Catechising the Anti-Christian Papists Malignants Incendiaries and other ill-Affected Persons under the name of CAVALIERS 10 I went saith he The King of his going to the House of Commons attended with some Gentlemen Gentlemen indeed the ragged â—…fantry of Stews and Brothels the Spawn and Shipwrack of Taverns and Dicing-Houses Iconoclastes P. 25. A Prayer for the Preservation of his Majesties Person c. Priest Right Responds 11 O Lord Guard the Person of thy Servant the King From Jesuites Papists Irish Rebels and Evil Councellors about him People Resp. Who putteth his Trust in thee Not we hope in the Arm of Flesh as Cavaliers Delinquents and such Enemies to the Kingdom Priest Resp. Send him and his Armies help from thy holy Place Not from Denmark Belgia France Spain and Ireland People Resp. And evermore mightily defend them From the Insinuations of Incendiaries other Promoters of this War Priest Resp. Confound the Designs of all those that are risen up against him To withdraw him from his Parliament and the Protection of his best Subjects People Resp. And let not their Rebellious Wickedness approach near to hurt him Nor any more to Rob Spoil and Kill the Poor People of this Nation Priest Resp. Oh Lord hear our Prayer That our King may speedily return home from destructive Misleaders People Resp. And let our Cry come unto thee And the Cry of thy Peoples blood in Ireland and England Cavaliers New Common-Prayer-Book Unclasp'd P. 3. 12 The Woful Miscarriages of the King himself which we cannot but acknowledg to be many and very Great in his Government that have Cost the Three Kingdoms so Dear and cast him down from his Excellency into a Horrid Pit of Misery almost beyond Example c. Vindication of the 59 London Ministers P. 6. 7. 13 The Kings Letter full indeed of much Evil and Demonstration of no Change of Heart from his former Bloody Cruel and Unkingly Practices of the Ruin of himself and his Kingdom as much as in him lay Vicars Chron. P. 43. 14 All Good Consciences shall Condemn that Course It shall be Easier for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for such a Court. Admonition to the Parliament P. 3. Notes on §. 5. THis Section is of the same Spirit with the former and only a Malevolent Continuation of the same design for the overturning of the Government by rendring the King his Majesties Ministers and his Friends and the whole Frame of the Civil State Despicable and as Odious as the other did the Bishops and the Clergy What a Rabble of Bug-words have we here hudled together in the First Paragraph Num. 1 What a Diabolical and Uncharitable Iudgment pronounc'd upon the whole Party of the King 2 and 3 What an irreverent Mockery upon the Catechism of the Church 4 What can be more Insolent toward the Person of our Sovereign 5 How Rude and how Un-Christian is the Character pronounc'd upon the Cavaliers From 6 to 11. And then see the Turning of his late Majesties Devotions in his distress into Droll and Buffon 11 The lewd Reproaches cast upon That Pious Prince in the depth of his Afflictions by the London Ministers even in their Pretended Service to him 12 The Clamorous Outrage of Vicars's Revilings 13 And the Parliament as ill treated by Others of the same Stamp as these People treated the King §. 6. The Presbyterians Opinion of the Covenant 1 THE Covenant was the Parliaments Sword and Buckler for when the Cavaliers shall see ye come Armed with the Covenant they will Run Run Run from the Presence of the Lord of Hosts Colemans Exhortation-Sermon to the Commons 2 As God did swear for the Salvation of Men and of Kingdoms so Kingdoms must now Swear for the Preservation and Salvation of Kingdoms to Establish our Saviour Iesus Christ in England Nye upon the Covenant 3 We Know O Lord that Abraham made a Covenant and Moses and David made a Covenant and our Saviour made a Covenant but Thy PARLIAMENTS Covenant is the Greatest of All Covenants A Lay-Preacher at Banbury in his Prayer 4 Look upon your Covenant I beseech ye and do Justice upon Delinquents Impartially and without Respect of Persons Palmer to the Commons Aug. 13. 1644. P. 48. 5 None but an Atheist Papist Oppressor Rebel or the Guilty Desperate Cavaliers and Light and Empty men can Refuse the Covenant Coleman Sep. 27. 1643. P. 23. 6 This Despised Covenant shall Ruin Malignants Sectaries and Atheists Yet a little while and behold he cometh and walketh in the greatness of his strength and his Garments Dyed with Blood Oh for the Sad and Terrible day of the Lord upon England their Ships of Tharshish their Fenced Cities c. Because of a Broken Covenant Rutherfords Letters P. 555. 7 I think it my last Duty to Enter a Protestation in Heaven before the Righteous Judge against the Practical and Legal Breach of Covenant and All Oaths Impos'd on the Consciences of the Lords People and All Popish Superstitious Mandates of men Ruth Lett. P. 575. 8 In the League and Covenant that have been so Solemnly and Publiquely Sworn and Renewed by this Kingdom the Duty of Defending and Preserving the Kings Majesties Person and Authority is Joyned with and Subordinate to the Duty of Preserving and Defending the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdoms Gillespy's Useful Cases of Conscience P. 55 56. 