We call Heaven and Earth and your selves who are to us as Hell and Devils to witness against you What can the most carnal loose and prophane Atheists do more abominable than you have done What have the falsest Jews the fiercest Turks the most bruitish Heathens the Renegado Christians the subtilest Jesuites or the most Phanatique Anabaptists and Schismaticks or any other that are wholly without God in this world ever done comparable to your immense Villanies Yea what could Devils do more if they had their wills but by such Instruments as you are extend their malice to the utmost latitude of their power Have you not by Treachery and Tyranny usurped upon all just power and exalted your selves such despicable worms above all that is called God Neither King nor Parliament nor Laws nor your own Engagements to all nor your many Proposals Promises and Declaratioins have any reverence with you or weight upon you but like riotous and enraged Beasts you have overborn and trampled under your feet all that is either Sacred or Civil in the Laws of God Nature Nations or this Kingdom of which you are Members though the most ulcerous and pestilent that ever the Earth can bring forth or bear Hapily your stupid pride and brutish insolency will not suffer you to consider how odious abominable and accursed you now are to all men but such as are Cockatrices of the same Egg and Brood with your selves that is seared Saints hardned Hypocrites and enraged Satans We assure you you are now looked upon by all sober and honest minds as the heaviest and filthiest Incubuses that ever oppressed Church or State as the Legions of unclean Spirits which by Diabolical Arts and Magick of Hypocrisie have got possession of this Church and Kingdom till Christ by his power cast you out of and suffer you like the Demoniack Swine through the just judgement of God to be hurried headlong by your own terrours and despairs into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone You are like cursed Cams not mockers only but murtherers of the Father of your Country impudent Ravishers both of Church and State to satisfie your most abominable lusts of Tyranny Coveâ—uosness and all licentious Prophaneness Monsters of men putid Apostates excreable Saints shameless Sinners traytorous Tyrants what have you to plead for or palliate with your late horrid outrages and unparallel'd villanies by which you have obstructed the Fountain of Justice altered the Chanel broken the Cistern turned the clear and wholesome Waters of our Laws into Blood Wormwood and deadly Poyson while you have with unheard-of tyranny and treachery set up your private wills by that publick power wherewith you were intrusted only for some limited uses above the Majesty and Lives of our King and his Children above the Dignity of our Parliaments the Honour of our Laws the Reverence of your Country and the Regard due to your fellow Subjects and confederate Nations And all this without the least colour of any Call or Authority from God or Man Reason or Religion against all Obligations both Sacred and Civil that might possibly lye on mens Souls to God or Man against many your particular pretensions and former promises of such due observance as became you both as Men Subjects Souldiers and Christians You who are not the thousand part of His Majesties Subjects how durst you knowingly act as in the name of all and yet indeed against the Duty Desires and Consciences of all but such Children of Belial as your selves You that are for the most part such Sons of the Earth of so base Extraction of meaner Education Strangers to all good Literature Honour or Civility Heirs of beggery and contempt whom most of the Subjects in England might for your rudeness and barbarity justly have disdained to have set with the Dogs of their Flocks how are you become the Creators of a new Heaven and a new Earth who are such Sons of Tohu and Bohu of Chaos Obscurity and Confusion You that at best are but Gods Butchers the unjust Executioners of his just vengeance as the evil and destroying Angels sent among us for a time though your exorbitant malice and lusts disdain to be limited by your Military Commission yet God we hope will restrain your fury who hath manifested your impious folly With what forehead could you thus lift up your hand against and set your selves above all those who are confessed your Betters Masters and Superiours As if in a Gyantly impudence and Cyclopick cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy nor fierce and wicked enough unless you fought against Heaven against the express Word of God and his Vice-garents on Earth Thus heaping up Mountains of Lyes Perjuries Hypocrisies and Cruelties upon those vast and enormous Lusts of Rapine Sacrilege Covetousness Revenge and Tyranny in your hearts which nothing nath ever equalled or can exceed You have indeed finished the Master-piece of your Father the Devil whom as his first-born he hath filled with a double portion of malice subtilty and cruelty beyond any whose hearts like Elymas the Sorcerer or Simon Magus he hath possessed You have nothing left you but Impenitence and Hell which you neither believe nor fear by which to make farther progress in your most flagitious and ever accursed Villanies What step have you more to advance to the blaspheming of the Majesty of the most high God both in himself and his Deputies lawful Kings and Soveraign Magistrates What more can you do or invent to the scandal of the Gospel to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame to the trampling his Blood under feet through the hatred and detestation of all Nations that are without the Church How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Papists to whose tayls you are tied though your faces seem contrary and whose business you have done while you pretend to abhorr their Names as much as Devils do potent Charms What Sea could ever wash away from the face of the Christian Reformed Religion the stain of that blood of our King which you have in a Pageant of Justice most unjustly inhumanely and barbarously shed to colour your Malice to satiate your Revenge and to make way for your Tyranny If we the People of England should by our silence adopt and by our assistance nourish those prodigies of Rebellion Treason and Confusion which your libidinous Mars by the help of your prostitute and officious Venus your Un-parliamentary Junto hath lately brought forth and astonished the world withall Was it ever so done since the Name of Christ was planted on the earth save only by the spawn of those furies from whom you are descended who made such havock first in Africa after in other Western Churches and lately in Germany whose principles and practices you have as much surpassed in Hypocrisie Anarchy Cruelty and Blasphemy as Belzebub your Prince may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Spirits Those impure Catharists
excellent a Prince by the malice ambition cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies And all this Tragedy of Tragedies carried on to such bloody conclusions under colour of Safety and Reformation at first afterward of Satisfaction and Indempnity to the Army in both which the good King denied nothing that men of any modesty worth or ingenuity could expect or would desire Yet after infinite delusions and mutinous insolencies committed against King Parliament and People some impotent and ambitious Tyrants who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their Faces and on their Foreheads in the Army and Commons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice which must speedily be acted by them least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their employment useless as it hath long been burdensom And forcing their Buff Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles their Hammers their Lasts their Slings their Carts and their Flails should quite defeat those designs of power estate and all licentious prophaneness both in Opinions and Practices which their Chief Officers and Levelling Sticlers have all this while designed for themselves and their false giddy cruel covetous and unreasonable Faction through that power and influence which by their lyes sorceries and hypocrisies they with the help of that mungrel Minister that Military Priest that modern Simon Magus that disguised Executioner that bloody Butcher of the King H P they have gained upon the Common Souldiery Upon whose simplicity and valour they have presumed tyrannously and trayterously to advance the meer will and pleasure of some Officers in the Army and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons over all the Laws and Liberties the Lives Estates and Inheritances both of King Prince and People Yet after all these Scenes of various Villanies they have the impudence to glory as if they had done God good service and so extremely pleased God and the People that they expect all should agree to their Plandite as if might and right were well met in the Army O you most seared Consciences you most Rebellious Souls against God the King and your own light You most accursed Doers you deaf Adders whether you will hear or whether you will forbear know this That we the Christian people and loyal Subjects of England do in the bitterness of our Souls declare as in the sight of God to whose just Tribunal â—e appeal and summon your stupid and cruel hypocrisie to all the worâ—d our total detestation and utter abhorring of your Counsels Actions and future Designs You glory as if you were now Masters of our Estates Liberties and Lives But we shall by Gods grace keep our Souls unspotted from those great Offences and presumptuous wickedness wherewith you are infected beyond all cure or recovery No we would have your impenitent hardness as well as the softer world to know That we look back with extreme sorrow shame and repentance upon our former Delusions and forwardness to this Unhappy War wherein though they were most to blame who were the Deceivers and Instigators of us yet we cannot excuse our selves further than thus That we did it out of credulous inconsiderateness and not out of malicious wickedness The God of Heaven whose mercies exceed our