IT hath been one of the most detestable Crimes, and highest Impeachments against the AntichristianSee the se­veral Epistles of Frederick the Emperor against Pope Gegory the 9, and In­nocent the 4 re­corded by Mat. Paris, p. 332. to 693. sparsim. Popes of Rome, that under a Saint-like Religious pretext of advancing the Church, Cause, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, they have for some hundred yeers by-past, usurped to themselves (as fole Mo­narchs of the World in the Right of Christ, whose Vicars they pretend themselves to be) both by Doctrinal Positions and Treasonable Practises, See Extra [...] de Majoritate & Obedientia: Augustinus Tri­umphus: Bellar­minus, Becanu [...], and others, De Monarchia Re­mani Pontificis. Hospinia [...] Hist. Jesui. l. 3, & 4. an absolute Soveraign, Tyrannical Power over all Christian Emperours, Kings, Princes of the World (who must derive and hold their Crowns from them a­lone, upon their good behaviours at their pleasures) not onely to Excommunicate, Censure, Judge, Depose, Murder, Destroy their sacred Persons; but likewise to dispose of their Crowns, Scepters, Kingdoms, and translate them to whom they please.

In pursuance whereof, they have most traiterously, wick­edly, seditiously, atheistically, presumed to absolve their Subjects from all their sacred Oaths, Homages, natural Allegiance, and due Obedience to them, instigated, encouraged, yea expresly, [Page] enjoyned (under pain of interdiction, excommunication, and o­ther censures) their own Subjects, (yea own sons sometimes) both by their Bulls and Agents, to revolt from, rebel, war against, depose, dethrone, murder, stab, poyson, destroy them by open force, or secret conspiracies: and stirred up one Christian King, Realm, State, to invade, infest, destroy, usurp upon another; onely to advance their own Antichristian Soveraignties, Usur­pations, Ambition, Rapines, worldly Pompe and Ends: as you may read at leisure in the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 35 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Jacob. c. 1, 2, 4, 5. 7 Jacob. c. 6. The Emperour Frederick his Epistles against Pope Gregory the 9. and Innocent the 4. recorded in Matthew Paris, and Henricus de Knighton, de E­ventibus Angli ae, l. 2. c. 14, 15. others, Aventinus Annalium Boiorum, Mr. William Tyn­dal's Practice of Popish Prelates; the second Homily upon Witsunday; the Homilies against disobedience, and wilful Rebellion; Bishop Jewels view of a seditious Bull; Iohn Bale in his lives of the Roman Pontifs; Doctor Thomas Bilson in his True difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian Rebellion; Doctor John White his Sermon at Paul,s Cross, March 24. 1625. and Defence of the Way, c. 6, 10. Doctor Crakenthorpe of the Popes tempo­ral Monarchy; Bishop Morton's Protestant Apology; Doctor Beard's Theater of God's Judgements, l. 1. c, 27, 28. Doctor Squire of Antichrist; John Bodin his Com­monwealth, l. 1. c. 9. The learned Morney Lord du Plessy, his Mystery of Iniquity, and History of the Papacy. The General History of France. Grimston's Imperial History. Matthew Paris, Speed, Holinshed, Cambden, and others, in the lives of King John, Henry the 3. Queen Elizabeth, and other of our Kings, with hundreds of printed Sermons on the 5 of November.

The principal Instruments the Popes imployed of late yeers, in these their unchristian Treasonable Designes, have been pragmatical, furious, active Jesuites, whose Society was first erected by Ignatius Loyola (a Spaniard by Birth, but ASee Massae­us Vegius & Petrus Ribade­niera in vita Ignatii Loyolae. Heylins Micra­cosme, p. 179. SOULDIER by Profession) and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1540 [...] which Order consisting one­ly [Page] of ten persons at first, and confined onely to sixty by this Pope, hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favours and assistance (whose chief Janizaries, Factors, Intelligencers they are) that in the yeer 1626.See Lewis Owen his Jesu­ites Looking­glass, printed London 1629. the Epistle to the Reader, and p. 48 to 58. Ju­bilaeum, sive speculum Jesu­iti [...]um, printed 1644. p. 307 to 213. Hospinian Hist. Jesuitica, l. 2. they caused the picture of Ign [...]tius their Founder to be cut in Brass, with a goodly Olive Tree growing (like Jessees root) out of his side, spreading its branches into all kingdoms and Pro­vinces of the World, where the Jesuites have any Colledges and Seminaries, with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch, which hath as many leaves as they have Colledges and Residencies in that Province; in which leaves, are the names of the Towns and Villages where these Colledges are situated: Round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illustrious Persons of their Order; and in Ignvtius his right hand, there is a Paper, wherein these words are engraven, Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei; taken out of Ps. 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then print­ed and published to the world: wherein they set forth the number of their Colledges and Seminaries to be no less then 777. (increased to 155 more, by the yeer 1640.) in all 932. as they published in like Pictures & Pageants printed at Antwerp, 1640. Besides sundry New Colledges and Seminaries erected since.

In these Colledges and Seminaries of theirs, they had then (as they print) 15591 Fellews of their Society of Je­sus, besides the Novices, Scholars, and Lay-brethren of their Order, amounting to neer ten times that number. So in­finitely did this evil weed grow and spread it self, within one hundred yeers after its first planting. And which is most observable, of these Colledges and Seminaries they reckon­ed then no less then 15 (secret ones)Speculum Je­suiticum. p. 210. See Romes Ma­ster-peice & Conterburies Doom, p. 435, &c. Hidde [...] works of Dark­ness. 88, 144. IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA, in the Province of ENGLAND, where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society: besides 4 COL­LEDGES OF ENGLISH JESUITES ELSEWHERE. In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colledges of IRISH JESUITES: and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOT­TISH JESUITES.

What the chief imployments of Ignatius and his nume­rous [Page] swarms of Disciples are in the World, his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint, suffici­ently discovered in their painted Pageants, then shewed to the people,Mercure Ie­su [...]le, tom. 1. p. 67. Speculum Jesuitieum p. 1. 56. wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand, and fire streaming out forth of his heart (rather to set the whole world on fire by Combusti­ons, Wars, Treasons, Powder-plots, Schismes new State, and old Church-Heresies, then to enlighten it) with this Motto; VENI IGNEM MITTFRE: I came to send fire into the World; which the University of Cracow in Poland objected (amongst other Articles) against them, Anno 1622. and Alphonsus de Vargas more largly insisteth on in his Relatio, de Stratagematis & Sophismatis Politicis Jesuita­rum, &c. An. 1641. c. 7, 8, 24.

Their number being so infinite, and theSee Lewis Owen his run­ning Register, & his Jesuited Looking glass. The Anatomy of the English Nunnery at Lisbone. Pope and Spaniard too, having long since (byDe Monar­chia Hispanica, p. 146, 147, 148, 149, 204, 234, 235, 236, 185, 186. Campanella's ad­vice) erected many Colledges in Rome, Italy, Spain, the Ne­therlands, and elsewhere, for English, Scottish, Irish Jesuites (as well as for such secular Priests, Friers, Nuns) of purpose to promote their designs against the Protestant Princes, Realms, Churches, Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, & to reduce them under their long prosecuted See Thomas Campanella de Monarchia His­paniae. Watsons quodhbets, Co [...] ­loni Posthuma, p. 91. 10 107. Cardinal de Os­sets Letters. Ar­cana Imperii Hispanici Del [...]h. 1628. Advice a tous les Estat's de Europe, touches les maximas Fundamentales de Government & diss [...]iennes Espaginols, Pa­ [...]is, 1625. UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them, by Fraud, Policy, Treason, in­testine Divisions, and Wars, being unable to effect it by their own Power; no doubt of late yeers many hundreds, if not thousands, of this Society, have crept into England, Scotland and Ireland, lurking under several disguises; yea, an whole Colledge of them sate weekly in counsel, in or neer Westminster, some few yeers since, under Conne the Popes Nuntio, on purpose to embroyle England and Scot­land in bloody civil wars, therby to endanger, shake, sub­vert these Realms, and destroy the late King (as you may read at large in my Romes Master-piece, published by the Commons special Order, An. 1643.) who occasioned, excited, fo­m [...]nted, the first and second intended (but happily prevented) wars between England and Scotland, and after that, the unhappy Differences, Wars, between the King, Parliament, and our three Protestant Kingdoms, to bring them to utter de­solation, [Page] and extirpate our reformed Religion.

