to a Multitude of Tyrants and the dreadfull events if the Tyrants do not restore the King to his own again The murder of the late King Charles is proved to be most illegal and how the Rebels use the liberty of the people only as a Cloak for their wickednesse and their Knavery discovered in pretending the supreme power to be in the people whereas they use it themselves and so Tyrannize over us The Laws of England described and proved that our Soveraign Charles the 1. was unjustly killed against the Common Law Statute Law and all other Laws of England WE have already clearly proved that Kings are by Divine institution that they have their power from the Heavens and not from terrestrial men and that their power is above the people and Laws We are now come to see whether the people the Kings subjects have power to destroy and put assunder that which God hath thus created and joyned together It is a sound conclusion which naturally and of necessity floweth from the premisses that they have not and having shewed 1. That God made the first King Adam in Paradise 2. That there he received his regal power from God not from the people And 3. That there he arbitrarily made Laws according to his will where he had reigned a Monarch for ever as Divines hold had not he transgressed Let us now see what became of him after his transgression for King Adam did transgress and he must give an account of his Stewardship But to whom must he give his account To man he cannot for the King hath no superiour on earth Therefore he must to God who in the 19 th verse of Gen. cap. 2. challengeth his praerogative And the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him Where art thou No sooner did Adam hear God call but he presently gave an account of himself saying verse the 10. I heard thy voyce in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked and I hid my self Where note That God taketh an account chiefly of the king for his subjects offences The king is Gods Steward and God will reckon with him God sent him from Paradise out of the garden of Eden to till the ground Therefore that he may make a good account he must Parcere subjectis debellare superbos cherrish the flowers and root up the weeds He must be a nursing Father to his loyal subjects but he must batter down the swelling pride of Traytors The true Protestant Religion must florish as the best flowet in his Garden But the Anabaptists Independents Presbyterians Papists Jesuits and other wicked Sectaries must be pulled up as weeds lest they overspred and choak the good flower They must be extirpated by the root whilest they are young lest theâ— grow up and seed and their seed be sowen up and down in the whole World He must set the Bishops again in their natural soyl which is now grown over with these weeds and rubbish That that stone which these new builders refused may become the head stone of the Corner and the Bishops Lands which they did not refuse must be given to the Church again The Common Prayer Book now rejected as fit for none but the use of Papists He must bring in and make those Papists read it who now reject it as Popery for no other cause but that there is no Popery in it He must turn the Horses and other unclean beasts out of his Sanctuary now made a Stable St. Pauls c. and put in holy Bishops and reverend Pastors in their room And since our Saviour hath commanded it He must make the Lords Prayer current amongst us That our Ministers may leave off piping what they list and pipe the true tune which the Lord of life the best Musician taught them that all Gods people may dance For how can we dance when the instrument is out of order and the wrong tune is piped Good God! what a superstitious and Papistical age do we live in when we account it superstition and Popery to say the Lords Prayer the Common Prayer the ordinary means of our salvation O blessed Iesus Hast not thou commanded us not to use vain repetitions But when we pray to pray thus Our Father c Dost not thou know what we want better than our selves and hast thou not prescribed us a set form of prayer to ask it with And shall we cast thy prayer behind our backs and presume to come before thee without it are we wiser than the Lord of life or is there any nearer way to Heaven than that which he hath taught us shall we present the Lord with our own husks and trample on the Manna which he hath prepared for us Is there any other spirit to teach us to pray than the Spirit of the Lord which taught us in his Gospel When we petition to any of our superiours on earth then we premeditate and cull out filed and curious words worthy of his personage But when we should pray to the Almighty then any thing which lyeth uppermost is shot out at him like water out of a squirt and what pleaseth our foolish phantasies that we pretend to be the Spirit of the Lord. O God arise vindicate thy own cause Let not the soul of thy Turtle Dove be given into the power of the wicked For how is the Mother reviled by her Children and it grieveth thy servants to see her stones lye in the dust But rege venienti hostes fugierunt It is Gods Steward otherwise called Stewart with must remedy all this He must turn our spears into pruning hooks and our swords into plow-shares and so consequently our sword-men into plow-men The love of his Subjects must be the Magazine of his Artillery and their Loyally and obedience must be their chiefest good and honour O fortunatos nimium sua sâ— bona norint O happy