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A47904	The reformation reform'd, or, A short history of new-fashion'd Christians occasioned by Franck Smith's Yesterdays paper of votes, September, 2. 1681.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1651 (1651)	Wing L1287; ESTC R20451	18,779	40

Bodies proceed by a Leading Connexion of Causes and Effects Here 's neither any Need or Possibility of Rendring things worse than they were by Partiality and Descant for as it is one of the Foulest Pieces of Story that ever yet came to light and of the most Audacious Affronts to the Laws of God and Man the Duties of Common Faith Humanity Order and Religion that ever yet perhaps was offer'd in the Face of the Sun so I have in this Summary of those Oppressions very Honestly left the Actors themselves to be their own Historians and without any Malevolent Construction Exposed them to be Try'd and Judg'd by their own Records And for the Truth of what is here set down I remit my self to the Credit of their own Journals And so far have I been from Enflaming the Reckoning either with the Number of Particulars or the Weight of Aggravations that I have left out several Notorious Instances of Tyranny and Wickedn●ss and barely made a Report of the Heads and Titles of many Arbitrary Votes and Ordinances without Reciting several Clauses in the Frame and Body of them sufficient to have struck the Reader with Indignation and Horrour It is not yet that in the publishing of these Papers I would be understood to pass a Complement upon the Party in speaking Better of them than they Deserve or Less-Ill rather than they have done of Themselves But I have consulted Brevity and Christianity in the Case that I may keep my self within Charity and Compass But What 's the End of this Pamphlet then You 'l say It is to lay before the Reader the Scheme of a Popular Reformation and to bid them beware of The Leaven of the Pharisees In short I would not have People Poyson'd over again by mistaking Hemlock for Parsley Now Pray what were the Pretences of One and Forty Fears of Popery Absolute Power Evil Councellors Corrupt Magistrates and Ministers Prelatical Rigour Popish Ceremonies Ecclesiastical Discipline c. And are not These the very Complaints of this Day And are not Franck Smith's Dissenting Protestants the very Picture of that Godly Party These Grievances must be remov'd they Cry'd and we say the same thing now too But by what means By a Parliament and so say we too Well And the Late King Call'd several Parliaments and by his Royal Prerogative Dissolv'd them too when he saw Occasion and so has his Gracious Majesty now in Being But at length betwixt the Credulity of his own Goodness and the Importunity of some of his Treacherous Subjects he made one False step that Ruin'd him past Recovery And that was the Passing of a Bill for the Continuance of that Fatal Parliament till it should be Dissolved by the Consent of both Houses This King God be Praised hath held his hand as to that Point But the thing nevertheless has been fairly offer'd at in several Papers of News and Expostulatory Libels insisting upon it as the Right and Claim of the People And all to be Back'd with an Association too after the Model of the Covenant Now who were the Sticklers I pray for That Reformation Were they not Brownists Anabaptists Separatists Independents Antinomians Presbyterians Fifth-Monarchy-Men Ranters And in One Word the whole Mass of Men of the most Sanguinary and Heretical Principles gathered together under the Cloak of People of Tender-Consciences and the Godly Party And have not we our Dissenters now to Match their Godly Party and of as many sorts almost as there went Beasts into the Ark and of as Inconciliable Aversions These are the People that make it their Business to find faults in the Government and for want of matter of Fact to work upon they Invent and Create it These are the Men that set up for Reformers of the Church and of the State And yet at the same time many of these Sects deny Magistracy and Ministry to be the Ordinance of God and make it their Profession to Labour the destroying of the Kingdoms of this World in Order for the Clearing of their way to the Reign of King Jesus And these Sects in good time must be United for the Security of our Religion and Government that Declare themselves the Enemies of All Government and Implacable Adve●saries Each to the Other This will be call'd the Stif●ing of the Popish Plot a Blowing of the Coal betwixt King and People and a Design to stir up Heart-Burnings among his Majesties Subjects