The Kings Forces (in which many of them were Soul­diers) after some yeers wars being defeated, thereupon their Father Ignatius being a SOULDIER, and they his Military sons, not a few of themSet my Speccb in Parli­ament, p. 107. [...]o 119. and the History of In­dependency. secretly insinuated themselves as Souldiers, into the Parliaments Army and Forces, (as they had formerly done intoExact Col­l [...]ction, p. 651, 652, 662, 666, 813, 814, 8 [...]6, 826, 827, 832, 902, 904, to 920. A Col­l [...]ction of Ordi­nances, p. 267, 313, 354, 424. the Kings) where they so cunningly acted their parts, as extraordina­ry illuminates, gifted brethren, and grand States-men, that they soon leavened many of the Officers, Troopers and common Souldiers, with their dangerous Jesuitical State-politicks, andSee Put [...]y Projects, the History of Inde­pend [...]ncy, and Armies Decla­rations, Papers, Proposals. printed toge­ther, London, 1647. Practises, put them upon sundry strange designs, to new-mould the old Monarchical Government, Par­liaments, Church, Ministers, Laws of England; erecting a New General Councel of Army-Officers and Agitators for that purpose; acting more like a Parliament and Supream Dictators, then Souldiers. And at last instigated the Army by open force▪ (against their Commissions, Duties, Oaths, Protestations and Solemn League & Covenant) to Impeach, imprison, seclude, first elevē Commoners; then some six or seven Lords; after that to secure, seclude the Majority of the Commons House, suppress the whole House of Lords, destroy the King, Par­liament, Government, Priviledges, Liberties of the Kingdom & Nation, for whose defence they were first raised, which by no o­ther adverse power they could effect. This produced new bloody divisions, animosities, wars, in and between our three Protestant Realms and Nations; & after with our Protestant Allies of the Netherlands, (De Monarchia Hisp. c. 25, 27. Campanella's express old pro­jected Plots to subject us both to the Popes and Spaniards Monarchies, effected by the Spaniards Gold and Agents) with sundry heavy Monthly Taxes, Excises, Oppressions, Sales of the Churches, Crowns, and of many Nobles and Gentlemens Lands and Estates, to their undoing, our whole Nations impoverishing, and discontent, an infinite pro­fuse expence of Treasure, of Protestant blood both by Land and Sea, decay of Trade, with other sad effects in all our three Kingdoms; yea, sundry successive New changes of our publick Government, made by the Army-Officers, (who [Page] are still ringing the changes) according to Campanela's and Parsons Platforms. So that if Fire may be certainly dis­cerned by the smoke; or the Tree commonly known by its Fruits, as the Truth it self resolves, Matth. 12. 33. we may truly cry out to all our Rulers, as the Jews did once to the Rulers of Thessalonica, in another case, Act. 17. 6. THOSE (Jesuites) WHO HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, ARE COME HITHER ALSO; and have turned our Kingdoms, Kings, Peers, Monarchy, Parliaments, Government, Laws, Liberties, (yea, our very Church and Religion too, in a great measure) UPSIDE DOWNE, even by those very Persons, who were purposely raised, commissiond, waged, engaged by Protestations, Covenanes, Vows, Oathes, Laws, Alle­giance and Duty, to protect them from these Jesuitical In­novations and subversions.

And those Jesuites, Spanish Romish Agents, who have so far seduced, so deeply engaged them, contrary to all these Obligations, and to their own former printed En­gagements, Remonstrances, Representations, Proposals, Desires, and RESOLUTIONS, for setling this Nation in its just Rights, the Parliament in their just Priviledges, and the Subjects in their Liberties and Freedoms; published to all the World, in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax, THE AR­MY, AND THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY, none Volume. London, 1647. (which they may do well to peruse) yea, against the Votes, Intreaties, Desires, Advices, of both Houses of Parliament, the Genera­lity of the good Ministers, people of the three whole King­doms, and their wisest, best affected Protestant Friends, who commissioned, raised, paid, assisted them for far other ends O whether may they, will they not (in all humane probability) rashly, blindly, suriously hence­forth lead, drive, precipitate them, to our whole three Kingdoms, Churches, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties total, final desolation, and the Armyes too in conclusion, beyond all hopes of prevention, unless God himself shall miraculously change their Hearts, Councels, and reclaim them from [Page] their late destructive, heady violent courses: or put an hook into their Noses, to turn them back by the way by which they came: or, set a timely period to their usurped Armed power and extravagant late proceedings, of such a desperate un­parallel'd, unprotestant strange Nature, as none but the very worst of Ignatius his Disciples and Engineers durst set on foot, or still drive on amongst us Protestants. Which I earnestly beseech, adjure, and conjure them now most seriously to lay [...]o heart, before it be over­late.