9 Look upon the Covenant to which we have Lift up our Hands I Tremble when I read it We Covenanted not only against Prelâ—…ey but Popery not only Hierarchy but Heresie not only Sin but Schism Watson to the Commons Decemb. 27. 1649. 10 Will not these Abjurers of the Covenant of All others be the very Chief of Sinners whilst they become Guilty of no less then the very Sin against the Holy Ghost Or at least border as near to it as possibly may be O amazing Vengeance Oh most dreadful of all Iudicial Strokes that can fall upon the Reprobate minds of men May not the dismal Doom of Francis Spira be here remembred and Solomons Backslider in Heart who shall be fill'd with his own ways Prov. 14. 14. Though to commit Murther upon the High-way and to do it deliberately and in cool blood too be a most horrid Crime against the very Light of Nature and against the second Table yet how short doth it come of This the highest of all Crimes imaginable A Crime that murthers Conscience that murthers Souls that murthers Religion it self a Crime against the First Table most immediately against the Sovereign God! and the greatest of that nature that men can be guilty of Three Mens Speeches P. 6. 11 Q. Whether seeing the Covenant was made to God Almighty All Persons by the Covenant were not bound to bring Delinquents to Punishment And whether the Long Parliament did not Declare the Late King to be a Delinquent let God and the World judge The Valley of Achor 1660. Q. 16. 12 I do Solemnly declare as a
Primer in Politicks nor their Catâ—…hisme in Divinity I. 18 The Church of England is a True whorish Mother and they that were of her were base begotten and â—… astardly Children and she neither is nor ever was truly married Ioyned or United unto Iesus Christ in that Esponsal Baâ—…d which his True Churches are and ought to be but is one of Anti-Christs Nationall Whorith Churches and Cities spoken of Revel 16. 19. c. The Church of England is False and Anti-Christian and as she is a False and Anti-Christian Church she shall never make True Officers and Ministers of Jesus Christ As Iâ—…nnes and Jambres withstood Moses so do these Men also Resist the Truth Liâ—…urn Cited by Bastwick Indep c. P. 315. Yea when they write most mildly against the Presbyterians they call them Lyons Bears Wolves Tygers Baals Priests The Limbs of Anti-Christ the Anti-Christian Brood the Devils Ministers Presbyterants Ibid. P. 316. P. 19 The Independents are taken up in Biting and Devouring one another in Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings c. Bastwick's Indep not Gods Ord. P. 330. I. 20 I Challenge our Brother for taking Christs name in vain when in stead of finding Christ set upon his Throne in their Congregations we find there no more then an Image such as Michal had made up instead of King David or as those that in Mockery made of Christ a Pageant King Stripping him and putting on him a Scarlet Robe and on his head a Crown of Thorns and in his hand a Reed Saluting him with Hail King of the Jews Burton cited by Bastwick Independency not Gods Ordinance P. 312. P. 21 I here present ye with a Catalogue or Black Bill of the Errors Heresies Blasphemies and practises of the Sectaries of this Time Broached and Acted within these Four last Years in England And that in your Quarters and in places under your Government and Power for which I tremble to think lest the whole Kingdom should be in Gods Black Bill Edwards Gangren 1646. Ep. Ded. to the Lords and Commons I 22 This whole Postcript of Bastwick is a very Cento and farrago or hodge-podge of Invectives Sarcasms Scurrilous Scoffs Incendiary Incentives to stir up the State and all sorts of People to root out and cut off all those that are of the Independent way as they call it Burtons Brief answer to Bastwick Postcript P. 23 Oh the Faithfullness Dutifullness Patience Long-Suffering Forbearance of the Presbyterians Their Dutifullness and Patience in waiting upon the Parliament their Faithfullness in not abating in their zeal and Respects to them Oh their Love Kindness and Tenderness to the Independents yea to other Sectaries also who have had something of Christ and Grace in them and have not fal'n into Errors and Blasphemies rasing their foundations But now on the other hand the Sectaries though a Contemptible number and not to be named at the same time with the Presbyterians have not waited upon the Parliament and Assembly for the Reformation but Preach'd against it and stir'd up the People to Embody themselves and to Joyn in Church Fellowship gathering Churches setting up Independent Government Re-baptizing and Dipping many hundreds c. Edwards Discovery P. 51. I. 24 Such an Oracle of Infallibility and sâ—…ch a Supremacy as 〈◊〉 True-bred-English-Christian can Interpret for other then Anti-Christian Tyranny And all under the name of a Christian-Presbyterian Church-Government Burtons Conformities Deformity P. 21. P. 25 