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A46673	Philanax Anglicus, or, A Christian caveat for all kings, princes & prelates how they entrust a sort of pretended Protestants of integrity, or suffer them to commix with their respective governments : shewing plainly from the principles of all their predecessours, that it is impossible to be at the same time Presbyterians, and not rebells : with a compendious draught of their portraictures and petigree done to the life, by their own doctors dead hands, perfectly delineating their birth, breeding, bloody practices, and prodigious theorems against monarchy / faithfully published by T.B.	Janson, Henry, Sir, 1616 or 17-ca. 1684.; Pattenson, Matthew. Image of bothe churches.; T. B. (Thomas Bellamy)	1663 (1663)	Wing J482; ESTC R16845	67,408	173

with Protestants of Integrity Indeed there needs no other argument to convince and confound this accursed League but the bare subscription of this Monsters name to it as a principal in the Contract whom the world must needs judge very unlike to be a fitting instrument to advance the Cross of Christ and to reform Religion Yet this was the man upon whose head the Union did agree to set the Crown of Hungary Now I do wish that the partial Reader would look upon Germany and see the Picture of Troy on fire see the image and horror of War which we have already pretty well tasted of and by the same means and how well it would please them to see which of late we were very near the face of London and Middlesex c. so disfigured with wounds and desolation and they who are now most forward to blow the coals of discord and sedition and to inflame a State with fury and quick-silver may quake and tremble when they shall consider in what devastation all that beautiful Country of the Empire hath lain long mourning and groaning The Provinces about the Rhine were wholly wasted and impoverished by the Soldiers on both sides especially Worms all Tillage was suspended Traffick decayed Trades ceased Taxes imposed new Fortifications still charged the Countrey Men were not masters of their own Goods and above a hundred thousand men then accounted to be slain These are the fruits of Civil Wars which are bitter to them that taste them as I think we in England have done sufficiently if we do not yet long for more And these are the very fruits and effects of Calvinism it self if we can yet take warning of it and not be longer deluded with the pitiful pretence of Protestancy of Integrity For their justifying sole Faith can never justifie without it bring Charity in her bosom and the true marks of Charity bring Patience Humility Zeal and Obedience strongly conjoyned in one link Now the little Patience Humility or Obedience that these new Evangelists our Hot-spur Protestants of Integrity have shewed convince their Zeal to be counterfeit and Faith to be fruitless Could ever Charity have directed these godly Bethlemites to invade the Duke of Bavars Territories if he refused to stand Neuter Charity sure did not counsel Anhalt in his Letters to Donau 1619. Charity doth not use to direct Christians to sollicite the Turks assistance against their Emperors and Princes the Nursing Fathers of Gods Church as Pag. 80. Cancellariae Nor to set down such Plots as they intended Pag. 42. 32. 66. But these Minions of Geneva now called Protestants of Integrity bring Religion to plead in the defence of their Union and that they endeavored onely to punish Ochosias for consulting with the Idol of Acharon and to root out all superstition Here indeed is the voice of Jacob but the roughness of Esau words of Saints but actions of Devils All must be presently Idolatry and Superstition that does not please their humor Besides could they shew as good a warrant as Elias did Did God call them did God authorize them to deprive their Princes Per me Reges regnant By me Kings raign was Gods own Proposition 1 Pet. 2.13 and St. Peters commands us to be subject to every humane creature for God whether to a King as excelling or to Rulers c. I am sure there is no ground for such a doctrine as to degrade and depose the King and these Protestants of Integrity must needs finde St. Paul in his Thirteenth Chapter to the Romans Rom. 13 1. to be of another Religion Exeunt Paraeus Gracerus cum Bethlehem Gabore with all his Protestants of disloyalty and enter some if we can finde them of better of Integrity So we change our Scene into the Netherlands The Cockatrice is now arrived in Holland and Zealand that horrible Akeldama and Field of Blood and the Theater of most tragical and lamentable stories Now as you have heard the Axioms and Positions at large before of those grand Patriarchs of our pure Protestants of Integrity so the practices and tyrannies of these their followers are here best to be discovered and above all the actions of their Conspiracy in the Union of Utricht were the most capital and infamous A device it was perfectly framed according to the rules of Junius Brutus and in imitation of their great Grand-father the Swiss before spoken of and of his sanctified Cantons which of it self is argument strong enough to convince them of Rebellion though they have been ever