multitude if they did but know their summum bonum their chiefest good which is loyalty and due obedience to their Soveraign For he will not break the Charters of their Corporations nor invade their rights and liberties He will not distrain for excessive Taxes nor impose great burdens on his Subjects The Law shall be to him as the apple of his eye and the true Protestant Religion as his dearest heart Learning shall florish and the Vniversities shall not be destroyed He will not murder the Prophets nor massacre the Citizens before their own doors He will not contrive plots with his Impes and Emissaries to catch honest men with their estate Justice shall run down the streets like streams and peace shall make the Land flow with milk and honey Every man shall eat the fruits of his vineyard under his own vines and enjoy the presence of his family with the absence of a Souldier He will not build up his throne with bloud nor establish his royal state with lyes and dissembling Flatterers will he abandon from his Court and those who keep other mens estates
odious woman when she is married and an Hand-maiâ— that is Heir to her Mistresse Is not our Englanâ— disquieted with all these Oh who can bear it yet these Tyrants rejoce at it Delight is not seemly for a Fool much lesse for a Servant to have ruâ— over Princes Pro. 19.10 Yet these Slaves tryumph over their Prince and scoff at his Miseries And as the Jews in a deriding manner said of oâ— Saviour This is Jesus King of the Jews So thesâ— Jews scoffingly call their Soveraign Lord The King of Scots yet keep his Kingdom from him jeeâ—ing him out of his Estate O Heavens As perpetually afterwards so allwayes before the Conquerour the legislative power did continue in the King tanquam in proprio subjecto as in the true and proper subject of that power and the Kings Edicts were the only positive Laws of the Realm and indeed who can be a King without this power for what difference is there between the King and Subject but that the one gives the Laws the other receiveth them And most clear it is by all Historians that the Common Council of our antient Kings were composed only of Prelates and Peers the Commons were not admitted to any Communication in affairs of State Camden in his Britannia telleth us that in the times of the Saxon Kings and in after Ages the Common Council of the Land was Praesentia Regis Praelatorum Procerumque collectorum The presence of the King with the Prelates and Peers Ingulphus who dyed before 1109 saith Rex Eldredus Convocavit Magnates Episcopos Proceres Optimates ad tractandum de publicis negotiis Regni He did not call the Commons So Edward the Confessor that great Legislâ—tor made all his Laws without the consent of the Commons Now when the Norman Conqueror one of the Praedecessors of Charles the Martyr came in who had a triple title to this Kingdome to wit by Donation Conquest and by the Consent of the people for as it is well known when Edward the Confessor lived in Normandy he gave this Kingdom after his decease to William Duke of Normandy as he was his kinsman near of bloud so that the Conquerour was heir of the Crown to the Confessor by adoption Which title if it was invalid you must know he was a Conquerour and no man will deny that Conquest maketh a legal title Jure Belli But suppose both those titles were as they were not invalid yet by the Law of Nations the Consent of the people maketh an inviolable title even to an Usurper in continuance of time if they have no other lawfull King much more to a lawfull Soveraign And his people our Ancestors ever since the Conquest for the space of about six hundred yeares have all done allegiance to and unanimously resolved that the Conquerour and his Successors were our only true Kings Liege Lords and Soveraigns having the supreme power over us and never did the people claim power to depose the King until those Monsters at Westminster under pretence of such a power murthered Charles the first and against all Law Justice and Equity and against thâ— wills of the people make themselves masters of our lives and fortunes and of all that we have taking them away when they please It would make a man cry and it would make a man laugh to see what fools these fellowes make of us Royal Government by Kings hath been used here time out of mind and approved by all our Ancestors to be the best of Governments and most natural and profitable for us yet these few stinking Members at Westminster made an Act March 17. 1648. contrary even to their own Oaths and Protestations to abolish the Kingly Government as unnecessary I use their own words burthensome and dangerous to the people as if this small company consisting of fifty or sixty at the most of the Scum and tail of the people were wiser and knew what was better for us than all our Ancestors both noble and ignoble in all ages But what was their reason to abolish Kingship To make each of themselves Kings nay Tyrannical Kings over us So may the slave say that the government of his Lord over him is unnecessary burthensome and dangerous and therefore he will murther his Lord and make himself Maâ—ter changeing the name and execute the office worse So may High-way men take away the true owners purse and tell him it was unnecessary for him to keep it or by the same law may thieves murther and rob the Master of his house and then vote the Master burthensome and dangerous to his family Yet notwithstanding while these Tyrants destroy our fundamental