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A26871	Cain and Abel malignity that is, enmity to serious godliness, that is, to an holy and heavenly state of heart and life : lamented, described, detected, and unananswerably [sic] proved to be the devilish nature, and the militia of the devil against God and Christ and the church and kingdoms, and the surest sign of a state of damnation / by Richard Baxter, or, Gildas Salvianus ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1689 (1689)	Wing B1195; ESTC R2643	73,886	164

be a wicked errour meerly because the Canon saith so He that can believe what his list believeth nothing truly If this Belief be necessary to Church Communion and to escape damning Schism it is necessary to Salvation Why then is it not in the Creed Ten Commandments or Bible Do you call them the things Indifferent and then call it a wicked errour to hold them sinful Is not this to make it necessary to Salvation or Communion to have so much Learning or Knowledge as to know all Indifferent words and things in the world to be indifferent which men will impose I would all Church-Members with your and others knew all necessary things Do you believe in your heart that all or half the Parishioners do know these things to be lawful or understand any more of them than those that think otherwise when thousands cannot answer a necessary question of the Creed or Catechism nor know who Christ is and how he saveth us Why is there not a Catechism made containing the sound proof that Lay-Chancellors power of the Keys and Diocesan Bishops that have no Bishops under them and our present Court-Church discipline and all the Rubrick Ceremonies and Forms are lawful if all must be excommunicate that think and say otherwise Obj. If they are so ignorant that they cannot know Church Orders to be lawful they are not fit to communicate with the Church Ans. Make no Church Orders necessary to Communion but what Christ and his Apostles have made necessary to it and then cast out and spare not all as ignorant that refuse them 2. But again do you believe that most or all that you keep in are wiser and more knowing than those that you cast out How shall such as I believe you who know that in all the Parishes which my cohabitation allowed me to know it is the most knowing and religious part that most dissent and the generality of the grosly ignorant that understand few Articles of the Creed do conform As ignorant as I am and hundreds of my calling and mind I would I were not only silenced and imprisoned but put to death on condition that all that you now receive as Members of the Church had no more ignorance than we have But it 's our lot to tire our selves with teaching poor people to understand their Baptism Christianity Creed Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments and leave most ignorant when all 's done and yet our selves after our hardest and longest study to be judged so ignorant about some Indifferent things as to be unfit for Ministry or Communion Accus If men will not obey Church Governours and Laws they are Rebels and unfit for Christian Society If every man shall follow his own fancy what Order will there be Do not all Churches require obedience to their Orders Ans. 1. The Church hath One Universal King who hath made Universal Laws for all which must be first obeyed and against which no man hath power And yet his own Laws have things necessary to all in which they must unite and Integrals and Accidents which all know not in which they must bear with one another No man understandeth all the Bible And are many Laws and Books more necessary than Gods 2. Whoever depraveth the necessary points of Religion by his own fancies should be rejected But all men living err in many lesser things 3. In what Countreys is it that your Rule holds that Rulers must be thus far obeyed in Religion Is it in China or Pegu or Indostan or Turky Or is it in Italy Spain Poland Silesia Bavaria or France Or is it at Geneva Holland or the Presbyterian Countreys Or is it only in England Scotland and Ireland And was it so here before Henry the 8th or only since And how shall any know where it is unless he try and judge his Rulers Commands by the Laws of God Will you follow this Rule in France or Spain Or shall all Subjects judge of Kings capacities Accus But they hold unlawful Assemblies of their own and worship God contrary to Law and yield not so much as Passive Obedience Ans. 1. You know the Ministers are forbidden their Office unless they will take those Oaths Subscriptions Professions and Practices which they dare not take for fear of sin and damnation And they would be thankful if their reasons may be heard and if any will instruct them better And they are confirmed in their Opinion by the answers or no answers rather made to the reasons already given in And they are devoted