aâ—d cruel wast of so royal and precioâ—s bloud Surâ—ly without any uncharitabâ—e raâ—â—nâ—sse they may be suspected to be past all grace and recovery by any Prayers There remaining for such sinners of the sin to death such relapsing Swine and resoâ—bing Dogs who preâ—ending to have escaped the pollutions of the world are returned to their mire and vomit feigning to be illuminated Saints yet have wrought such works of thick darknesse nothing but a fearful expectation of vengeance aâ—d fiery indignation to consume them They have impudently and traiterously judged condemned and murthered the King upon the pretence of his raising Warr against the Parliament of which fact themselves are doubly and most unquestionably guilty before all the world twice menacing invading and forcibly assaulting their Masters in the two Houses of Parliament Nor if their charge had been true against the King which upon his death he both denyed and most evidâ—ntly pâ—oved by the legal right he had to the Militia and the date of their Commissions for raising war before his Majesties were out yet were not these Usurpers any competent Judges by God or man appointed nor was indeed that calumny the reall motive of their sudden bloudy and resumed cruelty but only that extream fear hatred and terror their hypocrisie and villany had conceived against the Kings excellent wisdome constant piety and immovable goodnesse which they had so often and so unmeasurably abused and which they saw was the chiefest obstacle in the way of their Sacrilegious Ambition And now like desperate Empyricks upon whose câ—uel tamperings we have spâ—nt our Blood our Estates our Lives the honour of our Nationâ— and the credit of our Reformed Religion You now prâ—â—end to stop that bloody Issue which by tumult and treason you have made by destroying the whole Royall Family and leâ—ting out all the ancient blood of our Kings out of the veins of these Kingdoms to ext rpate Kings Peers and Parliaments and by â—â—dle fiâ—tions of your weak and câ—nâ—used brains to obtrude the friâ—pâ—ry and gullâ—ry of â—our Agreemeâ—t of the People As if all rules of Justice all true Policy and Reason of State and good grounds of Government no lesse then all wickednesse cruelty hypocrisie and treason only dwelt in your shallow brains and narrow â—earts Who for the most part are not guilty of any Learning or Civil Improvements are open and declared Authors of Ignorance Conâ—usion and Tyranny Enemies to all sober manners and good Order both in Church and State Nor do those great things as you call them which you have hitherto with most infâ—mous treachery and cruelty peracted and attained any way render you considerable with sober godly and truly wiâ—e men For what may not Frontlesse Hypoâ—rites do who have forsaken God and given themselves over to the Devils Captivity when impowered with Arms and might they resolve barbarously to break through and cast off all bonds of right trust duty credit and conscience to God and Man as you hâ—ve done But O you hardened and infatuated Regicides câ—n you in good earnest flatter your selves that this foolish Toy this shamelesse Imposture your Bastard Brat your headlâ—sse Chymera your many-headed Hydra callâ—d The Agreement of the people but by as â—ull an Antiphrasis as the Fiends and â—uries of Hell were called Eumenides will be a salve sufficient to heal or Plaister to cover the wide deep and festered wounds which your treacherous cruelty hath made upon this Kingdome in all Estates both joyntly as in Parliament and severally as in tâ—e interests of the Crown the Nobility the Clergy and the Commâ—ns No your selves know that very Tiâ—le which you shamelesâ—y impose upon your mad and deformed Modell is nothing but a Lye and Fâ—lsity bâ—ing in no sense The Aâ—râ—ement of the people nor we hope ever like to be Neither in their Representatives the Commons whom you have disbanded and cashiered in the Majority leaving â—nly somâ— few Members leftâ— whose Aâ—inine pâ—tience and stupidity suffers th Balaâ—ms of the Army as mad and false Prophets to ride upon them for the price of bloud and wages of Iniquity To which Vassallage we hope no Gentlemen of any Honour or Conscience will ever betray themselves or their Countrey by returning to that House again or sitting and voting there while it is under such insolent Tyrants Nor will you finde it more agreeable to the generality of the people throughout the Kingdome both Ministers and others who in their souls disagree as much from what you have done and by that further design â—s liâ—ht doth from darknesse liberty from Oppression and Gâ—d from your Dictator the Devil No the People of England will oâ—e day if God please to cast his Net upon you and put his hook into the all dâ—vouring jawes of your Leviathan make you and your Dawbers with the untempered mortar of a mouldred and dissolved Parliament to undeâ—stand that they abominate â—ou and your deeds as much as Hell it self for your monstrous sins are their own Hell and Horror more to be detested then all the sinlâ—sse sufferings of Heâ—l The ancient and most Honourable Hâ—â—se of