by prisons or exile all these I say were by those our blessed Master-builders in Parliament by their unanimous suffrages not onely voted against as a superfluous and unprofitable burthen on Gods Church but thereby also a way was made plain and wide-doores were set open for a blessed restauration and replantation of most faithfull and painfull Pastours and laborious Lecturers chosen and set up with the peoples consent and good liking and not to have dumb-dogs or soul-robbers and theeves which came not in at the doore but through the windows of the Church violently obtruded on them whereby the Gospel begins to thrive and flourish again and Sions young-converts to be graciously growing up among us in the true judgement and knowledge of Christ Jesus whereas formerly the Prelates and Pontificians durst scoffe fleer and jeer familiarly at those faithfull and painfull Lecturers and most atheistically ask in derision What kind of creatures those Lecturers were and most impiously and audaciously even in the presence of the great God of heaven vow to worm them out â—re they had done with them But our good God gave these curst cows or rather wilde buls of Bashan short horns and though they had gone-on in a great measure and done much mischief therein yet they could not do the hurt which their hearts aymed at ever blessed and praised be our good God for it And now good Reader reflect thine eyes and review these rare mercies and tell me then was not Englands God herein also seen in the Mount of Mercies by this so strange an overture and alteration of things interposed between such eminent and imminent danger of utter losse of our bright and burning Candlesticks of the Gospel and fear of stinking snuffs of ignorance errour and atheisticall profanenesse to be set up in their places and little or no hope at least itâ— humane apprehension of help by lesse than such miracles of mercies as God himself hath in these our happie dayes wrought and poured-down upon us and such indeed as none but a God could procure for us O how sweetly and suddenly hath God turned our Captivitie into admirable freedom and libertie And who can consider these things without serious and deep admiration and who can call them to remembrance without heart-ravishing ioy and delight yea who can chuse but acknowledge in his most gratefull heart the great praises of the Lord and with holy David that harmonious chanter and musicall inchanter of Israel confesse Gods infinite free favour and love to England in thus encompassing and begirting us about with sweet songs of such deliverances But yet here 's not all for our blessed parliamentarie Worthies have also given us great hope by Gods goodnesse of timely purging also the two famous Fountains of our Kingdom Oxford and Cambridge from the much myre and mud of Romish innovations which setling there also hath made their streams stink of Poperie yea I say great hopes of happily healing the once most clear-sighted but now and of long time blear-eyes of our Nation grown mightie sore with Romish-rednesse by drinking in too much of the wine-lees of poysoning Popish fopperies in so much that Truths clear sighted Servants eyes began to be mightily offended by but looking on them and not without cause for as our Saviour himself saies If the eyes be evill the whole bodie will be full of darknesse and if the light that is in a kingdom and especially which is to give light to a whole kingdom be darknesse O how great is that darknesse and such truly began to be our Kingdoms condition but now we have I say great hopes by Gods gracious assistance that our Parliament will seasonably provide a soveraign Collyrium or eye-salve some well-distilled eye-bright of Reformation to purifie the sight of these two once most glorious lights in the whole Christian world Yea these our noble Nehemiahs and grave and gracious Ezra's have taken most pious pains to see Gods Sabbaths more sincerely sanctified than of late they have been and the profane soil of trauelling Carriers Taverns Ale-houses and Tobacco-shops and other loose and irreligious Shop-keepers who heretofore mightily polluted that day most sweetly swept away any cleansed A work of great concernment and high esteem for the glorie of the Lord than which I am certain a greater a better cannot be undertaken as being the very prop and promoter of all true Religion and without the entire and sincere sanctification whereof all true religion would quickly decay and be utterly lost yea I say a Nation-upholding Christian dutie of richest valuation as having more precious promises annexed to it than any other I know of in the whole book of God and which hath more ennobled our Realm and made our Kingdom more illustrious God alone who hath so graciously upheld it among us have all the praise and glorie of it and we onely the comfort than all our reformed Neighbours about us yea such a blessed and holy