or vowed to the sacred Ministry in their Ordination And if there be such a sin as Sacriledge in the world they are confident it were Sacriledge in them to alienate themselves from the Office which they have undertaken As it is Apostacy from Christianity to violate our Baptismal Vow though men should command it they doubt not but it is perfidious Apostacy from the sacred Ministry to violate the Ordination Vow though Bishops silence them As it is Adultery to violate the Conjugal Contract though a Bishop should require it seeing he that married them hath no power to unmarry them unless they do it first themselves and prove Desertors or Adulterers 2. And the people that are excommunicate or forbidden to worship God publickly unless they will do that which they think is sin are still under Gods command to worship him and not to forsake Church-assembling for his worship What would you have these Ministers and People do They study and pray to God to convince them if they take these Oaths Subscriptions Professions and Practices to be sin and they be no sin They resolve to be ruled by Gods Word They are willing to hear any thing that may better inform them They wonder that men accuse them that have no more to say to change them If they desert the Ministry they fear Gods vengeance If these poor people give over all Gods Publick Worship and live like Atheists Conscience living or dying will torment them If they do that which they are perswaded is sin when the Imposers call it but Indifferent Paul hath antidated their Sentence He that doubteth is damned if he eat because he eateth not of faith for whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14. Change their Judgment they cannot sin they dare not To give over worshiping God is to renounce Salvation Change the Law or Canon men will not It seems to me a strange penalty to forbid men to worship God at all because they think some Subscriptions or Forms to be sin More strange than to say All that will not wear Crape shall go naked Or all that will not eat Anchovies shall eat nothing If a man think the use of a Crucifix in Worship sinful sure to give over all Worship is more sinful But men have their ways 3. What Worship is it that they offer God contrary to Law They are willing to do all required in Scripture by Christ and his Apostles And were they Rebels and

of the Earth are Idolaters and Heathens And do I need to say how ignorant wicked and miserable they are Many of them publickly worship the Devil as Witches do with us and he deludeth them and appeareth in divers shapes to them and ruleth them as he doth Witches And those that are more civil are strangers or enemies to Christ Six parts of the thirty are Ignorant Mahometans destroyers indeed of Heathenish Idolatry and such as take Christ for a great and true Prophet but know him not as a Saviour but equal or prefer a gross Deceiver and live under barbarous Tyrants who by violence keep them in the dark The other five parts that are called Christians alas consist most of people bred up in lamentable Ignorance mostly barbarous or debased by the oppression of Tyrants such as the Moscovites most of the Greeks the Abassines Armenians and many Eastern Sects and Nations What Ignorance the vulgar Papists are bred in in Italy Spain Germany Poland France and other Countreys and what enmity to true Reformation prevaileth in Princes Priests and People and by what Lying and Cruelty they fight against Truth and what Inquisitions Murders and inhumane Massacres have been their powerful means I need not use many words to tell And are the Protestant Reformed Churches free from fleshly worldly wicked men from ignorant malignant cruel Enemies to Truth and Piety and Peace § 3. Our Kings Dominions are the best and happiest Nations on Earth Here is most Knowledge of the Truth and most proportionably that truly Love it and live in a holy obedience thereto and fain would live a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness honesty and sobriety But alas they must be contented with their own personal uprightness and reward and the peace of their Consciences in Gods acceptance But with men there seemeth to be no hopes of common Wisdom Piety Love and Peace We are all baptised with one Baptism we all profess to be the servants of one God and the faithful followers of one Christ and to believe in one Holy sanctifying Spirit and to believe the same Canonical Scriptures as the Word of God indited by that Spirit and to be of one Holy Catholick Church which is all the Members of Christ on Earth and to hold the Communion of Saints We mostly in England and Scotland agree in the Protestant Reformed Doctrine and Sacraments Our concord in profession is so great that if some men had not devised some Oaths Professions Covenants Practices and Knacks and Engines of their own which they dare not say God