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A56200	Sad and serious politicall considerations touching the invasive war against our Presbyterian Protestant brethren in Scotland, their late great overthrow, and the probable dangerous consequences thereof to both nations and the Prorestant [sic] religion which may serve as a satisfactory apology for such ministers and people, who out of conscience did not observe the publike thanksgiving against their covenant, for the great slaughter of those their brethren in covenant.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1650 (1650)	Wing P4058; ESTC R5356	63,285	75

of the Commons House addicted to the Presbyterian Government suppressed the whole House of Lords disinherited the Kings Posterity of the Crown subverted the fundamentall Government of the Kingdome usurped all Regall and Parliamentall Authority to themselves and by colour thereof now trample all Laws Liberties and Priviledges of Parliament under feet remove all or most zealous Presbyterians though never so eminent Actors and sufferers for Religion and the publique weal out of all Offices and places of power and Trust throughout th● Nation discourage and discountenance all or most Pr●sbyterian Ministers especially the most pious banish some imprison others recall the Sequestrations and substract the A●gmentations and Tithes of all or most of them to starve and ruine them withdraw themselves from their Ministery suborn or tolerate their monethly Prognosticators and Diurnalists to revile and rail openly against them in print without the least controul and to prognosticate their and their Presbyterian Gouernments downfall to incense the people against them and it invent and prescribe new Oaths Ingagements Publications Observations of Thanksgivings and Humiliations and other snares and engines thereby to insnare either their Consciences or indanger their Estat●s Liberties Ministery Persons in their plundring Committees and new Arbitary Judicatories declare against the solemn League and Covenant as expired abolished yea and dangerous and unlawfull to be kept set up and inforce an Anti-Covenant Engagement to frustrate null and abjure it debar all from all publike Offices Pref●rments Augmentations degrees of Learning the practise of the Law and the very benefit of the Laws of England for which we have so long contested with the Kings Party who will not out of conscience or Loyalty subscribe it oppose and traduce the Presbyterian Government as Papall Antichristian and Tyrannicall exempt all S●ctaries whatsoever from all Penall Laws in not repairing to any publike Ordinances or Churches Authorize them freely to meet when and where they please in private Conventicles where running Priests and Jesuites may and wil easily seduce them without the least danger or disturbance and because their brethren of Scotland stick close to their Presbyterian Government and Covenant and have closed with their King at last according to their Covenant and Allegiance and will not disinherit him as they have done they thereupon have recalled Cromwell out of Ireland from prosecuting the Irish Papists and Royalists made him their Generall instead of the Lord F●irfax and sent him in to Scotland without any real provocation on their part to invade them with an Army where he entred without the least resistance seized some of their Towns and Garrisons provoked them oft times to fight when they declined fighting and at last gave them battle in their own Countrey routed their whole Army and though he lost not forty men in the fight● yet he and his Forces out of their Christian charity cut down near 4000. of them in the pursuit maimed and wounded above 5000. more whereof many are since dead and more like to die took 10000. of them prisoners 5000. whereof are sent Captives into England since which he hath taken Edenborough and Leith prosecutes his Victory with all vigour sends up all the Scots Colours to Westminster where they are publiquely hung up in the Hall for triumph And for this great slaughter and overthrow of our Presbyterian Brethren a solemn publike day of Thanksgiving hath been prescribed to be strictly observed throughout the Nation and celebrated in many places accordingly to involve the whole Nation in a double guilt of their bloud First by their Contributions to pay the Army sent against them next by publike Thanksgiving to God for their destruction and that in those very Churches and places where we not long since lifted up our hands and subscribed our Names when we took the forementioned Leaga● and Covenant in the presence of God himself Angells and men sincerely really and constantly to preserve their Religion in Doctrine Worship Discipline Government and with our Estates and lives mutually to preserve the Right and Priviledges of their Kingdome and Parliam●nt and to bring all to condigne punishment as Malignants Incendiaries and evill Instruments who should indeavour the dividing of one of the Kingdomes from another and each one of us according to our place and Interest to indeavour that both Kingdomes may remain conjoyned in a firm peace and Union to all posterity and that we shall not suffer our selves directly or indirectly by whatsoever combination perswasion or terrour to be divided or withdrawn from this blessed Union which so much concerns the glory of God and good of the Kingdomes but shall all the daies of our lives zealously and