were in the old Parliament that would thus gratifie the peoples sworn enemies hold continual familiarity with th 〈…〉 for Car hath boasted that he could daily speak with them at the Parliamenâ— door And when Garret Dillon another Irish Priest was appoinâ—ed to dispose of the Arms Ammunition which the King of Spâ—iâ— had sent ovâ—r to the Catholicks in England Ireland in the year 1640 he was secured at the Spanish Embassadors house and from thence sent out to the Kings Army where he was sâ—ain Therefore let all unâ—erstanding Protestanis judge whether he be fit to have liberty of residence within the City of London or no And for many in the old Parliament who carried on the same design as may appear by their familiarity with the sworn enemies of the Common-wealth and by their releasing of them frequently and protecting of them to go between the King and his Queen all the time of the Wars and when they were appâ—ehended at any time did suffer them to escape and punished the discoveres and from time to time have used all their art and power to stifle all intelligence and destroy all faithful intelligencers and protecteâ— Sâ—ies and Agents for the King to fire the City of London and suffered above six score thousand pounds worth of Malignants goods to be conveyed away to preserve it from the fire when the City was to be burned and likewise suffered threescore thousand pounds to be conveyed to the King which was in the hands of a Popish Treasurer and also concealed a List of about 60 considerable persons in the City who with their confederates did constantly contribute to the Kings Army considerable sums of mony All which with many other things doth make it clearly appear that they were resolved to uphold the wars between the King and Parliament until the Protestants were so destroyed that the Papists might have their wills of both And I hope by this time all the rational part of our bretâ—ren the Cavaliers and also all under all diffâ—rent forms whatsoever are clearly convinced of their error in taking up Arms for the Pope instead of a King And therefore I do humbly entreat them as they do tender their own lives liberties estates postereties the good of their Native Countrey and the Protestant Religion that they do never offer to stir upon any pretence whatsoever to tâ—kâ— up Arms against the higher powers for if they do they will but destroy themselves and make the wound of the Nation the deeper And I am confident that there were thousands of them if they had known of the Papistsâ—esign they would as soon have torn their own flesh off their bones as ever have taken up Arms against their Countrey And truly I am sorry for those that have a hand in this cursed design which is in part discovered and for those of them that are undiscovered if they shall out of conscience come in and submit and make discovery of what they do know I dare engage my life that a hair of their headâ— shall not perish But some may Query why I do write in this manner My answer is That for almost 10. years after my return from Ireland my employment was as little as my Estate so that I had nothing to hinder me from observing the current of the times amongst which I could not but take notice of the policy of the Priests Jesuites and all the popish faction and there accomplices in playing their game on this manner So long as the people are oppressed they will be discontented and so long as they are disconteuted they will fall into Divisions and so long as they are devided the easier destroyed And to this end was the reins cast upon the neck of all corrupt Committee men to cheat by thousands and hundreds of thousands and then hire Clarks to Coppy out their Books to cover over their cheating but these were of the better sort of them for they had some fear in them but the rest of them hath gone on with as little fear as they had honesty And so for â—ur corrupt Treasurers which of them hath ever been called to account And so for our unjust Judges who have judged for a Reward are they not yet unquestioned And for our Long-winded Lawyers who can run races of 7. 10. 20. nay 40. or 50. years long and make the people dance after their long tayls until they were run so quite out of breath that they had not a groat left in their purseâ— â—â—d many of them gone with sorrow to their graves but I hope to see God making inquâ—sition after the blood of these poor souls which were so mercilesly murthered And for the corrupt Members of the first House how did they sit hacking and hewing at the two leggs upon which this Common wealth did stand I do mean Men and Money For Men how have they been betrayed both by Sea and Land And how have they been discouraged some of them by keeping back their just and dearly earned wages and others by long attendance to receive considerable sums which were by them disbâ—rsed until some had well high perished if not altogether and many of them languish in prison while unworthy 〈…〉 le ts can have good rewards for there pretended good services though indeed they deserved to have their heads taken â—ff for their unfaithfulness And for Money how hath it been consumed not