Narrative of what was Spoken by Mr Prynne, Text (2 of 3)

Narrative of what was Spoken by Mr Prynne · Text (2 of 3)

p. 386ly. By the aaAlexand. ab Alexandro, Gen. Dierum, lib. 3. c 2, 10. 2 Sam. 16, 18. c. 19.41, 42, 43.8, 11.6. c. 7.33 H. 8. c. 27. Exact Collect. p. 146.2 Sam 16:18Law and Custom of all Nations, Nature, Reason, Justice, Equitie, the laws of England, and of all publick or private Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Militarie Councils or Corporations, the Majority of persons, Members, Voyces, Votes, are alwayes reputed the Parliament, Council, Synod, Corporation, and do, yea ought of right to bind the lesser part, as well in making Laws, Ordinances, as Elections, and all else that concerns the publick. Yea the General and General Counsel of the Army-Officers in their Petition to those and others now sitting in Parliament, and draught of an Agreement of the people for a secure and present peace, framed, prepared, and presented to them, to be established and subscribed by the people, Ianuary 20. 1649. not onlie subscribed thereto: but proposed, bbPage 23. sect. 4. printed by the Armies special order, 1649.That 150 Members at least be alwayes present in each sitting of the Representative, at the passing of any Law, or doing of any Act whereby the People are to be bound, saving that the Number of sixty may make the House for Debates or Resolutions that are preparatory thereunto. Therefore the 42 Members secretlie skipping into the House, secluding the rest, May 7, & 9. being not the 10th part of the Members of the old Parl. now surviving, by all Nations Laws, Consents, can be no Parliament, nor House of Commons within this Act; nor pass anie thing to bind the Majoritie of the Members or people in anie kind whatsoever; what ever anie imprudent, illiterate, shameless, namelesse Scriblers, or themselves (against their own Reasons, **Ol. Cromwell, Ireton, Corn. Holland, and others of them, stiled themselves a Mock-Parliament as Iohn Lilburn affirms.Consciences, Iudgements, principles, resolutions) pretend to the contrarie: but dare not once affirm in good earnest. It being a received Maxime in all Ages ccGrotius de Jure Belli, l. 2. c. 15. sect. 3.16.Populi minor pars Populum non obligit.

6ly. It is a rule our ddPlowdons Comentaries, f. 10.107, 108, 350, 364. 4 E. 4.4.Lawbooks, That all Statutes ought to be interpreted according to Reason, and the true mind, meaning, intention of those that made them: but it is most certain, That it is against all reason, and the true intents, minds, meaning of the Makers of this law, to make a Parliament without a King, or House of Lords, p. 39or Majoritie of the Commons House: Or that all or anie of them, when they made this Act, did ever dream of such a Iuncto as this now sitting; Or to seclude themselves, and resign up their own interests, freedoms, privileges, right of sitting in Parliament with them, to constitute them the onlie Parliament of England, as everie line, syllable throughout the Act demonstrates. Therefore they neither are nor can be a Parliament within it, neither can the Bedlam, Turkish, Bruitish, unreasonable Argument of the longest Sword, or Armie-logick, nor the petitions, addresses of any Crack-brain'd Sectaries, and vulgar Rabble of inconfiderable illiterate people, nor the presence of anie Lawyers sitting with, or acting under them as a Parliament, to their own and their Professions dishonour, make them so in their own, or any Wisemens, or Iudicious, honest Lawyers Iudgement whatsoever. And therefore out of Conscience, shame, justice, prudence, and real Christianitie, (have they anie left) they must needs disclaim themselves to be a Parliament, and no longer abuse the Nation, or others under their disguise. All whith Mr. Prynne, if admitted would viva Voce have pressed home upon them, but being forcibly secluded by their Gards, because unable to answer or contradict his Law or Reason, he now tenders to their view, and the Judgement, Resolution of the whole English Nation, to whom he appeals, with this publick Protestation.

That if they will freely call in all the surviving Members of the Lords and Commons House, sitting till December 1648. without secluding anie by force, or new unparliamentarie Impositions or seclusive Engagements, which they have no power to impose: If they upon a free and full debate shall resolve, the old parliament to be still in being, and not actually dissolved by the Kings beheading, notwithstanding his premised Reasons to the contrarie; He will then submit his private Iudgement to their Majority of Voyces in this, as well as in all other Parliamentary debates, and contribute his best assistance and advice as a Fellow-Member, to heal the manifold breaches, prevent the approaching ruines of our indangered Church, Realms, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Peace, and establish them upon better foundations than those now sitting (to promote their own and the Armies interests rather than the peoples or Nations) are ever likely to lay. Who if they can prove themselves a true and lawfull English Parliament within this Act, without either King or House of Lords, or this their clandestine, forcible entry into and seclusion of their Fellow-Members out of the Honse, and Actings in it to be lawfull, p. 40equitable, righteous, honorable, parliamentarie, Christian, and such as well becomes either Saints, Members, or true good Englishmen, by anie Records, Parliament Rolls, Acts, Presidents of like kind in former Ages, Law-books, Customes, Common or Civil-law, Scripture, Divinitie, Reason, Ethicks, Policks (except Machiavils, and the sole Argument of the longest Sword, the most bruitish, unjust, unchristian, Turkish of all others) Mr. Prynne will then publicklie declare them to be that in truth, which as yet he neither can nor dares to acknowledge them to be so much as in appellation, either a Member of the Old Parliament, a Covenanter, a Protester, a Lawyer, a Scholar, a Man, an Englishman or a Christian. And hopes, that upon the perusal hereof they will as much disown themselves to be the Parliament within this Act, or anie lawfull Parliament of England even in their Judgments, consciences, much more in actings, for the premised Reasons, as he or anie other secluded Members do; not out of anie spirit of contradiction, but Conscience, and common dutie to themselves, and their native Country.

That which principallie elevated, yea inflamed Mr. Prynnes zeal, both now and heretofore, with all his might to oppose all late publick Innovations, changes of our antient Government, Parliaments, Laws, was this sad and serious consideration, which he shall with all earnest importunitie intreat, advise all Army Officers, Souldiers, sitting or secluded Members of the Lords or Commons House, with all well-affected persons to the safetie, settlement of our Religion, Church, State, throughout our three Nations, most seriouslie to lay to heart, and engrave upon their Spirits, not to read it as they do News-books, (only to talk of them for a day or two) but as they read the evidences of their Inheritances, whereby they hold all their earthlie (yea heavenly) possessions, that they may remember, act according to it all their lives:

That William Watson (a secular Priest of Rome) in his Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman, printed at Rhemes, 1601. in his aaWatsons Quodlibets …. 144▪ 332.Quodlibets, printed 1602 and William Clerk a Secular Priest, in his Answer to Father Parsons Libel, 1604. p. 75. &c. (then best acquainted with the Iesuites designs against England of all others) did in precise terms publish to the English Nation, in these their printed Books, a That Father Parsons the English Iesuite, (the most active professed enemie to our English Kingship, Kings Realm, Church, Religion) & his Confederate Iesuitical Society, did (so long since) give out and prophesied, That they have it p. 41by Revelation, and special command from God, that their order and Society was miraculously instituted for this end, to work a dismal change amongst us, wherein all Laws, Customes, and Orders must be altered, and all things turned upside down: and that they being the only men who have the name, Title, and authority of Iesus, by them it is, that this marvelous change and alteration shall be wrought, in such sort as from the beginning of the world was the like never heard of before to this present. bbQuodlibets, p. 322, 323, 333, 334, 39.209.305, 306, 306, 307, 309.That this Iesuite Father Parsons in his Book Of the Reformation of all the States of England, as he bbQuodlibets, p. 322, 323, 333, 334, 39.209.305, 306, 306, 307, 309.prescribes a Reformation of the Prince, Court, Counsellors, Noblemen, Bishops, Prelates, Pastors, Universities, Lawyers, and Laws, in all which he will have strange Metamorphoses, so he will have the Court of Parliament it self brought to better order, to effect all these dismal changes. That the way whereby he & they intended to bring about all these changes was, to bring all England into an uprore; for common Souldiers to examine their Soveraigns what Titles they hold by, and by infusing this their Iesuitical principle into the Souldiers and people, That every Pecope or Tartarian multitud…, getting once the title and stile of a publick State, Nota.or Helvetian Common wealth, may alter, change, innovate the Course, Inheritance, and Succession of the Crown and Lands under them, to make the Island a Iaponian Island of Iesuites, and infeoff themselves by hook or crook in the whole imperial dominion of Great Britain, putting all the whole Blood-Royal of England to the Formidon, as but Heirs general in one Predicament. For their better accomplishment whereof this William Watson subjoyns his own opinion in these words ccQuodlibets, p. 27, 28, 169.I verilie think that all the Puritans and Anabaptists will joyn with the Iesuites, (to effect these changes) at length, how far soever they seem to be, and yet are, in external profession of Religion: there being at least half an hundred principles and odde Tricks concerning Government, Authority, Tyranny, Popularity, Conspiracy, &c. wherein they jump as just together as if both were made of one mould; But when they shall thus joyn together, he predicts; That the Iesuites having more singular fine wits amongst them, and manie learned men on their side, whereas the Puritans and Anabaptis…s have none but grossum Caputs, the Iesuites manie Gentiles, Nobles, and some Princes to side with them; the Puritans but few of the first, rare, to have anie of the second, and none of the last on their side: By consequence, if matters come to hammering between the Iesuites and Puritans, the latter are p. 42sure to be ridden like Fools, and come to wrack. He superaddes to this, ddQuodlibet, 9. p. 286, 430 332.That Father Parsons and his Companie have laid a plot, as most consonant and fitting for their other Designments, That the Common law of the Realm of England must be (forsooth) utterly abolished, or else bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil law doth. And the chief Reason is, Nota.for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common laws is so strongly setled, as whilst they continue, the Iesuites see nor how they can work their wills. Secondly, the said good Father hath set down a Course; how every man may shake off all Authority at their pleasures, as if he would become a new Anabaptist or Iohn of Leydon, to draw all the World into a Mutiny, Rebellion, and Combustion. And the Stratagem is, how the common People (and Souldiers) must be inveigled and seduced, to conceit to themselves such a Liberty or Prerogative, as that it may be lawfull for them, when they think fit, to place and displace Kings and Princes, as men do their Tenants at will, Hirelings, or ordinary Servants. Which Anabaptistical and abominable Doctrine, proceeding from a turbulent Tribe of trayterous Puritans and other Hereticks, this treacherous Iesuite would now foist into the Chatholick Church, as a ground of his corrupt Divinitie. Mr. Prynne having some year since diligently observed all these passages, with sundrie others of this nature, in those Secular Priest-books, and comparing them with Campanella de Monarchia Hyspanica, c. 25. 27. & Cardinal eeHere p. 19.Richlieues Instructions forecited; having likewise read in the Iesuites own printed Books, ffImaginū Antwerp, an. 1940. Speculum Jesuiticum, p. 210.That they had no lesse than 931 Colleges and Seminaries of Iesuites erected in several parts of the World, within the space of 120 years, and no fewer than 15 Colleges and Seminaries in Provincia Anglicana, in the English Province in the year 1640. wherein they had 267. Socii Societatis, ggSee his Epistle before his Historical and legal Vindication, &c. An. 1655.Fellows of their own Societie, besides Novices, and 4 Colleges more of English Iesuites beyond the Seas, and no less than eight Colleges of Irish, and several Residenciaries of Scotish Iesuites in Ireland, Scotland, and other places: And being assured by the publick Speeches of Oliver Cromwell himself, first to an Assemblie of Divines and others at Whitehall 1653. and after to his new modelled Parliament at Westminster, September 4. 1654. published in print, p. 16, 17. That he knew verie well that Emissaries of the Iesuites never came over in such swarms as they have done since our late wars and changes were on foot, and p. 43that divers Gentlemen can bear Witness with him, That they have a Consistory and Counsel that rules all the Affairs of the things of England; and had fixed in England in the Circuit of most Cathedrals, (of which he was able to produce the particular Instrument) an Episcopal power, with Archdeacons, and other persons to pervert and seduce the people. And being most certainlie informed, That the hhRomes Master piece, Hidden works of Darknesse, &c. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 245Arch-Iesuite Sir Toby Mathew, though banished by both Houses, Sir iiA Collect. of Ordinances. p. 245.Kenelme Digby, a Jesuited papist, (whose Father had a chief hand in the old Gunpowder Treason, and was himself particularlie imployed to Rome by the Queen to procure men and monies from the Pope against the Parliament, where he expected to receive a Cardinals Cap,) kkA Collect. p. 151, 852, 858, Vid Wekye of Durb. A Collect. p. 906.Sir Iohn Winter a person excepted from pardon, Mr. Walter Mountague (two notorious Jesuited Papists, who llRomes Masterpiececonspired with the Popes Nuncio and College of Jesuites, in Longacre to destroy the King, and alter the Government of the Kingdome if he refused to turn Roman Catholick, and repeal all Laws against Romish Priests, Iesuites, Papists, and for that very end raised the first Scotish wars, and (which is most observable) that Orelly the Popes own Nuncio in Ireland, who promoted the late horrid Irish Rebellion and massacre of the Protestants, sate President in the General Counsel of the Popish Rebels there for several years,mmA Collect. p. 267. The History of Independency part 2. to carry on that Rebellion; came all over into England, walked openly in the Streets and VVestminster Hall, when the King was brought to his Tryal, and executed by their and other Iesuites instigation, and our Old Kingdom metamorphosed into a new Common-wealth; That nnThe History of the Independency p. 2.Owen Ro Oneal, and all the Irish Rebels under him, by Orellies perswasion, entred into an offensive and defensive League with the New-Republicans against Marquesse Ormond, the Lord Inchequin, and Protestant party in Ireland, who declared for Monarchy, & the Kings Title, against their Republick. And being withall assured by sundry persons of credit, That there were many Iesuites under the habit of ooSee Mr. Prynnes Speech, Memento, & Epistle to his Historical & legal Vindication. Ludovicus Lucius, Hist. Iesuitica, p. 144, 156, 170.Souldiers, listed in the Army, and others of them under the disguise of Physicians, Apothecaries, Travellers, Captains, Merchants, Factors, Tradesmen, Anabaptists, Ranters, Seekers, Quakers, and other Sectaries, dispersed throughout all places, to carry on and accomplish tho… dismal changes, so long since predicted, Projected by Father Parsons and the Iesuites. Yea, being further assured, by an eminent Divine and others more than once, from the mouth of a Noble English Lord, returning from Rome about 4 years since, That p. 44the Provincial of the English Jesuites, when he went to see their College in Rome, assured him, they had then above fifteen hundred of their Society of Iesuites in England, able to work in several Professions and Trades, which they had there taken upon them, the better to support, and secure themselves from being discovered, and infuse their Principles into the vulgar People. That the ppSee the false Iew, and his examination, Printed 1653.Great Anabaptist, styled, The Administrator of Hexam near Newcastle, in the North, since removed to Colchester, was lately a Papist (if not) a Priest or Iesuite; that Ramsey the Scotish Iesuite was purposely sent ouer into England by the Pope & Iesuites An. 1653. under the notion of a Iew, to infuse new Notions into the Anabaptists & side with them, who therupon addressed himself to Paul Hobson the Anabaptist, a Grand Army-preacher, and this Administrators Congregation, where he made a publick profession, That he was a Iew by birth, but was now thorowly converted to the Christian Religion by their instruction, with a publick Confession of his Faith, which they printed, whereupon he was publickly dipped by this Administrator at Hexam, and received as a Member into their Anabaptistical Church, who much gloried in it, till within few weeks after, he was by the Maior and Ministers of Newcastle clearly discovered, to be a grosse Impostor, yea a Scotish Iesuite, and sent up by them to London; where after some restraint he was enlarged without any punishment, and not long since, twice boldly entred into the University Schools at Cambridge, desiring conference with Mr. Smith the Hebrew Lecturer there, with whom he discoursed in Hebrew; professing himself, to be Soul and Body for the Catholick Church of Rome: That qqSee his Epistle before his printed Book. 1652.Eleazer Ben-Isaiah, and his Brother Ioseph, 2. Grand Jesuitical Impostors, at the self-same time under the Notion of converted Iews, were dipped by the Anabaptists; maintaining Dipping, not Sprinkling to be the only Baptisme of Iesus Christ, and the Anabaptists to be the only strong and glorious Christians, in their printed Book, dedicated unto our new Republican Parliament & Counsel of State, 1653. Which Mr. Pr. (soon after his inlargement frō Pendennys Castle) meeting with, discovered them to be gross Impostors, one of them a Trooper in P. Ruports Army; who after a Collection made for him (as a Converted Iew) at Dursty in Glostershire, by Mr. Woodward on the Lords day, drank sive jugges of Bear, with sundry pipes of Tobacco, whereby to digest his Lords day Supper, and disgorge his Sermons: then locking his Chamber Door in the Inne, he ran to the Maid he had sent to warm his Bed, and attempted to ravish her; wherupon the crying p. 45out, & the Boy of the House (being about 11 a block at night) endevouring to raise the Neighbors, he therupon fled from thence, (since which Mr. Prynne heard no more tydings of him.) And having …ince that most clearly discovered to the whole Nation (in his Books, intituled, The Quakers Vnmasked, and New Discovery of Romish Emissaries, printed. 1655. and 1656.) That the Franciscan Freers and Iesuites were the first Erectors of our new Sect of Quakers, (Ignatius Loyola the Jesuites Founder, being first a Souldier, then a Quaker, next a Speaker, last of all a professed Iesuit; as his Disciples now are, first Iesuites, then Quakers, Speakers, Souldiers before or after;) That Maurice Conry an Irish Franciscan, late Provincial of the English Franciscan Fryers, (having 15 extraordinary faculties granted him to exercise here in England; as to absolve all Hereticks in England, of what Nation soever; to admit men into his Order; To dispence with Oaths, with saying Canonical Hours, the Ceremonies of the Mass, for keeping Heritical Books, and other particulars which might discover any of them to be Freers, or Papists: to authorize, print what Books he allowed; concealing both the Name of the Author, Printer, place, Non obstante Consilio Tridentino:) came over into England, under the disguise of a Spanish Captain, having sundry Pasports from the King of Spains Officers in the Low Countries, to raise men for his service in England and Ireland, where he continued during the Regency of our Republicans; After which in the year 1653. he procured a pass and protection to all Officers by Sea and Land under Ol. Cromwels own hand and Seal, to pass and repass about his occa…ions to and from Ireland; all which were taken about him in Bristol, 20 November 1655. and the very Originals under Seal brought to Mr. Prynne; who published some of them in print; yet after near two years imprisonment at Bristol, upon a Habeas Corpus brought by Conry, he was turned over Prisoner to Newgate, to be tryed as a Popish Priest, and let go thence (by direction as was conceived) before the Sessions, and never enquired after since. Mr. Prynne discovering all this and much more, and being most fully assured, that all the Rebellions in the Army since 1646. against the King, Parliament, Members, and all the late Changes, Revolutions of our Government ever …ince, proceeded originally from the Jesuites, and Romish Agents powerfull influences upon the seduced Army-Offieers, Souldiers, Sectaries, and Republican Members. And long since taking special notice, that during the Armies & Republicans proceedings against the King, & in hammering out their new p. 46Common-wealth; all the most eminent, zealous, religious Members of the Commons House, most opposite to Jesuites, Papists, Popery, were totally secluded, secured by the Army; and their Votes, Protestations, Advices, with the Addresses, Disswasions of all the Godly Ministers of London and other parts, yea (**See his Iustice ō the Armies Remonstrance. 1649. VVilliam Sedgwicks, their own Chaplains,) totally rejected with highest contempt; and the Counsels of the most desperate Jesuites, and popish Agents (flocking to London from all forein parts, and walking freely in the Streets whiles the Members were under strictest restraints) vigorously pursued: So all their subsequent Actions demonstrated to him and all considerate Protestants, whose Creature their New Republick originally was, and for whose service it was created, as these memorable particulars evidence.

aaSee the Prositions to the King, and Mr. Prynnes Speech, p. 57, 58. His Discovery of Freestate tyranny. p. 18.1. They did quite set aside all those 5. strict excellent Bills against …esuites, Seminary Priests, Popish Recusants, and the exercise of any t…eir Romish Superstitions in any place within our Realms, which the secluded Members, and Army-Officers too at first, eagerly pursued; and the King in the Treaty of the Isle of VVight assented to at the first without any scruple: For which the Iesuites in France, at a general Meeting there, presently resolved to bring him to Iustice, and take off his Head by the power of their Friends in the Army; as the King himself was certified by an express from thence, and wished to provide against it, but two dayes before his removal by the Army from the Isle of VVight, in order to his execution.

2ly. They bbSee their Votes in Feb. 1648. And Act for taking the Engagement, Sep. 6. 1649.totally set aside and repealed by express Votes and printed Knacks, the very Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, as unlawfull Oaths, which themselves took and ought to take before they sate or could sit as Members in the Commons House; by the Statutes of 5 El. c. 2. & 7 Iac. c. 6. which Oaths were specially made (by the great wisedom, care and piety of our Protestant Parliaments, purposely to detect the persons, and prevent the plots, conspiracies, Assasinations, Treasons, Vsurpations, and new Gun-powder plots of the Romish Iesuites, popish Priests, Papists, and their Instruments, against the Lives, Crowns, Prerogatives of our Protestant Kings, Princes, their Royal posterity, Realms, Parliaments, our protestant Church and Religion, as the Statutes of 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eliz. c. 1. 3 Iac. c. 4. 7 Iac. c. 6. and other Acts, with King Iames his Apology for the Oath of Allegiance, and sundry learned Treatises in defence of these Oaths, declare at large: Which Oaths were cc7 Iac. c. 6. Ro. Bellar. Responsio ad Apol. pro Iuramento Fidelitatis.refused, opposed only by the most Iesuited and desperate Papists ▪, at home and abroad: but approved by the p. 47moderatest and loyallest Priests and ddSee the Lord William Hewards and Prestons books in defence of the Oath. Mr. Rushworths Historical Collections, p. 347.Lay-Papists who writ in justification of them; and repealed to their greatest joy and advantage, by our Jesuitized zealous Republicans.

3ly. They discharged, absolved themselves, and all other Members, Subjects, Officers, who had taken these Oaths (as most had frequently done) from the future Observation of them, and of their Solemn Protestation, eeSee the 2d. part of the History of Independency.Vow, League, National Covenant, made in pursuance of them; contrary to this expresse Clause in the Oath of Allegiance, ff3 Iac. c. 4.Jas 4I do believe, and in Conscience am resolved, That neither the Pope, nor any Person whatsoever, hath Power to absolve me of this Oath, or any part thereof, which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred to me, and do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary. And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear, according to the expresse words by me spoken, and plain and common sense of the said words, without any equivocation or mental reservation, And I do make this recognition and acknowledgement, Heartily, Willingly, and Truly, upon the Faith of a Christian. Yet these faithlesse Republicans, who took this Oath as Members, (and several times else upon other occasions) thus atheistically, like so many absolute Popes, against all ggSee Grotius De lure Belli, l. 2. c. 13. Dr. Sanderson of Oaths.Laws of Nations, Nature, absolved themselves and all others from it, and set it, with the Oath of Supremacy, Covenant, Protestation, quite aside like old Almanacks out of date.