made to become the matter of our unavoidable dissent they could hardly have known how to pretend any difference in religion among us and hell would scarce have found any Cloak for malicious accusations enmity and discord You shall scarce meet with a man that will not speak well of Love and Peace and say that we must Love God above all and our Neighbours as our selves and do as we would have others do to us And yet is there any Enmity or Disagreement Alas how great and how uncureable § 4. Who would think that knew us not by our Profession but only by our Actions but that the three Kingdoms consisted of the deadliest Enemies to each other Of Turks and Christians of Wolves and Sheep that I say not of Devils and Men Yea Turks and Christians can live together in Hungary and all the Eastern Countreys Orthodox and Hereticks can live together in Poland Helvetia Holland c. But Protestants and Protestants cannot live together in Britain Cities and Corporations Countreys and Churches i● not Families also are distracted in enmity and more than mental feuds and war. Guelphes and Gibelines party against party studying Accusations against each other as if they were Scholars daily exercised in the School of him that is the Accuser of the Brethren All their Learning and Wit is called up and poured out to render others as odious as they are able All their power interest friends and diligence are used to ruine and destroy each other No lies or perjury with some seem unlawful to accomplish so desired an effect In all companies the discourse and converse that should be to edifie each other in Love and comfort each other by the hopes of dwelling together in Heaven is taken up with slanders backbitings scorning railing and plotting the overthrow of the best of their neighbours Innocency never wants odious or scornful names As if they were acting their part that called Christ and his Apostles and the ancient Christians Deceivers Blasphemers Enemies to Caesar Ring-leaders of Sedition that taught men to worship God contrary to the Law. Every drunkard and wicked liver can as easily make his conscionable neighbour a Rogue or a Traitor or a Schismatick or an Hypocrite as he can open his mouth and speak And to justifie all this malice is become a virtue hating the most religious is Zeal for Government and Order destroying Christs Members is standing up for the Church hunting them as Dogs do Hares or as Hawks do the lesser birds is a meritorious work of supererogation no doubt and will not finally lose its reward God is served by hating and scorning them that are serious in his service It is Religion to make Religion odious and call it Hypocrisie and to be for that which is uppermost and befriends their worldly Interest and to make him suspected of Disloyalty who is for obedience to God. Conscience and fear of sinning and of damnation is the mortal enemy to be conquered or driven out of the Land as if there were no quietness to be expected in mens minds no concord in the Church no obedience to the Clergy or the Laws no safety from Sedition till Conscience be silenced or banished and men give over fearing God or as if Christ and Caesar could not both reign but God or Princes must be dethroned And O that the sacred Tribe were innocent and none of them were the leaders in such hypocritical malignity Their Canons ipso facto excommunicate all not excepting Princes Parliaments or Judges that do but say that any of their Ceremonies Liturgy or Officers in Church Government not excepting the lowest or Lay-mens power of the Church Keys by decreeing Excommunications and Absolutions are repugnant to the Word of God And when they have ipso facto Excommunicated them all they call them Separatists for not coming to their Communion Think not the contradiction and hypocrisy incredible read but the 5 6 7 and 8. Canons and judge They have a Law and by their Law he is cut off from the Church or Christ that doth but call any of these the Inventions of Prelates sinful or say that God forbids them And the Jail must be his dwelling till he die there who in ten cases remaineth Excommunicate and doth not openly profess that he repenteth and judgeth that to be sinless which he is utterly unable so to judge When we have preached seven and seven years to

