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A26065	Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing A4033; ESTC R4907	49,298	71

days by Rome Anti-christian Pag. 8. Have not we of this Kingdom been bought and sold hath it not been attempted yea effected in great measure to bring us as Joseph into Egyptian Slavery were they not English Prelates that conspired to sel●… their Brethren into Romish Slavery Pag. 12. Some of your Brethren have come in and submitted to you Stars of the first Magnitude and may it not be expected the Sun and Moon nill do so too if they do not they may do worse if they do not it will never be worse for you Pag. 20. Mr. Samuel Faircloth on Josh. 7. 25. before divers of the House of Commons MOses fell on his f●…ce as Joshua here and makes God cry out Let me alone will this Cure it no Moses sees for all his prayers Israel will not be cured without a full and total extirpation of all the accursed things and Persons also Pag. 25. * The Lord rent the Kingdom from Saul for sparing one Agag and for w●…nt of thorow extirpation of all the accursed things he lost both than●…s for what he had done and Kingdom also Pag. 27. 'T is not partial Reformation and execution of justice upon some offenders will afford us help except those in Authority extirpate all Achans with Baby lomsh Garments Orders Ceremonies Gestures be rooted out from among us Pag. 28. * To you of the Honourable House Up for the matter belongs to you We even all the Godly Ministers of the Country will be with you Pag. 29. Think of it in your Committees to save them and theirs from trouble by troubl●…ng them as Joshua to wit by a thorow abolishment and extirpation of them Pag. 29. The East wind did not sooner cure Egypt of the Frogs of Nilus than this course would England of all the Achans and Frogs of Tiber There being no vertue wherein men resemble the Lord more lively as in executing of justice and in extirpation of those Achans you will cut off the wicked and procure the felicity of the chosen Pag. 34. Trouble they will bring upon us for time to come if they be not now cut off all may see that an Universal destruction extirpation of Us our Religion Peace and Laws was intended by them and shall not Joshua justly extirpate Achans eye for eye tooth for tooth that justice may measure them the measure they would have measrr'd to us is not onely 〈◊〉 but necessary if ninety and nine were taken away and but on●… A●…han left he would trouble us Pag. 36. Consecrate your selves to day unto the Lord and if all Achans could be hang'd up coram isto sole let none remain until too morrow however Pag. 47. The Lord is persuing you if you execute not vengeance on them betimes Pag. 48. Why should life be further granted to them whose very life brings death to all about them Pag. 50. Mr. Will. Bridges on Revel 4. 8. BAbylon is fallen as Rome in her Latitude with all her Merchants and those that Symbolize with her is here to be understood Pag. 6. Worthies of Israel it lies on you to enquire out this Babylonish company and to repay them an eye for an eye tooth for tooth burning for burning ear for ear liberty for liberty and blood for blood Pag. 10. Though as little ones they call for pitty yet as Babylonish they call for justice even to blood Pag. XI If a thing be indifferent in it's own nature and the doing thereof offensive to a weak Brother Authority can not write jus divinum upon it for to offend a weak Brother is to destroy him Pag. 15. Whensoever you shall behold the hand of God in the fall of Babylon say True here is a Babylonish Priest crying out alas alas my living I have wife and children to maintain I but all this is to perform the judgement of the Lord. Pag. 30. There shall be who when the Vial shall be poured out on the beast shall gnaw their tongues and blaspheme the God of heaven Pag. 33. Nath. Homes Doctor in Divinity on 2 Pet. 3. vers 13. 1641. AN ill Scholar is not said to be gone from the University till he be gone eum pannis with his clothes no more is enormity gone from the Universality of Ecclesiasticks till it be gone cum pannis not a rag of Superstition left behind Pag. 31. This Position That humane honest Intention may devise forms of devotion hath brought all the Judaism Turcism and Papism into the Church Pag. 33. These Ecclesiastical Offices Ceremonies and Discipline are set up by the Pope and are an appendix or tail of Anti-christ Pag. 33. Now is the promised time of the Churches Reformation in Christendom P. 34. Mr. H. Burton in his Sermon on Psal. 53. 7 8. Jun 20. 