of calling them out from thence into their own Protestant Dominions and Churches * Certainly if the righteous shall scarcely be saved where shall these most transcendent unpresidented unrighteons ungodly sinners who obey not but coutradict all these Gospel Texts appear and what shall their end be Verily the Gospel it self resolves and O that they would with fear amazement of spirit now seriously consider it when the Lord Iesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire to take vengeâ—nce on them they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power 2 Thess. 1.7 8 9. * and shall receive judgement without mercy because they have shewed no mercy but the utmost extremity of malice and cruelty to the Souls and Bodies of their Protestant King and Brethren Whether the Junctoes and Armies late Proceedings against the King and Kingship were not the direct Plot of the Spaâ—iâ—lized Priests and Jesuitâ— as well in France as England Spain and elsewhere who contrived and promoted it to their power as I evidenced in my Speech Memento Epistle to my Historical Collection My true aâ—â— perfect Narrative and Vindication of the old and new secluded Members at large and shall fâ—rther clear by this ensuing Letter the original whereof I have twice read â—ound by Mr. Sherley a Book-seller in Little Britain in whose hands â—t is amongst the Books of Mr. Patricke â—arre Priest to Don Alonso de Gardenas the Spanish Ambassador which he bought of him at this Ambassadors house when he was departing hence upon the breach with Spain 1653. within a year after this Letters date which he soon after shewed to divers Gentlemen one of them who took a copy thereof promising to shew it to Cromwel himself The Superscription of it is in Spanish directed as is conceived and the Letter imports to this Patricke Carre an Irish Priest and Iesuit under the name of * Don Pedro Garsia the Letter it self is in English written it seems by some English or Irish Priest or Jesuit sent as an intelligencer by the Spanish Ambassador into Holland and France with whom the English were then in hostility but the direction for Letters to him is in French In the cloze whereof the Jesuitical and Spanish party in Paris expected our Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto whom they stile our brave Parliament as set up by and acting for them should espouse their quarrel and act their paâ—ts against the French and joyn with the Prince of Condee to câ—t off the King of France his head and all Kings else as they did the King of Englands by their instigation such Antimonarchists Traytors are these Jesuits Irish and Spanish Freers to all Kings and Monarchy Paris 10. of Ianuary 1652. SIR I Was no so ner in Holland then I writ to you but hearing nothing from you I concluded either you were very sick or that you received not my Letter I came hither in an ill time for the Kingdom is in great disorder upon the Kings recalling the Cardinal against all his Declarations This Town ready to declare in favor of the Prince and the Duke of Orleance who is now treating with the Duke of Lorrain for his Army If your dull * Archduke make no more advantage of this than of the disorders of the last Summer it 's pity but he were sent to keep Sheep WE EXPECT HERE OUR BRAVE PARLIAMENT WILL NOT LET THE GAME BE SOON PLAYED OUT I could wish Gallant Cromwell AND ALL HIS ARMY WERE WITH THE * PRINCE for I BEGIN TO WISH ALL KINGS HAD THE * SAME THE KING OF ENGLAND HAD I le say no more untill I hear from you but that I am Your unfeigned Friend T. Danielle I pray remember me to both my Cozens Direct your Letters A Monsieur Monsieur Canell demurant chez Mons-Marchant a la rue de pulle The Superscription is thus viz. A Don Pedro Garsia en Casa de Embaxador de Espanna que * Dios garde En Londres 9d There were many Papers and Notes written in Irish some concerning the affairs transactions of the late wars in Ireland found amongst these Books whence I conceive this Patrick Carre was an Irish Priest and Jesuite and that the * Spaniard had a great hand in that horrid Rebellion From the cloze of this Letter let all consider Whether it can be safe for any Popish as well as Protestant Kings to harbour such Jesuitical Antimonarchists and Regicides in their Kingdoms Courts who thus wish ALL KINGS beheaded and brought to Iustice as well as the late King of England by Cromwell and his Army or their own Subjects and how much all Kings ought to detest his president of the Jesuits contriving let them now cordially and timely advise for their own securitie Whether the Great swarms of Jesuites and Popish Freers in and about London by the Iunctoes and Army-Officers tolleration and connivence whose Jesuitical Antimonarchical Plots Counsels they have vigorously pursued be not the principal contrivers fomentors of all our changes of Government New Sects Opinions Mutinies in and Usurpations of the Army in whose Councils most intelligent Protestants have just cause to fear they have been and still are predominant there being multitudes of them in and about London under several masks some of them saying Masse in their Pontificalibus in Popish Ladies Chambers one day and speaking to and praying with their Soldiers in the Army or in Anabaptistical or Quaking Conventicles the next day of which there are some late particular Instances I shall relate one only more general and worthy knowledge Two English Gentlemen of quality one of them of mine acquaintance travelling out of England into France in May 1658. and hiring a vessel for their passage three strangers who came from London desired leave to passe over with them which they condescending to suspected one of them at least to be a Jesâ—it by his discourse and during their stay at Paris saw all three of them there walking often in the Streets in their Iesuits habits In August following they being at Angiers in France there repaired to their lodging an Englishman in his Friers weeds who informed them That he was an Englishman by birth but a Dominican Fréer by profession newly come from Salamanca in Spain and bound for England that he had been at Rome where he had left some goods with an Irish Iesuit who promised to return monies on them in France but had failed to doe it whereupon he was in present distress for mony to transport him to England desiring their favour to furnish him with monies which he would faithfully repay in London and if they had any Letters to send to their friends in England he would see them safely delivered The Gentlemen finding him to be an excellent Scholar of very good parts and eduâ—â—tion entertained him 5. or 6. daies at their lodging till they could furnish him
