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A93350	The Protestant informer, or Information to all Protestants: shewing the causes and end, of this unjust warre, plotted by Romish Jesuites, and now managed by English papists, and their abbettors against this Parliament, and in this all other Parliaments: proving by forepast proceedings, present actions and persons acting that: this warre is no new quarrell, nor caused by the militia but divellish malice, against the true Protestant religion, and lawes of this kingdom, to set up, and establish popery, and hath beene fifteene, or sixteene yeares last past, preparing. Also justifying this Parliaments proceedings, by nature, law, and religion, against the false calumniations of all malignants: with an exhortation, to courage, liberality, patience, and constancy, to the hazard of life, and fortunes: in defence of Gods true worship; your own rights, liberties, and this present Parliament; with confidence of a blessing, and victory, like Caleb, and Ioshua: for your God is with you. Published for information to the ignorant. By Gregory Thims Gentl.	Thims, Gregory.	1643 (1643)	Wing S4038A; Thomason E91_17; ESTC R13261	21,917	24

in opposition against the Law will force and destroy the Ordinance of the Law the sword by the equality of the Law may defend the Law But you will say You desire peace Answ So do all good men cursed be the man that desires it not so that it be such a peace as hath assurance of truth joyned with it But to desire peace or to accept a peace without truth will prove a cursed bondage a remedy worse then the disease Although War be a great punishment and the effects miserable yet a just War is better then an unjust peace a just War will establish a true peace but an unjust peace will prove a more destructive War our peace with Idolaters hath caused this War but to have a peace with their Idols too will be our present ruine Can we expect any good and happy peace so long as the whoredoms of Jezebel are so many when Israel chose new Gods then War was in the 2 Kin. 19 22. Iudg 5. 8. Iudg. 2. 12 13 14 gates when Israel followed the gods of the Nations and worshipped Baalim God brought upon them the sword of the Nations and delivered them into the hands of the spoylers that spoyled them But England hath followed the Idols of the Papists and worshipped Baalim therefore God hath brought upon England the sword of the Papists and may most justly deliver us up into their hands to be spoyled and ruined Eighteen yeers ago the Lord delivered them into our hands as his and our enemies to be destroyed for their Idolatry or at least to be banished for their Treason but we spared and cherished them to be as thorns in our sides and their gods to be a snare unto us We have spared them as Benhadad was spared by mercifull though wicked Acbab and 1 Kin. 20. 42. 1 Kin. 22 37. as God punished Acbab and his people by the hand of Benhadad and his people so is the King and the people of England punished at this day by the hands and plots of bloody Jesuites and Papists Their designe is great upon our King upon us and upon all his Majesties Kingdoms God rebuke them and deliver us And that we may not fail of deliverance in due time let us all of all sorts sexes and conditions seek the Lord by hearty humiliation and resolved Reformation and in the first place with zeal and detestation set our selves against that sin of Idolatry as Phineba● did against Zimri and Cozbi that Numb 25 11. so we may appease Gods anger if we with all our hearts seek truth it will bring us to true peace with God and men We have sought to the Parliament for Peace but they cannot give it us We have sought by humble Petition to the King for Peace and that procured our further prejudice For while we sought for the peace of the whole Kingdom we received from some of that malignant bloody Counsell an Answer altogether contrary to our expectation and after it a Letter to the former effect both tending to stirre up Warre where yet by Gods mercy none is in the great and pupulous City London That because they cannot destroy us themselves they would set us to destroy one another which God forbid We know that while we hold the band of Unity we are able by Gods assistance to defend our selves But if we be once divided we lay our selves open to every adversary without resistance to be devoured We will be warned by Jerusalems misery that once famous City of the world by See losephus in War Ierus such sedition brought to be a heap of stones And by the experiences of the bloody cruelties and mercilesse plundrings of all those Towns that have or do by such division give them entrance Banbury had as much securing as King could give them and yet plundred and the man M. Vivors by name who was the chiefest agent to bring them in was most plundered But we will honour our King and hazard our lives and fortunes for His Person Posterity and Parliament to rescue them from the bloody hands of that malignant Counsell and Army of Cavaliers and will assure His Majesty of safety and security in this City if His Majesty will be pleased to come to His Parliament and to us peaceably as our King and to the Parliament as his great and faithfull Many Procters Prebends c. and mercinary trades men for profits and favour care neither for the welfare of King nor Kingdom If we lose this Parliament we must expect to have greater without all remedy Exo. 7. 