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religion_n	king_n	law_n	parliament_n	7,328	5	6.6868	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86106	The arch-cheate, or the cheate of cheats: or a notable discovery of some parts of the mystery of iniquitie, plainely shewing that this is the prelates warre, managed under the Kings name, only to advance the hierarchie above the temporality, yet leave them some externalls to deceive all sides, and all sorts, a choice peece of gullery trimely [sic] set out. ...	S. H.	1644 (1644)	Wing H116; Thomason E257_5; ESTC R210041	8,287	8

* raile of all their adversaries from accesse or prepare antidores against by threatnings so by keeping them at distance as with a●ile● their poyson as against beliefe infidelity and villefie with names to contemptablenesse 20. But with the people they magnifie an implicit faith believe as the Church believes the trumpe of Cheats c. 21. Mountaine promises are made of Iustice libertie lawes and Religion but not a dust or graine made good except jering as Children and Fooles for their easie credulity It s glory to betray any way disglory to be betrayed 22. If Robbing murchering ravashing yea all kind of injustice be justice than none more just more faithfull in performance twise twelve to the dussen 23 Quarrells are pict pretences found on purpose to rout out all oposers either Religious or Morralists 24. It is easie to finde a staffe to beat a Dogge with the quarrelsome It s as easie to finde a Dogge for a staffe 25. Other pretences are found to raise Armes any thing is just with the powerfull any thing seemes soe with the simple 26. Some on hopes promises preferments rewards offices and others a licentious Nobles Gentry Commons all sorts comply libertine course of life others errors of judgment Scruples of conscience opinion pretences of one kind or other Most a fooles paradice here or a ports Elizium hereafter 28. What should I say it asketh an eternity to rectifie all these giddie braines 29. If they be not Traitors Rebells Murtherers Theeves and punshable as such here and damnable hereafter who are on the offensive side and sight against Religion the liberty of the people and priveledges of Parliament all established by law The name of a King is so dazeling that it prostrates all behoulders except Bell whom Danill must prostrate 30. Beautie in Heaven and Earth this grace doth win ●gnoto It supplyes rigour and it lessens sinne c. 31. Souldiers are raised why Iohn for the King so all and who nor they see none other they spie not Hocus under the Board nor that Ioabs hand is in all this they are light Angells but not Angells of light 32. If monyes be wanting then Nimrod like that mighty hunter plundring robbing whole Countries Counties to mount their Babell battlements paralell with those of Heaven is lawfull and under the name of warring to perpetrat any villany is excellent villany if any villany be ●xcellent 33. That which even now was a hanging matter to doe is now a hanging matter not to doe Thus a moment can Invert pervert circularly For themselves in the Kings name 34. Out goes Summons Proclamations Threats c. to amate awe c. Trained Bands comes in as if to the Goulden Septer poore folkes Hocus is to hard for you it s to the Crosiers staffe which like Muses rod hath champt up the Septer and now begines with its cammocke nose to catch hold of them as did the bush of Ablahams Ram they are plundered they fleed of their fleeces as of Horse Armes Iudas is no Iudas to this Judas money and sent away like a pilde sheepe or as a Dogge with his tailo clapt betwixt his leggs 35. Horse Armes money throng in as if to homage it to the burnished throne which so dazeleth and a stoninisheth all behoulders that they spie not lurking Hocus the Iudas who for thirty pence will fell his Master and all his Desciples grinning like a Satier or as Mosse his Mare simpered when she eat thistles to see of the wise these s● infatuated fooles purchase themselves halters manacles fetters at so deare a He cannot helpe it He is their Prisoner Jeering Hocus ●ate and like Salom us fooles goe to the Stocks for correction 36. If the Throne conquer yet Hocus is victor who sliely conveyes away the throne and sets his tressells in the place nimbly over layning them wiith a watchet covering imbrodered with goulden Floure deuces and as nimbly claps a Miter the●eon instaed of a Crown all so dexterously handled as unespied of any but Glorious Titles c. the wise * Bribes are promised in the Kings name to betray thus that Fort Castle c. and it s all by these Traitors for themselves they rob to pay the bribe or paies it and 10. times more out of the places delivered up to them ❧ Virtue that is power is gon from me For you shall he kept under like beasts by the sword and with implicit factions Law but will and that of batbarous