This was the very Method of the Scandal and Calumny too of the Late Times that was cast upon every man that Crossed the Humour of the Faction How many Rotten Lords Popish Bishops Straffordians Malignants and Jesuited Papists were People called for Acting according to their Consciences and opposing the Torrent of that Hypocritical Sedition And thus far the Parallel runs True a Yorkist a Pensioner a Sham-Plotter a Masquerader a Tory or the like But the Scene of things to Come is yet in the Dark and we have no better way then from what 's Past to take a Caution against the Future And to that End it is That I have now Committed these Sheets to the Publick The establish'd-Establish'd-Religion was to be Reform'd and they ran it so far till not only Christianity but even the Moral Duties of Religion it self were almost Extinguished Did they not stile themselves the Kings best Subjects too till ye see what came on 't upon the upshot The Liberty of the Subject was a Great Point with 'em too and what was the End on 't but the subjecting of the Nobility Gentry and all the Honest and Industrious People of the Nation to a Rapacious Committee of Blasphemous Hereticks a Major General and a Red-Coat and our Estates Liberties and Lives laid at the Mercy of those Vermine to Seize Sequester Imprison Hang and Draw at pleasure The King wanted but a matter of Thirty Thousand Pound for his Expedition against the Scots And the City alass were so poor they were not able to furnish it and yet how many Millions did they voluntarily Bleed afterwards toward the Raising and Supporting of a Rebellion But this was a thing not to be done till they had first deliver'd up the Government of the City into the hands of a Faction Our Modern Whiggs are just of the same Temper in the Cas● of the French as the Godly Party were then in the Case o● the Scots Not a Cross to be gotten unless his Majesty will Pawn his Crown for 't That is to say If the Clamorous party without Doors may have their Wills I have here presented ye a Draught of the Effects of One Reformation and as ye like That ye may Consider of the Fellow of it THE END ☞ ☞ Persons disabled to be Elected or to Elect Members of Parliament Forfeiture for Electing contrary or not according to the Qualifications ☜ A Co●f●ssion of Faith shall be agreed wi●h in 〈…〉 Pr●●●cy Pers●●s d●sabl●d to ●old Offices of Trust. ☜ ☜

and that those that Advised his Majesty to give This Answer are Enemies to the State and Mischievous Projectors against the Defence of the Kingdom March 2. 1641. Exact Collections Pag. 95. Resolved That the Kingdom be forthwith put into a Posture of Defence by Authority of both Houses in such a way as is already agreed upon by both Houses of Parliament March 2. Ex. Col. Pag. 96. Resolved That the Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the Safety and Defence of the Kingdom of England and Dominion of Wales is not any way against the Oath of Allegiance March 15. Exact Collections Pag. 102. Resolved That the several Commissions Granted under the Great Seal to the Lieutenants of the several Counties are Illegal and Void Ibid. Resolved That whosoever shall Execute any Power over the Militia of this Kingdom and Dominion of Wales by Colour of any Commission of Lieutenancy without Consent of both Houses of Parliament shall be accounted a Disturber of the Peace of the Kingdom Ibid. Resolved c. That in this Case of Extream Danger and of his Majesties Refusal the Ordinance agreed on by both Houses for the Militia doth oblige the People and ought to be obeyed by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom Ibid. Resolved That when the Lords and Commons in Parliament which is the Supream Court of Judicature in the Kingdom shall Declare what the Law of the Land is To have this not only Question'd and Controverted and Contradicted and a Command that it should not be Obey'd is a High Breach of the Priviledge of Parliament March 1641. Pag. 114. Resolved That the Declaring of Sir John Hotham Traytor being a Member of the House of Commons is a High Breach of the Priviledge of Parliament April 18. 1642. Pag. 162. Resolved That the Command of his Majesty to call Capt. Philip Skippon Sergeant Major General of the Forces of London to Attend his Majesties Person at York is against the Law of the Land and the Liberty of the Subject March 17. 1642. Pag. 194. Resolved That it appears that the King seduced by Wicked Counsel intends to make War against the Parliament who in all their Consultations and Actions have proposed no other End unto themselves but the Care of his Kingdoms and the Performance of all Duty and Loyalty to his Person May 20. 