Government in despite of the Magistrate Sect. 12. Reformation by Blood A YOu cannot Preach nor Pray them down directly and immediately Well! that which the Word cannot do the Sword shall Reyner to the Commons Aug. 28. 1644. Pag. 12. B Episcopacy must not only be pull'd up but the Bishops must be hang'd up before the Lord and the Bloodiest and Sharpest War to be endur'd rather then the least Error in Doctrine or in Discipline A Scottish Sermon Kings large Scotch Declaration fol. 404. C Those mine Enemies that would not have me Reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me Those Men that rise up in cursed Practises to change Religion to bring in Idolatry and False Worship to Depose Christ from his Throne and set up Anti-Christ in his Place Noble Sirs in your Execution of Judgment upon Delinquents Imitate God and be Merciful to none that have sinn'd of Malicious wickedness Let not your Eye pity any who in This bloody Quarrel have laid the Foundation of their Rebellion and Massacres in Irreconcileable Hatred to Religion and the Government of Jesus Christ. Case's Sermon to the Court Martial Aug. 17. 1644. D As Josiah put to death those that follow'd Baal so may the Parliament those that will not return and leave Antichristianism Marshalls Serm. March 26. 1645. That Anti-Christianism that was sworn in the Covenant to be rooted out Pag. 45. E I will confidently affirm that our days now are better then they were seven years ago because it is better to see the Lord Executing Judgment then to see Men working Wickedness and to behold a People lye Wallowing in their Blood rathen Apostatizing from God and embracing Idolatry and Superstition and banishing the Lord Jesus from amongst them S. Marshall to Both Houses c. Jan. 18. 1643. Pag. 18 Carry on the Work still leave not a Rag that belongs to Popery lay not a bit of the Lords Building with any thing that belongs to Anti-Christ but away with it Root and Branch Head and Tayl till you can say Now is Christ set upon his Throne Ibid. Page 21. F The Cause you manage is the Cause of God the Glory of God is embarkt in the same Ship in which This Cause is E. Calamy's Sermon to the Peers June 15. 1643. Page 53. He that dyes fighting the Lords Battle dyes a Martyr Ibid. Page 57. G Cursed be he that withholdeth his Sword from Blood that Spares when God saith Strike that suffers those to escape whom God has appointed to Destruction Case on Dan. 11.32 Page 24. To the Commons H The Execution of Judgment is the Lords Work and they shall be Cursed that do it negligently And Cursed shall they be that keep back their Sword from Blood in This Cause Strickland Nov. 5. 1644. Page 26. I The Lord is pursuing you if you execute not Vengeance on them betimes Faircloth on Josh. 7.25 Page 48. Why should Life be further granted to Them whose very Life brings Death to all about them Ibid. K Though as Little Ones they call for Pitty yet as Babylonish they call for Justice even to Blood Bridges on Rev. 4.8 Page 11. L Let us not out of any worldly respects of Estate Wives Children Honour good Nature Justice Compassion Care of Trade of Laws grow slack and lazy in our Undertakings upon the Success of which the Eyes of Christendom are fix'd But let us proceed to shed the Blood of the Vngodly L Dec. 19. 1642. M It is Commendable to fight for Peace and Reformation AGAINST the Kings Command Calamy's Sermon Decem. 25. 1644. Pag. 29. N Do Justice to the greatest Saul's Sons are not Spar'd no nor may Agag nor Benhadad though themselves KINGS Zimri and Cosbi though Princes of the People must be persn'd into their Tents This is the way to Consecrate your selves to God Herle Sermon to the Commons Nov. 5. 1644. Pag. 16 In vain are the high Praises of God in your Mouths without a Two-edged Sword in your hands Ibid. Jan. 15. 1643. Page 31. O If you would have a Peace with Popery a Peace with Slavery if you would have a Judas Peace or a Joab's Peace you know the Story he kiss'd Amasa and then Kill'd him If you would have a Peace that will bring a Massacre with it a French Peace It may be had easily But if you would have a Peace that may continue the Gospel among you and bring in a Reformation c. Such a Peace cannot be had without Contribution toward the bringing in of the Scots Calamy's Speech at Guild-Hall Octob. 6. 