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A63490	A True copy of the journal of the High Court of Justice for the tryal of K. Charles I as it was read in the House of Commons and attested under the hand of Phelps, clerk to that infamous court / taken by J. Nalson Jan. 4, 1683 : with a large introduction.	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649, defendant.; Phelps, John, fl. 1636-1666.; Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1684 (1684)	Wing T2645; ESTC R5636	141,696	216

Both then are they certainly within the danger of this Terrible Sentence Let the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists c. therefore shew us a Dispensation as Authentick as this Command to tolerate Them and their Disciples to raise Seditions to defame their King and his Government to cancel the Obligations of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy to contemn the Laws to disobey the lawful Commands of their Superiors and at the last if they have strength and opportunity to take up Arms and Rebel and if they prevail to shake off the Yoke of Subjection and due Obedience Imprison and Murder their King dis-inherit his Lawful Heirs and Successors to all which their Principles have led them and Naturally and Eternally will lead them and then indeed they may as they presumptuously do promise Heaven to Themselves and Followers But till they are able so to do and to produce a New Gospel with a Patent of Indulgence from Christ and his Apostles to supersede the Obligation of his former Commands and to change not only the Names but the Nature of things by turning Rebellion into Religion and violating the Laws of God and Man into Obedience they will remain under the unavoidable danger of the intolerable Penalty annexed to Resisting the Higher Powers and in conclusion will most assuredly find a Hell instead of a Heaven and Damnation in the place of that Happiness which the Heads of the Separation do as confidently promise to their Followers as they vainly expect from their Teachers Whether it have proceeded from mistaken Charity or which is much worse from a Cowardly Timorousness of falling under the Indignation of the Dissenters and consequently of most severe Revenge if ever they have power to execute it I cannot tell but truly in my Opinion the not pressing of these necessary Truths upon the People of the unlawfulness of Rebellion upon any pretence whatsoever and their danger of Damnation in following these Hellish Principles of Popular Soveraignty Reformation by Blood Tumults and the Power of the Sword of the Lawfulness of Deposing Judging and inflicting Capital Punishments upon Soveraign Princes and the want of exposing the necessary Consequences of these and such like Fatal Opinions and shewing them the horrible Influences they have formerly had upon the Peace and Happiness of the Nation it is to be feared hath contributed too much to the increase of the Vulgar part of the Faction And truly this necessary work is so easie to be done from plain matters of undeniable Fact that there need be no recourse to Rhetorical Amplifications or Hyperbolical Expressions to move not only the Passions but the Reason of all Mankind to the utmost degrees of Hatred and Abhorrence against such dreadful Principles The Treasons Conspiracies the Wars the Rapines the Hypocrisies Perjuries and Sacrileges the Butcheries Oppressions Murders and those Rivers of Innocent Blood and which surpasseth all the Blood of their King through which these Separatists have waded to obtain by the Power of Rebellion and the Force of the Sword an usurped Soveraignty and unlimited Arbitary Dominion over the People of these Nations thereby to render the freest People of the World the vilest Slaves in the Universe are certainly such undeniable Truths which are justly chargeable upon them as are sufficient to set such an Eternal Brand of Infamy upon those who have been guilty of them as would render it impossible for them to deceive the People by their other Arts and pretended Sanctity and truly their making Religion stoop to their base Designs and thereby prostituting that which is most Sacred to the most unhallowed Actions and most unparallel'd Wickedness would be so far from doing them any advantage that to all honest virtuous and religious Minds it would make them appear more horrible and odious because becoming thereby more mischievous and dangerous for the Devil transformed into the shape of an Angel of Light is no less a Devil for his stoln brightness and the very stealing of that Glorious Shape ought rather to make him be esteemed of the worst sort of those Infernal Spirits because he only takes it upon him to be thereby inabled to do the more Mischief to Mankind and to cheat them out of Happiness by pretending to make them Happy And if the Embasing Washing