certainly on Sunday but he will be sure to feast on Friday His opinion has turned his zeal into madness and distraction and out of his blind and uncharitable pride censures and scorns others as Reprobates or out of obstinacy fills the world with brawlings about undeterminable Tenents and being once elated with the pride of his Faction doth so contemn all others that he does infringe the Laws of humane society He 's a saint of the new Translation or if you please a sainted Salamander that lives in the flames of Zeal A stubble-goose that hath fed high in this Harvest of Reformation the prime Gandee of the factions flock An Apocryphal piece of University-Mummery a holy Pick-lock that can open mens consciences and pick the purse of the City with ease and dexterity A Gun-powder Politician that loves to make Fire-works for the destruction of the Loyalist A Divine Squib-crack The meek man of God or the hypocrite in grain An University-Canker-worm A grievons Plunderer of the saints in Church-windows A right Pharisaical Jew one that will compass sea and land to make a Proselyte A pious Pulpit-Cuffer A deadly spit-fire Such a stubborn lump of sanctified flesh that you may as soon perswade the Scot to forsake his craft the Jew his avarice or the Pope St. Peters Chair as the Presbyter to leave off his Fanatick Whimsies In fine he is so much Knave that 't is nonsence to call him Fool. I could make it appear how all seditions almost and rebellions in Scotland have been set a foot or fomented by this Government Presbyterian how neighborly Feuds have been encreased and entertained how monies collected for the relief and support of Geneva were by the chief Gamaliels and Presbyters interverted employed to raise and pay souldiers to aid and assist the Earl of Bothwel and his complices in Rebellion against the King I fear I have wearied you already the subject is everlasting and I am weary of it If I should give account of the late practises and tenets of this late Covenant it were possible to let you see that it hath far exceeded all the mischiefs ever their forefathers did although they tread in the same footsteps To shut up all give me leave in the close to give the Articles of their Apostatical Creed inconsistent with Monarchy which they hold as the twelve Articles of the Apostolical Symbole I will touch onely the prime of those for their other Articles they are so many and of so vast an extent abounding in Negatives that as King James saith well He that would keep them is not able to retain them in his brain but must keep them in a Table-book The Articles of the Dogmatical Presbyterian Faith inconsistent with Monarchy Their Dogmatical Creed 1. THey preach and maintain that the Church is the house of God the civil policy and Government are onely the hangings 2. Next they believe all Ministers are pari consortio honoris potestatis praediti that there must be a parity in the Church Joyn these two together and you have a fair way for Democracy 3. They vindicate to themselves and their Consistory a soveraign compleat universal independent power in all things spiritual that concern salvation they have not onely the directive power but the Legislative also and all temporal things in order to salvation and religion come within the verge of their Scepter All soveraign power wheresoever you fix it whether in one as in a Monarchy or in few as in an Aristocracy or in many or all by vicissitudinary turns have onely the Executive power to do as they command and is bound to preserve by its power Laws and Arms their sacred and Coelestial priviledges and soveraignty 4. Whatsoever Laws civilly enacted by King or Parliament they conceive to be against the Laws of the Kingdom of Christ by their native proper intrinsecal right immediately derived from Christ they may repeal and make void discharge the subject to obey them They may decree not onely different Laws of their own from the standing Laws of the Kingdom but contrary contradictory and destructive of them And have withal so much co-active power that if obedience be denyed to the Laws of this soveraignty they can destroy the Souls of the subjects by delivering them over to Satan 5. No Minister preaching in Pulpit sedition or treason or railing at King Council the prime Judges is accountable or punishable by King Parliament Council or any Judicatory whatsoever but from all he may appeal to the Sanhedrim and Consistory as the sole and proper competent Judge 6. What Corroboration or civil Confirmation or Sanction they demand of the King which he is able to do civilly for they will give him no formal interest in any sacred or religious thing he is bound to grant it and to obey them as Christs immediate Vicegerents otherwise they may excommunicate him 7. Reformation and preservation of Religion especially to prescribe the way and orders for reformation is solely theirs 8. The King is bound to put their orders in execution but if neither He nor his Council nor his Parliament will do it the inferior Judges the