1641. AFter the first-born of Egypt were slain the children of Israel were deliver'd and for the chiefest of these Incendiaries certainly the Primogenit being taken away we may well hope for a glorious deliverance Pag. XI * God 's people lie under bondage of Conscience in point of Liturgy Secondly In bondage of Conscience under Ceremonies Thirdly Of Conscience under Discipline Fourthly Of Conscience under Government Pag. 21. Mr. S. Sympson on Prov. 8 15 16. By me Kings Reign * LEt no Law hinder you si jus violandum and if Law be to be broken it is for a Crown and therefore for Religion Pag. 23. * You are set over Kingdoms to root out pull down destroy and throw down do it quickly do it thorowly Pag. 24. * That which is best though evil will be counted good after Reformation as he is counted innocent who scapes at trial Pag. 25. * Among the Jews all were in the Church that were fit to live now none must be but Saints Pag. 29. One thing that has hindred the Church hath been too much respect to Antiquity Pag. 30. An other thing that hinders the Church hath been a desire of Uniformity by this Judaism and Gentilism got into the Church that they might accord together Pag. 31. Mr. Case in his Sermon on 2 Chron. 19. 6 7. Concerning Jehosaphats Caveat to his Judges Preaching to a Court Martial YOu know said he how the Midianites the King and his Party with whom you have to do have vext you with their wiles and laboured to obstruct you yet to cut Us all off in our passage into the Land of Promise that blessed Reformation which the Parlament Consult for Assembly Dispute for Armies Fight for and all good Christians Pray for Oh! therefore do you honour God in avenging your Brethren upon these Midianites in doing execution on the enemies of Christ and the Kingdom Out of the Book called Scripture and Reason pleaded for Defensive Arms or the whole Controversie about Subjects taking up of Arms Published by divers of their learnedst Divines and ordered to be Printed by the Committee of the House of Commons April 14. 1643. Which Order is subscribed by John White TO Doctor Fern 's Objection That though it

his Majesty Pag. 49. So hath Prelacy flatter'd it self finding such a party to stand up on it's side among the * rotten Lords and Commons the debauched Gentry and abused people of the Kingdom As thy sword Prelacy hath made many women childless many a faithful Minister peop'eless c. So thy Mother Papacy shall be made childless among harlots ●… your Diocess Bishop'ess and your Sees Lordless and your Places shall know you no more Come my Brethren I say and fear not to take this * Agag Prelacy I mean not the Prelates and * hew it in pieces before the Lord. Pag. 51. None can withdraw from much less oppose this Service but such as bear evil will to Sion and would be unwilling to see th●… ruine and downfall of Anti-christ which this blessed Covenant doth so evidently threaten Pag. 63. A fift Motive to quicken us to this Duty may be even the Practice of the Anti-christian State and Kingdom Popery hath been dextrous to propagate and spred it self by this means And Prelacy that * whelp hath learned this Policy of it's mother Papacy that Lioness to corrobate and raise it self to that height we have seen and suffered by these Artifice●… it being an inconfiderable number either of Ministers or People the Lord be merciful to us in this thing that have had eyes to discover the Mystery of Iniquity which these men have driven Pag. 64. * He that hath been a Malignant or Neutral let him be so no more for I protest against every man that after his striking of this so Solemn and Sacred a Covenant with the most high God shall dare knowingly to persist in any of these mentioned abominations that is adheering to the King c. he is an enemy to Jesus Christ a Traytor to the Kingdoms a State Murderer and a destroyer of himself and his Posterity and at his hands if they miscarry God will require the blood of all these Pag. 101. * It brings Letters of Testimonial with it c. The waters of this Covenant hath been a notable purgation to the Rebels there in Scotland it hath been a Shibboleth to discover them and a Sword in the hand of the Angel of the Covenant to chase or slay them The walls of Jericho have fallen flat before it The Dagon of the Bishops Service-Book brake it's neck before this Ark of the Covenant Prelacy and * Prerogative have bowed down and given up the Ghost at it's feet And what changes hath it wrought in the Church and State what a Reformation hath follow'd at the heels of this glorious Ordinance Pag. 65 66. Epist. Dedicat. Thousands of your Nation are preparing their Brotherly addresses to pay the same debt to the whole Kingdom now almost in as great an exigence as ever the Gibeonites were when their five Kings with all their united fo●…ces were within few days march to take a bloody and unnatural Revenge for their entring into Covenant with Joshua onely we beseech you account it not our distrust or jealousie if sometimes you hear us complaining with the mother of Sisera Why are their chariots so long in com●…ng why stay the wheels of their chariots That is why come not in the Scotish A●…my against the King Out of the Trial of Mr. Love before the High-court of