Ambitious Proud Covetous men Libertines and Loose Persons who have a Desire to live in Pleasures and Enjoy their Lust and to be under no Government they are Fierce and Earnest for Independency and against Presbytery All wanton-witted Unstable Erroneous Spirits of all Sorts all Heretiques and Sectaries Strike in with Independency and Plead they are Independents Edwards Further Discovery P. 185. I. 26 Their Ordinary Councells the Presbyterians drive at two Main things yet both reduc'd to One Head to wit Tyranny The one Tyranny over our Bodies Estates Free-holds Liberties Laws and Birthrights of all English Free-born Subjects The other Tyranny over our Souls and Consciences Burtons Conformities Deformity Ep. Ded. 1646. P. 27 Independents are most Obstinate Rebells both in Opinion and Practise and Perfidious Violators of such a Main and Principal Foundation as will Inevitably Ruinate all other Fundamentals of True Religion if allow'd unto them Colemanstreet Conclave Visited Pref. 1648. I say and hold that all sorts of Independents among us Separating themselves into their Private Conventicles and Unwarranted Church-way as they call it against all Authority and Power of the King and Parliament the Unquestionable Sovereign and Supreme Magistracy ordain'd by God himself and in resisting whose ordinance they apparently oppose and resist even the Lord God of Heaven Himself are not by any means to be admitted or permitted 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 â—… 〈◊〉 is â—…heir Separation or Division from us to be so 〈◊〉 or so 〈◊〉 by us as to give any the least allowance to them Ibid. I. 28 Is Presbytery because Parochial Classical Provincial lâ—…ss Tyrannical then Episcopacy because many Rule in that and in this but One Or rather not more Tyrannical because One Tyrant is not so much as many together Evil in a Community is stronger and more diffusive then in Unity Saltmarsh'es Answer to Ley. 1646. P. 5. P. 29 Korah Dathan and Abiram rose up against Moses and Aaron as our Independents do now adays against the most Just and Righteous Authority of Parliaments and their Power in constituting under them for their assistance in matters of Religion the Synods or Assembly of Divines at Westminster Even as the Lord appointed and constituted Aaron under Moses in Holy things Coleman-street Conclave Parallell to the Reader 1648. I. 30 The Idolatrous Heathen sought to maintain their Idolatrous Religions by the same Stratagems Methods and Ways which the Ord'nance for the Preventing of the growing and spreading of Herefies proposeth for maintaining the Religion of Christ. Modest and Humble Queries Printed London 1646. p. 2. P. 31 The Apostles in many Places of their Writings speaking of Heretiques and false Teachers in their times and Prophâ—…sying of those in after times both the Popish Faction and the Sectarian speak of them as Apostates Antichrists False Prophets Seducers Deceivers Idolaters Blasphemers and their Doctrines and ways as Apostacy Idolatry Blasphemy worshipping of Devils Seducing and such like Edwards against Toleration 1647. P. 185. I. 32 In the Latter days False Christs and False Prophets shall arise saying Loe Here is Christ Or Loe there he is c. Wherfore if they shall say unto you see here how our Saviour Ingeminates the Caution as a thing of Serious Consideration Behold he is in the Desert Go not forth Behold he is in the Secret Chambers Mark her 〈◊〉 how near our Saviour comes to our Sectaries Practices and Rebellious Church-ways as they call them now adays Or he is in Shops Barns and such like Private Conventicles Believe it not
Abihu and Saul will intermeddle with Gods Warrant as she Q. Eliz. hath done with matters of Religion with God's matters she must think it no Injury to be Disobey'd Soldier of Berwick Cited by the Author of an Answer to a Factious Libel Entitled An Abstract of several Acts of Parliament c. 2 Kings no less then the Rest must obey and yield to the Just Authority of the Ecclesiastical Magistrates Ecclesiastical Discip. P. 142. 3 The Consistory may and ought to admonish the Magistrate which is negligent in Punishing Vice Danaeus Par. 2. Isag. li. 2. Cap. 62. And also may upon Knowledge of the Cause taken Excommunicate even the Chief Magistrate unto the which he ought to submit himself Ibid. ca. 67. 4 Princes must remember to subject themselves to the Church and to submit their Scepters to throw down their Crowns before the Church yea to Lick the dust of the Feet of the Church T. Cartwright P. 645. 5 Every Eldership is the Tribunal Seat of Christ. Beza de Presb. P. 124. 6 The Holy Discipline ought to be set up and All Princes to submit themselves under the Yoke of it What Prince King or Emperour shall Disanul the same he is to be reputed Gods Enemy and to be held unworthy to Reign above his People Knox Exhort to Eng. P. 91. c. 7 Our Church-History tells that Mr. Andrew Melvin that Faithful and Zealous Servant of Christ would not answer before the King and the Council for his Alledged Treasonable Discourse in a Sermon until he had first given in a Plain and Formal Protestation and the like was done by Worthy Mr. David Blake upon the like occasion and the Protestation was Approved and Signed by a good Part of the Church of Scotland 1596. Hist. Indul. P. 14. 