only by the Monsters formerly mentioned and many more of the like nature but I do believe it will be proved that some of the Members hath sent out of the Land divers millions at several times bâ—sides the vast Estates that some of them hath scrued into their own hands by unjust practises but to add t 〈…〉 this when I do consider the frequent recourse that the Irish Priests and Jesuites had to some of them and how frequently the Priests Jesuites Irish bloody Rebbels were released from time to time though their crimes were never so hainous and knowing how they boasted of their great friends that they had in the House and Councel by which they were extreamly encouraged and upon which their confidence was builded of carrying on of their cursed design of the bloody Massacre and clearly â—escerning that they had more friends there than the Common-Wealth had for when they attempted to make a discovery of it they were betrayed into their hands I could not but conclude that the desolation of the everlasting Parliament was one of the greatest mercies that ever this Nation received from God this many years for if they had sitten a little longer in all probability they had accomplished their desires which if they had accomplished then all mercies which God had â—ouchsafed us since these troubles had been drowned in a Sea of b 〈…〉 And now my Lord I beseech you consider how many parties hath God overthrown since these troubles fell upon us as the Bishops the corrupt House of Lords the late
EYE-SALVE FOR ENGLISH-MEN AND AN ALARVM TO THE LONDONERS Wherein is contained the Summary of Romes late designes against England and the present plots and enterprizes in hand against London so many as hath yet come to the knowledge of the Author Together with the opening of an effectual door to the happiness of this Nation Whereunto is annexed a Postscript containing Reasons and Motives to his Highness and the present power in being to grant us sâ—ch a Committee which hath been long promised and much longer desired and sought for Composed for the view of his Highness and all the People of England by Jeffrey Corbet Citizen and Grocer oâ—London London printed in the Yâ—er 1654. ENGLANDS Warning-Piece AWake awake O England and if thou art of the horns that must hate the whore and make her desolate do it now or never or else she will do it to thee and make thee desolate Oh what a Lithergie hath seized upon thee sure thou hast forgoten thy name and art become a stranger to thy self thy dangers thy deliverances thy vows victories are buried in oblivion the Councels of Rome was at first thine Enemies but now thy chiefest friends in Councel the plots of Jesuites were then thy fears but now thy favors and delights As soon as the Lord had pluckt out the sword out of thine own bowels thou didest sheath it in the heart of thine ancient friends of Holland and no sooner is that over but thou ragest against thy friends at home Awake and stand upon thy guard for thou art allmost druâ—k with the abominations of the whore How is the aire infected with Oaths and cursings and perjuries How are the streets thronged with pride and drunkenness How are thy Chambers infected with ryoting wantenness and gluttony thou hast not heard the voice that bad thee vex the Midianites which vex the with their wiles Thou hast not heard the voice that bad thee render unto them double Yet the Lord hath compassion on thee and ceaseth not to give thee warning upon warnings Surely Rome is the Mother of harlots and is drunk with the blood of the Saints and the souls under the Alter câ—y aloud A Religion delighting in and laden with blood a Religion unsariâ—ble and unparalel'd not end 〈…〉 ring any but it self yet agreeing with hell it self so the Pope be the head making the word it self to come and lay down at his feet the Sword anâ— the Keys and then he opens and cuts off what Scriptures he pleases he arogating to himself more power than the Devil who promised but the Kingdoms of the world and the glory thereof but he will promise Heaven also with Hell and a new created place which was never mentioned by God men or Divils even his own vast Territories of Purgatory therefore it is a small thing for him to dispose of Kingdoms and Empires of the Earth Are not there great animosâ—â—ies against England till it return to be disposed of by him Look abâ—ut and â—ee the slâ—ughters he hath made in our neighbor Countries about us wiâ—â—â—ss the M 〈…〉 icre of above 100000 Protestants aâ—Paris and the bloody Spanish Inquisiâ—ion and the like but to come nearer home let us remember the Spanish Armado in 88. which came with I strâ—menâ— of cruelty to Mâ—ssacre all the Protestâ—nâ—s of England and let us noâ— forget the helliâ—â—Powaer plot the Spanish Fleâ—â— about 1639 laden also with Instruments of cruelty 〈◊〉 Mass-c 〈…〉 wâ—â—ch were vaâ—quished by the Holland Fleet in the Downâ— and after thaâ—â—n the year 1640. when the Popes firebrand the Queens Mother was in England she brought over an Irish Pâ—â—est who bâ—aâ—â—ed that he was the chief contriver of the Massacâ—â— in ended to cut off 〈◊〉 the Protestants in England Ireland