Peers whom sometimes you flattered into a Fools Paradise while the poor shreds and remnants of that Court might serve your â—urn to face yoâ—r affairs by any sâ—â—w of their Authority as if you had designed nothing to their dimâ—â—â—tion Yet you have wholly layd tâ—em aside as uselesse and dangerous Idols of honour fit to be cast out to the Bats and Moles to be levelled unto or abased beneath the meanest Animals and vilest beasts of the People for though they should any of them so dishonour themselves as to descend into the Hell of your infected walls yet câ—uld â—hey never there ascend to any degree of publique influence either for Counsell or Action beâ—ng sure to be alwayes overlayâ—d smothered and oppressed by your over voting crew of Mechanick Idols who saving that they have mouths to speak a Treasonable Yâ—a or Noe in other points have Eyes and see not Noses but smell not Hearts but consider not the blood cruor carkases skulls and dead boâ—es of their King and their Brethren of all degrees with which they have inhumanâ—ly filled that Charnâ—ll-house that Golgotha of that quondam Hâ—use of Commâ—ns Sure the numerous and once both famous and flourishing Nobility of England besides those of Ireland and Scotland cannot but infinitely abhorre and detest your arrogant despising of them and trampling upon them if they have but any drops of their Ancestors noble blood running in their veins or any sparks of true Honour left in their Breasts It will at length kindle such a fire of just indignation and revenge in those Cedars as shall consume such base shrubs such offensive thistles and such domineering Bryars But if their ignoble despondency have so debased them to Luxury and Cowardise that they dare not vindicate the Honour of their Nation Name and Order together with the rights of the Crown
neither great nor many may be rased that their memories may be blotted out from under Heaven or only remembred with perpetual scorn cursing and infamy Since they have besides many other preparatory mischiefs by murthering the King disinheriting his Posterity and dissolving this ancient and flourishing Monarchy as farre as lyes in their power and malice put us upon this miserable choyce Either cowardly basely and shamefully to submit to their detestable and unsatiable Tyranny or to be ever oppressed with a Warre in our own bowels in which we must either expose our Lives and Fortunes to these mens covetous Cruelty or help to enslave and destroy our selves by assisting these Usurpers or compell the Rightfull Heir of these Kingdoms our hopefull King CHARLES the Second to plead and assert his Right by a Forain Sword being denyed that just assistance which as his Subjects we ought to afford him against the Murtherers of his and our Countreys Father his own Enemies and indeed of all Kingly Majesty and Mankinde the Dissolvers of our â—arliaments the Oppressors of our Liberties the Exhausters of our Estates the Suckers of our Blood the Blasphemers of our Religion the Damners of our Souls unlesse God preserve us the Crucifiers afresh of the Lord of Glory and putting him to open shame The Crie of the blood of our King the Voyce of the Genius of this Nation and the Alarm of Gods Justice call aloud to all honest men of Forraign Nations round about to all loyall Subjects in these three Kingdomes to all men of any common honesty or sober profession of Religion in all the world summoning them to sanâ—â—ifie themselves and lustrate and expiate not only this English Nation and these three Kingdomes but all Mankinde and Civil Societies by taking speedy vengeance and executing Gods and Mans severest Justice on these perâ—idious Truce-breakers proud Usurpers cruel Hypocrites trayterous Apostates and barbarous King-killers We cannot but send the divided parts of our dead but endeared King now a glorious Saint whom these men have with subtilty and cruelty lately murthered to all the Tribes of this our Israel to desire the advice of all good men to see and consider whether this hideous Villany were committed with their consent or deserve to be patronized with their Agreement whether it was ever thus done in any Christian Nation or Kingdome by any Army of pretending Saints or any men we say not of Common Honesty but of the most exquisite and studied Villany Whether any thing can be produced out of Common Principles of sound Reason out of the Lawes of God out of Christs Holy Precepts out of the Actions and Examples of any holy and good men or lastly out of any letter sense or meaning of our Lawes whereby in the least degree to countenance cover or excuse the Actions of these men or to satisfie any mans Conscience that doth not utterly abhorre and seriously endeavour to expiate the sin and guilt of such Detestable Villanies According to the heaped and overrunning measure of their open sins and abominable Villanies so let every good man that fears God knowes the Memory and Vertues of so good a King loves his Countrey will keep a good Conscience and desires to save his own Soul not only withdraw all voluntary assistance from them least they seem approvers of their wicked