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A76857
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Bloody Babylon discoverd
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[Londinatus, Christianus].
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Faction alwayes had and still possesse all possible means tending to this end As at first in having the Command of London that Magazin of mony and men and with them a great part of the Nation and now all under their power besides his Majesty's Revenues Pallaces Bishops lands the Estates of many of his loyall-Subjects Excise and other Contributions by which helps the Faction hath rather bought victories than really fought for them the Silver Bullet burying more of the King's Army alive in prisons than the Enemy's Cannons did ever wound in the field Again consider that his Majestie 's party excepting some few Judasses did fight out of a religious Conscienciousnesse loyall affection to their God Soveraign and Country and not for a pecuniary reward onely Consider also that his Majesty wanted those means and wayes of procuring men and mony which the Faction had alwayes in aboundance That his armies were but as an handfull the Faction's numerous However take serious notice that the King and his party have Scripture Reason and Law on their Side but the Faction neither Therefore look to it you Continuing Sinfull adherers Never did National Sinns long escape the heavy hand of an Avenging God and if England London expect to be freed their hopes will deceive them Isaiah 30th 1 2 c. Jerem 9th 13 14 15. Further Consider the Vanity of pleading success also a way of justification of the worst of actions In respect of religion as Christians The people of God almost in all ages having been worsted in that respect God's intent in suffering the enemyes of his Church to prevail being only to try the faith and patience of his children to make them humble Acts 14.22 Gal. 6.14 fitting them thereby for Himselfe In respect of their Eternall well being in heaven and in reference to his owne honour upon earth that so his People coming as it were like pure gold out of the furnace of affliction they may be as shining and burning lamps for after-ages to walk by Again consider that the flock of Christ alwayes was little therefore to have Sucesse by power of a multitude is no argument of being Christians That as I have already inserted for the most part the Church was under Persecution and affliction therefore Prosperity is no ground of Saintship as the Faction pretend Hebr. 12 2. Math. 5.4 Be advised therefore my dear Country-men beware of acting and maintaining any thing against right Reason In it self both a sin and a punishment How many men so contrary to common sense and reason did following the deceiving sense of the Faction account and highly cry up Cromwel's marching into Scotland No invasion of that Kingdom where he could not ground the least pretence of a quarrell 1650. in his own unjust construction the end of his march being onely in prosecution of his first resolv'd-upon Designe of ruining his Majesty and Royall Family destroying our and their Laws and Liberties only to mount himself into the chair of Supremacy Neverthelesse many were possessed with such a sottish kind of stupidity Futall Worcest a sure presager of utter destruction as to esteem his majesty's last March out of Scotland into England with resolves only to Regain his right and that he might restore his subjects to their Religion Laws and Liberties to be an Invasion of England O Anglia Anglia quae vos dementia cepit Be for the future therefore advised keep closer to the Scriptures and right reason Approve follow and act nothing but what they warrant or is deducible from them for if you once but slipp from that firm Square you Tumble from once errour to another like a man fallen from the top of a Steep hill never resting untill you come to the bottom where without the Infinitely preserving mercy of God you will receive the reward of Such your wilfull Neglect even destruction Isaiah 30th 12 th 13. verses Again If God should continue still punishing England beware of making your selves Instrumentall-scourging Rodds in his hands which his will being performed he alwaies casteth into the fire But O holy blessed and glorious Trinity have mercy upon us miserable sinners Remember not Lord our offences nor the offences of our forefathers neither take thou any further vengeance of our sinnes spare us good Lord spare thy people whom thou hast redeem'd with thy precious bloud and be not angry with us for ever To this pupose we beseech thee to give us true repentance to forgive us all our Sinnes negligences and ignorances and to endue us with the grace of thy holy Spirit to amend our lives acording to thy holy Word For my part I call heaven and earth to witnesse I have now sett before you life and death blessing and cursing Choose life for why will you dy O England why will you destroy your selves O people of Great Brittain Why will you not turn to the God of heaven with whom are treasures of mercy O ye Citizens of London Turn ye Turn ye from your evill wayes by a serious suddain unfeigned repentance that so God may return unto us in loving kindnesse by restoring to us our Governours as in former dayes K. Charles and cause us again to fit peaceably under our owne vines That our religion in purity may practically be revived That we may enjoy Pastors and Teachers that may again feed us with true knowledge understanding That our lawes and liberties may be continued That Great Brittain may be preserved from this Imminent and Eminent Menacing Ruine That God may be glorified in our preservation and not in our absolute destruction That all our Souls at the great day of Account may be everlastingly saved Amen Amen Amen FINIS