Nobles the Commons nay every individual man to his utmost power at their direction are bound to do it 9. That they may without warrant of supreme authority assemble where and when they will for God and Christs cause and for the liberty and peace of subject and Kingdom in ordine ad spiritualia and there they may covenant together swear and subscribe for the glory of God the advancement of Religion and conspire and combine in a mutual defence one of another in this holy Cause and League 10. They teach and maintain that all soveraignty and Majesty in a King is originally immediately and properly derived from the Community and that onely by way of a fiduciary trust so that it is habitually and radically still in the people and the King hath no greater portion or proportion then he hath by the first popular fundamental constitution And in case of deficiency the collective body may supply in Church or State the defects of his Government For male-administration the King is censurable for ernormous errours he is deposable and they may disinherit his posterity 11. That a defensive War is lawful against a bad King or a weak King seduced by malignant counsel 12. They may oppose and resist all his Officers and Commissioners by force and violence if they come to execute his illegal commands and if he will be so obstinate that he will come in arms against these good Christians they resist not his authority but his will not his office but his person Besides their practise upon these grounds is to bring all cases all causes under their cognition and judgement sub formalitate scandali by which the King is robbed of his sacred prerogative the Judges of their authority and all subjects of their right and quiet The rest of their extravagant Maximes inconsistent with Monarchy and
that hales us to destruction Christians are not to be at such Liberty loose Christians are but lost men true Christians will be contented to be bound up in the Unity of the same Spirit and with the bond of Peace if the bond be broken the Sheaf of Corn is but so many loose Ears and no way fit to be carried into the Lords Barn if we be Sons and Daughters let us belong all to one House if we be Servants let us be all of one Family if we be lively Stones let us be all of one Building if we be several Grapes yet let us be all of one Cluster if we be several Clusters let us be all of one Vine if we be Saints let us have a Communion for this is it which is called the Communion of Saints this is it which is called Religion which is derived à Religando which signifies to binde Wherefore for the Puritan not to think himself bound to those Articles the Church proposes is to be of no Religion and â—o fight for this is to fight for nothing Perhaps the Presbyter may likewise maintain that he fought for Liberty from Oppression That is but a weak Excuse and carries little of Reason or Sence in it for there is not any Man or Woman of what Quality or Condition soever he be that understands what belongs to any such thing unless it be some few that have liberty to do what they will with all the rest But what if they took up Arms for the property of the Subject Alas I presume the Subjects had then so altered the property of their Goods that had they but the old properties restor'd they would not think it good fighting for a new their expectations being so much deceiv'd that instead of fighting for the property of the Subject they rather found themselves subject to have all things in common If for the Laws of the Land Whose Laws were they Were they not the King's And was it probable that he would not maintain the Foundation of his House from sinking Would he not maintain his Leggs under him Were they not Supporters of that Body Politick whereof he was Head Nay does he not maintain himself when he maintains them for the King and his Laws may without absurdity be compared to GOD and his Word both inseparable for as GOD is the Word and the Word is GOD so the King is the Law as the Life thereof and the Law is the King as the Body of that Soul Wherefore there needed not any fighting against the King upon this account except it were by those who were ambitious to be Kings themselves As for Priviledges of Parliament which possibly may come into the number of their pretences I have read of Jack Cade Speed's Chronicle in the Reign of Richard the Second who coming up as far as London-Stone and resting himself thereon vowed That within three days there should be no other Law but what did proceed out of his own Mouth Now if it stand with the Priviledges of Parliament to have a few Jack Cades relying on their London-Stones to tell them what they must do and they will have if it stands with the Priviledges of the Presbyterian Parliament to have Tumults to drive away their King Armies to awe themselves Countries to send up their Inhabitants in Multitudes with Petitions in their Hats Cudgels in their Hands and Threatnings in their Mouths then they have fought to some purpose But admit the puritano-Puritano-Parliament