and that he was by the Pâ—pe employed to all Catholick Princes for their contribution towards that bloody Massacre and he gave it under his hand about August 1640 that their were 7000. men in private pay for the Massacre here and that there were 500 Irish Souldiers sent out of Flanders to guard the TowÌ„er under the Popish Lord Cottington and that the Queen would pawn the Jewels of the Crown to supply them with â—â—ny for that bloody work whereupon William O Conner was apprehended and committed to the Gate-house 3. of September 1640. which was many Months before the Irish Rebellion brake forth and was kept prisoner above 5 years without any prosecution and then released by the old Parliaments connivance so the blood of above 100000 Protestants that were murhered in Ireland in cold blood is brought upon your Highness and this Common-wealth for justice nor being speedily executed upon William O Conner that others might hear and fear and do no more so wickedly therefore the hearts of his confederates were fully set in them to do evil so as they went on with that bloody design and carried it on with an unnatural war And when they saw the hand of God against them in the war they have ever since endeavored to carry on their long intended Massacre still deluding the Protestant Cavalier to strength en their hands in carrying on the Popes design under colour of the Kings Interest when as the Popes design is to destroy all Protestants whatsoever and all the benefit which they could possible gain by it was to be last destroyed and that will more clearly appear in their intended Mussâ—cre in London where all sorts of Protestants do live and for the greater number of them were their own friends For first they contrived some years since to Land forreign Forces at a distance from London to draw ouâ— Army towards them and then they were to cut off such of the State as stood most in their way and to surprise our Guards and then to fire the City in many places at once and whilest the people were a quenching the fire then they would fall upon the cutting of their throats And for the more easie effecting thereof the Spanish Embassâ—dor is and hath been for many years their endeâ—red friend and hath entertained William O Conner and Patrick Car an Irish Priest who was taken in Arms against this Common wealth and was appâ—iâ—ted their Captain General and also many other Priests and Jâ— suites who do continually plot the carrying on the intended Massacre and do contrive from time to time the carrying on of whatsoever may tend thereunto as when the two Irish Traytors were in the Toâ—er the Engines that were made for their escape was contrived at the Spanish Embassadors house and there they were sometime secured till the search was over And when the Apprentices did make a â—umult in the City upon the Sabboth day at night then was his Gate open all night and men in Arms passed in and out and divers in Scarlet cloaks câ—me to those of them that were put into Newgate and afterwards boasted that the Spanish Embassador got them released which sheweth what trecherous men
Mountains And I beseech you all consider that God is about his overturning work and he will overturn and overturn until the Government be put into Christs hands and then we shall have justice for the Prophet saith that he is just We have had many overturns but there is a greater behind then any of the former and I hope it will be but the overthrow of all the corrupt powers of the Nation with the overthrow of the corrupt practice of the Law also Man was happy so long as he acted the will of God but when he sell to acting of his own will he made himself and â—ostâ—â—â—â—ity miserable And I cannot but admire at men that think to make themselves happy by seeking of their own wills Oh! when I do consider the actings of many of the Magistrates of this Nation who are men of great Estates and yet do daily break down the hedg of the Law which God hath set about them to preserve them and their Estates from the Sons of violence I say when I do consider their frequent practice therein it doth make me trâ—mble to think of the fearful event which might ensue if others should take example by them therefore I do earnestly beseech them all both for their own good and the good of the whole Nation that they do now begin to act in the will of God for in so doing they shall be blamless both in the eyes of God and man for I am sure that man can never be happy until he doth return into that coâ—â—ition wherein be was first happy and when our wills are bouâ—d up wholly in the will of our God then all controâ—â—â—sie ceaseth between the Creator and his creatures without which we cannot be happy And truly when the new overturn shall come I think the wisest man alive cannot say what party shall be undermost but this I am confident of that Christ will be uppermost for Antichrist hath had his day and the Sun thereof is a setting and the day of Christ is a dawning therefore let all the Agents of Antichrist know that they will suddenly know that all their labor is in vain although they have digged deep to hide their Councel from the Lord