The Presbyterian PATER NOSTER, CREED, and TEN COMMANDMENTS.

—Manerit veteris vestigia fraudis. Virg.

The Pater Noster.

OUr Father which art in Hell, magnify'd be thy name; thy Ar­bitrary Kingdom come, thy Tyranical will be done in England now, as it was in Forty One; Give Us in this our Day a holy occasion of Rebellion; and forgive us our shew of Godliness for thy sake, as we forgive others their holy Hypocrisy for our good Cause; and lead us not into an agreement of King and Parliament; But Deliver us from Monarchy and Hierarchy; and then thine shall be this Kingdom, its Power and Glory, for ever and ever, Amen,

The CREED.

I Believe in John Calvin, the Father of our Religion, disposer of 4 They the only Saints. Heaven and Dominion is founded in Gr Earth; and in Owen, Baxter and Jenkins &c. his dear Sons our Lords, who were Conceived by the Spi­rit of Fanaticism, born of Schism and Faction, suffer'd under the Act of Uniformity; were Silenced, Dead and Buried; and had descended into Hell, but that they arose again in the year of Toleration; ascended into Tub-Pulpits, and now sit at the right hand of the Lord S—from whence they are coming to Judge both the Church and the State. I Believe in the Holy Assembly of Divines, the Holy National Synod, the Se­perate Meetings, the Act of Oblivion, the Resurrection from Dead Rites, and Toleration Everlasting. Amen.

The Ten Commandments.

THe same which John Presbyter hath spoken in 20 Chapters of his Works; saying, I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the Land of Antichrist, out of the House of Ceremonious [...]ondage.

I.

Thou shalt have no other Gods but Me.

II.

Thou shalt not make any Image, or likeness of any Saint in Heaven above, (except S. Oliver, &c.) or bow down at the Adorable name of Jesus here on Earth; nor use the Sign of the Cross in the Waters of Bab­tism; For I the Lord thy God in my Jealousie murder'd the Father, and will visit his Superstitious Iniquity upon his Children, unto the third and fourth Generation of them that hate me; but shew Mercy unto thou­sands in them that love me, and keep my Damnable and Rebellious Commandments.

III.

Thou shalt not make the Solemn League and Covenant Vain, nor sub­scribe the Declaration; nor take the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy, unless (with a Jesuitical salvo,) to obtain places of Honour and Power.

IV.

Remember that thou keep holy the Remembrance of Forty One. Many years didst thou labour, yet could'st not do all that thou hadst to do; But in Forty One the Lord thy God sent thee a Sabbath of Deliverance; Thou shalt therefore now remember to do all manner of work that thou didst then, Thou, and thy Son, and thy Daughter, thy Man-servant, and thy Maid-servant, the Brutes and Proselytes that are within thy Conventicles; For in Forty One the Lord thy God made ENGLAND and SCOTLAND Rebellious; thou shalt therefore Bless the year Forty one, and hallow it.

V.

Honour Fanaticism thy Father, and Schism thy Mother, that thy Days may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God will once more give thee.

VI.

Thou shalt do no Murder, but upon Majesty, Episcopacy and Loyalty.

VII.

Thou shalt not commit Adultry, save with the Holy Sisterhood, to get Babes of Grace.

VIII.

Thou shalt not steal, unless by Sequestration, Composition, or Publick Faith

IX.

Thou shalt not bear False witness against a Brother, but may'st swal­low Perjury by a Popish Reservation for the good of Holy Cause.

X.

Thou shalt Covet nothing but Crown-Lands, Bishops-Lands, and the Estates of Malignants.

POSTSCRIPT.

THus is our New Religion
Model'd by that of Forty One;
And We must root up Monarchy
To stop the growth of Popery;
And undermining Church and State,
Rome's Practices we'll Antedate;
The better to prevent the PLOT,
Our selves will do what they cou'd not.
We'll cure all fear of French Invasion,
By Ruining at home the Nation.
And since Petitions do no good,
And all our Tricks are understood:
Since He who never us'd to fail,
Doth now, our little Matchiavil;
We'll to the World Proclaim aloud,
The King and Duke Thirst after Bloud.
Curtis, Harris, Smith and Care,
Shall Thrice a Week the Kingdom scare,
As if the Devil, Turk, or Pope,
Were just arrived in the Hope.
We'll Authorize Men to Rebell,
By Tales from Hatfield, and from Hell;
And then perswade the silly Nation,
That Treason comes by Revelation:
And that Imaginary Chosts,
Are Envoys from the Lord of Hosts.
Nor will We cease till We pull down,
Episcopacy and the Crown.

Printed for Tom Tell-troth at the Sign of the Old Kings Head in Axe-yard in King street, Westminster; [...]

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