villanes Sophia whose intentions discovers the cloven head of the Miter just like that of the Divels foote out she cries of the cheat Oh you fooles how long will you continue in your follie but all in vaine as I doe heare for fooles though brayed in Morters will not forsake their folly nor will deafe Adders heare charme you never so wisely 37. Now they soveragnize it yet the Kings name colours all still I and now he beginnes to colour it also with anger and shame to se the gullery but * noe force patience perforce he is as fast as Mars and Venus in Vulcans weary net the more hee spraules and kickes the more he is intangled * at this slie * Mercury laughs a maine but unespsed of any but only the wise * Sophia who still carries out but is not heard Oh you fooles c. 38. Yet ex●ernalls are allowed as gay as the Chamblet ribbonds Hocus pulls out of his mouth to delude the fillie Spectators 39. So have I seene at Childrens festivalls the gaudie King and Queene followed by an awfull blacke Coat neither crowned nor Robed yet well maced who cold at pleasure though a pawne give Checke mate to both Rex et Regina inbeati 41. Great matters are promised hoped for as a● * but who shall now force to performance they are Atheists yea worse not Moralists not any Bonds Oathes lies will hold any more then Samsons Hairlaces fillets or head-bands c. you challenge them of this and that c except ●ave exclaime what care they they know you not how now away avant your workers of Iniquity 42. Helpe o King a railes not how can I saith he seeing that the Lord Prelat pleaseth not to looke upon either of us 43. Is not this fine that you have unkinged your King and enslaved yourselves and your posterities to the forked Miter instead of the arched Crowne and must now aske and wait for what was once your owne but it may be never shall bee 44. All are their Prisoners and Captives from the throne to the cottage not Kings The Government of Spain and France is in the Hierarchie their 〈◊〉 is not the Kings not Nobles not Gentry not any are free but lie at their mercy for favours or frowns 45. And now are the commons of England putting on Canvis Breeches and woodden shooes and the Peeres are but so ad placitum the Gentry and are but Gentiles an● aliants to the Common-weale o●

Israell there 46. Former freedome and liberty for like to foolish and prophane Esau all sort and all degrees have sold their birth rightes for a Messe of Pottage as red as the sloud of Martyrs 47. Certaine 21 things called religious men murther steale rape oppresse what not by their temporall agents who act all like the apparent Pupitts but while As the Popish Prelates Mercurie still playes his prankes under-board or slinkes behinde the Curtaine like a snarling Curre 48. Then lastly they jeere to see how finely with the Kings names have S●ale shewes promises personall presence pro●ests threats and flowrishes messengers ●an ● Nations put up this I am of opinion whilst the K. is in such ●●cksters handling nothing should 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 but refeld with scorne as from these c Let not our Nobles and Gen●ry nor the Scot also Flatter they doe using the Kings name O this our worthy Subject c. To raise prefer conferre honour as they l●st then jeere ●t the Gulles that the King doth all and its themselves by him to purchase the Kingdome O let respit be til convincement which doth in●●●cement is just c. they have befooled all sorts out of their Religion Lawes Liberties and estates each one holding what they have of them simply nothing in fee-simple and so simpletons all are 49. Now Esau his rough hands gripe like a Griffen c 50. In the name of forraigne Princes ayd comes in as if to Princes their mutuall names colours all but it is oft from faction to faction from Cheater to Cheater and the poore Princes are prund of all O you Princes how long will you suffer your selves to be gulled of your Prerogatives under pretence of maintaining Prerogative is it not time to give over these wilely beguiles 51. Trust not I say your lives nor your Posterities in the hands of Traytors Rebells to whom if you comply not they will send you packing and not comply but desie c. 52. Suffer their King so themselves to be overtopt by the Prelacie once more and the government translated to the Hierarchy shall their wiles suggestions and pretences so far delude as not to see it its not pretences but by-intentions which they steere to rowse up your spirit and quicken your understandings and vindicate your King and your selves and your Country from their inslavements and redeeme your selves from their jeers serious insulations down with them and for other matters settle with Wisedome in its opportunity 53. Call to minde the miseryes the Irish so this Nation have indured by their meanes 54. Be as faithfull to your country as the Scotts to theirs 55. As the ten Tribes to one poore wronged Levit. 