Justice in Westminster-Hall Printed Aug. 1652. MAjor Huntington in his Examination as witness against Love says thus pag. 32. I was told by Major Alford that Bain●… another witness told them he was very sorry he should meddle in that business and that they would never prosper that had any thing to do with him meaning the King for that the sins of him and his father were so great Mr. Love told Adams a Witness against him thus That if the Presbyterians were in Arms again by the blessing of God the Cava●…eering party might be prevented from getting the day Pag. 38. Mr. Love in his defence says thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my old Covenanting Principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terror or perswasion whatsoever c. I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilest I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to ●…his day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parlaments quarrel against the Forces raised by the King I gave my All And I did not onely deem it my duty to Preach for the Lawfulness of a Defensive War but unless my books and wearing apparel I contributed all that I had in the world I have at this day a great sum due to me from the State which is still kept from me and now my life endeavoured to be taken from me And yet for all this I repent not of what I have done though I could from my soul wish that the ends of that just war had been better accomplished c. Pag. 67. When I was Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts I do not speak it out of vain ostentation but meerly to represent unto you that what I ●…as I am and what I am I was I was the first Scholar that I know o●… or ever heard of in Oxon who did publikely refuse in the Congregation-house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Arch-Bishop touching the Prelates Common Prayers And for which though they would not deny me my Degree yet I was expelled the Congregation-house never to sit as a member among them c. About the beginning of the Wars between the late King and the Parl●…ment I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who w●…s accused of Preaching of Treason and Rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenerden the lawfulness of a defensive War * at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles I c. T●…at have in my measure ventur'd my All in the same quarrel that you were e●…gaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another c. Attourney General Prideaux in Pag. 102. Thus The Treason is in this The Scots come in with intent to subvert the Government meaning Cromwels Charles S●…ewart to be made King to subvert the Government c. I have prayed unto God many a day and kept many a Fast wherein I have sought God that there might be an agreement between the King and the Scots upon the Interest of Religion and terms of the Covenant Pag. 125. Thus I die cleaving to all those Oaths Vows Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the Two Houses of Parlament as owning them and dying with my judgement for them to the Protestation the Vow

Unbiast consciences to be just Pag. 15. We may answer all Queries about the Reign of Christ thus the blind begin to have their eyes unscal'd the lame do walk at liberty proud ones are ab●…s'd the mighty ones are put from their seats errors discountenanc'd ●…ruths inquir'd after Ceremonies and Superstitions are cast out monuments of Popery and Paganism cast down Pag. 35. Mr. Caryl on Luke 10. 20. Rejoyce not that the Spirits are made Subject unt●… you c. * THere is very little difference between Devils and wicked men I may say without breach of charity Devils Incarnate are made subject this day and their Subjection is the subject of this days rejoycing Pag. 22. Mr. Charles Herle before the House of Lords Jan. 15. 1643. on Psal. 95. 1. O come let us sing unto the Lord c. * IN vain shall you in your Fasts with Joshua lie on your faces unless you lay your Achans on their backs in vain are the high praises of God in your mouthes without a two edged Sword in your hand Pag. 31. The same again he has in Sermon on Gen. 22. vors 2. before the Lord Maior and Aldermen pag. 23. adding * the blood that Ahab spared in Benhad ad stuck as deep and heavily on him as that which he spilt in Naboth Mr. Herle in his Preface before his sermon on 2 Sam. 21. 16 17. Preach'd before the Commons Novemb. 5. 1644. HE is neither true Protestant nor true English-man that doth not with all thankfulness and admiration look upon the greatness of the contribution which the concurrent streams of our Sister Nation of Scotland brings to both those interests of Church and State Pag. 14. * Do justice to the greatest Sauls sons are not spared no nor may Agag or Benhadad though themselves Kings Zimri and Cosbi though Princes of the People must be pursu'd into their Tents This is the way to Consecrate your selves to God Pag. 16. Mr. Herle on 1 Kings 22. 