knows not that some things are lawful to avoid suffering which else would not be lawful It is lawful to cast your goods into the Sea to save the Ship and mens lives Which else were a sin It 's lawful to give a Thief your purse to save your life which else were unlawful It 's lawful to blow up neighbours houses to stop a fire Christ proved it lawful to break the Sabbath in cases of necessity he withdrew into the Wilderness and far from Ierusalem to avoid the pharisees persecution And Paul was let down by the Wall in a basket Which without danger of suffering had not been lawful Though no sin must be done to avoid suffering yet that may and must be done which self-preservation makes no sin but a duty To kill a man that assaults you in your own defence is not the same crime as unnecessarily to kill him But as to the other case of taking the Corporation Oath and Declaration if you know the case as you should do before you accuse men you know that it is the true sence of them that is all the controversy No body scruples swearing Loyalty and renouncing Rebellion and Sedition and all unlawful means of reformation That which makes it difficult is that on one side the proper universal sence of the words seems to them unlawful and Oaths must be taken in the usual sence unless our Rulers give another yet on the other side learned sober Conformists profess that they take such words in the limited sence or else they would not take them And they argue subtilly to prove that to be the true sence And our Law-makers to whom it belongs will not end the controversy by an exposition And can you wonder here if men fluctuate in uncertainty And a late writer having given subtiler arguments for the limited sence than were published before did perswade many And in that limited sence twenty Nonconformist Ministers took the oath long ago in London at one time But I justify none that mistake in so great a matter And doubtless if they sinned God will not bless it to their good It will prove their snare And I am glad that we are agreed that Perjury is a heinous sin I beseech you then to consider 1. Whether those men are fit to accuse them who drive them to it and say to Ministers Swear or lye in Iail 2. Or those who are of the mind of Grotius Bishop Taylor and such others that Lying is Lawful when it saves our selves and wrongs no other And of those Divines that say It 's as lawful to defend my self from pernicious Imposers with my tongue as with my hands 3. Let us all with fear who believe there is a God avoid the dreadful crime of perjuring the whole land This whole Kingdom is sworn against all Forreign Iurisdiction in the Oath of Supremacy and against all endeavours to alter the Government of Church or State by 1. the Corporation Act 2. The Vestry Act 3. The Militia Act 4. The Oxford of Confinement 5. And obliged by the Act of Uniformity Is it not perjury than to endeavour any alteration of it 1. What shall we then think of them that would bring in Popery would they not perjure the Kingdom 2. What shall we say of them that write for a Forreign Church Jurisdiction under the name of General Councils or a Colledge of Bishops or of Forreign Patriarchs of whom the Pope is chief and the Principium unitatis to the universal Church Is it no change of our Church Government to bring us under a forreign Jurisdiction Is it no change of State Government to make the King and Kingdom Subject to that forreign Jurisdiction who may excommunicate him and so bring on him all the evil which Excommunication inferreth And what man in his wits knoweth not that Prelates and Priests are much at the will and power of the Princes under whom they live Doth not our King expect that his Bishops obey him And those that must have this Universal Jurisdiction over our King and us are the Subjects of other Princes of which the far greatest part are Papists Mahometans Infidels Heathens or such as are called Hereticks And if our King and we be made Subject to the Subjects of the Turk the Pope the Kings of Spain France Poland the Emperor the Moscovite the Dukes of Bavaria Tuscany and such like is he not made a Subject to their Lords and Masters and much worse Will not this project perjure England 3. Whether it be any alteration of Government by them that would change the Power and use of Parliaments I leave to Lawyers 4. But I would fain be satisfied of another case These Kingdoms of England and Scotland took a Covenant and Vow some Voluntarily some at their Compositions who had been sequestred for the King This Vow contained divers matters of which some are notorious duties as to repent of their sins to oppose Popery Schism and Prophaneness to defend the King c. It 's not denied by most that I meet with that this Oath or Vow was unlawfully imposed and unlawfully taken and many think some of the matter was unlawful viz. to oppose Prelacy c. But seeing Casuists are agreed that an Oath unlawfully both imposed and taken bindeth to that part of the matter which is lawful and necessary notwithstanding the Conjunction of the rest And the Corporations of England are all formed by a Declaration taken by all in power and trust that There is no Obligation without the least exception on me or any other person from the Oath called the Solemn League and Covenant The doubt is whether every man may declare that of all the thousands of three Kingdoms whom he never knew no one is bound by that Oath or Vow to repent of