Government Lawes Religion Freedoms and Liberties making of us absolute slaves villains only to satiate their lust and pleasure yet even then they stile themselves The Keepers of the Liberty of England by Authority of Parliament Close and trusty keepers of our liberty indeed for we can come at none of it they keep it from us not for us so Wolves may call themselves keepers of the Lambs which they have caught or by the same law may a Cut-purse be called the keeper of the purse and be said to have the same care of it for they are heepers of our liberty only to keep themselves For by what authority was this Individuam vagum the Keepers erected By what authority why they will tell you by authority of Parliament Cunning Curres How they take the people with this word Parliament when God knows they themselves were all the Parliament by whose authority the thing called Keepers I know not what they be for I never yet heard them named were invented So may Adulterers vote themselves keepers of Chastity or so may I murther a man against his will and then call my self keeper of his life by his authority For they destroyed the Parliament when they destroyed the King and there hath been no Parliament since Vide 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 1.14 li. 4. Coke 4 Inst p. 46. and 4 C. 4. f. 440. Therefore they most falsly call themselves a Parliament Neither are they the Representatives of the people as I shewed before but a company of Ungracious Tyrants acting against the wills of the people Yet forsooth they tell us that the people have the supreme power and that they act for the people being their Representatives Just as if I should take away all that another man hath against his will and then tell him that he hath the supreme power over his goods and that I took them away by his authority and power or as if I should take away his money without his leave and tell him that I am his Representative So these Foxes cozen the people with nonsensical cheats and in all things are Representatives of the Devil not of the People for they all well know and some of them have declared so that if the people might chuse their Representatives those Representatives would restore the King to his
nomine paena est A sign thou crav'st that might confirm thee mine I by dehorting give a certain sign Approv'd a father by paternal fear Look on my looks and read my sorrows there O would thou could'st descend into my brest And apprehend my vexed Souls unrest And lastly all the wealthy world behold Of all that heav'n enrich which seas infold Or on the pregnant bosom'd earth remain Ask what thou wilt and no repulse sustain To this alone I give a forc'd consent No honour but a true-nam'd punishment Dost thou doubt my fatherly indulgence or that I will not own thee for my Son Remove that vain scruple from thy deceived minde My noursing fear of thee is an infallable sign and an inviolable assurance that thou art my legitimate Son and I am proved to be thy Father by my fatherly care over thee But if thy heart be so hard and thou so void of belief that thou wilt not believe me unless thou see my heart Reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and make way for thy unbelieving eyes to discover and see those fatherly cares which stick so close to my troubled heart It is thy good which I only aim at And thy welfare is the only mark at which I level the shafts of my Counsel and wholesome admonishment Consiliis non curribus utere nostris Dumque potes solidis etiam nunc sedibus astas Dumque male optatos nondum premis inscius axes Quae tutus spectes sine me dare lumina terris While thou mayst refuse And not my Chariot but my counsel use Let me the world with usual influence chear And view that light which is unsafe to bear Make use of my advice and not of my Chariot and that in time too whilest thou standest on sure ground Lest at length thou art driven to a non putabam I had not thought the Sanctuary of fools and so become an Ideot by a too late confession For post est occasio calva an after game is never good Let not thy jealous heart surmise that these publick admonitions spring from any private ends or self interest of mine Behold my Kingdome and make choice of what rarity or delight it affordeth Ask whatsoever thine eye fancyeth or thy soul taketh pleasure in and thou shalt suffer no denyal The glorious structures the fertile fields the rich meadows and the fat pastures the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air the fruits of the vineyards and the immense woods shall all call thee master Nay I will clip the wings of my Prerogative to feather thy nest withall Confiteor hoc solum tibi nate negarem I profess Son only the government of my Chariot would I keep from thee which I deny thee for no other reason than because it will be thy destruction If the horses thou drivest do not destroy thee Yet every Kingdome in the world will disapprove thy actions and account thy attempt fatal to them Therefore aswell for thy own safety as the security and pleasure of all Kingdoms desist from thy indiscreet resolution and let me still whose only right it is and therefore only can rule my Chariot Finge datos currus quid ages poterisve rotatis Obvius ire polis ne te citus auferat axis Forsitan lucos illic urbesque deorum Concipias animo delubraque ditia donis Esse per insidias iter est formasque ferarum Nec tibi Quadrupedes animosos ignibus illis Quos in pectore habent quos ore naribus efflant