesties said Catholick Subjects have been taxed with many inhumane Cruelties which they never committed your Majesties said Suppliants therefore for their vindication and to manifest to all the the world their desire to have all such hanious Offenders punished and the Offenders brought to Justice do desire that in the next Parliament all notorious Murthers breaches of Quarter and inhumane Cruelties committed of either side may be questioned in the said Parliament if your Majesty think fit and such as shall appear to be guilty to be excepted out of the said Act of Oblivion and punished according to their deserts Answ. We conceive this Proposition is made but for a Florish and if the Confederates be so desirous to try their innocency as they pretend they need not stay for another Parliament in Ireland but submit to that which is now in being which is an equal and just Parliament as in some of our Reasons touching that point is expressed and the offering to draw it to a new Parliament is in effect to desire that they may be their own Judges for as that Kingdom is now imbroiled and wasted the chief Delinquents or their Confederates will be so prevalent a faction in the next Parliament that they will be able and doubtless will clear all the Popish party how guilty soever and condemn all the Protestants how innocent soever These Answers to the high and unexpected Demands of the Confederates we have have framed in humble obedience to your Majesties directions but being very sensible as of the weight and great importance of the business so also of our own weakness and want of time and well knowing that some of your Majesties Privy-Councillors Judges and Officers of that Kingdom are now in Town sent for over and here attending by your Majesties Command who by their long observations and experience of the affaires and State of Ireland are better able to give your Majesty more full and satisfactory Answers touching the premises then we can and conceiving that the Collection in Answer to the said Confederates Remonstrance which we humbly presented to your Majesty the 17th of the last Month of April may in many things give your Majesty more light then these our Answers do or can We humbly beseech your Majesty that the said Privy-Counsellors Judges and Officers as occasion shall require may be called upon and heard to give your Majesty the more satisfaction in these particulars and that to the same purpose the Book of the said Collections may be perused and considered of as your Majesty shall find most requisite After reading of which Propositions and Answers thereunto the King asked the Protestant Agents whether they had Answered unto the Rebels Propositions as they were to be granted by Him in Law and Justice and fit for the Security of the Protestants of Ireland or prudentially as the times were who humbly made Answer to his Majesty That they looked upon the Rebels Propositions as they appeared to them destructive to his Majesties Laws Government and Protestant Subjects of Ireland Then the Earl of Bristol said That if they asked what by Law and Justice was due from the Rebels their Answers were full But now the King expected from the said Agents what prudentially was fit for his Majesty to do seeing the Protestants were not in a Condition to defend themselves And that the King would not admit the Protestants to joyn with the new Scots or any other that had the Covenant To which the Agents conceived not fit to Answer more then what before in their Propositions and