constantly continue therein against all opposition and promote the same according to our power against all lets and impediments whatsoever c. which how well and really we have performed let that Almighty God the searcher of all hearts● in whose presence and Name we made and subscribed this Covenant judge and our own consciences as we shall answer the contrary at that great day if we seriously repent not of it now whilest we have time and space of repentance given us 13. That upon the due consideration of all these Premises we shall not conclude as some rigid Presbyterians do perchance not without good grounds That this invasive Warre with our Brethren of Scotland is an apparent violation of every clause and branch of the solemn Brotherly League and Covenant and a very strange Act of Ingratitude and Injustice in invading their Kingdom because they will have a King according to their Ancient Constitution Government Laws Covenant and in indeavouring to deprive their King of the Kingdome of Scotland because they have injuriously and per●idiously dispossessed him of his two Kingdoms of Engl●nd and Ireland against their National League and Covenant and other oaths for fear his possession of that his Hereditary Kingdom should be a means to regain the other two which is as unconscionable and unreasonable as if a great Statesman or Commander should wrongfully deprive his Neighbour of all his Lands and goods in a third Parish or County because he hath forcibly dispossessed him of all his Lands and Goods in two other Parishes or Counties that so he might never be able to recover them by suit of Law having no means left to maintain his suit against him but rather infer from thence First that this War with Scotland is not only exe●eding scandalous dishonourable and disadvantagious to all the Professors of the reformed Protestant Religion in both Kingdoms and throughout the Christian world to behold Protestant Brethren in Covenant thus invading slaughtering and destroying each other upon such slender unchristian carnall grounds but ungodly too Secondly That this invasive war and great slaughter of the most zealous Scottish Presbyters is a matter of greatest joy triumph and advantage to the Jesuiticall Popish and Prelaticall party and tending much to the present promotion and future accomplishment of

worse and more hopelesse and desperate condition then ever heretofore 7. That to prevent and frustrate these Laws and this security the Jesuiticall and Prelaticall party whilest they were in agitation indeavoured all they could by subtill practices slanders and private solicitations to raise jealousies and divisions between the Scottish Commissioners and Army and the Parliament to ingage the Scottish and English Armies each against other or to make the Scots stand neutrall to the Parliament that so they might bring up the English Army from the North to London to over-awe and suppresse them and hinder the Union between both Kingdomes which through the fidelity of the Scots and of some Officers in the English Army was timely discovered prevented and a firme Union between both Kingdomes setled by Acts of Parliament passed in the Parliaments of both Nations 8. That these Acts of Pacification and Union between both Kingdomes and the Religious party of both Nations the extirpation of Prelacy and the Popish Hierarchy and the establishing of a Presbyterian Government and Uniformity in Doctrine Worship and Discipline in both Kingdoms were apprehended prosecuted and resolved upon by the most religious Protestant party and Parliaments of both Nations as the readiest probablest and most effectuall means under God to preserve and secure their Religion Lawes Liberties against all future invasions and to frustrate all Popish and Prelaticall Design●s against them and were accordingly esteemed and looked upon by the adve●se Popish and Prelaticall party who thereupon attempted with all their policy and power to uphold Prelacy and retard and prevent the establishment of ●resbytery as fatall to all their hopes and Designes and thereupon improved all their int●rest both at home and with forraigne ●rinces to raise what Forces they could to break this D●signe and the ●arliament too before they should accomplish it 9. That when the Jesuiticall Popish and Prelaticall party in England Ireland Scotland and forraigne parts had taken up Arms and raised great Forces to hinder the settlement of the Presbyterian Government● suppresse the late Parliament subvert the Protestant Religion introduce Popery and Tyranny ext●rpate the Puritan and Religious party in England and Ireland and were grown very strong and p●evalent in both the Scottish Presbyterians now invaded and defeated out of their brotherly love and Christian aff●ction in this extremity of danger for the preservation of our Religion Liberties Lawes Parliament and the godly party in England Ireland at both Hous●s earnest solicitatio● did readily and chearfully assist us with their Forces in both Kingdoms and thereby through Gods b●essing were a great means of weak●ning and subduing our Enemies and prese●ving our Religion Lawes Liberties Lives from utter destruction which brotherly assistance with so powerfull an A●my of above twenty thousand Ho●se and Foot in our greatest dangers was so welcome to us that the House of Commons on the second of February 1643. Ordered publike thanks should be given in all Churches for the aid and