8 The Irreligiousness Antichristianism and Exorbitancy of this Explicatory and as to some things Ampliatory Act and Assertion of the Kings Supremacy in Church-Affairs of Nov. 16. 1669 this Supra-Papal Supremacy Hist. Indul. P. 27. 9 The Accepters of the Indulgence are Chargeable with High Treason against the King of Kings our Lord Iesus Christ. Hist. Indul. p. 86. 10 Christ breaks and moulds Commonwealths at his Pleasure He hath not spoke much in his Word how long they shall last or what he intends to do with them Only this That all Kings and Kingdoms that make War against the Church shall be broken a pieces and that in the end All the Kingdoms of the World shall be the Kingdoms of our Lord and his Saints and they shall reign over them Marshal to the Commons June 15. 1643. p. 47. 11 What was our Posture and Practice after we had so stupidly stood by till we saw the whole work overturn'd without offering to Interpose effectually to prevent its ruine or to fall with it Hist. of Indulgence Pref. 1678. Speaking of the Action of Bothwell-Bridge 12 The Father having given to Christ all Power both in Heaven and in Earth and the Rule and Regiment of this Kingdom he hath Committed to Monarchies Aristocracies or Democracies as the several Combinations and Associations of the People shall between themselves think good to Elect and Erect God leaves People to their own Liberty in this Case Case on Isaiah 43. 4. p. 26. 13 They were carrying on a Malignant Interest to wit The Establishing the King in the Exercise of his Power in Scotland and the Re-investing him with the Government in England when he had not yet Abandoned his Former Enmity to the Work and People of God and the securing of Power in their own hands under him Gillespies Useful Case of Conscience p. 66. 14 There was a sin in the Peoples Joyning because few or none of those who did Joyn did give any Testimony against the Magistrates Employing of the Malignant Party Ibid. 15 After the Treaty was brought to some close the King did before his coming to Sea Receive the Sacrament of the Lords Supper from one of the Prelatical Chaplains and according to the Service-Book c. notwithstanding the Commissioners of the Kirk did represent the Evil thereof to him Gillespies Useful Case of Conscience Discuss'd p. 56. Another Exception That the King did not think his Father Guilty of Blood Ibid. 16 Was there not Cause to Scruple at the taking of this Oath of Allegeance which would have Imported 1. A Condemning of the Convention of Estates in Scotland 1643. 2. A Condemning of the Parliaments An. 1640. 41. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. As also the Committees and Parliaments thereafter An. 1649. 1650. 1651. 3. A Condemning of all the Acts made by These Parliaments 4. A Condemning of all the Meetings Councils and Conventions of the Subjects at the beginning of the Late work of Reformation 5. A Condemning of the League and Covenant 6. A Condemning of Scotlands Joyning with and Helping of England in the day of their streight 7. A Condemning of the Renewing of the National Covenant 1638. 1639. 8. A Condemning of the General Assembly 1638. and several others thereafter 9. A Condemning of Scotlands Rising in Arms in their own Defence against the Popish Prelatical and Malignant Party 10. A Condemning of their seizing upon Forts and Castles in their own Defence An Apolâ—…getical Relation of the Sufferings of the Scotch Ministers 1665. p. 127. 128. 17 We ought to consider the Conditions of the Kings Letter of Indulgence to the Kirk Iune 7. 1669. what is accounted living Peaceably and Orderly by such as propose this Qualification And that sure to speak it in the smoothest of Terâ—…s is a Negative Compliance with all their Tyranny Oppression of Church and Country Blood-shed Overturning of the Work of God Establishing Iniquity by Law Perjury Apostacy Re-establishing of Perjur'd Prelates and Abjured Prelacy Hist. of Indulg p. 7. 18 We Remarque further that the Letter saith that none of these Ministers have any Seditious Discourses or Expressions in Pulpit or Elsewhere And what is understood here by Seditious Discourses or Expressions we cannot be Ignorant But now what Conscientious Ministers can either Tacitly promise such a thing or upon the Highest Peril forbear to Utter such Discourses Or who can think that any such thing can be yielded unto who considereth what God requireth of Ministers in Reference to a Corrupted and Apostatized state And what the weight of the Blood of Souls is Hist. Indul. p. 11. 19 The Unparallel'd Perfidy and Breach of Covenant The most Abominable Irreligious Inhumane and Tyrannical Acts made for Establishing of this Wicked Course of Defection Hist. Indul. p. 12. 20 Christ and his Apostles were the Greatest of Conventicle Preachers and almost Preached no other way wanting always the Authority of the Supream Magistrate and yet not waiting upon their Indulgence Hist. Indul. p. 17. 21 They have power to Abrogate and Abolish all Statues and Ordinances concerning Ecclesiastical matters that are found Noysom and Unprofitable and agree not with the time or are abused by the People 2 Book of Discipline cap. 7. To
