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-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
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
with monies and upon his Account as a Freer had a very good intertainment in the Monastery at Angiers by the Freers thereof During his stay there they had much discourse with him He told them he had been formerly a Student in Kings College in Cambridge after that at Salamanoa in Spain for 8. years Being demanded by them Whether there were not many Iesuites and Freers then in England He assured them upon his own knowledge they had then above five hundred Iesuites in London and the Suburbs and that they had at least four or five Iesuites and Popish Priests in and about London to every Minister we had there Whereupon they demanding of him How so many Iesuites and Priests were there maintained He answered That the Iesuites and every Order of Fréers had their several Treasurers in London who by Orders from their Provincials furnished them with what ever Monies they wanted by Bills of Exchange returned to them That all the Iesuites and Priests in England were maintained according to their respective qualities A Lords Son like a Lord and a Knights Son like a Knight and if they chanced to meet him in London at their return though he were now in a poor weed they should find him in Scarlet or Plush a better equipage than what he was in He would not discover his true name to them but upon discourse on a sudden he mentioned His Cozen Howard in England which made them suspect he was of that family He told them further that though we were very cunning in England yet the Iesuites and Priests there were too crafty for us lurking under so many disguises that they could hardly be discovered That there was but one way to detect them which they being inquisitive to know He said it was for those who suspected them to be Priests to feign themselves Roman Catholicks and upon that account to desire the Sacrament from them which they could not deny to give them after Confession to them being bound thereto by Oath by which means some of them had been betrayed He further informed them That himself had been at all the several Gathered Churches Congregations Sects in London and that none of them came so near the * Papists in their Opinions and Tenents as the Quakers among whom himself had spoken This relation one of the Gentlemen a person of honor and reputation the other being dead hath lately made to me three several times with his own mouth and will attest it for truth having related it to sundry others since his return into England Which considered Whether it be not the very High-way to our Churches Religions Ministers Nations ruine and destruction to list so many Quakers Anabaptists Sectaries in the Army and New Militiaes in most Counties where they bear the greatest sway and to disarm the Presbyterians and Orthodox Protestants as the only dangerous persons and put all their arms into Quakers Anabaptists and Sectaries hands headed steered by Iesuits Popish Priests and Freers as they have done in Glocester Colchester Cheshire Lancashire and endeavour to doe in other parts to cut all true Protestants throats and set up Popery by the Army which hath so much advanced it of late years before we are aware Let all true zealous Protestants in London and else where timely seriously consider and endeavour speedily to prevent and the Council of Army-Officers with their new Commitâ— of Safety too if they have any care of their Native Country or Protestant Religion before it be over-late Whether we may not justly fear that God himself in his retaliating Justice for the Iunctoes and Armies unparalleld Exile of their Protestant King and Royal posterity into Popish Territories and yet permitting such swarms of Jesuits Monks and Romish Vermin to creep in and reside amongst us may not give up the dissolved Juncto Army Council of Officers Soldiers and their posterities with our whole three Nations as a prey and spoil to these seducing dividing ravening all-devouring Wolves yea to the combined forces of our Spanish and French Popish adversaries to the utter desolation extirpation ruine of our Protestant Religion in the midst of our present divisions and distractions under a just pretext of restoring the exiled Royal issue to their hereditary rights and avenging the manifold indignities to them and their relations unless timely and wisely prevented by a prudent voluntary closing with loyal christian restoring them by common consent our selves in a full and free Parl. upon just safe honourable terms becoming us both as Men Christians Professors of the Reformed Religion And whether we be not ripe for such a universal desolating judgement as this if we consider Is. 24.16 17 18. c. 33.1 2. c. 59.1 to 19. 2 Chr. 3.6.15 to 21. Mich. 2.2 3 4 5. Ezech. 