assi●tance come in by our Brethren of Scotland And when the malignant party there in their absence for our preservation had p●ev●iled and routed only some few of their Force● nothing considerable in comparison of those lately slain and defeated left behind for their defence both Houses were so sensible thereof that they appointed a speciall D●y of Humiliation for the miseries of Scotland throughout all the Parliaments Q●arters by their Order of 2. September 1645. which was accordingly observed so much did they and we then condole th● least overthrow and misery of our Scottish Brethren in Covenant ●being members of the self●same Body of Christ as if it had been our own Whereas now on the contrary we invade slay d●stroy and ruine these our brotherly Assistants rejoyce triumph at their misery appoint publike Da●es of Thanksgiving throughout the whole Nation for their gr●at slaughter and overthrow and hang up the Ensignes taken from them in Westminster Hall as publike trophies and testimonies to succeeding ages of our gratitude and brotherly kindnesse towards them and of our religious observation of our solemne Nationall League and Covenant with them not long since made and entred into upon their coming in to our assistance 10. That in the extremity of our dangers by the prevailing Popish party the Parliaments Ministers and religious people both of Scotland and England did resolve it most nec●ssary and essentiall for Gods glory and their s●fety to enter into a more sacred and stricter union then formerly for defence of their Religion King Parliament Lawes Liberties the extirpation of Popery of Prelacy and the bringing of all our Kingdoms to uniformity in Doctrine Worship and Discipline by a solemne Nationall League and Covenant as the onely means under God to prevent all future differences and breaches between all the godly people of both Nations to preserve and secure Religion Lawes Liberties and priviledges of Parliament against all present and future attempts whatsoever and dash in pieces all the designes practices hopes of the Jesuiticall and Prelaticall Faction in all our Kingdoms which League and Covenant was accordingly agreed upon by the Parliament and Assemblies of Divines in both Kingdomes and after that most chearfully and solemnly taken and subscribed not only by the Scottish Parliament Army Clergy and Generality of that Nation but by all the Members of both Houses of our Parliament the genera●ity of all the godly Ministers and people in England and Ireland and by all or most Officers and Souldiers in the Parliaments Armies who many of them carried it in their hats hands and fixed to their pikes as they marched and amongst others it was taken and subscribed by Oliver Cromwell himself and Ireton and every man by Ordinances of both Houses was disabled to injoy or exercise any Civill or Military Office or place of Trust whatsoever in the State or Army who did not solemnly take and subscribe it● whereupon it was almost universally● taken and subscribed in a most sacred and solemn manner throughout the Kingdome and followed with many glorious Victories and Successes till the Popish and Prelaticall Malignant party in England were totally subdued all Counties and Garrisons fully reduced to the Parliaments Command and a happy Peace and settlement of our Reliigion Laws Liberties upon most safe and honourable terms indeavoured expected● and almost accomplished by a personall Treaty● with the KING in the Isle of Wight 11. That to prevent this Peace and Settlement the Officers of the Army who love to make a Trade of War thereby to gain and keep all Civill and Ecclesiasticall power in their own hands and to inrich themselves with our three Kingdoms spoils and ruine confederating with some few Members of the Commons House against their Trust duty Oaths Protestations the very Letter of this solemn League and Covenant and all the ends thereof forcibly seized condemned and beheaded the late King secured and secluded the greatest part

ever it hath done in England or Germany This is the felicity of the Church the fifth Monarchy in Nebuchadnezzars Image the ministeriall not personall Reign and Kingdom of Christ upon ●arth which must not endure for ever as Archer would have it nor for a 1000 years as Alsted dreams but for a very short time that all Nations none excepted may professe Gods worship and none plead ignorance before his Tribunall presently after which the dissolution of the world shall come after which time shall be no more IV. This Digression made I return to my purposed method That fearfull and ominous Night-torch which prognosticated all that misery to Germany and great Brittain which they have now suffered was the forerunner of all our evils This Comet Longomontanus and D. Bambridge say appeared but 28. dayes indeed it was neither observed in Denmark nor at London before Novemb. 18. or 21. but Erycius Puteanus observed it Novemb. 