22. I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the Prophets Before the Commons 1644. * IF the Devil can but once get a Prophet to leave Gods Service for the Kings he hath taken a Blew already and is ready for as deep a Black as Hell can give him Pag. 28. * There can be nothing plainer than that the Houses of Parlament without the Kings personal concurrence are still a Court of Judgement Pag. 38. * The Houses are not onely requisite to the acting of this power of making Laws but co-ordinate with his Majesty in the very power of acting Pag. 42. Mr. Jerem. Burroughs on Isa. 66. vers 10. in a Thansgiving THere was corruption both in Church and Common-wealth Idols were set up in Dan and Bethel i. e. in the places of Judgement and in the House of God Pag. 37. * The greatest blow that ever was given to Anti-christian Government is that which now it hath had Babylon is fallen is sallen so fallen as it shall never rise again Pag. 44. This is the Curse of God on that party notwithstanding God sets himself against them yet they will not come in and repent for God takes no pleasure in them to give them repentance Pag. 58 59. Mr. Obed. Sedgewick on Esther 9. vers 1. in a Thanksgiving sermon Jan. 15. 1643. * NEver were there grosser Idols in Rome than those things as they were used by some and what is abus'd by superstition ought not to be retain'd Pag. 33. Mr. Alexander Henderson before the Lords and Commons Thursday 18. of July 1644. on Mat. 14. 21. In his preface to that sermon THe principal theam and matter of the Solemnity of the day we take for an answer of the prayers of the faithful in the three Kingdoms Mr. John Strickland of New Sarum in his Thanksgiving Novemb. 5. 1644. on Psal. 46. 7. * THe execution of Judgement is the Lords work and they shall be cursed that do it negligently and cursed shall they be that keep back their Sword from blood in this cause you know the story of Gods message unto Ahab for letting Benhadad go upon Composition Pag. 26. * Such a generation of men there were amongst us that by compliances with Idols and Idolatry went about to drive God away and what consistence can there be between the Ark and Dagon between God and Idols Pag. 32. Mr. Matthew Newcomen on Neh. 4. XI Novemb. 5. 1642. A Dam ●…ontzen a Jesuite has drawn a plot for cheating of a people of the true Religion by Art of Legerdemain the Method this be pleased to observe how exactly the late times have moved according to these Rules When Abbies were demolish'd they found in their vaults and ponds heaps of Sculs and bones monuments of their smother'd cruelty I doubt not but the abolishers of High Commission have found as manifest evidence of their cruel practices heaps of the blood of Innocents Pag. 30. Those Traytors of the fift of November laid their Fire-works in the Bowels of the earth these have laid theirs in the bosom of our Soveraign whereby they have Captivated not onely the multitude but the Throne it self Pag. 35. Mr. Joh. Ward before the House of Lords on Deut. 33. 16. 'T Is n●…w more than manifest that Rome and Hell had long since taken counsel by working to extirpate all Protestant Religion as for dissolving Our Laws the introducing Arbitrary Government it was but a design on the by to Cajole and hire the Court to their party Pag. 16. * The Scots were necessitated to take up Arms for their just defence and against Anti-christ and the Popish Priests Pag. 18. A Lamp hath been seen to walk between the divided pieces many Testimonies of the goodness of our God in the remembrance of his Covenant Pag. 21. Mr. John Bond Master of the Savoy before the House of Commons on Isaiah 25. 9. 1645. Octob. 8. * COme hither you malignant Atheists come hither g●…ash your teeth and let your eyes rot in their holes Pag. 5. My sute is concerning the Covenant that it may not be obtrude●… without due preparation as the Spaniards baptized the Americans b●… droves Pag. 36. Give them time first to disgorge themselves of their direful Anti-Covenant perjurious combinations Pag. 36. Let them ●…irst shave their heads and pair their nails as the strang●… Virgin of old was commanded to do and so let them enter into that sacred and dreadful Covenant Pag. 37. If hereafter the Tide of Victory shall turn again and you shall b●… brought low yet I beseech you remember this day in which you are to give thanks for five Victories that there was a day when God serv'd you in with five Pheasants in a dish with a feast of fat things Pag. 38. Mr. Francis Woodcock before the House of Commons Feb. 19. 1645. on Gen. 49. 23. In his Preface to the County and City of Chester aster the surrender of Chester THe Church in the foremost times was harrased by Rome heathen in these last