Those who will take the pains to peruse all or any of these several printed Books (most of them very well worth their reading) written against the Iesuites and their Pra­ctises, as well by Papists as Protestants, as namely, Fides Iesu & Iesuitarum, printed 1573. Doctrinae Iesuiticae prae­cipua capita, Delph. 1589. Aphorismi Doctrinae Iesu [...]ticae. 1608. Cambitonius, De Studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. Anno 1608. Iacobus Thuanus, Passages of the Jesuites. Hist. l. 69, 79, 83, 94, 95, 96, 108, 110, 114, 116, 119, 121, 124, 126, 129, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137. 138. Emanu­el Meteranus his Passages of them. Belgicae Hist. l. 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, to 34. Willielmus Baudartius, Continu­atio Meterani, l. 37, 38, 39, 40. Donatus Wesagus, Fides Ie­sus & Iesuitarum, 1610. Characteres Iesuiticae, in several Tomes. Elias Husenmullerus, Historia Iesuitici Ordin [...], Anno 1605. Speculum sive Theoria Doctrinae Iesuiticae, necnon Praxis Jesuitarum, 1608. Pasquier his Jesuite displayed. Petrus de Wangen, Physiogmonia Jesuitica, 1610. Christopherus Pelargus, his Novus Jesuitismus. Franciscus. de Verone, his Jesuitismus Sicarius, 1611. Narratio de proditi­one Jesuitarum in Magnae Brit. Regem, 1607. Consilium de le­suitis Regno Polonia ejiciendis. The Acts of the States of Rhetia, Anno 1561, & 1612. for banishing the Jesuites wholly out of their Territories, NE STATUS POLI­TICUS TURBARETUR, &c. mentioned by Fortunatus Sprecherus, Palladis Rheticae, l. 6. p. 251, 273. Melchior Val­cius, his Furiae Gretzero, &c. remissae, 1611. Censura Jesui­tarum, Articuli Jesuitarum, cum commonefactione illis oppo­sitae [Page] Anti-Jesuites, au Roy par. 1611. Variae Doctorum The­ologorum Theses adversus quaedam Jesuitica Dogmata. The Remonstrance of the Parliament of Paris to Henry the Great against the re-establishment of the Jesuites; And their Cen­sure of Mariana his book, to be publickly burnt, printed in French, 1610. recited in the General History of France, in Lewis 13. his life, & Peter Matthew, l. 6. par. 3. Historia Franciae. Variae Facultatis Thologiae & Curiae Pa­risiensis, quam aliorum Opuscula, Decreta & Censurae contra Jesuitas, Paris 1612. Conradus Deckerus, De proprietati­bus Iesuitarum, 1611. Quaerelarum inclyti Regni Hunga­riae adversus corruptelas Iesuiticas defensio. Lucas Osiander, his writing about the Jesuites bloody Plot, Han. 1614. Iesuitarum per unitas Belgii Provincias Negotiatio, Anno 1616. RadulphusAn Excellent cove [...]y of [...] stable, asonakle [...] and [...]. Hospinianus, Historia Iesuitica, 1619. Bogermannus his Catechismus Iesuiticus. Lodovicus Luci­us, Historia Iesuitica, Basil. 1627. Arcana Imperii Hispa­nici, 1628. Mercure Iesuite, in several Tomes, Geneve 1626, De Conscientia Iesuitarum, tractat. Censura sacrae Theologiae. Parisiensis, in librum qui inscribitur, Antonii Sanctarelli societatis Iesu, de Haeresi, Schismate & Aposta­sia, &c. Paris, 1626. Anti-Cotton; Ioannes Henricius, De­liberatio de compescendo perpetuo crudeli Conatu Iesui­tarum, Fran. 1633. A Proclamation of the States of the united Provinces, Anno 1612. And another Proclamation of theirs: with two other Proclamations of the Protestant States of the Marquesate of M [...]ravia, for the banishing of the Iesuites, London 1629. Alfonsi de Vargas Toletani, Relatio ad Reges & Principes Christianos, De Stratagema­tis & Sophismatis Politicis Societatis Jesu, ad Monarchiam Or­bis terrarum sibi conficiendam: in qua Jesuitarum erga Reges & Populos optimè de se meritos infidelitas, erga ipsum Pouti­ficem perfidia, contumacia, & IN FIDEI REBUS NO­VANDI LIBIDO, illustribus documentis comprobatur, Anno 1641. Jubilaeum, sive Speculum Jesuiticum, exhibens PRAECIPUA JESUITARUM SCELERA, MOLITIO­NES, INNOVATIONES, FRAUDES, IMPOSTU­RAS, ET MENDACIA, CONTRA STATUM EC­CLESIASTICUM [Page] POLITICUMQUE, in & extra EUROPEUM ORBEM; primo hoc centenario, confirmati illius Ordinis INSTITUTA ET PERPETRATA: ex va­riis Historiis, inprimis vero Pontificiis collecta, Anno 1644. (a piece worth perusing) Or else will but cast their eyes upon our own forecited Statutes, and theNo [...] [...] date. Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charls against Je­suites, and Seminary Priests. A brief Discovery of Doctor Allens Seditious Drifts, London 1588. Charles Paget (a Seminary Priest) his Answer to Dolman, concerning the succession of the English Crown, 1601. William Watson (a secular Priest) his Dedachordon or Quodlibets, printed 1602. now very well worthy all Protestants reading. A Letter of A. C. to his Dis-Jesuited Kinsman, concerning the Jesuites, London 1602. Romish Positions and Practises for Rebellion, London 1605. The Arraignment of Tray­tors, London 1605. John King Bishop of London, his Sermons on November 5. 1607, 1608. King James his Conjuratio Sulphurea, Apologia pro Juramento fidelitatis: &, Responsio ad Epistolam Cardinalis Peronii. An Exact Discovery of the chief Mysteryes of the Jesuitical iniquity: and, The Jesuites secret Consultations; both printed Lon­don 1619. William Crashaw his Iesuites Gospel, London 1621. William Feak of the Doctrine and Practice of the Society of Jesus, London 1630. The many printed Sermons of Doctor Iohn White, Bishop Lake, Bishop Andrews, Doctor Donne, Doctor Featly, Doctor Clerk, and others, preached on the fifth of November. Lewis Owen, his Running Register, London, 1620. His Un­masking of all Popish Monkes and Jesuites, 1628. And his Jesuites Looking-Glass, London, 1629. John Gee, his Foot out of the Snare, &c. London, 1624. with the Jesuitical Plots discovered in my Romes Master-piece; and, Hidden works of darkness brought to publick Light, London 1645. shall see the Jesuites and their Se­minaries charged with, convinced of, and condemned for these ensuing Seditious, Treasonable, Antimonar­chical, Anarchical Positions and Practises; for which, [Page] their Society hath by publick Acts and Proclamations been several times banished out of Hungaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, the Low Countries, Rhetia, France, Transilvania, Sweden, Denmark, the Palatinate, Venice, Aethiopia, Japan and Turkey, as well as out of England, Scotland and Ireland, as most insufferable Pests and Traytors; in many of which they have yet gotten footing again.

1. That at least [...]ifty several prime Authors of that in­fernal Society of Jesus▪ in several printed books (which you shall finde specified in Doctor John Whites Defence of the Way, c. 6, 10. Aphorismi-Jesuitarum: Iubilaeum, or, Speculum Iesuiticum, p. 187, 188. and the Appendix to my Fourth part of the Soveraign power of Parliaments, p. 187, 188.) have dogmatically maintained;Hospinian. Hist. Jesuit. l. 4. That the Pope hath absolute power, not onely to excommunicate, but judicially to suspend, mulct with temporal penalties, depose, dethrone, PVT TO DEATH, and destroy any Christian Empe­rours, Kings, Princes, Potentates, by open Sentence, War, Force, secret Conspiracies, or private assasinations, and to give away their Crowns and Dominions to whoever will invade them, by Treason or Rebellion, at the Popes command; and that in cases of Heresie, Schisme, Disobedience to, Rebellion against the Pope or See of Rome, Male-administration, re­fusal to defend the Pope or Church against her adversaries, In­sufficency to Govern, Negligence, Tyranny, Excesses, Abuses in Gove [...]nment, Incorrigibility, Vitiousness of Life, and Quando eorum malitia hoc exigit & Reipub. vel Ec­clesiae NECES­SITAS sic re­quirit. Specu­lum Jesuiticum, p. 168, 169, 170. Mercure Jesu­ite, Part. 1. p. 884, 885. Alfonsi de Var­gas Relatio. &c. [...]. 55. NECESSITY OF THE PUBLICK GOOD, OR SAFETY OF THE CHURCH, STATE, OR CAVSE OF GOD; as Antonius Sanctarellus the Jesuite particularly defines, in his Book De Haeresibus, Schismatibus, &c. printed in Rome it self, Anno 1625. who affirms it to be, Multum aequum & Reipublicae expediens, ut sit aliquis supremus Monarcha, qui Regum hujusmodi excessus possit corrigere, & DE IPSIS IVSTITIAM MINISTRARE; sicut PETRD concessa fuit facultas PVNIENDI PAE­NA TEMPORALI, imo etiam, PAENA MOR­TIS, [Page] DICTAS PERSONAS AD AL [...] ­ [...]VM COKKEECMIONEM ET EXEMPLVM. (Whether the Erection, Title of, or Proceedings against our beheaded King, in the late mis-named High Court of Justice, had not their original from hence; and whe­ther the Army-Officers derived not their very phrase,See thei [...] Remonstrance from Sl. Albans, 16 Nov. 1648, and Decem. 7. with other Pa­pers. of bringing the King TO IVSTIEE, with their pre­tended NECESSITY OF PVBLICK GOOD AND SAFETY, for it, from these very Jesuites, or their Agents in the Army; let themselves, the whole Kingdom, and all Wisemen now consider.) Moreover, some of the fifty Authors, (as Creswel, or Parsons the English Jesuite, in his Philopater, Sect. 2. andAttributed to [...]ne Jesuite Tresham. De Officio Principis Christiani, chap. 5. affirm, That the whole School both of (their) Divines and Lawyers, make it a Position certain and undoubtedly to be believed, That if any Christian Prince what­sover, shall manifestly turn from the Roman Catholick Reli­gion, or desire, or seek to reclaim others from the same; or but favour, or shew countenance to an Heretick (as they deem all Protestants, and Dissenters from the See of Rome in any punctilio, such) HE PRESENTLY FALLETH FROM, & LOSETH AL PRINCELY POWER & Dignity; & that By Vertus & Power OF THE LAW IT SELF, BOTH DIVINE AND HVMANE, EVEN BEFORE ANY SENTENCE PRO­NOVNCED AGAINST HIM BY THE SV­PREAM PAS [...]OR AND IVDGE. That thereby his Subjects are absolved from ALL OATHES AND BONDS OF ALLEGIANCE TO HIM AS TO THEIR LAWFUL PRINCE. Nay, THAT THEY MAY AND OVGHT (See Watsons Q [...]libets, P. 295. &c. PROVIDED THEY HAVE COMPE­TENT POWER AND FORCE) TO CAST OVT SVCH A PRINCE FROM BEAKING RVLE AMONGST CHRISTI­ANS, as an Apostate, an Heretick, a Back-slider, a Re­volter from our Lord Jesus Christ, AND AN ENEMY TO HIS OWN ESTATE AND COM­MONWEALTH; [Page] lest perhaps he might infect others, or by his example or command, turn them from the faith. And that the Kingdom of such an Heretick or Prince, is to be be­stowed at the pleasure of the Pope, with whom the people upon pain of Damnation, are to take part, and Fight against their SOVERAIGN. Out of which detestible and Treasonable Conclusions, most Treasons and Rebellions of late time have risen in the Christian World; and the first smoke of the Gunpowder-treason too, as John Speed observes in his History of Great Britain, p. 1250. Whereupon the wholeAlphonsi de Vargas Relatio, &c. c. 55. Spe­ [...]ulum Jesuiti­cum, p. 162, 163. University of Paris censured them, An. 1625, and 1626. not onely as most pernioious, detestable, damnable, erroneous, and perturbing the publick Peace; but likewise, as Subversive of Kingdoms, States, and Republicks, se­ducing Subjects from their Obedience and subjection, and stirring them up to Wars, Factions, Seditions, & Prin­cipum parricidia, and the Murthers of their KINGS.