fought for all these Particulars so did the King too so that the King might safely expostulate with his Parliament as St. Paul did with the rest of the Apostles Are ye Fighters for the Protestant Religion so am I Are you for the Liberties of the Subject so am I Are you for the Laws of the Land so am I Are you for the Priviledges of the Parliament so am I And in all these things I have laboured more abundantly then you all Where lies the Quarrel then It must of necessity consist in nothing but this That they did not believe one another and in that they both fought for one and the same Thing the means of Reconciliation is taken away for had they differ'd in their Grounds the Law might have been Judge between them Reason might be Judge the World might be Judge but Rebus sic stantibus instead of having reason to fight they did but fight against Reason both contended for the same Power like the two Women that contended for the same Child Solomon judged the Child to belong to her who would rather part with it all then have the Child divided Now the Parliament would have this powerful Child divided half to the King and half to themselves the King rather was contented to lose all In whom there is most affection and pity in him is the Right of true Parentage But because there were no Solomons in that Age we will go the downright way to work The Presbyter fought in defence of the King's Person Crown and Dignity can you believe him I 'm sure you may believe and be confident the King did They took up Arms to unite him to his Parliament and make him a most glorious Monarch by reviling his sacred Person and bespattering him with malevolent Tongues did they not then fight upon false Grounds Did they not give themselves the lye and shall they be believed still But instead of being instructed by Solomons divided Child they divided their Solomon But if they had remembred what ill luck the Nation ever had by imprisoning their Kings onely they would have desisted speedily from their hellish Enterprize for when they had imprisoned the old Lion and the young within their Grates the third Henry and his Son did they not make the whole Land shake Had not the whole Kingdom a shrewd Ague-fit at that very time Did they not like fire too close besieg'd with Clouds sally out in Thunder and Lightning to the terrour and destruction of all those that stood in the way What success had the imprisonment of Edward the Second Upon his Imprisonment followed his Deposition and the murder of his Person was the consequent of the deposement of his Dignity But what became of those that were the occasion of it and did it Is there one remaining of the Name of Mortimer Was not that Mortimer who was the cause of his imprisonment beheaded Were not all those who had a hand in it condignly punished Nay was not the immediate Heir of this too much Conniver at his Fathers Sufferings and too ready Accepter of his Fathers Office imprisoned deposed and murdered And pray satisfie me in this likewise What success had the imprisonment of Richard the Second It cost the Kingdom whole Ages of miseries 80 of her Nobility and 100000 of her Commons the disposing of all her Royal Roses in their Buds before they were half blown until there was but one of a colour left in the Royal Garden of Great Britain and
The True CHARACTER Of A Rigid Presbyter With A NARRATIVE OF THE Dangerous Designes of the English and Scotish COVENANTERS As they have tended to the Ruine of our Church and Kingdom ALSO The Articles of their Dogmatical Faith And the inconsistency thereof with Monarchy To which is added A short History of the English Rebellion Compiled in VERSE By MARCHAMONT NEDHAM AND Formerly extant in his Mercurius Pragmaticus LONDON Printed by the Assignes of J. Calvin and are to be sold by Z. Crofton Presbyter at the signe of the Lay-Elder near the stool of repentance in White-Chappel 1661. To the READER 'T Is not unknown to the meanest Capacity I presume that Presbytery has ever been a Faction of a very hot and fiery Constitution And since this later Age has produc'd so many of these Hot-spurs and Pulpit-Firebrands I did imagine 't were no abuse in me to divulge what our most refined Intellects have heretofore penned for I do utterly disown the Piece as the issue of my own Brain and am bound to confess that it is but a Collection of what has been penned by the best of our Modern Age onely huddled into the Mould of a Chararacter not out of any contradictory temper of my own or a vindicative spirit but to satisfie the world that what heretofore hath been predicted or mentioned of them they were resolved to manifest as an infallible truth and prove that an Oracle which was delivered onely as an Opinion But 't is inevitable if we may give credit to what the Satyrist boldly and truely affirms Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem Testa diu c. The Vessel must of necessity relish of that Liquor that first it contained Wherefore since the Original of this pretended new Light of