be said they intend not to hurt the Kings Person yet might I not as well have hurt his Person in the day of Battel a●… any of them that were swept away from ab●…ut him by the fury of the Ordnance which put no difference twixt King and Common Souldiers Pag. 19. They answer by faying That though this is the hardest case that can be put against Defensive Armes yet first By what Rule of Conscience or God is a state bound to sacrifize Religion Laws and Liberties rather than endure that the Prince his Life should come into any possibilities of hazard by defending them against those that in his Name are bent to subdue them Pag. 18. Secondly If he wi●…l needs thrust himself upon the hazard when he needs not whose fault is that And a little after in the same Answer As if a King disguized should offer any private violence a watchman that would not or even might not hurt him being known were without blame if he knock'd him down or killed him as he might in like case a disorderly private person Now in Battel to many or most and especially to the Gunners that give fire to the Ordnance he is altogether disguised and so they are blameless in reference to his personal hurt that fault is wholly his own and those wicked Counsellors that have thrust him upon the fury of the Battel Pag. 20. To Doctor Ferne's saying It is a marvellous thing that among so many Prophets reprehending the Kings of Israel and Judah for their Idolatry cruelty and oppression none should call upon the Elders of the people for this duty of resistance They Answer That even in the reign of the best Kings not onely the Peoples hearts were usually unprepared and in their greatest seemings hypocritical and treacherous but also the Princes Elders and Nobles were exceedingly corrupt Now if they were so bad in good times who can marvel if they were stark naught where the King was naught and helpers forwarders of his Idolatries Cruelties and Oppressions And why should it then be expected that the Prophets should call upon them to resist the King being on their side and they on his Pag. 20. 21. It is not absolutely true that men are bound Universally as by an Ordinance of God to set up live under Government in the Doctors sense that is absolutely and without power to resist Pag. 31. Either all mankind are not bound to be under Government and all the Doctors te●…ts and reasons are alleged in vain or else Kings and Monarchs are also under some Government at least of the Representative Body of their people according to what was before alleged from our Lawyers Rex non habet superiorem praeter legem Curiam Comitum Baronum c. Pag. 32. We argue not that the people have power to recall that Regal Authority wholly upon any Case of Mal-administration All that we plead for is Power to administer a part of it upon Necessity which he will not administer for good but rather for evil And there are not many things that were altogether ours and in our disposing before we part with them but are still so far Ours to use them again in our Necessity for that turn at least Pag. 35. A Prince onely inherits what was given the first of the Nation or others since by consent of the people and by written Law or Custome he must claim any power he will exercise or else he cannot plead any right title to it and his qualification of power admits of Increase or Decrease as he and the people agree and consent His power is altogether derived by Election and Consent first and last whence I will infer no more but as before that therefore in Case of necessity the people may use so much of it as may suffice to save themselves from Ruine Pag. 39. The late Usurpers own'd as a Holy State set up by Almighty God MAster Sam. Slater in a Sermon Preached at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk upon the 13. of Octob. 1658. Being a day set apart for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector This Sermon he intitles The Protectors Protection or the Pious Prince guarded by a Praying People In this Sermon Pag. 57 58. He hath these words Oh! pray for your Governours and in a more special manner for him whom God hath made chief over you and by his Providence called to the Supreme place of Magistracy in the Nation God hath been pleased of late to make a sad breach among Us taking away from Us our former Pilot the late Renowned Protector who when he had fought the Nations Battels carried us thorow the wilderness preserved us from the rage and fury of our Enemies and brought us within s●…ght of the promised Land gave up the Ghost laid down his leading Staff and his life together with whose fall the Nation was shaken his death covered all the faces of sober and considerate Persons with paleness and their hearts with sadness as if Peace Prosperity Resormation the Gospel all lay drawing on and would be buried in the same grave with him But b●…essed be God Divine Grace vouchsafed to cast an eye towards us and to visit us in our low estate there is another Pilot placed in his room VVhile he directs the Course let us fill the Sails with our Praying breath Moses it is true is dead but we have a Joshua succeeding him let us pray that what the other happily begun this may more happily finish and bring the accomplishment of all your right-bred hopes and what they said to Joshua let us say unto his Highness According as we hearkned unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee onely the Lord they God be with thee as he was with Moses Jos. 1. 