duty as hath caused more mercies to fall yea flow upon our English-Nation than ever did on any people of the Christian world Yet our most iniurious Prelates together with their profane Pontificks have most shamelesly striven to viciate and defile this our Sabbaths precious honour the main readie and road-way to have brought the curse of God upon us and utterly to have ruinated our whole Kingdom by whose means it began in King James his dayes to receive a deep died stain by that most wicked and accursed book of tolerating vain sports and profane recreations forsooth on the Lords day which since hath been avowed and advanced more highly by them than at the first but now since in our present Soveraignes time more pertinaciously pressed and perniciously enforced on Gods dear Saints and servants in the ministerie than formerly it had been whose tender-consciences could not endure it and who being in their most just zeal for the Lords high honour therein and sincere love to true Religion transported above all fears and frowns were most egregiously abused vexed and punished for refusing to admit and read the said wicked-wicked-book in their Churches untill it most graciously pleased our good God by the blessed Parliament to prevent the most mischievous growth of this unexpressible abomination of our so holy Fathers of the Church together with the rotten rable of Pontifick-Arminians Romes Minions indeed by a particular Order from the House of Commons in Parliament for the more strict sanctification of that day which I have hereunto annexed The Order of the House of Commons for the due sanctication of the Sabbath or Lords day April 10 th 1641. IT is this day ordered by the House of Commons that the Aldermen and Citizens that serve for the Citie of London shall intimate to the Lord Maior from this Hou e that the Statutes for the due observing of the Sabbath be put in execution And it is further ordered that the like
68. 19. Iob 5. 13. Psal 94. 11. Isa 29. 14. A Parliament A plot to spoil the Parliament The Kings Queensletters Earls Lords Knights and Gentlemen ride up and down to help them God counterplots and crosses them Parliamentary Worthies chosen A blessed Colledge of Physicians Exod. 15. 11. Psal 89. 5 6 7 8. Divers difficulties at the first beginning of this Parliament Six Subsidies granted Pole-money The mountanous dispatch of great affairs of the Parliament at the first To stop the mouthes of slanderers Ship-money abolished Coat and Conduct taken away Sope. Wine Leather Salt Many other Monopolies suppressed The root of all the former evils pluckt up viz. Arbitrary government God in the Mount Psal 145. 1 2 3. A spirit of prayer and humiliation stird up in the hearts of Gods people in private Rich returns of our prayers Our enemies plots proved their owngreatest plagues Iudg. 13. 23. Against the false fears and faithlesse faintings in Gods people Ier. 7. 16. Acts 12. 20. A Fleet of Spanish-ships at Sea The Spaniard is apt to watch and catch advantageâ— The Spanish fleet on our Narrow-Seas in sight of Dover The Hollanders meet with them Martin Tromp Admirall of the Fleet. The Spanish fleet beaten and destroyed Isa 54. 17. No weapon can be forged nor tongue raised against England and Scotland A Pacification and blessed union between the three kingdoms by Act of Parliament Psal 44 34. Psal 76. 9 10. Good men made Officers of State The Scaligers of our rustie times The Star-Chamber-Court President Councell of the North c. dissolved The Earl of Straford beheaded â—ex â—alionis An English Haman Psal 62. 3. 2 Sam. 20. 12. Ier. 10. 6 7. Iudge Bartlet other Iudges and Bishops impeached of high treason and imprisoned Much content among men upon the Earls beheading The Arch-prelate of Canterbury impeached of high treason and imprisoned Q Elizabeths saying touching Popish Bishops in her dayes of deliverance The malignant partie now began to fear Sir Ioh. Finch Secretary Windibank c. flie away for fear A fit simile of Rats and Mice in an old house or barn A double benefit came to the Kingdom hereby Cateline aâ— traitor to old Rome We ought to be as thankful for privative as positive mercies Prov. 6. 11. Psal 92. 7. Psal 73. 18 19. Psal 58. 10 11. A Trienniall Parliament The most blessed continuation of this present Parliament The excellent benefit of these 2. last Laws A three-fold cord is not easily broken Both Church and State sick at the very heart The Church sick of a quotidian-ague of Popery The State of a Consumption by oppressive taxations A Protestation Wednesday May 5. 1641. Who they be that refuse to take the Protestation Friday July 30. 1641. God in the Mount of Mercies Psal 18. 1 2 3. and 31 19 23. Psal 27. 14. Parliamentarie mercies to the Church of God * Prelates and Pontificians Ier. 38. 7. Dr. Bastwick Mr. Burton Mr. Prinne freed from prison Dr. Laighton also M. Smart Mr Walker Mr. Foxely Mr. Lilborn many others set a liberty Isa 29. 