his sins or in his place and calling to oppose Schism Popery or Prophaneness or to defend the King and whether all may declare that the Londoners and Ministers and the restored old Parliament and General Monks Army who restored the King as supposing they were bound to it by that Oath were all deceived and were under no such obligation thence And whether I am not bound in charity to think that the sequestred Royalists put a good sence on it when they took it And so whether all the Corporations of England are free from And for what it is that God hath singled them out for Judgment If you be agreed with us and with manking against so great a sin as Perjury especially national let us help one another with Love and Patience to resolve such doubts Accus But they have been guilty of Rebellion in a Civil War and therefore are justly suspected to Preach or hold Rebellious Doctrine Ans. 1 Are those men lovers of Love and Concord who purposely make use of pardoned acts to keep the Kingdoms wounds still open Did not the King tell you in his Declarations and Act of Oblivion that the putting up of all save to the excepted

to promote Love to all even unto enemies but much more to the most holy It would make men zealous of good works and if it were possible as much as in them lieth to live peacebly with all men to bless those that curse them to pray for those that hate and persecute them forbearing and forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake forgiveth us It would teach them while they have time to do good to all men but especially to them of the houshold of Faith Mens hearts would be constituted of Love It would become a nature in them Their Speech and Converse would be the Savoury breath of Love Their dealings towards all men would be the works of Love Their sharpest reproofs would be but to do the sinner good But alas another Spirit hath possessed thee which rageth and teareth thee and is blind and deaf It calleth for Fire from Heaven and it kindleth a fire of Hell And sure his name is Legion for there are many It passeth under the names of Wisdom and Hatred of some evil But it must needs be Earthly Sensual and Devilish for it is neither Pure nor Peaceable Gentle or Merciful and Impartial but foameth with bitter envy and strife unto confusion and every evil work And yet thou knowest not what manner of Spirit thou art of Is it God that setteth rulers and people against each other Doth he divide his own Kingdom against it self when he tells us that the Devil will not do so by his Is it God that sets the parts of the same body in a hatred and War against each other As if it were the interest of the nobler and the Servile parts to weaken or destroy each other And it were an addition to the health and welfare of the one which is gotten by Conquest from the other Is it God that maketh people despise or dishonour their lawful Governours or any Rulers to hate the best Subjects and desire more to be feared than to be loved and rather to have power to do hurt than actually to do good Is it God that sets Corporations and Churches and Neighbours and Families in a state of Malice Vexation Strife and a kind of War against each other Doth the Spirit of God indite the malicious Pamphlets which exercise the utmost of Wit and Hatred to destroy Love and to call the Nation into the Devils Camp by mutual hatred to live as Enemies and Fight against the Lord and the ways of Peace And if any endeavour a reconciling healing of our wounds it 's turned into scorn and his healing motions are represented as the grand causes of division and to beg for peace is heinous Schism and next Rebellion against the Church and a crime sufficient to forfeit that mans Peace and Reputation And he that tells men of the only possible terms of Concord is made the chiefest cause of discord To serve and worship God no otherwise than Peter and Paul did and than God prescribeth is enough to render us unworthy to live on English Earth And if England may not suffer such why should any other nation suffer them There are men that keep holy days for St. Peter and St. Paul and dedicate Churches to them and their bellies are maintained at Dives rates and their Wealth and Revenues and Grandure held up by that which is dedicated to these Churches and to alienate any of this superfluity from their flesh were worse Sacriledge than to cast out and silence a thousand faithful Preachers And yet if St. Paul were a Preacher now in France Spain Italy or England and would worship God but as he did when he was on Earth and would not swear say and do as much more as the Bishops Canons bid him I think we should again hear those words Acts 22. 