Religion was Rebellion I am altogether ignorant of any Plea they have to a Jure Divino since to make GOD the Author of so horrid a Crime were absolute Blasphemy Perhaps Reader thou art of an opinion contrary to what is here written I confess that for a time my mind was wandring too till some Causes made me to reflect with an impartial Eye upon our present Government Hereupon I took view of their Reasons and Judgements who I knew to be learned and supposing they who wrote before these times were most likely to speak truth as being uninterested in our affairs from them I drew my Collections then putting them in order and comparing all together they soon made a conquest over me and my opinion I know the high Talkers the lighter and censorious part of people will shoot many a bitter Arrow to wound my reputation and charge me with levity and inconstancy because I am not obstinate like themselves against Conscience right Reason Necessity the custom of all Nations and the peace of our own But this sort of men I reckon inter Bruta animantia among whom to do well is to hear ill who usually speak amiss of those things that they do not or will not understand But prithee read and then do what thou list I have onely one word more and that is to our Modern Pharisee the Conscientious Pretender If he will not be convinced by clear Testimonies but raise more dust about our Ears to amaze the people it must be concluded that all this noise of Church-Reformation Conscience and Covenant is a meer malitious Designe to drive on a Faction and set up themselves in the seat of Authority Being convinced of the truth of these things I conceive my self obliged to satisfie others and therefore whatever I have been heretofore I shall list my self henceforth For King and Parliament Mercurius Pragmaticus THE CHARACTER OF A Rigid Presbyter WITH A Discovery of those dangerous Designes of the English and Scotish Covenanters as they have tended to the ruine of our Church and State TO give you an exact Character of him is impossible he is as changeable as a Proteus yet if you please to have his Genealogie ab origine which may be said to resemble a Welch Pedigree take it as it was left by one of the best Pens of this Modern Age. Never was there such a monstrous Babe as this ruling domineering Presbytery the Father of it is Rebellion the Mother Insurrection the Midwife Sacrilege the Nurse Coverousness the Milk Schism the Coats Armour the Rattles Drums a bloody Sword the Coral Money the Babie it delights to play withal it grows up to be a stripling and goes to School to a Council of War its Lesson is on the Trumpet its Fescue a Pistol its play-days the days of Battel and black-Monday the Day of Judgement it comes of age and is married with a Solemn League and Covenant it begets Children like it self whose blessing upon them is the power of the Sword and whose imposition of Hands are broken Pates This Monster cries down the antient Catholick and Apostolick power which the Bishops had and then takes it up again and exercises it in a higher nature then ever Bishop did even to the deposition of Kings and the delivering them up to the Executioner Should we trace this viperous Brood from their first rise and original we shall finde their Designes founded on Rebellion to the ruine and destruction of the Prince and Bishop of Geneva under whose Dominions the Faction first pullulated 'T would be too prolix and inconsistent with a Character to tell you how they have dealt likewise with our Princes here at home verifying that Maxime NO BISHOP NO KING But take a short Epitomy of their Actions in what followeth And First of Geneva Calvin with his Gladiators having expuls'd the Prince and Bishop of Geneva erects a Government so losty and unexpected that the People would have nothing to do either with him or it and thereupon banished him being in exile he plots and contrives the pacification of the peoples fury by inventing his new fangle of Lay-Elders which made them sharers in the Government and endeared the people to him so that all parties were agreed As for our Princes here at home Do but observe the behaviour of Knox and Buchanan and the rest of that Gang to Mary Queen of Scots as it is related by King James himself in his Discourse at Hampton-Court to the Presbytery These two pre-mentioned viz. Knox and Buchanan came to Mary Queen of Scots telling her That by right no Pope nor Potentate whatsoever had any superiority over her in her own Dominions either in cases Civil or Ecclesiastical but that she was Supreme in both and constituted by GOD as the only nursing Mother of his Church within her own Kingdom and therefore conjured her to have a care of the Evangel of Christ as she would answer it at the dreadful Day of Judgement She first gives them her Ear and at last her Authority they make use of it in the first place to the pulling down of Bishops and exalted themselves in their places and when the Queen expected an absolute Supremacie behold
