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

Narrative of what was Spoken by Mr Prynne 2 · 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, January 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 Debate; 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 in 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 Juncto 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 inconſiderable 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 Judicious, honeſt Lawyers Judgement 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 with 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 Houſe, 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 as 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-broks, (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, P. 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 Jeſuite, (the moſt active profeſſed enemie to our Engliſh Kingſhip, Kings Realm, Church, Religion) & his Conſederate 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 Jeſus, 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 bbQuodlib…ts, p. 322, 323, 333, 334 3…, 209.305, 30…, 306, 307, 309.That this Jeſuite Father Parſons in his Book Of the Reformation of all the States of England, as he bbQuodlib…ts, p. 322, 323, 333, 334 3…, 209.305, 30…, 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 Jeſuitical principle into the Souldiers and people, That every Pecope or Tartarian multitude, getting once the title and ſtile of a publick State, or Helvetian Common wealth, may alter, change, Nota.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 the…e 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 Anabaptiſts 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. 285, 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 not 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 Jeſuites 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.ggSee his Epiſtle before his Hiſtorical and legal Vindication, &c. An. 1655. Socii Societatis, 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. 245.Arch-Jeſuite 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, Jeſuites, 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 Independency p. 2.Owen Ro Oneal, and all the Iriſh Rebels under him, by Orellies perſwaſion, ent…ed 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 thoſe 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 Jeſuite 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 Joſeph, 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 Catile) 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 five jugges of Bear, with ſundry pipes or 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; whereupon ſhe crying p. 45out, & the Boy of the Houſe (being about 11 a clock at night) endevouring to raiſe the Neighbors, he therupon fled from thence, (ſince which Mr. Prynne heard no more tydings of him.) And having ſince that moſt clearly diſcovered to the whole Nation (in his Books, intituled, The Quakers Ʋnmasked, 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 Quakers next a Speaker, laſt of all a profeſſed Jeſuit; 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 occaſions 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 ſince, proceeded originally from the Jeſuites, and Romiſh Agents powerfull influences upon the ſeduced Army-Officers, 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.

1. They did quite ſet aſide all thoſe 5. ſtrict excellent Bills againſt Ieſuites, Seminary Prieſts, Popiſh Recuſants, and the exerciſe of any their 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 aaSee the Proſitions to the King and Mr. Prynnes Speech, p. 57, 58. His Diſcovery of Freeſtate tyranny p. 18.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, Ʋſurpations, and new Gun-powder plots of the Romiſh Jeſuites, 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 Jac. 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, 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, eeSee the 2d. part of the Hiſtory of Independancy.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 Grorius De Iure 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 Conteſts, 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 Jeſuits, and another old ſeducing Papiſt, formerly impriſoned in the New priſon: the only Acts done in this firſt Seſſion, as th…ſe preſent then informed Mr. Prynne with much regret: Which was ſeconded with the ſubſequent enlargement of other Jeſuites, Priests, Papists, elſewhere impriſoned: whereas on the contrary they ſhut up Sir William Waller, Sir Will. Lewes, Sir John Clotworthy, Major General Brown, Comiſſary Coply, 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 our Kingdoms, Churches, and Religions ruine.

6ly. The firſt who publikely owned them for a Common-wealth, congratulated this their glorious change, atchievement, and entred into a League with them, was the moſt Catholick K. of Spain, the llSpeculum Ieſuit. p. 40.217, 218. Ludovicus Lucius, Hiſt. Ieſuit. l. 3 c. 2 p. 237, 243, 288.300, 329.Popes, Jeſuites, 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; 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 **Near two hundred thouſand pounds a year more than all the Rovenues and Taxes amount to, ſuch good husbands are weour 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 entted 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 profeſſed 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, Diurnallists in their Newſ-Books,kkSee the Diurnals and Almanacks from 1648. to 1653. 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, Jeſuites, 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 ſor…s, 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 Sciatilla, which Book was preſently anſwered by the Beacon quenched, ſubſcribed by Colonel Pride (the new Faux) and other Army-Officers, (though writ by a Jeſuite 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 Jeſuites deſigns to blow up our Religion, Church, Miniſtry, Amongſt other popiſh Books then printed, vvSee Mr. Prynnes diſcovery 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 Jeſuites, dedicated to our Queen Mary, and the Dutcheſſe of Buckingham, printed in London by William Bentley, 1650. and ſold by John Williams in Pauls Church-yard, as p. 50the Title page atteſts, having the Ieſuits Badge, and S. J. (Societatis Jeſu) 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 maintaine…, 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 John Goodwin, Markham, Needham, Melton, and others,) juſtified, maintained, the very higheſt, worſt, treaſonableſt, execrableſt, of all Popiſh and **See Prynnes Epiſtle before his Legal and Hiſtorical Collections, &c. 1655.Jeſuitical, Unchriſtian tenents, practiſes, 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, Contracts, 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 Justice, Neceſsity, Self-preſervation, Reformation, Religion, publick good, ſafety, advancement of the Goſpel and Kingdom of Ieſus Chriſt, repayed with their own ejection.