17. And pag. 60. Our Prince riseth gloriously pray that he might n●…t set in a cloud Our hopes concerning him are great pray that they may not be blasted Thus He. Mr. Baxter in his Five Disputations of Church-Government and Worship in the Epistle Dedicatory to Richard Cromwel He delivers the sense of his Party in these words MAny are perswaded you have been strangely kept from participating in any of our late bloody Contentions that God might make you a Healer of our Breaches and imploy you in that Temple-work which David Himself might not be Honour'd with And he adds This would be the way to lift you highest in the Esteem and love of all Your people and make them see that You are appointed by God to be an Healer and Restorer and to glory in You and to bless God for you as the Instrument of our chiefest good My earnest Prayers for your Higness shall be that you may rule us as One that is ruled by God c. The same Mr. Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth in the Epistle Dedicatory or Preface to the Army pag. 6. He call'd those Usurping Powers that

and Covenant the Solemn League and Covenant And this I tell you all I had rather die a Covenant-keeper th●…n live a Covenant-breaker Pag. 162. Thus I die with this perswasion that the Presbyterial Government makes most for purity and unity throughout the Churches of the Saints Mr. Marshal in a Sermon before the House of Peers Octob. 28. 1646. On that Text Psal. 8. 2. Out of the mouth of Babes hast thou ordained strength That thou mightest still the enemy c. HE propounds this Quaere Wherein lyes the Power which proceedeth out of the mouth of these Babes His answer is There are sive things which all are the fruit of the mouth by them the●…e Babes have overcome the enemy and the avenger 1. Preaching 2. Confessing or Professing The Name Truth and cause of God and his Christ. 3. Praising Singing out Praise c. 4. Praying and 5. Covenanting Then he brings in an Objection If these be all the weapons and strength whereby the Saints do overcome why do you use any other means to overcome your enemies Why rest you not contented with this either these are not all or you are not Christians nor true to your Principles Time was when Preces and Lachrymae Prayers and Tears were all the weapons which the Church did use but now when you have spoke all these things of the power of Preaching and Praying and Consessing and Covenanting you are glad to betake your selves to Arms to see what they will do to help those out whence it 's apparent you dare not rest in these as sufficient helps To this Mr. Marshal answers thus we acknowledge that as we are Christians in that capacity for as they distinguish'd the King into a double Capacity so they did themselves too into a natural and a Christian capacity and in that Capacity saith He we use no other weapons than these we have told you of these onely are proper and peculiar to us ●…s we are Christians but the weapons which we enjoy as we are Christians do not deprive us of those we enjoy in the capacity as Men. And we challenge in this no more than we may lawfully use if we were Papists or Turks if we were Pagans Jews or Indians we challenge not this to belong to Christianity as peculiar to it we have learn'd that by the Law of Nature and Nations men may defend themselves against unjust violence if the Turks should invade a Countrey of Christians they will tell him that as they are Christians Their Praying and Professing and Singing Covenanting These Spiritual weapons out of their mouth will quell them but as they are men they have a liberty to defend themselves against him vim vi repellere Or if a Christian man were travelling upon the high way and a Thief should demand of him how as a Christian he could defend himself from his Enemies He would tell him by Faith by Prayer by the word of God by weapons out of his mouth but if the Thief assault him and take his life or his purse ●…s he is a man he will use his sword and Christianity will sanc●…ifie this use of his sword to him c. Thus Mr. Marshal ubi supra Pag. 27 28. And to secure his Party from fear of future vengeance or damnanation threatned to the Resisters of Soveraign Authority Rom. 13. 