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A85527	The grand rebels detected or, the Presbyter unmasked. Shewing to all loyal hearts, who were the first founders of the Kings Majesties ruine, and Englands misery, under the pretence of reformation, who in truth have proved the instruments of destruction both to church & kingdom. By a lover of his countrey, whose design is to undeceive the deceived, make known the deceivers, and himself also in convenient season.		1660 (1660)	Wing G1511; Thomason E1019_13; ESTC R208312	9,416	12

services for their Country such as deserve to be recorded for the benefit of future ages they are like to be very little beneficial to this The next progress of these loyal subjects or rebells which you will was their Army being raised the War begun and his Majesties faithful Subjects and Souldiers behaved themselves stoutly that the poor Rebells was many times well beaten and prevailed little against their King notwithstanding Sir John's blessing of them but yet the zealous fomentors of the Rebellion made all their Pulpits ring with cursing and banning the poor ignorant people and Apprentices Oh Curse ye Meroz curse ye Meroz b● 〈◊〉 because he went not out 〈…〉 Lord against the mighty Thus they plainly made use 〈◊〉 holy Scripture to stir up the Kings subjects against him but had forgotten that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft but carried all under fine pretences and would make as if God himself approved of their wicked waies and their cursed and cursing Doctrine so terrified the minds of men that they could neither live quiet in their houses nor sleep quiet in their beds but must forsake all loyaltie and duty to fight against their Soveraign Lord blind zeal puts men upon unwarrantable practices And by this means their Armies was recruited after they had been routed And what rare devices had the Rebells to supply themselves with mony they are excellent Doctors and have a salve for every ●●ar an excellent faculty to preach Charity every one must contribute so ●ething towards this hopeful Reformation and therefore they stirred up the Citizens and others to bring in their superfluous Plate-rings and Jewels and mony and bid them believe on the Publick Faith for Security hereby raising vaste sums of mony which is well secured ●rom the right owners as safe as if it were in another world for● question whether ever it will be paid in this and very lately a grave ●en o● of the F●a●ernity in his Thanksgiving Sermon before their Worships moved them to remember to pay the Publick Faith but I have not faith to believe they are so made as to take his counsel it had been more welcome and better acceptable advice if he could have told them such another trick to borrow more but surely the people have bought more with then to lend them any yet I have heard the City of London the famous Nursery of these Rebells formerly I wish it may become loyal now but it is hard to trust where once deceived have lent them some I wish poor Sequestred Divines could find so much Credit or Charity amongst them however I am not without hope to have my right for I do believe when his Majesty is restored to his we shal be restored to ours in the mean time J know it s not to be expected that the Disciples should fair better then their Lord. J shal now present you with a Combination of these Rebels both in England and Scotland for now they discover openly what before they practised secretly in the year 1643. they enter into Covenant and swear a confederacy in cruelty and wickedness it would be too tedious to repeat at large J shal onely touch of things to refresh our memories and inform those youth that are Loyal and want a little information in these things J will observe something of their Covenant that Scottish trick to warn against the snare of it The first part is That we shal sincerely really and constantly through the Grace of God endeavor in our several places and callings the preservation of Reformed Religion in the Church of Scotland in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government against our common enemies c. where note They swear the people to indeavour to preserve the Doctrine Worship c. of Scotland expresly in terms and so draw poor people into a snare for I dare affirm that three fists of the people of England that took this Covenant knew not what the Doctrine Worship and Discipline of that Church was and impossible it is for persons to keep any Engagement when they know not what they are thereby obliged to unfess they think they are bound to do whatever the Assembly of Presbyters require them And w●thout all peradventure a Prince muk needs be happy that hath such subjects especially considering their Doctrine I 'le cite you a passage out of their own Author The Commonalty ought to reform Religion if the King will not see Knox to the Commonalty page 49 50. Again If Princes be Tyrants against God and his Truth their subjects are freed from their Oaths of Allegiance Knox to England and Scotland folio 79. But who do the Gentlemen mean by the common Enemies the people and they are sworn to oppose Surely they do not mean his Majesty and the Learned Fathers the Bishops and all Divines and people that wil not bow down to their Baal nor worship their new-erected Image Presbyterie yet the second head in the Covenant smels as if this were that they intend to which I refer you For in that they swear That wi●hout respect of persons they must endeavour the extirpation of Popery and Prelacy that is say they Church-Government by Bishops Archbishops c. And so they make the people swear at all adventures against the Government of the Church of England established both by the Authority and Judgement of his Majesty the Learned Fathers of our Church and this in direct opposition to the Oath of Keligion and Supremacy But this is nothing for according to their Doctrine if the King be a Tyrant against God the people are freed from all sub●ection and they viz. the Presbyters must be Judges whether their King be a Tyrant yea or no here is a High Court of Justice to trye and condemn all Kings and Princes that wil not subject to the Jron yoke of Presbytery Again in the first Branch of their Covenant they swore to endeavour the preservation of the Church of Scotland and ar formation of the Church of England and Ireland in Doctrine Worship Discipline c. according to the word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches and shall endeavour to bring the Charches of God in the three Nations to the nearest conjunction and uniformity c So that this clause doth seem to insinuate that the Churches of England and Ireland was unsound in Doctrine and corrupt in Worship Discipline and Government but theirs is Sanctum Sanctorum and therefore to be preserved and be our pattern to reform by and if their words import not thus much then how doth their matter agree For if England and Ireland in their reformation according to the Scriptures or from the example of any other Church better reformed then Scotland exceed and go beyond what the Church of Scotland now practice yet by the Covenant that Church is to preserved in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government as now it is then how is it possible for the people by all their endeavours to bring the