20 21. Prov. 11. 8. Hesth 6. 11. Mr. Prinnes most excellent History of all those three famous-sufferers Gen. 22. 13. Psal 32. 11. 3. 1 3 4. Paarliamentaâ—â—â—rdiners State-Engineers The Prelates ill-legall Synod nullified Their accursed Canons damned Their monstrous Et caetera-Oath also condemned Scandalous priests discovered and discountenanced 1 Sam 2. 17. Non-residents and Pluralists voted against Deans Prebends voted down Godly Pastort and Lecturers set up again with the peoples consent Isa 1. 27. * Which very words the Arch-prelate of Ganterbury spake most proudly to a godly Pastour my worthy friend Our Candlesticks almost lost and stinking-snuffs setting-up Psal 126. 1. Psal 32. 7. Oxford and Cambridge hopefull to be purged Matth. 6. 23. Sabbath-dayes better sanctified The due praise of the true sanctification of the Sabbath A profane book for sports on the Lords day Most violently pressed by the Prelates on Gods people Printing-Presses set open again The Sabbaths honour thereby vindicateâ— God in the Mount Psal 47 6 7 8. Gods worship in the Church better ordered From Romish Ceremonies Crucifixes and Popish pictures in Churches dimolished All Jesu-worship prohibited and all altar-rails dimolished * Exod. 20 26. Libertie to hear the Word without controlment The miserie of mens souls by Prelates soulcrueltie A notable peice of Prelaticall tyrannies now blessedly abolished The Kings Declaration before the book of Articles The High-Commission Court most blessedly put down A fit description of the Arminian rabble Romes caterpillers blown away Persecuted Pastors return home The High-Commission-Court most blessedly put down A brief description of the High-Commission-Court The members of the High-Commission-Court duely delineated Mat. 5. 20. The Ex Officio Oath damned Church-WardeÌ„s freed from their visitation vexations Dan. 2. 5. 3 2â— * The High-Commission-Courts deserved destinâ—e being the vote of a reverend holy Minister of this Kingdome See beer the extreame malice and rage of the Prelates The Starr-Chamber Court voted down and the Councill-Table limited restrained Those last great mercies summed up together God in the Mount Isa 30. 18 19 20. England like to have been Romes perpetuall Ass Psal 7â— 19 20 23 24. A tympanie of pride An 〈…〉 fatuus oâ— self-deceit Gen. 27 38. God is an unexhausted Spring of mercies Compelling of the Subject to take the Order of Knighthood abolished Stannary-Courts and Clerkes of Markets rectified Parkes and Forrests also rightly ordered Priests and Iesuites banished Sommersett-House that cage of unclean birds cleansed The Queen-Mother of France also sent away A most happie union between all the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland An act also of oblivion therunto annexed Both Armies in the North disbanded August the 27. 1641. Our brethren of Scotland attested to be loyall faithfull Subjects What said our Arminian foul-mouth'd Priests to this God in the Mount Psal 9. 9 10. Psal 68. 20. Those slanderous tongues of wicked Priests forced to give themselves the lye in their Pulpits Iâ—â— 5. 16. Psal 63. 11. A notable design of the Popish Lords and Prelates with the English Armie in the North. The Earle of Straford attempted his escape out of the Tower Sir Iohn Suckling a partie in this plott The Prince also and the Earl of Newcastle were to advance the work The French also were to assist in it The hot zeale of our holy Bishops to work our destruction Master Iermines Letter intercepted Portsmouth also attempted to be got into their hands Another design with the Scottish Armie also against the Parliament Citie of London Both designes timely discovered and disappointed The most bloodie and barbarous rebellion in Ireland discovered The great danger of the utter losse of Ireland The Irish-Remonstrance Irelands Tears England mainly intended to have been the prologue of Irelands miseries Psal 124. 1 2 3 4. c. Sir Wil. Belfore put out of his Lieutenantship of the
in power or authority onely used at the Councill board to execute and countenance not to debate and deliberate-on their State resolutions nay so far from being employed in any place of trust and power that they were utterly neglected discountenanced and on all occasions injured and oppressed by the rest of the contrarie faction which now was grown to that heighth and entirenesse of power that now they began to think-on the complete catastrophe and consummating of the whole work to their hearts desire which stood on these three parts or pillars of confusion First that the Government must be arbitrarie set free from all limits of Law both concerning persons and estates Secondly that there must be an union and conformitie between Papists and Protestants both in doctrine discipline and ceremonies onely it must not yet be called or counted Poperie Thirdly Puritans under which name all that were zealous for