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Cromwell's bloody slaughter-house, or, his damnable designes laid and practised by him and his negro's, in contriving the murther of His sacred Majesty King Charles I, discovered by a person of honor.
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Gauden, John, 1605-1662.
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in the last and perilous times in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and manners It is hoped that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful and by you most miserable Kingdomes as he gives us grace utterly to abhorr your desperate sinsâ—â— So that we trust he will never suffer us by a Devillish Apostasie to fall from all Vows Oaths and Covenants to God and man by which we and our posterity are bound to God the Crown and our Countrieâ— only to have yours and the Dâ—vils absolution to mâ—ke a Coveâ—â—nt and Agreement with Hell and Death with your most irreligious â—nd damnable designs and practises No the sin and horrour of your wayes are now like Absaloms incestuous and noon-day Rapes discovered in the sight of the Sun and all the world Nor will the sâ—btilty of your soft and fained voyces like Syrens any more charm and enchant the honest people of England into such Beasts and Monsters â—s your selves are to whose hellâ—sh deformities you would have aâ—l others to conform They have seen and felt too much already of your cruel Hypocrâ—sies your devillish and strong delusions Have not your words been alwayes Soloecisms to your purposes and your practises contradictions to your pretenses Have you not as much as lies in your power and malâ—ce cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty perjury cruelty barbarity irreligion and confusion that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into after so many Sacred and Solemn Professions of Loyalty and Reformation to God and the world whom we called to wâ—tness upon our souls Agreeable to all which and to fill up the measure of our sins as if our Rebellion against God and the King were hitherto but a light and small matter by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death by the hands of cruel Edomites and cursed Amalâ—kites as you are which most deplorable calamity to us and this Naâ—ion we penitently look upon as the severest temporal stâ—oke which the wrath of God gone out against us can inflâ—ct upon us Yet your impudent Hypocrisie now seeks to obtrude upon us your wretched and abhorred Agreement The sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King Government without Authority Magistrates without Power a People without Laws a body without an head Sheep without a Shepherd Christians without Christ Churches without Ministers Ministers without Maintenance a Nation without Faiâ—h In a word you would have us live as men without souls without God wilfully degenerating to beasts without sense of vertue or vice shame or honour without fear of Hell hopes of Heaven or thoughts of Eternity and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites and Sodomitick Saints the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Heaven and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear Have you not already made the Name of these Pretestant and Reformâ—d Churches to stinck among â—ll Naâ—ions both Christian and Heathen through the dead flies and â—ot enâ—â—ss of your principles and maâ—â—â—rs Have you not â—urp 〈◊〉 the cunning and câ—ueltâ— oâ— tâ—â— most â—â—suâ—tick hâ—aâ—s aâ—d 〈◊〉 â—s â—â—ch as you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o◠〈…〉 an◠〈…〉 to advâ—â—ce 〈…〉 above that of Kings But you upon baser principles seek to subject the Regal Soveraignty to that of the People as you call it nor that you mean so in good earnest further then to delude the people and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all both King Prince Peers and People We appeal to all sober Christians whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy Inasmuch as they plotted secretly but you have peracted openly the murther of the King the ruine of all the Royal Issue the overthrow of all our Laws the blowing up of all Parliaments the subverting of the whole State and Government the devastation of your Countrey the abolition of all true Religion the extirpation of all Liberty Peace Order and Humanity Your Elder Brother Faux himself might seem a Saint compared to you whose New Light and Dark Lanthorn you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions Nor were the rest of those Powder Trayâ—ors so criminal as you if they had effected what they designed since they neither prâ—tended to that Saintshâ—p or that smooth precisenâ—sse which you have done nor had they upon them such signal ties of Publique and special Trust besides your many voluntary Obligations The total violation of all which renders your sins out of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably traiterous beyond what any Caâ—elines but your selves ever had the desperate boldnesse to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared râ—valry and enmity against King Parliament and Countrey we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with lesse shame and disdain your insolent and prevayling Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aâ—quiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyall regard to his Majesties safety Rights Honour and Posterity to whom some of your chief Commanders as they well know engaged their souls as much as was possible for any mortall men to doe devoting themselves to all the Curses of God tâ—mporall and eternâ—ll upon the breach and failer of their words to his Maâ—esty Adde to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartiall endeavouâ—s to settle all things in Peace Justice due Lâ—berty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and State may witnesse whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God our King and our Religion We the people of England of all sorts Lords Gentry Clergy and Commons do again and again declare to God and all the world the present Age and Posterity so long as the world shall endure our infinite abhorrence utter detestation and toâ—all dâ—sagreâ—ment from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further doe through Gods vengeance upon this Nation in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Villanies Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Almâ—ghty God not in order to the satiâ—faction of our private maâ—â—ce or desire of revenge on any of you though our parâ—icular injuries havâ— been many from you but oâ—â—y in order to the publiquâ— Vindication of Goâ—s glory the Hoâ—our of the Reformâ—d Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Natâ—on the wiping away those foul sins of Trâ—â—sâ—n Perjury Truce-breaking and Regall Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood
the Fountain of their Honour but are content to be either bowed or hewed down or overdripped or exsuccated by such Aspiring Ivyes as you are our Counsell is that the ancient Barons of England sometimes Peers and chief Counsellors in Parliament would solemnly Degrade themselves lay aside their vain and ridiculous Titles reverse their Escocheons sell their Scarlet Robes to the Brokers in Long-lane rather then keep them either to feed Moths or to be Monuments to all Posterity What Capons Poultroons and degenerous Buzzards they are descended from such Eaglâ—s as many of their Ancestors were But if the Nobility should so far betray and desert themselves their Posterity their King and their Countrey who though their number be not great yet their interest is and so might their influence on the Publique yet be both great and good if their spirits and gallantry were such yet how can you the greater buggs of the Army or you the lesser Vermine and Maggots of the Commons who survive and crawl after the dissolution of your Parliament bred of and feeding upon the putrefaction of that House How can you think that the People of England who are generally and highly concerned in the Honor Credit and Religion of the Nation can ever with a good Conâ—cience or any face of common honesty agree to your Jugling and Sophistry as if you or your Western Mahomet and new Antichrist Hugh Peters had any Papâ—l power to absolve their souls from those Protestations Covenants Oâ—ths of Allegiance and Supremacy by all which they were and are both lawfully and â—eligiously bound under the greatest curses of God both to the Kingdom in general and specially to the Parliaments Priviledges and the Rights of the King and his lawful Successors of which grosse and manifold perjuries they must make themselves guilty only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of yoâ—r greater Bramblâ—s That forsooth the People of England might enjoy that Liberty Peace and Plenty under your unavoidable Tyranny unsatiable Rapine and cruel Oppression oâ— such Beggars as most of you are and were which formerly they câ—uld never have under the gracious Kings wiâ—e and Loyal Parliaments the ingenuous Laws and excellent Government of this sometime flourishing Kingdom Sure you are not yet so much beasts as to think that the Community of this great people can all govern themselves or mutually one another Government must necessarily be setled aâ—d centred somewhere Nor is it likely that your Leaders and Bashaes whose hands are embrued in the bloud of their King will ever be so modest as to lay themselves aside and denying their own most ambitious and covâ—tous desires to let any others but themselves and their creatures reap the fruit of their projects and labours for which they have pawned their souls to the Devil and sold themselvs as Ahab to do wickedly But if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial let the people of England without your terror cunning injurious restraints and exceptions be their own Umpires and Choosers whether they will bear the light and easie yoke of the â—aws and the gentle as well as just chastisements of their penalties under a lawful King or the iron-yoke of your Tyranny and the Scorpions of your wills being so many Evening Wolves bloudy Traitors and unlimitted Tyrants whose little fingers in these last three years have been infinitely heavyer then the loyns of all the Kings that ever were in this Kingdom let the people have free suffrages you will soon find That the true Agreement of the People a hundred voyces to one is this to shake off your cruel Tyranny to bring to condign punishment such unheard of Traitors and to invest in his Throne our lawful King Charles the Second the Eldest Son of that good King you lately murthered But how can the people of England ever hope to have any other Civil Agreement of theirs binâ—ing to you and your pragmatâ—ck faction further then your own fancies lusts and pleasures think fit since they finde you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man all Ancient and Fundamental Agreemen's in this Nation on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings the Priviledges of our Paâ—liaments the Liberties of the People the Order and Purity of our Church and the happiness of our Nation were setled What Cautions can you give that you will hereafter submit to any Publick Agreement who are such shâ—fters juglers and dissemblers that no Laws Leagues Covenants Protestations or Promises you freely make can binde â—ou No faith to King Parliament People neighbour Nations or God Aâ—mighty can hold you but like the man possessed with the unclean spirit you break all ties and bonds casting Church and State into fire or water as the rash motions of your Frantick humors carry you c. Conscience you can have none since your lights are so Lunatick and your principles vary every moneth Credit you have none who have made bankrupt of the Publiqâ—e Faith and forfeited so many solemn and Sacred Obligations to God and Man Sense of Honour or Duty you can have none since you have neither fear of God nor reverence of man Estates you have little or none to hazard or loose upon any forfeiture of your Faith or Agreement And for your Heads and Lives they are now so vile and cheap that although you are not fit to live yet they are scarse worth the taking Sure you cannot but appear to your selves as well as to all men the most outlawed notorious and Stigmatized Reâ—els the most perfidious Traytors that ever any King or Senate State or People imployed or trusted Having utterly blotted out all your former promeritings and good service so much boasted of Since the Event proclaims you served not King Parliament or Coâ—ntrey but your own lusts and villanous designs which by the advantages of mutinous power you now seek to accomplish under the now void and forfeited Commission of that stupid Saint that stain of Honour that dumb shew of your silent extatick and seduced General the poor and Unexcellent Lord So that the darkning of your most wicked designs by this title of The Agreement of the People amounts to no more in the true and last sense of it but this That you would have the People of England and the other two united Kingdoms willingly to bow down to your Hoddy dody your all Breech-Idol as your own Prophet so variously and falsely inspired justly calls your unlickt and monstrous projects not of Government but of Anarchy and Tyranny You would have us all to pledge you in that horrible draught of the Kings bloud which you have greedily drank to approve and abâ—â— your execrable villanies and to submit for ever to the intolerable Tyranny of such Goths Vandals and Saracens as you are Who are but the Devils Leiutenants Factors for the God of this impure world signal Antichrists accurate fulfillers of all the characters foretold and brands set upon you