2. He interprets that Text not of the damnation of hell but of the Sentence of the Soveraign Power and that they might not b●… frighted with the fear of that Temporal Judg●…ment neither He promiseth them success and victory in the Name of Almighty God as abovesaid Out of Mr. Calamyes Apology against Mr. Burton 1646. FOr my own particular I crave leav●… to declare to all that shall read these lines what I have done to manifest my repentance and let Master Burton then judge whether it be a repentance to be repented of or no. First I went to Bury and there made in a Sermon a recantation and retraction of what I had done in the hearing of thousands And this I did before the times turned against Episcopacy not out of discontent nor because I was disappointed of my expected preferment at Court Secondly After my coming to London at the beginning of this Parlament I was one of those that did joyn in making Smectymnuus which was the first deadly blow to Episcopacy in England of late years Thirdly My house was a receptacle for godly Ministers in the worst of times here was the Remo●…strance framed against the Prelates here were all meetings I was the first that openly before a Committee of Parlament did defend that our Bishops were not onely not an Order distinct from Presbyters but that in Scripture a Bishop and Presbyter were all one I blush to speak of these things but the judicious Reader will consider how I am provoked to it and will pardon me As for the Service-Book let M. Burton know that at a meeting at my house it was resolved by above a hundred Ministers after a long debate upon divers weighty considerations that all that could in their judgements submit to the reading of some part of it should be intreated for a while to continue so to do To this our dissenting Brethren then present did agree and one of them made a speech to manifest his concordance This is enough to give any man satisfaction for the late laying of it down Out of Mr. Jeremiah Burroughes his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. A People they are speaking of the Scots that began to rise for their Liberties when the generality of this people here were ready basely to bow down th●…ir backs and put their necks under the yoke and had it not been that they had been willing to have endured the brunt we had all been slaves it is like at this day Their Liberties are setled why they though on the other side of Jordan they are not therein satisfied to sit still but are willing to come themselves and come into the brunt and hazard themselves for the se●…ling of their brethren in the inheritance of the Lord likew●…se What warrant have we to take up Arms to maintain Religion that is not at present to be discussed but onely this to satisfie and stop all their mouths with one word Thus far none can deny it but it is lawful to take up arms to maintain that Civil right we have to our Religion and this we do For we have not onely a right to our Religion by the Law of God but we have a Civil right to this our Religion that other Christians have not had If it shall be said I but a great deal is done but to little purpose all this while O my brethren say not so it is an unthankful voyce this for much hath been done there hath been a check given to the adversary the stream of tyranny and slavery it hath been stopped your lives have all this

in the State thereof and if this was the guilt of the House of Lords by other practices and proceedings more than by an indifferencie and compliance with the Hamiltonian invasion to help the King to such a power I know not what to answer for them It is then undeniable that the third Article of that National Covenant was ●…ever meant by those that made it or that took ir to be opposite to the sense of the Oath of Allegiance but altogether agreeable thereunto What then the meaning of that Article is must needs also be the true sense of the Oath of Allegiance That Article then doth oblige you to preserve the Right and Privileges of the Parlament and the Liberties of the Kingdom in your Calling absolutely and without any limitation but as for the Kings person and Authority it doth oblige you onely thereunto conditionally and with a limitation Namely in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of this Kingdom If then the King did not give to the Representatives of the Nation that assurance which was satisfactory and necessary that their Religion and Liberties should be preserved none of his Subjects were bound either by their Allegiance or Covenant to defend his person and the Authority which was conferred upon him The Oath of Allegiance therefore was bottomed upon the Laws which the Representatives of the Nation in Parlament had chosen to be observed concerning their Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdom which he refractorily either casting off or seeming to yield unto in such a way that no trust could be given him that he would keep what he yielded unto the Parlament did actually lay him aside and voted that no more Addresses should be made unto him from which time forward he was no more an object of your