the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom and for the maintenance of Religion in the power of it were included must be either rooted out of the Realm by force or driven away by fear And thus now at last we have the full dimensions every way of this pestilent and most pernicious plot And could they possibly have digged deeper or in humane apprehension and contrivement have founded it firmlier Whatsoever worldly wit and wealth could do whatsoever carnall craft power and policie could effect was wholly for them with full and copious concurrence they now seemed to carry all irresistibly before them And now nothing was wanting fully to finish the work no stone unturned no Remora to be removed save onely one In which God gave them the lie to their teeth according to that of the Psalmist Surely men of low degree are vanity and mâ—n of high degree are a lie and both to be laid in the ballance they are altogether lighter than vanity it self Such vanity yea such lying-vanity these great-ones in their supercilious high-built hopes and bigg-swoln timpanie of ambition pride and perfidie began to be now rendered by the wisdome and mercie of our good God This one rub I say now to be remov'd proved the main break-neck of their whole designe and makes way for mine also which is to let you and all the world see moss cleerly how heaven made these impious plotters fall by their own folly and madnesse by their own creft crest all their secret counsels and confederacies and made their own invented mischief work-out their own miseries According to that of the sween Singer of Israel most pertinent to this purpose Behold he travelled with iniquity hath conceived mischief and brought forth falsehood He made a pit and delved it and is fallen into the ditch which he made for others his mischief shall return upon his own head and his violent dealing shall fall upon his own pate Whiles Gods dear Saints of England and Scotland escaped as birds out of the snare of those Fowlers and by Gods free grace and rich mercie found full and fair deliverance Which I say is the main scope and principall aym of this our present history For now as they verily beleeved they had made England their absolute-asse to bear all their back yea soul-breaking burthens So that they thought it most fit now in the last place to reduce Scotland to such Romish-harmonie and conformitie to embrace those Popish superstitions and innovations as might make them apt to joyn with England in that great change which they intended for as for Ireland they were sure enough to prevail there at their pleasure as t is too well known to us all and to themselves also by their late bloody experience which had been much more had not God crost their plot there also and enabled us to help them Whereupon our Church-Canons and a new-minted Liturgie not the very same which is used with us in England which with our vestures gestures and superstitious service-ceremonies had been abundantly enough to have vext them but with most pestilent Popish-additionals and unsufferable new inventions of the Arch-prelate of Canterbury or some of his Romish-factors framing put in over and above ours to make them starke mad as it were must be sent unto them and most violently obtruded on them Both which they instantly and stifly opposed especially when they considered and called to mind those three rare gentlemen as some imminent Scots have acknowledged who had been so lately and barbarously abused on pillories in England but the 30 th of June before and this attempt on them was in August immediately following for opposing and writing against those and such like Romish fopperies their women in Scotland being the first and forwardest stoutly to resist such an uncouth and strange imposition on them Where by the way let me desire the godly Reader not to passe over this remarkable passage sleightly as a triviall thing For though this child of hope was now but in the embrio and unpolisht conception and as yet had no strength at all to bring forth a perfect birth of deliverance to them or us in the eye of the world yet let us remember what a notable caution the Prophet gives us Despise not the day of small things For they shall rejoyce and shall see the plumet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven eyes of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth Now the women having thus begun to oppose this new English-Romish Pope an Archbishop of Scotland appointed as they called it to read and publish it in his fine linen Ephod and other Popish-Pontificalibus were seconded by the men between whom was a huge hubbub made in the Church at the bringing in of the new Liturgie or service-Service-book which they I say thus utterly rejected and cast out from amongst them and upon this first and small rising like the cloud at first no broader than a hand it quickly grew so bigge that the whole Land was