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A63490	A True copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice for the tryal of K. Charles I as it was read in the House of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous court / taken by J. Nalson Jan. 4, 1683 : with a large introduction.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, defendant.; Phelps, John, fl. 1636-1666.; Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing T2645; ESTC R5636	141,696	216

they may know the true difference between the truly Apostolical Loyal and Obedient Church of England and those false Schismaticks who call themselves True Protestants but are of the Synagogue of Satan That they may understand the difference betwixt those Glorious Stars the Angels of the Churches the Bishops which are for ever fixed in the powerful Right-hand of the Son of God and those New Lights unfixed Meteors wandring Stars for whom St. Jude tells us is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever As for Exasperating the Government against them as it is not my design and that I address my whole discourse by way of Caution to private Persons so they ought rather to accuse their own Actions and not my Words if the Government be justly Exasperated against them And indeed as it would be a very foolish Presumption in me to pretend to advice so it would be a superfluous Vanity to go about to exasperate the Government since it is most certain the Government knows them sufficiently already and if the Tongues and Pens of all mankind were for ever silenced their own Mouths Pens Words and Actions never cease to make Proclamations against themselves and to provoke the Government even at no less Peril than not only its Well-being but it s very Being to take such Effectual Care of them as to secure the Monarch and Monarchy the Church and Apostolical Hierarchy from the continual Attempts of their unwearied Practices both secret and open against them And it is a Duty which not only the Government owes it self by the most Primitive and Innate Law of Self-Preservation but it is bound by all the Laws of God Nature and Nations and by all the Obligations both Divine and Humane by the strongest Reasons of Wisdom and Interest to protect and defend the Loyal Dutiful Peaceable and Obedient Subjects against the wicked Designs of the Seditious Unruly and Rebellious And as every Good man may modestly challenge this Protection from the Government so ought every Honest Man heartily to lend his best assistance towards the Support of that Power from which he expects Protection by detecting the Designs exposing the Artifices and weakning the Force of its implacable Enemies and such our Separatists have proved themselves sufficiently to be had there been no other Pens but their own imployed against them And because the whole World to whose hands these Papers shall come shall witness for me that I have Treated them at a far more temperate Rate than these Brethren in Iniquity have treated each other in their mutual Quarrels in their Censures and exposing each others destructive Principles And that if they find themselves pierced through the very heart of their Reputation they may with the Eagle in the Fable perceive that the Arrow from which they received their Mortal wound is feathered from their own Wings I will present the Reader with a Dialogue taken out of their own Writings and in their own proper Language which possibly may not be indivertive and I hope not unuseful or unserviceable to the design of Exposing and if possible Exploding these Wicked Turbulent and Factious Opinions out of the Minds of Mankind And that it may be known which are their Words and what is only inserted to reduce it into the form of a Familiar discourse those Expressions which serve only to tack it together are printed in Italick the other in the ordinary Roman Letter Independent Here 's a stir indeed What a bustle do these Presbyterians make for Reformation of Church-Government We must put in An Humble Supplication to the King and Parliament in opposition to these Motions of the Presbyterians for a Reformation Independents Petition Printed at Amsterdam 1641. Presbyterian And what art thou Independent A poor Suppliant of the Congregational way who am come with some others of our Church to present our Humble Petition to the King and Parliament for some Liberty and Indulgence to be shewed to the Tender Consciences of our Gathered Churches Presbyt What An Independent A Brownist a Separatist I warrant you None else would oppose this glorious Reformation and Endeavour to set Christ upon his Throne Indep Good Sir be not scandalized at the Name or the Thing We are for the purity of the Gospel according to the Pattern in the Mount Presbyt Oh! You are one of that new-born Bastard Sect of Independency which is nothing but a Confounding Ataxy Rent upon Rent and a Schisme of Schismes until all Church Community be torn into Atomes every three Men nay every three Women among you dissociating themselves into an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Will-Worship of their own devising which fondly and madly you call a Church But where I pray and in what corner of the world hath this aëry Independency been asleep until these days Quo consule Under what Kings Reign was it born Where may I hear that it hath a being Where may I read below the World in the Moon that ever it had a being I will be bold to brand it with the name of a new-minted Seminary for all Self-Pride Heresie Schisme Sedition and for all Libertinisme An Outside seeming Saintship a Pestilence to all Government except a Traiterous and clouted Anarchy Sir Edward Deerings Speeches Page 82. Sect. 2. Indep I perceive Sir your Worship is a member of the most Honourable House of Commons and I hope you will entertain a better Opinion of your weak Brethren whose Tender Consciences cannot come up to all your Heights Presbyt Never Never I assure you Independency Why it is a Genus Generalissimum of all Errors Heresies Blasphemies and Schismes compounded of first a Jew arrogating to be with them the peculiar People of God Secondly Christian in acknowledging the Scriptures some of them at least tho' Pharisees themselves and Publicaning all the World whereas True Religion is like Jacobs Ladder Stat pede in terris caput inter nubila condit Thirdly Turk submitting all to the Fate and Power of the Sword Religion Laws and Liberty that Idol of the People Walkers History of Independency at the beginning Independ Good your Worship what ever you think of us be pleased according to the trust reposed in you as one of our Representatives to deliver our Petition to the House where I hope we have many Friends you know there hath passed a Vote of the Commons of England for it and I hope you have too much Honour for that Body to deny that Request Presbyt I know indeed very well that your Schismatical Party hath been so Clamorous with Petitions that a Vote was passed in your Favour That it is the undoubted Right of Subjects to Petition and afterwards to acquiesce in the Wisdom and Justice of the two Houses Hist of Indep Indep Vpon the Foundation of that undoubted Right it is that we Address our selves to that Honourable Assembly And you will see by the contents of our Petition that it is time for us to stir and that we have

