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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11740	The beast is wounded. Or Information from Scotland, concerning their reformation Wherein is breifly declared, the true cause and ground of all the late troubles there; and the reasons why they have rejected the bishops, with their courts, canons, ceremonies and service-booke. Hereto is added some fruitfull observations, upon the former declaration: by Io: Bastwicks younger brother. The first part.; Beast is wounded.		1638 (1638)	STC 22032; ESTC S116914	33,762	26

with K Iames Soe againe when the 5. Articles were introduced by a most illegall injurious and violent way in the Assembly at Perth who were then present with the King but Buckingam and B. Land twosit instruments as could bee to bring such an evill worke to passe They having thus begun to spoyle the Lords Vineard afterwards they caused many idle pamphlets to be published against that good old way of Government (a) Our Bb. have a trick which the Scot. never used that is to cast men into prison and there deprive them of all meanes of writing and then ser then Parasites and Sycophants to rayle against them Now truly these are wise in their generation or they know had their opposites the liberty that they have they were better be hāgd out of the way then suffer the just shame which they would doe for their filthy lies blasphentiess of that Church by which Government before their Lordships ruled the corrupt Doctrines and ill liues of Preachers were severely corrected and suppressed But for their parts they gave way and liberty unto evill doers and sought only to curbe and suppresse the better sort Add hereunto their procuring from the K a warrant for to exercise such a jurisdiction in the civil Government (b) Forgs the Tipe of Bb. are said to have 2 small threads hanging neere their eyes wherwith they make trapps lay them in muddy places for to devoure the Fish these tove threads signifie the civill and spirituall functions of Bb. wherwith as the Frog with her tvvo threads they take the godly and devoure them as is inconsistent with the Lawes of that Relame the honour of the Soveraigne peace of that Country Nay not here withall are satisfyed but seeke further for a Commission from King Charles and under shew or colour of which warrant (c) As the Scribes Pharisees never left Pilate till he had passed sentence of death against Christ So the Prelates are earnestly importunate with the Kings of the Earth to have Commission and vvarrant from them for to crucifie Christ dayly in his members they make many greevious acts of injustice and greatly oppresse many of his Majesties loyall good subjects (d) If you complaine of oppression and thinke you have just cause for it to vvound the Beast What may wee say of our oppressions which are more for number more heinous for nature longer for continuance and more common and generall For what condition is there of men among us but are horribly abused by them See the Abbreviate These abuses are not all for besides they have vys modis used meanes to gert another Commission from his Majestie whereby to cover their unlawfull wayes unto benefices for themselves and their freinds and withall got a colour of an Act of Parliament to bring the Surplusse into the Church they caused fome Popish Lords to sit upon the Articles of the Parliament An 1633. they were also the instruments that procured an act to be contrived beeing a racification of the Kings prerogative and power to impose such apparell upon Church-men in divine service as he should thinke su Yea and to bring this to passe they moved the King to presse all men either to consent or dissent to the whole Act as it was framed thereby cunningly to draw all the Parliament-men either to deny the K prerogative or else to consent to their plott for the Surplusse More then this they perswaded his Majesty to sett downe with his owne hand the names of all the Noblemen that should discent from the aforesaid Act and that they should be taken as men disrespecting his Majesty and his Service and that hee should not heare them to give any reason for their dislike of the thing And whereas there was found afterwards with the Lord Balmerin a certaine writing containing some reasons wherefore the Noblemen could not ascent unto the said Act And some other passages expedient to vindicate their persons and cariages from the reproach of beeing dis-affectionated to his Majesties Service and this set downe in a Potition with an intent that it should be presented to the King by the Noblemen but was not The Bishops getting a sight of this Copie according to the rest of their doings caused this good Nobleman for having this Perition to be condemned of Legis Majestatis And it went neere with his life (a) Our English Preates this way are None-such For if they perceive a man to bee an enemie to their unblessed Kingdome they will bee sure to have his blood for it if they can this our Noblitie know well enough the which makes thē the unwillinger to power out their vials upon the throne of the Beast Their Lordships having gone thus farre are not affraid to publish a Booke of most wicked Canons (b) Consider O Englād what cause thou hast to free thy selfe out of the hāds of these theeves murderers who have many yeares bound thee as Tyrants and Turkes doe Gally-slaves to their oars I say bound thee with their Canons Articles Injunctions as so many irons fetters to row for them Romes Boat So that Scotlād bath nor the cause which thou hast to putt those Amalekites to the sword among which one is that whosoever shall affirme that the Service-booke which was not yet out but in hatching containes any thing erronious shall be excommunicated ipso facto it was not long after this ere they caused the said Service-booke to be published Which hath in it not only the Superstition and Popery contained in the English Leiturgis but some thing more and that they might bring the Church nolens volens to use this Jdol-booke they procured a Proclamation (c) Quae whether the Scotsmen did well to refuse the Service-booke being commaunded by the K. to use it quid sequitur to be published wherein al his Majesties subjects were commanded to conforme strictly thereunto as to the only forme of Gods publick worship for that Church Beeing thus swollen (d) Nor like Ours For their insolencies are intollerable specially that little great Laud but this gives me hope that their shame fall is at hand drosse assoon as ever it hath gotten up to the top and elevated it selfe above the pure mettall is then scummed off cast away These like drosse scumme are risen up above their betters therefore c. See Psa 119 199. with a presumptuous conceit of their power and thinking now that neither great nor small had either the courage or wisedom to stand in their way (e) As the Scots Bb. were deceived so I trust will Ours be the Bishop of Ederb in July 1637. gives order to the Ministers of that Citty that they read the aforesaid Service-booke in their Congregatious Which would be such a Masse in Scotland as the Pope himselfe (f) Pope Pius 4 sent Vincentio Parpatia Abbot of S. Saviours to Qu. Eliz offering her to confirme the