over-spread with it the Kingdom in generall being highly incensed also against it did utterly refuse to admit it among them Whereupon foule calumnies and scoffs were cast upon them in England yea a Proclamation read in all Churches calling and counting them Rebels and Traytors for thus resisting our Prelats most injurious impositions on them and an Armie was speedily raised at the Prelates instigation to enforce them by fierce compulsiâ—â— to obedience and to take that yoke on their necks for the advancing of which said armie our Prelates with the rotten-hearted Clergie and Papists were most free and forward with libeâ—all contributions The noble and valiant Scots were thereupon constraineâ— to do the like in their own just defence But when both Armies were met and ready for a bloody encounter God who hath the hearts of Kings in his hands by the honest and wholesome counsell of his Nobility so wrought on the heart of our King that maugre all the prâ—gging
of their wearing clothes searched for Letters and writings another of them not long after close-imprisoned for not delivering to them some Petitions which he received by authority of that House in time of Parliament A false and scandalous Declaration was then published against the House of Commons in the Kings name which yet by Gods mercie took no effect in the hearts of the people but contrariwise made the impudencie of the suspected authors of it more odious to them A forced loan of money was then attempted in the City of London to be made a president if it prevailed for the whole Kingdom but some Aldermen refusing it were sorely thrâ—atned and committed to prison About which time there fell out a mighty and tumultuous rising of Apprentisâ—s and young-men in Southwark and Lambeth side with clubs and other such weapons especially at the Arch-prelates house in Lambeth which put him into such a fright and perplexitie as made him hide his head and flie from place to place from Lambeth to Croydon and from Croydon to convey himself to some more private and remote hiding place for fear of their fuâ—y So that we might have said of him as the Prophet Jeremie did of Pashur that false prophet Jer. 20. 3. The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur but Magor-missabib even fear and terrour and trembling round about thee Which as 't was probably beleeved was the cause that the farther and more furious execution of their violent courses to get money from the Subject was not prosecuted Now though Pharaoh's Magicians were so wise and honest that at the sight of the dust of the earth turn'd into 〈◊〉 they cried out it was the finger of God yet this loftie Levite of Canterburies heart was as hard as Pharaoh's himself and would not with any remorse or penitencie of spirit acknowledge the hand of God against him but just like Pharaoh I say grew more and more out-rageous hereby For in all this interim he and the rest of the Bishops and Clergie contâ—nued their Convocation though the Parliament was dissolved and by a new-Commission turn'd it into a Provinciall-Synod in which they audaciously contrived new Canons containing many matters contrary to the Kings prerogative which they so deceitfully pretend to uphold the fundamentall Laws of the Realm Parliament priviledges and Subiects liberties and mainly tending to dangerous sedition upholding their uniust usurpations and as impudently as impiously justifying their Popish innovations idolatries and superstitious worship of God Among which their accursed Canons they had forged a new and strange Oath for the establishing of their Antichristian tyrannie with a most prodigious and monstrous Et caetera in it thereby to have deeply ensnared and grosly abused both Ecclesiasticks and Lay-men as they distinguish them Which Oath for its craft and labyrinthick intricacie and no lesse hellish crueltie so to captivate mens consciences I have thought fit here to insert The Oath I A. B. do swear that I approve the doctrine and discipline or government established in the Church of England as containing all things necessarie to salvation and that I will not endeavour by my self or any other directly or indirectly to bring in any Popish doctrine contrary to that which is so established nor will I ever give my consent to alter the government of this Church by Archbishops Bishops Deans Arch-deacons c. as it stands now established and as by right it ought to stand nor yet ever to subject it to the usurpations and superstition of the See of Rome And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mentall evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And this I do heartily willingly and truly upon the faith of a Christian So help me God in Jesus Christ Which Oath whosoever refused to take must be most severely punished with suspensions deprivations and excommunications or forced by other vexations to flie out of the Land that so the Kingdom