2. That the Jesuites haveHospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. frequently put these Trea­sonable, Seditious, Antimonarchical, Jesuitical, damnable Doctrines into practice, as well against some Popish, as against Protestant Kings, Queens, Princes, States: which they manifest,

1. By Hist. Galli­ca, & [...]elgica, l. [...]. p. 126. Specu­lum Jesuiticum p. 46. Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. [...]. 159. their poysoning Jone Albreta Queen of Navarre, with a pair of deadly perfumed Gloves, onely for favouring and protecting the Protestants in France against their violence, Anno. 1572.

2. By their suborning and animatingSee Specu­lum Jesuiticum and the General History of France in H. 3. Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. f. 151, 152. James Clement a Dominican Frier, to stab King Henry the third of France in the belly with a poysoned Knife, whereof he presently di­ed, Anno. 1589. for which they promised this Traytor, a Saintship in heaven. Pope Sixtus the fifth himself commend­ing this foul Fact in a long Oration to his Cardinals, as Insigne & memorabile sacinus, non sine Dei Opt. Max. particulari providentia, & dispositione, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI SUGGESTIONE DESIGNATUM: facinus (que) longe majus quam illud S. Judith, quae Holofer­num è medio sustulit.

3. BySpeculum Jesuiticum, p. 75. Cammolet the Jesuites publick justification of [Page] this Clement in a Sermon at Paris Anno 1593. wherein he not only extolled him above all the Saints, for his Treason a­gainst, and murder of Henry the 3. but broke out likewise into this further Exclamation to the people: We ought to have some Ehud, whether it be a A Monke, or A Souldier, or a Varlet, or at least a Cow-herd. For it is necessary, that at least we should have some Ehud. This one thing onely yet remains behinde: for then we shall compose all our Affairs very well, and at last bring them to a destred end. Where­upon, by the Jesuites instigation, the same yeer 1593. one Peter Bariere, undertook the assasination of KingSee the Ge­neral History of France in the life of Henry 4. and Lewis 13. Speculum Jesu­iticum, p. 77, 80, 126, 235. Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. p. 153, to 158. Henry the 4 of France: which being prevented, and he executed, thereupon they suborned and enjoyned one of their own Jesuitical Disciples, John Castle, a youth of 19 yeers old, to destroy the King: who on the 27 of December 1594. in­tending to stab him to the heart, missing his aim, wounded him onely in the cheek, and stroke out one of his teeth; for which Treasonable act he was justified, applauded, as a renowned Saint and Martyr, by the Jesuites, in a printed Book or two, published in commendation of this his undertaking. As namely, by Bonarscius the Jesuite, in his Amphitheatrum, Franciscus Verona Constantinus, (a Jesuite) in his Apologiapro Iohanne Castello, contra Edictum Parliamenti, & supplicium de eo ob Parricidium sumptum, An. 1595. Where he thus writes of the attempt upon Hen. 4. Whosoever diligently ponders, that Henry was excommunicated, an Heretick, relaps­ed, a prof [...]ner of holy things, a declared publick enemy, an op­pressor of Religion; and (thereupon) a person secluded from all right to the Kingdom; and therefore a Tyrant, not a King; an Vsurper, not a lawful Lord; he verily, unless he be mad, and destitute of humane sence, and love towards God, the Church, and his Country, cannot otherwise think or speak; but that the fact of Castle was generous, conjoyned with Vertue; and Heroical, to be compared with the greatest and most praise-worthy facts which the ancient Monuments of Sacred and Prophane Histories have recorded. One thing onely may be disliked, namely, That Castle hath not utterly slain and taken him from the midst of us. [Page] In sum, He denies this Henry to be any King of France, by right or inheritance, because, (in his and the Jesuites Opi­nion onely, not in Truth) he was both an Heretick, and A TYRANT. Asserting, That it was lawful for Castle, or any other private man, TO DESTROY AN HERETICK OR TYRANT, much more then, him that was both.

AndSpeculum Je­suiticum, p. 80, 81. Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. f. 156, 157. John Guignardus a Jesuite, (Fellow of the Jesu­ites Colledge of Claremount) in his Papers then seised by, and reported to the Parliament of Paris, Anno 1595. not onely compared Henry the third and fourth to Nero and Herod, and justified Clements murder of the one, and Castles attempt upon the other, as most Heroical and praise-worthy Actions: but likewise added, That if we in the year 1572. on Saint Bartholmews day, (in the General Massacre of the French Protestants) had CVT OFF THE BASILICON VEINE, (Henry King of Navarre) we had not fallen out of a Feavour, into that Plague, which now we finde. Sed quicquid delirant Reges plectunctur Achivi, SANGVINI PARCEN­DO. That King Henry should be but over-mildly dealt with, if he were thrust from the Crown of France, into a Monastery, and there had his crown shaven. That if he could not be deposed without a war, then a war was to be raised against him: but if a war could not be levied against him, the cause being dead, CLAM E MEDIO TOL­LATVR: he should then be privily murdered and taken out of the way. For which the Parliament of Paris adjudged and executed him for a Traytor. Yea, so desperately were the Jesuites after this, bent to destroy this King, thatHospinian. Hist. J [...]su. l. 3 [...]. 157, 158. Alex­ander Hay (a Scottish Jesuite of Claremont,) privy to Castles villany, used to say, That if King Henry the fourth should pass by their Colledge (the first there built for them) he would willingly cast himself out of his window headlong upon him, so as he might break the Kings neck, though thereby he brake his own. Yet was he punished but with perpetual Banishment. After which Jesuitical conspiracies detected and prevented, notwithstanding this King Henry (before [Page] these two attempts to murder him) had by their sollicitations, renounced the Protestant Religion, professed himself a zealous Romanist, recalled the Jesuites formerly banished for the mur­ther of Henry the third, against his Parliaments and Counsels advice, reversed all the decrees of Parliament against them, razed the publick Pillar set up in Paris, as a lasting Monu­ment of their Treasons and Conspiracies; built them a mag­nificent Colledge in Paris, indowed them with a very large Revenue; entertained Pere Cotten (one of their Society) for his Confessor (who revealed all his Secrets to the King of Spain;) bequeathed a large Legacy of Plate and Lands to their Society by his will, and was extraordinary bountiful and favourable towards them; yet these bloody ingrateful Villains, animated that desperate wretch,See the Gene­ral History of France in Hen. 4. and Lewis 13. Dr. John Whites De­fence of the [...]y, c. 10. p. 46. Ravilliac, to stab him to death in the open street in Paris, Anno 1610. Albigni the Jesuite being privy to this murder, before it was perpetrated. Yea, Francis de Verona in his Apology for John Castle, p. 258. thus predicted his second mortal stab, in these words, Though this Prince of Orange scaped the first blow, given him in his cheek, yet the next hit, where­of this was a presage; as the blow given by Castle SHALL BE THE FORE-RVNNER OF ANO­THER BLOW. Such implacable Regicides are the Jesuites.

