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A91292	Summary reasons against the new oath & Engagement. And an admonition to all such as have already subscribed it. With a cautionarie exhortation to all honest English spirits, to avoid the danger of perjurie by taking of it.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1649 (1649)	Wing P4096; Thomason E585_9; ESTC R206265	10,914	17

and Securities of all sorts that humane wisdome can invent shall be thus overturned destroyed dissipated annihilated in a moment at the wills and lusts of our present Usurpers against all their Solemne Oaths Covenants and Protestations not to doe it wee cannot but imagine conceive and believe that every particular persons estate goods life liberties and enjoyments in the Kingdome not halfe so well estalibshed and fenced as they can be secure or exempt from their violence rapine but subject to their lawlesse wills courts acts seizures disposals to deprive us of them at their pleasures which will render us the miserablest slavishest People under Heaven instead of a free Republick of which the late illegall proceedings in martiall arbitrary Courts and Committees against the beheaded King Lords and others with their late imposed arbitrary Taxes Excises Acts for new Treasons and this very Oath and Engagement give us undeniable experiments Upon which and sundry other weighty considerations we are pere●ptorily resolved by the grace and assistance of our Omnipotent God rather to endure ten thousand S●questrations Imprisonments Deaths then to betray our King Kingdomes Parliaments Lawes Liberties Religion all our earthly comforts wound our Consciences damnour immortall Souls by our submission or subscription to this irreligious fl●gitious pernicous scandalous illegall irrationall unconscionable treasonable New Oath and Engagement and adhere to the death constantly and sincerely to our former Oathes Covenants and Engagements which they diametrically oppose maugre any humans powers or forces whatsoever To close up all wee heartily wish all perjured Prescribers of this New Oath and Engagement especially apostate Assembly-men D●vines and Lawyers who contrary to their former Oathes Covenants Protestations and Subscriptions have subscribed this new Oath Conscienciously and sadly to consider and peruse Levit. 19. 12. Psal 15. 1 2. 4. Iosh 9. 18. 19. 20. 2 Sam. 21. 1. 1 King 1 29. 30. c. 2. 42. 43 46. 2 Chron. 13. 5. 6 Neh. 5 12. 13. Ier. 34. 8 to 20. Ezech. 17. 11. to 22. Zech. 5. 1. to 5. Mal. 3 5 Rom. 1 28. 31. 32. 2 Tim 3. 1. to 6. Dr. Beards Theatre or God Judgements L. 1. c. 27. 28. of Perjurers divine punishments especially the example of Rodulph p. 174. with another of that nature p. 176. and the example of that perj●red Usu●per of the Cr●w●e against his Oath King Hera●ld Math. West An. 1066. p. 430. 438. with the sad Sto●●●● of Archbishop C●●nm●rs tortu●●s of Conscience and Mr. Bilneys for subscribing against their Consciences to save their Lives in Mr. Fox his Mon●ments And then they will eyther with Peter after he had abju●ed his Lord and Master with an oath goe forth and ●●ee● bitterly if they have any sparkes of Grace or hopes of Salvasion remaining in them or else with tr●●cherous Iudas who betrayed his Lord and Master to gratifie the High-Priests goe out despairing and hang themselves to avoid the shame of the World and anguish of their tormenting Consciences A Quaere touching an English Monarchy and a Low-Country Free-State which of them is the Freest and most to bee desired An English Monarchie Is a most Honorable free Government by an hereditary King according to the Lawes of the Kingdoms supplyed only without any standing Army Garrisons Free-Quarter Excise or Monethly Contributions by a bare Ordinance of a few Commons with a Subsidy or two in divers yeares freely granted by the Laity and Clergy in full Parliament by distinct Acts of Parliament A Low-Country Free-State Is an Ignoble Servitude under the Militarie Command of many selfe-Created new States erected and supported by the meere Power of a standing Army constant Garrisons Citadels accompanied with perpetuall Monethly Contributions Taxes Excises and Free-Quarter imposed on the Clergy Laity by these new States alone without common consent or Act of Parliament and augmented and disposed of at their owne Will and Pleasures Utrum horum mavis accipe FINIS

to become a Kingdom Ezech. 16. 13. and a great judgement misery and dishonour to bee un-Kingdomed or made a base or no Kingdom Jer. 16. 7 9. c. 22. 4 5 6. c. Ezech. 29. 14. 15. Dan. 11 9. Hosea 1 4 Dan. 2. 44. That the Church of Christ the Gospell and Heaven it selfe are alwaies and t Psal 145. 11. 13 Isay 9 7 Dan. 4 35. c. 6. 27. Math. 3. 2. c. 5 7. 19 c. 12. 18 c 21. 43. c. 25. 34. c. 26. 25. u. 3. 33. c. 10 11 1. Cor. 6. 9. Col. 1. 13. 1. Tim. 4 1. 18 〈◊〉 2. 5. 2. Pe. 1 11. Rav. 12. 10. very frequently stiled a Kingdom never a Stat● or Republique in contradiction to a Kingdome throughout the Old and New-Testament That the highest honour Christ hath purchased for us with his most precious blood is to make us Kings to God his Father to admit us into his Kingdome of Grace here and of Glory hereafter where we shall reigne as Kings for ever Rev. 1. 5. 6. c. 5. 10 Lu. 1. 13. 1. Thess 2. 12. 2. Tim. 4. 18. And that the Kingdomes only not States and Republ●q●●● of the Earth are Prophecied and Promised to become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ. Ps 8. 31. 32 Rev. 1. 