22. Away with such a fellow from the Earth for it is not fit that he should live here Unless he wrought miracles to convince men And whether those would prevail is a doubtful case or whether he would not pass for a Deceiver and Fanatick § 6. As in times of War all broken beggarly and idle fellows turn Souldiers as the easiest trade to live by and are never after good for any other trade but to kill and rob men So the Love-killing Regiments have forsaken other trades and this is like to put down all Booksellers complain that they can fell few Books but News and Scorning or Invective Libels And what is the subject of our formerly weekly and now daily News Books Why they tell us that such a City or Corporation are altogether by the Ears as Enemies some choosing one Mayor and some another Some called Whigs and others Tories Some seeking the ruine and Blood of others and some hardly escaping the power of false Witnesses and Oaths One Jury acquitting a man whose life is sought and another condemning him In such a Town or City so many find and so many distreined on and so many crowded into Jails and such and such Preachers cast into Prison and such a one dead there for praying to God and openly worshipping him without-book or by no book but his own In such and such a Country the people prosecuting each other on such accounts and some flying into other parts and some into America to seek that peace among Savages and Wolves and Serpents in Wildernesses which they could not have under sacred Protestant Prelates and their Clergy In France the poor Protestants hunted like Hares neither suffered to live at home nor to flie naked to beg their bread in other Lands and all this for the concord and peace of the holy Catholick Church a pattern so worthy of imitation that even such excellent men as Grotius think that it 's worth all hazards labour and cost to reduce England and the Lutherans to the French-Church-Consistence and to silence and ruine all as Calvinists that are against it From Hungary we must read how the persecuted Protestants after their utmost suffering and patience are fain to call in Turks to save them from the cruelties of Christians And that those parts that are under the Turks have far more prosperity and freedom in Religion than those that are under the Emperor Papists And Protestants under them are kept in co●●●●al fear as knowing that it is their Law and Doctrine that Princes are bound to do their best to exterminate or destroy them on pain of Excommunication Deposition and Damnation● And remembring the Inquisitions the Piedmont French Dutch Irish c. Massacres So that they are brought to this hard dilemma Chuse whether you will be Dead men or be proclaimed Rebels If whole Countreys will not lie down and die patiently without self-defence they are odious Rebels These and such other are the subjects of our News-books which have broken the poor Booksellers who were wont to live by selling Books of Learning and of practical Divinity And too many Preachers are fain to be short as well as formal in their Sermons

for Christian Love because they spend so much time in Preaching up hatred and destruction Were there but any Art that could devise any Engine that could reach the heart and turn it into the hatred of those that never did them wrong as they say some Philters and Charms will make men mad with Love Or if any Apothecary had an effectual Medicine against brotherly Love I doubt these would become the most accustomed Shops and prosperous Trades in all the City But for want of such some Pulpits Printers Booksellers Clubs Drinking-houses and Play-houses to pass by fouler must serve the turn But if God have not mercy on the Land by restraining them Gunpowder-makers Gun-smiths Sword-sellers Souldiers Swearers and Executioners will swallow up most other Trades in the Land. It 's worth enquiry whether in foresight of this they set not their Sons to such Trades as these or Apprentices to such Lawyers as are best at preparative Accusations and have learnt Tertullus's Art Or to such Schools and Tutors as can teach them the Learning of Zedekiah and the four hundred Prophets 1 King. 22. § 7. And all this is the more unexcusable and lamentable because they came but lately out of the fire which this same malignant Spirit kindled The very same causes cast the three Kingdoms into dreadful Flames and Blood. The Histories of the bloody murder of many hundred thousands called Albigenses Waldenses and Bohemians in Piedmont Germany and elsewhere and of the Netherland cruelties the Spanish Inquisition and Invasions the murder of thirty or forty thousand at once in France and of two of their Kings the Powder Plot here as well as the Bonefires in Q Marys days and much more their Councils and Doctors defending and commanding such usage of Protestants did set all our Parliaments one after another into a vehement unwillingness to be so used and to fall into their hands that will do it if they can And when the evil Spirit had raised cross interests and distrusts between King and