Deeds and be partakers of their Guilt and Judgements but heartily pray and constantly endeavour the Restoring of the Crowns and Kingdomes to the only Lawfull Heir the late Kings Eldest Son upon whom are many happy Presages and great Expectations of Glorious Atchievements whom God hath in Mercy we hope to these Churches and Kingdomes preserved out of the hands of these bloody Villains who Declared in their Devilish Remonstrance their purpose to destroy him with his Brother the Duke of York and mingle their tender blouds with that of their Father whom speciall Providence hath prepared for great and excellent Designs by the maturity of his years by the procerity of his person by the gallantry of his Spirit by the excellency of his Understanding by the gravity of his Manners and severity of his Example farre beyond what is wonted or expected in young Men or young Princes in point of Piety and Vertue This is that Person this that Prince worthy of his high Descent worthy of such a Father whose worth already promises to exceed all you can desire or hope for from a Good and Gracious King upon him God and our Laws and our Oathes commands all Loyall and Religious Subjects to fix their Eyes to unite their Hearts and Hands to the Love and Assistance of him to expiate the sinne and shame of their former Errors and Defaults which have produced such sad and abhorred Effects to break the Strength to extirpate the Persons to oppose the Designs â—nd to revenge the Villanies which have been with an high hand committed against God the King the Parliament the Lawes and the Kingdomes by these Miscreants men alwayes of Desperate Fortunes but now of so Desperate Mindes and Manners that all their paths lead to the Chambers of Death and their steps are descending to the pit of Hell From which the Lord in Mercy deliver the people of this Nation by prospering our Rightfull 〈◊〉 and by his Valour and Vertues râ—deeming us speedily from the sinnes sufferings and tyrannies of these blood-thirsty and deceitfull men with whom no Agreement can be made by any man who doth not desperately resolve to sinne against the Holy Ghost and eternally damn his own Soul Rom. 16. 17. Now we beseech you Brethren mark them which cause Divisions and Offenses contrary to the Doctrine you have learned and avoyd them 18. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own Bellies and by good Words and fair Speeches deceive the hearts of the simple FINIS Ἐισ τὸν ΚΑΡΟΛΟΠ{non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Englished thus by Edw. Hooker CHARLS best of Kings for God's Laws and the Land's Was martyr'd murder'd by unhallowed hand IN THOMAM FOOT Praetorem LONDINENSEM Anno Dom. 1648. Parricidio Sereniss Regis Caroli I. infami LOndino miserum similis Respublica nostra Est ubi PES regnat proteriturque CAPUT Our Common-wealth to London more 's the pity Is not unlike where Foot is Head o th' City W. D. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In English thus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Here lie's the Mother of that Cursed Son Who hath three Kingdoms and two Kings undon {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} á¼Î¹Ïƒ τὸν τάφον αá½Ï„ο̂υ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cromwellus jacet hic scelerato sanguine tinctus Morte tamen siccâ mirum descendit ad Orcum In CAROLUM Secundum {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} auspicatissimè Regnis suis redditum CArolus è Carolo {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Martyris Exul Filius auspiciis Populi Monachi sua Regna capessit Maii primo 1660. These Books following are to be sold by Henry Eversden at the Grey-hound in St. Pauls Church-yard THE Natural Mans Case stated Or an Exact Map of the little World Man in 17 Sermonâ— by Mr. Christopher Love to which is added a Sermon preached at his Funerall by Mr. Thomas Manton of Neâ—nington In Octavo A Comment on Ruth together with two Sermons one teaching how to live well the other minding all how to dye well by Thomas Fuller Author of the Holy State Gospel publick Worship Or the Translation Metaphrase Analysis and Exposition of Rom. 12. from Vers 1. to 8. describing the Compleat Pattern of Gospel Worship Also an Exposition of the 18. Chapter of Mattheâ—â— to which is added a Discovery of Adam's threefold Estate in Paradise Viz. Moral Legal and Evangelical by Thomas Brewer In Octavo Gods Glory in Mans happinesse or the freenesse of Gods Grace Electing us by Francis Taylor of Canterbury In Octav. The Lords Prayer Un-clapsed being a Vindication of it against all Schismaticks and Hereticks called Enthusiasts and Pratricilli By Harwood B. D. The Grand Inquiry who is the Righteous man by William Moor Minister in Whaley in Lancashire The Just mans Defense being the Declaration of the Judgement of James Arminius concerning Election and Reprobation Pearls of Eloquence or the School of Complements wherein Ladies and Gentlewomen may accommodate their Court by practice by William Elder Gent. In 12. The Universall Body of Physick in Five Books Comprehending the severall Treatises of the Nature