4. By their suborning, instigating sundry bloody instru­ments one after another, to murder See Grim­stons History of the Netherlonds p. 764. Thuanus l. 79. p. 186. Spe­culum Jesuiti­cum. p. 60, 61. William Prince of Orange, prevented in their attempts by God's provi­dence, till at last they procured one Balthasar Gerard to shoot him to death with a Pistol, charged with three Bul­lets, An. 1584. the Jesuites promising him no less then HEA­VEN it self, AND A CANONIZATION AMONG THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS, for this bloody Treason, as they did to James Clement before, for murdering the French King. And it is very remarkable, That after this murder of his,De Monarch. Hisp. [...]. 27. p. 258. Thomas Campanella (a Jesuited Italian Frier) prescribed this as a principal means to the King of Spain of reducing the Ne­therlands under his Monarchy again, to sow emulation [Page] and discords amongst their Nobles, States, and to murder Prince Maurice his son and successor, which he expresseth in these direct termes. Maxime opus est, ut Serpens seditionis, Comes Scilicet Mauritius Interimatur; non vero per bellum diu­turnum, copia illi danda est, magis magis (que) succrescendi: which theyChron. Belgiae Tom. 1. p. 719. Tom. 2. p. 97. Meteranus l. 17. p. 575. Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. f. 205. twice likwise attempted to affect; An. 1594, and 1598. No wonder that they so much endeavour by all means & instruments to suppress that noble family now, to whom the Netherlands principally owe their infranchise­ment from the Spanish yoak of bondage.

5. BySpeculum Jesuiticum, p. 127. their poysoning Stephen Botzkay Prince of Tran­sylvania, for opposing their bloody persecution.

6. By their manifold bloody Plots and Attempts from time to time, See Speed and Cambden in her life. Bi­shop Carletons Thankful Re­membrance of Gods Mercy, London 1624. to murder, depose, stab, poyson, destroy our famous Protestant Queen Elizabeth, by open Insurrections, Rebellions, Invasions, Wars, raised against her both in England and Ire­land; and by intestine clandestine Conjurations; from which Gods ever-waking providence did preserve her. Amongst other Conspiracies, that of Patrick Cullen, an Irish Frier, (hired by the Jesuites and their Agents to kill the Queen) is observable.Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, Speeds History, p. 1181. Camb­den, Stow, Ho­linshed in the Life of Queen Elizabeth. Spe­culum Jesuiti­cum, p. 73. Holt the Jesuite, (who perswaded him to undertake the murdering of her) told him, that it was not onely lawful by the Laws, but that he should merit Gods Favour, and Heaven by it; and thereupon gave him remission of all his sins, & the Eucharist, to encourage him in this Treason; the chief ground whereof (and of all their other Treasons against this Queen) was thus openly expressed by Iaquis Francis, for Cullens further encourage­ment; That the Realm of England, then was and would be so well setled, that unless Mistras Elizabeth (so he termed his Dread Soveraign, though but a base Landressson;) were suddenly taken away, All the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail, to shake and overturn it. Which then it seems theySee Watsons Quodlibets. principally endeavoured, and oft-times since attempted, and have now at last effected, by those who conceit they demerit the Title of Saints (though not in a Romish Kalender) and no less then Heaven, for shaking, overturning, and making it No Kingdom.

[Page] 7. By theirSee Speeds Hist. p. 1240, 1242, 1243. John S [...]ow, and How; 1 Jac. Conspiracy against King James, to de­p [...]ive him of his Right to the Crown of England, imprison, or destroy his person: raise Rebellion, alter Religion, and Sub­vert the Stat [...] and Government; by vertue of Pope Clement the eighth his Bull directed to Henry Garnet, Superiour of the Iesuites in England: whereby he com­manded all the Archpriests, Priests, Popish Clergy, Peers, No­bles and Catholicks of England, That after the death of Queen Elizabeth by the course of Nature, or otherwise, who­soever shall lay claim or title to the Crown of England, (though never so directly or neerly interessed by descent) should not be admitted unto the Throne, unless he would first tolerate the Ro­m [...]sh Religion, and by his best endeavours promote the Catho­lick cause; unto which by his Solemn and Sacred Oath he should religiously subscribe, after the death of that miserable woman; (as he stilled Queen Elizabeth.) By vertue of which Bull, the Jesuites, after her decease, disswaded the Romish­minded Subjects, from yielding in any wise obedience to King James, as their Soveraign; and entr [...]d into a Treasonable Conspiracy with the Lord Cobham, Lord Gray, and others, a­gainst him, to imprison him for the ends aforesaid; or destroy him: pretending that King Iames was no King at all before his Coronation; and that therefore they might by force of Arms, lawfully surprise his person, and Prince Henry his Son, and imprison them in the Tower of London, or Dover-Castle, till they inforced them by duress, to grant a free tolera­tion of their Catholick Religion, to remove some evil Counsel­lors from about them, and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence; or else they would put some further project in exe­cution against them, to their destruction. But this Conspi­ricy being discovered, The Traytors were apprehended, ar­raighned, condemned, and Watson and Clerk (two Jesuited Priests who had drawn them into this Conspiracy, upon the aforesaid Pretext) with some others, executed as Traytors; Cook 3 In [...]i­tutes, p. 7. and Calvins Case 7 [...] Report, f. 10, 11. 1 Jac. c. 1. all the Iudges of England resolving, that King Iames be­ing right Heir to the Crown by descent, was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth, actually possessed of the Crown, and lawful King of England, before any Proclamat [...]on or Co­ronation [Page] of him, which are but Ceremonies, (as was formerly adjudged in the case ofSee Fox, Ho­linshed, Speed, 1 Mariae, Queen Mary, and Queed Iane, 1 Mariae) there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND, as is adjudged, de­clared by Act of Parliament, 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy serious perusal.