sins and your cruelties forgive the Errors and great sins of this Nation in this Unnatural War which have deservedly as from the Divine vengeance though most perfidiously as from your multiplyed Treasons and wilfull Rebellions brought upon these Kingdoms such a sore plague and intollerable oppression as you are Whos 's detected hypocrysie hath now made it clearly appear That both King Parliament and People were meerly cheated and abused by the Fraud first after by the Force of those Factions Schismatical bloody and implacable spirits your chief Genius's who despaired to carry on their wicked Designs of Ambition and Tyranny but by the means of Anarchy Profaneness Disloyalty and publike ruine of Church and State All which Rottenness and Villany must be masked a while under the Names of Reformation Laws and Liberties King and Parliament which we see too evidently though too late after infinite miseries Oppressions Bloodshed and Delusions amount to no more but a slavish Submission to the will and Arbitrary Tyranny of a few sanguinary Schismaticks cruel Hypocrites and desperate Usurpers over all who like deep Ditches and open Sepulchers having swallowed up our King our Parliament our Estates our Liberties and many of our Brethrens Lives now like impudent Strumpets in the wantonness and security to which success have hardned their hearts and foreheads wipe their mouths as if they had done no evil and now lying in-wait for our precious Souls dress their whorish Faces with the Harlotry Temptation of a New-fashioned Representative and that both silly and ridiculous Bable called the Agrrement of the People Than which never any poyson was presented in a sordeder and less suspected Cup Nor foolish Devil never used less inviting baits for his snares Their gross and brutish unpolitickness offering nothing in that Beggars dish to the miserably abused and justly discontented Kingdom but only such general dull and confused notions as might become the soberer sort of Picts or Highlanders or the less savage Indians when from their Acorns Nakedness and Barbarity they began to form some concepâ—ions of casting themselves into more orderly and civil Societies for their better Government and Common welfare So vastly short their motly Agreement comes of those most tried wise noble rational just and indeed Divine Principles and Foundations of True Government Order and Polity on which his famous Monarchy hath for many hundred of years been raised to so stately a Fabrick having flourished to so perfect a beauty to so antient and venerable a glory as became the Wisdom Piety and Gravity of our former Kings Parliaments and Ancestors Men of Renown for true Wisdom and Heroick Greatness to whom these late Overturners and Innovators of all Government would scarce have served for their Dwarfs Zanies and Buffons But lest these Cursed Movers of the Antient Boundaries and Landmarks should lose both themselves and us in the Wood and Wilderness of their poor rude barbarous and novel projections they bring forth their Ignes Fatui lights of private Inspirations Fanatick Delusions False and Falsifyed Interpretetions of wrested and corrupted Scriptures to make some shew to their seduced Proselytes whom they would re-baptize in the blood of the King with themselves as if they were the little Stone cut without hands which must become a great Mountain c. They the Saints which must bind Kings in Chains and Nobles in Links of Iron c They the people of the most High to which the Kingdoms of the Earth must be give c. Whereas true Saints which had the power not shew only of godliness would not take all the Kingdoms of the World upon such Devillish Concitions and by such damnable practises as yours are most
Devil No the People of England will one day if God please to cast his Net upon you and put his hook into the all-devouring jawes of your Leviathan make you and your Dawbers with the untempered mortar of a mouldred and dissolved Parliament to understand that they abominate you and your deeds as much as Hell it self for your monstrous sins are their own Hell and Horror more to be detested than all the sinless sufferings of Hell The antient and most honourable House of Peers whom sometimes you flattered into a Fools Paradise while the poor shreds and remnants of that Court might serve your turn to face your affairs by any shew of their Authority as if you had designed nothing to their diminution Yet you have wholly laid them aside as useless and dangerous Idols of honour fit to be cast out to the Bats and Moles to be levelled unto or abased beneath the meanest Animals and vilest beasts of the People for though â—hey should any of them so dishonour themselves as to descend â—nto the Hell of your infected walls yet could they never there ascend to any degree of publique influence either for Counsel or Action being sure to be alwaies overlaid smothered and oppressed by your over-voting crew of Mechanick Idols who saving that they have mouths to speak a Treasonable Yea or No in other points have Eyes and see not Noses but smell not Hearts but consider not the blood cruor carkases skulls and dead bones of their King and their Brethren of all degrees with which they have inhumanely filled that Charnel-house that Golgotha of that quondam House of Commons Sure the numerous and once both famous and flourishing Nobility of England besides those of Ireland and Scotland cannot but infinitely abhorre and detest your arrogant despising of them and trampling upon them if they have but any drops of their Ancestors noble blood running in their veins or any sparks of true Honour left in their Breasts It will at length kindle such a fire of just indignation and revenge in those Cedars as shall consume such base shrubs such offensive thistles and such domineering Briars But if their ignoble despondency have so debased them to Luxury and Cowardise that they dare not vindicate the Honour of their Nation Name and Order together with the rights of the Crown the Fountain of their Honour but are content to be either bowed or hewed down or over-dripped or exsuccated by such Aspiring Ivies as you are our Counsel is that the antient Barons of England sometimes Peers and chief Counsellors in Parliament would solemnly Degrade themselves lay aside their vain and ridiculous Titles reverse their Escocheons sell their Scarlet Robes to the Brokers in Long-lane rather than keep them either to feed Moths or to be Monuments to all posterity What Capons Poultroons and dangerous Buzzards they are descend from such Eagles as many of their Ancestors were But if the Nobility should so far betray and desert themselves their Posterity their King and their Countrey who though their number be not great yet their interest is and so might their influence on the Publique yet be both great and good if their spirits and gallantry were such yet how can you the greater buggs of the Army or you the lesser Vermine and Maggots of the Commons who survive and crawl after the dissolution of your Parliament bred of and feeding upon the putrefaction of that House How can you think that the People of England who are generally and highly concerned in the Honour Credit and Religion of the Nation can ever with a good Conscience or any face of common honesty agree to your Jugling and Sophistry as if you or your Western Mahomet and new Antichrist Hugh Peters had any Papal power to absolve their souls from those Protestations Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy by all which they were and are both lawfully and religiously bound under the greatest curses of God both to the Kingdom in general and specially to the Parliaments Priviledges and the Rights of the King and his lawful Successors of which gross and manifold perjuries they must make themselves guilty only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of your greater Brambles That forsooth the People of England might enjoy that Liberty Peace and Plenty under your unavoidable Tyranny uusatiable Rapine and cruel Oppression of such Beggars as most of you are and were which formerly they could never have under the gracious Kings wise and Loyal Parliaments the ingenuous Laws and excellent Government of this sometime flourishing Kingdom Sure you are not yet so much beasts as to think that the Community of this great people can all govern themselves or mutually one another Government must necessarily be setled and centred somewhere Nor is it likely that your leaders and Bashâ—â—es whose hands are imbrued in the blood of their King will ever be so modest as to lay themselves aside and denying their own most ambitious and covetous desires to let any others but themselves and their creatures reap the fruit of their projects and labours for which they have pawned their souls to the Devil and sold themselves as Ahab to do wickedly But if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial let the people of England without your terrour cunning injurious restraints and exceptions be their own Umpires and Choosers whether they will bear the light and easie yoke of the Laws and the gentle as well as just chastisements of their penalties under a lawful King or the iron-yoke of your Tyranny and the Scorpions of your wills being so many Evening Wolves bloody Traytors and unlimitted Tyrams whose little fingers in these last three years have been infinitely heavier than the loins of all the Kings that ever were in this Kingdom let the people have free suffrages you will soon find That the true Agreement of the People a hundred voices to one is this to shake off your cruel Tyranny to bring to condign punishment such unheard of Traitors and to invest in his Throne our lawful King Charls the Second the Eldest Son of that good King you lately murthered But how can the people of England ever hope to have any other Civil Agreement of theirs binding to you and your pragmatick faction further than your own fancies lusts and pleasures think fit since they find you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man all Antient and Fundamental Agreements in this Nation on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings the Priviledges of our Parliaments the Liberties of the People the Order and Purity of our Church and the happiness of our Nation were setled What Cautions can you give that you will hereafter submit to any publick Agreement who are such shifters juglers and dissemblers that no Laws Leagues Protestations or Promises you freely make can bind you No faith to King Parliament People Neighbour Nations or God Almighty can hold you but like the man possessed with the unclean