llSee the 2d. part of tbe Hiſtory of Independancy.12ly They cloſed in an offenſive and defenſive League with Owen Ro Oneal, 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 reto…ted, T…at he deſired the Tower might be rather committed unto him for t…is 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 O…mond, 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 Grandlury-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 Goalers 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 **Here p. 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.

Alas 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. parr 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. Paris, 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,ttFlor. Wigom. p. 556. Sim. Dunelm. Col. 216, 217. and profered to entertain and maintain him in their Courts according to the greatneſſe of his birth all his life time; yet he contemning all 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 ſiding 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 Oatht;) 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 ſui, & 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 Papiſts 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 us better nor other Counſel than that of Saint zzEpiſtola 44. Tom. 2. See Homil. 50. ſer. 21. Tom. 10. Peter Lumbard, ſent. l. 4. diſt. 16. and the ſchoolmen on him. Alex. Alenſis, ſum. Theol. pars 4. quaeſt. 24. mem. 6.Auguſtine (aſſerted by all Divines as an undoubted truth) Non Remittetur peccatum niſt reſtitnatur 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 had 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 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 **Firſt … I… …tor. ſubegii A…ci…, Soaem …, …orati…, …, …ungarum, P…lati…tam ut: … que, v… tiſqu… Hae …, Huli…, & RE…BILIONUM PA…ES CALVINISTAS, expolit & pe… …lig…vi, A… to princip… gr…tod, pergit… …, op…eloe …cibos …d eo auſpici …caeptom confi…ire, pitidos …di. REBELLEM CALVINI AFRESIN pae… va…um S…I…PI…US UBI I… EX DICATE, a… p…rt…dio & … revel…ſ…t…, … que vi…eto… … qu…e c…lli… …o, &c. Cenollu. Cae…l… ſel… …. Prae…. 2 1. … P…op…e… prae…: S… M. … or 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 Antimonarchical principles, practiſes, Treaſons, Rebellions of this kinde, both againſt their King, Parliament, Monarchy, their confederated Brethren of Scotland and their K…ng, 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.….Rom 3evil, 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 over-late 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 N…tions (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, 20, 27.Campanellius, bbSee his Inſtructions.Richelieus, and ccPaulus Windeck de Extirpandis Haereſibus Antid. 10.11 p 408.412.580. & 244. Hoſpinian Hiſt. Jeſuit. l. 3. & l 4. p. 212, 213, 214. Lud. Lucius, H…ſt Jeſuit. l. 1. p. 175. l. 2. p 186, 187, 188. Johan. Cambilhonus, de Rebus Jeſuitarum Abſtruſioribus. An. 1608.other Jeſuited 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 Jeſuites 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.Jews with their Synagogues and Jewiſh Ceremonies, under a pretended hopes of their long-deſired Converſion, but …eal 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 Jeſus 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 Ʋſher 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 Jeſuites 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 be 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 Coury, 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 with yet it ſhould not hurt them though paſſed, &c. which accordingly fell out: The large expreſſions made to thoſe of Dunkirkin 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 eeMy Quakers Vnmasked, 1655 And New Diſcovery of Romiſh Emiſtaries, 1656.headed, acted by diſguiſed Jeſuits, Priests, Friers, as M.P. hath elſwhere fully evidenced: Are demonſtrations beyond all exceptions; what an Advancer he was of the true Proteſtant 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 dive…s 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 ſeiſing, 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. to 90.all Lawyers, Sollicitors, Judges, and Courts of Juſtice 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 Jeſuits, 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 exec…able to our New Free-States men, that in September 1650. it was expunged out of a Petition M. P. drew for Mr. Luttrel, (to …ave 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 John 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 infiſt 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 Jeſuitical Counſellors, and the Popiſh Forces raiſed by him, againſt the Parliament, that they endeauoured the ſubverſion 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 Majeſties 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 Jacobi 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 ſubvert and 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 Jeſuits 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 againſt