Discipline must all the Estates within this Realm be Subject as well the Rulers as they that are Ruled 1 Lib. Disc. cap. 7. 22 As the Ministers and others of the Ecclesiastical State are subject to the Magistrate-Civil so ought the Person of the Magistrate be subject to the Kirk Spiritually and in Ecclesiastical Government 2 Lib. Disc. c. 1. 23 As Ministers are Subject to the Judgment and Punishment of the Magistrate in External things if they offend so ought the Magistrates to submit themselves to the Discipline of the Kirk if they transgress in matters of Conscience and Religion Ibid. 24 The National Assemblies of This Country called commonly the General Assemblies ought always to be retained in their own Liberty and have their own place with Power to the Kirk to appoint Times and Places and Convenient for the same And all men as well Magistrates as Inferiors to be subject to the Judgment of the same in Ecclesiastical Causes without any Reclamation or Appellation to any Judge Civil or Ecclesiastical within the Realm 2 Lib. Disc. c. 12. 25 The Princes and Magistrates not being Exemed and these that are Placed in the Ecclesiastical Estate Rightly Ruling Governing God shall be Glorified c. 2 Lib. Disc. c. 13. 26 The Ministers Exerce not the Civil Jurisdiction but teach the Magistrate how it should be Exercised according to the word 27 To Disobey or Resist any that God hath placed in Authority while they pass not over the Bounds of their office we Confess or Affirm to be sin Large Confess Art 15. 28 We Confess and Avow that such as resist the Supream Power doing that thing which appertaineth to his Charge do resist God's Ordinance and therefore cannot be Guiltless Ibid. Art 25. 29 Blasphemy Adultery Murder Perjury and other Crimes Capital worthy of death ought not properly to fâ—…ll under Censure of the Kirk because all such open Transgressors of Gods Law ought to be taken away by the Civil Sword 1 Book of Discip. cap. 7. 30 In the fear of God we signifie unto your Honours that whosoever persuades you that ye may pardon where God Commandeth Death deceives your Souls and provokes you to offend God's Majesty 1 Book of Disc. cap. 9. 31 The Magistrate Commandeth External things for external Peace and Quietness among the Subjects The Minister handleth External things only for Conscience-cause 2 Lib. Disc. cap. 1. 32 If the Offender abide an Assise and by the same be Absolved then may not the Church pronounce Excommunication but justly may exhort the man by whose hand the Blood was shed to enter into Consideration with himself how precious is the Life of man before God and how severely God commandeth Blood howsoever it be shed except it be by the Sword of the Magistrate to be punished And so may Enjoyn unto him such satisfaction to be made publick to the Church as may bear Testification of his obedience and unfeigned Repentance Psalm-Book in the order of Excommunication 33 Wanton and Vain words Uncomly Gestures Negligence in hearing the Preaching or Abstaining from the Lords Table when it is publiquely Ministred suspicion of Avarice or of Pride Superfluity or Riotousness in Chear or Raiment These We say and such others that of the world are not regarded deserve admonition amongst the Members of Christs Body If he continues Stubborn then the Third Sunday ought he to be Charged Publiquely to satisfie the Church for his Offence and Contempt under the pain of Excommunication Psalm Book in the Order of Publique Repentance 34 It is Ordained that every Thursday the Ministers and Elders in their Assembly or Consistory diligently Examine all such faults and suspicions as may be espied not only amongst others but chiefly amongst themselves Psalm-Book Sect. of the weekly Assembly 35 In every Notable Town we Require that one day beside the Sunday be appointed to the Sermon and Prayers which during the time of Sermon must be kept from all Exercise of Labour as well of the Master as the Servant 1 Lib. Disc. cap. 9. of Policy Notes on §. 8. THere can be no better Antidote against the Poyson of a Presbyteriaâ—… Government than the very Orders of their Discipline which are the most Unanswerable Condemnation of the Party You have here a more than Papal Tyranny in the Usurpations of the Kirk over Kings and Princes in the 6 first Clauses Treason it self exempted from the Cognizance of the Civil Power Num. 7. The Kings Supremacy not only disclaimed but the bare acknowledgment of it made Criminal 8 9 All the Governments of the World subjected to the Holy Discipline and Rebellion it self abetted and maintained 10 11 Sovereign Power Vested in the Multitude 12 The Restoring of the King Condemn'd 13 14 And the Objections against it his receiving the Sacrament from a Prelatical hand according to the Order of the Church and the Charging his Father