pleased to march under the notion of Religion and naming their War Bellum Sacrum a Holy War This Union was made by the States 1578. who seeing the fortunate proceedings of the Duke of Parma and the whole course of the Malecoutents entered into a perpetual League comprised in Twenty Articles for their mutual support and union as they were pleased to term it First They of Holland Zealand Friezland and Gilders did joyn contra omnem vim quae sub praetextu nominis Regis aut Religionis inferretur Against all force that might be offered under the pretence of the name of King or of Religion After that the Prince of Orange and they of Antwerp and Gaunt came with him into the League and subscribed it the Fourteenth of February 1579. The which was afterwards confirmed at the Hague 20 July 1581. And the scope of all this was to abandon and expel the King of Spain and to depose him from his own dominion and inheritance Therefore upon that they established an Edict Que le Roy de Espagne est deschen de la Seigneurie du Pais Bas That the King of Spain was faln from his Soveraignty over the Low-Countreys And to make it more authentical they devised a form of Abjuration from the King and a particular Revocation and Dispensation of their former Promise and Oath of Obedience in these words J. W. N. Do swear avow and bind my self to the Provinces united to be loyal and faithful to them and to aid them against the King of Spain Coment un bon Vasall du Pais Bas as a good Subject of the Low-Countreys And when they had taken that Oath they broke all the Kings Seals pulled down his Arms seized and entred upon his Lands Rents Customs and all other Hereditaments and took the same into their own hands and as absolute Lords they coyned money in their own names placed and displaced Officers of the State banished all the Kings Counsellors published Edicts possest the Church-Lands supprest all that were of another Religion besieged Amsterdam and used all the Marks and Notes of Soveraignty in their own names Did not their Brethren here that were equal Protestants of Integrity do just the same things in England Now the Reasons they gave why the King of Spain had forfeited his Title and Right were these First The suppressing of their Religion Secondly For oppressing them with Tyranny Thirdly For abrogating their Priviledges and for

holding them in Bondage and Servitude For such a Magistrate they said they are not bound to obey and so indeed are as we have seen the rules of their Religion but to eject him as a Tyrant Were not these the very Reasons that our Protestants of Rebellion in England used against our most glorious good King Charles to wage War against him and afterwards to murther him Believe it these were examples and presidents of most dangerous consequence and which not a little concern all Princes to look well to for if Subjects may depose their Princes and make themselves Judges when they shall so forfeit their Crowns and Dignities Qui stat videat ne cadat He that stands let him take heed least he fall Kings had need to make their Seat secure and to sit fast if they can for these men make Monarchy itself but a very slippery hold And indeed Ambition and Treason can never finde a fitter cloak for their wearing than that which is made of the Holland fashion by the Religion of these Protestants of Integrity Now that you should the better judge of the particular quarrel of the Hollanders and their Confederates I should give you the whole story of that Rebellion but it is too long to recite I refer every ingenuous Reader to their own Annals which will convince them of the horrideft Apostacy from and Rebellion against both King and Church that was ever seen in the world before nor can ever be matched but by that of our Protestants of Integrity here in England It is most true that the Hollanders began their Rebellion with Lutheranism but that being too hot to hold the gentle stuff of Calvinism forsooth must be brought in which carried within it as it does every where its cursed Quicksilver which being once admitted made the fire ever after to be most unquenchable Thus did the flame burst out the people as in spight of all Laws begun to mutiny broke down the Kings Arms and grew so wilde as in a rage they pulled down Images robbed Churches rifled Monasteries and contemned all Magistrates that sought to appease the troubles And upon what grounds did they do all this Blessed St. Calvin gave them a Dispensation which they have not been ashamed to urge for their apology Lih. 4. cap. 13 21. A man saith he once illuminated with the truth Simul vinculis omnibus obediendi legibus Ecclesiae solutus est That is he that hath once perfect knowledge of their Gospel is presently absolved from all Laws and Oaths of Obedience to the King or Church Is not this a blessed Lesson are not these holy Evangelists It is here worth noting how a certain Hollander in his third Defence of the United Provinces calleth the King of Spain Raptorem Haereticum notorium most insolently and thereupon he infers Annon potius Regem Hispaniae quia Haereticus notorius est ex suo Regno omnibus omnium Evangelicorum viribus expellere oporteret Thus Proclaiming it the duty of