Conscientious Serious THEOLOGICAL AND LEGAL QUAERES Propounded to the twice-dissipated self-created Anti-Parliamentary Westminster Iuncto AND ITS MEMBERS TO Convince them of humble them for convert them from their transcendent Treasons Rebellions Perjuries Violences Oppressive illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes Imposts destructive Councils Proceedings against their lawfull Protestant hereditarie Kings the old dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their old secured secluded imprisoned fellow Members the Counties Cities Boroughs Freemen Commons Church Clergie of ENGLAND their Protestant Brethren Allies contrary to all their Oathes Protestations Vowes Leagues Covenants Allegiance Remonstrances Declarations Ordinances Promises Obligations to them the fundamental Laws Liberties of the Land and Principles of the true Protestant Religion And to perswade them now at last to hearken to and embrace such counsels as tend to publike Unitie Safetie Peace Settlement and their own salvation By William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolns Inne The Second Edition Corrected and Enlarged Levit. 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin upon him or bear not sin for him 1 Tim. 5.20 Them that sinne openly rebuke before all that others may fear Prov. 9.8 9. Rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will yet be wiser Jude 11 12. Wo to them for they have gone in the way of Kain and perished in the gainsaying of Core They are trees whose fruit is withered TWICE DEAD plucked up by the roots London Printed and are to be sold by Edward Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain 1660. Conscientious Serious Theological and Legal Quaerés c. THe Wisest of Men and God only wise informs all Sons of Wisdom capable of Instruction that a open rebuke is better than secret love because faithfull are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitfull whence b he that rebuketh a man for his exorbitant transgressions afâ—erwards shall finde more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue by extenuating excusing or justifying his Offences Upon â—his consideration I reputed it both a seasonable and Christian duty incumbent on me in this day of the late Anti-Parliamentary Iunctoes dissipation humiliation confusion and Army-Officers division amongst themselves to reminde them fully of and * rebuke them plainly sharply for their manifold Treasons Perjuries and other exorbitant Offences against their lawfull Protestant Kings Kingdom the late dissolved Parliament the whole House of Lords the Majoritie of their fellow-Members the whole English Nation Church Ministrie their Protestant Brethren and Allies against all their sacred and civil Obligations to them in a serious impartial convincing least-offensive manner by way of Qâ—aeres drawn from Gods word and plain sacred Scripture-Texts and our known Laws which they have most presumptuously trodden under foot and c would not hearken to in the daies of their late self-exaltation and Prosperity like their Predecessors of old among the Jews when I minded and reminded them over and over not only in my Speech Memento Collections of our antient Parliaments and other publications in the years 1648 1649. in my Epistle to and first Part of My Historical Collections and Legal Vindication 1655. My Republicans Spurious Good Old Cause briefly and truly Anatomized My True and Perfect Narrative and Concordia Discors in May and Iune last and Brief Necessaâ—y Vindication of the old and nâ—w secluded Members in Sâ—ptemberâ—ollowing wherein I truly predictâ—d their former and present dissolutions by those very Army Officers with whom they confederated which they would nâ—t crâ—dit till dissolved by them being in good hopes that they â—ill now at last Hear Counsel and receive instruction thaâ— they may be wise in their latter end as God himself adviseth them Prov. 19.20 1. Whethâ—r their Speaker Mr. Lenthall and those confederate Members of the Commons House who against their duties upon pretext of the unarmed London Apprenâ—ices tumult at the House in Iuly 1647. though they secured secluded no Mâ—mberâ— but only kept them in the House till they had read answered their Petitioâ— and then quietly depaâ—ted went away privily to the Army by the invitation instigation of some swaying Aâ—my Officers without the leave or privity of the House brought up the whole Army to Westminster and London to conduct them in triumph to the Housâ— caused them to * impeach declare against suspend imprison sundry Members of both Houses nulled all Votes Orders Ordinances Proceedings in their absence by reason of a pretended force upon the House by the Apprentices during that space and declared them meerly void to all intâ—nts by the Speakers Declaration and an Ordinance of â—0 Aug. 1647 when as there was no force at all upon the Houses during that time and these Members might have freely safely returned to the House alone had they listed without the Army or any one Troop to guard them and afterwards mutinied and brought up part of the Army again to Westminster to * force the Houses to passe the Voâ—es for No more addresses to the King contrived in a General Council of Army-Officers and seconded with their Declaration when passed by force and surprize in an emptie House After that most traiterously and perfidiously f confederated with the Army Officers to break off the last Treatie with the King in the Isle of Wight to seise the Kings person by a party of the Armie remove him thence against both Houses Orders notwithstanding his large Concessions consent to their Propositions to secure seclude all the Members of the Commons House who after many daies and one whole nights debate passed this Vote according to their judgements consciences duties carried without dividing the House notwiâ—hstanding the Aâ—mies march to Westminster and menaces to prevent it That the answers of the King to the Propositions of both Houses were a ground for the house to proceed upon for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom which Vote of the whole House when there were above 300 Members present about 40 of them only soon after repealed expunged the manner of carrying on of which design against the King Members was concluded by a Committee at Windsor consisting of 4. Aâ—my Offiâ—ers wherof Col. Harrison their chair-man and a Member and Col. Rich were two 4. Members of the Commons House wherof Cornelius Holland yet living was one the 3. others since dead 4. Independents and 4. Anabaptists of London wherein a List was made by them what Members should be secluded secured and who admitted to sit this Committee resolving to dissolve both houses by force and to try condemn execute the King by a Council of war g if they could not get 40 of the Commons House to sit and bring him to Justice as Iohn Lilburn one of that Committee hath published in print approved abbetted the Armies forcible treasonable securing of many
Members secluded the Majoritie of the House by their Vote of Ian. 11. 1648. upon the Armie-Officers false and scandalous printed Answer to them Ian. 3. touching the grounds of their securing and secluding them contrary to their Protestation Covenant the Privileges Rights of Parliament the Great Charter the Fundamental Laws and liberties of the Nation And not content therewith by their own Anti-Parliamentary anti-christian Usurpation to out act the old Gâ—npowder Traytors many degrees by the Armies assistance and opposing advancing themselves against all that is called God and worshiped they most traiterously set aside voted down suppressed the whole House of Lords as dangerous uselesse tyrannical unnecessary usurped engrossed the â—â—ile power oâ—the Parliament of England and Supreme Authority of the Nation to themselves alone without King Lords or Majoâ—ity of their fellow secluded Members created a new Monstrous High Court of Iustice destructive to all our fundamental Laws Liberties and Justice it self wherein beyond all presidents since the creation they most presumptuously condemned murdered beheaded their own lawfull Hereditarie Protestant King against all their former Oathes Protestations Vows Covenants Remonstrances Declarations Obligations Allegiance the Laws of the Land the principlâ—s of the Protestant Religion and dissenting votes protestations disswasions of the secluded Lords Commons Scots Commissioners London Ministers the intercessions of forein States and our 3. whole Kingdoms together with 3. Protestant Peers soon after After that close imprisoned my self Sir William Waller Sir William Lewes Major General Brown with sundry other Members divers years in remote Castles without any hearing examination cause expressed or the least reparation for this unjust oppression exercising far greater Tyranny over the Peers their old fellow Members and all English Freemen during the time of their Regality in every kind than the beheaded King or the worst of his predecessors Were not by a most just divine retaliation aâ—d providence when they deemed themselves most secure and established even for these their transcendent Treasons Perjuries Tyrannies violations of the Rights Privileget of Parliament their own sacred Oaths Protestation League Covenant suddenly dissolved dissipated thrust out of doors Apr. 20. 