with the Guilt of Bloâ—…d 15 The Taking of the Oâ—…th of Allegiance and the Acceptance of the Kings Indulgence pronounced utterly Unlawful 17 18 19 Conventicle-Preachers Warranted from the Precedent of Christ and his Apostles 20 The Ministers above their Sovereign 21 22 23 24. Princes upon their Good Behaviour and accountable to the Presbytery if they transgress their Bounds 25 26 27 28. The Power of Life and Death taken from the Magistrate 29 3â—… The Minister Usâ—…rps the Civil Power 31 The Presbytery take upon them to punish Malefactors when the Law has acquitted them 32 And call People to account for their very Thoughts Cloaths Gestures nay a suspition is enough to make a body lyable to their Censure 33 They make Two Sabbaâ—…hs in the Week more than God ever Commanded and by the same Authority they may set apaâ—…t all the rest 34. 35. This is enough said to shew the Shameful and Intolerable Rigour of that Government §. 9. Principles and Positions 1 WHEN the Supream Magistrate will not Execute the Judgment of the Lord those who made him Supream Magistrate under God who have under God Sovereign Liberty to dispose of Crowns and Kingdoms are to Execute the Judgment of the Lord when Wicked men make the Law of God of none Effect 1 Sam. 15. 32. so Samuel killed Agâ—…g whom the Lord expresly Commanded to be kill'd because Saul disobey'd the Voice of the Lord. Lex Rex p. 173. 2 Shall it Excuse the States to say We could not judge the Cause of the Poor nor Crush the Priests of Baal and the Idolatrous Mass Prelates because the King forbad us Lex Rex p. 175. 3 The Kings Power is Fiduciary and put in his hand upon Trust and must be Ministerial and borrow'd from those who put him in trust and so his Power must be Less and derived from the Parliament Lex Rex p. 177. 4 The Magistrate hath no Power to suppose things Doubtful and Disputable upon the Practice of any in the Service of God and therefore it cannot be lawful for any to obey him when
freely for it and now dye for it Nine Mens Speeches Axtel at his Execution p. 89. 8 It cannot be unknown how much we and other Ministers of this City and Kingdom that faithfully adhered to the Parliament have Injuriously smarted under the scourge of evil Tongues and Pens ever since the first Eruption of the Unhappy Differences and Unnatural War between the King and Parliament for our Obedience to the Commands and Orders of the Honourable Houses in their Contests with his Majesty and Conflicts with his Armiâ—…s London-Ministers Vindicatiâ—…n 1648. p. 1. 9 When we consider how much it concerns the Honour of our Master and the good of all to preserve our Ministerial Function Immaculate we dare not but stand by and assert the Integrity of our hearts and the Innocency of all our actings in reference to the King and Kingdom for which we are so much calumniated and traduced Ibid. p. 3. 10 Doubtless the Lord is highly displeased with their proccedings in the Treaty at Newport in reference to Religion and Covenant concerning which they accepted of such Concessions from his Majesty as being Acquiesced in were dangerous and destructive to both The Kirks Testimony against Toleration p. 12. 1649. 11 I pray look on me as one that comes among you this day to beat a Drum in your Ears to see who will come out and follow the Lamb. Marshall 1641. 12 The Sabbath-day following next after their Arrival to London from Branford the Godly and well-affected Ministers throughout the City Preached and Praised the Lord publiquely for their so joyful and safe return home to their Parents Masters and Friends exhorting those young Soldiers of Christ's Army Royal still to retain 〈◊〉 be forward and ready to shew their Courage and Zeal 〈◊〉 of Gods Cause and their Countrys welfare shewing 〈◊〉 of their Adversaries to have Introduced Popery and 〈◊〉 Kingdom and assuring them that this War on 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 waged and managed by Papists an Army of Papists being 〈◊〉 the Kings Command contrary to his Vows Protestations and deep Asseverations to the contrary Iehova-Iireh p. 212. 13 My House was a Receptacle for Godly Ministers in the worst of times Here was the Remonstrance fram'd against the Prelates Here were all meetings c. Mr. Calamy's Apology against Burton 1646. 14 You must do and you must do and yet you must do and yet ye must do as long as there is a Penny in thy Purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body c. Sedgwick's Speech at Guildhall Octob. 6. 1643. 15 I may not omit here to speak of all the Faithful Presbyterian Ministers in this City as well as through the Country those Chariots and Horse-men of our Israel though now forgotten many of the which not only ventur'd their Lives in Battel but by holding up their hands as Moses did when the People of Israel fought against the Enemy and by the lifting up their Hearts and Voices to God with strong crys made all our Armies abroad and our Counsels at home to prosper and all our undertakings happily to succeed Neither is that all but by their Wisdom Vigilancy and Powerful and persuasive Preaching they were the principal means under God of keeping the People here and every where in obedience to the Parliament by resolving their doubts satisfying their scruples and going before the People to their abilities yea many of them to my knowledg out of zeal to the Cause beyond their Abilities in all Contributions animating and encouraging others to bring in their Plate and Moneys and whatsoever was of price and esteem with them exhorting them now if ever to stand for their Religion Lives Liberties and the Liberty of the Subject Bastwicks Appendix to Indep c. p. 628. 