and Counterfeiting of Money be such a deceipt as hath merited Capital Punishment and hath rendred the Offenders Infamous and Odious to all men because it robs them of some part of their share of the Riches of this World how much more Odious and Capital an offence is it against God and Man to Embase and Counterfeit Religion and to cheat men of their Souls and Bodies by stamping the Impress and Superscription of Heaven upon the Metal of Hell and putting off this false Coyn for Good Currant and Eternal Treasure Now let the Dissenting Separatists disclaim and disavow this Imposture with never so much Scorn or Confidence and make the wonted boasts of their Sanctity and Purity reprobating all others besides themselves yet if the Apostle St. James have any Authority with them let him be the Judge and Umpire of the difference He affirms that the Wisdom or Religion for Religion is the only Wisdom which is from above is not only Pure but Peaceable Gentle Easie to be intreated full of Mercy and good Fruits unturbulent and without Hypocrisie and that the Religion which produces Strife Envying Confusion and every evil Work is so far from being of Divine Original and descending from above that it is earthly sensual and devilish This is the Criterion the Touch-stone which we challenge the shining Chymical Religion of the Separatists to indure the Assay by and I am assured if we must try the truth of their Faith by the standard of their own Works and this Apostolical Rule it will be utterly impossible for them to make out their Title to that true Religion which they they do so arrogantly boast of and so wholly appropriate to Themselves and Party that though Heaven be capacious enough to entertain the Inhabitants of a thousand Earths yet can they not allow one inch to any besides those of their Perswasion And 't is no wonder if their own narrow Souls perswade them they are only in the narrow way but the Pharisees their Predecessors in Principles and Pretensions were never the nearer to entring into the Glorious Gates of Eternity for their being so busie in framing Bolts and Locks to exclude all others from entring into those Blessed Regions And not to pass over even the Narrow Seas and there to trace these Turbulent Men and their Principles through all the Paths of Mischief which they have beaten in Forreign Countries whereby they have forfeited all Right to St. James's Character of the true Religion which is peaceable as well as pure our own dear England our Cities or Towns our Villages our prophaned Temples and our Holy Altars thrown down as Idolatrous our blushing Fields and our bleeding Laws our

gasping Liberty and expiring Religion our Estates consumed with Arbitrary Taxes and heavy Impositions unknown to our generous Ancestors so many Oppressions Exactions Plunder and Free Quarter such vast Treasures borrowed upon the Publick Faith Sequestrations and Compositions exhausted so many thousand Lives as perished in the late Calamitous Rebellion the entire subversion of the Government and the barbarous Murder of a Lawful King thousands of living Witnesses and Sufferers under the Cruelty and Bondage of their Vsurpation nay their own Authentique Records Declarations Protestations Covenants and Associations and which is more than all these their own Consciences are Witnesses before God and the whole World of Men and Angels that the ways of Peace are not known to them or make any part in the Composition of their Religion but that notwithstanding their high Pretensions to Purity Seditions Tumults Insurrections Treason and Rebellion are the Fruits and Effects the Consequences and Conclusion of the Separation which begins with Whining in a Conventicle against Ceremonies and Persecution for Conscience sake but in the end advances into the open Field with the loud Arguments of Drums and Trumpets the thundering Language of the Cannon and in downright defiance and opposition of Lawful Government and Authority by Arms and Violence or the baser ways of secret Treasons and Assassinations Had there been indeed but one single Instance of the mischievous and dangerous inclinations of these combined Factions it were sufficient for ever to ruine their Reputation amongst wise and sober minded Men But they have given so many repeated Testimonies of their hatred of the present Government both Civil and Ecclesiastical and of a restless turbulent and unreclaimable Temper obstinately resolved upon the first opportunity to Attempt the Subversion and Ruine of them both that there cannot be the least excuse found out to plead in mitigation of their Crimes But to all their former Guilt and the very late disturbances and seditious behaviour of which they have under the new Denomination of The True Protestants been most notoriously guilty the detection of this last Execrable Conspiracy to