yea even to the bottom of Hell it self yet let them know that God is there and that nothing can he hid from his All-seeing eye and the woe that God hath denounced against them shall assuredly overtake them speedily and I cannot but wonder at their blindnes that they do not see the hand of the Lord stretched forth against them and how he hath made good his promise that no weapon formed against him shall prosper for if it could certainly we had been swallowed up long since Oh that this Nation from the highest to the lowest would hearken what this speaking providence of late years doth say and that they would have their eyâ— in their heads to see how by a mighty and an out stretched arm he hath wrought salvation to his people both in England Ireland and Scotland Could any hand but the hand of Jehovah have done it When they had 20. nay I am confident they had 40. for one and yet God hath carried it against them notwithstanding all the falsness of those â—at seemed to stand for us What treachery and perfideousness hath and may be discovered in some that sat at the Helm Is the Popes Emissaries would seriously consider the mighty wonders that God hath wrought since these troubles began it would make them cease to indanger themselves and to perplex us for though they have an excellent faculty in fomenting and continuing divisions amongst us yet I must tell them that they do begin their work at the wrong end for their divisions reacheth but to the creature and so long as the Creator is not devided the Trinity is still in unity for the Father is not against the Son nor the Son against the Spirit nor the Spirit against the Father but they are all one and do set themselves to carry on one design which is to advance the Son therefore until they can work a devision in the Deitie it is impossible that they should ever accomplish their design and Iam sure God can never be devided in himselfe and I do beleeve that a great part of them are convinced of it and consequently of the impossibility of their prevailing against the Members of Christ but they must shew of what house they doe come of for they are like to their Father the Devill who knoweth he cannot prevaile yet he will do as much mischief as he can for he knoweth his time is short and therefore he rageth and would not have this Nation have a being neither in England nor Ireland and therefore hath he stirred up nustruments of cruelâ—y to raise such mercilesse taxes in Ireland as I thinke the like was never known in the world but they that have eyes to â—ee may see that God is a consuming of Antichrist with the spirit of his outh and will shortly abolish him utterly with the brightnesse of his coming Therefore my câ—unsell to all the Governors and Magistrates of this Nation is to close hands with Christ in doing the will of the Father for he saith If hee seeketh his own will his judgement is not just how then can they thinke that they doe justice whilst they doe seek their own wils but let them take heed for Christ will prevaile and he will have the will and the Law of his Father established therefore I beseech you close with him in it foâ— all power in Heaven and Earth is committed into his hands and he will prove a burthensome stone to crush in pieces all those that shall be found to oppose him for he will make all his enemies his Foot-stoole I could wish that the Governors of the City of London had in time thought of these things and then some of them would not have acted as they have done in binding over to the Sessions and good behaviours and afterwards commit him to prison that did discover to him the designe of the Irish Priests and Iesuits to burne the Citty and to massacre the people thereof I thinke that God hath bereaved them the use of common reason for could they think to escape any better then other men but there was more in it then I will commit to publick view at this time yet I hope God will stir up the Inhabitants of this City to importune our Grandees not to suffer those to have Government in this City who have brought off and acquitted the Plotter of the most dedesperate bloody designe that ever was set on foot in the world and stiffled the treachery of a dangerous Enemy of this Common-wealth and have punished those that did discover them My Lord I doe once againe intreat you as you tender your own safety to take heed of â—â—attereâ—s who cry peace and safety even when that destruction which they have plotted is ready to seize upon