4ly. Not content herewith, they hhSee their Knack, Sept. 6. 1649.imposed a new Engagement, diametrically contrary to these Oaths, the Protestation, Vow, Solemn League and Covenant, which every one must subscribe with his hand, To be true and faithfull to their New Common-wealth as established by them, without a King or House of Lords, putting all English Freemen whatsoever into a New praemunire, upon a bare suggestion only before proof or conviction, and disabling them to sue in any Court of their Republick, or to receive or enjoy any degree, office, augmentation, or preferment whatsoever Spiritual, Ecclesiastical, Civil, or Military, or sit as Members then (and now again) unless they would publickly subscribe it: Which Engagement thousands of our Godly protestant Ministers, Gentry, Freemen refusing to subscribe, were thereupon barred of their Actions, Executions, Iudgements to recover their just Debts, Rights, Inheritances, Goods, Offices; denyed their degrees of Learning, ejected out of their Benefices, Headships, Fellowships, Vice-Chancelorships, Augmentations, Offices, Freeholds, Callings, against all rules of Law, Conscience, Iustice, Equity, Religion, the Fundamental Laws and Liberties of the p. 48Land, their Native Birth-Rights, after all their Conte…s, Wats, Contributions, Prayers, Fasts, endeavours for their defence: And all by these Free-State-Men. A Tyranny, Treachery, Perjury, Apostacy, transcending any since the Creation, yet most eagerly pursued by them all their Reign, to the utter ruine of many consciencious, honest Protestants, and great rejoycing of all Iesuites and Popish Enemies both at home and abroad.

5ly. The very first Act of Iustice they did, by the first Commission of the peace they passed under their New Republican Great Seal for Middlesex, at the first Sessions held under them at Hix-hall, Febr. 1628. was the enlarging of a dangerous Iesuite, and another old seducing Papist, formerly imprisoned in the New prison: the only Acts done in this first Session, as those present then informed Mr. Prynne with much regret: Which was seconded with the subsequent enlargement of other Iesuites, Priests, Papists, elsewhere imprisoned: whereas on the contrary they shut up Sir William Waller, Sir Will. Lewes, Sir Iohn Clotwo…thy, Major General Brown, Comissary Cop…y, Mr. Prynne, Mr. Clement Walker close prisoners in sundry remote Castles divers years together, without any cause expressed, and Mr. Gewen with other Members, several Monthes, and sundry Godly Ministers, Protestants of all sorts throughout the Land, as well Paliamenteers, as former Cavaliers; yea beheaded Mr. Love, an eminent Protestant Minister, and other Protestants, but not one Papist in their illegal High-Courts of Justice, erected by them▪ against all our Laws, whiles these Romish Locusts were thus enlarged, unprosecuted, and had free liberty to wander up and down our three Nations, and act what they pleased to work out Kingdoms, Churches, and Religions ruine.

6ly. The first who publikely owned them for a Common-wealth, congratulated this their glorious change, atchievement, and ent…ed into a League with them, was the most Catholick K. of Spain, the …peculum …uit. p. 40. …7, 218. Lu…vicus Luci… Hist. Iesuit. … c. 2 p. 237, …3, 288.300, …9.Popes, Iesuites, chief Patron and Propagator of their Catholick Faith and designs: whose interests they prosecuted during all their Republican domination.

7ly. They entted into a bloodie invasive war against their Brethren of Scotland onlie for owning their rightfull Soveraign King CHARLES, after his Fathers beheading, according to their Laws, Oathes, Duties, and Solemn League and Covenant; invaded their▪ Country without any provocaion, slew many thousands of them with furie and cruelty in the Field;Near two …ndred thou…d pounds a … more … all the … venues and …xes …ount to, … good …bands are starved, destroyed hundreds of them taken prisoners by them, and sold others of them into forein plantations for Slaves; imprisoned, sequestred, banished most of their zealous Godly Protestant Ministers, Nobles, Gentry; took all their Cities, Castles, Forts, Amunition, Arms, conquered, inthralled their whole Kingdom, put them under intollerable Taxes, Tributes, and Iron-yokes of armed Governors, Garrisons still continued amongst them to our cost▪ destroyed their presbyterial and civil Government; and for an everlasting Monument of this their barbarous unbrotherly kindnesse, and gratitude towards them for their former assistances, not only kept Solemn publick Thanksgiving-Dayes throughout their p. 49Republicke for their Slaughters of and Victories over them, but hanged up all their Ensigns in Westminster Hall, and transported all their Records close prisoners to the Tower of London, where they yet continue.

8ly. They instigated the Dutch to set aside the Prince of Orange his Family, and put them out of the superiour Commands, places of Trust, they formerly merited and enjoyed, out of malice to the beheaded Kings Progeny; mutined the States against each other, and then entred into a most costly, bloody, dangerous, unchristian War with those our old Protestant Friends and Allyes, continuing all their Regency, to the losse of many thousands of gallant Protestants lives, the ruine of sundry Familyes, the great weakning, impoverishing of both Nations, the scandal, detriment of the Protestant Religion, the griefs of all forein Protestant Churches, the great joy and advantage of both our prosessed Popish Adversaries, and King of Spain especially; who long since designed both our ruines, by these very practises, prescribed to him by Campanella in direct words, as those who please may read at large, in his Book De Monarchia Hispanica, c. 25. & 27.

9ly. They freely permitted (if not encouraged) all their Republican Government,kkSee the Diuruals and Almanacks from 1648. to 1653. Diurnallists in their News-Books, and those scurrilous, grosse Impostors, Lilly, Culpepper, and other Prognosticators in their Almanacks, besides sundry other Scriblers insufferably to revile and rayle against our Oxthodox, Godly, Protestant Ministers, especially Presbyterians, to prophecy their downfull extirpation, execution, banishment, the utter ruine of them, their Tithes, Glebes, Presbytery, to incense both Souldiers and people to disown their Ministry, detain their Tithes, revile, abuse their persons, as being worse than any Priests, Iesuites, and greater Enemies, Traytors to their Republick than they, (who readily complyed with it as a Child of their own begetting.)

Xly. They permitted many thousands of Popish Primers and other Books to be freely imported, and above thirty thousand Popish and Atheistical pamphlets of all sorts, against our Church, Religion, Ministers, to be printed and vended in England without controll, as the London-Stationers (moved out of Conscience) declared and published to them in their Beacon fired 1652. and Scintilla, which Book was presently answered by the Beacon quenched, subscribed by Colonel Pride (the new Faux) and other Army-Officers, (though writ by a Iesuite as Mr. Prynne was credibly informed) and presented to those then sitting at Westminster, erecting them against the Stationers and their Beacon fired, as a New-Gunpowder-plot, to blow up the Army, Parliament, and New Common wealth, though a true, honest, harmlesse, pious, timely Discovery of the Papists and Iesuites designs to blow up our Religion, Church, Ministry, Amongst other popish Books then printed, vvSee Mr. Prynnes di…scovery of Free state Tyranny, p. 19, 20.Mr. Prynne met with one as far as Pendennis Castle in Folio, inittuled, The Holy Court, written by Edmund Causin a Iesuite, translated into English by Iesuites, dedicated to our Queen Mary, and the Dutchesse of Buckingham, printed in London by William Bentley, 1650. and sold by Iohn Williams in Pauls Church-yard, as p. 50the Title page attests, having the Iesuits Badge, and S. I. (Societatis Iesu) in Capitals printed in its front. In which Folio Book (consisting of divers Tomes) Tom. 1. p. 30 to 38.63, 64, 68, 74▪ 75. Tom. 2. p. 168. Tom. 3.425 to 430, 461, 462. Tom 5.173, 174.304 to 319. and other pages, The Popes Supremacy, prayer to Saints and Angels, Purgatory, Masse, Transubstantiation, and all other points of grossest popery were not only maintained, assered, but our very Protestant Religion branded for Heresy, our late Queen Elizabeth, our Ministers and all other Professors of it reviled, censured for damnable Heretiques, as Mr. Prynne then observed.

11ly. Themselves in divers of their printed Declarations, Knacks, and their Instruments in sundry Books, (as Iohn Goodwin, Markham, Needham, Melton, and others,) justified, maintained, the very highest, worst, treasonablest, execrablest, of all Popish and See Prynnes …pistle before … Legal and …storical …ollections, …. 1655.Jesuitical, Unchristian tenents▪ practise…, Treasons, as the murdering of Christian Protestant Kings, (under the notion of Tyrants) the blowing up of Parliaments, the subverting of Kingdoms, the altering of all setled Laws, Governments, the forcible usurpation of others Crowns, Honors, Officers, Estates, without Right or Title, by force, murder, treachery, the breach of, dispensation with, absolution from all sacred Oaths, Leagues, Covenants, Promises, Contra…s, rebellion, against all lawfull Superiours, and the open Violation of the 5, 6, 8, 9 & 10. moral Commands of God himself, under the pretences of publick Iustice, Necessity, Self-preservation, Reformation, Religion, publick good, safety, advancement of the Gospel and Kingdom of Iesus Christ, repayed with their own ejection.

…ee the 2d. …t of the …story of In…pendancy.12ly They closed in an offensive and defensive League with Owen Ro Oncal, and the popish Irish bloody Rebels, against Marquesse Ormond, Inchequin, and the Protestant party there who had been the Parliaments chief Generals and Officers, against the Rebels; in opposition to Monarchy; and when (to couler the odium of it) Col. Monke was questioned in the House for making this League with them, as done without their privity; and one of them moved, That he might be committed for it to the Tower; that famous Saint Henry Martin, stood up and retorted, That he desired the Tower might be rather committed unto him for this good service: What high places of trust by Sea and Land he hath been advanced to since for this service, is very well known; whereas Marquesse Ormond, the Lord Inchequin, and other Protestants in Ireland, who faithfully served the Parliament against the Irish Rebels, and bare the brunt of the first wars against them, were yet the very first persons excepted in their printed Catalogues, and News-Books, from all manner of pardon or composition either for their Lives or Estates, and are quite stript of all their Lands in Ireland, out of odium unto Monarchy, the Kings posterity. And all this to advance the Protestant Religion and Christs Kingdom by and under their New Jesuitical Republick, the quite contrary way.

These 12. particulars, like so many true, good, honest sworn Grand-Iury-men, impanelled by Mr. Prynne, out of mere zeal to his native Countryes, Church, Religions preservation, will give in a true impartial verdict, p. 51whose proper child, our New Commonwealth, whose Instruments the Guardians of it, but Goalors of all our liberties under it, have been and now are again, and whose works they do. He shall subjoyn a few sad Observations of like nature, during their Infant Republicks second wardship under their late Protector, to promote the Protestant Cause and Religion.

1. His making peace with the Hollander after he had dismounted the Republican Grandees to set up himself in their places; was in it self a Christian, pious, prudent, and commendable Act, beneficial to both Nations. But if the principle motives of it were, a vast sum of mony from the Dutch, put into his private purse (as some report;) or a desire to ecclipse the Honour, power of the Prince of Orange, their chief Protector and his Family; to banish the late Kings Royal posterity, and Adherents out of the Netherlands, and leave them no subsistance, nor being there amongst Protestants of our and their Religion, to force them to seek new Quarters amongst Iesuites, Papists, and cast themselves wholy on their Charity, on purpose to pervert them in their Religion, and destroy both their Souls & Bodies at once, which is visible and irre…ragable, they being all actually exiled thence by special Articles upon the peace with the Dutch. What Protestant can think upon it but with horror, as the highest Act of Impiety, cruelty, barbarisme, injustice, uncharitablenesse, and malice ever yet recorded of any professors of Christianity in the Protestant Religion.

2ly. His quarrelling with the King of Spain, in hopes to gain his Indian Mines, and sending such a Fleet, with so many thousand English Protestants and Souldiers thither, upon the bare project of nnSee his Book and Description of the West-Indies.Gage, a Iesuited professed Papist and Spainiolized Priest, who had lived there sundry years under the Spanish King as a Priest, (all whose family and relations have been ooSee Romes Master-piece and Hidden works of Darkness brought to publick light.desperate popish enemies to our Religion. King, Kingdoms) with the disasterous successe and fruits thereof, to the expence of such vast sums of our own Treasure, the loss of so manie thousand protestant Souldiers, Mariners, and undoing, endangering of our other American plantations; if rightly weighed, was in truth rather a Spanish and Iesuitish plot to ruine us and our religion, than to advance them; as Mr. Prynne at first reputed them, predicting the ill event before it happened.

