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-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 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-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
they being married made a composure of Red and White as blushing at the former Mischiefs The Presbyter is a Zealous Dragooner the Holy Man of War that is ever beating up his Drums against Loyalty and Nobility search through the New Testament and you may learn the Genealogie of our Saviour by the Names in their Regiments nor need the Muster-Master use any other List then the first Chapter of St. Matthew which makes me admire how they could ever object to the King the bringing in of Forraigners when they themselves maintain'd such an Army of Hebrews He is one that rifles Colledges to promote Learning and pulls down Churches for Edification He had once almost put out one of the Kingdoms Eyes by clouding one of the Universities and if that Scotch mist had farther prevail'd had extinguish'd the other 'T was never a good world since the name of Church was turn'd into Kirk and afterwards dwindled into a Conventicle 't was a sad time ever since a feeble By my truly did walk the Streets as familiarly among us as Myn Heer in Holland But now we have his sacred Majesty restored to his right Title we are confident of a better World Velit nolit Smectymnuus in spite of the Presbyters Teeth He is one that hath as little minde to do the Kingdom good as the Church hath to lap holy-Water He is a Pulpit Boutefeu that uses to give the Congregation a Scotish Jigg and so tune his Nose with Hymns and Songs for the destruction of the Nobility of our English Nation a Butcher that exercis'd his Function Cum Privilegio in former times endeavouring to bring Loyalty to the Shambles one that never was quiet till the Creatures of the Prerogative were all turn'd into the Pound together till the Peers were pickled up with their King to satisfie his ambitions on his Prince and to feed on the Carcasses of the People He is one that thinks it is his Priviledge and would quote Scripture sor't To binde the Kings and Nobles of the earth in chains and yet to dress out all for his more devout palate the name of GOD must be placed in the front of his success as if he were the onely Darling of the Almighty or rather as if he were President in all the Proceedings and Consultations of the Presbyterian Israel His God is his Money and therefore will rather make Money of GOD and the Church then fail of an Inheritance He did endeavour some few years past to convert our Times into the Primitive and made Great CHARLES wear Fig-leave Breeches like Adam by stripping him of his Royal Robes and Revenues As for the Scotish Presbyter I am sorry I must waste Paper upon him But being he hath ever endeavoured tooth and nail according to his utmost ability to make himself considerable by being troublesome it will not be amiss to sound the depth of their constant Designes which that I may the better do give me leave to trace them in their Encroachments from the first to the last upon our English Nation When they first found themselves powerful in their own Country they became most zealous in asserting the Presbyterian Discipline against the Episcopal by which means they gained the Amity and Friendship of all the pretended Religious Party in England for they stood seemingly for no sinister ends but meerly for the purity of Religion and Liberty of Conscience against Episcopal Power and Innovations as they termed the most ancient Doctrine of the Church as also for the Laws and Liberties of the Nation invaded by the Prerogative for the redress of which Abuses a Parliament was call'd who not obtaining such a relief of forged Grievances as they expected pretended a constraint of taking up Arms in defence of their Liberties and the English Zealots had recourse to the Scots for their assistance who immediately condescended thereunto and thought it but Reason and Equity to joyn with them without dispute or scruple pretty tender-conscienc'd Babes they were in the interim that 's clear But they considering now was the time if ever to make their Markets and their own Interest as much English as might be came not off so roundly as they expected wherefore they fell to bartering like Hucksters and no Bargain could be made forsooth without a Covenant They would not joyn except they might be in a manner all one with us and this Union must be seal'd with that Solemn League and Covenant What their meaning was therein you shall understand by and by by taking a view of their Actions which are the most sure Interpreters Yet even at that time some men had their eyes in their heads and many Objections were made at divers Expressions in the Covenant and many Desires for Explanations of some Articles more fully But the Scots standing stiff upon their own Terms and no Conjunction like to be obtain'd without the Covenant and the English Presbyterians necessities requiring no delay as they imagin'd were glad to take it as it was offer'd