spirit you break all ties and bonds casting Church and State into fire or water as the rash motions of your Frantick humors carry you c. Conscience you can have none since your lights are so Lunatick and your principles varie every moneth Credit you have none who have made bankrupt of the Publick Faith and forfeited so many solemn and Sacred Obligations to God and Man Sense of Honour or Duty you can have none since you have neither fear of God nor reverence of Man Estates you have little or none to hazard or lose upon any forfeiture of your Faith or Agreement And for your Heads and Lives they are now so vile and cheap that although you are not fit to live yet they are scarce worth the taking Sure you cannot but appear to your selves as well as to all men the most outlawed notorious and stigmatized Rebels the most perfidious Traytors that ever any King or Senate State or People imployed or trusted Having utterly blotted out all your former promeritings and good service so much boasted of Since the Event proclaims you served not King Parliament or Countrey but your own lusts and villanous designs which by the advantages of mutinous power you now seek to accomplish under the void and forfeited Commission of that stupid Saint that dumb shew of your silent extatick and seduced General who in so great a concern forgat his pristine valour and honour So that the darkning of your most wicked designs by this tiâ—le of The Agreement of the People amounts to no more in the true and last sense of it but this That you would have the People of England and the other two united Kingdoms willingly to bow down to your Hoddy doddy your all Breech-Idol as a Prophet of your own so variously and falsly inspired justly calls your unlick'd and monstruous projects not of Goverment but of Anarchy and Tyranny who may live indeed to see a day of judgement come upon you You would have us all to pledge you in that horrible draught of the Kings blood which you have greedily drank to appove and abet your execrable villanies and to submit for ever to the intollerable Tyranny of such Goths Vandalls and Saracens as you are Who are but the Devils Leieutenants Factors for the God of this impure World signal Anti-christs accurate fullfillers of all the characters foretold and brands set upon you in the last and perilous time in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and manners It is hoped that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful and by you most miserable Kingdoms as he gives us grace utterly to abhor your desperate sins So that we trust he will never suffer us by a Devillish Apostasie to fall from all Vows and Oaths by which we and our posterity are bound to God the Crown and our Countries only to have yours and the Devils absolution to make a Covenant and Agreement with Hell and Death with your most irreligious and damnable designs and practices No the sin and horrour of your waves are now like Absaloms incestuous and noon-day Rapes discovered in the sight of the Sun and all the World Nor will the subtilty of your soft and faigned voyces like Syrens any more charm and enchant the honest people of England into such Beasts and Monsters as your selves are to whose hellish deformities you would have all others to conform They have seen and felt too much already of your cruel Hypocrisies your devillish and strong Delusions Have not your words been alwayes Soloecisms to your purposes and your practices contradictions to your pretences Have you not as much as lies in your power and malice cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty perjury cruelty barbarity irreligion and confusion that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into after so many Sacred and Solemn Professions of Loyalty and Reformation to God and the World whom we called to witness upon our Souls Agreeable to all which and to fill up the measure of our sins as if our Rebellion against God and the King were hitherto but a light and small matter by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death by the hands of cruel Edomites and cursed Amalekites as you are which most deplorable calamity to us and this Nation we penitently look upon as the severest temporal stroke which the wrath of God gone our against us can inflict upon us Yet your impudent Hypocrisie now seeks to obtrude upon us your wretched and abhorred Agreement The Sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King Government without Authority Magistrates without Power a People without Laws a Body without an Head Sheep without a Shephere Christians without Christ Churches without Ministers Ministers without Maintenance a Nation without Faith In a word you would have us live as men without Souls without God willfully degeneraring to Beasts without sense of Vertue or Vice shame or honour without fear of Hell hopes of Heaven or thoughts of Eternity and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites and Sodomitick Saints the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Heaven and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear Have you not already made the Name of these Protestant and Reformed Churches to stink among all Nations both Christian and Heathen through the dead flies and rottenness of your principles and manners Have you not surpassed the cunning and cruelty of the most Jesuitick heads and hands as much as you come short of their learning and pretensions which are to advance the Popes Authority above that of Kings But you upon baser Principles seek to subject the Regal Soveraignty to that of the People as you call it nor that you mean so in good earnest further than to delude the people and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all both King Prince Peers and People We appeal to all sober Christians whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy Inasmuch as they plotted secretly but you have peracted openly the murther of the King the ruine of all the Royal Issue the overthrow of all our Laws the blowing up of all Parliaments the subverting of the whole State and Government the devastation of your Country the abolition of all true Religion the extirpation of all Liberty Peace Order and Humanity Your Elder Brother Faux himself might seem a Saint compared to you whose New Light and Dark Lanthorn you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions Nor were the rest of those Powder Traytors so criminal as you if they had effected what they designed since they neither pretended to that Saintship or that smooth preciseness which you have done nor had they upon them such signal ties of Publique and special Trust besides your many voluntary Obligations The total violation of all which renders your Sins out
of measure sinful and your Treasons incomparably trayterous beyond what any Catelines but your selves ever had the desperate boldness to have conceived or committed Had you been our Open Enemies or self-raising Rebels in a declared rivalry and enmity against King Parliament and Country we could either have prevented and opposed you or have born with less shame and disdain your insolent and prevailing Cruelties against them all But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary aquiescence in their Votes Results and Orders from whom you had your unhappy Commission also of loyal regard to His Majesties Safety Rights Honour and Posterity to whom some of your chief Commanders as they well know engaged their Souls as much as was possible for any mortal men to doâ— devoting themselves to all the Curses of God temporal and eternal upon the breach and failer of their words to His Majesty Add to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting of speedy and impartial endeavours to seâ—tle all things in Peace Justice due Liberty and Piety which how faithfully you have effected the present Deplored state of this Church and state may witness whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God our King and our Religion We the People of England of all sorts Lords Gentry Clergy and Commons do again and again declare to God and all the World the present Age and Posterity so long as the World shall endure our infinite adhorrence utter detestation and total disagreement from what you the Officers of the Army and your most slavish ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done or shall further do through Gods vengeance upon this Nation in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Villanies Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Almighty God not in order to the satisfaction of our private malice or desire of revenge on any of you though our particular injuries have been many from you but only in order to the publique Vindication of Gods Glory the Honour of the Reformed Religion the Loyalty Faith and Credit of this Nation the wiping away those foul sins of Treason Perjury Truce-breaking and Regal Parricide in all which Villanies your execrable Faction wallowing in the blood of your King and fellow-Subjects now seek impenitently and irreparably to implunge this whole Nation That we might as some solace under our immense sorrows and tyrannizing miseries inflicted by you but live to see Gods temporal judgements so far upon you as may pull down your Luciferian pride and make your obstinate minds to see the horrour of your Villanies That like Cain you may be afraid of all men like Judas accursed to all Posterity given over to Satan and excommunicated by all good Christians as Murtherers of your Father Killers of your King That you may ever be haunted with the rueful Ghost and hideous Phantasme of the King whom you have trayterously butchered That the exemplary vengeance of God may be upon you and your Adherents so remarkably and in such a Proportion to