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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90998	The beacons quenched: or The humble information of divers officers of the Army, and other wel-affected persons, to the Parliament and Common-wealth of England; concerning the Machivilian design of the Presbyterians, now carrying on by the Stationers of London. To bring an odium upon the Parliament and Army, introduce the whole body of Presbyterian doctrine and worship. seduce the good people of this Common-wealth, unto the Presbyterian slavery, than which nothing can be worse. By publishing divers treasonable and most scandalous books (a catalogue of many whereof is here inserted) against the honor of the Parliament, the Lord Generall, and severall other worthy members of this Common-Wealth.	Pride, Thomas, d. 1658.	1652 (1652)	Wing P3409; Thomason E678_3; ESTC R203208	6,717	14

THE Beacons Quenched OR The Humble Information of divers Officers of the Army and other wel-affected persons to the Parliament and Common-wealth of ENGLAND Concerning the Machivilian design of the Presbyterians now carrying on by the Stationers of LONDON To bring an odium upon the Parliament and Army Introduce the whole body of Presbyterian doctrine and worship To seduce the good People of this Common-wealth unto the Presbyterian slavery than which nothing can be worse By Publishing divers Treasonable and most Scandalous Books a Catalogue of many whereof is here inserted against the Honor of the Parliament the Lord Generall and severall other worthy Members of this COMMON-WEALTH LONDON Printed by Henry Hils and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Blackspread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls and William Larner at the Blackmoor at Fleet-Bridge 1652. To the Supreme Authority of the Nation the Parliament of the Common-wealth of ENGLAND Right Honourable HE that shall read Mr. Calamy and his Party in their late writings some of them published by the Stationers petitioning cannot but read expresly and by clear consequence Your glorious Titles to be Speckled Vipers Murtherers Traytors Rebels Blasphemers Southsayers Adulterers Perjured persons Oppressors Hypocrites Villains Rogues Beasts Antichrists Foxes Serpents Lyars Vsurpers and the Spanish faction in Pulpets and Thrones exalted But if the God of Heaven the God of Truth have writ your Names aright with the beams of the Noon-day Sun in the eies of all the Nations of the World You are the Saviours of the Oppressed the Conquerors of Tyrants and the Breakers of those Clergicall Yoakes whose Authors would still subscribe as the Butcher and Butchers son in Henry the eighth his daies Ego et Rex Meus I and my King I and my Parliament I and my People c. Your Honors have lately been alarumd with the noise of Popish books Blasphemous books c. and had we heard and seen no more but such fair Grass without a Snake and the Plots of our constant Powder-Miners we had held our peace But rummaging in their dark Cellars and finding under the Covers of provision against Winter the horrid store of Gun-powder lie covered We cannot but in faithfullness tell your Honors the Plot is to amuse you with the noise of Popery and Blasphemy and in the interim to spring their Mines to blow up your Selves the Councill and Army our Victories our Families our Freedoms For they hope yet for the day since while you wake they cannot wring it out to steal the Sword of God out of your hands while sleeping For can your Honors imagine that such Licensers who write such language above-said will ever set your Honors Imprimatur to any Lines but of the same unclean and Treasonable Spirit And for the Stationers subscribing to the first second Beacons do all those golden Characters of Zeal Holiness spell any more than plain Presbytery Is not the sale of Popish Books the greatest part of the trade of some of them who are also strongly reported to have a Factor in Rome it self Hath not the most Treasonable book that ever was printed against the State been certainly bought at the shop of some of them even since they fired the Beacon to the Parliament Do not these Mercenaries know that a fair current for sober Disputes and writings in matters of God controversial engageth more Authors to write c. than a stop and stifling to the Spirit of God and Men And as to Books of Heresie Popery Blasphemy if their be equall liberty of engaging against them when did the most glorious Sun Christ Jesus not dare to meet the darkest night attended with ten thousand Popes or Devills And when did they ever meet and he not conquer Yea can it be without amazement remembred that one of their Lords and ours and yours that would be should proclaim that most blasphemous Crack Stupor Mundi Clerus Britannicus the Amazement of the World is the Clergy of Britain And yet our Beacons must be fired and the