Design or not in the Covenant ab origine I shall not now determine but let it be judged by their insolent behaviour here among us after they were admitted to our Councils And therefore in the next place I shall examine their Proceedings which most evidently represent them in their intentions It sufficed them not after they were come in that they had an equal Power with the Factions in the Committee at Derby-House which was allowed them but driving a powerful Party in both Houses they took upon them to meddle with matters relating to the future peace and settlement of the Nation much pretended but not at all intended and that dinstinct from their own too and to provide for an equal Interest with the Presbytery of England The first most notorious Evidence of this though there had been many before was discovered at the Uxbridge-Treaty where the Propositions of both Houses being presented to his Majesty of blessed memory it was found the Scots had so far provided for themselves by their Party in the Houses That in time to come the ordering of the English Militia the power of making War and Peace and all other Prerogatives of Government were to be administred by a proportionable number of Scots as well as English A thing so ridiculous and an Encroachment so palpable that his Majesty in one of his Answers took notice of it and said He was not so much an Enemy to the English Nation as to signe those Propositions or somewhat I 'm confident to that purpose A second Evidence or Discovery of their Encroachments was made upon the delivering in divers papers to the Parliament at several times wherein they disputed their claim and ventured their Logick upon the Letter of the Covenant to prove an Interest in disposal of matters meerly relating to our welfare as was thought which they re-inforced afterwards with new recruits of Arguments when the King came into their Army But not knowing how to maintain their Arguments they were contented for that time to quit them and the King too upon such Terms as are notorious to all the world who being at length reduced under the power of the Parliament and Army Propositions were sent to him at Hampton-Court wherein no such Provision being made for the Scotish Interest as was in those at Uxbridge their Commissioners here protested against them accused the Parliament of Breach of Covenant and complained highly in one of their Declarations that they should be so neglected This may serve as a third Evidence of their Covenant-Design of Encroachment Whereto may be added one more When the King Father of our most gratious Soveraign was at Carisbrook-Castle whither the Commissioners of Parliament were no sooner arrived with Propositions again but the Scots Commissioners were at hand and for the same reason proâ—esâ—ed furiously against them By which â—…ent Demeanors and Expressions from time to time and crying up the Covenant for their defence it is clear enough what their intentions were when they urged it unto the Presbytery of this Nationâ— and notwithstanding all the specious pretences of Brotherly Love their Designe in it hitherto hath been onely to screw themselves into an equal Interest with this our Nation Having smelt out their Project thus far give me leave to trace them on to the end as succinctly as may be The Royal Party being supprest and so no farther occasion to make use of the Scotish Army the Parliament with some difficulty made a shift to send them home into their own Country but being defeated of their Aims and Expectations they could not so rest Having failed of their Ends by pretending for Parliament they resolved next to try what they could do upon the Kings Score and so the Grandees turn'd the Tables in hope of an after-Game by closing with Duke Hamilton upon the Royal Account not doubting but if they gain'd the Day this way to recompence their Travels with much more advantage The Covenant like a Nose of Wax apt to be turned any way served this Enterprize every jot as well as the former though the Designe were different from what it was the Great ones not caring much what became of the Kirk-Interest since they had agreed for the security of their own which must needs have been very considerable if they could have redeemed his Majesty and restored him into the condition of an absolute Monarch Therefore the Kirk seeing themselves left in the lurch thundered out their Curses amain upon that hypocritical Engagement as destructive to the Covenant But the Grandees being at a loss likewise upon Duke Hamilton's Defeat were glad to cry Peccavi to the Kirk Within a while after a new Door of Hope being opened to them by the Right of Succession which they knew belonged to his present MAJESTY they to ingratiate with him proclaim him their King and here the Grandees and the Kirk joyning hands again become Friends and offer their service for his Restitution upon Terms of the Covenant which was pretended to be framed at first for the preservation of the Parliament and the Liberties of the people against Regal power but is now that the