your Villanies that if there be any place left for Repentance you may find it and yet all the World may see your destruction is the Lords doing and say Doubtless there a God that judgeth the Earth Nor do we despair but God will upon our true Repentance for our great sins and supine folly which gave you advantages to fulfil your most odious Villanies so far remember his mercies to his most deplorable Kingdom and by you as so many wild Bores desolated Churches as to stirre up some powerful Avenger of the Kings blood and all that other innocent blood which the depths and deceits at first the force and violence afterward of your bloody Faction hath occasioned and caused to be shed by your tumultuating the people your instigating the spirits of the two Houses with false and pannick fears Your calumniating the King and perverting his gracious purposes Your enflaming the enmities and heightning the Animosities on both sides Your fraudulently voting No Addresses and publishing that lying and most infamous Libel for your pretended grounds Your widening the differences and hindering all fair equable closings both formerly and in that 〈◊〉 memorable Treaty at Newport of which you were the most rude savage and perfidious Violators that ever History recorded We know that you can now only trust in your Arm of Flesh in the Devils aid and Counsel having in your works denied the Living God instead of whom your Bellie and the present World are become your God and your glorie for the satisfaction of which and the attaining places of profit and power agreeable to your lusts which are enlarged like Hell you have dared to advance thus far to the destroying of King Parliament and Laws which were the only boundaries and conservers of our Peace Properties Lives and Liberties yet after all this you inscribe on your Bloody Banners and impudent foreheads The Agreement of the People and the Restorers of our Liberties Which Plots although you think them your Master-pieces for artifice jugling and policy that so you might by fair words and flattering lies allure the many and meaner People to maintain those Monsters which you have brought forth yet you must know That the People of Englands eyes are not so blood-shotten not their Consciences so â—eared nor their Hearts so disloyal nor their sences so bewitched by your Magick and Charms as not to see through and fully both discover and detest your devilish designs of Tyrannie Anarchie and Profaneness whereto you drive through all these cloudings of immethodical Nonsense and indigested scriblings which like your late damnable Remonstrance and your other illiterate and irrational Papers discover that where there is so much want of grace and common honestie as in you it is impossible not to want even those shews of common sense and vulgar Reason which are necessarie not to justifie which no tongue pen or wit of Devils can do but so far as to palliate your filth and cover your nakedness or to render your wicked projects but tolerably plausible to those that have the grossest perception of things The better to temper this your Cup of deadly poison to please the vulgar relish which you think is gross and undecerning you tempt them with the name of Liberty first in Civil things which all men see is but a meer Cheat while they are like to be held under your Iron hands and squeezed under your tyrannous wills and intolerable Exactions instead of injoying the benefit of our antient and famous Laws the best that any Subjects in the world enjoyed the just and only bounds of our Liberties and Conservers of our both Peace and Prosperities to which all honest men who have no joynt stock with you in Knavery Poverty and Baseness desire most humbly and earnestly to return Despairing and
exercised indeed their Donatistical and Anabaptistical frauds and fucies chiefly upon the vulgar to the ruine of many thousands of the Country people and Citizens But you like so many Ravilliacks are not content to have spoilâ—d so many Noble and flourishing Families to have exhausted so many plentifull Estates to have made so many mourning Widows and Fatherless Children to have destroyed the lives and sucked the blood of so many Christians your fellow-Subjects but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Parliament in another murther the King in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir and all the Kings Children At last you conspire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paper falsly called The Agreement of the People to joyn with you in the utter overthrowing of our Laws Liberties and the whole frame of this antient and renowned Kingdom whose weight you will find too heavy for such weak Atlases as you will shortly appear both in Counsel and in Power who are only wise to doe wickedly and strong to shed or drink the bloud of your King and Country-men Your Cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula at one blow to cut off the head of three Kingdoms and with him all Monarchy to make way for your Polemocracy a Military Tyranny or Schismatical Anarchy Thus have you been profound to deceive skilfull to destroy our Souls faint within us because of such treacherous dealers such hideous Murtherers into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen and in whose deep dissembling pits the Annoynted of the Lord our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up under the shadow of whose just Authority Princely wisdom and judicious piety we hoped to have been safe How doth this sometime famous and flourishing Kingdom now sit as a Widow oppressed desolate despised full of unexpressible lamentations The bitterness and gall of your cruel Hypocrisie hath entred into filled and overwhelmed our Souls How is she that was the Joy Crown and Queen of all Nations the Envy or Emulation of all Christian Churches now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about the pity and calamity of all her friends the scorn reproach hissing and triumph of all her Enemies Nor is there any helper comforter or Deliverer left till God take the matter into his own hands and plead the cause of the King and Kingdom against those proud Goliahs whose uncircumcised hearts and lips out of a riot and superfluity of wickedness have blasphemed our God destroyed our King laid waste and exhausted the Kingdom and turned this Church into a Den of Thieves O Lord arise O Lord consider O Lord hear the voice of our sighs tears and prayers let the cry of the blood of our King and our people come up to Heaven have mercy on us for we are brought very low Our gracious King the Husband of the Kingdom the Father of his Subjects the Prâ—â—erver of our Laws the Patron of Religion the Protector of the Church you have treacherously and barbarously murthered the two Houses of Parliament whose weakness perverseness unevenness inconstancy and cowardise God hath seen disliked judged and punished you have forcibly invaded scattered and oppressed notwithstanding all your special Engagements to them both of duty and promise commission and trust The loyalty and love of the people you every where either with terror and cruelty seek to suppress and smother so that they shall not dare to petition for redress or complain of those endless calamities which they suffer under your tyranny or else making lyes your hope and refuge with forged semblances of complyant Petitions and counterfeit Gratulations you falsly and impudently pretend the concurrent Votes of the Countreys and the Communities approbation to your most abominated practices When God knows and even your selves in your bloody dissimulation cannot be ignorant that the generality of all men in all places of all degrees doe from their Souls utterly abhor deprecate and detest your execrable Counsels and accursed Actions which have thus brought upon us the abomination of desolation through the damnable deceivableness of your unrighteousness Nor doe we believe that your pride and tyrannous hypocrisie either finds any comfort in them or much considers those papers which seem to own you or applaud your wicked deeds further than they may carry on your strong delusions with the vulgar whom you know to be neither very wary of evil nor very steady in what is good If you had the general Consent of the Vulgar which you know you have in no sort yet neither is their judgement any good rule to measure the Morality of your actions nor their inconstant pleasure any rest of honour vertue or piety But indeed you as well as we are sadly conscious that all those clamorous Petitions for Justice by which you would seem as by Oracles of your own inspiring to be fatally directed and divinely incouraged in your Cruelties and Treasons were nothing else but the strokes of the Lions own tayl the more to enrage himself the very froth and scum which arose only from the zealous activity and boylings of your own bloody Faction who restl 〈…〉 Devils continually go about seeking whom they may deâ—â—iâ—e and destroy we are well assured that your Schismatical crew of Regicides are no more to be compared to the people of England than the Gleanings may be to the Harvest or Canters Thieves Beggars and Juglers to the sober and setled Dwellers in this Kingdom No every honest man who hath any sense of piety loyalty modesty pitty or humanity left in his Soul as you have none takes up Jacobs words against you Cursed beyour wrath for it is fierce and your anger for it is cruel Into the secrets of these men let not our Souls enter Lord lay not the guilt of the sins of these men to the Charge of the People of this Kingdom No let the blood of our pious patient and most Christian King be upon you and your Abettors for ever who as without any sense of Loyalty Pity or Charity so without any shadow as well as substance of Justice having neither Law Rule nor any due Authority first by Fraud and unheard of Insolency seized upon his Majesties person afterward by Flatteries Lies and Terrours sought to deceive him At last by meer Force and beast-like Crueltie have massacred and as so many horrid Assassinates utterly destroyed him And all this after many fawnings and shews of loyal and tender regard toward his Majesty and his Royal Family as both your first Proposals and your after Agitations honestly and very providentially discovered by Major Huntington do declare In which all men now plainly see that you did but make way by the Fox to let in the Wolf and by your Dalilah to bring the Philistims upon our Sampson Yea after his Majestie was not only entred into and advanced in a Treaty with the two Houses agreeable to their
