Devil No the People of England will one day if God please to cast his Net upon you and put his hook into the all-devouring jawes of your Leviathan make you and your Dawbers with the untempered mortar of a mouldred and dissolved Parliament to understand that they abominate you and your deeds as much as Hell it self for your monstrous sins are their own Hell and Horror more to be detested than all the sinless sufferings of Hell The antient and most honourable House of Peers whom sometimes you flattered into a Fools Paradise while the poor shreds and remnants of that Court might serve your turn to face your affairs by any shew of their Authority as if you had designed nothing to their diminution Yet you have wholly laid them aside as useless 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 â—hey should any of them so dishonour themselves as to descend â—nto the Hell of your infected walls yet could they never there ascend to any degree of publique influence either for Counsel or Action being sure to be alwaies overlaid smothered and oppressed by your over-voting crew of Mechanick Idols who saving that they have mouths to speak a Treasonable Yea or No in other points have Eyes and see not Noses but smell not Hearts but consider not the blood cruor carkases skulls and dead bones of their King and their Brethren of all degrees with which they have inhumanely filled that Charnel-house that Golgotha of that quondam House of Commons 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 Briars 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 the Fountain of their Honour but are content to be either bowed or hewed down or over-dripped or exsuccated by such Aspiring Ivies as you are our Counsel is that the antient 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 than keep them either to feed Moths or to be Monuments to all posterity What Capons Poultroons and dangerous Buzzards they are descend from such Eagles 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 Honour Credit and Religion of the Nation can ever with a good Conscience 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 Papal power to absolve their souls from those Protestations Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy by all which they were and are both lawfully and religiously 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 gross and manifold perjuries they must make themselves guilty only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of your greater Brambles That forsooth the People of England might enjoy that Liberty Peace and Plenty under your unavoidable Tyranny uusatiable Rapine and cruel Oppression of such Beggars as most of you are and were which formerly they could never have under the gracious Kings wise 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 and centred somewhere Nor is it likely that your leaders and Bashâ—â—es whose hands are imbrued in the blood of their King will ever be so modest as to lay themselves aside and denying their own most ambitious and covetous 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 themselves as Ahab to do wickedly But if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial let the people of England without your terrour cunning injurious restraints and exceptions be their own Umpires and Choosers whether they will bear the light and easie yoke of the Laws 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 bloody Traytors and unlimitted Tyrams whose little fingers in these last three years have been infinitely heavier than the loins 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 voices 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 Charls 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 binding to you and your pragmatick faction further than your own fancies lusts and pleasures think fit since they find you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man all Antient and Fundamental Agreements in this Nation on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings the Priviledges of our Parliaments 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 shifters juglers and dissemblers that no Laws Leagues Protestations or Promises you freely make can bind you No faith to King Parliament People Neighbour Nations or God Almighty can hold you but like the man possessed with the unclean
We call Heaven and Earth and your selves who are to us as Hell and Devils to witness against you What can the most carnal loose and prophane Atheists do more abominable than you have done What have the falsest Jews the fiercest Turks the most bruitish Heathens the Renegado Christians the subtilest Jesuites or the most Phanatique Anabaptists and Schismaticks or any other that are wholly without God in this world ever done comparable to your immense Villanies Yea what could Devils do more if they had their wills but by such Instruments as you are extend their malice to the utmost latitude of their power Have you not by Treachery and Tyranny usurped upon all just power and exalted your selves such despicable worms above all that is called God Neither King nor Parliament nor Laws nor your own Engagements to all nor your many Proposals Promises and Declaratioins have any reverence with you or weight upon you but like riotous and enraged Beasts you have overborn and trampled under your feet all that is either Sacred or Civil in the Laws of God Nature Nations or this Kingdom of which you are Members though the most ulcerous and pestilent that ever the Earth can bring forth or bear Hapily your stupid pride and brutish insolency will not suffer you