all good Evangelists to expel the King of Spain with all their might and main out of his Territories because he was a robber and a notorious Heretick Does not this man look like one of Catilines Religion though cloaked with this new Gospel and pretended Protestancy of Integrity Now that this was down-right Rebellion under that specious pretext of Religion their own Countryman if they will be pleased to study him Honderius in Prax. Criminal cap. 132. one Honderius sheweth at large and indeed has drawn up their Process Seditiosi sunt saith he qui movent conspirationem adversus Rectores Administratores Regnorum vel illicitas Congregationes populi cogunt cives Commotionibus turbant c. They are guilty of Sedition who contrive any thing or conspire against Governors or Deputies of Kingdoms or make any unlawful Meetings or trouble Citizens with Commotions Now what is all this compared with their dealings against Alva Don Juan and the Duke of Parma with their many Meetings at Breda and Osterweal with their incensing and encouraging the Geuz with their defence of Harlem and Alcmar Are not those Actions good Comments upon their Law and clear against themselves But in another Chapter he proceeds to declare the conditions of a just War 1. Ut Bella sint just a Ide● c. 82. requiritur ut justa sit causa 2. Recta intentio 3. Personarum idoneitas 4. Autoritas Principum sine qua est laesa Majestas First A just Cause is requisite Secondly A right Intention Thirdly A rightful capacity of Persons And lastly The Authority of the Prince without which to take up arms is Treason Now if the States do but mark that sine quâ they may well hold down their heads and blush for shame of their impious Rebellion For in all their wars they neither had just cause nor yet good colour of a cause They were secured for their Religion by the Pacification of Gaunt by the Perpetual Edict and by the Articles of the Treaty at Colen by which they were to enjoy all without disturbance and yet would not they joyn with the States General to accept the same Neither could there be recta intentio for it was onely to nourish discord and disobedience against their Prince It is true they pretended ever Religion and the peoples safety as all Rebels use to do but it is as true that they likewise prosecuted the common ends of other Rebels not for the love of them nor their Religion but his own private ends and preservation Ambition and Dispair were his principal Motives and Counsellors and a Revenge upon and Dispossessing the King of his Soveraignty were his perfect ends and poor Religion his beloved Protestancy of Integrity served him but as a meer stalking-horse to all those Claudius le Brun in P●ax Civ Crim. Besides let us but consider what Claudius le Brun lays down in his Book of Process both Civil and Criminal who addeth That whosoever surprizeth Towns Castles or Forts without order of his Soveraign as the Count de Lumay did in Holland and Voret and Barland did at Flushing in Zealand whereby the peace of the Country is broken Or who attempteth against the life of his Soveraign or his Lieutenant is guilty of Treason Now these Maximes all Europe hath ever held as Judgments and Decrees of eternal Reason and inviolable Principles of State which are never to be called in question And if the States of Holland do not observe hold and practice the same they can never expect peace at home nor any order and obedience in any of their Dominions By this it is manifest That as in the beginning these Hollanders are justly to be charged with Sedition so in their progress they stand guilty of Treason and Rebellion And then being so convinced Traytors by Law is it not now a little wonderful that they should become High and Mighty Lords by Law I am sure it is more by luck than cunning

other firk at the coat of Kings But saith he Paul commands obedience to Kings he answers Yea it is true Paul did so in his nonage of Christianity and in the infancy of the Church but if he had lived now he would have writ and said far otherwise As if the time wherein Buchanan lived had been more enlightned with the Spirit than that of the Apostles and that he himself were inriched with a greater fulness of the Holy Ghost and had a more ripe and solid judgment than poor Paul could possibly comprehend Thus are the people closely armed to kill Kings under the notion of Tyrants by the Zeal of Gods Church and Truth and the Light of the Gospel as by the Sword of Gideon and the Arms of Judith which must be drawn and directed by the people even against their Kings Now that these impious Paradoxes be the Doctrines not of one Goodman nor one Knox or one Buchanan but of the whole Congregation of those Protestants of Integrity is to be seen by their holy Geneva Bible Bib. Genev. 