them, and firſt part of my Legal and Hiſtorical Vindication, &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 Culpepper.Prognoſticators were ſo confident of it (as if the Stars in heaven had concurred herein with the Jeſuites 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 January, 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 are 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. James'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 changes of this Nature, for which this formerly eiected Repvblican Conventicle is now reaſſembled, are the meer proiections of the All-ſwaying Jeſuits, 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 poſterum ſtu…ilienda Pace Regni P…loniae 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, e…terendis Legibus, quoties nempe ſentiunt, ſe ab his, in inſtituta ſua venatione, impediri. Et quod ad Leges attinet, hae politicae tineae, Illas praecipue arrodere conſue verunt et exedere; quibus jus ſucceſſionis in regno continetur, Libertaſque et Pax publica firmatur. Which he proves by ſeveral prefidents of their ſhaking aboliſhing the very fundamental Laws of this Nature, in France, Hungary, Styria, Auſtria, Carinthia, and elſewhere: and that with ſuch ſucceſs, ut obtritis Legibus quibus praedictarum Nationum libertas nitebatur, partem earum penitus appreſſerint, partem ad extremam deſperationem adigererint: In praedictis Provinciis alicubi p. 62Illuſtribus et Antiquiſſimas 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 Jeſuits 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 Jeſuites now again in this New Convention, as they aſſuredly did in the Old ſince December 1648. till April 1653. they incurr that ſad fate of 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.King Henry the 4th of France; who after the execution of ſome and baniſhment of all Jeſuites out of France, upon John 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 Jeſuits, 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.

Pl…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 M…mbers, now fitting, 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. 63Jeſuits, 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 John 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, Ʋniverſities, and Corporations lands yet remaining, to ſupport and pay the Jeſuited Army (kept up ſo long on purpoſe to ruine, eat us out.) M. Prynne thereupon, held it his bounden duty, both as a Member, Lawyer, Engliſhman, and former Patriot of his Countries Liberties, againſt all Jeſuitical Ʋnderminers 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 hearken 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 th…y 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 thée. 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 bbIſ. 46.7, 11. Pſ. 27.1 6Isa 46:7Isa 46:11Ps 27:1to 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 V…ſſel: yea one of the weak, baſe, deſpiſed things of the world, and a thing that can 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 glo…y in his preſence, and that the excellency of the power might be of God and not of him; who hath promiſed, that ee2 Cor. 4.7. 1 Cor. 1.27, 28, 29. Deut. 32.302 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 be 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 off 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 bettay 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, Holioke, ſumma Angelica Tit. Seditio. Cicero de Repub. l. 6. Lu. 23.19.ſcorſum itio, when a ſew confederated Innovators ſhall ſeperate themſelves from the General body or Aſſembly of the Kingdom, Church, 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. And if this be truth, as kkSee the Appendix to Mr Ruſhworths Hiſtorical Col p. 30. to 40, 41, 42.our Statutes, Lawbooks,iiLuke 6, 22.Luke 6:22 Caſuiſts, Canoniſts, and Hiſtorians accord, we ſhall know in whoſe Hearts, Houſe Sedition truly dwells. And if llPolit. l. 3. & Ethic. l. 8.Ariſtotle nnSumma Angelica, Tit. Seditio.Aquiuas, ooSee the Soveraign Power of Parliaments, pa…t 4. p. 187, 188.192.Angelus de Clavaſio, and p ſundry others who write of Sedition, may be credited; He who diſturbs the Rule or Government of any unlawfull Ʋſurper is no ſeditious Perſon, becauſe ſuch a uſurped Government or Power is not ordained for the common good, (whatever pretended) but for the private advantage of the Vſurper, mmSecunda ſecundae Artic 12. & Qu…t.Therefore the diſturbance of ſuch a Ʋſurper hath no… the reaſon of Sedition; 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 uſurping Tyrant only who truely is ſeditious, as they all define in direct words. And whether Mr. Prynne and other ſecluded Members and Lords, being five 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 John Sedgewick in his Juſtice 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 b…fore the pit ſhut her mouth upon you. You are full of glorie in the great things you have done, wonderfull things! 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 ſo 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 ſelf 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 but 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 ppDan. 