Votes and the general desires of all his Subjects under the most solemn National security and Publick Faith which could be given or pass between a King and his Subjects or indeed any honest men But even when his Majesties great wisdom and goodness had so far brought all things to a fair closure and happy Agreement that the two Houses were satisfied and resolved to proceed upon his Majesties Concessions as a firm ground of Peace to the Kingdom Yet after all these publique Civil and Sacred Obligations which lay upon the two Houses and the Kingdom on your selves as well as any and all of us for you to seize again upon his Majesties person without any pretended Authority and with your Iron hands and Adamantine hearts to ravish and pull him out of the arms and embraces of his Subjects violently to hale and tear him from the reviving love and loyalty of the two Houses and his People thence to hurry and toss him to and fro to what inhospitable places and desolate Prisons you listed there to deprive him not only of all things proportionable to his quality as a King but even of those civil accommodations which ought to be allowed to any Gentleman though an Enemy and a Captive of War which the King never was not being taken by force but rendring himself to the professed love and sworn loyalty of his Subjects After this with a sacrilegious mockery of Justice in the highest affronting of God the King the Parliament and the three Kingdoms by an unheard of and most horrid Outrage and riorous force to oppress and utterly destroy the remaining honour freedom and power of the two houses and in despite of them to erect a new Court of Justice as you most unjustly term it for which you have no colour of Law from God or Man no precedent in this or any other Christian Kingdom no ground or pretence of Parliamentary consent or Authority of either Houses whose Members three parts of four at least you forcibly detained and deterred from fitting in the House of Commons the Lords being unanimously against you by all which methods of cunning and violence you seek like Absalom the contradiction between whose name and actions very well fits your affected but undeserved title of Saints to intrude your selves into a Judicative as well as a Military power as if Hangmen and Executioners should usurp the sears of Judges who are not fit to be of a Jury since their interest and advantage like yours lying in the destruction of others will easily tempt them to condemn any man At length you make a shift to pack not a high Court of Justice as you shamelessely style it but the basest Conventicle of Injustice that ever was in the World In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game A very Medly and Rapsody of the most ignorant shallow cowardly cruel weak debauch'd and insolent Fools or Athiests Hypocrites Traytors and Tyrants that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man Your President Bradshaw and your Solicitor Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt Souls as any lived in their profession Their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretence of ignorance â—n the Laws which are in no Case more clearly expresly and severely contrary than in this of taking away the Kings life wherein they against all Law Duty and Conscience were as Judas's chiefly employed At last upon the wicked most unjust and cruel Sentence of these Mercenary Un-authorized and Tyrannous Sycophants and Hucksters of Justice who must needs have their Commission from him that is the Father of Lyes the false Accuser the Old Murtherer the deceiving Serpent the Roaring Lyon the Red Dragon the Dead Sea of Cruelty and the sink of all Confusion the Damned and Damning Devil and not from God the Fountain of Justice the Father of Mercy the Institutor of Order the Author of Peace and the Commander of subjection to lawfull Kings in any notion imaginable further than the Divel may have Commission from God permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice to compell such a King so Great a Monarch of three Kingdoms their Undoubted Soveraign Lord to submit to their arraignment Accusations and Sentence who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies without allowing him the liberty of protesting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority or of pleading for his own both Innocency and well known Privilege Soveraignty and unquestionable Immunity according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdom which are expresly against their trayterous and tyrannous proceedings as well as the nulliâ—y of their Authority After this without any remorse or pity to their and our King to force a person of so excellent worth wisdom vertue honour and Majesty to how down at the feet of so vile persons and then to Chop off his Head which was Sacred Crowned and Anoynted as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions A Butchery so barberous that the common Headsmran abhorted to do it nor may we think those bloody Zealots were willing he should deprive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice to inaugurate them in their Royal Priesthood by which their Schismatical fury pretends a title against or above all Lawfull Kings and Governours What Words what Tears what Sighs what oppressive Thoughts what secret and un-utterable Reflections of most stupified and astonished Souls are sufficient to measure the Immensity to weigh the burden to express or conceive the horror of this outragioussin and most flagitious villany Poor Prince after so many delusions so many lying Addresses made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army after so much patience so great demonstrations of excellent wisdom meekness calmness and Christian gentleness to his very Enemies and Jaylours under infinite reproaches injuries and indignities even to the very spitting in his face after all those gracious condescendings by which he had reduced himself almost to the very shadow and bare name of a King saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects that he might please all secure and satisfie all purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodness capable to have softned even Devils themselves to be thus butchered by a Souldiery and Schismatical cruelty to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people who generally abominated so horrid inhumane unseen and unheard of a Spectacle whose Publique Faith besides their Personal Allegiance was engaged for his Majesties honour and safety what heart can be large enough to equal the sorrow what Eyes can be Fountains sufficient to deplore so unmerited a Fate befalling so
apparent and by your selves confessed to be unwarrantable Such Scripture paintings upon the face of your Jesabel would have served the turn of John of Leyden Knipperdoling Muncer and those other Impostors your infamous Predecessors as well as you and indeed they were by them no less pretended But with how bless*d success you are loath to own to remember as presaging your like destinies in Gods due time It is a strange and unwonted way of any sound and true Christians apparently to violate aud wholly decline from the obedience of clear moral precepts of Justice and other both Religious and Civil Duties to God and Man under a pretence of Zeal and a Call to fullfill prophetick Obscurities which darkly foretell what shall be done but do not precisely command us to do this or that In which events even the wickedest men and Anti-christs such as these are may as the Vials of the wrath of God pour our themselves and have a great part to act and yet receive no comfort or reward other than that of Hypocrites who may as Joseph's Brethren and Nebuchadnezzar did then most serve Gods Prophetick and Providential disposings when they act most contrary to his Revealed Will and only seek to serve their own Envy Covetousness and unsatiable Tyranny however they may as the Devil bait their Temptations with Scripture Allegations But know O ye hard-hearted Belshazzars whom no hand-writing out of Gods Words clearly setting forth your sin curse woe and damnation can yet scan or deterr from your frolick villanies That if you were Angels from Heaven as you are Luciferine Brats from Hell transforming your selves at first into Angels of light but now fully uncased so that now your fiery eyes your black and wide mouths your blasting and sulphurious breath your proud horns and your cloven feet appear to all but your own besotted Imps and Familiars if we say you yet appeared as Angels yet you should give us leave to believe the express Will and Word of God rather than your jugling fancies to which that is diametrically contrary both in the Precept and all practices of Christ and his true Saints Hear how the voice of God disagrees with your apparent folly and madness He bids honour and obey the King and our lawful Governours You cry crucifie destroy and scatter them Christ commands to give unto Caesar that which is Caesars no less than to God what is Gods But you take away as from God and his Church what is his so from our Caesar his Empire Liberty Life Posterity and all The voice of God bids us seek peace and ensue it branding with the reprobate marks of Hypocrites those that as Traytors heady high minded and fierce despisers of what is good break all Truce or Treaties which you have done beyond what ever the falâ—est Miscreants ever did The Word of God is a clear constant uniform light as to the Rules of an holy life in Piety Equity and Charity but your Opinions Practices and pious Pretentions Centaure-like are various and deformed Changlings many-shapen and mis-shapen Monsters shifting Proteusses Slippery and virtiginous Serpents folded and hidden in the winding labarinths and intricate circulations of your many subtil slie and