3ly. His closing with France and the French-Cardinal Mazarine, upon the breach with Spain, of purpose to banish poor distressed K. Charles (whom he drove out his 3 Protestant Kingdoms, banished p. 52out of Holland: (deprived of all charitable supplies or hopes of relief from either for his necessarie subsistance;) and banish his Brother the Duke of York who had a command & great repute in the French Army, with all their Dependents out of France too, that he might the more securely establish himself and his posterity in their hereditarie Kingly power, dominions, and leave them no place to hide their heads in, (the effect, and chief end of that peace;) and that in pursuit of Cardinal Richelieus **Herep. 19.forementioned Instructions to ruine our Monarchy, Kingdoms, and work his infernal designs against us,) was such an inhumane, unchristian policy, as verie ill accords with our Saviours expresse precepts, Mat. 5.44. &c. Lu. 6.27, &c. Rom. 12.20, 21. But I say unto you, love your Enemies: Therefore if thy Enemie hunger feed him, if he thirst give him drink: Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with goodnesse. And a President hardlie paralleld.

Ala… how shall the memorable Heroick charity, generosity, pietie, justice, of our Norman Conqueror King William, (censured by this new Conqueror and his Army Saints, as the worst of Tyrants in sundry Pamphlets;) and of his Sons, William Rufus, and Henry 1. towards Edgar Atheling Heir to the English Crown after the death of Edward the Confessor (when hee took it from him by the Sword, under pretext of ppSee Mr. Prynnes 3d. part of his Legal Historical Vindication & Collection, &c. p. 343. to 397.King Edwards last Will, and being next Heir to him in blood, not as a Conquerour by war:) Who though after his qqIbid. p. 391, 392. Flor. Wigorn, Sim. Dunelm. Hoveden, Mat. Westm. Mat. Pa…is, Bromton, Anno 1066, 1067.Oath of Homage, Fealty, and Subjection to William, twice set up, as Heir to the Crown, by the English Nobility in opposition to him, twice routed by him in the Field, driven into Scotland, and quite left destitute of forces, friends and supplyes to gain the Crown; yet upon his repair to him in Normandy, without any precedent Articles for his securitie, Anno 1069. he not only pardoned his former insurrections, but rrMalm. de Gest. Reg. l. 3. p. 103.gave him a large gratuity, entertained and lodged him in his own Court divers years, allowing him a pound of Silver for his honourable maintenance everie day (a great sum in that Age:) After which when he desired to go into Apulia to the holie wars,ssMalm. ibid. sim. Dunelm. Col. 213. Brompton, Col. 976. Anno 1089. he furnished him with many Ships and 200 Souldiers: whence he returning after the losse of Robert his chief Commander and best men, though the Emperours of Greece and Germany whom he visited in his recesse thence, honourably received, and profered to entertain and maintain him in their Courts according to the greatnesse of his birth all his life time;ttFlor. Wigorn. p. 556. Sim. Dunelm. Col. 216, 217. yet he contemning to their proffers, out of a desire to enjoy his native Country, returned into England, where he was courteously entertained p. 53by William the Conqueror as before, till his death. After which Edgar fiding with Robert Duke of Normandy his eldest Son, against William Rufus the younger: he thereupon Anno 1091. deprived him of all the honours conferred on him by Robert, and banished him out of Normandy into Scotland: But afterwards upon the accord between the 2 Brothers touching the Crown, and peace with Scotland, he was reconciled to King Rufus, and returned into England, where he lived securely without the least restraint; and was in so great favour with Rufus, uuFlor. Wigorn. p. 464. Sim. Dunelm. Col. 223. Hov. Annal pars 1. p. 466.that in the year 1097. he sent him as General into Scotland with an Army to restore his Nephew Edgar Son of Malcomb (who maried Edgars Sister) to the Crown, which his Uncle Dufnald had invaded after Malcombs death, to expell Dufnald, and make Edgar King. Which having effected, he returning again into England, lived there quietly without the least danger or restraint all Rufus his reign, and some years under **Malm. de Gestis Reg. l. 3. p. 103.King Henry the first, betaking himself in his old Age to a retired private Country life, and dyed in peace, as our Historians then living record. Oh that there were the like Charitie, Ingenuity, Christianitie, Piety in the Saints of this Iron Age, against whom these 3. first Norman Kings shall rise up and condemn in the day of judgment, when Christ himself will pronounce this heavy sentence against them for all their pretended Saint ship: **Mat▪ 25.41, 42, 42.Matt 25:41Matt 25:42Depart ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Divel and his Angels, for I was an hungred and you gave me no meat, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, (no **See August. Tom 10. Ser. 21.not out of my large hereditarie Revenues of three Kingdoms, you have forcibly invaded against your Oaths;) I was a Stranger and you took me not in, (no not into my own Protestant Realm, Court, out of which you thrust me by violence, neither would you permit those of Holland and France, where I was a Stranger to take me in, but inforced them to banish and cast me out after their former entertainment of me as a stranger,) I was naked, but ye cloathed me not, (but stripped me and mine stark naked out of our Inheritances, Wardrobes, and all we had,) sick and in prison, (into which you cast both me and mine) and you visited me not, yea made it High Treason for any to do it, or so much as to pray for me in this my distressed condition, notwithstanding Gods own Evangelical precepts to the contrary, 1 Tim. 2.1, 3. 1 Pet. 2.17. Acts 10.5, 12. 2 Cor. 1.9, 10, 11, 2 Thes. 3.1, 2. Rom. 15.30, 31, 32. If the most righteous and charitable Saints shall **1 Pet. 4.18.1 Pet 4:18scarcely be saved in this great day, O where shall these ungodly, unrighteous, uncharitable, and transcendently malicious Sinners (not Saints) appear? O that they would p. 54sadlie consider it and repent thereof, as the onlie means to avoid this fatal doom of Christ at the last day. This truth they cannot, dare not deny with their Tongues, but they contradict it by their lives, 'Non contradicunt lingua sed vita. Moneo, rapit; doceo, rapit; praecipio rapit, arguo, rapit. Quomodo non contradixit? Si ergo in ignem aeternum ibit, cui dicturus est Christus nudus fui, & non vestisti me: quem locum in igne aeterno habebit, cui dicturus est, vestitus fui & spoliasti me? Hic fortasse ut evadas hanc vocem, mutata consuetudine, cogitas spoliare Paganum & vestire Christianum. Ad hoc respondebit tibi Christus, immo respondet tibi nunc per servum qualemcunque Ministrum suum: Etiam hic parce damnis meis; Cum enim qui Christianus es spolias Paganum, impedis fieri Christianum. Etiam & hic fortasse respondebis: Ideo spolio Paganum, ut per hanc asperam & salubrem Disciplinam faciam Christianum. Audirem & crederem, si quod abstulisti Pagano, redderes Christiano, &c. O that our Harpyes and Beasts of prey, (who have obliterated the tenth Commandement out of all their Decalogues as the Papist… have done the second) would lay it close to heart, being Saint Augustines 21. Sermon to them, as well as Mr. Prynnes: The rather, because the night before O. Cromwell Pro. died, Mr. Prynne then being at Swainswick near Bath (having never dreamed of him before) dreamt he was dangerously sick at Bath, and that he then sent a special Messenger to him importunatly desiring, he would presently repair to Bath, for he was very sick, and desired much to speak with him: Whereupon (though he never saw him since 1647.) he presently went to Bath: where finding him lying on his bed, he told Mr. P. he was very sick, and had sent for him to tell him what he should do in this condition. Mr. Prynne thereupon forthwith answered, That he could give him n… better nor other Counsel than that of Saint zzEpistola 4…. Tom. 2. See Homil. 50. set. 21. Tom. 10. Peter Lumbard, sent. l. 4. dist. 16. and the schoolmen on him. Alex. Alensis, sum. Theol. pars 4. quaest 24. mem. 5.Augustine (asserted by all Divines as an undoubted truth) Non Remittetur peccatum nist restituatur ablatum: That there was no remission of Sin without full restitution of Rapine: Therefore he must forthwith restore the banished King to his **Sodainly takē frō his Son by his nearest Relations and Army-Officers, notwithstanding their proclaiming him his successor, and all Addresses to live and dye with him; and that without one drawn sword.Crown and Kingdoms, of which he bad most unjustly deprived him; the Parliaments to its just rights, freedomes, and privileges, which he had utterly subverted; and the people to their fundamental Laws, Liberties, Properties, of which he had most unjustly and perfideously defrauded them more than any man, against his Oaths, trust, duty, under pretext of defending them; repent of all the blood he had shed. and mischief he had done; then there was hope of mercy and pardon for him both from God and Men, otherwise there was none at all for ought he knew. At which p. 55he standing mute, as much amazed, without any Reply, Mr. Pr. thereupon departed, without more words; and the next morning told this dream to his Sister, and sundry others, telling them he was confident he should hear some strange news of Cromwell very speedily, since he never dreamed of him before; and within three daies after he heard of his death about 12. hours after his dream. O that all other Usurpers of others Estates, Offices, Lands, places, by bloud and rapine, would sadly consider of it, and make real restitution of them before they die! then would our peace be soon restored without war or bloudshed: and their souls saved; which else in all probability **August. Ep. 44.will be damned, without real restitution when possible to be made.

4. His relieving, interceding for the massacred persecuted Protestant Albigenses in Piedmont, charitable Collections for them and others, was a Christian work, worthy applause: But his giving just provocation to Popish Princes abroad, by the **Ferdinandus Imperator, subegis Austriam, Bonemiam, Moraviam, S…siam, Hurgatiam, Palatinatum utr…mque, ex lisque Hae…eticutum Patriarch…s Hus…itas, & REBELLIONUM FACES CALVINISTAS, expulit & prostigavit. Agit… pri… cipes generosi, pargit… magnis animis, opu… foericibus adeo auspiciis caeptum confi… … paribus studi… REBELLEM CALVINI CHAERESIN paene …vulsam STIRPITU… UBILIBET ERADICATE, ut p…tti… & pestiferis memb…i… dissectis, Germania redinteg…ati, revalescere, pristinasque vires et robut queat collige…e, &c. Cornelius Cornelli Jesu… …. Praes…t. 24 S. Trini…a…, Commenta…iis in M…ores Propherus praefix: So… Militiere his Victory of Truth.Jesuites instigation, to extirpate their Religion, as a very Seminary of Treason, Sedition, Rebellion; and to massacre, eradicate them as a Company of Traytors, Antimonarchists, Regicides, Hypocrites, Rebels, and Seditious persons; from his own and his Confederates Antimo…archical principles, practises, Treasons, Rebellions of this kinde, both against their King, Parliament, Monarchy, their confederated Brethren of Scotland and their King, as being all of one Religion, perswasion; his accommodating the King of Spain with whole Regiments of bloudie Irish Papists, who had embrewed their hands in so much Protestant bloud in Ireland, and were the chief Instruments in murdering these poor Protestants; his negligence in examining the misimployment of this and other Collections under him for distressed foreign Protestants; the greatest part of which are yet in the Collectors hands, or diverted otherwise. Was in truth but first to kill, wound, plunder; and then relieve them when too late.