2 Chron. c. 5. v. 16. admitted by their whole Kirk wherein their Notes upon the Second of Chronicles shew That they allow the deposing of Queen Maacha by her son Asa for Idolatry and yet reprehend him for want of zeal that he did not put her to death by fire The like Axioms sure are not allowed at Doway nor the like Notes to be found in the Rhemish Testament But yet the practice and execution of these poysonous Positions and Doctrines is much worse than the pronouncing of their bare Decrees Less l. 10. Hist c. Lessaeus the learned Bishop of Ross saith that Eo Knoxii prorupit audacia ut publice Nobiles pro concione perstrinxerit quod Jesabelem ex medio non sustulerunt Knox grew to that heighth of impudence as publickly in a Sermon to rebuke the Nobles of Scotland that they did not put their Queen that Jesabel to death and yet these are all but words But observe how speedily blows followed For all the Histories of Scotland do sufficiently testifie That their first act of Reformation of Religion as they called it or Establishment of their Protestancy of Integrity was the surprizing the Castle of St. Andrews without Warrant or Commission then the murthering of Cardinal Belua 1546. And from thence proceeded to the Deposition of their own most Gracious Virtuous and Religious Queen our Kings Great Grand-Mother and afterwards pursued her to her murther here in England All which practices were sufficiently furthered by the rest of their Reforming Brethren abroad B●za in Epist 78 ●d Buchanan the Prime Protestants of Integrity as appears by Beza in his Letter to Buchanan provoking him to those Barbarous and Satanical Treasons by his bitter railings against that best of Queens calling her Medea and Athalia and saying with his foul mouth that Nullum illius sceleribus idoneum nomen invenio That he could not finde out words to express or names to set out her wickedness and a great deal more in his Reveille Matin Reveille Matin and onely because she was not forsooth a Protestant of Integrity Nay King James of blessed memory himself her son and our Soveraigns Grandfather had much ado to scape their hands though but in his Cradle as he was pleased frequently to acknowledge and so openly that it could not pass the observation of learned men abroad especially one Johu Schuts Joh. Schuts his observation of K. James a Lutheran who repeats the Kings words thus Ab illis ego non solùm â nativitate continuò vexatus fui verum etiam abipso matris utero propemodum extinctus antequam in lucem editus sum I have not been onely vext and persecuted by this kinde of people from my Cradle and Infancy but also from my very Mothers womb and was almost by them extinguished before I could see light But we know better sure here in England than any Lutheran abroad could possibly how that great most judicious and knowing King was satified in their Religious rogueries and what he thought of them to his dying day and the warning he gave his most vertuous son upon his death-bed to beware of them Which how well he did observe I know not but this I am sure of That they were the principal movers of all his and his Kingdoms troubles and the cursed hands that joyned with the English Protestants of Integrity here to work his final ruine Sed transeat cum reliquiis erroribus But now here before I proceed any further I must be bold to make a stand and sadly intermix the water of my eyes with my mourning and sorrowful Ink and with a black distempered Pen deplore the madness of those malicious men who were the first engagers of us in our late unnatural Wars Ah poor England Paradise of the Earth Eye of the World Pearl of all Beauties How many times by the means of these Infernal Spirits Spawn of the Cockatrice Protestants of Integrity hast thou seen thy fruitful bosom heretofore crowned with Ears of Corn and Guilded with Harvests all bristled over with Battalia's How many times hast thou seen thy Land covered with Swords and thy Seas with Ships How many times hast thou felt the arms of thy Children encountring within thy proper Entrails How many times hast thou seen flames of Brothers hostility flying through thy fat and fragrant Fields When hast thou not sweat in all the parts of thy beautiful body When have not Rivers of Blood been drawn from thy Veins and such Blood as would have cemented the best Bulwarks for thy best defence against all foreign enemies whatsoever and if well employed had made the great enemy of Christendom the Turk ere this to tremble at thy Standards and have replanted again the beautiful Plains of Palestine But all hath been sacrificed to such Religious Furies Nor could these sacred Blood-Leeches yet rest satisfied till they had embrued their hands and made their hearts drunk with His whose every drop was worth a whole Ocean of ours Murther they must the most Religious and Clement Monarch of the Universe a Prince wise as Apollo Valiant as Achilles Vertuous as Socrates Pious as Aeneas and Beautiful as an Amazon must pass away as a Pearl parcht up with Lightning and leave his Anointed Head upon a Scaffold as a sacrifice to these Religious Monsters of Mankinde An action so dire and dreadful a Tyranny so barbarous that no voice or pen can ere be able to express it it makes the hair stand an end on the heads of all good men so much as to think upon it nay nothing but a stile of fire or pen of Adamant steeped in blood is capable to declare it And certainly as it was said of Sylla If that Mercy her self had come upon the Earth in humane shape they would have murthered her Are you not yet ashamed of your ingratitude you children of the Scotish Belial Had you