to pay the Army and to prevent the selling of the prise of the poor Sâ—â—ld ers blood for nought that so in time the taxes may be taken off only we shall desire liberty to attend the Committies with liberty to speak on behalfe of the Common-wealth and that you doe afford us a speedy and an effectuall assistance to remove any upon Just Cause and to put in others that shall be Judged faithfull in their rooms and that any three or more of them to take any examination and five or more of them to Judge any matter only leaving the weighty matters to bee judged by you and your Councill this you will quickly finde will give such content to all sorts of people that there will not long bee need of an Army in England and after that send an Army where you please onely take the Word for your rule and you shal see such a presence of the Almighty going along with them that they shal not meet with any great opposition but my Lord if you shal refuse to hearken to the counsel of thy God then I could wish that God would provide me a place in the wilderness and feed me by a Raven as hee did the Prophet that so I might not see the wofâ—l desolâ—tion that God wil bring upon you and your family and the misery which is likely will come upon this Nation yet I am confident that God will finde out a way to lay you aside and yet preserve his people for hee hath a people in this nation which hee will not sell for nought I beseech you consider what is it that maketh any Action lawfull or unlawfull is it not Gods willing or nulling of it if so then I hope you wil say to us as Pope Elutherius said to 〈…〉 lutius King of Brittain when hee wrote to him to send him the Imperial Laws to govern Brittain by he wrote this answer The Roman Emperial Laws were made by men and might be excepted against But saith he I have sent you the Old and New Testament out of which you may gather sufficient Lawes to govern by And I hope that none in this Nation dareth to bee so blasphemous as to say that there may bee found out a juster or a more righteous rule to walke by than that if so then what have wee any longer to doe with that Antichristian Juggle which hath destroyed so many thousands of this nation but let Christ bee our King and our Law-giver Oh! that I did know what Argument to use that might prevaile with you herein For I am â—ssured that so great will bee the happiness that will come to this nation by it that for the obtaining of it I could wish that it were written with my heart blood rather than it should not bee obtained For the Spirit saith justice and righteousness exalâ—eth a nation and the fruit thereof shal bee peace and I am confident that if you had more wisdom than Solomon and could speak with the tongue of Angels you shal never reconcile this Nation without justice for I do see that God hath set it upon the spirits of the people of this Nation to have Christ exalted by establishing justice My Lord you have strong guards about you and they are no stronger then need requireth and I could wish they were stronger yet my Lord remember that except the Lord doth keep the City the watchman waketh 〈◊〉 Now my Lord if justice be an Attribute of God G 〈…〉 〈◊〉 be divided if injustice bee found with you assure y 〈…〉 that God is not present with yâ—â— and if any thing or per 〈…〉 can stand without God judgye I beseech you consider wh 〈…〉 s the downfal of your predecessor and do you think that God is changeable would he destroy a King for the injustice 〈◊〉 was acted under him and wil he not destroy you for 〈…〉 far greater injustice especially considering that it is committed against far greater light and stronger engagements and more publike promises made before God and man I beseech you remember that all that have fallen before you when they came once to live in the hatrâ—â— of the people they were short 〈◊〉 and how you do stand in the hearts of the people I wil not gratifie your and the Commonwealthâ— enemies so much as to commit it to publike view but I must tel you that those that have your ears at command and stoppeth them from your friends those with the Gentlemen of the long robe and others with a religious cloak upon their backs to cover their knaverie with all wil very shortly render you far more odiouâ— in the peoples eyes than ever were any of those that fel before you My Lord it is not the Governor that the people kicketh against but the manner of governing for if the people be governed justly and righteously they care not whether it be by OLIVER Lord Protector or by a CHARLS by the Grace of God or Parliament but if they cannot have it from neither ofthem then they will cease from them all and lift up their eys to the Hils from whence their help cometh and give the God of Justice no rest until the Government be put into the hands of Christ therefore I beseech you consider what you do lest you be found a Fighter against him for though God hath given you many victories yet my life for it he wil not give you the victory over his Son but wil exaâ—â— him in despight of a 〈…〉 the Kings Emperors and Protectors in the world and wil suddenly call them all to a strict account for their oppressing of his members therefore remember what God hath promised that if you 〈…〉 〈…〉 ays please him he wil maâ—e your enemies at peace with thee therefore take no care to please this party nor that party but let thy care be to please thy God by doing of justice and she wing mercy to the poor then never heed what this man saith or what other men say for it is not the sayings of men but the counsel of the Lord that must stand therfore take heed of making Christ thy enemy by quarrelling against his members for he taketh any thing don't to them as done to himself And my Lord I beseech you consider that though a Guard is good to preserve you against a 〈…〉 sible enemy yet remember that when that impartial â—eâ—jâ—â—nt Death shâ—â— come to arrest thee I tel thee it is not an Army noâ— Guard nor Life guard that can keep him out and then to whom wilt thou she for help The creature cannot help thee and if thou shalt think to goâ— God thy conssience cannot but tel thee that thou hast not rendred to God according to what thou hast received from h 〈…〉 or he hath done thee many favours and such as made the whole earth ring of them but thy conscience and all this â—ation wil witness against thee that thou hast done nothing for him until thou hast