Alarum given to the Magistrates Sword Arm Arm c. for not a man dare stir of our British Clergy to receive the charge of some few often conquered Religious adversaries We presume not to propose but we humbly conceive that your late former care of the Printers name and readiness to produce the Authors or bringers of their Copies together with some convenient Regulations cannot justly by any just man be complained against And we pray that as it pleased God after the world of Priests and Bishops had burned John Hus at Constance to send immediately from Heaven this inestimable Jewel of Printing so it may still please him as it hath graciously done ever since the burning of Christs witnesses in Q. Maries daies to stir up faithfull and able writers against all sorts of Poperies and Blasphemies and to stir up your Noble hearts to protect and encourage those blessed Liberties and Endeavors For our selves we shal desire to draw in no longer English air than we are cordially ready to draw out our swords and blood at your cōmand against the Violations of such dear bought precious Freedomes and against such Treasonable books and charges a tast whereof is here presented By your Honours most humble servants Thomas Pride Col. William Gough Lie Col. Tobias Bridge Maj. Richard Merest Adjut Gen. William Kiffen Capt. Isaac Gray George Gosfright Citizen Samuel Richardson Citizen The Humble Information of divers Officers of the Army and other well-affected persons to the Parliament and Common-wealth of England concerning scandalous Presbyterian books and designs T Is not any by-respect but conviction of duty which puts us out to this humble address First to the Lord Christ for his wonderful deliverances from a Prelatical bondage and a Presbyterian slavery the last of which though of but a short continuance yet lives fresh in the memory of all good people Secondly to the renouned Parliament of the Common-wealth of England the happy instruments of our freedom and painful Labourers in the work of Christ notwithstanding whose vigilancy we have had a sad experience of the Plots and designs of a Presbyterian party especially in and about the City of London who have not onely kept a correspondence with those of Scotland but also contributed moneys and other encouragements to their several Invasions And have from time to time by most malicious scandals and forgeries both in the Pulpit and at the Press endeavoured to bring an odium on the Parliament and present Government by affirming that the Army was a Popish Army and full of Papists and Jesuits that Mr. Hugh Peters and divers others who had bin principally active for the Parliament were Jesuits and that such lay-people who had a call of Spirit and did dispense their gifts without the formal humane Ordinances of the Presbytery were Popish Priests in disguise Nay which is most abominable even to be repeated they stuck not to affirm such was their malice that my Lord

Generall was Anti-christ and the man of sin with such like horrid scandals and abuses But when their Armies of flesh were by Christs own powers subdued both at Dunbar and Worcester to the eternal memory of the 3d. day of September the fury and insolence of these Kirkists was in some measure debelled and their unquiet spirits tamed yet through the too much mercy of the Parliament towards them and the continuance of them in places of publique trust and imployment they begin to fancy new hopes and we have just cause to fear are broaching new designs against the Parliament of this Commonwealth whom we trust the same great God will still defend To this purpose we are certified from an eminent hand at Edenborough by a letter dated 5 Junii last and published by Mercurius Politicus numero 106. That the Kirk Clergy preach damnation to such as accept of the Vnion and though they agree in nothing else among themselves yet they agree in their opposition to the Parliament And again in the next Mercury by another letter dated the 12th of the same June Indeed the spirits of division faction rebellion and devil himself of pride doth wholly act this wild order and degeneration of men and their rage is the greater because their Kingdom is falling Nor must it be forgotten sayes another what hazard our Nation hath run of late through the malice falshood and faction of the late Presbyterian drivers c. Politicus numero 111. page 1739. Much more might be said to evidence that this rigid party of soul-drivers hath been the onely considerable party that hath opposed all along the proceedings and establishment of our Paliament and Common-wealth even beyond all Jesuits and Popish party whatsoever but that it is in it self so clear that it needs no other eviction And that these six Subscribers are of that Tribe will also manifestly appear as by the sequent discourse so by their setting the first Beacon on fire for they are true Salamanders