without farther question or demur It was no sooner taken here at London but immediately every one began to make his advantages through the multitude and ambiguity of Expressions and by it to promote his several Interest as if it had been made to engage unto a particular Party not to unite two Nations in a common Interest But above all the Scots having had the honor of this invention conceived themselves much injur'd by any that deny'd them the Prerogative of making an Interpretation and in matter of Religion urged their own Discipline as the only Pattern to reform the Church by and their Plea had been far better could they have proved it to be According to the Word of GOD which Clause was most luckily inserted Notwithstanding all the Reasons to the contrary the Scotish Module was still pressed The Scot was willing to ride and having as he thought the English fast bridled with a Covenant he began to switch and spur The Throne of the Kirk was the stalking-horse to catch Geese and if that could have been settled then there had been no denying them whatsoever they could ask they would have seated themselves finely in this fat soil and surely too there would be no removing them out of our Councils whereof they had then been Members and Partakers For had the Kirk-Interest been once confirmed among us then by vertue of that Authority which they use to controle the Civil Power the Parliament must have been subservient to all their Ends and Purposes and since the English Puritans had been as they say constrain'd to make their Party strong and maintain Correspondencies for their own preservation to gratifie their Scotish Founders in all their Desires so that the Scots might easily have translated the Covenant-Union to as good as an absolute National-Union by gaining a Joynt-Interest with us in our Affairs for ever and consequently in all the Profits great Offices Councels and Concernments of this Nation Now whether this were their
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
all that this Rabble would allow her was not so much as to have one private Chappel for her self nor one Priest to serve GOD according to her own Conscience She finding her hopes frustrated and her self so much deluded endeavours to recal her Authority she takes up Arms they oppose her combat her beat her out of her Kingdom she flees into England for refuge they follow her with Invectives thrust jealousie into the Queen of England's Bosome concerning her whereupon she was consined and after a long and tedious imprisonment put to death Thus King James having put a period to his Discourse directed to Dr. Reynolds Knewstubs and the rest turns to the Bishops and closes his Oration with this Animadversion Wherefore my Lords I thank you for my Supremacie for if it were at these mens disposals I am very sensible what would become of it If you desire to be satisfi'd concerning their dealings with King James her Son Father to the Martyr CHARLES the First of blessed memory you may finde it in his Basilicon Doron Crebrae adversus me in Tribunitiis Conscionibus Calumniae spargebantur non quod ordinem aliquod designassem sed quia Rex eram quod omni crimine pejus habebatur Are these men fit to make good Subjects Did they not convene him and catechize him like a School-boy Did he not protest unto his son Henry that he hated their proud and haughty carriage ever since he was ten years of age Did he not say That Monarchy and Presbytery agreed like GOD and the Devil And have not we found it so if we consider the carriage of our new-fangled Presbyterians in England to CHARLES the First his Son But alas I am mistaken they fasted and pray'd preached and writ against it praying for a diversion of all such black intentions and yet the Presbyterian took the Scepter out of his hand in taking away the Militia of which it was an Emblem cast down his Throne by depriving him of his Negative Voice took his Crown the Fountain of Honour off his head by denying those Honour on whom he had worthily conferred it without them took away his Supremacy signifi'd by the sacred Unction wherewith he was anointed in denying him the Liberty of his Conscience in the point of Episcopacie and Church-government nor would they treat a minute with their King till they had made him acknowledge himself guilty as they say of all the blood that had been spilt throughout his Dominions and notwithstanding all the Concessions on his part that could possibly be granted even to the very grating of his Princely Conscience when he bid them ask flesh from his bones and he would not deny it if it might in any measure redound to the benefit of his people praying that he might keep his Conscience whole the Queen Regent of all good mens actions and he hoped there were none would force this Queen before him in his house as Ahasuerus said to Haman yet not withstanding all this was it voted unsatisfactory so long till the Independent Army came from Edinborougb surprized and murdered him He that said The Presbyterian held him down by the Hair while the