1653. by Cromwel and the Army Officers in a forcible shamefull manner with whom they confederated all along though they received new commissions from engaged to be true â—aithful to theÌ„ without â— King or House of Lords and branded by them to posterity in their printed Declaration b Apr. 20. 1653. as the curruptest and worst of men intollerably oppressing the people carrying on their own ambitious designes to perpetuâ—te themselves in the Parliamentarie and Supreme Authoritie the archest Trust breakers Apostates never answering the ends which God his people and the whole Nation expected from them c. Col. Harrison himself the Chairman at Windsor Committee to secure us being the very person imploied by Cromwell to pull their Speaker Lenthall out of the chair and turn him with his Companions out of doors Cromwell himself then stigmatizing Sir Henry Vanes Henry Martyn Tom Châ—lloner and others of them by name with the Titles of Knave Whoremaster Drunkard c. And not long after to requite his good Services he suddenly turned Col. Harriâ—on Rich and their party out of the Commons House by Force dissolved their Anti-Parliamentary Conventicle elected only by the Army Deâ— 11. 1653. whiles they were seeking God for direction and soon after cashiered both these * Collonels his former greatest Instruments out of the Army sent them close Prisoners to remote Castles garded with Army Troops And as they and their Troops when they seized Major General Brown with other Members besides and conducting them to Windsor Castle other Prisons refused to acquaint them whether they were to be sent So Mr. Iessâ—p the Clerk of their Council of State who brought these Colonels to the Coach at Whitehall garden door when they were conveyed to remote Castles and their Conductors denied to inform them to what places they wâ—re committed whereupon they cried out to the Troopers which garded them Gentlemen is this the Liberty you and we have fought for to be sent close Prisoners to remâ—te Garrisons from our wives and families they will not tell us whether Will you suffer your own Collonels Officers who have fought for Laws Liberties have been Members of Parlâ— to be thus usedâ— To which they answered as themselves did in the like case to other secured Members conducted by them We are commanded and must obey not dispute our Orders and so were hurried away aâ— an eye and ear-witnesâ— of the old Parliament related to me within one hour afâ—er Yea young Sir Hen. Vaâ— himself the bold prejudger of our Debaâ—es and Vote in the House touching the Kings concessions if not a promoter of our unjust seclusion â—or it was unexpectedly suddenly not only thrust ouâ— from all his Imployments as well aâ— out of the Hâ—use buâ— sent close Prisoner by Cromwel to Cariâ—brook â—astle in the Islâ— of Wight the very place where he betrayed his trust to the King and Parliâ—ment at the Treaty to gratify Cromwel who by an extraordinary strange providence sent him cloâ—e Prisoner thither for sundry months to * mediâ—ate upon this divine retaliation Whether may not all this dissolved Iuncto and itâ— Members from these wonderâ—ul Judgementâ— providenceâ— now conclude and cry out with that hâ—athen cruel Tyrant Adonibezeck Judg. 1.7 Aâ— I have doneâ— so God hath requited me And acknowledge the truth of Gods Comminations against all treacherous betrayers potent oppressorâ— of their Brethren Obad. 15. As thou hast â—one it shall be donâ— unto thee thy râ—ward shall return upon thine own head Ps. 7.15 16. He made a pit and digged it and is fallen into the ditch which be made his mischief shall return upon his own â—ead and his violent dealing upon his owâ— paâ—e Rev. 13.9 10â—If any man haâ—e an ear to â—ear let him heaâ— He that leadeth into Capâ—ivity shall go into Captivity He that killeth with the Sword shall be killed with the Sword Here is the patience and faith of the Sâ—ints O that all real and pretended Saintâ— in the dissolved Juncto and Army would now consider and believe it as â— lâ—tely pressed them to do in the cloze of my Good Old Cause truly staâ—ed and the false Vncased yet they would not regard it Whether their illegal forcible wresting the Militia of the Kingdom totally out of the Kingâ— hands into their own as their only security to sit in safety and perjurious engaging all Officerâ— Soldiers of the Armie in England Scotland and Ireland to be true faithful and constant is them without a King or House of Lords by subscriptionâ— in parchmenâ— Rollâ— râ—turned to them under all their handâ— contrary to their former Votes Declaratiâ—nsâ— Remonstrances Protestations Oathâ— Vows Covenants Trustâ— yea the very writs returns which made them Members their own Souldierâ— Army-Officers first Commissionâ— Declarationâ— Râ—monstranceâ— Proposâ—lâ—
Confusion and punishment denounced by God himself against Aegypâ— of old for their crying sins Isay 19.2 3 c. I will set the Aegyptians against the Aegyptians and they shall fight every one against his brother and every one against his neighbour City against City and Kingdom against Kingdom Aâ—d the Spirit of Aegypt shall fail in the midst thereof and I will destroy the Counsel thereof Surely the Princes of Zoan the Juncto and Armies General Council are become fools the Princes of Noph are deceived they have also seduced Egypt even they that are the stay of the Tribes thereof The Lord hath mingled a spirit of â—erversâ—ties amongst them they have caused Egypt yea England to erre in every work thereof as a drunken man staggereth in his vomitâ— Neither shall there be any work â—or Aegypt which the head or toyl branch or root may doâ— to defend or establish themselves or their pretended yet unâ—â—â—med Free-State And may not they all then and others 〈◊〉 the consideration of all the promises justly cry 〈◊〉 with the Apostle in an holy admiration Rom. 11.33 O the depth of the Riches bâ—â—â— of the wisdom and knowledge of Godâ— how unsearcheable are his Iudgements and his wayes part finding out 4. Whether the Juncto and their High Court of Injâ—stice-men who had any hand vote in the Traiterous Perfidious beheading of their late Protestant King the head of the Parliament dissolving and blowing up the whole House of Lords the Majority of the Commons House the whole old Parlâ—â—ment Kingdom Kingshâ—p the Prince of Wales next heir and successor to the Crowâ— the rights privileges freedom of Parliament the fundamental Laws Liberties Government of the Nation and our established Protestant Religion against all their Oathes Allegiances Trusts Duties Votes Declarations Remonstrances Protestations Vows Solemn Leagues Covenants obliging them to the contrary can with any faith boldness confidence piety or real devotion appear before the presence of God Angels Men in any of our Congregations on the 5. of November the * joyful day of our deliverance from the Popistâ— Gunpowder Treasonâ— publikely celebrated every year to render publike thanks to Almighty God and ascribe all honour glory and praise to his name for hiâ— great and infinite mercy in delivering the King Queen Prince Lords spiritual and temporal when assembled in the Lords House Nov. 5. An. 1650. from this plot of malicious devillish Papists Iesuites Seminary Priests who maligning the