no doubt but these and other such like objections were suggested to his Majestie seing he heard not the ansers (c) Princes should be like the sunne which casteth her shining beemes upon all a like his Majestie wil be pleased to receinēour charges proofes against the Bb. in as f●● and favourable a way as he doth their charges without preffe against us we doubt but to make it cleare yea and his Majestie shall conseld it that they are neither fitt Church or Common wealth d It hath been the overthrow of maine brave princes to take things upon the 〈◊〉 of the reporter for by this meanes dissentions have fallen out between them their best subjects here upon treacherous men as the Prelats are have taken 〈◊〉 time advantage to hurt both parnies it is possible he might be offended with his best subjects specially considering that his Majesty hath things presented to him in such shapes and lineaments as the Prelates conceive to to bee most for their owne ends and advantages notwill standing such was his Maisties wisdome and loue to his ancient Subjects as that he refused to attempt the actions which some perswaded him unto (a) What Prelates are the Spun of God showeth in Rev. 16.13 viz. the unclean pirits which goe unto the Kings of the hearth together them to battle against the Saints Now as Aliad beeing encouraged by his false Prephers to goe against Raniath Gilead was undone by it So many in mking the Bb. counsell to warre against the Gespell have been undone by the meanes in their state honour posteritie But sent the Mar of Ham down into Scotland to heare what they could say for themselves how they could justifie the band they had made and So to certifie his Majestie how all things stood And no doubt but his Maiestie did this the rather as conceaving in his royall breast that it was not possible that so many of his best suband men of the greatest integrity and prudence would have agreed together in an action of such a nature without Some considerable reason and cause The Marques being come into Eden much speech passed between him and the commissioners for the Land they craved the indiction of a free Aslembly and Parliament as the only remeady of their miseries hee required a rendring up of the whole copies of the Subscribed Covenant telling them that this would bee a meanes to remove all feares of the Kings wrath against the subscribers and If they refused to doe soe the King b The same remedy we crave here in England the which being granted we feaoe not that but Church and Common-wealth shall be both the better for it What Children seeing Serpents creeping in their Fathers and Mothers bosome will not kill them to preserve their Parents Those Bb. as so many venemous snakes lie in the bosome as it were of our Abimelech Father King and of the Church Now the Parliament-men as good Children will kill those Serpents that so both Father and Mother may live and prosper it might by would not grant them an affemblie or parliament for establishing religion and setling the Peace of Kirk and Kingdome But they answered that thus they could not doe for if they should they should not bee free of the great guiltines of peruirie before God (a) Note the wickednes of our Bb it is their order to have infams in baptisine to vow and promise by their sureties to fight againct the devil al his vvorkes yet afterwards they doe what they can to make them perinted foresworne in requiring them to fight for the Devil his workes that 〈◊〉 for them and the Pope Againe in this they should destroy what they had before built confesse themselves to be trespassers bfore they saw it besides they should shew great unthankefulnes vnto God for a worke which by his good spirit they were moved to doe Moreover the demaund was more then the Commissioners could doe in regard many thousands in the Land besides themselves had subscribed To be short they said and that truely if they should grant this all the World would wonder at their inconstancy and their enemies would mock at them and traduce them as periured Covenant-breakers and Troublers of the peace of the Kirk and Kingdome And whereas there were many promises made of great matters that the King would doe for them if they would render up the Copies to him Their answere was that this was not the first time (b) It is the property of the fox to come towards the sheep upon his bellie to shew him selfe a farre off as if he meant no harme but being gotten with in them and where he would be then like a fox he kils spares not so the Prelates till they become where they defire to be they are very freindly full of faire promises but having gotten what they seeke for then like soxes as they are they spoile ane devour the Lords sheep that fair promises had beene made them for not vrging of of Articles already concluded and for not trouble them with any further innovation the which beeing credited did ensnare manie and drew them on to doe that which otherwise they would not have don all which promises have beene broken and denyed when the per formance was craved and why may they not exspect the like in this case especially where the thing wil bee found more hard and difficult There beeing much time spent and no conclusion made of any thing at the last there comes downe a Proclamation from the King The which was problished at the Mercate Crosse of Edinburg the 4 of July 1638. the effect whereof was this That his Majestie was not ignorant of their great desorders (a) If there be disorders among them the greatest ault lies on the Proclates who have been the cheife Authors and causers of it And therefore his Majestie shall doe verie well to se them severelie punished who have by their attempts to bring peoperie into that Church occasioned much trouble in that Kingdome we use to blame such as set the house on syer not the good people which seeke to quench it so c. here occasioned as is pretended upon the introduction of the Service-booke Booke of Canons c. thereby fearing innovation of Religion and Lawes At this his Majestie professeth to greeve to see them runne headlong into ruine Yet out of his innative indulgence to his people he desires to reclay me them from their faults in a faire way Rather then let them perish in the same And for further clearing of scruples he promiseth not hereafter to presse the practice of the said Service booke Canons but in a faire and legall way (b) That which is against the c̄omaundement of God cannot lawfullie be vrged in any way what soever now there is nothing more sure then that the service booke booke of can are accursed thinges and therefore ought