8. theirSee 3 Jac. c. 1, 2, 4, 6. Speeds History, p. 1250, to 1256. The Arraign­ment of Tray­tors, with others. Prayers for the 5 of November. Hospinian. Hist. Jesuitica l. 3. f. 163, to 170. horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot; con­trived, fomented, by Garnet (Superiour of the English Je­suites) Gerard, Tensmod and other Jesuites; who by their A­postolical power, did not onely commend, but absolve from all sin the other Jesuited Popish Conspirators, and Faux The Sculdier, who were their instruments to effect it. Yea, the Jesuitical Priests were so Atheistical, as that they usually concluded their Masses with Prayers, for the good success of this hellish Plot, which was, suddenly, with no less then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder, placed in a secret Vault under the House of Lords, to have blown up and destroyed at once, King James himself, the Queen, Prince, Lords Spirituall and Temporal, with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament, upon the 5 of November, Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have seised with armed men pre­pared for that purpose, the persons of our late beheaded King, then Dake of York, and of the Lady Elizabeth his Sister (if absent from the Parliament, and not there destroyed with the rest) that so there might be none of the Royal Line left to inhe­rit the Crown of England, Scotland and Ireland; to the utter overthrow and subversion of the whole Royal Family, Parlia­ment, State and Government of this Realm. Which unpa­rallel'd, inhumane, bloody Plot, being miraculously dis­covered, prevented, the very day before its execution, in perpetual detestation of it, and of the Jesuites and their traiterous Romish Religion, (which both contrived and approved it) the 5 day of November, by the Statute of 3 Jacobi, ch. 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Re­membrance, that all Ages to come, might thereon meet together publickly throughout the whole Nation, to render publick praises unto God, for preventing this infernal Jesuitical Design, and keep in memory this joyful Day of Delive­rance; [Page] for which end, special forms of publick Prayers and Thankesgivings were then appointed, and that Day ever since more or less annually observed, till this present. And it is worthy special observation, that had this Plot taken effect,Speeds Hist. p. 1242. The Arraignment of Traytors, and M. John Vicars History of the Gunpowder Treason. It was agreed by the Jesuites and Popish Conspira­tors before-hand, That the Imputation of this Treason should be cast upon the Puritans, to make them more O­dious: as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kinde, which they have not onely laid, but fully ac­complished of late yeers against the King, Prince, Royal Posterity, the Lords and Commons House, our old English Parliaments and Government, upon those Indepen­dents, and Anabaptistical Sword-men, (whom they now repute and stile, See Militiere his victory of Truth, 1654. dedicated to the King of Great Brittain. the most reformed PURITANS,) who were in truth, but their meer under-Instruments to effect them; When as theySee my E­pistles to Jus Patronatus, and Speech in Parliament. originally laid the Plots; as is clear by Campanella's Book, De Monarchia Hisp. ch. 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death, to the King of France. And it is very observable, that as Courtney the Jesuite, Rector of the English Jesuites Colledge at Rome did in the year 1641. (when the name of Inde­pendents, was scarce heard of in England) openly affirm to some English Gentlemen, and a Reverend Minister (of late in Cornwal) from whom I had this Relation, then and there feasted by the English Jesuites in their Colledge, That now at last, Nota. after all their former Plots had miscarried, they had found out a sure way to subvert and ruine the Church of England (which was most formidable to them of all others) by the Independents; who immediately after (by the Jesuites clandestine assistance) infinitely encreased, sup­planted the Presbyterians by degrees, got the whole power of the Army, (and by it, of the Kingdom) into their hands, & then subverted both the Presbyterian Govern­ment and Church of England in a great measure, with the Parliament, King and his Posterity; asIn his Victory of Truth, 1654. p. 15, 18, 24, 25, 26, 27. Monsieur Mi­litiere a Jesuited French-Papist observes. So some Indepen­dent Ministers, Sectaries and Anabaptists, ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the fifth of November, [Page] (as I am credibly informed) and refused to render pub­lick thanks to God for the deliverance thereon, contrary to the Act, for this very reason, which some of them have rendered; That they would not mock God in publick by praising him for delivering the late King, Royal Posterity, and House of Lords from destruction then, by Jesuites and Pa­pists, when as themselves have since destroyed and subverted them through Gods providence; and repute it a special mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage, for Ʋpon which ground, many of them have since solemnized the 30 of January, instead of No­vember 5. which they have cause to bless the Lord: Performing that for the Jesuites and Powder-Traytors, which themselves could not effect. The Lord give them grace and hearts to consider, how much they acted the Jesuites, and promoted their very worst Designes against us there­in; whatSee Militiere his Victory of Truth, p. 4, to 50 infamy and scandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Professors of our Prote­stant Religion, andJer. 5. 31. what will they do in the end there­of?

9. (To omit all other Forraign instances cited in Spe­culum Jesuiticum, p. 124, to 130. where you may peruse them at leisure) ByRomes Master-piece, p. 8, 18, 19. their poysoning King Iames himself in conclusion, as some of them have boasted.

10. By the Popes Nuntio's, and a Conclave of Jesuites Con­spiracy at London, Anno 1640.Romes Master­piece, p. 8, to 22. to poyson our late King Charles himself, (as they had poysoned his Father) with a poy­soned Indian Nut, kept by the Jesuites, and shewed often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Discoverer of that Plot; or else, to destroy him by the Scotish wars and troubles, (raised for that very end by the Jesuites,) in case he refused to grant them a universal liberty of exercising their Popish Religion throughout his Realms and Dominions: and then to train up his Son under them, in the Popish Religion; To which not onely heretofore, but now likewise they strenuously en­deavour by all possible means to seduce him; as appears more especially by Monsieur Militiere hisThe Victory of Truth, Anno 1653. late book dedicated to Him for that purpose, to invite him to the Roman Catholick Faith. Surely all these premised instances compared together, and with that memo­rable [Page] passage of the English JesuiteHospinion. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. f. 214. l. 4. f. 264. Campian, in his Con­certatio Ecclesiae Catholicae: (or Epistle to Queen Eliza­beths Councel.) Treviris 1583. p. 22. Velim sciatis, quod ad Societatem nostram attinet, omnes nos, qui per totum Orbeni longe lateque diffusi sunt, quarum est continua suc­cessio, & magnus numerus, Sanctum foedus infisse, nec quam­diu unus nostrum supererit, studium, & consilia nostra in­termissuros, ad Reges Hereticos quovis modo tollendos (as Hospinian relates, and expounds his words and mean­ing) & Religionem vestram exting [...]ere. Iampridem jacta est ratio, & inchoatum certamen nulla vis, nullus Anglorum impetus superabit; so as to hinder this their holy League and Covenant long since entred into, To destroy, take out of the way, ruine all Protestant Kings throughout the World, under the Notion of Hereticks by any means whatsoever, (and the Protestant Religion togetherwith them.) With aPrinted by it self, and at the end of my Speech in Parliament. Copy of a Letter sent by an Independent Agent from Paris, some few weeks before the Kings removal from the Isle of Weight, by the Army-Officers, declaring the Jesuites implacable En­mity to the King, and to hereditary Monarchy throughout the World. And an Express sent from Paris to the King him­self, some three dayes before his seisure and translation from Weight, to this effect, (as I have heard from per­sons of Honour) That the Jesuites at a general meeting in France, had resolved, by the power of their friends in England, to seise on his Majesty, bring him to justice, and cut off his head, because he had, contrary to their expectation, closed with the Parliament, consented to the abolishing of Episcopacy, and) to five new Bills against Jesuites, Popish Priests, Mass, Po­pery, and all Popish Ceremonies, in the last Treaty; and ad­vising Him, to prepare for this new storm, which within few days after fell upon him: will sufficiently inform the world, that the late unparallel'd capital proceedings against our Protestant King, (contrary to the Votes of both Houses of Parliament) the Parliament Members, Peers House, and forced, dissolved late Parliament too,See An Apo­logetical Decla­ration of the Province of London, &c. Jan. 24. 1649. proceeded not from the Principles of our reformed Protestant Religion, as thisPage 5, 7. 8, 18, 33, 39. &c. Monsieur in his printed Pamphlet, would make [Page] his Reader, the youg King; to whom he dedicates it, and all the World believe; but from the Popes and Jesuites forecited Treasonable Opinions, seconded with their clan­destine Sollicitations and Practises: and that they, with some French Cardinals, Jesuites, as well as Spanish and En­glish, (then present in England to promote their Designes) were the chief original Contrivers, Promoters of them, whoever were the immediate visible Instruments, as I haveSee my Speech in Parli­ament, and Me­mento. The E­pistle to my Jus Patronatus, & Tho. Campanel­la De Monar­chia Hisp. 6. 25. elsewhere more fully demonstrated, for the wiping off this Scandal from our reformed Religion, & the sincere Professors of it, who both abominated andSee the Decla­ration of the se­cluded Mem­bers, The Lon­don - Ministers and others, Re­presentation to the General, and the second part of the History of Inde­pendency. pro­tested against it in print. [...] Radolphus Hospinian in his excel­lent Historia Jesuitica, l. 4. f. 244, 245. reckons up these three prime causes of the Jesuites Regicides, & other Noto­rious Treasons. The first is, that blinde Obedience, which they vow to their Superiours, to execute with great celerity, spiritual joy, and perseverance, whatever their Superiours shall enjoyne them, by being perswaded, That all their Cem­mands are Iust to them; by renouncing their own Opinion and Iudgement with a certain Blinde Obedience: and by be­lieving, that those who live under Obedience, are carried and governed by Divine Providence, (a word now most in use with our Army-Saints, and Souldiers, wholly infected with this Jesuitical Doctrine ofTo their Gene­ral & Officers, even in unlaw­ful acts against the Parliament, King, Kingdom. Obedience) by their Supe­riors, whithersoever they shall suffer themselves to be carried, or in what sort soever they shall be dealt with by them, (like a staffe in the hand of a man, which readily obeys him that holds it, wheresoever and in what thing soever he will please to use it,) especially when backed with a pretext of Necessity, Re­ligions Safety, Publick Good, Exemplary Justice, and promoting the common Cause for which their Society was first instituted. 2. That they hold themselves obliged to no Kings, Princes, or Civil Magistrates by any Oath of Allegi­ance, but onely to the Pope and their Generals; and therefore think themselves free and unable to commit any Treason at all against them, although at the Popes and [...]heir Superiours com­mands they still rise up against, murder, [...]stroy them. 3. That they deem those Kings, Princes, which the Pope and Jesuites, or [Page] other learned men of their Religion, or the common people shall deem Hereticks, to be thereby wholly made uncapable of any Empires, Kingdoms, or Principalities, or any other civil Dig­uity; yea, to be accursed Tyrants, unworthy of the name of Kings; that thereby their Subjects are totally absolved from the bond of Allegiance to them; and that thereupon it is lawful to kill and destroy them, and the murders of such are meri­torious. Now that these three Jesuitical Grounds and Principles, (infused into our Army-Officers and Souldiers by the Jesuites and their Instruments of late yeers, against their Primitive Orthodox Positions, Protestations, De­clarations, Oaths, Covenants, Engagements) backed with secret Avarice, Ambition, and Self-ends, were the principal impulsive Causes of all the extravagant violent Pro­ceedings both against the late King, and Parliament (not the loyal Principles of the Protestant Religion) is apparent unto all the World, by the Armies own Declarations of Nov. 16. and Decemb. 7. 1648. Their True State of the Commonwealth of England, &c. 1654. and other Pam­phlets for their justification, which all true Protestants blush at. [...]