perplexed Designs The truth is there is as wide a difference between your clamors howlings and hideous yellings which sound nothing but War Blood Rebellion Famine Death Desolation and Damnation and that soft sweet gracious and most glorious voyce of God in the holy Scriptures which you use for a Net not a Garment as there is between the most bright beautiful Soul-saving-Truths and most black deformed Soul-damning-Lyes Your selves cannot think us uncharitable if we do believe and tell you That you have more blaspemed the Spirit Name Grace Word Saints and Servants of God by intituling these as Inspirers Authors and Approvers of your most graceless and devillish practices than ever those hard-hearted and impudent Hypocrites the Pharisees did by imputing the saving miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ to your Beelzebub the Prince of Devils whose Servants you are whose work you do and whose wages you must expect Nor do we doubt but all the Curses written in the Book of God which like that of Meroz have been causelesly factiously and fasly by some of your double-faced Janus's formerly imprecated upon the King and his loyallest Subjects will certainly overtake and fall upon both you and your viperous Generation We hope God will in his infinite goodness not suffer this dying Church and desolated Nation to be further partakers of your Babylonish Sins and open Sorceries lest we be partakers of your plagues and Torments which are laid up in the Treasures of the wrath both of God and all good men against you and your desperate faction We tell you we are so far from counting you Saints and Saviours that we look upon you as the Tophet which God hath indeed prepared for the King and these Kingdoms to try and torment them a while But we doubt not but God will at last cast you who are our Sin our Death and our Hell into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone for ever Unless you repent so many of you Officers Souldiers and others as are capable of Repentance not being so deeply engaged in the desperate sins of those men your chief Leaders and Seducers who being past feeling of a most reprobate sense greedy and unreasonable Sinners make no conscience to damn your Souls for the perfecting their ambitious and covetous designs for which they have hitherto made use of the hands of so many valiant men worthy of a better work and a nobler War whereby to destroy your and our King subvert our Parliaments Laws Government and Religion And all this against all your and our Protestations Vows Oaths and Promises to God and Man O you that have followed these Theudasses as the seduced people sometime did Absalom in the simplicity of your hearts not aware of their devillish stratagems devises and designs You that have any touch of Gods Spirit or his Grace in your hearts any fear of God or dread of Sin left in you You that have any sense of your Souls eternal welfare which those either question or deny any terrour of the wrath of God or hope of his love and mercy You that are afraid to degenerate into unreasonable Beasts or incarnate Devils that you may enjoy the benefit of the Kings last charitable Prayers for your pardon and repentance make hast to depart from the Tents of these Achans these Korahs these Sinners who know themselves accursed of God and Men. Come out of their Babylon which is become the habitation of Devils and the Hold of every foul Spirit a Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird by a penitent and pious withdrawing from such filthy Harpies such cunning yet cruel Hyena's such weeping yet devouring Crocodiles such Banners as bear not the Kings Arms but his head cut from his body such Ensignes as are dyed in the blood of
with good cause that ever their Liberties and Properties can be either advanced or defended by you who have been so insolent usurpers over King Parliament and all our Laws and Liberties which our fore-fathers indeed enjoyed many years through Gods blessing and the Fatherly care of their Princes to a greater measure of Peace Plentie and Pietie than ever can be hoped for under such bloody Leeches such numerous and unsatiable Caterpillars as we have felt you to be Nay we tell you we so far disdain your Hipocrisie Treacherie and Tyrannie that we had rather be under the Tyrannie of our rightful King of whose justice and clemencie we nothing doubt than owe our Libertie as you call it to such vile Mushrooms and detested Traitors as you are who boast of Libertie yet are indeed slaves to your damned and desperate lusts studying nothing but how to delude the people with the name and fancy of Liberty as if you would perswade us rather to be the Devils Free-men as you are led Captive by his will than to be Loyal Subjects to our lawful and most hopeful King or humble servants to God whose sacred ties are many wayes upon our souls binding us to fear God and to honour the King and no less to abhorre you and have no fellowship with such as are given to seditious or perjurious changes forbidding us to use our Libertie as men and Christians for a cloak of maliciousness perjury tyranny hypocrisie and all licentious villanies as you have done The next pretence wherewith you bait the Mousetrap and temper the Ratsbane of your Agreement is that of Liberty in Religion Your meaning is That men may be free to profess no Religion or any which they call such so it be not the true one which you know is most opposite to your seditious traiterous merciless uncharitable and bloody Superstitions The very truth is you aim at such an Intolerable tolleration in Religion as you think is most agreeable to the profane hearts and licentious manners of the most debauched lives and Atheistical Spirits with which you have already pestered this English world In order to this Truth-darkening and Soul-damning design we know you follow your Leader the Devil and his Lieutenant General to the utter dissolving of all Government Order and Discipline in the Church to discourage all learned godly and painful Ministers to rob and spoil them of all setled Maintenance to reduce them and the work of the Ministry to that contempt which in the pride and luxurie of these times follows poverty and beggery That they depending on the peoples good will and charity which in many you have made bad and cold enough toward the best and ablest Preachers or upon your insolent and niggardly stipends they and their families may either eat their own dung and drink their own piss or be forced by necessities of life to desert their Function and places so as to leave their Congregations destitute of all holy publique duties or expose them to those Military Wolves and Mechanick Foxes which you have in great store provided for the supply of all places in Church as well as State Thus doth your rage reach as high as Heaven and as low as Hell But we hope the God of Heaven will look down upon us and our children in mercy and by some speedie rebuke of such Satans not suffer your follie and furie to proceed any further it being manifest to all moral and sober men that you are Factors not only for your selves to devour our Estates Houses Lands Liberties Peace and Lives but like the great Dragon yoâ— pour forâ—h a Sea of blood and poison ignorance and profaneness such as may for ever drown both our and our childrens souls it Heathenish Barbarism Superstition Atheism and Eternal destruction But know O you neither Milstones you poisonous Asps you King-killing Basilisks you desperate Deceivers and damnably deceived That although you have against all Faith of Turks Jews or any Heathens by fraud and force usurped upon our secular and civil Liberties so that at present we have not any formed power to oppose you and call your Ring-leaders to a severe account for your unheard of crimes and injuries against our King and our Country Yet shall our constancy in and our suffering for our Religion and our incouragement of godly learned and faithful Ministers to our best abilities make the world to see that there is no Agreement between Christ in us and Belial in you our God and your Mammon We hope the Triumphing of such Hypocrites as you are is but short nor shall you long insult over the dead and divided Corps of our late Lord and Soveraign King whose Wisdom Piety Faith and Patience God we doubt not hath crowned with Glorie and Immortalitie having perfected those many Princely gifts and Divine graces in him as God often doth in his dearest Saints and Martyrs after the example of his crucified Son Jesus Christ by his sufferings and your cruelties whose Memory and Posterity will be ever dear precious and honoured to us and our succeeding generations as a King who now appears beyond the Errours and Jealousies of former surmises chiefly raised and fomented by your false and envious Faction to have been the most constant Pillar the Noblest Patron the resolutest Protector and the most patient Martyr for our Laws Liberties Lives and Religion Yea and of our Parliaments true Priviledges which his Majesty best saw and fullest declared at first to have been shamefully invaded and out-raged by your Tumults afterby your Armies next by your new modellings at last by actual mutinings impudent menaces violent and warlike expressions upon their safety libertie faith loyaltie and honour with which purposes you sometime falsely aspersed and afterward accused the King and for which calumnies you most unjustly condemned and traiterously muthered him your selves being most truly and notoriously guiltie of that for which you wickedly cruelly and unjustly destroyed your and our King Shall you escape the righteous judgement of God Will not God visit you for these things Shall he not be avenged of such cruel Hypocrites Nor is it without a special Providence that you should be left wholly naked and destitute of all pretended due Authority in the fulfilling your execrable villanies to which you would now fain invite the people of England not having any shew or colour of any Parliamentary Votes Authority or Commands to countenance your mischiefs murthers and tyrannies not any concurrence of either Lords or Commons whom now under force and without all freedom becoming either Gentlemen or Christians we must tell you we look upon as no House and their enforced or enslaved Votes as null Their after sittings and complyings with you being nothing but infamous and base prostitutings of the Honour of that House and Vassallatings of the Dignity and Liberty both of the Parliament and People of England to the tyranny of a few Mutinous Cut-throats Trayterous Rebels and bloody Schismaticks who are in