5. His Confederacy with the King of Sweden to invade the Kingdom of Poland, and usurp that Crown by force, (without right or colourable Title,) upon pretext to advance the Protestant cause, relieve the Protestant Churches & propagat the Gospel there; had some specious shew of zeal to Religion: But to doe apparent **Rom. 3.8.Rom 3:8evil, that good might come of it; to ingage in such a war to propagat the Gospel of peace, which ended in the total extirpation of all the Protestants and their Churches in Poland, whence they are now totally p. 56extirpated, as himself related in his Briefs, papers for their overlate relief: and produced a new bloudie warr (wherein he also sided with him) against the King of Denmark, a Protestant King, the Marquess of Brandenburgh, the Dutch, and other our Protestant allies, sadly divided against each other, in late bloudy battles by Land & Sea, to the endangering of all the Protestant Churches throughout the world, and engaging them all in a New Warre, and our three Nations (in all probability) against our Protestant Brethren, (now the Popish Kings are reconciled, and ready to destroy us all) being broken in pieces amongst our selves, impoverished, butchered by one another, rather like savage beasts, than men or Christians; and that in direct pursuance of aaDe Monarchia Hisp. c. 25, 2…, 27.Campanellaes, bbSee his Instructions.Richelieus, and ccPaulus Windeck de Extirpandis Haeresibus Antid. 10.11 p▪ 408.412.480. & 244. Hospinian Hist. Jesuit. l. 3. & l. 4. p. 212, 213, 214. Lud. Lucius, Hist. Jesuit. l. 1. p. 175. l. 2. p. 186, 187, 188. Johan. Cambilhonus, de Rebus Jesuitarum Abstrusio…ib us. An. 1608.other Iesuited Plots, who expresly write: That the Catholicks are to use all arts and means to divide the Protestants, Lutherans, Calvinists, and Sectaries one from and against each other, by various arts and means, and all occasions laid hold of for that purpose, that they may with more ease oppress, destroy them all; and that they ought not to neglect the opportunity to accomplish their utter extirpation when their monies are exhausted, their forces weakned, and they divided by their intestine wars. The best means being thus to destroy them by themselves, till they (like the Kite in the Fable) shall devour the Frog and Mouse together, during their combats with each other; Was such a Machiavilian Policy to advance the Protestant cause, as Mazarine and the Iesuites suggested to him on purpose to effect their ruine; as all Wise men, and his own Creatures now over-late discern: and Bedlam Hugh Peters in his Letter to a Great Army-Officer, the 10th of this instant May.

6. His endeavour to bring in the ddSee my 1. & 2. Demurrer to the Jews long discontinued Remitter into England.Iews with their Synagogues and Iewish Ceremonies, under a pretended hopes of their long-desired Conversion, but real intended expectation to finger Two hundred thousand pounds of their gold at present, and all the rest in future when transplanted; to set up their Antichristian Judaism, in direct contradiction to our Saviour Iesus Christ; and at the very self-same time, by his printed Declaration 24 Novemb. 1655. and private Instructions to his New Basha's (or Major Generals) to eject, silence at one blow (without conviction, hearing, or the least legal proceeding) many hundreds of Ministers, Schoolmasters, Scholars of the late Kings party (though learned, orthodox, godly, pious, peaceable, formerly indemnified and admitted to exercise their functions) and prohibit them any more to preach, marry, administer the Sacrament, pray, teach p. 57School in any publike place, or private meeting of any other persons, than those of their own family, or in any Gentlemens houses as Chaplains or Tutors to their Children, under pain of 3 Moneths imprisonment for the first, 6 moneths for the 2d. and perpetual banishment for the 3d Offence: And to punish them as Rogues and Vagrants, if they wandred abroad to begg their bread, on purpose to starve both them, their wives, families, or enforce them to flie into forein Popish Realms, (being excluded out of the Netherlands) and there turn Papists to preserve their lives; when all Priests, Jesuites, Sectaries whatsoever, and Jewes themselves had so much Liberty under him; Was such a transcendent Barbarism, Impiety, and High way to extirpate our Religion, (as pious learned Archbishop Vsher told him when he mediated for their libertie, and could not prevail, as he told Mr. Prynne and others with tears, which brake his heart soon after) as the Pope, and Iesuites themselves could not have invented the like; and exceeded all forein persecutions against Protestant Ministers in Piemont, Bohemia, and Silesia, by Popish Princes, being of a different Religion, but he a pretended Protestant Zealot.

7. His Extending not only his Toleration but real Protection to all Sects whatsoever, except POPERY and PRELACY, and passing the late Bill 1657. (put on by the Presbyterians) against Papists, might savour of some disgust against those of the Romish Religion: But his extraordinary intimacy with Cardinal Mazarine, Sir Kenelm Digby a most dangerous Jesuited Papist lodged by him in Whitehall, (a chief Instrument of the union between him and Mazarine,) and sundry other Papists, Jesuites, Popish Priests: His suspending all penal Lawes, Executions against Popish Priests, Jesuits, though sometimes taken in their pontificalibus at Masse, and soon after released: His protections under hand and seal to sundry of them, particularly to Maurice Conry, Provincial of the Franciscans in England: Their coming over in greater swarms of later times, than ever heretofore, without restraint, as himself **see hete, p. 42, 43.printed as well as declared in his publike Speeches: His endevours to stop the late Bill against Papists the very morning he was to pass it, by his Whitehall Instruments, who moved its suspension for a time, as not suiting with present Forein correspondencies; (against whom it was carried by 88. Votes, That it should be carried up with the rest then passed:) With the Copy of his Letter to Card: Mazarine, (in many good hands, affirmed to bee real not counterfeit) excusing his passing this Bill, as carried on by a violent Presbyterian party much against p. 58his will; yet it should not hurt them though passed, &c. which accordingly fell out: The large expressions made to those of Dunkirk in his name by their Gov: Lockert, to protect them in the full and free exercise of their Romish Religion as amply as ever the King of Spain did: with other particulars of that nature: And his great incouraging of all sorts of Sects My Quakers Vnmasked, 1655. And New Discovery of Romish Emissaries, 1656.headed, acted by disguised Iesuits, Priests, Friers, as M. P. hath elswhere fully evidenced: Are demonstrations beyond all exceptions; what an Advancer he was of the true Prostestant cause and Religion.

8. His undermining, subverting all our Fundamental Lawes, Liberties, Properties, (and Parliaments too) in the highest degree, by his own and his Army-Officers, Councils, new printed Folio Ordinances, Instruments, Taxes, Excises, High Courts of Injustice, Major Generals Commissions, Instructions, Proceedings, by committing sundry persons Close prisoners (some of them to forein Islands) without any cause expressed, legal trial or conviction divers moneths, years, by warrants under his own or his Councils hands: His stopping returns of Habeas Corpora, when granted, or removing the Prisoners to new remote prisons: His sei…ing, securing the persons, horses, arms of thousands, and banishing them from London time after time, upon meer forged Plots, Fears: His disbenching his own Judges for not complying with his illegal will: His oft stiling MAGNA CHARTA, MAGNA FARTA with highest indignation: Committing 3. Lawyers to the Tower at once as Traytors, for daring to argue an Habeas Corpus against his illegal Commitment, and Whitehall Ordinance for Excise in Conyes case (a president not to be paralleld:) his prohibiting ffSee his Whitehall Ordinances for Excise and Taxes, 14 Decemb. & 17 March 1653. May 4. & June 8. 1654▪ & The 1. Part of my Legal and Historical Vindication, &c. p. 66.10 90.all Lawyers, Sollicitors, Iudges, and Courts of Iustice whatsoever under him, to plead, act, or admit any proceedings, or legal trial at Law against his illegal Ordinances and absolute commands, under pain of his highest indignation: His defrauding most Patrons of their livings and lapsing them, (by his own Ordinances, Instruments) into his own hands, refusing their honestest, ablest Clerks, without any cause assigned, and denying them the benefit of Quare Impedits after judgement given upon them by his own Judges. All these are clear demonstrations to Mr. P. beyond contradiction; That our Infant Commonwealth both in its birth, growth, progress under its old Guardians, and New Protector, was but the Iesuits, Popes, Spaniards, Mazarines, and our Popish Enemies new Creature, and Instrument to ruine our Protestant p. 59Church, Religion, King, kingdoms, Laws, Liberties: The very name of Magna Charta it self (for which our ancestors heretofore spent so much bloud and treasure in reality, and we of late only in pretence) being so execrable to our New Free-States men, that in September 1650. it was expunged out of a Petition M. P. drew for Mr. Luttrel, (to save Dunster Castle the habitation of him and his ancestors, from being pulled down over his head before hearing or Notice, by an Order issued for that purpose and put in execution) to Iohn Bradshaw and their Free-State Council at Whitehall, by their Attorney Prideaux order, because it would distast them: and a Great Fart was more savory to Olivers red nose than it: all in pursuance of the Jesuits old Plot: as you have heard out of Watsons Quodlibets: This M. P. shall a little insist on, because of a present design against our Laws now eagerly pursued.

The late Parliament in aaExact. Collection. p. 7.10.267, 268, 340, 342.376.459.491, to. 495.503.573, 575, 660.665, 666, 825.832.839.907. to. 916.932.951.above one hundred Declarations, Ordinances, Orders, Votes, made this their principal Charge against the Kings Iesuitical Counsellors, and the Popish Forces raised by him, against the Parliament, that they endeauoured the subvexsion and extirpation of our antient fundamental Laws & Government: and that one of the bbA Collection of Ordinances p. 13.30.34.42, 43.98, 99.161.167, 168, 169.185.199.203, 204, 211.227.275.282.294.305.313.317.340.363: 371.380.417.420, 423, 425.432.451. to. 460.504.513.537, 539.616.623.666.679.877, 878. Appendix. P. 4.15.chiefest causes of their taking up arms and raising Armies against them, was for the necessary defence and preservation of these antient Good old Laws and Liberties, (the Inheritance and Birthright of every English Freeman) whereby not only his Maiesties Regal Authority, but the Peoples security of Lives, Lands, Livings, Privileges, Liberty, (both in general and particular) are preserved and maintained, and by the abolishing, innovating or alteration of which, it is impossible but that present confusion will fall upon the whole State and Frame of this Kingdom: as the whole Parliament of 1 Iacobi ch. 2. expresly declared long since in the Prologue of that Act, the late long Parliament in sundry Declarations; Yea King Charls himself in his Declaration by advice of his Council, to all his Subjects, Dec. 15. 1641. Exact Collect: p. 28, 29. his Answer to the Lords and Commons Petition, April 9. 1642. Ibid. p. 140. to their Declaration May 4. 1642. p. 163, 164. and elswhere, the Defence whereof against invasion, subversion, he made the ground of raising Forces against an Anabaptistical party & faction in the Parliament, intending to subvertand extirpate them root and branch, as you may read at large: Ib. p. 326, 443, 451, 514, 515, 555, 556, 561, 562, 579, 619. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 28, 38, 39, 116, 117. Yet p. 60notwithstanding all these Parliament Declarations and Commissions in pursuance of them; the Army-Officers, Souldiers, by the Iesuits suggestions, have been so farr intoxicated, as to attempt the utter subversion and extirpation both of our Laws (and Lawyers too) for whose defence they were principally raised, in pursute of**Here, p. 42. Father Parsons forementioned design, under pretext of reforming them: though the bare indirect attempt to subvert them in a farr inferiour degree, was adjudged HIGH TREASON in ccSee their impeachments, Trials, The Act & Ordinance for their Attainders, Mr. Pyms speech. Mr. St. Iohns Declaration, & Argument …gainst them, …nd first part …f my Legal …nd Historical …indication, …c.Straffords and Canterburies cases, for which they both lost their Heads AS TRAYTORS, and in the Case of the Ship-mony Judges in the long Parliament.