35.14 15. Joel 3.6 7 8. or the late and present sufferings of most other Protestant Churches abroad not half so Treacherous Perfidious Wicked Execrable as we who are now become the very Monsters of Men the scandal shame reproach of Christianity and humanity in the repute of all the world Whether the Iuncto and Army-Officers who have like the a Hypocritical Israelites very frequently ordered celebrated many Hypocritical irreligious Mock-facts from time to time to fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse never yet observing practising that fast which God himself requireth to loose the bands of wickednesse to undo the heavy burthens to let the oppressed go free to break every yoke to deal their bread to the hungry to bring the poor exiled Protestant Royal issue and their English followers that are cast out by them to their Houses to cover the naked and not hide their selves from their own flesh who have hitherto made their publike and private dayes of Humiliation a constant Prologue to their ambition pride b and rebellious self-exaltation their dayes of praying to God a preface to their preying upon their brethren their seeking of God for direction and assistance in their designs a means to colour and promote the very c works of their father the devil their pretended following the secret impulses of the spirit of God the solâ— justification of d walking according to the Prince of the air the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience their making taking of solemn Oathes Vowes Protestations Covenants Engagements to be true faithfull oonstant loyal obedient to their Lawfull Kings their heirs successors superiors the Privileges Rights of Parliament our Fundamental Laws Liberties Religion c. a meer engin and diabolical stratagem more cunningly boldly audaciously perfidiously to betray undermine supplant subveâ—t them have not now just cause upon consideration of Isaiah 1.2 to 17. and chap. 58. to keep many publike private Fasts and dayes of Humiliation to confesse bewaile repent renounce and reform these their transcendent-crying wrath-provoking sins and abominations together with their e building up of Zion their New Republike Free-state
Churches Kingdom of Jesus Christ with blood and â—stablishing Ierusalem with iniquity f their devising iniquity and working evil upon their beds and practising it when the morning is light because it is in the power of their hand and swords their coveting other mens fields houses and taking them away by violence so they opprâ—sse a man yea their Protestant King and thousands more of their Protestant brethern and his house yea a man and his inheritance for fear they incurre the fatal inevitable Woes evills Iudgements denounced by God against such crying Sinnes oppressions violences to the utter desolation extirpation of them their families yea of our English Zion and Ierusalem Mic. 2.1 to 6. Is. 32.1 2. c. 3 throughout with that of Hab. 2.7 8. Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee and awake that shall vex thee and thou shalt be for booties unto them Because thou hast spoyled many Nations all the remnant of the people shall spoyl thee because of mens blood and for the violence of the Land of the City Army and all that dwell therein Whether the Junctoes and Army Councils utter subversion of all our Fundamental Laws especially Magna Charta c. 29 30. the Petition of Right and all other Lawes Statutes wâ—ich concern the preservation of the Lives Free-holds Liberties Properties Franchises of the Subjects the inheritance and succession of the Crown the Rights and Privileges of Parliament their ending the last Easter Term with very little Law and no conscience at all their beginning Trinity Term with very little Conscience monopolized in their conscientious Speakers brest alone without any Law at all and their holding part only of Michaelmas Term without any Chancery or Conscience voted by some to be both useless and dangerous or any real Law in the judgement of understanding Lawyers and breaking it off without any Law or Conscience to the undoing of many poor oppressed Clients left without relief with their manifold transcendent obstructions subversions both of Law Equity Justice Conscience Property Liberty in their most arbitrary lawlesse Committees of Indemnity and Courts of High Injustice be not a transcendent violation of all their former Remonstrances Declarations Votes Protestations League Covenant Inviolably to defend these Lawes and a meer Iesuitical design as I have * elsewhere evidenced to work our utter dissolution the Lawes being the onely Ligaments to unite and Pillar to supâ—ort our State and Kingdom whereby not only the Regal and Parliamental authority but the peoples security of Lands livings lives privileges both in general particular are preserved maintained by the abolishing or alteration whereof it is impossible but that present Confusion will fall upon the whole State Frame of this Kingdom and Nation as the Statute of 1. Iac. c. 2. resolves and we finde by woful experience Whether the Army Council of Officers have not most exemplarily and satisfactorily performed this part of their last printed Declaration 27 Octob. 