15. Obad. 21. upon all which considerations we can never subscribe to the extirpation of our Kingly Government or translating our ancientest Kingdome into the puniest Republiqu● in the World for feare wee lose Gods protect on of and interest reigne presence by his Ordinances in our Kingdome and be for ever excluded ou● of his Kingdomes of Grace Glory and from reigning as Kings in either of them which the prescribers and subscribers of this Oath and Engagement who usurpe upon Gods speciall prerogative to dispose of the Kingdomes of the Earth at his own pleasure Da. 4 32. 17. Je. 18 6. 7. 9. against so many Oaths Covenants Reasons Scriptures have cause to feare and expect Eleventhly Wee are perswaded in our consciences that the change of our rightfull King into many new selfe created States our Kingdome into a Common-Wealth and ancien● Parliaments of King Lords and Commons into a new Representative of Commons alone without King or Lords the principall Designe of this new Oath and Engagement against so many Oaths Lawes and Engagements of former later times inviolably to preserve them with our lives estates last drop of our bloods and that by the far lesser part of the Kingdome and House of Commons against the wills and Protestations of the Major part who are most concerned therein and without hearing their reasons and objections to the contrary or convincing them of the necessitie or conveniency thereof by a free hearing and debate thereof in a full and free Parliament specially convened for that purpose is not only a most unjust illegall and tyrannicall act contrary to the Lawes of God Nature and the Realme a great scandall to our Religion and injury and dishonour to our whol English Nation not to be presidented in any age especially by so great pretenders to publique Liberty but likewise an undertaking of such dangerous consequence as none endowed with right Reason the feare of God or any reall love to their Country durst once for to attempt as is clear to us by these particulars 1. It will involve us in perpetuall Warres and troubles so long as there are any of the blood Royall who have title to the Crowne or any of the Nobility endowed with any sparkes of honour left alive who will never desist from attempting the recovery of their lost Rights and Priviledges 2. It will sever the united Kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland from and engage them and all the Kings forraigne friends and Allyes against us and necessitate us to mainta●n a perpetuall Army and Garrisons by Land and Navy by Sea which will undoe us with Contribution Excise Free-Quarter expose us to perpetuall Murthers Robberie Outrages Tumults Opp●ssions Discontents Decrease and Decay all Trading and end in our absolute Slaverie Miserie Ruine 3. It will necessiate our new Governours after the sale of the Kings and Deanes and Chapters Lands to help ease the People for a time only and support their Army and Navy to seize and sell the Lands of all Corporations Companies Colledges Hospitalls Schooles and Rectories of Churches in the Kingdome a thing already projected by some and to find out some device or other to make new Delinquen●s of purpose to Sequester and Confiscate their Estates till the whole Kingdome be Sequestred made Malignants to help pay the Soldiers one feared Designe of this new Oath and Engagement against those who out of grounds of conscience Law and solid prudence refuse to subscribe it 4. It will dissolve all our ancient Leagues with forraigne Kingdomes and States made only with our King and Kingdome and by the Law of Nations give them advantage and occasion to seize our Ships Merchants Merchandize without breach of League in the behalfe of the King and those who stand for the Kingdomes continuance with whom only the Leagues were made and stand firme against others who oppose them 5. It will lose our Interest honour and reputation in and withall other Kingdomes or States who will refuse to owne or treat with us a State thus forcibly and treasonably erected on else treat with us as the puniest and meanest State in the World whose Agents and publique Ministers must give place to those of all Kings Princes and other States whatsoever which are ancientes then it ever by the u Law of Nations and resolution of all Heranlds v Cassanae●● Catalogue gloriae Mundi Hist of the C●w●ll of Trent which the generosity of the English Nation the anci●ntst and first Christian Kingdome in the Christian World x Seld●ns Titles of Hen. part 2. ch 11. claiming proceedency of all other Kingdomes in Generall Councells add Assemblies heretofore will hardly brooke 6. It will null dissolve and extinguish all the Corporations Tenures ancient Customes Rents Services Courts of Justice ancient Seales Processe Writs Legall Proceedings Charters Liberties Customes Forfeitures unpon penall Lawes Titles of Honou● that are either hereditary or during life and currant Coynes of the Kingdome which being derived only the Kings and ancient Parliaments of England for them their Heires and Successors or reserved to them their Heires and Successors and none others and bearing their stamp and image on them must all fall expire and vanish together with them as the House falls all to pieces when the foundation is subverted the Rivers quite faile when the springs from whence they flow the effects cease when the cause is destroyed and the deriva●ives expire and vanish quite away when the primitives are abolished And what confusions and mischiefes will ensue let the World judge 7. If wee shall once give way that our Kings Kingdome Peers and Parliaments setled established secured and fenced with so long Prescriptions Lawes Oathes Covenants Engagements