That they have prosecuted this design in England to subvert our Fundamental Common Lawes, and Great Charter of our Liberties, is most apparent by their proceedings in their Mock Parliament, and printed Vote 20 August 1653. Ordered, there should be a Committee selected To consider of a New Body of the Law, and the Government of this Commonwealth: Compared with A True state of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland &c. printed 1654. p. 15, 16, 17, 18. which assures us, That there was a strong prevailing party in that Assembly, whom nothing would satisfie, But a total eradication of the whole Body of the Good Old Laws of England, (the Gardians of our Lives and Fortunes) to the utter subversion of Civil Right and Propriety, &c. And our two Jesuitical Lilly, and …ulpepper.Prognosticators were so confident of it (as if the Stars in heaven had concurred herein with the Iesuites and Anabaptistical Conventicle then on earth) that in their scurrillous Prognostications they predicted the downfall not only of all our Ministers, and their Tithes, but of our Laws and Lawyers, Prognosticating, in the moneths of Ianuary, February, September, October, and December 1654. That the Lawes & Lawyers of the Nation should be pulled down to the ground; That the Great Charter it self should be called into question with other Liberties, as not suting with English mens brains at this time; Nota.That the Crabtree of the Law should be plucked up by the roots to hinder the future growth thereof; There being no reason we should now be governed by the Norman Law, since the Norman Race is taken away by the same instrument (the sword of Conquest) which brought it in. They are the very words of these false Prognosticators, who have many such like passages in them both before and since. Which, compared with the late speeches p. 61of many Common Souldiers: That there should be no more Terms in Westminster Hall: That they hoped very speedily to see not only the Lawyers gowns, but the Lawyers themselves hanged vp over the Courts in Westminster Hall, where the decayed Scots coulours hung, to supply their vacant places: That it would be a goodly sight, to see all the Trees in St. Iames's Park hung with Lawyers and their gownes; with sundry such like speeches, since May 6. 1659. All these compared together, (with what Mr. Prynne hath frequently heard the Soldiers say during his neer 3. years close Imprisonment under them, and their New Republike in Dunster, Taunton, and Pendennys Castles) That they hoped ere long to see and leave neither one Lawyer, nor Parish Priest throughout England, Nor yet steeple, steeple-house or Bells, which they would sell, or cast into Ordinance to fight against the Dutch, &c. with some Petitions and Pamphlets now on foot to the like tune; and the Army-Officers fresh Proposal, to those now sitting and their Votes thereon; for the reformation of our Laws, &c. Are an infallible evidence to him, that all our former, late, and present cbanges of this Nature, for which this formerly eiected Republican Conventicle is now reassembled, are the meer proiections of the All-swaying Iesuits, to work our Laws speedy ruine. It being their professed practice even in other forein Popish kingdoms, to subvert their fundamental Lawes, especially those which concern the inheritance, succession of the Crown, and Liberties of the Subjects; for which take these two Testimonies even from forein Papists themselves. The 1. in that memorable Peece, ttSee Hospinian Hist. Iesuitica, l. 3. & 4. speculum Iesuiticum, p. 119. Ludovicus Lucius, Histor: Iesuit. l. 4: c: 5 where it is printed at large & Thuanus Hist: l: 138.Consilium de recuperanda et in posterium stabilienda Pace Regni Poloniae per Iesuitarum ejectionem, presented to the Parl. of Poland, An. 1607. out of which they were soon after banished. Hic autem vos notare velim ejusdem pestis Iesuitici non minorem efficatiam esse in oppugnanda et expugnanda Republica, atterendis Legibus, quoties nempe sentiunt, se ab his, in instituta sua venatione, impediri. Et quod ad Leges attinet, hae politicae tineae, Illas praecipue arrodere consueverunt et exedere; quibus jus successionis in regno continetur, Liberiasque et Pax publica firmatur. Which he proves by several presidents of their shaking abolishing the very fundamental Laws of this Nature, in France, Hungary, Styria, Austria, C…rinthia, and elsewhere: and that with such success, ut obtritis legibus praedictarum Nationum libertas nitebatur, partem earum penitus oppresserint, partem ad extremam desperationem adigererint: In praedictis Provinciis alicubi p. 62Illustribus et Antiquissimae Nobilitatis Familiis publice diem dictum esse intra quem se, aut coram Iesuitarum Tribunali sistant, aut relictis patriis sedibus alio migrent. And is not this the sad, desperate condition of many antient Noble Protestant Families, Knights, Gentlemen and others, both in England, Ireland, Scotland, and of the Royal Protestant Family, since our late Warrs, Changes of Government, Parliaments, and extirpation of all our Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Properties, by the Iesuits and their Instruments? O let our whole Nation and Republican Members too (once shamefully ejected by those now calling them in) consider, consider, consider this over and over, and lay it close to heart: least closing with the Iesuites now again in this New Convention, kkHist. Gallica & Belgica, l: …: f. 151, 152. Speculum Iesuiticum, p. 75.80. The general History of France, in H. 4. and Lewis 13. Hospinian Historia, Iesuit. l. 3.153. to 159. Lud. Lucius, Histor. Iesuit. l. 3. c, 2.as they assuredly did in the Old since December 1648. till April 1653. they incurr that sad fate of u King Henry the 4th of France; who after the execution of some and banishment of all Iesuites out of France, upon Iohn Castles one of their disciples stabbing him in the cheek, with an intent to murder him; and afterwards recalling, favouring, flattering them by building a stately College for them, entertaining one of them for his Confessor, and bequeathing his very heart unto them, to be interred with them after his death, together with a very large Legacy of Plate and Lands; yet they soon after procured their desperat Assassinate and Disciple Ravilliac to stabb him to the heart, in the open street in Paris, An. 1610. A Just reward for his neglect, contempt of his Parliaments timely admonitions in sundry Remonstrances presented to him, never to trust or recall them more; and the notable Epigram against the Iesuits, tendred to him by a true Philopater, Anno 1603. wherein there is this memorable passage in relation to their subversion of all antient Fundamental Laws.

Cuinam Hominum ignotum est Iesuitas nocte dieque,

Nil meditari aliud quam qua ratione modove,

Prisca Statuta queant, Patriasque evertere Leges;

Inque locum Antiquis totum in contraria Nobis,

Iura dare; & sanctos privata ad commoda Ritus▪

Fl…ctere; nulli unquam quod post mutare licebit? &c.

M. Prynne considering all these particulars, and knowing that this sodain re-assembly of the old eiected Republican Members, now sitting, originally proceeded from the Jesuits projection, sollicitation, and Anabaptistical Sectarian party formerly combining with them, in all their proceedings against the late King, (at whose execution the **Nota.Queens own Conf…ssor was present in a Soldiers habit, flourishing his sword when his head was off as well as other p. 63Iesuits, Popish Priests, overjoyed with that spectacle) the secluded Members, the House of Lords, and transformation of our Kingdom into a Commonwealth, to accomplish their remaining designs, left unfinished; pro…ected in terminis by **Watsons Quodlibets, p. 92, 94, 95. & Dialogue, p. 95.Father Parsons and the Jesuites, and violently pursued in the short Mock-Parliament nominated at Whitehall by the Army-Officers themselves, 1653. viz: To eradicate the National Church, Ministers, Ministry of England, Advowsons, Tithes, Glebes, with Parochial Churches, Chapels, as Antichristian, and leave not one stone of them upon another: Which Iohn Canne (the new-voted Diurnall-man) in his Voice from the Temple, then dedicated to them, particularly excited them to, with all speed and earnestness, as their Generation-work, expected, required of them by God and all the Saints of the Land) To sell all the Crown, Colleges, Vniversities, and Corporations lands yet remaining, to support and pay the Iesuited Army (kept up so long on purpose to ruine, eat us out.) M. Prynne thereupon, held it his bounden duty, both as a M…mber, Lawyer, Englishman, and former Patriot of his Countries Liberties, against all Iesuitical Vnderminers of them and our Protestant Religion, truly & fully to discover the same to the whole English Nation, Army, and those now sitting; and to press it home upon their Consciences by this his Narrative, whether they will hearke… to, believe, obey it, or not, since he was forcibly secluded from doing it by Speech: having sufficient warrant, encouragement, and protection for it, (as he apprehends) from God himself, Ezech. 2.4, 5, 6. and Jer. 1.18, 19. For they are hard of face, and stiff hearted; Therefore (Son of man) I do send thee unto them, and thou shalt say unto them, thus saith the Lord. And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious House) yet shall know, that there hath been a Prophet among them. And thou Son of man, be not afraid of them; neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou doest dwell among Scorpions; Be not afraid of their Faces, nor be dismayed at their Looks, though they be a Rebellious House. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear. But thou Son of man, hear what I say unto thee (and O that all the seduced Army, Republican Members and their confederates would now hear and obey it too) Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious House. For behold I have made thee this day, a defenced City, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls against the whole Land, against the Princes thereof, and the Priests thereof, and against all the people of the Land (engaged against thee and thy true Good Old Cause) And they shall fight against thee (by sundry p. 64scurrillous Pasquils, Petitions, Slanders, Reproaches, and armed secluding Guards) but they shall not prevail against thee. For I am with thee, saith the Lord, (as well now as in all former Engagements, Trials for this Good cause) to deliver thée, The assurance whereof hath made him so resolute, as singly by himself, to encounter an whole armed Host and House, at once, and throuh Gods blessing to rout them in a manner by his bare presence, and their Good Old Cause in a great measure by his single Opposition: The aaPs. 115.1.Ps 115:1sole praise whereof he desires to render wholly and solely bbPs. 46.7, 11. Ps. 27.1.6Ps 46:7Ps 46:11Ps 27:1Ps 27:6to the Lord of Hosts, and ccNum. 16.22. c. 27.16.Num 16:22God of the Spirits of all Flesh, and not in any kind or part to himself, ddPs. 22.6.Ps 22:6a meer worm and not a man, an earthen Vessel; yea one of the weak, base, despised things of the world, and a thing that am not, whom yet God can and may make use of, to confound the things that are mighty, and to bring to nought things that are, that no Flesh shall glory in his presence, and that the excellency of the power might be of God and not of him; who h…th promised, that ee2 Cor. 4.7. 1 Cor. 1.27, 28, 29. Deut. 32.30.2 Cor 4:71 Cor 1:271 Cor 1:281 Cor 1:29Deut 32:30One of his faithfull people shall chase a thousand, and two, put ten thousand to flight, (in a true Good Old Cause and Quarrel) for the Lord their God he it is that fighteth for them as he hath promised. What then might all the secluded Members and old Lords House do, and all the well affected Orthodox Protestants in our three Nations, had they but hearts, wisedoms, courage to joyn their Counsels and endeavours together, (according to their Solemn League and Covenant) to vindicate their true Old Cause and Parliamentary privileges, against all inconsiderable Oppugners and Subverters of them.

Mr. Prynne; having neither Wife nor Child to provide for, not much to care for, and never yet desiring any New Office, Advancement or Employment in this present world, nor receiving the least reward for all his faithfull publick services, nor recompence for his manifold losses, sufferings, expences for the Publick to whom he hath ever been a faithfull unmercinarie Servant, is in good hopes, that the serious perusal of the premises, will convince the Good Old Cause now cryed up, to be a cheat of the Iesuites put upon the Army, (as Hugh Peters apprehends, stiles it in his Letter, the 10th. of this May, to a chief Officer of the Army,) and also wipe of all the Mis-reports, Scandals, Reproaches, Censures, yea acquit him from the heavy charge of Sedition, Mutiny, Treason, against the Infant House and Republick, cast upon him for his actions or discourses here related, by those who are reallie guiltie of these Crimes in the highest degree, by subverting our antient p. 65Kings, Kingdomes, Kingship, Parliaments, Peers, Privileges, Laws, Liberties, Properties, Oaths, by their Iesuitical plots and innovations, and making a prey of all the publick wealth, Lands, Revenues of the Crown, to enrich themselves, and maintain a seditious Army, utterly to devour the small Remainder of our publick and private wealth almost drained to the dregs; and betray us into the hands of our forein Enemies, when they have left us neither hearts, hands wills, mony, nor means, manfully to resist their invading power, and reduced us to that slavery, as rather to live under any forein Tyrannie, than an ggJer. 46.16▪ c. 50.16.Jer 46:16oppressing Sword of their own domineering Hirelings. As for the thing they stile Sedition, it is but hhCalipine, H…liok…, summa Angelica Tit. Seditio. Cice…o de Repub. l 6. Lu. 23.19.seorsum itio, when a few confederated Innovators shall seperate themselves from the General body or Assembly of the Kingdom, Chuch, Parliament, House, whereof they are Members, and act a part by themselves, as a divided Republick, Church, Parliament, House, without and against the Generalitie, and true lawfull Members, and seperate them from their company. iiLuke 6, 22.Luke 6:22And if this be truth, as kkSee the Appendix to Mr Rushworths Historical Col p. 30. to 40, 41, 42.our Statutes, Lawbooks, Casuists, Canonists, and Historians accord, we shall know in whose Hearts, House Sedition truly dwells. And if llPolit. l. 3. & Ethic. l. 8.Aristotle mmSecunda secundae Artic. 12. & Qu. 11.Aquinas, nnS…mma Angelica, Tit. Seditio.Angelus de Clavasio, and ooSee the soveraign Power of Parliaments, part 4. p. 187, 188.192.sund…y others who write of Sedition, may be credited; He who disturbs the Rule or Government of any unlawfull Vsurper is no seditious Person, because such a usurped Government or Power is not ordained for the commo… good, (whatever pretended) but for the private advantage of the Usurper, Therefore the disturbance of such a Vsurper hath not the reason of S… dicion; yea, it is to be commended, because it freeth the Generality of the People from a Tyrannical Power usurped over, or forcibly imposed on them against their wills, and it is the …surping Tyrant only who truely is seditious, as they all define in direct words. And whether Mr. Prynne and other secluded Members and Lords, being …ive times their number, or those who seclude them be seditious, let the whole Kingdome resolve.