11 Exod. 14. 10 11. Icr. 5. 25. Councell and besides them we know no other though some who seek honour from the King rather then honour to the King divide between his Majesty and them We cannot forget how much we all groaned under the burdens of oppressions late layed upon us by the hard task-masters that were set over us and then we all cryed fot a Parliament to ease us Our Bondage had some resemblance to that of the people of Israel in Aegypt and so hath our ingratitude For whilst their deliverance was working their burdens grew greater and then they murmured and so have some of us They cryed for deliverance and God heard their cry we cryed for a Parliament and God graciously yea miraculously gave us a Parliament But because malignant Counsellors as the Magicians of Aegypt have hindered our present deliverance we murmure against the Parliament as they against Moses and Aaron God led them thorow the Wildernesse to prove them and they said They bad rather have died in Aegypt c. Thus God proves us by some opposition and some say It was better with us when we endured our former oppressions but consider not that our sins have provoked God and therefore he suffers our King to be misled for a great punishment to us nor understand that our impenitency hinders good things from us and stop the Parliaments proceedings We are a foolish and sinfull people that love our sins and lose our Liberty we prefer the twentieth part of our money before our Religion as the Gadarens their swine before Christ But let us not tempt God as the Israelites did nor with the multitude of Atheisticall Libertines revile our Moses and Aarons much lesse give assistance to destroy them and our selves left we be found to fight against God We know what became of those wicked men that east an evill report upon the Land of Promise and discouraged the people saying Mighty men were in the Land that could not be overcome But thus some do by reproachfull speeches and spreading venomous Pamphlets and lying Fictions to the dishonour of this chrice honourable Parliament as if the Parliament had brought these things to this passe to make us die by the sword and our children to be a prey c. Thus the Israelites murmured and were destroyed by the Plague before the Lord Numb 14. 37. and all their Carkasses fell in

The Protestant INFORMER OR Information to all Protestants Shewing the causes and end of this unjust warre Plotted by Romish Jesuites and now managed by English Papists and their abbettors against this Parliament and in this all other Parliaments Proving by forepast proceedings present actions and persons acting that this warre is no new quarrell nor caused by the Militia But divellish malice against the true Protestant Religion and Lawes of this Kingdom to set up and establish Popery and hath beene fifteene or sixteene yeares last past preparing Also justifying this Parliaments proceedings by Nature Law and Religion against the false Calumniations of all Malignants With an exhortation to courage liberality patience and Constancy to the hazard of life and fortunes in defence of Gods true worship your own Rights Liberties and this present Parliament with confidence of a blessing and victory like Caleb and Ioshua For your GOD is with you Published for Information to the Ignorant By Gregory Thims Gentl. PSAL. 37. 14. The wicked have drawne out their swords and bent their bow to cast downe the poore and needy and to slay such as be of upright conversation JUD 5. 23. Curse yee Meroz saith the Angell of the Lord Curse yee bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not forth to the helpe of the Lord to the helpe of the Lord against the Mighty GAL. 5. 15 But if ye bite and devoure one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another London Printed 1643. The Protestant Informer WEE all complaine of our present misery by the bloudy distractions of the kingdome by this unnaturall Warre But few of us consider seriously of the cause whence these distractions come For information herein take notice that sinne is the only cause of every affliction and of all punishments whether to private men or whole kingdomes Wee by our sinnes have provoked God Esay 26. 9. Deut. 6. 15. Deut. 28. 63. to anger and God sheweth his anger by his judgements upon us King and Subjects have sinned and now King and Subjects are punished God causeth us to punish one another He doth it either to reforme us or to destroy us But God is the efficient cause of all The cause of all causes all other causes are but Gods instruments Now the instrumentall cause of our distractions is wicked men God useth one sinner to punish another as Israels 2 Chro. 12. 2. Esay 10. 5. 2 Sam. 12. 11 12 sinnes was punished by wicked Shishake and by Idolatrous Asher Whom God calleth the rod of his anger and the staffe in his hand So God punished Davids sinne by wicked Absolom and King Rehoboams 1 King 14. 16. sinne by his rebellious people and the sinne of the people by their King Jeroboam Yet bee informed that though God doe use wicked men for his instruments wicked men do wickedly even in the things which God useth them to doe his will for they are naturally the Devils instruments to execute his will and their owne devillish malice as we see in Iob. That which God Iob 1. 