Scots can serve their Design no longer that way become the ground of their compliance with his MAJESTY being resolved this way since they have failed in all the rest to try whether they could accomplish their profane Projects through the Covenant by insinuating themselves into places of Honour Profit and Power that they may domineer in the Possessions as their Pharisaical Priests would over the Consciences of the English Thus having made way in discovering what the Design of the Scots hath ever been and is at this instant certainly no Man that is Master of a true English Spirit but will abhor the Hypocritical Pretences and Encroachments of that persidious Nation Therefore it being evident that their Designe in urging the Covenant upon the Presbyterian here in England was only to insinuate themselves into an equal Interest with our own Nation I shall in the next place discover the great Inconveniencies and Hazards that our Nation must of necessity have undergone in case it should happen as they ever endeavour'd to be knit together in a National Union A National Union hath been often whispered among them heretofore and there 's no doubt but they would bid high for it if ever they have occasion and then it must needs have been a very fine world when we had been confounded with a miscellany of Scotish and English when Scots should have been competitors with us in point of priviledge vie wealth with us in our Possessions Honours and Dignities and they would either have impos'd new Laws upon us or alter'd the old according as they judg'd it for their advantage for a Scotch Covenanters stomach will allow no distinction betwixt Presbyter and Independent but can digest the Estate of an English Covenanter without so much as a scruple of regret or compassion But it is a very great wonder since the stage-play
the peace of Government are reduceable to those heads Thus not intending hereby to reproach any person particularly whatsoever I have writ This but to lay open to the world how dangerous a Government this is not onely for Monarchy but for all Governments whatsoever and that our eyes being opened we may chuse rather to endure any torment temporary then to enter into this treacherous and damnable Covenant destructive to Religion King Church Peace of all and the liberty of the subject To swear to these things as established de jure divino and to put on poor people to act treason and rebellion making them believe they are Confessors and Martyrs If this gives the Reader any satisfaction I have what I desire If he doubt of the truth of anything I hope I am able to make all here good by faithful and autnentick Records or Testimony of such as are worthy of râ—ust God save his Church our King and Realm from this Scourge and give us Peace and Truth AMEN FINIS A SHORT HISTORY Of the English Rebellion Compiled in VERSE BY MARCHAMONT NEDHAM AND Formerly extant in His Weekly Mercurius Pragmaticus LONDON Printed in the Year 1661. A short HISTORY Of the ENGLISH REBLLION WHenas we liv'd in peace GOD wot A King would not content us But we forsooth must hire the Scot To all-be-all-be-Parliament us Then down went King and Bishops too On goes the holy Wirk Betwixt them and the Brethren blew T' advance the Crown and Kirk But when that these had reign'd a time Robb'd Kirk and sold the Crown A more religious sort up climbe And crush the Jockies down But now we must have Peace again Let none with fear be vext For if without the King these raign Then heigh down they go next A Peace a Peace the Country cries Or else we shall be undone For this brave War we thank the wise Confiding Men of London Sure now they may as well as we Know how to value Quiet When th' Army comes their Guests to be For a twelvemonths Cash and Diet. Free Quarter is a tedious thing And so is the Excise None can deliver us but the King From this damn'd Dutch Device The Parliament hath serv'd seven years True vengeance then we see Upon feign'd Jealousies and Fears For yet they are not free Long Peace a Plenty did beget And Plenty brought forth Pride Through Pride to Faction men were set In Parties to divide The new-form'd Priests first led the way And said it was no sin By force to drive the King away And draw the City in The Lords and Commons they consent To what each Rabbi saith And so the Catholick down went T' advance the publick Faith This brought a War and Taxes on T' inslave a free-born People And now the work is thus far gone Next have at Crown and Steeple Our wise Reformers brave and gay Have ta'en a goodly course To fight to feast to fast and pray And milk each honest Purse The Crown 's Revenue goes to wrack While they sing Hymns and Psalms And rather then themselves will lack The King must live on Alms. We are the learned Synod says The Church of England's Nurse Who make them bless the Sabbath-days And all the week to curse The Plough stands still and Trade is small For Goods Lands Towns and Cities Nay I dare say the Devil and all Pays Tribute to Committees A Scot and Jesuite