to consider how odious abominable and accursed you now are to all men but such as are Cockatrices of the same Egg and Brood with your selves that is seared Saints hardned Hypocrites and enraged Satans We assure you you are now looked upon by all sober and honest minds as the heaviest and filthiest Incubuses that ever oppressed Church or State as the Legions of unclean Spirits which by Diabolical Arts and Magick of Hypocrisie have got possession of this Church and Kingdom till Christ by his power cast you out of and suffer you like the Demoniack Swine through the just judgement of God to be hurried headlong by your own terrours and despairs into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone You are like cursed Cams not mockers only but murtherers of the Father of your Country impudent Ravishers both of Church and State to satisfie your most abominable lusts of Tyranny Coveâ—uosness and all licentious Prophaneness Monsters of men putid Apostates excreable Saints shameless Sinners traytorous Tyrants what have you to plead for or palliate with your late horrid outrages and unparallel'd villanies by which you have obstructed the Fountain of Justice altered the Chanel broken the Cistern turned the clear and wholesome 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 publick power wherewith you were intrusted only for some limited uses above the Majesty and Lives of our King and his Children above the Dignity of our Parliaments the Honour of our Laws the Reverence of your Country and the Regard due to your fellow Subjects and confederate 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 Civil that might possibly lye on mens Souls to God or Man against many your particular pretensions and former promises of such due observance as became you both as Men Subjects Souldiers and Christians You who are not the thousand part of His Majesties Subjects how durst you knowingly act as in the name of all and yet indeed against the Duty Desires 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 Strangers to all good Literature Honour or Civility Heirs of beggery and contempt whom most of the Subjects in England might for your rudeness and barbarity justly have disdained 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 Butchers the unjust Executioners of his just vengeance as the evil and destroying Angels sent among us for a time though your exorbitant 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 Superiours As if in a Gyantly impudence and Cyclopick cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy nor fierce and wicked enough unless you fought against Heaven against the express Word of God and his Vice-garents on Earth Thus heaping up Mountains of Lyes Perjuries Hypocrisies and Cruelties upon those vast and enormous Lusts of Rapine Sacrilege Covetousness Revenge and Tyranny in your hearts which nothing nath ever equalled or can exceed You have indeed finished the Master-piece of your Father the Devil 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 lawful Kings and Soveraign Magistrates What more can you do or invent to the scandal of the Gospel to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame to the trampling his Blood under feet through the hatred and detestation of all Nations that are without the Church How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Papists to whose tayls you are tied though your faces seem contrary and whose business you have done while you pretend to abhorr their Names as much as Devils do potent Charms 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 Pageant of Justice most unjustly inhumanely and barbarously shed to colour your Malice to satiate your Revenge and to make way for your Tyranny If we the People of England should by our silence adopt and by our assistance nourish those prodigies of Rebellion Treason and Confusion which your libidinous Mars by the help of your prostitute and officious Venus your Un-parliamentary 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 practices you have as much surpassed in Hypocrisie Anarchy Cruelty and Blasphemy as Belzebub your Prince may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Spirits Those impure Catharists
excellent a Prince by the malice ambition cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies And all this Tragedy of Tragedies carried on to such bloody conclusions under colour of Safety and Reformation at first afterward of Satisfaction and Indempnity to the Army in both which the good King denied nothing that men of any modesty worth or ingenuity could expect or would desire Yet after infinite delusions and mutinous insolencies committed against King Parliament and People some impotent and ambitious 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 them least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their employment useless as it hath long been burdensom And forcing their Buff Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles their Hammers their Lasts their Slings their Carts and their Flails should quite defeat those designs of power estate and all licentious prophaneness both in Opinions and Practices which their Chief Officers and Levelling Sticlers 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 sorceries and hypocrisies they with the help of that mungrel Minister that Military Priest that modern Simon Magus that disguised Executioner that bloody Butcher of the King H P they have gained upon the Common Souldiery Upon whose simplicity and valour they have presumed tyrannously and trayterously 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 