3. That the Jesuites ever since the Establishment of their Military Order, under Ignatius their Martial General, have been theHospinian. Hist. Jesuitica, l. 3. Romes Master-piece. principal Firebrands, Bellows, Instruments of kindling, somenting, raising, continuing all the publick commo­tions, wars, seditions and bloody fewds that have happened in or between any Kings, Kingdoms, States, Princes, So­veraigns or Subjects throughout the Christians world; and more particularly, of all the Civil commotions, wars in France, Germany, Transylvania, Bohemia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, England, Scotland and Ireland, to the effusion of whole Oceans of Christian blood: which one poetically thus expresseth,

Yea, it is well worthy observation, what Jacobus Cru­cius, Hasen mullerus Hest. Jesuit. c. 1. Speculum Jesu­iticum, p. 61. a Jesuite (Rector of the Jesuites Novices at Landsberge) presumed to publish, in his Explication of the Rules of the Jesuites, Anno 1584. in these words: The Father of our Society ought to be a Souldier; because, as it is the part of a Sculdier, to rush upon the Enemy with all his Forces, and not to desist, till he become a Conquerour; so it is our duty to run violently upon all, who resist the Pope of Rome; and to Destroy and Abolish them, not onely with Counsels, Writings, and Words; Sed invocato etiam brachio se­culari, Igne & Ferro tollere & abolere, sicut Pontifer & nostra Vota (contra Lutheranos suscepta) Volunt & Mandant. But likewise by calling in to our assistance the secular Arm (of an Army) to take away, and destroy them with Fire and Sword, as the Pope and our Oathes (taken against the Protestants) Will and Command. And may we not then safely conclude, they have been the Original Contrivers, Fomenters, Continuers of all our late intestine and forraign wars, by Land and Sea, with our Christian Protestant Brethren and Allyes, (asExact Col­lection, p. 12. 10 20 97, 98, 106, 108, 207, 461, to 465. 491, 492, 498, 508, 574, 616, 631, to 670. 812, to 828, 832, 834, 849, 890, to 918, 651, 652, 653. sundry Parliament Declarations of both Houses aver and attest?) And that many of them have secretly crept into, and listed themselves Souldi­ers in our Armies, on purpose to put on foot their designs against our King, Kingdoms, Churches, Religion, and perpetuate our Civil Wars? And so much the rather, because,Relatio de S [...]ratogematis & Sophismatis J [...]suitarum, c. 4, 6, 7. Alphonsus de Vargas (a Spanish Popish Priest) informs us: That the Jesuites, being a Generation of Incen­diaries, are so welpleased with the name of their Founder Ignatius, derived from Fire, and signifying a Caster about of wild-Fire, or an Incendiary; that though his christned name at first was Innicus, or Inighistas; Yet Iohannes Euse­bius Nirenberger, a Jesuite, in his Book, De Vita Ignatii, printed at Madrid, 1630. most falsly records, That his Parents at his Baptism, being in doubt what name to give him, thereupon the Infant himself, with a loud voice, said, [Page] He would be named Ignatius, to signifie what office he should obtain in the Church and world, even to cast abroad fire in them, and set them all in a flame. Hereupon his Disciples the Jesuites, considering that this their founder was by his name A firebrand, and a Souldier by his profession, professed publikely to the King of Spain, his councel and the world, that it was no less consonant to the mind, institution and statutes, then to the name of their warlike Father Ignatius, that they should not onely exercise, but Publikely profess and teach to o­thers, Artem Pyrotechnisam, &c. the art how to make and cast abroad fire-balls, fire-works and wild-fire, to fire and burn houses and Cities: and likewise the art of warre, of setting Armies in battel array, of Assaulting cities, the maner of making Gun-powder, bullets, fire-bals; of casting Guns, and the maner and wayes of making all other Military works, Engines, together with rules and precepts belonging to Navigation, & omnia maritini belli munia: and all duties and incidents belonging to Sea-fights. Upon which they perswaded the King of Spain (notwithstanding the op­position of all the Universit [...]es of Spain against it) to erect a publike University for their fiery martial order at Madrid, and to endow it with an annual Revenue of ten thousand Crownes; wherein they set up a publike Lecture concerning war and all incidents appertaining thereunto; with this Printed title: Acroasis, De re Militari; in qua pracipietur Doctrina & forma Militiae veteris & Hodiernae, & Species Mathema­tum arti isti subordinatarum: quae sunt Tactica, five De Acie instruenda, Topographica, Machinaria Militaris, Or­gano Poetica, Pyrotechnica, &c. Hanc acrosia faciet, P. Hermannus Hago (a Jesuit) quarta pomeridiana usque ad quintam. This is the first publike Military Lecture I ever read of erected in any University amongst Christians, and Professors of the Rom. 10. 15 Gospel of peace; who are expresly en­joyned by theRom. 15. 33 Heb. 13 29. God of peace, and Prince Isai. 9. 6. of peace Mat. 26. 52. To put up their swords into their scabberds, because all those that that the sword, shall perish with the sword. Isai. 2. 4. Mica. 4. 3. To beat their swords into plow [...]shares, and their spears into pruning-hookes: not to lift up the sword against one another, neither To [Page] learne war any more. Yet such bloody incendiaries and delighters in war are the Jesuites, that they thus pub­likely teach others the art of war and fire-workes, to set the whole Christian world in combustions and open warres against each other; which they have everywhere accomplished, and that upon this accompt: that the Gos­pel of Jesus is principally to be taught and propagated by arm­ed power, exercitu & armorum usu; by An army and the use of armes (whereby they now propagate it in our Kingdomes the quite contrary way, to the ruine of our Church and religion:) whereuponCap. 7. p. 47 and c. 23. p. 132. Vargas passeth this just censure on them: Hos velut Ignigenos illis Comici verbis recte quis a se amoliri, & in malam rem abire jusserit.