in a State and delight in nothing more than in persecution of tender consciences by fire and sword they are Boutefeux in a superlative degree whose chief content consists in making combustions in all well-govern'd Common-wealths And that the world may the better know these Subscribers take their names according to their own subscriptions and places of abode as follows Book-sellers Luke Fawn at the sign of the Parot in Pauls Church-yard Joshua Kirton at the late Kings arms in Pauls Church-yard Samuel Gellibrand at the Golden Ball in the new Rents Thomas Vnderhill at the Anchor and Bible in the new Rents John Rothwel at the Sun and Fountain in the new Rents Nathaniel Webb at the sign of the Bear in the new Rents These were the Subscribers of that Pamphlet but the Contrivers and counsellers of it we shall in due time and upon just occasion discover Their Preamble is embellished with much seeming zeal for exaltation of the Gospel of Christ Jesus which were truly commendable if it came from pure hearts but we have too great an assurance that Self-interest is their aim and Hypocrisie their zeal In the first Section they intimate a fear to be necessitated to leave their calling for want of trade rather than the pretence of keeping their consciences pure And in the fourth they insinuate Proposals for effecting their desires and so would fain serue themselves into some Office or Monopoly for licensing printing and selling of books that they might engross the Trade and lash their neighbours with some Presbyterian whips and none be permitted to publish any thing but what they please In the second Section the Pamphlet saies The Parliament well knowing that the Common People of this Nation will be of one Religion or other and if by publique authority they be not kept to the Reformed Religion they will be easily drawn to the Popish Here they speak plain English and would have a coercive power in matters of Religion a Presbyterian Class would do well but let it have some new name that may excommunicate enjoin Penances pronounce Censures and what would this be less than a Spanish Inquisition c And then the Subscribers would be pleased But they know both the Parliament and Army have often declared against such proceedings and Have disclaimed all other punishments for matters of Religion and will not we are confident permit them to be revived under any image or shape whatsoever See the Parliaments Answer to Scotch Papers in March 1647 fol. 43 63. the weapons of Fasting and Prayer to speak in the Parliaments own words being both more available and more Christian in such cases than those of force and violence c. And how simple are these Subscribers to imagine that the Truth of Christs holy Religion needs the support of human arms to sustain it or that the Parliament will make use of any power to so unlawfull an end An excellent late Treatise entituled Zeal Examined will give them better light in this point of Liberty of Conscience And how distrustfull are these men of Gods Providence and doubtfull of our own strength to imagine that any Papist can say more than we or write more than we can answer We desire nothing more than that they and all dissenters should propound their doubts in a Christian way either by Word or by Epistle and meet in the love of Christ for better instruction They forget that about the beginning of July last a Petition was presented to the Parliament by many thousands of well-affected persons one braneh whereof was That the Press might be open to all which these men would by a subtill insinuation shut against all but themselves Yet it was not intended by that Petition that the Press should be open for any such scandalous Books of Libells against the State and present Government as at least some of the Subscribers will appear to have of late printed and published Now if it were worth the examining we might certainly find many Untruths also in a few leaves of that Pamphlet As that all the Books there mentioned were printed in England is very doubtfull and that 1500 should be printed of every sort is most improbable And we cannot but take notice that these Subscribers rank the Christian Moderator amongst Popish Books because it equally rejects the Episcopall Bondage and Presbyterian Slavery holds forth an absolute incoertion in matters of inward beleef which these men love not to hear of nor of any Christian Moderation nor hath that Book to our best remembrance any one word against the State or present Government but much in honor of the same and of divers Members thereof In page 13 they say That Christians of a different beleef are not tolerated to profess their Religion among Papists How then do so many thousands enjoy a perfect liberty of conscience without any mulct or penalty even in France our next neighbouring Countrey We ought to speak truth even of our enemies whomsoever As for