being cleared of these squemish and nice-conscienced fellows as they call and count tender conscienc'd men a fairer and wider way might be made for the advancing of that grandâ—signe namely the Reconciliation of our English Church to the Church of Rome Now here me thinks I cannot pretermit to let the Reader see and take notice how properly this plot of theirs may be parallel'd with that of Pharaoh against the Israelites in Egypt who though kept-under with great and grievous thraldom and most heavie burthens yet grew to such a numerous multitude that Pharaoh being afraid of their number and still-increasing strength spake thus to his Lords and Counsellours Come-on my Lords let us deal wisely and endeavour timely to cure this growing Gangrene let 's keep the children of Israel under with vehement vexations and destroy all their male children in their birth lest they grow too strong for us and either forcibly get from us or joyn in battell with our enemies against us But God crossed this his craft and crueltie and made this very plot of theirs the ground-work of the greatest harm even to their whole land by Moses preservation whom God used as the main instrument of the Egyptians destruction Thus even thus I say it fared with our Prelates and Pontificians who by reason of our Scottish brâ—threns expulsion of their pernicious Prelates out of Scotland not unjustly fearing that the English Puritans would endeavour the like supplantation of their English hierarchie by the Scots example Come therefore saies the Archbishop of Canterbury to his Pontifician crew let us now deal wisely lest too late we repent it let us curâ— the courage of that encreasing Puritanicall-sect which so hates our apostolicall-Prelacie let us vex and perplex them with the heavie and hard loads of cerâ—monies superstitious innovations and new-east Canons with an c. Oath right muddie bricks straw and stable of Romish Egypt which I hope shall prove the very Quintessence of all our former plots and projects and the onely way to fix our selves fast and rivet our selves so firmly into the aposâ—olicall chair of this Kingdom by swearing the Puritans both Clergie and Laicks to our Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction as that no power either of Prince or Parliament shall ever be able to set us hereafter beside the sadle But see I pray how the Lords over-powring wisdom and goodnesse defeated their so high-built hopes crost this their deep craft and made this Oath and book of Canons the ground of their greatest overthrow So that all that see with the right-eye of a true understanding may justly say with Jethro Moses father in law Now I know that the Lord is greater than all Romes idoll gods for in the very thing wherein they dealâ— proudly the Lord was above them For after this their courage began to quail for this present Parliament was resolved on shortly after those Canons
Tower The Lord Cottington made Constable of the Tower Cottington displaced Col. Lunsford made Leiftenant of the Tower Lunsford also displaced Sir Iohn Byron made Leiftenant of the Tower Petitioned against A Plague-sore plasture sent in a letter unto Mr. Pim. Dan 3. Camillus a renowned Romane Captain Plutarch in his Lives Mr. Pims most undaunted spirit against the plasture Mr. Pims due praise An objection answered The Citizens of London petition both Houses of Parliament The Citizens most grave substantiall delivery of their Petition The gracious answer to their Petition The Apprentises of London do likewise petition The Porters of London also do petition the Parliament The Apprentises of London go again to the Parliament for an answer to their Petition Are greatly affronted The Bishops the cause of the quarrell Citizens abused at Whitehall by Courtiers there 1641. A great disturbance and hubbub at Westm Abbey the next day The Bishops are frighted from the Parliament by apprentises by land water The most remarkableevent of that affront to the Bishops The Bishops just fears and jealousies of theirdownfall The Bishops do petition the King Peers touching their grievances The Bishops Petition and Protestation to the King and Peers Twelve Bishops impeached of high treason and imprisoned in the Tower Quod nequit ingenium Dâ—us fecit Job 41. 34. Mark this note well Craft and crueltie Laodicean securitie Iudges 5. O how far short came all our best Bishops of noble Q. Hester in her zeal and courage for God and his Saints 1 Cor. 16 22. Here is the pith of the note which In desire thee to mark The great impenitencie of our Prelates * Bp. Hall a most fierce but fruitlesse stickler for Diocesan Episcopacie in a book of his lately printed and published in his own defence 2 Kin. 9. 22. Bp Halls Peace of Rome Two Scottish Bishops renounced their Bishopricks as an Antichristian function * In his defence of Episcopacie Ezra 6. 