joyn'd in hand First taught the World to say That Subjects ought to have command And Princes to obey These both agree'd to have no King The Scotchman he cries further No Bishop 't is a godly thing States to reform by Murther Then th' Independent meek and sly Most lowly lies at lurch And so to put poor Jocky by Resolves to have no Church The King dethron'd the Subjects bleed The Church hath no abode Let us conclude they 're all agreed That sure there is no GOD. Our States-men though no Lunaticks No Wizards nor Buffoons Have shewn a hundred Changeling-Tricks In less then three New Moons The Devils foot is cleft men speak And so GOD knows are they The Factions rule by fits then take Their turns and run away They vote unvote and vote with noise What they cry'd down before As ready as if London-Boys Were knocking at the dore To day an Independ out-side And then a Scotch to morrow Thus shuffle and cut they do divide Our Wealth whilst we know sorrow O happy Treason See how Wealth Is made their Heaven They swell With Pride and live by Blood and Stealth As if there were no Hell No Sadduces but must confess Those Monsters which are told In Story are risen now no less Prodigious then of old Both Cain and Judas back are come In Vizards most divine GOD bless us from a Pulpit-Drum And a preaching Catiline They feed upon a Kingdoms Curse And prey upon a King The Dev'l provide a second Course And then a Voyder bring Now CHARLES thy Conquest is compleat And all the World shall see That GOD which guides the Royal Scot Will thy Avenger be O House of Commons House of Lords Amend before September For 't is decreed your Souldiers swords Shall then you All-dismember But like fair Chapmen 't was well done To give you time and day To cast accompts for one by one They will you soundly pay The Kingdom all in pieces torn Your time is fairly spent To make your selves a very scorn Your King but Jack-a-Lent Now now we see 't was for the Crown The Houses both did fight For since the Cavaliers are down They put the King to flight The Adjutators stern and proud Said He should have no Quarter Because he is a King and vow'd To make the Saint a Martyr Their Officers cry'd Hail O King The rest made mocks and scorns The Houses vinegar did bring And all did plat the thorns Thus crucifi'd Great CHARLES did live As dead is gone away For Resurrection GOD will give A new Cor'nation day Rouze up King Charles hath mist the snare Laid for his Royal Feet Let th' Adjutators now take care Each for his Winding-sheet The Army rendezvouzed are And do they know not what The Scots and they are like to jan Let us thank GOD for that The Houses know not what to think The Ciâ—…'s horn-madded be They must be whipt until they stink A joyful sight to see Thus Cavaliers cast up your Caps And tell the Rebels plain That Charles in spight of all their traps Shall shortly rule again For Liberty and Priviledge Religion and the King We fought But O! the Golden Wedge That is the onely Thing There lies the Cream of all the Cause Religion is but Whig Pure Priviledge eats up the Laws And cries For Kings a Fig. The Houses may a Christmas keep The Countrymen a Lent The Citizens like silly sheep Must fast and be content Then where is Liberty I pray With Justice Truth and Right Sure they and Conscience fled away With Charles to th' Isle of
Gospel to the Jews To Turks that Mahomet's a Knave Platonick Love to Stews Let Citizens loath sacred things Presbyters pride and ease When these are done make Saints love Kings And then we may have Peace See in what glory Charles now sits With Truth to conquer Treason And prove he is the King of Wits The World Himself and Reason Angels bear witness GOD looks down The Graces too attend Sure none but Devils then will frown Upon a blessed end Ten hundred thousand Loyal Hearts All bleeding at his Fate As many Wishes from all parts Flie round his Chair of State Come then ye dirty Sainted Elves Worse then Church-window paint By this fair Glass abhor your selves Learn here to be a Saint The King the four great Bills must pass And none but Saints be free Th' Irish and Cavaliers alas Must th' onely Rebels be New Lords new Laws new Saints are we Religion's in fine pickle When 't is resolv'd the Church shall be A three-years Conventicle Militia too they needs must gain Those pretty carnal Tools For Pauls old Weapons they disdain As fit for none but Fools Thus Royally Charles lets to Lease Lays Sword and Scepter down To shew he values Us and Peace Above a glorious Crown Give me the Dragons Gall for Ink His sting to be my Pen To blast the Scot and make him stink Werse then the Dregs of men See now the Reformation-Wirk For which they made us bleed Is to cashire King Church and Kirk On this and that side I weed Let them with Egypts plagues be crost Yet still find new and worse And since I have Jobs patience lost Give me his skill to curse At Home and Hell may they e'er dwell And for quick passage thither As they have juggled all full well So may they hang together Let me be Turk or