15. doth by wicked men is just but that which wicked men doe is unjust for they have no eye to the doing of Gods will but to their own wicked ends which is alwayes unjust and sinfull For example It was just with God to punish Davids bloud-guilt nesse and adultery by Absoloms rebellion and defiling of Davids concubines But it was unjust and wicked in Absolom to doe it It was just with God to punish Rehoboam by the revolt of his people but unjust in them to cast him off from being their King So it is just with God to punish us at this day by these distractions and unnaturall warres and to suffer the King to be misled by a wicked counsell to afflict and spoile his people but it is unjust in that counsell and error in the King to be led by them to doe such things For their ayme is wicked and devillish and are naturally the Devils instruments to make warre against Christ their end is to destroy the true protestant Religion to subvert our good Lawes and to establish popery and bring us and our posterities our bodies and soules into spirituall and slavish bondage for ever and to root out protestant Religion from all places in Christendome This is a certaine truth and will clearely appeare to any rationall man That will but take a view of their fore-past proceedings Their pres●nt war and the persons contriving and acting it First take a view of their fore-past proceedings and consider not to looke so farre as to the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth or King Iames both of blessed memory in whose times that Jesuiticall faction were active in treasons by poyson stabbing blowing up Parliaments destroying postrities of Kings Nobles and massacring whole kingdomes Onely note their proceedings in the passages of things since the first of his Majesties Raigne at which time we may remember the Duke of Buckingham was the great Favourite who by confederacy which Jesuites and Priests First in Spaine and after in France when his Majestie married with the French Kings Sister gave great incouragement to the popish party in all places and furthered their designes in England by uncontrolled power For through the favour and authority the Duke 〈◊〉 from the King hee ruled and swayed the course of thing● in the Kingdome and it was evident by those times that the Jesuites swayed him And by his greatnesse brought many of their owne faction into the greatest places of command whom they desired hee put in and whom they disliked he put out that most at the Counsell-Table were their such 〈◊〉 such as 〈◊〉 not oppose them And to make way for their designe upon England they set upon the protestants in France to weaken them and to that end His Majesties Shippes were ●ent against Rochell which destroyed their shipping and blocked up the passage and when the Duke was questioned in Parliament The answer was the Ships were not lent with intention to hurt Rochell but in complement to the King of France Then a Fleet was prepared the Duke himselfe ●ould go with it pretending to relieve Roc●ell but when they came to the Isle of Ree al our brave Souldiers were betrayed to the Sword Rochell robbed of their provision and the protestants Sold into their enemies hands What other Voiages were made to Cadis and other places we remember too and observed then that their end was nothing but to weaken the kingdome and prepare to the ensuing treason against our Religion and Lawes Then they began the work of England by crying up Arminianisme defending those tenents patronizing their writings printing and publishing those dangerous books of Mountagues which before King James had seene disallowed condemned and forbid to be printed Mountague was made a Bishop and Doctor White also for defending those bookes at a packt conference All others were presently preferred that favoured those tenents as Conzens Wrene Corbet c. Thus

the Wildernesse but their children whom they said should be a prey to their enemies together with Caleb and Vers 30. 31. Joshuab who spake well of the Land enjoyed the promised blessing when all else were cut off And we need not doubt if once those Achans that are in our Armies Those Dam my sovearers and theevish plunderers were cast out but God will do the like for our Calebs and Joshuab's and all the rest of his people that couragiously oppose the wickednesse and Idolatry of these times and unfainedly seek unto God by fasting and prayer as Esther did in whose time the people of God were sold to be destroyed under A●asuerus as we are at this day they by the counsell of wicked Haman we by the wicked counsell of Jesuites Papists c. They by the Kings misled Authority against the Queen and her people we by the King misled in his Authority by his Queen and her people Abasuerus was guided by his Counsell and so are all Kings he looked wicked Counsellors under pretence of good service to Kings destroy Kings and whole Kingdoms Esth 7. 