happiness and prosperity of our Realm Church and Religion under a Protestant King and its promising continâ—ance to all posterity in his most hopeful royal plentiful Progeny intendâ—d to blow them all up suddenly with gunpowder but were â—hrough Gods great mercy miraculously delivered from this suddain boâ—rid Treason by a woâ—derful discovery thereof some few hours before it was to be executedâ— when as themselves have outstripped them by many degrees in executing accomplishing far more than what they only intended but could not effect yet repute themselves Protestants and the emineniest of all Saints Whether they can without the 〈◊〉 est horror of conscience confusion of face spirit â—â—â—â—sternation of mind and grief of heare henceforth â—â—â—sume to appear before the presence of God or any English Protestantâ—â—t any time especially on this day before they have publickly lamented confessed repented and made some open eminent satisfaction for those transcendâ—nt new Gunpowder-Treasons far worse than the old of the Iesuits and Papists by whom they were acted in this especially if they consider Gods expostulation with such sinners Ps. 50.16 17. What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth Seeing thou hatest Instruction and hast cast my words behind thee When thou sâ—west these Powder Traytors thou consentest with them and hast been partaker with these Murderers and Adulterers And that of Rom. 2.1 2 3. Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self For thou that judgest dost the same things But we know that the judgement of God is according to Truâ—h against thâ—se who commit such things And thinkest thou this O man that judgest them which do such things and dost the same nay worse that thou shalt escape the judgement of God c 5. Whether those turn coat Peace-abhorring self-seeking shameless Members and Lawyerâ— who though not fifty in number sitting under a force aâ—ter the seclusion of the Majority of their â—ellow-Members Decemb. 13. 1648. resolved that the Vote passed in a full House Iuly 28 1648. That a Treaty should be had in the Isle of Wight with the King in Person by a Committee appointed by both Houses upon the Propositions presented to him at Hampton Court was highly Dishonorable to the procéedings of Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom And that the Vote of 5. Dâ—cemb 1648. passed without dividing the House when there were 300 Members in it That the answers of the King â—o the Proposition of both Houses are a sufficient gâ—â—und for the House to proceed upon * for the settlement of the Peace of the Kingdom is highly dishonorable to the Parliament and destructive to the Peace of the Kingdom and tending to the breach of the publick faith of the Kingdom And in their Declaration of 15. Ianuary 1648. expressing their Reasons for annulling and vacâ—ting these Votes in this manner declared them to be â—igâ—ly repugnant to the glory of God greatly dishonorable to the proceedings of Parliamenâ— and apparently destructive to the good of this Kingdom adding Yet we are resolved and that speedily so to settle the peace of the Kingdom by the Authority of Parliamentâ— in a more happy way than can be expected from the best of Kings Which they never since performed in the least degree but the direct contrarie embroiling us in endless Wars Seditions Tumults Successions Revolutions of new-modelled Governments oppressing destructive Anti-Parliameâ—tary Conventicles ever sithence After that suppressed our Kings and Kingly Government as the Instruments Occasions of Tyranny Iâ—justice Oppression Luxury Prodigality and Slavery to the Commons under them together with the whole House of Lords as Dangerous Uselesse Dilatory tâ— the Procéedings of Parliament c. in their Votes of Febr. 6. and * Declaration of 17 Martii 1648. expressing the grounds of their lute Proceedings and seâ—ling the Government in way of a Free Stateâ— Next prescribed subscribed an Ingagement to be true and faithfull to the Commonwealth established by â—hem without a King or House of Lords Yet afterwards in their New modelled Parliament aâ— they reputed it April 1657. by their Petition and Advice as first penned passed and presented to Cromwell for his assentâ— Declared the revival of Kingship and Kingly Government absolutely Necessary for composing the distractions and setling the peace and tranquillity of our Nations advised peâ—iâ—ioned and pressed hiâ— to accept the Name Title Power and Soveraign Authority
of a King over our three Kingdoms and the Dominions thereunto annexed Voted him to be King thereofâ— with a constant revenue of no lesse than Twelve hundred thousand pounds a year in perpetuity and five hundred thousand pounds more for 3. years space out of the peoples exhausted purseâ— after most of the antient Crown-lands and Revenues sold when as they themâ—elves affirmed and published in their Decl. of March 17. 1648. p. 19. that the justiâ—iable legal Revenue of the Crown under King Charls beâ—â—des the Customs and some other pâ—â—quisâ—â—es chaâ—â—ed with the maintenance of the Navâ—e and Forts fell shors of â—nâ— hundred thousand pounds yet 〈◊〉 This new-augmented Revenue for their New King Olivers support being above 3. times more than any of our lawful Kings ever enjoyed And when Cromwell pretended dissatisfaction in point of conscience to receive the Kingship and Kingly Government on him the â—ery * Lawyers Members Officers who drew the Declarations and Reasons for abolishing Kingship Kingly Government and House of Lords were the Committee appointed to confer with him 3. several times draw up reasons to satisâ—ie him why he might and ought in reason law policie conscience to accept the Kingship and Kingly Title for his own and the publike Safetyâ— Which he râ—â—using â—gainst hiâ— * desire they voted him their Royal Protector took an Oath to be true and faithfull to him and to his Son Riâ—hard after him and to act nothing against their Persons or Power created themselves Anoâ—her Houseâ— assumed to themselves the Title of Lords and THE HOUSE OF LORDS notwithstanding their Engagements against it under all their hands Yet soon after dethroned their young Protector nulled all his Conventions wherein they sate with all Lordships Knightships and Offices granted by their Protectors as illegal revived their Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto after it had layen buried in oblivion above 6 years space in May last and in Iuly following prescribed a New Oath and Ingagement to all Officers others who would enjoy the benefit of their Knack of Indemnity To be true faithful and constant to their Common-wealth though yet unborn without a Single person Kingship or House of Lords Whether such treacherous perjured double-minded men unstable in all their wayes Jam. 1.8 can ever be deemed chosen instruments ordained of God to settle the Peace or Government of our Nations Whether the Prophâ—t Isay c. 59. and the Apostle Paul Rom. 3.9.10 c. have not truly characterized them There is none righteous no not one there is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God they are all gone out of the way they are all together become unprofitable there is none that doth good no not one their threat is an open Sepulcher with their Tongues yea Oathes Protestations Declarations Covenants they have â—sed deceit the poyson of Asps is under their liâ—s Their feet are swift to shed bloud the bloud of their Protestant King Peers Brethren Alliâ—s Fellow-Subjects by Land and Sea at home and abroad in the field and in new Butcheries of Highest Injustice destruction and misery are in their wayes and the way of peace they have not known there is no fear of God before their eyes they have made them crooked pathes whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace Therefore is judgement far from us neither doth Iustice overtake us we wait for light but behold obscurity for brightness but we walk in darkness we grope for the wall like the blind as if we had no eyes we stumble at noon-day as in the night we are in desolate places like dead men we roar all like Bears and mouâ—n sore like doves we look for judgement but there is none for salvation but it is farr off from us 6. Whether God himself hath not given the Anti-Parliamentary Iuncto and General Council of Army Officers hitherto in their Iesuitical Project of bringing forth a mis-shapen monstrous Commonwealth and whymfical Freestâ—tâ— to establish thingâ— amongst us a miscarrying womb and dry brests so as we may justly say of them as the Prophet did of Ephraim Hos. 9.12 14.15 16. Ephraim is smitten their râ—â—t it dryed up it shall bear no fruit yea though they bring forth yet will I even slay the beloved fruit of their womb their glory shall fly away like a bird from the birth and from the wâ—mb and from the conception as their Commonwealth whimfieâ— have done Whether Gods signal over-â—urning and forcible dissolving the Iuncto by the Army-Officers twice onâ—â—ftâ—r another in the very generation of this Iesuitical brat before it was formed in the womb to disinherit our antient hereditarie legitimate Kings and Kingship and their turning of all things upside down our Kings Kingdomâ— Parliaments Lords House Lawes Liberties Oathes Church Religion to make way for its production hath not been like the Potters clay a rude deformed Chaoâ— without any lineaments or shape at all so as the work yet saith of hâ—m that made it he made me not and the thing formed saith of him that formed it he hath no understanding Isa. 29.16 Whâ—ther these new Baâ—eâ—-builders whiles thâ—y have been building this new City and Tower to keep them from being scattered upon the face of the whole earth * have not like the old Babel-builders been confounded in their language by God himself that they might not understand one anothers speech and scattred abroad thence upon the face of the earth though guarded by their faithfull Army on whom they relyed for protection so that they left off to build their Babel like them Their City of ConfusioÌ„ is broken down every house yea their own Parl. House shut up In the City is left desolation and the gate is smitten with destruction Isay 24.10 12. It shall lie waste from generation to generation none shall passe through it for ever and ever But the Cormorant the Bittern shall possess it the Owl also the Raven shall dwell in it and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness Whether their and the Armies endeavours to set up an Vtopian Commonwealth instead of our old Hereditarie Kingship is not a * direct fighting against God and the express precepts ordinances of God himself Prov. 24.21 22. c. 22.28 c. 8.15 16. Rom. 13.1 2. 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3. Tit. 3.1 1 Pet. 2 13.17â— Yea against the good providence mercie favour of God towards our Kingdoms and Nations for their establishment the want of a lawfull hereditary King to reign over a Kingdom and Nation and a multiplicity of Governors Kings especially of inferiour rank and reducing the people to such a confused sad condition That they shall call the Nobles thereof to the Kingdom but none shall be there and all her Princes shall be nothing * so that she hath no strong rod left to Rule being a matter of present and future lamentation a severe judgment of God for their sins and wickednes yea an occasion
of all wickedness licentiousness villanies confusion and an immediat forerunner or concomitant of the Kingdoms and Nations desolation ruine by Gods own resolution Hos. 3.4 c. 10.3.7 Ezech 49.11 12.14 Isa. 33.11 12 13. Judges 17.6 c. c. 18.1 c. c. 21.25 Prov. 28.2 c. 30 21 12. Hab. 1.10.14 15. And is it not so now of ours 7. Whether the late Petition and Advice 1657. to reduce us again to a Kingdom and Kingship to which W. Lenthal Speaker Whitlock and many others of the dissolved Iuncto assented as it was first penned voted passed by them and many Army-Officers as the only means to settle us in peace honor safety prosperitie be not a convincing Argument that in their own Judgements Consciences Kings Kingly Government are Englands only true Interest to end our wars Oppressions distractions prevent our ruine and restore our pristine uniâ—ie peace honor safety prosperitie trade glorie And whether it be not a worse than Bedlam Madness yea grosse error both in policie and expeperience in our Republican Juncto and Army-Officers to endeavour to erect an Utopian Jesuitical Republike among us which hath produced so many sad publique changeâ— confusions and made us a meer floating Island tossed about with every winde of giddy-brain Innovators as the only means of our firm lasting happinesse and to prevent all future relapses to Monarchie after King Charls hiâ— beheading which this notable censure of the incomparable Philosopher * Seneca passed against that great Republicâ—n and Anti-royallist M. Brutus will abundantly refute Cum Vir magnus fuerit in aliis M. Brutus mihi videtur in hâc re vehementer errare qui aut Regis nomen extimuit cum optimus Civitatis Status sub Rege justo sit aut ibi speravit Libertatem futuram ubi tà m magnum praemium erat et imperandi et serviendi futuramque ibi aequalitatem civilis juris et Staturas suo loco Leges ubi viderat tot Millia hominum pugnantia non ne serviret fed 〈◊〉 our present condition between the ambitious usurping Antiparliamentary Juncto and divided Army-Commanderâ— all contending which * of them shall be the greatest and who shall most oppress enslave our Nâ—tions to their Tyrannie farr more exorbitant than the very worst of all our Kings Quantum verò illum aut rerum natura aut vrbis suae tenuit oblivio Qui uno interempto Rege defuturum credidit alium qui idem vellet Cum Tarquinius esseâ— inventus post tot Reges ferro et fulmine occisos even in Rome it self and we in England since the beheading of King CHARLES and voting down Kings Kingship with the old House of Lords and Ingagemenâ—s against them have soon after found a more than Royal Protector OLIVER usurping the Wardship of our poor Infanâ— Common-wealth aspiring afâ—er a Kingship and Crown whiles living and crowned in his Statue Herse Scuâ—â—heons as both KING and * CONQUEROR of our three Kingdomes after his death bearing Three Crowns upon his sword as an emblem of it a momentanie Protectâ—r Richard after him a new self-created other House assuming to themselves the Title of LORDS THE HOUSE OF LORDS after an old Lords House suppressed since that a CHARLES FLEETWOOD and IOHN LAMBERT aspiring after the Soveraign Power as their late and present actions Declarations more than intimate and dissolved Juncto affirm and an exiled Hereditarie KING CHARLES with a numerous ROYAL POSTERITIE after him claiming the Crown and Kingship by lawfull indubitable Right declared ratified by the Vnrepealed Statutes of 1 Iacobi c. 1. 3 Iacobi c 1 2 4 7 Iacobi c. 6. the * Oathes of Supremacy Allegiance Fealâ—y of all Mayorâ— Recorders Freemen of every Corporation and Fraternity of all Iustices Iudges Sheriffs Officers of Iustice Graduates in Vniversities or Innes of Court Ministers Incumbents all Members of the Commons House of Parliament and all other Freemen sworn in our Leetâ— who by the powerfull assistance of their forein Friendâ— and Allies and domestick oppressed discontented divided ruined Subjectâ— will in all probabilitie be restored to the Crown sooner or later as Aurelius Ambrosâ—us after the murder of his Father and Brother by the Vsurper Vorâ—igerne was called in restored and crowned King by his own British Subjects to deliver them from Vortigerns and his invading Saxons Tyranny after 21 years usurpation and Edward the Confessor called in and crowned King by his Nobles and Subjects after 25 years dispossession of his right by the Daniâ—h Vsurpers and all the Danes expelled without any effusion of blood as I have * elsewhere evidenced at large out of our best Historians Whether Gods extraordinarie sudden trâ—ble miraculous overturning 1. of the Juncto when best established anâ— moâ—t secure after â—heir victorious Successes against the Irish Scots Hollanders Worcester-fight and League with Spain by their own Gen. Cromwel Apr. 20. 