1659. p. 18. We earnestly desire and shall endeavour That a full and through Reformation of the Law may be effected by their new Committee of Safeties imperious Order sent to Mr. Dudley Short a Citizen of London whom Mr. Thurlo whiles Secretary committing close Prisoner to a Mâ—ssenger several weeks so as neither his wife nor friends could â—ave any access unto him upon a meer Trepan and supposed matter of Account between him and a Scotsman with whom he traded enforcing him at last ere released to enter into a Bond of 6000 l. with sufficient security for appearing before the Council of State to go in person into Scotl. when ever he should be required ordering him to go into Scotland soon after under pain of forâ—â—iting his 6000 l. bond upon his own expence where after many weeks attendance and frequent examinations before the Council there touching this account the Scotsman appeared to be indebted to him above 120 l. whereupon he was dismissed thence For which most unjust vexation oppression and false Imprisonment against the Great Charter c. 29. the Petition of Right with other Acts and the late Statute of 17 Caroli c. 10. For Regulating the Privy Council to Mr. Shorts great expence losse of trade reputation and his damage of Ten thousand pounds as he declared he brought his Action at law in the Common Pleas Court which was set down to be tried at Guildhall the 12. of this November Whereupon Mr. Thurlo procured an express Order from the new Committee of Safety wherein they presume to indemnifie him by their exorbitant arbitrary power against this action of false Imprisonment and to enjoyn the Plaintiff both to surcâ—ase and release his sute and never to prosecute it more and command his Counsel Attorney Sollicitor the Iudge himself and all other Officers not to proceed therein at their utmost peril upon this ground because if this Trial should proceed any others of the late and present Council of State might have actions brought against them for illegal commitments and imprisonments Upon this the Officers of the Court refused to seal his Record for the Triall and his Attorney and Counsel durst not proceed for fear of being layd by the heels Whereupon he complained against this abuâ—e and moved for a triall in open Court urged these Statutesâ— with the Statutes of 2 E. 3. c. 2.20 E. 3. c. 1 2â— and the Judges Oath That it shall not be commanded by the gâ—eat Seal nor little Seal to disturb or delay common right And though such commandements do come the Iustices shall not therefore cease to do right in any point And that the Iâ—stices shall not deny nor delay to no man common Right by the Kings Letters nor none other mans nor for none other cause And in case any Letters come to them contrary to Law they shall â—o nothing by such Letters and go forth to do the Law notwithstanding such Letters And pressing the Judge to doe him right accordingly and to give him an answer in open Court yet their Order countermanded these Statutes and Judges Oath So that no man though never so unjustly committed oppressed grieved by the Old and New Council of State to his ruine shall have any remedy at all against them since they may thus indemnify each other against all Actions commenced And if they bring an Habeas Corpus for their enlargement and be bayled according to Law by the Judges the new Gardians of our Liberties Preservers of our Safety and Thorough Reformers of our Lawes by extirpating them root and branch will even in the very face of the Court as soon as they have put in bayl in contempt of Law and Justice command Soldiers and their Serjeant at Arms by new Orders to arrest and carry them to other Prisonâ— and forein Islands as they did Mr. Nuport and Mr. Halsey on the 18. of this instant Nov. notwithstanding they had put in bail of 10000. l. a piece for their peaceable deportment Yea if any henceforth move for
Sâ—ymoâ— Sir Thomaâ— Soâ—e Sir William Striâ—klâ—nd â—ir John Temple Sir Thomâ—â— Trever Sir Humph. Tuâ—ton Sir William Waller Thâ—mâ—â— Viscount Wenman Sir Henry Woâ—sly Sir Riâ—hard Wynne Sir John Young In all 64. Esquiers Gâ—ntlemen and Lawyers Johâ— Alford Arthur Ansley Mr. Andrews William Ardington John Arundle Mr. Aâ—cough Francis Bacon Nathaniel Bacon Edward Bainton â—ol John Barker Maurice Barro Mr. Bell James Bence Col. John Birch Edward Bisâ— John Bowyer John Boyes Major Brooks Major General Brown Samuel Brown Serjant at Law Francis Buller John Bunkly Hugh Buscoen Mr. Buâ—ton Mr. Camble William Carrenâ— Col. Ceely Jameâ— Chaloner Mr. Clive Commiss. Copley John Crew Thomas Crompton Mr. Crowder Thomaâ— Dacre John Dormer John Doyle Mr. Drake Robert Ellison Mr. Eriâ—â—y Mr. Evelin Edward Fowel William Foxwiâ—t John Francis James Fyennis Nathaniel Fyennis Samuel Gardiner Francis Gerard Thomas Gewen William Glanâ—il John Glynne Serjant at Law Samuel Gott Thomas Grove Elias Grymes Brampton Gurdon Edward Harby Col. Edward Harley Major Harley John Hatcher John Haâ—don James Herbert John Herbert Mr. Hobby Thomaâ— Hodges Denzel Hollis Franciâ— Hollis George Horner Edmund Hoâ—kinâ— John Hungerford Col Hunt Mr. Jennings William Jones George Keckwich Richard Knighly Col. Lasselâ— Hâ—nry Lâ—urence Col Lee Mr. Lewis Col. Walter Long Mr. Lowâ—y Col. John Loyde Mr. Lucas Mr. Luâ—kin John Mainard Christopher Martin Major Gen. Edward Massey Thomas Middleton Thomaâ— Moorâ— William Morrice George Mountague Mr. Nash James Nelthrop Alderâ—an Nixon Mr. North Col. Norton Mr. Onslow Arthur Owen Henry Oxinden Mr. Packer Mr. Peck Henry Pellam William Peirpoint Jervase Pigot Mr. Potter Mr. Poole Col. Alexander Popham Mr. Povy Mâ— Priâ—ty William Prynne Alexander Pym Charles Pym Mr. Rainscraft Mr. Ratcliffe Charleâ— Richâ— Col. Edward