take off the most Gracious and Indulgent Prince in the World and his Illustrious and only Brother the Duke by the most infamous method of Assassination is such a demonstrative Evidence of their implacable Malice that they cannot add any thing more Black and Wicked to render them till they abandon these Trayterous Principles most detestable and odious to all Loyal Subjects and good Christians The Faction indeed stand much upon their Tiptoes again now their first Consternation for the Discovery is over and because they are not to a single man found upon a Muster-Roll among the infamous Conspirators would from thence argue a kind of Innocency in the Party But let any Person consider that so great an undertaking as the Subversion of this well-built Government and the justifying of such horrid Methods by which it was to be begun was never possibly to be effected by a few Heads or Hands and that there being an absolute necessity to second the first Blow by a most considerable Force of Arms and it will be impossible to doubt but that the Conspirators though they did not Communicate the Particularities of their Treasonous Design to every Individual person from whom they expected assistance yet made themselves most assured of assistance from a Powerful Party which should joyn with them to perfect their Execrable purposes For it is impossible that so many Men as are known to be of the Conspiracy both by their own Confession and the Testimony of so many unexceptionable Witnesses and Circumstances should all of them by consent become Ideots and Madmen to think of accomplishing such amazing Treasons by Miracles or the Strength of Imagination it is true a small number of such desperate hellish Villains as were imbarqued in the most wicked Enterprize might I am all horror to name it with their Blunderbusses have Assassinated the King and his Royal Brother but it must be a numerous Party who must have seconded that Cursed Blow so as to inable them to overcome all the succeeding Difficulties and Oppositions which they could not but foresee they must encounter with from the Loyal Party who by the Shaftsbury Association and the well known Malice of the Exclusioners which comprehended the whole Faction of the Dissenters would quickly have discovered who were the Traytors and Murderers of the King and his Brother and would certainly most vigorously have opposed them and the progress of their Designs of Vsurpation Now from what Quarter of Heaven or from what Subterranean Caverns must this assistance come Did they expect any of Elisha's Flaming Battalions or an Army of Aery Combatants or had they a promise of Forty Thousand Black Bills that would fight without hands or a Levy of St. Jago Pilgrims to make use of these Black-Bills to defend and support their blacker Cause They must certainly be all Lunaticks indeed and Madmen if they relyed upon an invisible Power Nor is it to be doubted but that how much soever they would have intituled God to the Cause as their Ancestors and Predecessors in Rebellion had done yet like them they would not so absolutely have reposed their trust in Him but that they would wisely have thought the best of their way was to make use of the Arm of Flesh and a Sword of Steel which they knew by experience would prove a better defence than the Shield of Faith or their pretended Sword of the Spirit and enable them to settle Christ in his Throne as the Presbyterians use to cant it by dispossessing the King of His But besides the Old Army Officers who were to command them there must be an Army to be commanded and who could these Levies consist of but the Factious Schismaticks and Dissenters who having listed themselves under Separation the very Standard of the Old Cause no man in his Senses can doubt but had her bloody Colours wrought with Liberty of Conscience and Colledges Motto No Popery No Slavery been once displaid in the Field whole Troops of Zealous Volunteers would in the Language of their Addresses have offered their Lives and Fortunes and hazarded their Souls and Bodies in her service against the Tyranny of King-ship the uselessness and danger of Peerage and the Antichristianism of Prelacy and Popery Pentland Hills and Bothwel Bridge give us good assurance of the Inclinations and Forwardness of these pretended Saints to take up Arms and propagate the Gospel by the wrong Sword though if they were not infatuated even to Perdition the discovery of their Treasons and the baffling of their repeated attempts against Gods Vicegerent were sufficient to convince them how disagreeable their Practices and the Principles which lead them are to the Divine Majestie and Supreme Monarch of the World But that which puts this matter out of all dispute is the Testimony of their own Consciences The Plot saith Walcot one of the Conspirators is laid broad and deep