Independents cut off his Head said true enough They murdered him as a King before ever they murdered him as a Man And when time serves the Philosopher's Maxime will pass for good and currant Logique at Court Qui vult media adfinem vult etiam ipsum finem He that wills the means conducing to the end wills also the end it self Ergo will the Royalists say since the Presbyterian put such courses in practise as tended to the King's ruine they certainly intended it and are as deeply guilty as others Nay may not the Independent say You took off his Authority and we took off his Head you made him no King and we made him no Body you made him a Man of Blood and we treated him accordingly Therefore at your doors O ye Presbyterian Hypocrites his innocent Blood is lay'd nor is it any other then your Actions have been all along and those committed by your Ancestors to former Princes and Kings But sure there is some Excuse remaining they fought for Religion I wonder when the Church did change her Weapons Must Prayers and Tears be turn'd into Pike and Musquet Did GOD refuse to have his Temple built by David a Man after his own Heart because onely his hands were bloody And will he now condescend to have his Church repair'd and her Breaches made up with Skulls and Carcasses Must Blood be tempered with the Mortar that must binde the Stones of his Temple in Unity Or are the smitings of Brethrens strokes fit to polish her Stones withal Hath GOD refused the soft voice to remain in thunder Or hath his Spirit left the gentle posture of descending down upon his Apostles to the approaching of a mighty and rushing winde To go about the reforming of a Church by humane strength is quite as opposite to the nature of Reformation as is the going about the repairing of a Castle-Wall with a Needle and Thred He that looks to finde such inestimable goodness within Iron-sides may as well expect to finde a Pearl in a Lobster No no the Church must not be defended with Helmets the Resisters of blows but with Miters which have received the cleft already not by broken Pates but by cloven Tongues not by Men clad in Buff but by Priests cloathed with Righteousness Decisions in matters of Faith must not be determined by Armour of proof nor did the Sword of the Spirit ever make way to the Conscience by cutting through the Flesh He therefore who takes up Arms against his Soveraign with pretences of defending his Religion doth but take such courses as are condemned by the same Religion he would defend and indeed he doth but make Religion his stalking-Horse to blinde him whilst he aims at that which he would have least suspect him which when he hath effected he means to get up upon the Horse and ride him at his pleasure they pretend the good of the Church and intend nothing more but the Goods thereof and like dissembling Lapwings make a shew of being nearest the Nest when they are farthest off it But they fought for Liberty These are piaefraudes Religiosi doli pious Frauds religious Deceits for pray what Liberties did they fight for If for Liberty of Conscience What do you mean thereby If by Liberty of Conscience you mean That it shall be lawful for every one to make a free choice of his own Religion or to be of his own Opinion these are things which we ought not to have much less to fight for for then let us not blame every Painim that bakes his cake to the queen of heaven or every ignorant Votary who creeps to his own Image or makes his own Idol for in this kind of liberty we do but sacrifice unto the net wherein we see our selves caught and burn incense to the drag
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
Wight Gape gape for Peace poor Countrymen The Members mean to treat And we shall see fair play agen When they no more can cheat The King shall come to Westminster It may be to his Grave Or of a glorious Prince must there Be made a Royal Slave But 't were more wise to let him reign Out of his Peoples sight For fear he should bring Peace again And put them in a fright Sure Martin lay in of a Clap And Say himself did dote The Devil too wore a sick Cap When th' Houses past this Vote Come let us live and laugh away The follies of this age Treason breeds care we 'll sing and play Like birds within a cage Fetters are th' onely favors now The Houses give we see And since the King them wears I vow 'T were baseness to be free Then let us all our sorrows drown In Sack and merry Glee Ye Citizens of London-town What jolly Slaves are we For Common-prayer ye have Excise Free-quarter too is coming To pay you for your Mutinies Feasts Covenants and Drumming No Puritan no Popish Priest Nor Prot'stant now shall be Nor Law but to live as we list 'T is Heaven thus to be free Could Babylons great King now sit In Counsel with our Nation He were the onely man to sit Us with a Reformation The glorious Golden-Idol then Might shine in each Dominion Both Factions and their Brethren Would soon be one-opinion Away thou Pagan-Cavalier This God must not be thine But for the Saints at Westminster Whose souls are more divine