Oath of Allegiance but to be look'd upon as a Private man and your Oath by which you were engaged to be true and faithful to the Law by which the Religion and Liberty of the Kingdom was to be preserved did still remain in force which if it may be the true substantial sense of the present Engagement which you think is contradictory to this Oath and to the National Covenant then you are to look well to it that you be not mistaken for to an indifferent eye it may be thought so far from being opposite to the true sense of either that it may be rather a confirmation of the ground for which both the Oath of Allegiance and the third Article of the National Covenant was then binding And then also this I am confident of to be able to let you see further that although you may think that the effect of this Engagement is materially contrary to some intention which you had in the third Article of the Covenant yet that by the Act of the Engagement you are so far from breaking your Covenant that except you take it and observe it faithfully you will not onely materially but formally break that very Article of the Covenant for which you scruple the taking of the Engagement For the words must be taken in the sense which they can directly bear ●…nd which do impart the main end for which the Covenant was taken for the main end of this very Article whereof you make a scruple was evidently to preserve the Parlament and Common-wealth for it self and i●… need so required also without the King Now this is that which the Engagement doth directly also require for which cause I say that by vertue of this very promise you are bound to take the present Engagement and if you take it not that you make your self a transgressor of that very Article which you pretend to keep for if you refuse to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth as it is now established you do what in you lyeth to make the remaining Knights of Parlament and the beginnings of our settlement void which though at first it was not intended to be without a King yet it was cleerly presupposed in the Article it self as possible to be without him and consequently that although he should not be yet that the Common-wealth by the Rights of Parlament and the Liberties of the Nation should be preserved which is all that now is sought for by the Engagement Where you may take notice that although you and I as private men ought not to make our selves judges of the rights which superiors pretend to have in and to their places yet that they are not without a Judicature over them in those places for the subordinate Officers belonging to a State are bound to judge of the Rights of those that are over them both by which they stand in their places of Supremacy and by which they proceed in their actings toward Subjects lest they be made the instruments of Arbitrary power and tyranny and then also the law-making power which in all Nations resides by the Law of Nature in the convention of the Representatives of the whole body of the people whether it be made up of the heads of families or of chosen Deputies who are intrusted with a delegated power from all the rest doth make or unmake Rights in all places and persons within it self as it from time to time doth see cause HAving thus surveyed the dangerous Positions and Principles of the Presbyterians their brethren that it may be evident to the world that the enemies of our Church are equally enemies to our Monarchy it will not be amiss to lay down some of the Principles of the Papists and the Hobbians In which not to multiply citations we will for one of the first of these take father White who is counted the most moderate of them in his Book Intitled the Grounds of Obedience and Government And for the next Mr. Hobbs himself in his Books one called Leviathan and the other de Cive which he so magnifies that he affirms that part of Philosophy to which the handling of the Elements of Government and Civil Societies belongs is no older than that Book Of the dispossession of a Supreme former Governour and of his Right by Mr. White a Romanist pag. 132. c. in His Grounds of Obedience c. NOw our Question supposeth the Governour not to have come to that extremity but either to have been good or innocent or that it is doubtful whether his excesses deserved expulsion or at least if they did deserve it of themselves yet the circumstances were not fitting for it but the expulsion hapned either by the invasion of a stranger or the ambition of a Subject or some popular headless tumult for these three ways a Magistrate comes forcibly and unjustly to be outed of his power And first if the Magistrate have truly deserved to be dispossessed or it be rationally doubted that he hath deserved it and he be actually out of possession In the former case it is certain the Subject hath no obligation to hazard for his restitution but rather to hinder