11 12. * O how much more precious are the living temples of the holy-Ghost which our Prelates have been so far from building up that the worst of them have laboured to pull down and destroy the very best of them have lazily and carelesly suffered to be destroyed The great designe of Ian. 4. 1641. exactly described A Serjeant at Arms sent from the King to apprehend the five Gentlemen accused of high treason The King himself went to the Parliament with 500 attendants Papists others The Souldiers demeanour about the Parliament-door The Souldiers most audacious and accursed speeches The Parliament attendants and Servants about the doore disarmed by force The King placed himself in the Speaker of the Parliaments chair The plot blessedly crost by the absence of the gentlemen The King departed out of the Parliament The main intention of this great grievous designe A Proclamation published at Westm against those Parliament-Worthies Voted to be a scandalous illegall paper Those worthy gentlemen justified by the Parliament A brief congratulatory for Gods mercie in this their so great a deliverance Deut. 33. 26 27. Psal 109. 27 28. Exod. 19. 4. Psal 105. 1 2 â— The Parliament adjourned and turn'd into a Grand-Committee at London in the Grocers Hall The Ministers of London petition the Parliament for an Assembly and a monethly Fast An assembly of Ministers resolved on in Parliament A monethly Fast proclaimed all over the Kingdom Rom. 8. 31. 2 King 6. 16 17. 1 Cor. 15. 57. Ship-masters and Sea-men petition the Parliament and proffer their service to it on all occasions Tuesday Ian 11. 1641. Our Parliament-Worthies most bravely attended to Westm by land And by water A brief description of the brave carriage of the Souldiers and Sea men by land and water Terror to the malignant partie But joy and comfort to the godly The legality of the acts aforesaid by land water Buckinghamshire men came riding into the City to petition the Parliament Essex Hartford and other Counties come to London in great multitudes to petition the Parliament God on the Mount Ier. 32. 39. The Bishops are quite voted out of the Parliament for voice and place The House of Lords make the Bill against the Bishops most full of comfort to us all Matth. 20. 26. Note this Bishops who had no heart nor voice for Christ have now no voice nor place for themselves in Parliament 2 Chron 21. 20 Note this also Non-subscription silenced many godly Ministers now their subscription hath imprisoned and almost unbishoped our proud Prelates Prov. 5. 22. God in the Mount Isa 51 7 8 9 11. The Kingdom put into a posture of defence Sir Iohn Byron Leiftenant of the Tower displaced Sir Iohn Conniers made Leiftenant by the Parliament A fair and famous project of subscription for relieving of Ireland moved and promoved in Parliament A general collection ordered also to be over the Kingdom for the distressed English inhabitants in Ireland The most liberall collection for Ireland at Aldermanbury in London A gracious answer from the Kings Majestie touching the Liturgie and Church-government Zaâ—h 2. 5. The malignant partie still plotting first in London A seditious Petition framed and presented to the Parliament against the Militia of the City other things of dangerous consequence One Mr. Binion a mainstickler in the foresaid seditious Petition A counter-petition exhibited by the honest Citizens against it The malignant Petition censured Mr. Binions censure The Kentish malignant Petition Sir Edw. Deering Sir Edw. Deerings book of his Speeches printed Himself and his book censured The Authors opinion of him and his book The Arch-Prelates conference with Fisher a Iesuite A Replie to the said Conference Wittie but irreligious scoffing at pietie and godlinesse in Sir Eds. book The seditious petition of Kent was much countenanced by the Earl of Bristow and judge Mallet The Petition brought to the Parliament Their usage in the delivery of their petition The Honest partie of Kent petition against the malignant partie God in the Mount â— Tim. 3. 8 9. Psal 115. 1 2. 3. The King having unhappily left his Parliament sends Messages to them The Parliaments wisdom and moderation in their answers to them The sweet unanimity of both Houses notwithstanding their great discouragements 1 Cor. 1. 10. Concordiâ reâ— parvae cresâ—unt Discerdiâ magnae dilaâ—untuâ— Psal 133. 1 â— Concord â— sweet oyntment to a Kingdom The Liturgie and Church government voted to be reformed God on the Mount Acts 19. 28. Isa 46. 11 12 13. The King by his ill-affected Counsellors grows into discontent with his Parliament The King departs from London The King takes the Prince along with him The King comes into the North. Hull attempteâ— to be taken for the King But preventeâ— by Sir John Hotham The K came to Hull and required it to be delivered up to him On refusall thereof was declared to be a traitor Propositions made to the Gentrie of York Swords drawâ— Divide impera A false and foolish distinction