1653. 2. Of Prâ—t * Richard his Brother Hen. too Deputy of Irel. by his Brother Fleew Unkle Disbrow other Army-Officers after all their Oaths and Addresses to him from them and all the Officers Soldiers Navy most Counties Corporations in England Scotland Ireland to be true faithful loyal obâ—dient to and live and die with him in the midst of hiâ—Parliament declaring voting for and complying with him when most men thoughâ— it impossible to overâ—urn or depose him 3ly Of the revived Antiparliamentary Juncto after Sir George Booths and all their visible Opposites total rout and disappointment when * themselves and others esteemed them so well rooted guarded that there was no hopes nor possibility left of dissipatingâ— dissolving them or abolishing their usurped Regal and Parliamental power even by the very instruments that called them in and routed their Enemies all â—â— of them without any one drawn sword or drop of bloud that in a moment be not a real experimental verificâ—tion of Ezech. 21.26 27. by way of Allusion to our own Governours and Kingdom Thus saith the Lord God Remove the Diadem and take off the Crown this shall not be the sameâ— exalt him that is low and abase him thaâ— is high I will Overturn Overturn Overturn it till he shall come whose right it is and I will give it him 9. Whether the late Iunctoes and Aâ—my-Officerâ— doubling trebling quadrupling of our Nations Monthly Taxes Excises Militiaes Grievances Oppressions of all kinds by their usurped power their consumption devastation of all the Crown-lands Rents and standing Revenues of the Kingdom of Bishops Dean and Chapters lands and many thousands of Delinquents real and personal estates and greatest part of most â—ens privat estates only to make them greater Bondslaves to them than ever they were to any Kingâ— without benefiting or easing them in any kind and to murder one another by intestinâ— unchristian warrâ— Butcheries And their Monstrous Giddiness Intoxication in all their premised Councils New Models and Rotations of Government ever since they turned the Head of â—â—r Kingdoms which
should râ—le direct the whole body downwards and the Heels uppermost to animate and steer it against the course of nature that rules of Law Policie Christianitie and Gods * hedging up all their new By-wayes with thorns and making a wall cross them that the people are not able to find their pathes nor to overtake nor finde their New Lovers they have hitherto followed and sought after and those mad new whymsies the Jesuites infuse into their Pates from time to time to make them and ouâ— Nation ridiculous to all the world till utterly destroyed may not justly engage our three distracted Nations and themselves too now at a total loss to â—esolve and say with the Israelites when revolâ—ed from their rightfull Kings of the House of David in the like case Hos. 2.7 I will go and return to my first Husband for then was it better with me than now And to imitate the Israelites in the case of King David when expelled his Realm by his usurping son Absoloms rebellion after his rout and slaughter 2 Sam. 19.9 c. And all the people were at strife throughout all the Tribes of Israelâ— saying The King saved us out of the hands of our Enemies and he delivered us out of the hands of the Philistins and now he is fled out of the Land for Absolom and Absolom whom we anointed King over us is dead in battel as their Pro. Oliver Richard and dissolved Juncto are in a moment now therefore why are ye silent and speak not a word of bringing back the King to his House And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests spake unto the elders of Judah saying Why are ye the last to bring the King back to his House seeing ye are his brethren of his bone and his flesh And Amasa bowed the heart of all the Men of Iudah even as one man so that they sent this word unto the King Return thou and all thy servants So the King returned to Iordan where all the people of Judah and half the men of Israel met him and conducted him safe to Gilgal and the men of Judah clave unto their King from Jordan even to Ierusalem and re-established him in his Kingdom Whether this be not the only safe true legal prudential Christian speedy and ready high-way to their present and future Peace Ease Safety Settlement Wealth Prosperity both as Men and Christians without any further effuâ—ion of Christian bloud expence of Treasure not other new Vertiginous Models Army Councils Treaties tending to further confusions out of which the Nobility Gentry Ministry Freeholders Citizens Burgesses Merchants Commons Sea men Parliaments of our 3. Nations are totally secluded like meer Cyphers by the Iuncto and Army-usurpers as if they were meer Aliens and wholly unconcerned in their own Government Settlement who will never acquiesce in any thing but what themselves in a free Parliament shall resolve on * Consider of it take advice and speak your minds without fear hypocrisy or partiality And whether we be not a people marked out and fitted for inevitable destruction having all the symptoms fore-runners of it and sins that hasten it now lying upon us if we * brutishly reject this only means of our preservation and follow the destructive whymsies of those Giddy-pated usurping raw Stears-men of whom we may justly say with the Prophet Isai. 3.1.4 12. Behold the Lord of Hosts doth take away from Jerusalem and Judah the stay and the staff the Honourable man and the Counsellor And I will give Children in State-affairs and understanding to be their Princes and Babes shall rule over them And the people shall be oppressed every one by another and every one by his neighbour the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the Base against the Honourable as now they do O my people they which lead thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy pathes and they that are led of them in their new Jesuitical By-wayes are destroyed by intestine divisions and forein invasions as in Isai. 9.12 to 21. A sad emblem of our present condition and approaching destruction worthy our saddest meditations Whether the twice dissolved Anti-Parliamentary Juncto by their own Knack of the 12. of October and paper printed by their special permission and command since their dissolution intituled The Parliaments Plea declaring resolving p. 5 6 7. That the People of England are of Right a Free People to be governed by their own elected Deputies and Trustees in Parliament it being owned on all hands both by Parliament and Army and all the good people engaged with them That the people under God are the original of all just Authority and other original and foundation no man may lay That to deprive or deny the People of this Inheritance is Treason Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation for as much as a people free by Birth by Laws and by their own Prowess are thereby rendred and made most absolute vassals slaves at will power and greater Treason than this no man can commit That to levy mony upon the people without their consent in Parliament is Treason for which every man that so Assesses Collects or