In promptu regere est vix me patiuntur ubiacres Incaluere animi cervixque repugnat habenis My Chariot had can thy frail strength ascend The obvious poles with their force contend No groves no Cities fraught with Gods expect No marble fanes with wealthy offerings deckt Through salvage shapes dangers lyes thy way Nor easy is't those fiery steeds to tame Who from their mouths and nostrills vomit flame They heated hardly of my rule admit But head-strong struggle with the hated Suppose thy request granted thee and thou got up into my Chariot what wouldst thou do Dost thou think it will carry thee to Heaven Or that thou shalt always reign secure there Dost thou imagine it an easy thing to rule or that the change of Government will bring no danger Let not thy purblind policy so abominably delude thee Labor est inhibere volantes scarce I even I who am their known and lawful Soveraign can hardly restrain the unbridled fierceness of the Quadrupedes But when they perceive they have not their right and wonted driver they will cast thee off and break thy neck with the down-fall They are apt to rebel against me but they will account rebellion and treason most just and lawfull against thee Ergo tu sapientius opta Nulla fides regni Therefore wish more discreetly for immortality is not to be found in a Kingdome This was the answer of Monarchical Phoebus to the temerarious request of his phanatick Son Phaeton Dictis tamen ille repugnat Propositumque premit flagratque cupidine currus In vain dehorted he his promise claim'd With glory of so great a charge inflam'd But so much stupidity had captivated the senses of this prodigal Son that he rejected his Fathers Counsel and flew from it as if every word had been a two-edged sword designed for his executioner Such is the misery of the reprobate and jealous Souls that if an Angel should come from Heaven or a man arise from the dead yet would not they be reclaimed from their wicked errors These sweet waters of admonition were all spilt upon the ground and could not quench the flagrant heat of Phaetons blind zeal for the Government of his Fathers Chariot Therefore when Royal Phoebus saw that his fatherly advice could take no impression nor by any means prevail but that his Son was willfully bent upon his own ruin that he had caught him by a stratagem into such a straight that he could not repel his madness by force Ne dubita dabitur Stygias juravimus undas Quodcunque que optares He delivereth up his Chariot unto him and such was his tender care and unparallelled goodness that at that very time notwithstanding the contumacy of his rebellious Son who should have obeyed his Father in respect of his duty aswell as for his own good did not All-seeing Phoebus leave giving of him Counsel But that his Son might prosper even in his disobedience Qualis amor patris O how great is the love of Parents He directed him what course he was best to take and how he should perform his usurped authority Si potes his saltem monitis parere parentis Parce puer stimulis fortius utere loris Sponte sua properant Let not thy Father still advise in vain Son spare the whip and strongly use the reign They of their own accord will run too fast T is hard to moderate a flying haste This
who was it that murthered the King Was it the people Every man knoweth that it was neither the people nor the Parliament But a Company of Jesuitical treacherous Rebels and damnable Usurpers Who flaming the people in the mouth with a tale that the supreme power was in the people made use of this power themselves against the wills of the people as an Engine to perform and bring to passe all their wicked and horrible designs But say they we are the peoples Representatives chosen by the people and so what we do they do Catch a Knave without a Knaves answer and he will give you leave to hang him I must confesse if this were true they might have somewhat the more colour though not the more honesty for what they do But this is as false as themselves For the people chose them to sit in Parliament and act according to the Kings Writ as part of the Kings Parliament according to the Laws of the Realm But since the Parliament is destroyed for what Parliament can there be without a King and House of Lords such a headlesse Monster was never seen untill of late Consequently their power which they derived from the people is gone also Neither are the Commons in Parliament the representative body of the whole Kingdom or people For they do not represent the King who is the head nor the Lords who are the nobler and higher part of the body of the Realm the Commons only represent the Inferior and lower sort of the people but if they did as they do not represent the whole body yet did not the people ever give them any power to cut off their Kings head For the Lords voted it unlawful all the honest Commons forsook the House and the people were all displeased except a few of their own hatching up and every one else murmured against it The Nobility mourned The Gentry were amazed The Common people wept and men women and Children did cry The Heavens cloathed themselves in black And the Sun hid his face The Lion King of Beasts died at the â—ight of his royal blood And the wild foules came wondering to see this execrable fact on the Scaffold And if the Thundering and Lightening of the Almighty be a true sign of Gods Angry Deity Then even from this we may conclude that these Regicides took too much upon them and very much provoked