Papishes as they call them as if it had been true beyond all contradiction I have no design to turn Advocate for the Romish Religion and profess my self to have a most deep detestation and abhorrence for Sanguinary Traiterous Seditious Disloyal and King-killing or deposing Principles in any Religion or Perswasion whatsoever and do firmly believe that That Religion which holds justifies or tolerates such Principles is so far Erroneous False and Damnable But this being a perfect piece of Leger-de-main purposely calculated to deceive the Common-people into a good opinion of the worst and most dangerous Enemies of the Monarchy the Dissenters and thereby to enable them still to spread the Venom of their Principles under the Vail of Innocence and to make this Innocence appear by transferring the Guilt of their former Actions upon others I think it of so mischievous Consequence that it ought to be obviated and the falshood detected and made evident by the Beams of most irrefragable Truth And therefore for ever to silence all these foolish and frivolous Arts and Palliations and to take away the Fig-leaves which these guilty sinners have so Artificially patch'd together and to shew to the whole World from their Own Memoirs that it was the very real Presbyterians Independents and other Sectaries their Associates and no other who were actually guilty of the whole Scene of this horrible Murder of the King The Orignal Journal of the whole proceedings of that detestable Murder and the previous Tryal which was drawn up by the Order of the Regicides and presented then to the Commons-House and there publickly read and approved for a true Record and which is attested under the Hand of Phelps the Clerk to that pretended High Court of Justice having by pure accident shall I call it or particular Providence come to my hands and having the opportunity to take a true Copy or Transcript of it I thought my self bound in Conscience by the Duty which I owe to my King and the Peace and happiness of my Country to make it publick that if it were possible all true English-men might be made sensible of the horrid Guilt and danger of such Men and such Principles and so far consult their own and the Interest of their Posterity as to endeavour such a true and thorough Reformation as can only make the present and future Ages happy which can never be hoped for so long as the Whoredoms and Witchcrafts of this Painted Jezabel of the Old Presbyterian and Independent Cause are continued and cherished among us And most assuredly it is the Duty of every good Christian and Loyal Subject to contribute the utmost of his endeavours to suppress the Growth of such dangerous Principles as drive men so furiously headlong with the pretences of Religion to the most daring and desperate Extremities of Treason and Rebellion and to the very Precipice of Damnation I do not herein pretend to exceed the Limits of a private Person or hereby foolishly to undertake to prescribe Measures to the Government in the Management of this Important Affair but within my own Sphere I cannot but think my self and all other private Persons according to their Capacity Opportunities and Power under an indispensable Obligation to oppose and indeavour to stop the Impetuous Torrent of these wicked bloody and unpeaceful Opinions and Principles which have once before drowned this Nation in Bloodshed and Misery and who by their swelling and breaking over all the banks of Law Duty and Obedience threaten us with continual danger and apprehensions of a more cruel and dreadful Inundation and I esteem my self warranted to oppose them by their Example since the diligence assiduity and restless endeavours with which they do to a single man of the Party pursue their Ends and Wicked Interest makes it absolutely the Duty as well as Interest of all such as are Loyal who love their Country Church and King as heartily unanimously and zealously to make head against them and endeavour to crush this Cockatrice in the Egg which otherwise will most certainly disclose a fiery flying Serpent And I cannot see any Expedient so probable to succeed as the exposing them naked and stript of their Artificial Trappings Painting and Counterfeit Gems of Sanctity and Innocence with which they are wont to impose upon the Minds of credulous and easie People I shall only therefore bring them to be surveyed by the light of Nature Reason Interest and Religion and that I may do them the most Impartial Justice shew them to the World in the Glasses of their own making and if there they do not like the Figure and Image which they make they ought only to quarrel their own deformities which will not in any Glass except that of their own flattering and false Opinion afford them any Shape less Monstrous and Ugly And I verily perswade my self that were the Common-People of this Nation throughly instructed by those whose Duty it is to perform that Charitable Office in the black Consequences which necessarily naturally and unavoidably follow the Principles of those Leading Men of the Separation and made sensible how much they are the Enemies to our Peace and Happiness both here and hereafter even Nature and Humanity would teach Men to abandon them as the most dangerous Cheats and cruel Impostors and they who now admire the Beauty of these Painted Sepulchres the Seditious Meeting Houses were they aware of the Devil's Trap-Doors of Rebellion and Damnation which are there planted would be more cautious of crouding into them And were it possible as I think it is easie if it were vigorously indeavoured to convince the deluded Vulgar who have these Mens Persons in such admiration and who are so apt to be inchanted with the Songs of these bewitching Syrens that under all those fair Words and sanctimonious Pretences this Whining about Gospel Liberty and Persecution for Conscience this Puking at decent Ceremonies and more decent and beautiful Order and Government this bellowing against Antichrist Popery and Prelacy there is all this while concealed the Ruine of their Country the Destruction of the Government the Subversion of the Laws Sedition Tumults Insurrections Murder Fire and Sword Slavery and Infamy and at the last Eternal Damnation and endless Torments certainly they would not only forsake but detest and abhor those Impostors and Deceivers Now all this is as demonstratively true as to the matter of former Fact and future Consequence as God is true and just and as that is True and Canonical Scripture which from the Mouth of Gods infallible Spirit assures us without any Limitation or Reservation without any Exception or Dispensation That whosoever resist the Higher Powers resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves Damnation Now if Rebellion be resisting the Higher Powers as certainly if that be not nothing is and if we be able to prove those of the Separation to a single Man of them Guilty of it either in Fact or in Principles or in