Live drink and laugh our Worthies may And kindly take their fills The Subâ—ects must their reckonings pay The King must pass their Bills No Princes now but they the Crown Is vanisht with our Quiet Nor will they let us use our own Devotions and Diet. All Plums the Prophets sons desie And Spice-broths are too hot Treason's in a December-Pye And Death within the Pot. Christmas farewel thy day I fear And merry-days are done So they may keep Feasts all the year Our Saviour shall have none O happy Nation heretofore When Seas our Walls have been Unhappy now we see no shore But are all Sea within Factions like Billows rage and toss And Death mounts ev'ry Wave Yet in this Storm we are so cross We will no Pilot have Just such a Tempest seiz'd upon Blest Paul the Scripture says When he had seen no Sun nor Moon Nor Stars for many days Our Sun and Moon no beams create Our Stars disperst we see Such as was his will be our Fate We must all shipwrackt be A glorious Prince this Parliament The King should be did swear But now we understand they meant In Heaven and not here Let them invade the Throne and part His Crown and vote his Fate Yet know in each true Noble Heart He keeps his Chair of State Princes may be like other men Imprisoned and kept under A while as fire in clouds but then At length appear in Thunder And as in hidden Caves the wind Sad tremblings doth create So Monarchs by their own confin'd Cause Earthquakes in the State Farewel the Glory of our Land For now the Free-born Blades Our Lives and our Estates command And ride us all like Jades Faith and Religion bleeding lie And Liberty grows faint No Gospel but pure Treachery And Treason make the Saint Oh! 't is a heavenly Cause I trow Which first baptiz'd the Round-head In Noble Stafford's Blood but now Must on the Kings be founded Yet know that Kings are Gods on earth And those which pull them down Shall find it is no less then Death To tamper with a Crown 'T is true as Harry Martin said The Scots away must pack The Cov'nant shall a side be laid Like an Old Almanack Come then and buy my New true New New Almanack most true Such Accidents of State to shew The like no Age ere knew Since that we lost our King and Laws Since Jealousies and Fears Since Peace pure Truth and this Poul Cause It is full seven years Poor Charles pursu'd in Forty one Unking'd in Forty seven The Eighth will place him on his Throne In Earth or else in Heaven Three Kingdoms brought to a fine pass Whilst that our Saviours Rule The Country is become an Ass The City but a Mule Each University now pines The Church may hang and rot They banish all our true Divines The Lawyers too must trot Come Sirs more Sacks unto the Mill More Taxes more Free-quarter 'T is fit our Laws be your bare Will And the Excise our Charter Godspeed the Plough plague Rooks and Crows And send us years more cheap For I am sure whoever sows The Houses mean to reap Money the Soul of Man and Wit But yet no Saint of mine While th' Houses vote and Synod sit Thou ne'er shalt want a Shrine Reforming is a dull Device Dreads nought but strife and rage Thou putt'st us into Paradice And bring'st the Golden Age. Thou art Religion God and all That we may call Divine Thy Temple is Westminster-Hall And all our Priests are thine Tush tell not us the way to Heav'a Thou juggling Clergy-Elf That sett ' if the world at six and sev'n Money is Heav'n it self Betwixt those Atheists feign'd of old And ours there is no odds For both this one opinion hold That Fear did first make Gods Hell now is thought an idle Dream To fright men from their Crimes Religion but a crafty Theam Made to Bug-bear the Times The Bible and great Babels Whore May both together burn For the Religious Fit is o'er Now they have serv'd their turn Onely one Text may scape their hands Since they have ta'en such pains To lay their Lords in Iron Bands And bind their Kings in Chains Copernicus thy learned skill We praise since we have found The truth for now doth Heav'n stand still Whilst that the Earth runs round See how the Wheel of Providence Back Old Confusion brings Cashires us once more of a Prince To plague's with Petty Kings They say the Saints all rule must take And others must have none Their Priviledge it is to make A Foot-stool of the Throne The Laws o' th' Land say Charles must reign And Conscience pleads his Cause But Conscience is a thing most vain Their Gospel eats up Laws Never such Rebels have been seen As since we led this Dance So we may feast let Prince and Queen Beg a-la-mode-de-France Let Conscience pine and cry 't is strange We 'll say 't is bravely done To make the King take in Exchange A Dungeon for a Throne Away with Justice Laws and Fear When men resolve to rise Brave Souls must scorn all Scruples where A Kingdom is the Prize Then let us what our Labours gain Enjoy and bless our Chance Like Kings let 's domineer and reign Thus a-la-mode-de-France King and no King was once a Play Or Fable on the Stage But see it is become this day The Moral of our Age. 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