of Diseases and their Causes of Symptoms of the preservation of Health and of Cures Written in Latine by that famous and learned Doctor Laz. Riverius Counsellor and Physitian to the present K. of France and Professor in the University of Montpelier Exactly translated into English by William Car Practitioner in Physick An Exposition with Practical Observations on the 9 first Chapters of the Proverbs By Fran. Taylor Minister of Canterbury In Quarto An Exposition with Practical Observations on the whole Book of Canticles by Jo. Robotham Minister of the Gospel In Quarto An Idea or body of Church-Discipline in the Theorick and Practick by Mr. Roggers In Quarto Lucas Redivivus Or the Gospel-physitian prescribing by way of Medicine Divine Physick to prevent Diseases not yet entred upon the Soul by John Anthony Doctor in Physick In Quarto The Originall of the Dominion of Princes founded upon Gods Soveraignty over the whole Earth or the Kingly Prerogative instituted by God and proved from the Holy Scriptures to be Jure Divino By R. W. D. D. The History of his Sacred Majesty CHARLES the II. King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. Begun from the Murder of his Royall Father of happy memory and continued to this present Year 1660. The Subjects Joy for the Kings Restoration chearfully made known in a Sacred Masque Gratefully made publick for his Sacred Majesty By the Author of INQUISITIO ANGLICANA THE END
Cistern turned the clear and wholsome waters of our Laws into blood Wormwood and deadly poyson while you have with unheard of tyranny and treachery set up your private wills by that publike power wherewith you were inâ—â—usted only for some limited uses above the Mâ—jesty and lives of our King and his Châ—ldren above the Dignity of our Parliaments the honour of our Lawes the reverence of your Câ—untrey and the regard due to your fellow Subjâ—cts and Conâ—ederate Nations and all this without the least colour of any call or Authority from God or Man Reason or Religion against all Obligations both Sacred and Civill that might possibly lye on mens souls to God or man against many your particular pretentions and former pâ—omâ—ses of such due observance as became youâ— both as Men Subjects Soldiers and Christians You who are not the thousand part of his Mâ—jesties Subject how durst you knowingly act as in the name of all and yet indeed against the duty desiâ—es and consciences of all but such children of Belial as your selves You that are for the most part such sons of the Earth of so base extraction of meaner education strangâ—rs to all good Literature Honour or Civility heirs of beggery and contempt whom most of the Subjâ—cts in England might for your rudenesse and bâ—rbarity justly have disdainâ—d to have set with the Dogs of their Flocks How are you become the Creators of a new Heaven and a new Earth who are such sons of Tohu and Bohu of Chaos obscurity and confusion You that at best are but Gods Buâ—chers the unjust Exâ—cutioners of his just vengeance as the evill and destroying Angels sent among us for a time though your exorbitaâ—â— malice and lusts disdain to be limited by your Military Commission yet God we hope will restrain your fury who hath manifested your impious folly With what forehead could you thus lift up your hand against and set your selves above all those who are confessed your betters masters and superiors As if in a Giantly impudenâ—â—â—â—d Cyclopâ—ck cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy nor fierce and wickâ—â— enough unlesse you â—ought against Heaven against the expresse word of God and his Vicegerents on earth Thus heaping up mountains of lyes perjuries hypocrisies and cruâ—lâ—ies upon those vast and enormous lusts of rapine sacriledge covetousness revâ—nge and tyranny in yoâ—r heaâ—â—s which nothing hath â—vâ—r equalled or can exceed You have indeed finished the Master-piece of your Father the Devill whom as his first-born he hath filled with a double portion of malice subtilty and cruelty beyond any whose hearts like Elymas the Sorcerer or Simon Magus he hath possessed You have nothing left you but Impenitence and Hell which you neither believe nor fear by which to make farther progress in your most flagitious and ever accursed Villanies What step have you more to advance to the blaspheming of the Majesty of the most high God both in himself and his Deputies lawfull Kings and Soveraign Magistrates what more can you do or invent to the scandall of the Gospel to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame to the trampling his blood under feet through the hatâ—ed and deâ—estation of all Nations that are without the Church How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Papâ—sts to whose tayls you are tyed though your facâ—s seem contrary and whose bâ—siâ—esse you have done while you pretend to abhorre their Names as much as Dâ—vils do potâ—nâ— Châ—rms What Sea could ever wash away from the face of the Christian Reformed Religion the stain of that blood of our King which you have in a Pageâ—nt oâ— Justice most unjustly inhumanely and barbarously â—hed to colour