Gathers it is to be Indicted for his life and must dye as a Traytor not only by their Knack but by the Fundamental Good Old Laws of the Land against which no By-law is to be made this being a Fundamental Law and one of the main birth-rights of England That no Tax or Levy is to be laid upon the people but by their consent in Parliament Be not guilty of the greatest highest Treason Rebellion and Apostacy from the Good Old Cause of the English Nation and the Army-Officers too confederating with them by depriving and denying the free people to be governed by their own elected Representatives and Trustees in a full free Parl. by secluding four parts of five of the Knights Citizens Burgesses Barons of Ports out of the long Parl. whiles in being Dec. 1648. with armed power by usurping to themselves the Royal Parliamentary Legislative supream Authority over the people laying assessing levying intollerable excessive Taxes Excises Militiaes upon them without yea against their consents protestations and without the consent of the farr greater part of the Commons House the King or House of Lords which they forcibly secluded suppressed destroyed against their fundamental Laws Liberties Privileges Birth-rights Protestations Declarations and solemn League and Covenant by making them most absolute slaves vassals from 1648. till their dissolution in April 20. 1653. and invading inslaving destroying their Protestant brethren of Scotland and Allies of Holland by Land and Sea to the undermining endangering of the Protestant Religion by imposing New Oaths and engagements on them diametrically contrary to the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance which they all solemnly took as Members before they entred the House and disabling all to sue in any Court or enjoy the benefit
or protection of the Laws for which they fought and to which they were born heirs who refused to take their Treasonable perfidious Ingagements by securing imprisoning thousands of Freemen close imprisoning sundry Members of the old Parliament my self amongst others divers years in remote Castles and keeping us from Gods publike ordinances without any accusation hearing trial or legal cause of commitment expressed in their warrants By presuming upon the Army and Officers sodain invitation after the old Parliaments dissolution by the Kings death and their above 6. years dissipation by the Army without the election or privity of the people to sit and act as the Parl. and supream power of the Nation to seclude at least 3. parts of 4. of the old surviving Members by force aâ—d proclaiming Sir George Booth Sir Thomas Middleton and other Members and Freemen of England Traytors and levying war against them only for raising forces to induce them to call in all the old secluded Members or to summon a new free Parliament and for opposing their new illegal Taxes Excises Militiaes imposed and levyed on the people without their Common consent in Parl. deserve not to be all indicted executed and their estates confiscated as Traytors for these their successive reiterated high Treasons by their own resolutions Sir George and his adherents totally acquitted from the least imputation or guilt of Treason by consequence from all â—mprisonments Sequestrations under which they now suffer Whether their branding sequestring them for Traytors Apostates Enemies to the publike against Law and Conscience too hath not justly brought that wo judgment upon their conventicle Isa. 5.20 23 24. Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble and the flame consumeth the chaâ—s so their root shall be rottenness and their blossom shall go up as dust because they have cast away the Law of the Lord and of the Land too and despised the name of the holy one of Israel For all this his wrath is not turned away but his hand is streched out still Whether the Anti-Parliamentary Junctoes and Army-Officers beheading of their late Protestant King against the Voteâ— Protestations of the generality of the Parliament and his 3. Protestant Kingdoms Mediations of all foreign Protestant Agents then in England their banishing â—xpelling his Royal Protestant Heir Successor to the Crown with all the rest of his Children professing the reformed Râ—ligion out of all their Protestant Realms Dominions their invading of their Protestant Brethren in Irâ—land and Scotland in a hostile manner with potent Armies waging war against them in their own Countries and after that against their own Protestant Brethren in England as professed Enemies Traytors Apostates slaying divers thousands of then in the fâ—eld imprisoning banishing disinheriting fequestring many thousands more of them only for owning crowning assisting their own hereditary Protestant King according to their Oathes Covenants Laws Homage Allegeance duties and principles of the Protestant Religion to regain and retain his Royal Authoâ—ity and Kingdoms Their waging of a most bloudy 〈◊〉 waâ— with our antient Protestant Allies of Holland above 3. years space together to the slaughter of many thousands of their our gallantest Protestant Seaman Admirals Sea-Captains of purpose to banish their own exiled Protestant King his Brethren and followers out of the Netherlands from the Societie and charitable relief of theâ—r Protestanâ— Friends where they lived as Exiles enjoying the free profession of the Reformed Religion and Communion prayers contributions of the Protestant Churches on purpose to drive them into Popish Quarters amongst seducing Iesuits Priests Papists to cast them wholly upon their Alms Mercy Benevolence and by these high indignities and their pressing necessities to inforce them if they can to renounce the Protestant-Religion and turn professed Papists Their most inhuman unchristian barbarism in depriving them totally of all means of Subsistance by seising all their revenues without allowing them one farthing out of them towards their necessary relief yet enacting iâ— High Treason for any of their Protestant Subjects Friends Allies within their Realmâ— or Dominions to contribute any thing toward their support to hold the leaâ—â— correspondency with or make any publique prayers unto God for them as if they were worse than Turkâ— Iews Infidels and most professed Enemies for whom we are not only commanded to pray but also to love feed cloâ—h relieve harbour them in their necessities overcomming their evil with goodness by Christs own example and express precepts under pain of everlasting damnation be a conscientious Saint-like performancâ— of and obedience to or not rather an Atheistical obstinate presumptuous rebellion against the 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3. Mat. 5.44 45. c. 2â— 21 c. 25.34 to 46. Luke 6.35 to 39. c. 10.30 to 38. c. 23.34 Acts 7.60 Rom. 10 13 â—9 20 21. c. 13.1 to 12. c. 15.26 27. 1 Cor. 16.1 2. Jam. 2 13. and other sacred Texts A religious zealous observation of their * sacred solemn Protestations Vows Covenant Remonstrances Declarations Oathes for the maintenance defeâ—ce propagation of the true Reformed Protestant Religion the Profession and 〈…〉 against the bloudy Ploâ—s conspiracies attempts practices of the Iesuits and other profâ—ssed Popish Eneâ—ies and â—nderminers of themâ— Or not rather a moâ—â— perfidious vâ—olation â—bjuration betraying of confederating with the Iesuits Papists against them A loving of theâ—â— Protestant Brethren with a true heart fervently and laying down their lives for them and being pitiful merciful compassionate towards them according to these Gospel-precepts Eph. 4.32 c. 5.1 2. 1 Pet. 1.22 c. 2.17 c. 3.8 1 John 2.11.14.33 c. 4.7 11 12 20 21. John 13.34 c. 15.12.17 Or not rather a shutting up their bowels of compassion towards them a grieving offending persecuting murdering of their bodies souls too an infallible evidence that they are yet no real Saints or children of God but the very children of the Devil abiding in death having no true love of God nor eternal life abiding in them by Christs own resolution John 8.44 45. 1 John 2.13 to 18 A professed Antichristian contradiction to the reiterated command and voice of God from heaven Isay 52.11 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.2 3 4 c. Depart ye depart ye Come ye out of mystical Romish Babylon the mother of whoredoms the habitation of Devils and of every foul spirit and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird O my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues by their forcible driving of their own Protestant King Brethren into Babylon and keeping them therein to have their habitation among Devils foul spirits unclean birds of every kind that so they may participate both in her sins and plagues instead