1643. Notes on Sect 12. YOu have here Fourteen Paragraphs so Sanguinary and Salvage that if they had not Christian Names to them a body would take the Authors of them for Saracens And to go a little farther with you yet Thirteen of the Fourteen are the Work of Dissenting Divines Not of Mr. Calamy's Wicked Profane Drunken Ministers as he was pleas'd to Baptize the English Clergy but of the Godly Sober Pious and Religious Ministers as he thought fit to distinguish those of his own Party Let the Reader Judge nâ—w if These be not fit Workmen to be employ'd in the Repairing of our Breaches One more now and I have done Sect. 13. The Murther of the Late King Encouraged and Justify'd A WE propound that That Capital and Grand Author of our Troubles the Person of the King may be speedily brought to Justice for the Treason Blood and Mischief he is guilty of Armyes Remonstrance Nov. 16 1648. P. 62. B Have you not sins enow of your own but will you wrap your selves up in the Treachery Murther Blood Cruelty and Tyranny of others Tho. Brooks Sermon before the Commons Decemb. 26. 1648. Pag. 17. Prepâ—ration to the Kings Murther Set some of those Grand Malefactors a Mourning that have caused the Kingdom to Mourn so many years in Garments Rolled in Blood by the Execution of IVSTICE c. Ibid. Pag. 19. C The King of Syria came against Israel and by the mighty power of God he and his Army were overthrown and the King was taken Prisoner Now the Mind of Gâ—â— was which he then discover'd only by that present Providence that Justice should have been executed upon him but it was not Whereupon the Prophet comes with Ashes upon his Face and waited for the King of Israel in the way where he should return 1 Kings 20.42 and as the King passed by he Cry'd unto him Thus saith the Lord because thou hast let go a Man whom I appointed for Destruction therefore Thy Life shall go for his Life Now see how the King of Syria after this answers Ahab's Love About Three years after Israel and Syria engaged in a New War Benhadad's Life was once in Ahab's hand and he ventur'd Gods displeasure to let him go But see how Benhadad rewards him for it Fight neither against small nor great but against the King of Israel Honourable and Worthy If God do not lead you to do Justice upon
Church to be Lawful Dangerous Pos. Lib. 2. Cap. 4. See the References Christ's Religion is fondly patcht with the Popes The Communion-Book is an imperfect Book cull'd and pick'd out of that Popish dunghil the Portuyse and Mass-book The Sacraments are wickedly mangled and profan'd They eat not the Lords Supper but play a Pageant of their own to blind the people Their Pomps Rites Laws and Traditions are Antichristian Carnal Beggarly Popish Fooleries Romish Reliques and Rags of Antichrist Dregs and Remnants of Transform'd Popery Pharisaical outward Faces and Vizzards Remnants of Romish Antichrist known Liveries of Antichrist a cursed Leaven of a cursed blasphemous Priesthood Cursed Patches of Popery and Idolatry they are worse then Lousy c. Dan. Pos. L. 2. cap. 9. The Dagon of the Bishops Service-book brake its Neck before this Ark of the Covenant Ibid. P. 66. Notes on § 4. LEt the Reader lay his hand upin his Heart here and ask himself Is this pretended Tenderness of Christianity the stile of the Gospel or no Is it the Language of the Disciples of Jesus Christ Can these People really have an Evangelical Compassion for their Brethren and at the same time fly thus in the face of Dignities and treat their Superiors at this outrageous rate Have we so learn'd Christ as to make Scurrility and Railing the Badge of our Profession They would be thought to supplicate all this while for Gentleness and Compassion And is this the way to obtain it by a Practice that is almost sufficient to turn Mercy it self into Indignation But alas their business is not to procure Favour from the Government but to expose it to Reproach And all this clutter about the Clergy is only to render them Odious and Contemptible to the People Pray'e take notice once again The stress of their Charge upon the Church is only to move the multitude against it as a Frame of Constitution that is Antichristian and Popish And yet pray mark it they do in the same breath offer Proposals of being Vnited into that Ecclesiastical Popish State Which brings the matter unavoidably to this Issue either that they do against their Consciences cast that scandal upon the Church for the Advancement of some Other Designe or else by desiring this Vnion they do acknowledge themselves willing to be Incorporate into a Popish Constitution But this Bustle about the Church you shall fee has a furthlr Prospect For these People have the Faculty of handling Religious Matters in order to Political as well as of hooking in Temporal Matters in order to Spirituals §. 