no sense to be counted the People of England any more than Scabs or Plague-sores or Leprosie or putid Ulcers and noysome Excrements are to be repured any part of the Body whose grief burthen and annoyance they are So that unless you can flatter your selves to have done well and worthily in all you have cruelly insolently and trayterously acted against King Lords Commons Gentry Clergy and all honest men Unless you can propound something to recompence the inestimable Injuries you have done to all Estates in these three Kingdoms as in other acts of your Tyranny and Treason so chiefly in that unparallel'd Villany of Murthering such a King and depriving us of so Incomparable a Prince for Wisdom Piety Gravity Patience Magnanimity Courage Constancy Charity and all other Vertues most adorning a Man a King and a Christian the loss of whom all the lives of you and your Approvers cannot countervail or expiate being but as so many Dogs heads to such a Boon Unless you can stop the Mouths of all men or cut their Throats or sear their Consences or perswade them to damn their Souls for your sakes to gratifie a few Cauterised Consciences bloody and ambitious Spirits among you You cannot but hear the sound of much Vengeance coming upon you to which your own black Souls summon you and which your own Consciences will in the first place silently but yet severely execute upon you Nor will your Seeming Smiles and forced confidences nor yet the Applauses of your sordid Flatterers and desperate Confederates nor yet the assistance of your numerous and deluded Souldiers be able to exempt you from that storm of Fire and Brimstone that Pit Snare Curse and Hell which pursues you and is ready to overtake you How can such Zimri's who have so trayterously slain such a King their Lord and Master ever hope to have peace or impunity in this or the other World Since the Justice of Divine Providence in a Case where his Name was not blasphemed and so his Glory not so concerned as in this of your murthering so lawful and so Christian a King suffered not any of the Murtherers of Julius Caesar who was but an Usurper to dye other than a violent and immature death Nor will we hope our Solomon by Gods blessing and his Subjects assistance suffer the hairy Scalps of those who were the chief Counsellors and Actors in destroying his dear Father and our Dread Soveraign to go down to the Grave in peace or to dye a dry death who have shed the blood of War in a time when all Differences were by a Treaty drawn to a Peace and Union We can never think that a Babel of so confused a fashion of such a headlong height as yours is such a Toads-stool suddenly grown out of the Earth of Beggary and Ignorance by Fraud and Cruelty lately watered with the blood of the King and his Subjects can long thrive or stand having no foundation in the World or any shew of reason equity honour peace liberty or piety to support it Not any seeming Authority for due and legall you could have none upon Earth Not any general desire delight consent or Agreement in what you have done or propound further to do but rather a general detestation an utter abhorrence and a perfect hatred of you and your deeds which honest men will then agree to and subscribe when they can be content to love Death and Hell or to hate God and their Souls Nor doubt we but many of those Souldiers whose valour and simplicity you have thus far grossely abused by ingaging them in such desperate assistances whose profit will redound to but few or none of them when their Christian penitent and smiteing hearts shall come to see as no doubt many of them already do who are not throughly poisoned with your desperate Principles to what horrid Villanies they they are made Gossips and accessary by your Fraud and Hipocrisie they will speedily reâ—â—rn from you dead Dogs desperate Sheba's and cursing Shimei's â—hose mouths and hearts are full of the gall of bitterness whose hands and feet are swift to shed blood who know not the way of Peace nor have any fear of God before your eyes whose Curse is to boâ—st your selves in your iniquity to fall from one wickedness to another till eterual vengeance upon you Penitently smiting their breasts as those that came from crucififying Christ Jesus a work proportionate to the malice and crueltie of you our Kings Murtherers our barabasses whose barbarity hath at once deprived the King of what is wont to be dearest to men his Life and his Kingdoms robbing his Subjects the Christian World and all Mankind of the greatest glory and most Illustrious Example of Vertue and Pietie that ever sate upon a Christian Throne The most unspotted Persoâ— the wisest Prince the most Charitable Christian the most imitable Pattern for Moderation in Prosperity for Patience in Adversity for devout humility toward God for judicious zeal to true Religion for constant love to the Church for winning Majesty upon all men that ever swayed the Scepter of this or any other Kingdom Accessible in his brightest splendor Magnanimous in his Diminutions Of a thâ—iving and victorious Vertue under the heaviest Pressures and Crosses Whose excellent Skill was never so much discovered as in the late Storms Whose Darknings rendeâ—ed him not less formidable to his Enemies or less venerable to his Friends Nor was he ever more terrible to those that are perfect haters of God of Him and of all Goodness than when they saw that the Eminency of his Vertues was not to be smothered by their Calumnious Expressions but the beams and lustre of Divine Majestie in him daily conquered all Ecclipsings that either his own misfortunes or your malice cast upon him This was the Man this the Christian this the King this the Saint this the Martyr whom â—hese Judas's have betrayed these Jews destroyed these Caniballs devoured A Sin questionless exceeding in many respects that of Christs Crucifiers not as to the dignity of the person wherein Christ infinitely surpassed the Majestie as well as Merit of all Earthly Kings but as to that Eminency of Civil Dignity and Soveraignty wherewith the King from God was invested which Christ Jesus never assumed contenting himself with the form of a servant and subjecting himself to Civil Magistracy Also in regard of that malice hypocrsie and pretenceless Crueltie which thesâ— Monsters shewed against the King destitute of any shew of Due Authority which the Crucifiers of our Saviour wanted not urging also a Law they had by which they said though falsely he ought to die What Law the Kings Murtherers either produced or pretended to justifie their Authoritie their Accusations or their Sentence against and Execution upon the King we and they are yet to learn nor is it possible they ever should since all our Laws do most fully and clearly declare the person of the King as Supream Sacred Unaccountable Inviolable by
any Person Process Judgement or Punishment on Earth When the Souldierie by Sea and Land shall once seriously reflect upon and consider the infinite odious aggravations wherewith this horrid Murther of such a Man such a Prince and their lawful King is laden to which Villany their Valour was abused to be only as Blood-hounds Butchers and Hang-men no doubt they will be conceive so just and generous a disdain that no mens hands will be more ready to avenge their own dishonour the shame of their Profession the wound and stain of their Consciences the Blood of their King the Dignity of Parliaments and the Loyaltie of their Nation never so branded in any former age than those Souldiers whose Valour you the Achitophels Jeroboams Hamans and Machiavels of our times have basely abused only to serve you in accomplishing you Execrable Villanies and to preserve you from just and speedy Vengeance which as Severus said to those Villaines and Traitors who had murthered their Emperour Pertinax can neither be invented for you nor executed upon you proportionable to the many and Out ragious Villanies committed by you We the People of England cannot but appeal to God your own Consciences such as they are cauterised and polluted with the Blood of our King also to the judgement of all men that have but common sober sense Whether any Age any Monuments of former times any History of humane Affâ—iâ—s have ever recorded any excess of Riot any superfluity of Wickedness to have ever flowed from the hearts of any men oâ— have been fulfilled parallel to yours Whether any Combination of desperate men filled with the Quintessence of all wickedness fraught with flatterie crueltie hypocrisie tyrannie and all degrees of malicious Villany incident to humane nature have since the world began and Mankind hath been planted upon the Earth ever committed the like Villanies which exceed all names of Vice and Infamies or ever more deserved to be made a publick Curse and universal Execration to all Mankind to have their persons cut off from the face of the Earth and buried with the burial of an Ass to have their Posterity as a Pestilent Progenie spewed out of the Land unless they fully declare their unfeigned and utter abhorrence of their Fathers Villanies who have defiled the Land with the blood of the King That their Houses which are neither great nor many may be raised that their memories may be blotted out from under Heaven or only remembred with perpetual scorn cursing and infamie Since they have besides many other preparatorie mischiefs by murthering the King dis-inheriting his Posteritie and dissolving this antient and flourishing Monarchy as far as lies in their power and malice put us upon this miserable choice Either cowardly basely and shamefully to submit to their detestable and unsatiable Tyrannie or to be ever oppressed with a War in our own bowels in which we must either expose our Lives and Fortunes to these mens covetous Cruelty or help to enslave