in a little for what thou hast yet is very little to what thou shalt have for he wil make thee ruler over much and over and above thou shalt enter into thy masters ioy which is greater happiness and treasure then to possess the whole earth My Lord Christ in the 5 of John maketh it a thing of impossibility for us to believe while we receive honor one of onother and seek not the honour that cometh of God only and plentiful experience doth tel me that when we do believe that God can and wil give us and cast upon us far greater honour for doing of his wil then all the great Monarks of the earth can give us then we wil scorn to step forth to the creature for any addition for what is all the honour that all the great ones of the earth can bestow upon thee it is but titulary and a meer shaddow as nothing and endeth in trouble and horror then much more that which thou didst receive from thy inferiors and some of them did stand in more need of thy protection to keep them from Iustice then thou didst of that honor which they did put upon thee for thou wast much more honourable before for assuredly they have given the but a meer bubble But now my Lord I beseech you be awaked to act in the wil of thy God and thou canst not want true and lasting honour which shall remain with thee and thy name shall be honourable to the ends of the earth when thou art dead and gone the work which God hath been about these many years past is to draw all good into himself and to leave the creature empty that so we may see that all men even the best of men are a meer lye for we can no sooner receive any good by the creature but presently we cry out good master whereas he telleth us that there is none good but God for all good cometh from him and is but handed to us by the creature as the water through the conduit pipe and yet we do rob God of his honour by ascribing that to the creature which is only due to the Creator but when God hath taught us to cease from man and to make God to be all in all by ascribing the glory of all the good we do receive unto God who is the fountain of all good then I doubt not but God will recover many of those eminent professors of religion who have by their corrupt covetous and carnal actings brought so great a blot upon the profession of Religion by making them to see how they have been catching after the shaddow and lost the substance and as I may say have pierced the Lord of life I doubt not I say but God wil recover them but it wil cost them deer they must pass through the fire nay even through hel it self and the fire of the spirit must burn up and consume in them the fleshly principle that Dalilah which hath betray'd them into the hands of the uncircumcised My Lord I beseech you take care that none of the traytors of the old house nor none of the lawyers do creep into this house for if they do it is impossible that any good can come to the Commonwealth My Lord the hearts of the people are much rejoyced to see that greatness could not prevail with you to stifle Iustice for the blood of one innocent man and doth fil them with hope that you wil not suffer the blood of an hundred thousand men to go unexpiated The Spirit of God never spake any thing but truth and that hath told us that oppression maketh wise men mad and some of this generation who is so mad as to act to their own destruction did for a time cease and would have ceased totally if they could have seen justice established but for want thereof did fall to their mad actings again and were cut off I do not read throughout the Scriptures where there are greater promises made to any thing then to works of Justice and Mercy nor greater Iudgments denounced against any thing than iniustice and oppression Oh! that thou wouldst hearken to the Commandments of thy God! then shal thy peace be as a river and thy righteousness as the waves of the Sea and thy name shal not be cut off nor destroyed from before the Lord but the Lord wil do his pleasure upon Babylon and his arm shal be upon the Caldeans and although the oppressor or the oppressing City Babylon should mount up to heaven and fortifie her self in the heighth thereof yet from me shal spoylers come unto her saith the Lord and the violence which she hath done to Sion and the blood of Jerusalem shal be upon the inhabitants of the Caldeans and God wil plead Sions cause and Babylon shal become heaps c. Oh therefore I beseech you slee out of Babylon and deliver thine own soul and be not cut off in her iniquity for the time of the Lords vengeance is at hand and he