5. The Dissenters Behaviour towards the Civil Government A THe King the Nobles and the Prelates are sure the Murtherers of Christ O People I will be silent Speak People and tell me what good the King has done since his Home coming M. Welsh at Sanchil in Carrit at a Conventicle And at another Conventicle thus I am confident that God will yet assert the Cause of Pentland-hills in spite of the Curates and their Masters the Prelates and in spite of the Prelates and their Master the King and in spite of the King and his Master the Devil Ravillac Redivivus Pa. 45. B Her Majesty and State do maim and deform the Body of Christ and so bid God to battel against them c. By the same authority that the Queen appoints the apparel noe appointed to the Ministers she may command any piece of Popery so she name it Policy c. The Servants of God are persecuted under her That Excommunication should not be exercis'd against Princes I utterly dislike Danger Pos. L. 2. C. 3. Cartwrights Reply Par. 2. C The State sheweth it self not upright alledge the Parliament what it will It shall be easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment then for such a Court. There shall not be a man of their seed that shall prosper be a Parliament-man or bear Rule in England any more None ever defended this Hierarchy of Bishops to be lawful but Papists and such as were infected with Popish Errors All the Newgates and Oldgates yea and all the Tyburns in England are too little for such rash and presumptuous Heads that will not give God leave to Rule but will take the Sceptre out of his hands I do fear that many of the forwardest Enemies of Reformation are not the backwardest Friends that the King of Spain has in England at this day Dan. Pos. L. 2. C 6. D As long as you maintain these cursed Acts of 1584 the Tyranny of Bishops c. you are a Persecutor Dan. Pos. l 1. cap. 6. E The Magistracy and Ministry walk hand in hand in the contempt of True Religion The Laws maintaining the Archbishops are no more to be accounted of then the Laws maintaining the Stews Impiety is suffer'd to bear sway against the Majesty of God and that by Law and Authority As great Indignities offer'd to Jesus Christ in committing his Church unto the Government of the Common Law as can be by mean Hirelings unto a King Ibid. l. 2. cap. 8. Come hither ye Malignant Athiests come hither gnash your teeth and let their eyes rot in their holes Bond to the Commons Oct. 8. 1645 Pa. 5. F The Kings of the Earth have given their power to Antichrist How have they earn'd their Titles Eldest Son of the Church the Catholique and most Christian King DEFENDER OF THE FAITH Do not the Kings of all these Nations stand up in the room of their Progenitors with the same implacable Enmity to the Power of the Gospel Dr. Owen Fast Serm. Apr. 19. 1649. Pa. 22. There was Corruption both in Church and Common-wealth Idols were set up in Dan and Bethel i.e. in the places of Judgment and in the House of God Burroughs on Isa. 66. v. 10. Pa. 37. The greatest blow that ever was given to Antichristian Government is that which Now it hath had Babylon is so fallen as it shall never rise again Burroughs on Isa. 66.10 Pa. 44. G. O Worm Darst thou be so Impudent to put thy self in Gods Stead to meddle with Mens Consciences and Lord it in Religious Concerns Gods Loud Call Pag. 17.1661 H. What hope that the Reformed Religion will be protected and maintained by the Son which was so irreligiously betray'd by the Father Plain English 1660. Pag. 2. I. C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of pretious Saints and Martyrs Door of Hope Pag. 1.1660 The Murtherers of our Saviour were less Guilty than That Prince Case of King Charles 1648. K. Let Justice and Reason blush and Traytors and Murtherers Parricides and Patricides put on White Garments and rejoyce as Innocent Ones if This Man the Late King should escape the Hands of Justice and Punishment English Translation of the Scottish Declaration Pag. 12.1650 L. Charles the Second The Son of a Bloody Father Heir to an Entail'd Curse more certain than to his Kingdom Train'd