and destroy our selves by assisting these Usurpers or compel the Rightful Heir of these Kingdoms our hopeful King CHARLS the Second to plead and assert his Right by a Foraign Sword being denied that just assistance which as his Subjects we ought to afford him against the Murtherers of his and our Countries Father his own Enemies and indeed of all Kingly Majesty and Mankind the Dissolvers of our Parliaments the Oppressors of our Liberties the Exhausters of our Estates the Suckers of our Blood the Blasphemers of our Religion the Damners of our Souls unless God preserve us the Crucifiers afresh of the Lord of Glory and putting him to open shame The Crie of the blood of our King the Voice of the Genius of this Nation and the Alarm of Gods Justice call aloud to all honest men of Foraign Nations round about to all loyal Subjects in these three Kingdoms to all men of any common honesty or sober profession of Religion in all the world summoning them to sanctifie themselves and lustrate and expiate not only this English Nation and these three Kingdoms but all Mankind and Civil Societies by taking speedy Vengeance and executing Gods and Mans severest Justice on these perfidious Truce-breakers proud Usurpers cruel Hypocrites traiterous Apostates and barbarous King-killers We cannot but send the divided parts of our dead but endeared King now a glorious Saint whom these men have with subtilty and cruelty lately murthered to all the Tribes of this our Israel to desire the advice of all good men to see and consider whether this hideous Villany were committed with their consent or deserve to be patronized with their Agreement whether it was ever thus done in any Christian Nation or Kingdom by any Army of pretending Saints or any men we say not of Common Honesty but of the most exquisite and studied Villany Whether any thing can be produced out of Common Principles of sound Reason out of the Laws of God out of Christs Holy Precepts out of the Actions and Examples of any holy and good men or lastly out of any letter sense or meaning of our Laws whereby in the least degree to countenance cover or excuse the Actions of these men or to satisfie any mans Conscience that doth not utterly abhorre and seriously endeavour to expiate the sin and guilt of such Detestable Villanies According to the heaped and over-running measure of their open sins and abominable Villanies so let every good man that fears God knows the Memory and Vertues of so good a King loves his Country will keep a good Conscience and desires to save his own soul not only withdraw all voluntary assistance from them lest they seem approvers of their wicked Deeds and be partakers of their Guilt and Judgements but heartily pray and constantly endeavour the Restoring of the Crowns and Kingdoms to the only Lawful Heir the late Kings Eldest Son upon whom are many happy Presages and great Expectations of Glorious Atchievements whom God hath in Mercy we hope to these Churches and Kingdoms preserved out of the hands of these bloody Villains who Declared in their Devilish Remonstrance their purpose to destroy him with his Brother the Duke of York and mingle their tender bloods with that of their Father whom special Providence hath prepared for great and excellent Designs by the maturity of his years by the procerity of his person by the gallantry of his Spirit by the excellency of his Understanding by the gravity of his Manners and severity of his Example far beyond what is wonted or expected in young Men or young Princes in point of Piety and Vertue This is that Person this that Prince worthy of his high Descent worthy of such a Father whose worth already promises to exceed all you can desire or hope for from a Good and Gracious King upon him God and our Laws and our Oaths commands all Loyal and Religious Subjects to fix their Eyes to unite their Hearts and Hands to the Love and Assistance of him to
expiate the sin and shame of their former Errours and Defaults which have produced such sad and abhorred Effects to break the Strength to extirpate the Persons to oppose the Designs and to revenge the Villanies which have been with an high hand committed against God the King the Parliament the Laws and the Kingdoms by these Miscreants men alwayes of desperate Fortunes but now of so desperate Minds and Manners that all their paths lead to the Chambers of Death and their steps are descending to the pit of Hell From which the Lord in Mercy deliver the people of this Nation by prospering our Rightful King and by his Valour and Vertues redeeming us speediy from the sins sufferings and tyrannies of these blood-thirsty and deceitful men with whom no Agreement can be made by any man who doth not desperately resolve to sin against the Holy Ghost and eternally damn his own Soul Lam. 5. 16. 16. The Crown is fallen from our head Wo unto us that we have sinned For this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are dim Eph. 5. 11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them Consilia callida inhonesta prima fronte laeta Tractatu dura eventu tristia Lecit FINIS In Martyrium CAROLI PRIMI Magnae Britaniae Regis invicti Jan. 30. 1648. IN fandis refer as damno scelerique dolorem Musa parem qualis luctu sub morte Josiae Ingenti vallem compleverat Hadarimmon Qualis ab irriguis oculis seu fonte perenni Uberibus manet lachrymis noctuque diuque Qualem continuo rorans pia lumina fletu Optabat Vâ—tes deplorantissimus olim Sit modus hic nescire modum quô postera discat Impia gens quantum sceleretur sanguine Regis Regis ab antiquis oriundi Regibus at Qui Tantum alios superans virtute antiquior omnes Quantum lenta solent celsae viburna cupressus Ut scopulus mediis Neptuni in fluctibus ingens In coelum tollens sublimia culmina nullis Exuperanda undis immotus pectore forti Perstat immensis haerens radicibus omnc 〈…〉 Oceani frangit rabiem nâ—â— territus unquam Conjuratorum ventorum praelia temnit Talem Te sensêre Tui Te Maxime Regum Vidimus invictâ conatus mente ferentem Hostiles variâ tentato mole malorum Inconcussa manet victrix patientia sacro Horrore insuetum complêsti Carolus orbem Aurea quae pulchro pînxti dictamina libro Tam pravi caecique malis Lux super aevi Unicus implêsti vitae moderaemine passus Quas alii fingunt aerumnas ultima mortis Humanam superant sortem miracula sancta Rex idem Martyr Trino Diademata clarus Altior exurgens summ â mens ambitionâ— Martyrium imperio junxit Quartamque Coronam Stellis non gemmis fulgentem sumâ—re pergit Impavidus Christi Sponsae mirandus Alumnus Coetibus Angelicis proprior mortalia longè Despicit Ante pedes facinus deforme Rebellûm Dum prostrata jacet Majestas Regia surgit Celsior è tenâ—bris splendens Augustior istis Comminuit quantum Satanae vel militis ira Omni-potens tantum Numen virtutibns auxit Gratia grandescit collo minor atque corona Carolus evafit Magnus Ludibria Trunci Ridet Rex humilis sequitur vestigia Christî Formosum in latâ vidistis valle Leonem Quem trepidi cingunt Pastores Rusticus horror Magnanimum sequitur telo clamore lacessens Non hominum non illa canum petulantia terret Gradivum generos a fugam quia bestia nescit Degenerem motu nullo blanditur at ille Constans incedit gressu vultuque minaci Arduus insidias strepitusque aspernit inanes Inveniet facietve viam sibi conscia virtus Per fastiditos sic Te tulit impetus Hostes Ingentem Regni Genium dumque agmine circum Sacrilegûm spectant crudelia schismaticorum Immortalis abis Regna ad meliora Monarcha Lusit fatalim mens impenetrabilis ictum Plectitur illaesus poena est victoria fanguis Non minus innocuum decorat quà m purpura Regem Tutatur quem non potuerunt Scepira securis Non dolor Hunc non irae movet non Carceris horror Non tristis comitem squallor non Monstra profani Judicii non scommata sputa culumnia pulsus Erectum laedunt animum purissima lympha Mille modis agitata niâ—et Patientia totum Possidet ac pleno sic fatur Numine Turbam Tetrius in vosmet quam in me pâ—ccabitis illa Vulnera me cruciant potius quae saeva paratis In proprias animas quà m quae in mea corpora cives Non Deus hoc vobis non sancta oracula mandant Infandum facinus Quamvis justissima summi Dextra patet suplex hanc prono exosculor ore Vos tamen injustos graevior vindicta manebit Qui genus humanum mortalia temnitis arma At sperate Deum memorem fandi atque nefandi Castigatvehemens faelicia crimina poena Deprecor ultorem mea vota novissima Christo Pro vobis patriâque meâ cum sanguine fundam Dixerat dicto citius prostratus atrocem Imperturbato Rex invictissimus ictum Sustinuit vnltu Diriguêre omnes imo suspiria ducunt Pectore quê is hominum quê is non adamantinae corda Non dolor aut lachrimae vastus stupor occupat orbem Ingenuum irato suffusum triste pudore Erubuit coelum pallentia lumina condens Antiquae periit sic illustrissima Gentis Gloria vix oculis unquam reparabile nostris Occubuit lumen Domini quem dextra sacrâret In Regem extinxit diro manus improba ferro Publica libertas Decora omnia Religionis Sanctus honos unâ pereunt collapsa ruina Singula quae tantâ fuerant suffulta columna In Chaos horrendum lapsos nox opprimit atra Cum tenebris pondus Terras Astraea reliquit Sanguine pollutus Divi Lex sancta recessit Militis incubuit trucis insatiata libido Omnia diripiens paupertate ambitiosa Cui stravere viam Regni perjuria dira Sic Lupus Vulpes tecti ambo pellibus Agni Insidiis fallunt non vincunt Marte leonem Tam claro ut possint satiari sanguine fauces Quoque magis possint factis obtendere velum Justitiae miles procerum plebisque senatum Relliquias vulgi rudis informisque Tumultus Dissipat in sulsis toga cedere cogitur Armis Carnifices dant jura prius suffragia deinde Liberiora petunt sequitur sententia tristis Corripit incusat condemnat destruit idem Judex Testis Miles Subjectus Hostis Tantum Relligio tantum nova lumina possunt Persuadere mali lucis tum Lucifer almae Nomen Effigiem simulat quùm perditus error Ingruit tenebras cupiens effundere vero Immanes animos ad atrocia crimina ducit Principis hinc sanguis libandus subditus iras Non putat averti superûm nisi tanta litetur Victima non alio ritu placabile numen Sanguinei celebrant sancti maculata cruoré 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