11. the first time as he testifies in the first book of his learned Paradoxologie pag. 33.38 so it appeared for the space of 37. or 38. dayes foreshewing that first Germany Livonia Swethland with other North-parts of Europe then Scotland England and Ireland should feel the terrible effects thereof in warre and famine for the space of 37. or 38. years even from An. 1618. till An. 1656. This Comet was strengthned by a fearfull conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter An. 1616. July 18. The effects of both which were not to be confined in those terrible concomitants of war perpetrated in Germany which L.B. and D. Vincent so pathetically delineate but were to end in the judgements of God upon Europe for neglecting the downfall of Antichrist ruine of Rome annihilation of the Sodomiticall Order of the Society of Jesuites and in the extirpation of all Kingdoms and free States of Papists to make way for the Lion of the North to erect his FIFTH MONARCHIE in the ashes of Germany wherein shall be established the eternall felicity of the Church by the conversion of the Jews and fulnesse of the Gentiles M. Shirley Fellow of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge once shewed me a Letter from his learned friend Buxtorf dated An. 1624. May 3. wherein was contained a Prognostique Prophecy of the before-mentioned Comet and Conjunction sent him from that incomparable Astrologer Iohannes Baudensis Nephew to Paul Grebner which for the strangenesse and rarity of it I will here insert Caeterùm quòd de patriae nostrae afflictissimae statu consilesco indignaris nihil profectò scribendum nunc hab●o nisi omnia ut Poetae verbis utor in pejus ruere retrò sublapsa referri Tam Danus quàm Caesar ●nixè laborant ut miseram Germaniam quamprimùm p●ssum iri spectem Nec milites utriusqùe quiequam aliud meditan●nr nisi strages vastitatem Accepi nudiustertiùs à Johanne Baudensi amico mihi multimodis charissimo sententias nostratium Astrologorum de horribili illo Comet● qui Anno 1618. apparuit nuperrimâ Saturni Iovis Conjunctione En tibi vaticinium si no● Apostolicum at longè ni fallor plusquàm Astrologicum Surrexit Deus gladium eduxit Clades magnorum Imperatorum strages populorum regum funcra rerum-publicarum eversiones monarchiarum mutationes assassinationes principum ducum illustriorum violenta superba consilia proditiones rebelliones inter Subditos in hoc coelo nostro Europico exorientur Exporientur religiosi à potentioribus Legum institutorum Ecclesiasti●orum mutationem à plebeijs novarum rerum inexplebilem cupiditatem Boreales Europae partes ferro morbo peste laborabunt depauperabuntur divites Principes Dominijs exuti erunt exulabunt patres filij post longum turb●rum intercapedinem in integrum restituentur Hic quoque Cometa terribilem Romae ruinam singulisque Europae civitatibus incendia minitatur● Clerici Papicolae praecipuè Cardinales de gradibus suis dejicientur Loiolistae ubique ad mortem rapientur nec Gallis aut Hispanis animus erit carnificum l●queos evitare Quinimò cernimus etiam in terrâ sanct● à veteribus incolis● oriturum Regnum quod ●rit Christianis miraculum Orbi terriculamentum Novique Imperij Revolutio istis succedet sub quo generale gaudium laetitia voluptas humano generi subministrabitur improbis ubique de medio sublatis Haec omnia per Regem quendam Borealem peragentur qui pacem Religionem Securitatem per totum Orbem miraculosè stabilibit Whereas you are angry that I keep silence concerning the esta●e of our most distressed Countrey Truly I have nothing now to write but that all things that I may use the words of the Poet grow worse and woese As well the King of Denmark as the Emperour earnestly endeavour to see miserable Germany destroyed as soon as may be neither do the souldiers of either of them think of any other thing then slaughter and desolation I received the other day from my dear Friend Iohn Baudensis the opinions of our Astrologers concerning that terrible Comet which appeared Anno 1618 and about the later Conjunction of Saturn and Iupiter Behold thou then a Prophecie if not Apostolical yet if I mistake not far beyond Astrological GOD hath arisen and drawn his sword There shall happen in these our European Regions the destruction of great Emperours the slaughter of people Funerals of Kings subversions of Common-wealths mutations of Monarchies massacres of Princes and illustrious Commanders violent and proud Counsels Treasons and Rebellions amongst Subjects Clergie-men shall finde a change of Laws and Ecclesiastical Constitutions by those of greater power and an insatiable desire of new things amongst common people The Northern parts of Europe shall be greatly oppressed with Warre Sicknesse and Pestilence Rich men shall be impoverished Princes cast out of their Dominions The fathers shall be banished and after a long space of trouble their children shall be restored to their former condition This Comet also threatneth the terrible ruine of Rome and burnings in all the Cities of Europe The Papistical Clergy especially the Cardinals shall be cast down from their Dignities the Jesuites every where shall be drawn to death neither shall the French-men or Spaniards have courage to save their necks from the halters Furthermore We discern a Kingdom to arise of the most ancient Inhabitants in the holy Land which to Christians shall be a Miracle and to the World a terrour and these shall obtain the Revolution of a new Empire under which shall be administred universal Gladnesse● Joy and Delight to mankinde the wicked being every where taken away All these things shall be effected by a certain Northern King who shall miraculously establish Peace Religion and Security throughout the whole world Thus far the words of this Letter And how punctually all these things are come to passe let the world judge We in England have felt the misery of the one and are ready stript to suffer the calamities of the other having for the present lost