any thing But a Scotch Calvinist First he damn'd Bishops next his King Now he cashires his Christ Gude faith Sir they the Pulpit bang But let their Gospel down For the old Saviour needs must gang Now a new one's come to town The Saints whom once their mouths did curse Dear Brethren are and Friends Which proves their Zeal a Stalking-horse For Knavish-godly ends Then rail no more at Antichrist But learn ye to be â—…vil And since ye have King Cromwel kist Shake hands too with the Devil Since they have damn'd all Saints of old No new shall be for me Like Jews they worship Gods of Gold Their King they crucifie Were he the King of Kings his Crown Could not be safe from Foes Like Jesuites they no Gospel own But Murther and Depose Like Turks their Heav'n lies all in Sence In Wenches Tarts and Gelly No Hell they fear when parted hence They serve no God but Belly All this and more by Jove is true If they the Treaty cease To juggle with the Lev'lling Crew That cry No King No Peace No Lord no Knight no Gentleman For Honours now are Crimes The Saints will form us if they can All to the Frim'â—ive times Brave days when Adam was a King Without Crown Lands or Riches So stript of Royal Robes they 'll bring Great Charles to Fig-leave Breeches Princes with Plowmen rankt shall pass Ladies like the first Woman Must spin or else be turn'd to Grass Now all things are in common Thus Cov'nanting and Levelling Three Kingdoms have o'erthrown And made all fellows with their King A Foot-ball of the Crown Tell me thou Presbyterian Ass Why thou at first didst jar Thy peevish Plea No Bishops was The first ground of the War Next to thy shame thou didst combine With the Sectarian Routs Our Charles should be no King of thine Or but a King of Clouts Both King and Bishops thus exil'd The Saints not yet content Now with fresh flames of Zeal grow wild And cry No Parliament Well may we then this Maxime prove Treason no end can know But levels at the Gods above As well as those below Hark how for Peace the Kingdom groans That warr'd they knew not why Yeild then or else the very stones Will out against you cry For shame ye Bastard-saints give o'er Or else the world will think Your Mother is great Babels Whore If blood you love to drink The State 's grown fat with Orphans Tears Whilst Widows pine and moan And tender Conscience in sev'n years Is turn'd t' a heart of stone Return hard hearts the Treaty ends Our breasts with Hope do swell Your Bags are full then let 's be friends Or bid the World Farewel No Gods above nor Gods below Our Saints I see will own Allegiance is Rebellion now Treason to wear a Crown Nor King nor Parliament will please 'T is Gospel to rebel Nay they 'll Remonstrate against Peace Be it in Heav'n or Hell Pluto beware to thee they come When here their work is done For they 'll break loose and beat up Drum And storm thee in thy Throne Then John-a-Leyden Nol and all Their goblin ghostly Train Brave Rebel-Saints triumphant shall Begin their second Reign Brave Reformation now I see London's a blessed place To find the Saints their Quarters free And nurse the Babes of grace Oh may they suck and drain them quite Whose thousands caus'd these Curses For the tame Slaves will never fight Till they have empty Purses Come then ye lowsie wanton Wags Of sainted Chevalry And free their poor condemned Bags That groan for Liberty March on boon Blades here 's store of Cash Their King they will not pity Then spur them on and soundly lash These Dull-men of the City Dull Cuckolds we are dainty Slaves And well may be content When thirty Fools and twenty Knaves Make up a Parliament They banish all men in their Wits Vote King Lords all Offenders And authorize the phrentick Fits Of our long-sword State-Menders 'T is Nol's own Brew-house now I swear The Speaker's but his Skinker Their Members are like th' Council of War Car-men Pedlers and Tinkers Fine Journey-Junto pretty Knack None such in all past Ages Shut shop for now the godly Pack Will next pay you your Wages Gone are those Golden Days of yore When Christmas was an High-day Whose sports we now shall see no more 'T is turn'd into Good-Friday Now when the King of Kings was born And did salvation bring They strive to crucifie in scorn His Vice-Roy and their King Since th' ancient Feast they have put down No new one will suffice But the choice Dainties of a Crown Princes in sacrifice No Powers are safe Treason 's a Tilt And the mad Sainted-Elves Boast when the Royal Blood is spilt They 'll all be Kings themselves Like jolly Slaves ye goodly Knaves We 'll bid th' old year Adieu Old Sack and things must pass away And so shall all your new Now for a No-King or a New For th' old they say shall pack The new may serve a year to view Like an old Almanack New Houses new for th' old ones dote And have been thrice made Plunder The Saints do vote and act by rote And are a Nine-days-wonder Then let us chear this merry New-year For Charles shall wear the Crown 'T is a damn'd Cause that damns the Laws And turns all up-side down FINIS