7.27. Lu. 1.33. Iſ. 9.1.Dan 7:27Isa 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 inſatuated your underſtandings, blinded your Judgements, intoxecated your Brains, perverted your Wills, corrupted your Affections, ſeared your Conſciences, engaged your unralie Paſſions, as notwithſtanding all this, to make you Bedlam madde, againſt all Kings, Kingſhip, Kingdoms, Crowns, Scepters, Thrones, Principalites, 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 procepts, word and practiſe of all his Saints in either Teſtament, to dote upon ſuch a ſtrange Ʋtopian 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 loud to the world with your Voyces, as you do by your Swords, zzTi…. 1.16.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 aaHib. 6.9.better perſwaſions of you,ddIſay 1.24.Isa 1:24 bbActs 26.27.Acts 26:27That you believe the Scripure to be the ccGal. 6.16.Gal 6:16only 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, vilitie, 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 your ſelves above, againſt your lawfull Soveraign Kings, and Higher powers, ſo far as not onlie to reſiſt, 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 **1 Tim. 2.1, 2, 3.1 Tim 2:11 Tim 2:21 Tim 2:3firſt 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. **See Tertull…an 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 pray with all the primitive Church and p. 69Saints of Cod, Pſal. 72.1. Give the King thy Judgement O God, and thy Righteouſneſs unto the Kings Sun: How can, how dare 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 O 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 doth 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. 32. 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 Judgement to be puniſhed) deſpiſe Dominion, ſpeak evil of Dignities, Kings, Kingſhip, 2 Pet. 9. to 14. Jude 8.9, 10. for which the Coſpel 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 tha… once enjoyns you in the Coſpel, 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. Jer. 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 Jews cryed out to Pilate againſt our Saviour Jeſus 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 deli…ed him over to them to be crucified. And when Pilate put this Title on his Croſſe, Jeſus 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 Jews; being all convinced, that it was a moſt barbarous, ſhamefull, inhuman, worſe than Jewiſh act, for any Subjects 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 Jew, 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 Poſterity too; if you cry ſtill, away with them, away with them, wittingly, wilfully, unceſſantly, their blood 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 Jews, if you do not ſpeedily repent of it? 1 Theſ. 2.15, 16. It was the loyalty, piety of David, (a Man hhActs 13.22.Acts 13:22after Gods own heart, a gallanter Commander, Souldier, Conqueror, than the beſt & greateſt of you;) when he was perſecuted in the Field by his Soveraign King Saul and his Army, 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 do it; that he rebuked this evil ſpirit and counſell in them, and gave them this Anſwer,iiSam. 24.3. to 20. c. 26.8, 9, 10, 11, &c. The Lord forbid that I ſhould do this thing unto my Maſter, 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 INNOGENT: 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 be upon thy head, for thy mouth hath teſtifyed 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 he died. And David and all the men that were with him …ent 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, Saintſhip? 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, (mmIob 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, nn2 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 fi…ſt that ſhould bring back the King, 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 and Parliament too, againſt all Parliament-Votes, O…dinances, Declarations, Commiſſions, by which you we…e raiſed, …or 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 the…eof, 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, a Saint…, to be the Inſtrument…, 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. Ie…. 25.9, &c.Isa 10:5Isa 10:7the 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. Jer, 50.17, 18. 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 t… knock at Heaven Gates for entrance, and cry, rrLu. 13.25. to 30.Lord, Lord, open unto 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 Darkn…ſſe, where there ſhall be weeping and gnaſhing of Teeth; when you ſhall ſee Abraham, Iſaac (yea the ſecluded Mem…ers) in the Kingdom of God, (which no ſſ1 Cor. 6 9, 10, 11. Ga…. 15.20 21.5.5. Pſ. 15.1, 23.4, 5.1 Cor 6:91 Cor 6:101 Cor 6:11Ps 15:1Ps 15:23Ps 15:4Ps 15:5Murderers, Rebelli…us, S…ditio…s, Ʋnrighteous Covetous Perſons, Plunderers, Traytors, n… P…rnitious D…ſtroyers, S…bverters of Kings, Kingdoms, Parliaments, ſhall inherit,) and your ſelves ſhut out for ever.