1642. Pag. 259. Resolved That whensoever the King maketh War upon the Parliament it is a Breach of the Trust reposed in him by his People contrary to his Oath and tending to the Dissolution of this Government Resolved That whosoever shall Serve or Assist him in such Wars are Traytors by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom and have been so Adjudged by Two Acts of Parliament and ought to suffer as Traytors 11 Rich. II. 1 Hen. IV. Ibid. Resolved That those that are Actors in the putting of the Commission of Array in Execution shall be esteemed as disturbers of the Peace of the Kingdom and Betrayers of the Liberty of the Subject June 20. 1642. P. 348. Resolved That an Army shall be forthwith raised for the Safety of the Kings Person Defence of both Houses of Parliament and of those who have obeyed their Orders and Commands and Preserving of the True Religion the Laws Liberty and Peace of the Kingdom July 12. 1642. Pag. 457. Resolved That shall be Commissioners for raising of Monys Horse and Plate upon the Propositions and shall have Power to Appoint Commissaries to Value the Horse and Treasurers to receive the Mony and Plate Oc. 4. 1642. P. 629. Resolved That shall have Power to Seize and Apprehend all Delinquents That are so Voted by the Parliament and all such others as Delinquents as have or do shew themselves Opposite and Disobedient to the Orders and Proceedings of Parliament Ib. P. 630. To Pass over Those ensuing Votes that were only Leading to the Execrable Accomplishments of their Work in the Murder of the King and Change of Government We shall give ye now their Votes of no more Addresses Resolved That they the Lords and Commons will make no further Addresses or Applications to the King Resolved That no Application or Address be made to the King by any Person whatsoever without the leave of both Houses Resolved That the Person or Persons that shall make Breach of this Order shall incur the Penalty of High-Treason Resolved That the Lords and Commons do Declare That they will receive no more any Message from the King and do Enjoyn That no Person whatsoever do Presume to Receive or Bring any Message from the King to both or either of the Houses of Parliament or any other Person Baker's Chron. P. 577. Resolved further That no Message be received from the King upon Pain of Treason and that the General take Care of his Person and a Council of War draw up a Charge of Treason against him Baker P. 585. January 6. 1648. The Ordinance of the Kings Tryal turn'd into an Act of the Commons alone and a Faction in the City Suborn'd to PETITION for Justice against the King Thus was his Sacred Majesty Voted from one Calamity to another till they Consummated their Enterprize in the Diabo●ical Murder of their Sovereign and the Change of the Government Notes and Resolutions Ut Supra in further Favour of PROTESTANT DISSENTERS AN Order of the Commons for Tonnage and Poundage Mar. 24. 1641. Ex. Col. P. 121. An Order of Commons concerning Four Subsidies and other Money unpay'd Mar. 25. 1642. Ex. Col. P. 122. Subscriptions towards the Propositions for Ireland Ex. Col. P. 136. A special Order of the Commons concerning the Free Order of the County of Buckingham Ex. Col. pag. 137. An Order of both Houses concerning Poll-Mony May 6. 1642. Exact Col. pag. 178. Propositions by the Lords and Commons for bringing in of Mony Plate Horse Horsemen and Arms. June 10. 1642. Ex. Col. 339. A Declaration of the Lords and Commons That the Estates of Delinquents and Malignants shall be toward the Publick Charge of the Kingdom Septemb. 8. 1642. Exact Collections pag. 609. An Order of a Committee concerning Horses to be brought in Sept. 17. 1642. Ex. Col. pag. 613. An Order for Raising Dragoons and 16000 l. Sept. 29. Ex. Col. pag. 624. An Order for Raising One Thousand Dragoons upon the Publick Faith Oc. 4. pag. 627. A Declaration for more Mony upon the Publick Faith No. 14. Ex. Col. 752. An Order of the Lord Mayor for Borrowing 30000. l. No. 26. Ex. Col. pag. 769. An Ordinance for the Twentieth Part of all such as have not Contributed toward the Propositions for Mony Plate c. Ex. Col. pag. 764. An Ordinance for the speedy Execution of the said Ordinance Ex. Col. pag. 775. An Order to Break open Locks and Doors Exact Collection pag. 777. An Order for Advance of Mony Dec. 1. Ex. Collections pag. 781. An Order concerning Purveyance Ex. Col. pag. 788. An Ordinance concerning Tonnage and Poundage pag. 792. Several Orders for the promoting Subscriptions