wil render unto her a recompence therefore get thee into thine own countrey for her Iudgment reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the â—kies and the Lords device is against Babylon to destroy it Oh my Lord I beseech you consider that I desire nothing of you but what God and this Nation calleth for at your hands the doing whereof wil so indeer the hearts of the Nation to you that it wil secure you for the future the neglect thereof wil set both God and the Nation at a distance from you but the granting thereof will not onely procure all the good formerly mentioned but it will make such plentiful provision for the poor that there shall not be a beggar in our Israel A POSTSCRIPT containing Reasons and Motives to move the present powers to grant us such a Committee 1. Reason THis and this onely is the means to ease the peoples burthens and to satisfie their mindes whereby their hearts may be united in love one to another and to the present Government for how can the people think that you do fulfill the end for which God hath set you over them whilest they do see themselves so abominably cheated in every corner of the Commonwealth and vast sums of money conveyed out of the Common-wealth and can have no redress for it 2. Reas. How can you think the wrath of God can bee appeased towards this nation whilest the blood of above a hundred thousand protestants who were massâ—cred in cool blood is unexpiated and those that had a hand in bringing it upon us were advanced for their so doing and are in Government amongst us though it was discovered time enough to have had it prevented and so to have prevented all the wars and miseries that hath since fallen upon these three Nations In this lyeth the core of Englands sore and untill it be drawn out it is impossible that this Nation can be cured 3. Reas. How do you think that God can bless you by making the people to love and honor you whilst you do suffer them to be destroyed by that abominable cheat of the corrupt practice of the Law and suffer them to be arrested and laid in prison for many thousands when there is not one penny due and the greatest part of the burthen o 〈…〉 doth light upon the cordiâ—l friends of the Commonwealth and suffer thousands of widows and fatherless to be destroyed in their Estates by the Gentlemen of the long Robe and by unjust sentences in the Courts and no mans car is open to hear their cries Assuredly if the Scriptures be true and if God be just as he cannot be otherwise then he will continue shaking and overturning all the power of this Nation untill these things be remedied therefore 〈◊〉 beseech your Highness â—o take these things into your serious consideration give your soul no rest until these things be reformed for God hath p 〈…〉 ised that for the sighing of the poor and needy 〈◊〉 wil arise aâ—d I am confident that there never was so much sighing and crying of the poor and needy unto the Almighty in any age in the world as there is at this day Some may object and say that I am mistakes that there can be no such discoveries made out because there hath been several Committees appointed and little or nothing could be made to appear To which I answer 1. That the Popish Anâ—ichristian party had so interwoven themselves into the powers of this Nation that they would not have any to be impowerd that would suffer any such thing to be done for fear left they themselves or their friends should tast of the lash and it is a thing impossible to perswade blinde men to see and who is so blinde as they that will not see 2. I answer that I have held correspondency with many intelligible persons from all corners of this Commonwealth who will make it good and I am confident that I can have hundreds of thousands that will ingage in it and if it be not performed let me die the death 3. I do conceive that some in Authority may have some guilt of this kinde upon their cousciences which may make them unwilling to grant us this power To which I answer that the granting of this power will be so acceptable to the people that it will be look'â— upon as a sufficient means for whatsoever can be objected against any of them 4. My Lord either you or the corrupt practice of the Law must of necessity fall therefore down with that abominable thing and establish the Righteous and Mercifull LAW of our GOD and then thou wilt be established in Righteousness And now honored Senators if there be any love unto Jesus Christ in you or any longing for his glorious appearing then put on bowels of compassion towards the poor and miserable oppressed of this Nation for whatsoever is done unto any of the Members of CHRIST he taketh it as done unto himself And I beseech you remember that your own Posterities are concerned in it and must ta 〈…〉 of the Cup which you do provide FINIS And when the Massacâ—â— was discovered they put another face upon it by making a breacls between the King Parliament thereby to decide the Pâ—oâ—â—estâ—nts all which will be proved by sufficient testimony 〈◊〉 guire Mac Mahone Which will be apparently proved Though many of them will be proved faulty And yet hath obtained nothing