16 I am one who out of Choice and Judgment have embarqued my self my Wife Children Estate and all that 's dear to me in the same Ship with you to sink and perish or to come safe to Land with you and that in the most doubtful and difficult times Pleading your Cause Justifying your Wars satisfying many that scrupled and when your Affairs were at lowest and the Chance of War against ye and some of the Grandees and Favorites of these times were packing up and ready to be gone I was then Highest and mâ—…st Zealous for ye Preaching Praying stirring up the People to stand for ye by going out in Person lending of Money c. Edwards Gangraena Ep. Ded Notes upon §. 10. AFTER these Proofs and Declarations of the Ministers Zeal and Industry for the promoting supporting and carrying on of the late Bloody Impious and Unnatural War let not any man take upon him any longer to acquit the Nonconformist Divines of the Guilt and Consequences of that Execrable Rebellion You have here under their hands and from their own tongues not only a Confession of the Fact but a Valuing of themselves even to the degree of Vanity and Ostentation for what they did toward the Advancing of that Sedition as a most Meritorious Service Nay they do not stick to acknowledge that the War could hardly have proceeded without them There 's no evading or qualifying the dint of this Charge since we have their own Papers in Iudgment against them §. 11. The War Iustified 1 LET us set hand and heart and shoulder and all to advance the Lords Sion to a perfection of beauty and to set up Christ upon his Throne Whites Centuries Pref. 1643. 2 Did ever any Parliament in England lay the Cause of Christ and Religion to heart as this hath done Did ever the City of London the rest of the Tribes and the Godly Party throughout the Land so willingly exhaust themselves that Christ might be set up Marshal to the Commons 1643. p. 19. And then let all England cry that our Blood our Poverty c. are abundantly repaid in this that there is such a Concurrence to set up the Lord Christ upon his Throne to be Lord and Christ over this our Israel p. 20. 3 As the Spirit of the Lord came upon Sampson and Iephtaâ—… and David so hath it been in our Conflicts The Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Noble General and all our Commanders The Spirit of the Lord hath come upon our Gallants Gentlemen Young men Faithful Country-men Renowned Citizens So that he that was weâ—…k among them is as David and he that was as David hath been as the Angel of the Lord. Case to the Commons 1644. p. 28. 4 Tell them from the Holy Ghost says Beech from the word of Truth that their Destruction shall be terrible it shall be timely it shall bâ—… total Serm. Licensed by Mr. Cranferd 1645 p. 1â—… And ibid. O give thâ—…nks unto the Lord for he is Gracious and his Mercy endurâ—…th for ever who remembred us at 〈◊〉 for his Mercy endureth for ever who remembred us in 〈◊〉 shiâ—…e for his mercy endureth for ever who remembred us at Leicester
for his Mercy c. who remembred us at Tauntâ—…n for his Mercy c. who remembred us at Bristol for his Mercy c. p. 9. 5 As Sampson with the Philistims so let us die with Babylon if we cannot out-live Anti Christ and the Enemies of Reformation let us adventure our selves to death in the Cause yea lâ—…t us take hâ—…ld of the Pillars of the Church of Dagon of the Temple of Anti-Christ and say Now let me die with Anti-christ Rome and Babylon Bond 1644. p. 59. 6 God hath put you in his own Place God hath grac'd you with his own Name Lord of Hosts General of Armies God hath committed to your care what is most precious to himself precious Gospel precious Ordinances a precious Parliament a precious People God hath called forth your Excellency as a choice Worthy to be a General and the Champion of Iesus Christ to fight the great and last Battel with Anti-christ in this your Native Kingdom Palmer to the E. of Essex 1644. Ep. Ded. 7 Whether the Stupendious Providences of God manifested among us in the Destruction of the late King and his Adherents in so many pitcht Battels and in this Nations Universal forsaking of Charles Stuart and the total Overthrow of him and his Army whether by these Providences God hath not plainly removed the Government of Charles Stuart and bestowed it upon others as ever he removed and bestowed any Government by any Providence in any Age Whether a Refusal to yield Obedience and Subjection to this present Government be not a refusal to acquiesce in the Wise and Righteous pleasure of God and a flat breach of the Fifth Commandment W. Ienkins's Conscientious Quaeries 1651. p. 2. 