Mr. Prynne not knowing whether he shall have the like opportunity again, shall for a Conclusion of this Narrative addresse himself, and direct some things he intended to have spoken.

1. To the Army-Officers and Souldiers, Remember I beseech you in the bowels of Jesus Christ, what your own Army-Chaplain Iohn Sedgewick in his Iustice upon the Armies Remonstrance, from St. Albons, Nov. 16. 1648. and Rebukes of that evil Spirit that leads them in their Counsels and Actions, hath written to them therein, p. 66and to the Lord Fairfax then General, and the General Counsel of war, in his Epistle Dedicatorie to them, when they first espoused their present Good Old Cause. His words are home and piercing, Destruction you practise, it is your work, it is your end, you cannot see beyond it, and you are hastning to it, it is the center to which you tend, and therefore I cannot but shew it to you, that you may stay your course before the pit shut her mouth upon you. You are full of glorie in the great things you have done, wonderfull thing! a mighty presence of God. But in sum what is it? You have torn a poor sinfull Kingdom in pieces, you have executed wrath upon your Brethren, Friends, and Countrymen, you have laid desolate your Father the King, the Parliament, your Mother, your own Country: This is your glorie to be Executioners, Assyria the Rod of mine Anger, what a Crown is this? Have you restored, blessed, healed, comforted, saved any? No, You have but plunged the Kindome and your selves into a Pit of Darknesse and Confusion. You drive furiously over the King, Parliament, Laws, Conscience, Loyalty, Privileges, so as no human nor sacred thing can stand before you. It is high time to withstand you, for it is not men onlie that suffer from you, but the Lord: Your Sword goeth so deep that it pierceth through his Soul also: You are gone is farre in dissolving the Foundations of Government, that you are come to him who upholds the Pillars of the earth: you reach to the head of Principalities, and Powers; to the Lord who is the Author and Upholder of all these things. He is in these despised broken Ordinances of his, and sensible of everie blow that is given to them: You have digged through the wall of Flesh and men, and through the partition wall that divided them from God, and now you are in the bowels of the Lord; these miserable broken Powers are now the Lord. Go on, tear and rend, you will at last look upon him whom you have pierced, and mourn. O that you would now do so in good earnest, as you pretend only in your Declaration of May 6. 1659. and aaPs. 68.21.Ps 68:21yet go on still in your former Trespasses, for which God will wound your hairy Scalps. O consider, that Jesus Christ, whose Servants ye pretend to be, is both a bbPs. 24.7, 8, 9, 10.Ps 24:7Ps 24:8Ps 24:9Ps 24:10King of Glory, & a ccRev. 15.3.Rev 15:3King of Saints: That the Gospel you professe is the ddMat. 4.23. c. 9.35. c. 13.19. c. 14.24.Matt 4:23Gospel of the Kingdom, (not Republick) yea, the eeMat. 10.7. c. 12.28. c. 21.43. c. 4.43. c. 8.1, 10. c. 16.16. Acts 20.25.Matt 10:7Acts 20:25Kingdom of God, and of Heaven in Gospel-language: That his Church whereof you p. 67pretend your s…lf Members, is frequently styled a ff1 Cor. 15.24. Col. 1.13. Rev. 12.10.1 Cor 15:24Col 1:13Rev 12:10Kingdom, never a Common-wealth (or at least bnt ggEph. 2.12.Eph 2:12once, and that not in opposition or contradistinction to a Kingdom, which is the first excellentest of all Common-wealths, as hhAristot. Polit. l. 3. c. 12. l. 4. c. 2.Heathen Philosophers, Polititians and Devines accord,) but as the verie same with it: That the Saints themselves are styled, the iiMat. 13.38.Matt 13:38Children of the Kingdom, (not Republick) kkRev. 1.9.Rev 1:9Companions in the Kingdom of Christ, even in this world; yea a llExod. 19.6. Rev. 1.6. c. 5.10. c. 20.6.1 Pet. 2.5.Exod 19:6Rev 1:61 Pet 2:5Kingdom of Priests, a Royal Priesthood; Nay Kings and Priests to God the Father, and that by Christs own constitution. Consider yet further, that Heaven it self, into which you expect at last to enter, is ever stiled mmMat. 5.3.19. c. 7.21. c. 8.11.Matt 5:3Matt 5:19the Kingdom of Heaven, nn2 Pet. 1.11. 2. Tim. 4.18.2 Pet 1:112 Tim 4:18an heavenlie and everlasting Kingdom, a ooHeb. 12.28.Heb 12:28Kingdom which cannot be moved, a ppDa…. 7.27. Lu. 1.33. Is. 9.1.Isa 9:1Kingdom which shall have no end; (never a Common-wealth;) That in this Kingdom we read of nothing but qq2 Tim. 4.8. 1 Pet. 5.4. Ps. 45.9. Mat. 19.28. Rev. 3.21. c. 20.4. c. 9.11. c. 7.9.13 14.2 Tim 4:81 Pet 5:4Ps 45:9Matt 19:28Rev 3:21Crowns, Scepters, Thrones, Robes of Glory and Majesty, and of rr2 Tim. 2.22. Rev. 22.5.2 Tim 2:22Rev 22:5reigning in it for ever and ever. That Christ himself hath promised, appointed, and his Father given to all his Saints the ssLu. 12.32. c. 22.22.Kingdome of Heaven. Upon which account they are now stiled ttIames 2.5.Jas 2:5Heirs of the Kingdom, and shall hereafter uuMat. 25.34.Matt 25:34inherit & possesse this Kingdom, receive the Crowns, wear the Royal Robes, sit upon the Thrones provided for them in it. How then have the Enchanters of Rome, Spain, France, so far infatuated your understandings, blinded your Judgements, intoxecated your Brains, perverted your Wills, corrupted your Affections, seared your Consciences, engaged your unrulie Passions, as notwithstanding all this, to make you Bedlam madde, against all Kings, Kingship, Kingdoms, Crowns, Scepters, Thrones, Principalite…, and Kingly power, as to a abhor, and engage against both the things themselves and their verie names, yea to extirpate them root and branch, against his expresse Evangelical precepts, word and practise of all his Saints in either Testament, to dote upon such a strange Vtopian Common-wealth, and new Freestate, the verie names whereof, much lesse the things, you find not once in Scripture in your sense, and never yet read of in the militant or triumphant Church of Christ. Let Mr. Prynne a little expostulate the case with you, not as a Lawyer but as a Christian. Do you indeed believe the Scripture, to be the very will and word of the xxPs. 47.7. Gen. 18.25.Ps 47:7Gen 18:25Great King, the Soveraign Lord, and Iudge of all the Earth, and of Jesus Christ, yyRev. 5.3. &c. 19.16. 1. Tim. 6.15.Rev 5:31 Tim 6:15the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and King of Saints, which you are bound in Conscience, under pain of eternal damnation to believe and p. 68obey? If not, proclaim it as lo…d to the world with your Voyces, as you do by your Sworde, …it. 1.16. …ib. 6.9.Actions; and then all will know you in your Native colours, to be no Saints but real Atheists, and all reasonings with you will be in vain. But having …cts 26.27.better perswasions of you, …al. 6.16.That you believe the Scripture to be the …ay 1.24.only rule of your Consciences, Iudgements, Lives, both as Souldiers and Christians. Then answer clearlie to these interrogations; The Lord of Hosts himself most peremptorilie and preciselie commands you, To fear God, honour the King, 1 Pet. 2.17. Rom. 13.7. Yea to fear the Lord and the King, (coupling both these together as unseperable) and not to meddle with those who are given to change, Prov. 24.21. How can, how dare you then dishonour, vilifie, reproach, destroy, both your natural Kings, and Kingship too, without the least fear at all of God or the King, and change them into a New Republican Conventicle? He commands you to subject your selves to the King as Supream, both by the Ordinance of God and man, and that for the Lords sake: and avoiding scandal to Religion, 1 Pet. 2.12, 13. To be subject to the Higher Powers, and amongst them more especiallie to Kings and Principalities; and that not only for fear of wrath, but for Conscience sake, for these Reasons clearlie expressed: Because they are of God, and ordained by God: Because they are the Ministers of God for your good. Because they are Gods Avengers to punish you, if you disobey, resist, or do evil; Because they who resist them resist the Ordinance of God, and shall receive to themselves damnation, Rom. 13.1. to 8. Tit. 3.1, 2. VVith what face, heart, confidence, conscience, then can or dare you, not onlie not submit, subject your selves to, but exalt yon… selves above, against your lawfull Soveraign Kings, and Higher powers, so far as not onlie to re…ist, but destroy their Persons, Powers, Kingships, Principalities themselves though Gods own Ordinance? and that out of pretended Zeal and Conscience too; and hope to receive a Crown on Earth, or in Heaven for it, when as God himself denounceth Damnation to you, for your verie unwarrantable resistance of them alone, and much more for their destruction. God requires you to make Prayers, Supplications, Intercessions, and giving of thanks Tim. 2.1,first of all FOR KINGS, that YOU may live a peaceable and quiet life (under them) in all Godliness and honestie, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour. …ee Tertui… Apologia.To make prayers to the God of Heaven FOR THE LIFE OF THE KING AND OF THE KINGS SONS, Ezra 6.12, 13. To pr…y with all the primitive Church and p. 69Saints of God, Psal. 72.1. Give the King thy Judgement O God, and thy Righteousness unto the Kings Son: How can, how dar… you then, not onlie neglect these Duties, but prohibit, condemn, punish them, as no lesse than High Treason in others? and not onlie fight, but curse, revile, pray against the King, and the Kings Sons too, and take away their lives, livelihoods, instead of praying for them, reputing it both your godlynesse, honesty, yea a Duty acceptable, and well pleasing unto God. eeIsay 1.2. Ps. 114.7.Isa 1:2Ps 114:7Hear Heavens, and tremble O Earth at this great impietie; God commands you Eccles. 8.2. To keep the Kings Commandement, and that in regard of the Oath of God: And dare you against all your Oaths of Fealty, Homage, Supremacy, Allegiance, Protestation, League, Covenant, printed Declarations, and your own Propositions 1 August 1647. That the Kings Person (and Royal issue) may be restored to a condition of safety, honor, and freedom in this Nation, without diminution of their personal Rights both abjure, eradicate King, Kingship, and the Royal Posterity;ffSee the True Old Cause truly stated. that you may no more keep nor obey anie of their Superior Commands, and prefer the Commands of anie undutifull Army-Officers, (raised onlie to defend the King and Parliament from all force and violences) before both their Ordinances, Proclamations, Commissions, Votes, to both their ruines? God injoyns you not to Curse the King no not in your thoughts, & not to revile or speak evil of the Ruler of your People, Eccles. 10.20. Exod. 22.28. Acts 23.5. Tit. 3▪2. And can you, like those wicked Idolators, Isay 8.21. Curse your King and your God, and look upward: and like those unjust, carnal, bruitish Beasts, (made to be destroyed, and reserved to the day of Iudgement to be punished) despise Dominion, speak evil of Dignities, Kings, Kingship, 2 Pet. 2.9 to 14. Jude 8, 9, 10. for which the …ospel it self denounceth, Woe unto you, perishing in the gain-saying of Core, Jude 11. that you shall utterly perish in your own Corruption, and receive the reward of unrighteousnesse, 2 Pet. 2.12, 13. Christ himself more than once enjoyns you in the …ospel, To render to Caesar the things that are Caesars, to wit, all his Dues, Tributes, Custom, Fear, Honor, Mat. 22.17, 21. Mar. 12.16, 17. Lu. 20.22, 24, 25. Rom. 13.7. how can or dare you then wrongfully forciblie take away and detain from your rightfull King & Caesar, not onlie all these his Dues and Crown-lands too, but his verie Crown & life to boot, & instead of making restitution of them to his Son when he came to demand the fruits of his Fathers Vineyard, do and say with those wicked Husbandmen in the Gospel, Mat. p. 7021.38, 39. Lu. 20.14. this is the Heir come let us kill him, and the Inheritance shall be ours, and cast him out of the Vineyard. O remember the sad doom which Christ himself and all his Auditors have denounced against you for it in these Texts, & Luke 19.27. then tremble at it. If all these Precepts will not affect nor reform you, Consider, That it hath been the general constant importunate desire of all Nations, and Gods own People too, (wherin God himself hath gratified them) to set up Kings to judge, rule them, and fight their battels, Deut. 17.14, 15. 