Rossiter Mr. Scowen Mr. Scut Col. Robert Shâ—peot Col. Shuttleworth Mr. Spelman Mr. Springatâ— Henry Stapleton Robert Stanton Edward Stephenâ— John Stephâ—ns Nathaniel Stephens Mr. Stockfield John Swinfen Mr. Temple Mr. Terwit Mr. Thistlethwait Mr. Thomas Isaac Thomas Mr. Thynne Mr. Tâ—lson Jâ—hn Tâ—ever Thomas Twisden Serjeant at Law Mr. Vassal Mr. Vaughaâ— Thomas Waller Mr. West Heâ—ry Weston William Wheeler Col. Whitehead Henry Wilkes Captâ—in Wingate Mr. Winwood Thomas Wogan Mr. Wray Richard Wynne The Total Number 203. besides the House of Lords An Alphâ—betical List of all Members of the late dissolved Iuncto JAmes Ash Alderman Atkins William Ayre Mr. Baker Col. Bennet Col. Bingham Daniel Blagrave Mr. Brâ—wster Williâ—m Cawly Thomas Chaloner Mr. Cecil the self-degraded Earl of Saliâ—bury Robert Cecil his son John Corbet Henry Darley Richard Darley Mr. Dixwell John Dove Mr. Downeâ— Serj. Earl Will Ellys Mr. Feilder Mr. Fell Col. Charls Fleetwood Augustin Garland Mr. Gold John Goodwin Robert Goodwin John Gâ—rdon Mr. Hâ—llowes Sir James Hâ—rrington Col. Harvy Sir Arthur Hasilrig Mr. Hayes Mr. Herbert the self-degraded Earl of Pembrook Roger Hill Cornelius Holland Col. Hutâ—hiâ—son Col. Ingolâ—by Philip Jones Mr. Leachmore William Lenthall Speaker John Lenthall his son John Lisle Philip Viscont Lisle Thomas Lister Nicholas Love Col. Ludlow Henry Martyn a prisoner in execution Mr. Mayne Sir Henry Mildmay Gilbert Millington Col. Herbert Morley Lord Viscont Munson a prisoner in execution Henry Nevil Robert Nicholas Michael Oldsworth Dr. Palmer Alderman Pennington Sir Gilbert Piâ—kering John Pine Edmond Prideaux William Puresoy Thomas Pury Robert Reynolds Col. Rich Luke Robinsoâ— Oliver Saint-John Major Saloway Mr. Say Thomas Scot Major General Skippon Augustin Skinner Mr. Smith Walter Strickland Col. Sydenham James Temple Col. Temple Col. Thompson Serjant Thorpe John Trencher Sir John Trevor Sir Henry Vane Col. Waite Mr. Wallop Sir Thomas Walsingâ—am Col. Walton Sir Peter Wentworth Edmond Weaver Mr. White Serjeant Wilde Sir Thomas Witherington Sir Thomas Wroth. The totall Sum 92. Note That of these Members whereof two are since dead there entred only 42. into the House at first that the rest came in to them by degrees either to keep their old preferments gain new or regain the places they had formerly lost â—specially the Lawyers who notwithstanding their former complyances are turned quite out of Office and dis-Judged that 10. or more of them came in by New Writs issued in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England after the Kings behâ—ading and were no Members of the long Parliament That there were never 60. of them together in the House at once whiles they sate and but 57. on the 11. and 12. of October last upon the great debate between them and the Army Officers And some that sate formerly with them as the Lord Fairfax John â—ary and others refused to sit with them now as having not the least colour of Law to sit or act as a Parliament Yea their Speaker Mr. Lenthal told the Officers of the Army and Members who came to invite him to sit again May 6. That he had a Soul to save and that he was not satisfied in point of Law conscience or prudence that they could sit again Bâ—t at last when he considered he had an estate to â—ave as he told another Friend that over-ballanced all his former Objections and made him and other Mâ—mbers act against their judgements consciences and to forgâ—t our Savioâ—rs sad Qâ—aeres Mat. 16.26 What is a man profited if he should gain the whole world and lose his own Soul Oâ— what shall a man give in exchange for his soul With that of Jer. 5.29.31 Shall I not visit for these things Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this And what will ye do in the end thereof To fill up the Vacant Pages of this sheet I shall propose 7. Quaeres more to this late dissipated Rump to which I expect their satisfactory Answer ere they presume to sit again as many of them endeavour 1. Whether they could with any colour of Law truth reason justice coâ—scienâ—e heretofore or can hereafter by virtue of their first Writs and Electioâ—s intitle themselves The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Scotland Ireland when by their Writs Elections and Indentures by which they pretended to sit they were only a small inconsiderable Fragment of the Parliament of the late King and Realm of England but never of the Realm of Scotland or Ireland which have their * distinct Parliaments from England and no legal Parliament of England Scotland or Ireland ever hitherto was or can be held without a King and House of Lords and a full House of Commons of which they are not the fift part 2. Whether those Interloping Members Elected since the Kings beheading and old Parliaments dissolution by his death by Writs only in the name of the Gaolers of the Liberties of England can fit act or joyne with the Tayl of the old Commons House elected only by the beheaded Kings Writs and so owning his Royal Authority in Deeds though abjuring it Kingship by their Declarations Votes Knacks Ingagements and new-coined Oathes Whether such a strange model as this be not a Violation of Deut. 22.9 10 11.
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