your malice to saâ—iate your revenge and to make way for your tyranny if we the people of England should bâ— our silence adopt and by our assistance nourish those prodâ—gies of Rebellion Treason and Confusion which your libidiâ—ous Mars by the hâ—lp of your prostitute and officious Venus your Unparliamentary Junto hath lately brought forth and astonished the world withall Was it ever so done since the Name of Christ was planted on the earth save only by the spawn of those furies from whom you are descended who made such havock first in Africa after in other Western Churches and lately in Germany whose principles and practises you have as much surpassed in Hypocrisic Anarchy cruelty and blasphemy as Bâ—elzebub your Prince may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Spâ—rits Those impure Catharists exercised indeed their Donatâ—sticall and Anabaptisticall frauds and furiâ—s chiefly upon the vulgar to the ruine of many thousâ—nâ—s of the Counâ—rey people and Citizens But you like so many Ravilliacks are not content to have spoyled so many Noble and flourishing Families to have exhausted so many plentifull Estates to have made so many mourning Widows and Fatherlesse Children to have destroyed the lives and sucked the bloud of so many Christians your fellow-Subjects but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Parliament in another murther the King in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir and all the Kings Children At last you conspire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paperfalsly called The Agreement of the people to joyn with you in the utter overthrowing of our Lawes Liberties and the whole frame of this ancient and renowned Kingdome whose weight you will finde too heavy for such weak Atlasses as you will shortly appear both in Counsell and in Power who are only wise to doe wickedly and strong to shed or drink the bloud of your King and Countrey-men Your cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula at one blow to cut off the head of three Kingdomes and with him all Mâ—narchy to make way for your Loleâ—ocracy a Military Tyranny or Schismatichal Anarchy Thus have you been profound to deceive skilfull to destroy our souls â—aint within us because of such treacherous dealers such hideous Murtherers into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen and in whose deep dissembling pits the Anoynted of the Lord our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up under the shadow of whose just Authority Princely wisdome and judicious piety wâ— hoped to have been safe How doth this sometime famous and flourishing Kingdome now sit as a Widow oppressed desolate â—espised full of unexpressible lamentationsâ— The bitternesse and gall of your cruel Hypocrisie hath entred into filled and overwhelmed our souls How is she that was the joy Crown and Queen of all Nations the Envy or Emulation of all Christian Churches now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about the pity and calamity of all her friends the â—corn reproach hissing and triumph of all her Enemies Nor is there any helper comforter or Deliverer left till God take the matter into his own hands and plâ—ad the cause of the King and Kingdome against these proud Goliahs
since their interest and advantage like yours lying in the destruction of others will â—asily tempt them to condemn any man At length you make a shift to pack not a high Court of Justice as you shamelessely style it but the basest Conventicâ—e of Injustice that ever was in the world In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game A very Medly and Râ—psody of the most ignorant shallow cowardly cruel weak debaucht and insolent fools or Athiests Hypocrites Traytors and Tyrants that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man Your President Bradshaw and your Clark Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt souls as any lived in their profession their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretense of ignorance in the Laws which are in no case more clearly expressely and seâ—verely contrary then in this of taking away the Kings life wherein they against all law duâ—y and conscience were as Judasâ—s â—hiefly imployed At last upon the wicked most unjust and cruel sentence of these mercenary unauthorisedâ— and Tyrannous Sycophants and Hucksters of Justice who must needs have their Commâ—ssion from him that is the Father of lyes the false Accuser the Old Murtherer the deceiving Serpent the Râ—aring Lion the Red Dragon the Dead Sea of cruelty and the sink of all Confusion the Damned and Damning Divel and not from God the Fountain of Justice the Father of Mercy the Institutor of Order the Author of Peace and the Commander of â—â—bjection to Lawâ—ull Kings in any â—â—tion imaginable further then the Divell may have Commission from God permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice to compell such a King so Great a Monarch of three Kingdomes their Undoubted Soveraign Lord to submit to theâ—r Arraignment Accusationsâ— and Sentence who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies without allowing him the lâ—beâ—ty of protâ—sting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority or of pleading for his own both Innocency and well known Priviledge Soveraignty and unquestionable Immunity according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdome which are exprâ—ssely against their trayterous and tyrannous proceedings as well as the nullity of their Authority After this without anâ— remorse or pity to their and our King to force a person of so excellent worth wisdome vertue honour and Majesty to bow down at the feet of so vile persons and then to Chop off hâ—s Head which was Sacred Crowned and Anoynted as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions A Butchery so barbarous that the common Headsman abhorred to do it nor may we think those bloudy Zealots were willing he should dâ—prive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice to inaugurate them in their Royall Priesthood by which their Schismaticall fury pâ—etends a title against or above all Lawfull Kings and Governours What Words what Teraâ— what Sihgs what oppressive Thoughts what secret and unutterable Reflectâ—ons of most stupifiâ—d and astonâ—â—hed Souâ—s are sufficient to measure the Immensity to weigh the burden to expresse or conceive the hâ—rror of this outragâ—ous sin and most flagitious villany Poor Prince after so many delusions so many lying Addresses made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army after so much patience so great demonstrations of excellent wisdome meeknâ—sse calmnesse and Christian gentlenesse to his very Enemies and Jaylours under infinite reproaches injuries and indignities even to the very spitting in his face after all those gracious condescendings by which he had reduced himself almost to the vâ—ry shadow and bare name of a King saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love and loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects that he might please all secure and satisâ—ie all purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodnesse capable to have softned even Devils themselves to be thus butcherâ—d by a Soldieâ—y and Schismaticall cruelty to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people who generally abominated so horrid inhumane unseen and unheard of a Spectacle whose Publique Faith besides their Personall Alâ—egiance was engaged for his Majestâ—es honour and safety what â—â—art can be large enough to equall the sorrow what â—yes can be Fountains sufficient to dâ—plore so unmerited a Fate befalling so excellent a Prince by the malice ambition cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies And all this Tragedy of Tragedies câ—rried on to such bloody conclusions under colour of Safety and Reformation at first afterward of satisfaction and Indempâ—ity to the Army in both which the Good King denyâ—d nothing that men of anâ— modâ—stâ— worth or ingenuity could expâ—ct or would dâ—sire Yet aâ—tâ—r â—â—fiâ—ite delusions and mutinous Insolencies committed against King Paâ—lâ—amâ—nt and People some impotent and ambâ—tâ—ous Tyrants who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their faces and on their Foreheads in the Army and Commons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice which must speedily be acted by themâ— least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their imployment uselesse as it hath long been burdensome and forceing their Buffe Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles their Hammers their Lasts their Slâ—ngs their Carts and their Flails should quiâ—e defeat those designs of power estate and all licentious profaneness both in Opinions and Practises which their Chief Officers and Levelling sticklers have all this while designed for themselves and their false giddy cruel covetous and unreasonable Faction through that power and influence which by their lyes forceries and hypocrisies they with the help of that mungrel Minister that Military Priest that modern Simon Magus thâ—t disguised Executioner that bloody Butcher of the King H P they have gained upon the Common Souldiery Upon whose simplâ—city and valâ—ur they have presumed tyrannously and trayterouâ—â—y to advance the meer will and pleasure of some Officers in the Army and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons over all the Lawes and Liberties the Lives Estates and Inheritances both of King Prince and People Yet after all these Scenes of various Villanies they have the impudence to glory as if they had done God good service and so extreamly pleased God and the People that they expect all should agree to their Plaâ—dite as if might and right were well met in the Army O you most seared Consciâ—nces you most Râ—bellious Souls against God the King and your own light you most accursed Doersâ— you deaf Adders whether you will hear or wâ—â—ther you will forbear know this That we the Christâ—an people and lâ—yall Subjects of England do in the bitternesse of our Souls declare â—s
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
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