4. Esth 3 6. Vers 8. upon the Counsell in the pretence as profitable but considered not so far as the end and intent of Haman which was destructive Surely there was no thought in Abasuecus to destroy Esther nor her people but Haman intended both he thought it not revenge to destroy part but all the people of the Jews as they do this day in Ireland and are about to do in England He craftily accuseth them under a generall Notion and tells the King There was a certain People scattered and dispersed amongst his people and their Laws divers from all people neither keep t●ey the Kings Lawes therefore not for the Kings profit to suffer them And to put the fairer glosse upon the obscured Treason he offers to give unto the Kings Treasure ten thousand Talents of Silver Thus are we all that are true Protestants accused to the King under the name Round heads having Laws and opinions divers from other people nor keep the Kings Laws c. when indeed and in truth we are the 〈◊〉 observers and keepers of the Kings Laws and have no Laws divers from any but Idolaters and prophane riotous persons who therefore as the Apostle Saint Peter saith speak evill of us because we refuse to 1 Pet. 4 4 By the name Round-head they do not only meane Brownists and Anabaptists but all that are godly men and good Protestants Esth 8. 11 The many peeces of Gods providence working for our deliverance should strengthen our faith in all future dangers partake with them For this name Round-head is new sprung from hell and all those are so called who refuse any of these particulars viz. To drink drunk To whore To swear God-dam-my To scorn at purity To take Arms or contribute against the Parliament To abuse cut or kill the Ministers of Christ and other his Members or in a word He that doth not professe and do all things that these cursed Cavaliers do is a Round-head against these by the counsell of Jesuires and Papists is past the Edict of destruction by which we had perished had not the over-ruling and ever-working providence of God caused a contrary Decree by a better Counsell enabling us to stand in the defence of our lives as the Jews did in Shushan and all the Provinces of the King which is a pledge unto us of our future deliverance for where God giveth the means he intendeth the end and they that now refuse to use the means are guilty of their own blood and of the Treason intended against the King and his Kingdoms God in mercy open the Kings eyes that he may see the Treason and bloody designs of those Counsellors and bring his Majesty again to consult with his Parliament his great faithfull Counsell and besides which we know at this time no other We know wise Kings have been misled as Solomon the wisest holy Kings have erred as David the holiest the one by the seducement of out-landish wives the other by some remissenesse in his duty But God opened the eyes of Solomon and shewed David his fin But Rehobo●● was misled by the counsell of his young Counsellors and repented not therefore was punished without repair And Achab misled by the flatteries of 400 Court false Prophets was slain at Ramoth-Gilead in a Bastell which they would have him undertake contrary to that good Prophet though hated Micaia Now my prayer is and ever shall be to the great and Almighty Jebovab King of all King for my gratious Soveraign King Charles That God will shew him the errour of all his Malignant Counsellors and as holy David turn wholly to God by repentance That so he his and their Posterities may to Gods glory wear the Crowns of all his three Kingdoms and defend the truely Christian and Apostolike Faith against Popery and all Superstition untill the end of all time And receive the Crown of glory for his and their reward when time shall be no more In the mean time Let all true Protestants pray for the peace of Jerusalem And for the prosperity of her and of her King and People FINIS

he common-prayer in any assembly Yet I am con●●dent and I th●nk upon good ground that the common-prayer hath some nee●lesse things in it and some offensive as they may bee in the worst sence interpreted thus much for information of the present war Lastly consider who and what persons are the contrivers and actors in this war which are all of one of these six kindes First Jesuits and professed Bapists Secondly Bishops and corrupt Clergy Thirdly Lords and Gentlemen popishly affected Fourthly Delinquents and Pattentees Fiftly men of broken fortunes Sixtly Athiests and extreme deboyst men And these al● agree in one finall e●● viz. to betray Protestant religion Luies and the just Luierty of the subject But the three last s●rts named ●ave each a particular end to themselves The Delinquents aime is their ow●e present preservation to rescue their persons and estates from the iustice of the Law preferring themsel●es before Religion Law or Posterity Those of broken fortunes aime at pillage to make themselves great estates out of the ruines of the Kingdome which they cannot doe if law bee not destroied The deboyst Athiests seeke to enjoy their licent●ous liberty which they prefer before Law or Religion They hate the very name of reformation in others yet these are the men that tell us they fight for the Protestant religion priviledges of Parliament and the Subiects liberty But we must believe that they have learned that damnable art of equivocation or mentall reservation of the Iesuits That when they p●otest to fight for the Protestant religion priviledges of Parliament and the Subiects liberty their meaning is that they fight for all these