56. Are we not your Brethren flesh of your flesh bone of your bones 57. And for Religious severity which oweth all sorts If you dare trust a mortall such dispensations shall be found as shall content all sides without gaine saying though nothing remove mean then your meane 58. This cruell crew make riddance of least it rid us all which God and you for bid 59. I Protest the King and you are abused by their suggestions their tenents so their practises are destructive to the prerogatives yea safety of Princes States Law then are they thus suffered who should suffer 60. What hurt doe the Protestants or sects in Holland France c. are they not faithfull every where some follies humors opinions they Masse and hould that are troublesome but treacherous they are not they stab not nor poyson betray forsweare burne fire not downe houses Cities whole Kingdomes they delight not in blood and massacers as the Papists doe Oh murther them not by neglect for neglect is murther Robery Rape c. 61. I end as did the Levite to the ten Tribes see consider Iudge and give sentence 62. And doe as in the twentieth of Judges the Tribes did all at their owne charge for our levite assembled c. Read and faile not 63. They delaid not but met as one man and accommodated to right and revenge the injury done to the said one poore Levit but oh our Levity c. 64. Forget not then Oh all you whom it may concerne as it doth all who in any kinde can doe good least not only a mother in Israell but the mother of Israell yea Israell herselfe be destroyed which God and you forbid and you will forbid if men you be that is have the bowells of men of mercy and resolution of manhood in you Oh why doth not the Kingdome like an inundation or deluge overwhelme these rascall crew of Egyptian Gipses Least they Cheat the King and State of the Kingdome and we be a jeare to all Nations Vale. A short Summary of the premisses for plain Capacities ALL the Atheists inhumanes Traytors Rebells Rogues Theeves Cheates Cutpurses Murderers so all idle and lawlesse persons of the Kingdom are met together and have got the King amongst them to colour and credit their rogery his person and name they seeme to magnifie to the people the King the King the Lords anoynted but Jeere and scorne both him and all Lords just as did the Demetrians Diana who magnified her only to make themselves and as did the Princes abuse and overthrow Darius and made pretence of godding him unmade him and made colour of Prerogating him precipitated him c. These now with the Kings Person Name Scale Warrants Proclamations Letters Threats Messengers c. ●●asse all sides especially the simple whose opinions Idolatrize the name and persons of Kings and at this advantage the villanous adversary presumes glories insults and jeeres For what ever they have a mind to doe they doe it and the King must or they will inforce his person or name or both to beare it out Thus Towns Cities Forts c. are summond so Horse Armes mony are taken up as if for the Kings use when it may be he knowes not of it or knowing cannot helpe it injoy all they doe not he any thing but in name so with commands Proclamations are abroad it s not the King but this faction is accommodated scornfully 〈◊〉 they urge what keep Forts Towns and what from your King Soveraigne Lo●● Anoynted cause they should be delivered to him what not obey your King caus● they would be obeyd what fight against your King the Lords Anoynted caus● they would command rule doe all things as they list and have no resistance thus all are fooles or knaves or both and take part with Traitors as they say to ayde the King but it s to keepe him their prisoner Forraigne Sta●es are thus gu●● or would gull for in thinking to ayde the King they ayde Traytors against him ●● politickly intend the King and so support their owne faction against him and the State thus which simple to us or Knaves the loyall that fight for to rescue him seene against c. so traiterous and rebellious and those true Traytors cause locally on his side seem to fight for him and they doe so indeed for it s to hold him their prisoner to colour and credit their Rogery as afore so they are seemingly loyall who are most absolute desolute loyalists Now seeing it s discovered let fooles Knaves and Malignants see to it their pretend not no longer ●o abuse King and State and fight and speake against him in seeming to speake and fight for him as did DEMETRIVS Humanis and the Princes of Darius all birds of the same Fether for neither their bauleing nor sophisticall pretended prate can quit them of being Traitors and Rebells to King and State at large or content so also there are Hypocrites murtherers theeves and Cheaters c. and who are so are base base then as they are they must passe for and fooles let them passe for who are so cheated FINIS