Laws 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 extremely pleased God and the People that they expect all should agree to their Plandite as if might and right were well met in the Army O you most seared Consciences you most Rebellious Souls against God the King and your own light You most accursed Doers you deaf Adders whether you will hear or whether you will forbear know this That we the Christian people and loyal Subjects of England do in the bitterness of our Souls declare as in the sight of God to whose just Tribunal â—e appeal and summon your stupid and cruel hypocrisie to all the worâ—d our total detestation and utter abhorring of your Counsels Actions and future Designs You glory as if you were now Masters of our Estates Liberties and Lives But we shall by Gods grace keep our Souls unspotted from those great Offences and presumptuous wickedness wherewith you are infected beyond all cure or recovery No we would have your impenitent hardness as well as the softer world to know That we look back with extreme sorrow shame and repentance upon our former Delusions and forwardness to this Unhappy War wherein though they were most to blame who were the Deceivers and Instigators of us yet we cannot excuse our selves further than thus That we did it out of credulous inconsiderateness and not out of malicious wickedness The God of Heaven whose mercies exceed our sins and your cruelties forgive the Errors and great sins of this Nation in this Unnatural War which have deservedly as from the Divine vengeance though most perfidiously as from your multiplyed Treasons and wilfull Rebellions brought upon these Kingdoms such a sore plague and intollerable oppression as you are Whos 's detected hypocrysie hath now made it clearly appear That both King Parliament and People were meerly cheated and abused by the Fraud first after by the Force of those Factions Schismatical bloody and implacable spirits your chief Genius's who despaired to carry on their wicked Designs of Ambition and Tyranny but by the means of Anarchy Profaneness Disloyalty and publike ruine of Church and State All which Rottenness and Villany must be masked a while under the Names of Reformation Laws and Liberties King and Parliament which we see too evidently though too late after infinite miseries Oppressions Bloodshed and Delusions amount to no more but a slavish Submission to the will and Arbitrary Tyranny of a few sanguinary Schismaticks cruel Hypocrites and desperate Usurpers over all who like deep Ditches and open Sepulchers having swallowed up our King our Parliament our Estates our Liberties and many of our Brethrens Lives now like impudent Strumpets in the wantonness and security to which success have hardned their hearts and foreheads wipe their mouths as if they had done no evil and now lying in-wait for our precious Souls dress their whorish Faces with the Harlotry Temptation of a New-fashioned Representative and that both silly and ridiculous Bable called the Agrrement of the People Than which never any poyson was presented in a sordeder and less suspected Cup Nor foolish Devil never used less inviting baits for his snares Their gross and brutish unpolitickness offering nothing in that Beggars dish to the miserably abused and justly discontented Kingdom but only such general dull and confused notions as might become the soberer sort of Picts or Highlanders or the less savage Indians when from their Acorns Nakedness and Barbarity they began to form some concepâ—ions of casting themselves into more orderly and civil Societies for their better Government and Common welfare So vastly short their motly Agreement comes of those most tried wise noble rational just and indeed Divine Principles and Foundations of True Government Order and Polity on which his famous Monarchy hath for many hundred of years been raised to so stately a Fabrick having flourished to so perfect a beauty to so antient and venerable a glory as became the Wisdom Piety and Gravity of our former Kings Parliaments and Ancestors Men of Renown for true Wisdom and Heroick Greatness to whom these late Overturners and Innovators of all Government would scarce have served for their Dwarfs Zanies and Buffons But lest these Cursed Movers of the Antient Boundaries and Landmarks should lose both themselves and us in the Wood and Wilderness of their poor rude barbarous and novel projections they bring forth their Ignes Fatui lights of private Inspirations Fanatick Delusions False and Falsifyed Interpretetions of wrested and corrupted Scriptures to make some shew to their seduced Proselytes whom they would re-baptize in the blood of the King with themselves as if they were the little Stone cut without hands which must become a great Mountain c. They the Saints which must bind Kings in Chains and Nobles in Links of Iron c They the people of the most High to which the Kingdoms of the Earth must be give c. Whereas true Saints which had the power not shew only of godliness would not take all the Kingdoms of the World upon such Devillish Concitions and by such damnable practises as yours are most