his wrath For Diespiter Igni coruseo nubila dividens Plerumque per purum tonantes Egit equos volucremque currum The Heavens roared with thunder which made the earth shake and the darts of fiery lightening threatened the ruines of both And who can think upon this worse than Gunpowder-Treason plot for then was but intended that which now is put in Execution viz. The murther of our gracious King and the subversion of all Laws and Religion with him and not justly expect all the Plagues of Aegypt and the punishment of Sodom and Gomorah to fall upon him and the whole people For Hor. Hoc fonte derivata clades In patriam populumque fluxit From the death of the King as from a fountain did flow the slaughter of the Nobility and people with the ruine of the Glory and freedom of the English Nation Tantae molis erat perversam condere gentem Such and so great villanies were perpetrated to raise this generation of Vipers Yet forsooth they will tell you that the supreme power and Soveraignty is in the people and that they act under them O grand Delusion Did the people turn out the long Parliament Did the people set up Oliver Protector Did the people turn out Dick his son Did the people foist up again the Rump of the long Parliamene Or did they hunt them out again Did the people sanctifie the Committee of Safety over them Or did they hunt in the Rump again Or have they made all the Revolutions and Choppings and Changings amongst us No neither the people nor their Representatives But the Devil his Representatives have been the cause of all our subversions For as the people have not so neither did the twentieth part of them ever challenge or claim the supreme power But have alwaies acknowledged the Soveraignty to be only in their King and only Soveraign only under God Reader take notice that in many places of this Book by the word Parliament is meant those Traytors the House of Commons who have unjustly usurped the name of Parliament For by the known Laws of the Land there can be no Parliament without the King Therefore let every one of the Regicides repent and pray to God to open his eyes and that the scales of blindnesse may fall from them that he may see his duty which is so evidently written in the Scripture and all other pious Writers which is to fear God and to honour his King which is acceptable in the sight of the Lord. And so I shut up my discourse with these verses which I would have the Reader get without book for his Edification Astra Deo nil majus habent nil Caesare terrae Sic Caesar terras ut Deus astra regit Imperium regis Caesar Deus astra gubernat Caesar honore suo dignus amore Deus Dignus amore Deus dignus quoque Caesar honore est Alter enim terras alter astra regit Cum Deus in coelis Caesar regâ—t omnia terris Censum Caesaribus Solvile vôta Deo A Tyrant without a Title set out in all his Colours and proved by the Laws both of God and man by the sentence of all honest and wise men by the vote of Antiquity and several Examples That it is most lawfull and glorious for any man either publique or private to fall upon Tyrants and kill them without Examination according to the usual forms of Judicature Where the consent of the people after Vsurpation makes an Vsurpers Title good and where not That the assent of the people cannot ratify any Government without him so long as their King liveth though banished but all their acting is Illegal How Tyrants pretend the safety of the people only for their own safe-guard and how they delude the people with specious names for their Magna Latrocinia their great villanies and robberies The Devil was a Rebel so are they and like Satan they have their power only by permission with an incitement to all men to execute them for these are not the Dignities we should obey LEt us now take our Swords in our hands and arme our selves to incounter with this Tyrant sine Titulo a Tyrant without a Title That bird of prey that beast of the game Orbis flagellum that scourge of the world that Devourer of Mankind Fulmen belli that Thunderbolt of war that Maule of the earth Poliâ—rcletes that destroyer of Cities that Hangman that Murtherer that great Robber whose might is his only right whose multitude of thieves makes him formidable builds himself up with honest mens blood feared by all men and fears
if we had all sworn allegiance to them They rid furiously but in a short time the Breech being too heavy for this new Head they moltered away to nothing Though the Rump had for a time hung down its tail betwixt its Leggs yet at length it begun to wagg it and whilst the Safety of the Committee of Safety was marched into the North under its Father Lamberts Conduct the Currish Rump stole into the House again by night seven times a Devil worse than before where now they ride Triumphant and without the peoples consent or liking make what Laws they list and Assesse what Taxes they please send their mercenary Souldiers who would fight for the Devil if he would give them mony into the City in the night time and take the Citizens mony away from them pretending that the Citizens provide it for Charls Stuart but when the Citizens prove the contrary then they tell them they will secure it for them So Burglars and Thieves take away mens purses from them and then tell them they will secure them for them These are the Keepers of our Liberty These are they who stood so much for the privileges of Parliament and for the peoples free election of their Representatives Now they account