8 The Prenâ—…ices and Porters were stimulated and stir'd up by God's Providence thousands of them to Petition the Parliament for speedy Relief Palmer to the E. of Essex 1644. Ep. Ded. 9 Remember how far I have gone with ye in the War And shall I be affraid of my old most Intimate Friends Bax. Holy Com. Pref. to the Army 10 If I had known that the Parliament had been the Beginners and in most fault yet the Ruin of our Trustees and Representatives so of all the Security of the Nation is a Punishment greater than any fault of theirs against the King can from him deserve and their faults cannot disoblige me from defending the Common-wealth Ho. Com. p. 48â—… 11 If the King Venture into Battel and hazard his Person we are sorry for it and he hath been most humbly requested by the Honourable Houses of Parliament not to expose his Royal Person unto such extremities But iâ—… his Evil Council prevail more with him than the good Advice of the Parliament we wash our hands in Innocency and plead Not Guilty of any Evil that may befall his Majesties Person in the like occasions In the mean while we must not forbear to defend our Religion and Liberties against our Bloody Enemies but go on couragiously and play the Men to fight for our People and for the Cities of our God 2 Sam. â—…0 12. The Covenanters Catechisms 1644. p. 26. 12 I think I have not read of many Assemblies oâ—… Worthiâ—…r men since the Apostles days Bax. Answer to Dr. Sâ—…llingfleet p. 84. 13 Phinehas executes Justice upon great ones and what follow'd a Commotion No Gâ—…d's wâ—…ath was â—…urn'd away and a Covenant of Peace made Greenhil April 26. 1643. p. 37. 14 This is a time wherein we should all Unite against the Common Enemy that seeks to devour us all Calamy to the Commons Decemb. 25. 1644. p. 36. Notes on §. 11. IT is no wonder after the foundation of a War so fairly laid to see the Peaceable Preachers of the Gospel as they call themselves well â—…nough satisfied to reap the fruits of their own labours Nor could any other be expected then that the Seeds of so Pestilent a Sedition should quickly grow up into a rank Rebellion The best that can be said for them is that the Broil went farther then they intended or otherwise that they were misled into a mistake of the question in hand But even in this point also they have left themselves without excuse for 't is a clear Case that their Zeal and Confidence increas'd with their Successes And all their care was at first for his Majesties Honour and Safety and to bring him home to his Parliament out of the hands of Cut-throats and Papists They were up at every turn with the Maxim that the King could do no wrong and all the blame was laid upon his Ministers This way of Pretended Tenderness for his Majesties Authority and Person implys their secret Consciousness of a Legal Duty only 't was too early days yet to take off the Masque Now their judgment upon the Point was the same afterwards as at first but as they gather'd Strength they grew Bolder too and the last Violence was no more than the putting of their first Thoughts in Execution And whoever observes the method and the scope of their Proceedings will find their Principles varying with their Fortunes and the deepest Professors of Veneration for the Dignity of the King and his Government in the Beginning prove the most daring Insulters upon his Imperial Regalities and Honour in the Conclusion But to the next Section §. 12. Reformation by Blood 1. â—… Have often thought that too much Mercy towards Malignants hath made more Delinquents than ever Iustice hath Punished Mercy should not weigh down Iustice. Loves Serm. at Uxoridge Ian. 30. 1644. p. 26. 2 Moses bids all the Levites Consecrate their hands to God What to do To Kill Three-thousand No sewer of the Idolaters fâ—…ll that day c. How brave a pattern have we here for those that are in Magistracy and Authority All you Honourable and Beloved that God hath called to any place of Authority and Trust Consider but this of Moses here the meekest man upon the Earth yet what a Pattern is he to you herein How excellent a Champion is he for God upon the People Herle to the Lord Mayor c. Lond. 1644. p. 22. 3 Probably the way to sheath one Sword were to draw another and if the Sword of Iustice did more the Sword of War would do less The Physitian by way of Revulsion stops bleeding by letting blood and did England bleed enough in the Malignant Vein we have cause to think that other sad Issues of Blood would be stopt and staunched Staunton to the Lords Oct. 30. 1644. p. 26. 4 Iosiah Executed the Justice and Vengeance of God upon the Instruments of the Kingdoms ruin the Idolatrous Priests digging the very bones of some of them out of their Graves the same Lord direct you c. Then let not the man Escape whom God appoints out to Punishment Marshal to the Commons Dec. 22. 1642. p. 52 53. 5 Let none think it Bloody Divinity if I say Execution of Judgment is good Phinehas stood up and Executed Judgment and so