King and Destroy his Royall off-spring infringe the liberties of their Persons and Estates burden them with Taxes upon taxes and domineer onely by the Tyrannizing Sword Can a man be so senselessy Stupid as to Suppose that any one man in England would have contributed the least assistance tending to such destructive ends Surely not Their Plotts had been as abortive-births dead in the very womb Like letters written on Sand invisible at the next windy blast and themselves had met with the reward of Traytors in the Originall of their Treason But I say they must out of a Politick necessity by Pretences of a reformation c. prepare the Common people for a Compliance and upon their deceived Compliance hammer out by degrees their ugly Plot to a perfection Away then with your most blasphemous entitling God's approbation to your Succeeding Villanies when as it is not Smiling Providence that waites upon your designes as you would make the people beleeve but the Graduall Effects of your politick Knaveries and methodical Treasons Indeed the All-just and wise God hath long suffered you to deceive the people of England and them to be so deceived But Gods designe thereby is to Chastise them for their instability and disobedience in not valuing or else lightly esteeming the blessings of Peace and punish them for their not prizing the Enjoyment of the Gospell of Peace and that you your selves by your additionall Sinnes might be left inexcusable at that great day of Account when the Judg of Heaven and Earth shall pronounce that unrepealable doom Ite Maledicti Go ye Cursed into Everlasting burnings Again to make this appear more plain take a further hint of their Rebellious Method which course had they not observ'd they could have done nothing tending to the acquisition of their designed Ends. In the first place they though falsly suggested into the Multitude's beleif an alteration of our religion on his Majestie 's part And these ungrounded Pretences made way for Jealous and Suspicious thoughts among the Common people and these though caussesse Jealousies occasion the Multitude constant in nothing but in Inconstancy to Stagger in their Sworn Alleagiance In the next Place following Machiavells irreligious rule Vehementer increpate et aliquid adhaerebit they back them with lying invectives ray ling exclamations against his Majesty his indeed Peaceable Just Merciful Government whereby the affections of many began to totter their dutie to shake their needlesse fears to encrease Again they Publickly cry'd up themselves though most untruly as Assertours Maintainers and Preservers of our Religion and the Lawes And these false allures attract the Aguish Judgments of too too many to incline to them in their belief and blinded Obedience Againe the more to ingratiate themselves with the Common People and hoodwinck them with Suppositions that they were Persons affecting Justice they Presse for Execution of Pretended Justice upon some Supposed Delinquents who indeed were no other but immoveable Loyall Rocks hindering their Progressive Rebellious Plotts And upon this account the incomparable Earl of Strafford and the unparallel'd Archbishop of Canterbury two main supporting pillars of Church and State were offered as bloody sacrifices to the common people's ignorant zeal and the conspirator's designes In the next place they vilifie the honour of the King's person advising the rabble of the City rudely to press into his Court bawling for Justice which never was denyed and by this means the respect and honour due to his Majesty was weakened the ill-manner'd people following the counsell of their teachers apt schollars of their black mouth'd master the devill began to revile the King despise Dominions and speak evill of Dignities With these and such like additionall insolent deportments of the City-scum his wearied Majesty was enforced for his own safety to leave London After which these rooting-Plotters persecute him with dethroning Propositions under the notion of Reformation delivered most commonly out of a Cannon's mouth or mockingly tormenting him with * vid Collect Parl. Ord. humble and loyall Petitions of Subjects presented upon the point of a bloody Sword Pretty Subjects indeed Thus thus England thou wast gull'd into a rebellious Army to bring to passe their Conspirator's designes upon the score of thy own destruction the losse of our peace dishonour of our Religion ruine of the King's Majesty and the Laws of England This done Blasphemy the Pulpit-Dragoons must interest the Deity in their quarrell Rebellion must be styled The Cause of God O horrible blasphemy as if the righteous and all-just God gave precepts for the commission of the most unrighteous unjust Caedem faciunt Scriptur aâ—um ad materiam suam and wicked actions that ever were committed To this bad purpose they cut and mangle multiply and diminish the holy Scriptures wresting them to a corrupt sense proper onely to their designes notwithstanding that Anathema Revel 22. vers 18 19 If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book and if any shall diminish the words of this prophecy God hall take away his part out of the book of life And by this means the poor people were seduced in matter of conscience obeying the politick Pulpit-directions quite opposite to the commands of God and their own former judgments and practises All this while Lying Dissimuâ—â—tion the rooting Engineers of State were busily busied in abusing the King and cheating the people senslesly in their Declarations dividing the power of the King from the King's person as if there possibly could be in a true sense the exercise of a Kingly power without the person of a King But seasonable it was for them so to do when as they unjustly made use of power without nay contrary to his commands and maintained Armies to fight against his Person Next to this Perjury succeed new obliging Oaths and Covenants correspondent to the sense of their designe and dissonant from the legall rationall and religious sense of all former lawfull Oaths witnesse their Negative Oath their first and second Vow and Covenant with their last and worst the Engagement all which must be as chains to the people's consciences with which being once shackled many of the Pulpits speak nothing but a performance of these Oaths and Engagements in the Rooters destructive sense as if such politick State-Engines carried more truth in them than the Scriptures themselves Thus they made human policy Mistresse of Divinity nay to tyrannize over her Indeed the Scots-Covenant as it was styled carried a compound sense in some Articles speaking seemingly-loyall and religious pretences but they were but seeming ones although in other nothing but an enforced change of both Ecclesiasticall and Civill Government Which compared with precedent and subsequent actions even untill his Majesty was snatched away from the Presbyterian Power Isle Wight maketh me grieve with admiration and admire with grief at many who still