those that have been the great Actors in shedding Innocent Blood never think to gain their favour by sparing of them c. G. Cockaine's Sermon to the Commons Novemb. 29. 1648. D When Kings command unrighteous things and People suit them with willing complyance none doubts but the Destruction of them both is Just and Righteous Dr. Owen a Fast-Sermon Jan. 31. 1648. Pag. 5. A Great Mighty Potentate that had caused Terrour in the Land of the Living and laid his Sword under his Head brought to punishment for Blood Ibid. a Thanksgiving-Sermon Octob. 24. 1651. Page 6. E Praised be God who hath delivered us from the Imposition of Prelatical Innovations Altar-Genu-flexions and Cringings with Crossings and all that Popish Trash and Trumpery And truly I speak no more than what I have often thought and said The Removal of those Insupportable Burthens countervails for the Blood and Treasure shed and spent in these late Distractions c. W. Jenkins before the Parliament as they call'd it Sept. 24. 1656. Pag. 23. F Corbet says That he was now fully satisfi'd in his own mind of the Lawfulness of the Fact as well as of the Power by which it was done and that it was his Duty no longer to stand out but to joyn with his Brethren as an Actor in it or else he might become guilty of Unfaithfulness to the Cause of God and his Country c. Three Regicides Speeches 1662. Pag. 57. And as for that Necessary and Publique Act of Justice he did never repent at all that he had a hand in it Nor after all the Searchings of Heart about it did see cause so to do when at any time he had the most serious and calm Reflections upon it Pag 58. G The Parliament having wisely chang'd the Government to a Commonwealth and cut off that Hereditary Usurpation of Monarchy which was never either justly begun or continu'd The False Brother Pag. 34.1651 Notes on Sect. 13. IN A we have only Men of Blood pressing for Blood and nothing less than the Blood of a Tender a Religious a Protestant and their Native Prince will content them The War is now transferr'd from Popery to Tyranny The Masque is taken off and it is downright Treason and Blood that is Charged upon him by the Army And what was it but the Dissenting Pulpits that put these Diabolical Thoughts into their Hearts These Bloody Words into their Mouths and the very Swords into their Hands Who but the Godly Peaceable Ministers the Zealous Protestants as They make bold to call themselves and just such Protestants as Ministers to a Scruple Murther Blood Cruelty Tyranny says Brooks B and see then how this Parricidal Evangelist bellows for the Execution of Justice which was in English the King's Murther In C you have another of the Stamp pressing the same Point and upon the same Foundation too for shedding Innocent Blood with an Insinuation of no less than the Mind of God for their warrant In D you have one of our Re-reformers bestriding two Kings at a Step. And in E another of the same Tribe with the Rights of the Church in one Scale the Blood and Treasure of His Sacred Majesty and so many Thousands of his Loyal Subjects in the other and all too little to weigh against a Cross and an Altar F Is only a Defence of the Execution by a Regicide And in G the Change of Government approved by a Republican To wind up all now in a word The Presbyterians you see hold Toleration to be the Source of all Heresies utterly Unlawful Insufferable Impious and Destructive both of Church and State The Independent qualifies it with some Restrictions to their own advantage but Episcopacy and Presbytery find no Quarter They are at War among themselves upon an Inconsistency of Principles and openly profess their reciprocal Animosities to be matter of Conscience The Civâ—l Government passes with them for Tyrannical and the Ecclesiastical for Antichristian They stick to their Covenant to the Death and the Roman Papacy it self even in their own accounts of it is not more bloodily Rigorous in Impositions upon Conscience than the Papal Presbytery according to the Testimony of their Words and Actions The Imperial Authority of the Crown is wholly swallow'd up in the Transcendent Usurpations of the Kirk Their Positions are not only Ruinous to the Peace of This Government but to the very Being also of Government it self Their very Assembly of Divines did not only Animate the Sedition and Encourage the bringing of the Late King to the Block but several eminent Members of it pass'd an approbation of that Vnspeakable Villany after the Fact was committed and frighted the People in their Pulpits out of their Christianity and Allegiance into an Enthusiastick Rage after Confusion and Blood Sum up all This now and try if you can Reconcile These People in their Practices and Opinions even to their very Selves THE END