Parliament the Papists seeming to be for the War and King and suddenly murdering in Ireland no fewer than two hundred thousand and pretending the Kings Commission and threatning the like in England affrightned the People into the Army after raised by the Parliament And though I think all that War in England kill'd not the fourth part so many as the Papists had murdered in Ireland yet so dismal and odious was it and had so direful an end as loudly told us how bad the causes and beginnings were Few parts of the Land were free from spoil plunder and poverty yea or from terrible Sieges and fields of blood English-men labouring to destroy each other and some hiring Forreigners to help them And Lads running from their Parents to be as Apprentices to the Man-killing Trade Counties were against Counties Cities against Cities Neighbours against Neighbours single persons flying from Men as from Bears and Tygers as after in the Plague-time afraid of almost all that they met And at last the very Armies falling out among themselves The first raised for the Parliament were mastered by a second Party that brought in as Auxiliaries a new Imposition and that Party after mastered and cast down by a third that brought in a new Cause and that prevailing pulling down their Masters an Usurper odiously destroying the King and setting up himself with another Title and subduing and ruining those that were against it even both the Parties that began the War And yet when he was dead to shew the World what divisions can do that same Victorious Rebellious Army fell all into pieces by its own discord and was totally dissolved as by a miracle without one drop of blood that ever I could hear of and the Victorious leaders many of them hang'd drawn and quartered and their heads and quarters hang'd up on the City Gates And would not one think that a Nation of men in their wits should after so long and sad experience of the mischiefs of hatred and division be willing of the reviving of Love and Concord and hate all motions of dividing any more But alas they hate them that would heal our wounds and if any one lay on a healing Plaister there are hands too many both Lay and Clergy ready with rage to pull it off and yet it 's all on pretence of healing us that they will not suffer us to be healed for the way of peace they have not known Unhappy Surgeons that know no Balsom but Corrosives and Distilled Vinegar yea no way of healing but by dismembring even the usefullest members of the Body Having learned of the Romish Leeches that live on blood when they are for exhausting the vital Stock and cast the Kingdom into a Palsy or Marasmus they tell you it was all but corrupt or haemorrhoidal blood and the loss of it necessary to cure the madness of the Land. The beginning of some reconciliation between the first contending Parties began to flatter us with the hopes of Restored Love and Quietness Secret consultations prepared the way Lords Knights and Gentlemen Print their Protestations for Oblivion and Reconciliation and against Revenge Hereupon those that by Land and Sea in the three Kingdoms had fought against the King restore him The land rejoyceth in the smiling hopes of reviving Charity and Concord The King chiefly causeth these hopes by his Declarations and Act of Oblivion and specially his healing Gracious Declaration about Ecclesiastical Affairs The house of Commons and the City Ministers give him thanks for it Who would have thought now but such Experience such Protestations such Obligations such Authorities should have put the whole Kingdom into a longing desire to perfect the work of Love and Peace But it proved clean contrary Some had other things in their Heads and Hearts outlandish Fashions especially French have long been the Badge of English folly There are men in Spain that trade much in the fire and Queen Mary brought the trade into England There are men in many other Forreign Lands who are so devout that their Canons and Religion rule their appetites And they love no meat like a Carbonado'd Protestant nor are pleased with any Perfume or Incense so much as with the smell of a rosted Saint first call'd a Heretick or Schismatick Like the Roman Tyrant that gloried in the sweetness of the smell when he smelt the stink of the Carcasses which he had laid to dung the Field And there were men abroad that learnt these Fashions and Contracted such a familiarity and Love to Forreigners as that for obtaining Union with them all the Divisions Distractions and Calamities of England and Scotland are not thought too dear a Sacrifice And as some Sons of Nonconformists must be doubly virulent to expiate the guilt of their Original sin So some English men must like Sampson and David bring double Testimony of their real enmity to the Philistines from their Skins before they can be trusted abroad as real reconcilers And