Churches of God in the three Kingdoms to a conjunction and uniformity in Religion Confession of Faith form of Worship Directory Government and Catechising And do but make this observation what good Subjects these are they would not receive the form of Worship Directory c. appointed them by his Majesty and the Bishops and yet would impose their inventions upon their Soveraign Lord Bishops and people and the same spirit reigns amongst their Brethren in England as wil appear and thus you see how by cursing and swearing they managed their stratagems for one while they preached Curse ye Meroz another while their Covenant and so carried on their war against their King and their valiant Champions was Ess●x who manfully behaved himself in the West and Wall●r at the Devizes with Haslerigg 't is true M●ss●y is a worthy Gentleman and Souldier whose merits ought not to be forgotten for we have demonstrated his Loyalty to his Ma●esty at Worcester and since B●●w was another of their zealots who out of his zeal in this Rebellious Cause as I have often heard and that by persons that tell me they saw it at Abing●o● he caused a man that had been a Rebell with him against his King but repenting of his sin and according to his duty turning loyal to his Soveraign was taken in his service for which that bloody Presbyter Brown caused him to lose his life it 's affirmed that the Rope broke twice as a testimony of God's justifying the accused but the blood-thirsty caused two ropes to be twisted together and never was satisfied till the man was hanged though the man pleaded for his life as also did many sad spectators of that cruelty and certainly if this sin pass unpunished on earth by men we may expect God will powr out his judgments on us here and upon him hereafter After these had ingaged in the War till their hearts failed they like Cowards quit the field and then in come some of another Faction as Fairfax Cromwell Harrison and Ireton and they act their parts but still Curse ye Meroz was good doctrine in City and Country until by the Warrs the Kings Majesty had lost most of his Garrisons his forces in a great measure destroied and almost all wrested out of his hands by treachery and falshood and nothing but Oxford and a few other places left his Majesty reduced by these Rebels unto these streights slies unto Scotland or at least to the Scotch Army at Southw●ll about May 1646. and presuming on their Loyalty which all things considered he had little reason to do yet hoping at last they would be engaged by his Majesties throwing himself into their hands to become faithful unto him but instead thereof their Ministers charge him with the guilt of blood yea all the blood of Ireland and England and admonish him as they eall it all which his gracious Majesty bare patiently which no doubt could not but be a great affliction to a Prince to be insulted over by such Rabshecaes who having forgotten their own duty condemn his innocent Majesty as if he had neglected his But had these sons of Belial never read that Text of St. Mat. 5.7 Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam out of thine own eye c. and Job 24.17 Is it fit to say to a King thou art wicked and to Princes ye are ungodly I wil not say Sir John had never read these sacred Scriptures yet I much incline to think they wilfully forgot them as also the duty of subjection they owe to their Prince The Parliament demand the King of the Scots and they demand money of the Parliament for their good service and help in the Rebellious War or a price for their Prince the Parliament grant them the money and they Traytor 's like sell their King as Iudas did his Christ and to this day have not manifested so much repentance as Indas did for he brought the money back to the High-Priests who therewith bought the Potters Field to bury Strangers in and if ever the false Scot as I fear he never wil return their money it wil serve to buy a large field to bury them and their Brother Rebels in The King being thus sold by the Scots was brought to Hampton Court in 1647. from whence he got to the Isle of Wight where there was a treaty in which the main things insisted on was to keep down the Government of the Church thrown down by this Rebellion and instead of the Government by Bishops the Presbyter must set up his Stool of Repentance for all Loyal Subjects but this treaty was soon interrupted by another Faction sprung up both in Parliament and Army who were children the off spring of Presbytery though they like unnatural Fathers disown them and say they are illegitimate However we well know they are their Fathers though we know not their Mothers and this seems a greater mystery then that of Merline the Welsh Prophet whose Mother men knew but not his Father and indeed this is a Riddle I leave the Readers to interpret Thus was our Lord and Soveraign brought to lose precious life by the Fathers and the Children as our Saviour by Pilate and the chief Priests thus you have the raisers the rise and the management of this bloody Tragedy acted at White-hall Banqueting-House Ian. 30. 1648. About this time some of the Presbyters seem displeased and dissatisfied and spoke against the putting his Majesty to death so did Iudas when he saw his Lord condemned and for sorrow went and hanged himself which a blinde man would be glad to see some of them do And Fairfax declared against it but he never endeavoured to hinder it and Pilate did as much after he had condemned our Saviour said he had nothing to do with him he was a Just man but alas he suffered him to be crucified for all that and to me its a question whether the Presbyters trouble they seemed to shew was out of respect and love to his majesty or for fear they had lost their design of Svoeraignty which they hoped to have had by the treaty at Isle of Wight whether it was that the King lost his life or because it was taken away by other hands as wel as theirs and they thereby deprived of the sole Honour of the Work for such traytors glory in their wicked success or what meant all their hypocritical dayes of thanksgiving for Victories against our Liege Lord. But possibly they may think to excuse their treason against the Father by their kindness to his Son and now our Soveraign who I hope God wil preserve from reposing any trust in them least he also fall by his Fathers Enemies I shall set before the Reader my observations of these mens carriage of late and leave the Judicious to judge whether their Love be true loyal or feigned for some self ends Iune 6. 1650. the Scots sent for his Majesty out of Holland and would Crown him King but upon conditions