Habeas Corporaes they will remove them unto New Prisons or Gards of Souldiers or send them into Forein parts to prevent their returns and enlargement by our Laws as some have been newly dealt with by these New full through Râ—formers of the Laws Whether these very first-fruits of their full and through pretended Reformation of our Laws proving so bitter trampling all Law and Justice under foot with greater scorn contempt impudence than ever any Kings Old Council Table Lords Straâ—â—ord or Canterbury were guilty of And their leaving not so much as one Judge or Justice to act under them in any one Court of Justice at Westminster nor no face of any real or pretended Legal Authority in England or Ireland to execute Justice between man and man and dismounting all those Judges Grandees of the Law who formerly complyed with them and acted under them in all their Innovations a just reward for their temporizing against their Judgements Law and Conscience their future harvest of our Lawes Reformation will not probably prove so lawlesse and exorbitant that the whole English Nation and Army too if they have not abandonned all humanity christianity charity justice will revive this prayer in our antient Liturgy against such a full and through Deformation and Deformers of our Lawes From all evil and mischief from all blindness of heart from pride vainglory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and all uncharitablenesse from all deceits of the World the Flesh and Devil good Lord deliver us And exhort their fellow brethren of Scotland and Ireland in the Apostles words 2 Thess. 3.1 2. Finally brethren pray for us that the word of the Lord and good old Laws of the Land may run and have free course and be glorified and that we may be delivered from absurd or unreasonable wicked men who thus reform and purge out the Laws very bowels for all men and such reforming Saints especially have not faith whatever they professe who under pretext of a most transcendent Reformation and purgation of the Gospel and Law would reduce us into the condition of the Israelites 2 Chron. 15.3 Now for a long season Israel had been without the true God and without a teaching Priest and without Law And why so The Apostle resolves us in direct terms 1 Tim. 1.4 c. The end of the Law is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of faith unfeined from which some having swerved have turned aside to vain jangling desiring to be teachers yea Reformers of the Law understanding neither what they say nor what they affirm But we know that the Law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing also that the Law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners For Murderers of Fathers and murtherers of Mothers for man-slayers c. For men stealers for lyars for periured persons every other thing that is contrary to sound doctrin And our Army-Grandees Juncto and new Reformers being such would abrogate all Lawes and Lawyers too least they should restrain and punish them for these their Capital crimes Forgetting this lesson that though they null all the Laws and Courts of Justice in Westminster-hall and elsewhere yet they shall never abrogate nor escape the Law Iudgement Execution Iustice and vengeance of * God himselfâ— who will render indignation and wrath tribulaâ—ion and anguish to every soul of man that doth evilâ— whether Iew or Gentile For as many who have sinned without Lâ—wâ— shall also perish without Law and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law Enough to disswade them from their intended Reformation to reform their own and the Armies lâ—wless exorbitances before they reform our Laws or others far better than themselves Whether all the old conscientious faithfull publike spirited secured excluded and re-excluded Member's who to the uttermost of their powers opposed voted protested against all the late dismal Jesuitical Powder-Treasons Violences Innovations Exâ—rbiâ—ances of the dissolved Iuncto and Army and have h vexed their righteous souls from day to day yea i shed rivers of teâ—rs from their mournfull eyes because of these their heinous transgressions against the Laws of God and the Land may not with much comfort apply this promise of God to themselves and their uncharitable brethren who secluded all imprisoned sundry of them Isa. 66.5 6. c. 26.11 13 14. Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble at his word Your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my name sake said Let the Lord be thereby glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed by reason of their own double ejection dissolution in a strange unexpected manner A voice of noise from the City a voice from the Temple a voice of the Lord that rendreth recompence to his enemies Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy towards the people yea the fire of their Enemies their very fierie Guards and Powder-men shall devour them O Lord our God other Lords besides thee our New Suprâ—me Lords Powers Protectors of the dissolved Junctoes counsel and tother House have had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy name They â—â—e dead they shall not live they are deceased they shall not rise therfore hast thou visited and destroyed them and made all their Memory to Perish Even k so let all thine Enemies and the publike impenitent malicious Enâ—mies of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Parliaments Peoples Liberties fall and perish O Lord but let thâ—m that love thee and the publike peace welfare settlement prosperity of our Churches Kings Kingdoms Nations be aâ— the Sun wâ—en he goeth forth in his might That so the Land may have rest forty years together as the Land of Israel had after l the Lord had discomfited Sisera and all his Chariots and all his host with the edge of the Sword before Barak and Deborah Amen Whether the General Council of Officers and Army-Saints former and late slandering false accusing forcible secluding the Members of the long Parliament as Trust-breakers and the whole House of Lords for whose defence they were raised waged commissioned and their subsequent dissolving dissipating with high scorne their own Anti-Parliamentary Iunctoes from whom they received their new Commissions end engaged several times to yeeld their utmost assistance to them to sit in safety to be true faithfull and constant to them and to live and die in their defence be a conscientious saint-like performance 1. Of Iohn Baptists Evangelical Injunction to all Souldiers Luke 3.14 Do violence to no man neither accusâ— any falsly and be content with your allowance 2ly Of St. Pauls description of a good Souldier of Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 4. Thou thereforâ— endure hardness No man that warreth intangleth himself with the affairs of