it a great Breach of Privilege of Parliament to petition to them for a free Parliament and imprison them that are for it So Robbers may account it dishonesty for those who are robbed to ask for their own and imprison them as disturbers of the Commonwealth Although these Tyrants have built themselves great houses and filled their baggs and coffers with the estates of their Masters whom they murthered and with the unparallel'd impositions which they have laid upon the people yet do they still resolve to rob the spittle and have newly made an Act for the Assessement of six hundred thousand pounds Oh that the English should provide monies to maintain their devourers Though we have not bread to suffice our own hunger yet must we find dainties and moneys to fulfill their lusts though they take away our straw yet we must still provide a greater tale of bricks so that of all the Tyrants in the world which History or men acquaint us with these are the greatest There was Justice in Phalaris his bull but these men have only the colour of Justice Other Tyrants were but shadowes these are the Quintessence of all Tyranny and perdition I will not plunge my self into such a bottomlesse Labyrinth as to attempt to particularize all their villanies Non opus est nostrum I am not able nay the quickest pen of a ready writer would come farre short of so great a task The Histories of after ages will resound with these Turpia Dictu the people of our age have only time to feel and indure the miseries of this Tyranny subsequent generations will have leisure to tell the story Et haec olim meminisse juvabit Methinks I already hear the Post-nati those who will be born thousands of years hence relating one to the other the marvellous Tyranny which happened to our Nation after the Reign of Charles the Martyr and in what manner the King was murthered and how Charles the second was afterwards driven into an un-christian Exile and likewise rehearsing what persons they were which acted all these villanies so end with a Te Deum laudamus blessing God for the tranquillity peace and plenty which they enjoy under their Gracious Soveraign Lord the King The Persian Law commanded that at the death of their Kings there should be a suspension of the lawes a lawlesse liberty for the space of five dayes that the subjects might know the necessity of Government and learn to prize it better by being bereft of the benefit of it for a time Sure I am a lawlesse liberty hath reigned amongst us ever since the murther of Charles the first therefore I hope our present torments for want of a King will sufficiently prohibit all future ages to think of offering violence to their Kings and teach them to know that a bad King much morâ— a good King as was Charles the Martyr is an unvaluable blessing if compared to the Government of that many headed Monster the People or their Representatives in Parliament The peoples eyes were all fixed upon General Monk as their Moses to deliver them from this iron yoke of Egyptian bondage But Omne malum nobis ex Aquilone venit From the Cold North Comes all Ill forth Monk prov'd worse than Pharaoh himself and instead of relieving of our distressed Jerusalem which he might have done in the twinkling of an eye without one drop of bloudshed and thereby have gotten eternal renown and glory as well amongst all Nations as in his own native Country he heaped misery to misery and executed such a grand piece of Tyranny that none in the world unlesse those Harpies his Master Rebels at Westminster could invent On Thursday the ninth day of February 1659. In perpetuam rei memoriâ—m he drew up all his souldiers into the City with their matches lighted in a warlike posture doubled his guards and tore down all the gates â—nd posts of the City neither did his intoxicated malice stay upon the gates but leapt upon the Aldermen and other Citizens whom he presentâ—y cast into prison so that now he is become odious and stinks in the nostrils of all the Citizens and People and whereas he was the common hopes of all men he is now the common hatred of all men as a Traytor more detestable than Oliver himself who though he manacled the Citizens hands yet never took away the doores of their City whereby all manner of beasts as well the Wolves at Westminster as other out-lying Foxes and Birds of prey may come in and destroy them when they please So that now iniquity followeth iniquity and the wicked joyn hand in hand and oath to oath to persevere in their Rebellion And although no sacred Oaths Protestations Vowes or Covenants could keep them in lawful subjection to the King they now think with unlawful oaths to tye one the other fast to their usurped Tyranny So that the Kings righteous cause is now in a seemingly worse condition than before and he may complain with Holy King David That the Rebels have cast their heads together with one consent and are confederate against him But why art thou cast down O my soul or why art thou disquieted within me Cannot God who permitteth these Rebels to reign as easily cast them down Knowest thou not this of old since man was placed upon earth that the triumphing of the wicked is short and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment Though his Excellency mount up to the heavens and his head reach unto the clouds yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung they which have seen him shall say where is he He shall flee away as a dream and shall not be found yea he shall