of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably trayterous beyond what any Catelines but your selves ever had the desperate boldness to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared rivalry and enmity against King Parliament and Country we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with less shame and disdain your insolent and prevailing Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aquiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyal 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 mortal men to doâ— devoting themselves to all the Curses of God temporal and eternal upon the breach and failer of their words to His Majesty Add to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartial endeavours to seâ—tle all things in Peace Justice due Liberty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and state may witness 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 adhorrence utter detestation and total disagreement from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further do 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 Almighty God not in order to the satisfaction of our private malice or desire of revenge on any of you though our particular injuries have been many from you but only in order to the publique Vindication of Gods Glory the Honour of the Reformed Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Nation the wiping away those foul sins of Treason Perjury Truce-breaking and Regal Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood of your King and fellow-Subjects now seek impenitently and irreparably to implunge this whole Nation That we might as some solace under our immense sorrows and tyrannizing miseries inflicted by you but live to see Gods temporal judgements so far upon you as may pull down your Luciferian pride and make your obstinate minds to see the horrour of your Villanies That like Cain you may be afraid of all men like Judas accursed to all Posterity given over to Satan and excommunicated by all good Christians as Murtherers of your Father Killers of your King That you may ever be haunted with the rueful Ghost and hideous Phantasme of the King whom you have trayterously butchered That the exemplary vengeance of God may be upon you and your Adherents so remarkably and in such a Proportion to your Villanies that if there be any place left for Repentance you may find it and yet all the World may see your destruction is the Lords doing and say Doubtless there a God that judgeth the Earth Nor do we despair but God will upon our true Repentance for our great sins and supine folly which gave you advantages to fulfil your most odious Villanies so far remember his mercies to his most deplorable Kingdom and by you as so many wild Bores desolated Churches as to stirre up some powerful Avenger of the Kings blood and all that other innocent blood which the depths and deceits at first the force and violence afterward of your bloody Faction hath occasioned and caused to be shed by your tumultuating the people your instigating the spirits of the two Houses with false and pannick fears Your calumniating the King and perverting his gracious purposes Your enflaming the enmities and heightning the Animosities on both sides Your fraudulently voting No Addresses and publishing that lying and most infamous Libel for your pretended grounds Your widening the differences and hindering all fair equable closings both formerly and in that 〈◊〉 memorable Treaty at Newport of which you were the most rude savage and perfidious Violators that ever History recorded We know that you can now only trust in your Arm of Flesh in the Devils aid and Counsel having in your works denied the Living God instead of whom your Bellie and the present World are become your God and your glorie for the satisfaction of which and the attaining places of profit and power agreeable to your lusts which are enlarged like Hell you have dared to advance thus far to the destroying of King Parliament and Laws which were the only boundaries and conservers of our Peace Properties Lives and Liberties yet after all this you inscribe on your Bloody Banners and impudent foreheads The Agreement of the People and the Restorers of our Liberties Which Plots although you think them your Master-pieces for artifice jugling and policy that so you might by fair words and flattering lies allure the many and meaner People to maintain those Monsters which you have brought forth yet you must know That the People of Englands eyes are not so blood-shotten not their Consciences so â—eared nor their Hearts so disloyal nor their sences so bewitched by your Magick and Charms as not to see through and fully both discover and detest your devilish designs of Tyrannie Anarchie and Profaneness whereto you drive through all these cloudings of immethodical Nonsense and indigested scriblings which like your late damnable Remonstrance and your other illiterate and irrational Papers discover that where there is so much want of grace and common honestie as in you it is impossible not to want even those shews of common sense and vulgar Reason which are necessarie not to justifie which no tongue pen or wit of Devils can do but so far as to palliate your filth and cover your nakedness or to render your wicked projects but tolerably plausible to those that have the grossest perception of things The better to temper this your Cup of deadly poison to please the vulgar relish which you think is gross and undecerning you tempt them with the name of Liberty first in Civil things which all men see is but a meer Cheat while they are like to be held under your Iron hands and squeezed under your tyrannous wills and intolerable Exactions instead of injoying the benefit of our antient and famous Laws the best that any Subjects in the world enjoyed the just and only bounds of our Liberties and Conservers of our both Peace and Prosperities to which all honest men who have no joynt stock with you in Knavery Poverty and Baseness desire most humbly and earnestly to return Despairing and