1 Sam. 8.5.19, 20, 22. Ier. 25.18 to 27. For all the people unanimouslie to rejoyce, and expresse their gladnesse, contentment, satisfaction delight, triumph, at their Kings solemn inaugurations, with Trumpets, Feasts, Shouts, Acclamations; & to eccho out this unanimous publick Ovation, again and again, God save the King, Let the King live, O King live for ever, and to use the self-same expressions in all their private and publick Addresses 1 Sam. 11.24. 2 Sam. 16.16. 1 Kings 1.25.34, 39. 2 Kings 11.12. 2 Chron. 23 11. Ezra 6.10. Psal. 72.10, 15. Dan. 2.4. c. 3.9. c. 6.6.21. Mat. 21.5.9. And will you be Antipodes to all other Nations, yea to Gods own people in all Ages, and cry out still with united shouts, O do not save but destroy, crucifie, behead, extirpate, King and Kingship too; away with them, away with them from the earth, let them never live but die, die, and that for evermore? What madnesse, what frenzie is this? When the wicked Iews cryed out to Pilate against our Saviour Iesus Christ, (who was born King of the Iews, Mat. 2.2.) away with him, away with him, crucifie him, crucifie him. Pilate himself used this Argument to represse their furie, gg1 Iohn 9.12. to 23.Behold your King, shall I crucifie your King. At which they were so non-plussed, that their Chief Priests had no other Answer but this to evade it, We have no King but Caesar, If thou let this Man go thou art not Caesars Friend, whosoever maketh himself a King speaketh against Caesar: upon which he delivered him over to them to be crucified. And when Pilate put this Title on his Crosse, Iesus of Nazareth, King of the IEWS, the Chief Priests were angry at it, and said to Pilate, write not King of the Iews, but that he said, I am King of the Iews; being all convinced, that it was a most barbarous, shamefull, inhuman, worse that Jewish act, for any S…bjects or people to crucifie their lawfull King, though in a way of Publick Justice; whence the Apostle thus reasons, 1 Cor. 2.8. That had the Princes of this world, (and Iews themselves) known or believed Christ p. 71to be their King; they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory, And shall you not prove then far more transcendently impious, treacherous than the worst of Iews, of Mortals; not only in your former crucifying, beheading your undoubted, known, lawfull, hereditary King, which they abhorred to do, but his Kingly Office and Posteritie too; if you cry still, away with them, away with them, wittingly, willfully, uncessantly, their bloud be on us and our Children after us; And will not the wrath of God come upon you and yours to the uttermost for this your high provocation, as it did upon these Iews, if you doe not speedily repent of it? 1 Thess. 2.15, 16. It was the loyalty, piety of David, (a Man hhAct. 13.22▪Acts 13:22after Gods own heart, a gallanter Commander, Souldier, Conquerour, than the best and greatest of you;) when he was persecuted in the Field by his Soveraigne King Saul and his Armie, hunted as a Partridge from place to place to take away his life, and had several opportunities to destroy him without danger put into his hands, and was twice importuned by his rude Souldiers, to slay him, or permit them to doe it; that he rebuked this evil spirit and counsel in them, and gave them this Answer, The Lord forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master, iiSam. 24.3 to 20. c. 26.8.9, 11, &c.that I should stretch forth my Hand against the Lords Anointed, seeing he is the anointed of the Lord, destroy him not, FOR WHO CAN stretch forth his hand against the Lords anointed AND BE INNOCENT: And when the Amalekite brought tydings to him of Sauls death, telling him, that he had slain him by Sauls own command; and presented him with his Crown and bracelets kk2 Sam. 4.10, 11, 12.2 Sam 4:102 Sam 4:112 Sam 4:12expecting a great reward from him for those good tydings, being formerly anointed by God to succeed him: He gave him no other answer nor reward but this; How? wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thy hand to destroy the Lords anointed? Thy bloud bee upon thy head, for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying; I HAVE SLAIN THE LORDS ANOINTED. And he called one of the young men and said, Go near and fall upon him; And he smote him that hee died. And David and all the men that were with him rent their clothes, and lamented with a most pathetical lamentation over Saul; recorded for ever in sacred writ, 2 Sam 1.12. to the end. The like reward he gave to the murderers of Ishbosheth his competitor, 2 Sam. 4.10, 11, 12. And can you then conceit you were guided by the holy Spirit of God which dwelt in David? Or that you deserve the Title, of men after Gods own heart, of Saints, of honorable, pious Commanders, Soldiers, for speaking, declaring, p. 72acting against your K. diametrically contrary to him in all these particulars: and glorying in it as your highest praise, valour, Saint-ship? His tender heart ll1 Sam. 24.4, 5.1 Sam 24:41 Sam 24:5smote him to the quick, for cutting off only the skirt of King Sauls garment privily, (when he refused to offer the least violence to his person, as his Soldiers counselled him) because he had cut off Saul skirt: and will not your Adamantine hearts, (mmJob. 11.44.Job 11:44 harder than the nether Milstone) yet smite you with the least compunction for cutting off KING CHARLES HIS HEAD publickly, and parting not only his Garments amongst you, (as the nnMat. 27.35.Matt 27:35Souldiers did our Saviours, when they crucified him) but his Crown and Kingdoms too? After David succeded Saul in his Throne, his Captains, Souldiers, People, were so carefull to preserve his life from the least appearance of danger, 2 Sam. 18.3.2 Sam 18:3That when he would have gone out to Battel against his rebellious Son Absolom, who usurped the Crown: They answered him, Thou shalt not go forth, for if we flye away or half of us dye, they will not set their hearts on us, but now thou art as ten thousand of us; yea they swore to him at another time, Thou shalt no more go out with us to Battel, least thou quench the light of Israel, 2 Sam. 21.17. And when Absolom was slain, All the People were at strife through all the Tribes of Israel, saying, Absolom whom we anointed over us is dead in Battel: Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the King back? Whereupon they earnestly contended who should be the first that should bring back the King, to reinthrone him, 2 Sam. 19.9, 10, 14, 15, 41, 42, 43. And can you then not only professedly go out to Battel against the King himself & Parliament too, against all Parliament-Votes, Ordinances, Declarations, Commissions, by which you were raised, for their mutual defence: but destroy and slay them both, in cold blood, after the Battel ended by a Friendly Treaty, to prevent all accord between them, and instead of bringing the King again to his Royal City, Parliament, Throne, in peace and safety from the Isle of Wight, not speak one word thereof, but bring him only back again, to a most disloyal, illegal bloody execution, & not repent of, but persevere in this unparallel'd treachery against his son, even after your anoynted Absolom (who engaged you in these unsaintly, unsoldierly, Un-English Treasons) by the **2 Chron. 13.20.2 Chr 13:20stroke of God himself is dead, and his Son set aside by your selves, through divine retaliation? In few words, can it ever be your honor, glory, as Saints, to be the Instruments, Executioners of Gods wrath and vengeance upon your own Native Kings, Kingdoms, Churches, p. 73Countrie, to oppresse, consume, and eat out all their publick, private Wealth, Revenues, and burthen them with endlesse Taxes, Excises, to maintain your needlesse, uselesse forces, only to over-awe, ooEzech. 21.27.Ezek 21:27overturn them all, yea our Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, with your own new-modelled Governments, and Governors too, one after another, till they all be brought to total and final desolation? To do the works of Assyrians, Babilonians, Turks, Gothes, Vandals, ppIsay 10.5.7. Ier. 25.9, &c.Isa 10:5Isa 10:7Jer 25:9the Roddes of Gods anger, his Battel-axes, the staff of his indignation, to shake, destroy Churches, Kingdoms, Nations, Persons, and make them desolate; yea worse than the worst of these, who never shoke, destroyed their own Kings, Kingdoms, Countries, but their forein Enemies or Neighbours, against whom qqIsay 10.6. c. 7▪ 18, 19.Isa 10:6God sent them in his wrath, for their crying provocations, to break them in pieces and tread them down like mire in the Strees? If you repute this your glory, and resolve to persist therein, without speedy and sincere repentance of the mischiefs you have done, consider and read over, over and over again at your leasure, the taunting proverb, severe judgements, divine and final reward, menaced to, inflicted by God himself by an irreversible decree, and irresistable power, upon the King of Babilon himself, his royal Posterity, the City of Babilon, the whole Assyrian Host, Nation, Kingdom, for shaking, destroying, breaking in pieces other Kings, Kingdoms, Nations, and Gods own people too for their sinnes, (as you have served your own Kings, Kingdoms, Churches, Parliaments, Nations, Laws, Liberties, against all Oaths, and Obligations, to the contrary) recorded at large in sacred writ, Isay, 14.4. to 30. c. 31.8, 9. Ier, 50.1, to 46. ch. 51. throughout. And then sleep quietly in your Beds, and blesse your selves in these your successefull Wickednesses if you can; in respect of your present earthly prosperity, or your Posterityes after you. As for your eternal Estate in another World, consider that dismal Text, Psal. 92.6, 7. A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a Fool understand this: when as the wicked spring as the Grass, and when all the workers of Iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever. & Ps. 9.16, 17. It hath been your businesse of late years, and now again, (after your seeming repentance for it in your new Declaration, May 6.) to shut our Kings, Lords, honestest faithfullest Members of the Commons House out of Parliament, and forcibly to seclude them when they knocked for entrance, yea to cast some of them into Hell, and other Prisons for discharging their Trusts, and Mr. Prynne p. 74beyond all others. O take heed, that when you shall come to knock at Heaven gates for entrance, and cry rrLu. 13.25▪ to 30.Lord, Lord, open unt… us, you receive not that Answer recorded in the Gospel from Christ himself; I tell you, I know you not whence you are, Depart from me all ye workers of Iniquity into the lowermost Hell, and everlasting chains of Darknesse, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth; when you shall see Abraham, Isaac (yea the secluded Members) in the Kingdom of God, (which no ss1 Cor. 6.9, 10 11. Gal. 15.20.21, 5.5. Ps. 15.1.23, 4, 5.1 Cor 6:91 Cor 6:10Ps 15:1Ps 15:23Ps 15:4Ps 15:5Murderers, Rebellious Seditious, Vnrighteous Covetous Persons, Plunderers, Traytors, no Pernitious Destroyers, Subverters of Kings, Kingdoms, Parliaments, shall inherit,) and your selves shut out for ever.