as ours to take them from us as they doe our estates or as a chiefe fights for a true mans purse and this is these mens warre Now if we examine why the Parliament and Kingdome have raised an army and consider their forepast proceedings their present actions and the persons engaged in their war we shall plainly see that they aime at nothing but Gods glory the safety of the Kings person and posterity the defence of the true Protestant religion Parl. priviledges and the iust Liberty of the Subiect against those that say they fight for them and would take them from us all which are at once assaulted by the severall armies of the Cavaleers In their proceedings in this Parliament consider the declined and adulterated condition of things in Church and State as they found them when the Parliament began And then take notice of their care and wisedomes to make pe●ce betweene the two nations England and Scotland His Maiesty being then by a malignant counsel engaged in a warre against h●s good Subiects of Scotland which that counsell could not manage for him not his Maiesty desert with honour they vindicated his Maiestie stayed bloodshed reconciled the nations satisfied the wronged Scots payed the Kings armie disbursed great sums out of their owne purses and engaged themselves for much more Consider their pious care for the setling good order and government in the Church presenting their most humble desires to the King that learned and godly divines might consider of it and his Maiestie passe a bill to that purpose declaring their purpose was not to destroy our Liturgy onely take away unnecessary Ceremonies but were denied Their diligence to suppresse and take away our many oppressions and free us from the vexations of them Their Iustice and good endeavour to put the lawes in execution against Iesuits Priests and Papists addressing themselvs in all humility to his Majestie for the same but could not prevaile Their industry in providing severall Bills for the good of the Subject besides those his Maiesty was graciously pleased to sign as they made known to us by their first Remonstrance Their thankfull gratitude in readinesse to raise monies for his Maiesties present occasions and future store promising to make him the richest ●ing in Christendome Their unwe●ried pairs for almost two years and an half in spending their time strength and estates neglecting whatsoever was their owne for the common good Their carefull provision for the safety of the Kingdome against Papists ●nd popish affected by putting the Militia of the Kingdome into trusty hands when they saw eminent danger which hath hitherto preserved us and disappointed them which till they saw eminent danger they medled not with nor desired a guard for their owne safety in sitting but his Majestie then promised they should need no guard but should be as safe ●s his Queene or children yet within very few dayes after he came in person with about foure hundred desperate Cavaleers armed with swords pistols c. against some of them therefore no marvell if the Parliament doubt to trust the King with all our rights religion lawes and lib●rties Kings are not Gods but men and subject to mens infirmities yet I say not the King is not to be trusted God forbid I am bound to judge the best and believe when his Majesty promised safety to his Parliament hee intended it and was thrust upon that breach in some violent passion caused by that wicked counsell on purpose You will say the King hath acknowledged that fault and i● is no more to be thought on Answer acknowledgement is nothing without repaire 1 Sam. 24. 16. 17 1 Sam. ●6 read the l●ves of King Iohn Hen. 3 Ed. 2. R●●h 2. and consid●r but no repaire is made Saul confessed his fault in seeking Davids life and confessed it with teares ye● Saul by the wicked counsell of the Ziphites sought it againe And whilest his Maiesty still retaines such counsellors hee may still forget his promises That which hath been may be againe Who is that man for his owne particular that would bee willing at the Kings request to cancell all his evidence for his lands and inheritance and rest onely upon a bare word to posterities much lesse a Parl●ament to trust all the righ●s and inheritance of a kingdome upon the bare word of a King when guided by a malignant counsell who seeke the kingdomes ruine Consider also their tender care of Ireland to suppresse that bloody rebellion so soone as it was discovered earnestly supplicating his Mai●sty to ioyne with them by passing a bill for a speedy and sufficient expedition thither which was graciously promised why not performed let the world iudge Their many messages and petitions to the King sent from place to place till at York their messengers were beaten Parliament men threatned their houses besieged plundered their friends abused and pillaged before the Parliament had any Army on foote and after they had an army they never struck before they were strucken such was their backwardnesse to warre else they might easily have fetcht all that masignant counsell from Yorke and prevented all the mischiefe they have since made and done in the Kingdome which if the Parliament had foreseene and prevented men would not have believed what now they see but would have blamed the Parliaments forwardnesse