And a German Frier in his Astrum inextinctum, gives this true Character of them: Discordias inter suprema Reipublicae Christianae capita seminare credimus esse veritati patrocinari; quam salvam esse negant, quamdiu Principes isti inter se non colliduntur Hoc est flammas in Europa suscitare, sicut gloriantur Patrem societatis Ignatium, esse illum, de quo Christus dexerit, Veni ignem mittere in terram, hoc est, clas­sicum in aulis Principum canere, & illos inter so committere.

4. That theSee Hospi­nian. Historia Jesuitica. l 4. f. 212, 213, 214. and l. 3. throughout. Thu­anus Hist. l. 4. Jesuites from the first erection of their Military order, have conspired, attempted to subvert and ut­terly extirpate (under the name of Schismatickes, Hereticks, Gospellers, Heresie, and the Gospel) all professors whatsoever of the Protestant Religion and their Doctrines throughout the world, not onely by Machivilian plots and treasons, but by war, fire, sword, holy leagues, Armies & armed power, as is evident both by their bookes and Practices. To instance in a few parti­culars both abroad and at home. Franciscus Veronas Con­stantiensis, a Jesuite, in his Apology for John Castle, Anno 1595. part 5. c. 13. resolves, That all wars to extirpate here­tickes (Protestants) Ar [...] lawfull, yea more lawfull then [Page] against all other Infidels, because Heresie according to Gods word, is worse then all Infidelity. And if war be Just against Heretickes, how much more just is it against the head of the Heretickes? And if it be just to Extirpats hereti­call Kings out of all Christian Kingdomes (which the Jesuites entred into an holy League to effect, as you heard before out of Campian) How much more just is it in the most Christian Kingdom (France) to root out King Henry the 4? (whom they not onely warred against, but stabbed and murdered as aforesaid.)Genevae, 1620. Thuanus Historiae, l. 65. p 238. and lib. 67. 299. records; That it is the opinion and Sentence of the Jesuites, that it is a Pious and wholsome thing, that all Christians should lay violent hands upon Sectaries and Protestants, ought to be armed against them, and to make no peace, keep no faith nor truce with them; yea, that it would be more profitable for the Church, and more conducing to Gods glory, for all Christians to give over their warrs they wage against the Turkes by common consent, and to let the Turks alone, and to turn all their arms and forces against the Evangelical Sectaries (or Protestants) which live amongst them, who are worser, and ought to be more odious to true Christians then Turkes; and Yet these plead for a To­leration among us, and enjoy it. utterly to destroy and persecute them to death, rather then to delete the unbelieving Mahometans, who are not so dangerous as they. Hoc quàm pie, et juxta mansuetudinem Christianam dicatur, ipsi qui conscientias alioram moderantur, conscientiam suam rogant; Subjoynes Thuanus, though a Papist. And Joannis Paulus Windeck, in his Book De extirpandis Haeres. antid. 10. p. 404. 412. antid. 11. p. 480. and p. 244. positively determines, That the Lutheranes and Calvinists are to be persecuted with warrs, and not onely to be terrified, but like­wise deleted, cut off, taken out of the way, and utterly extir­pated with arms and flames. That all Catholike Princes ought to enter into Holy leagues, associations & confederacies, to de­stroy and root them out, as they did in France, Anno 1587. That the oportunity is not to be neglected, namely,Nota. Quando Protestantes Pecuniis exhausti sunt; when the Protestants Purses and money are exhausted (as they are now amongst [Page] us by excessive endless Taxes, Excises, Civil wars, and a perpetual army too much swayed by Jesuitical counsels, to eat us out, and ruine us with our Religion in conclusion, ere disbanded.) And that the Catholickes may more easily oppress and destroy these Sectaries, they are to be severed one from, and divided against each other, by sundry various arts and means, and all occasions laid hold on for this purpose. (And are we not so now in all our Realmes and Dominions more then ever, by the Jesuites and Romish Emissaries?) Which the Emperor Charles the 5 observed (in his proceed­ings against the Protestants in Germany) to his great ad­vantage. In pursuance of these JesuiticalRichardi Dinothi Histo­ria de pello Civili Gallico, l 6. p. 151. &c. The General History of France. p. 778. 779 Hospinian. Historia Jesu­itica f. 149. 150 Thuanus Histo­ria. l. 63. Positions, Anno 1576. and 1577. the King of Spain, Duke of Guise, with sundry others, Jesuited Popish Princes, Nobles and Papists of all degrees, by the Jesuites instigation, and Popes speciall approbation, entred into a bloody Conspiracy, or holy League, as they term it: To restore and retain the most holy worship of God, according to the form and maner of the holy catholike Apostolike Church of Rome: to abjure all errors or corruptions contrary thereunto, &c. To spend not onely all their Estates, but lives, to repeal all publique Edicts in favor of the Protestants and their associates; to extirpate all Heresies, heretickes, and pursue all such as publike enemies, with fire and sword to death, who should any way oppose or withstand this League, or refuse to joyne with them in it, or fall off from it upon any pretext, after this Oath to observe it. Which League they several times renewed: and in theDinothus, Peter Mathew, Thuanus Ge­neral History of France, Me­teranus, and others. renovation there­of Anno 1598. the Jesuits openly boasted, That they would use their utmost endeavours, that before the year 1600. be­gan, Evangelium (So they termed the Protestant Reli­gion) Radicitus ex orbs toto extirpetur; Should be clean extirpated out of the whole world. The Massacres, Slaughters of how many thousand Protestants by open intestine wars and bloody Conspiracies, this League occasioned in France, Germany and the Netherlands, together with the murders of two French Roman Catholike Kings, theSpeculum Jesuiticum, p. 92. French and Belgick Histories of those times, will sufficiently inform the Reader.Meteranus Historia. l. 23. Speculum Je­suit. p. 100. In the year 1602. the Jesuites erected a new [Page] Colledge and Society at Thonon in Savoy, to convert or utter­ly extirpate the Protestants, under the Notion of Heretickes. 1. by Preachings. 2. by pious frauds. 3. by Vi armata: by force of armes: to which new Society, many Popish Kings, Nobles and others, gave their names; and in June that yeare listed above 25000 expert Soldiers, all Roman Catholickes, to put this their Designe against the Protestants in execution upon the next oportunity: there being above 50 Jesuites disguised in Lay-mens habits imployed in England, to stir up the Papists and people there to joyn with them in this new Association, to root out the Protestants in all places by the Sword, the Prin­cipal Engine used by these Ignatians to effect it. To pass bySee H [...]s­pinian. Historia Jesuitica l. 3. f. 160. 161. 162 all the conspiracies and attempts of the Jesuites in Queen Elizabeths reigne, to extirpate our Religion and the Professors of it by open wars, Rebellions, Spanish and forraign invasions both in England, Ireland and Scot­land, recorded by Mr. Cambden, Speed and others in her life, and William Watson in his Quodlibets; with their attempts of like Nature in the beginning of King James his raign, recited in the Statutes of 3. Jacobi, c. 2. where all may peruse them: I shall onely acquaint you; That a little be­fore the beginning of our late bloody wars, Divisions, (contrived, fomented by the Jesuites and Papists, as I Hidden Workes of dark­ness brought to publique light. Romes Master­peece, Conter­buries Doome. have elsewhere at large, discovered, and Exact Collect. p. 651, 652. 662. 668. 813. to 832. 902. to 920. many Parliament-De­clarations attest) one Francis Smith an English Jesuite, open­ly affirmed to Mr. Waddesworth and Mr. Yaxly, That it was not now a time to bring their Religion by disputing or Books of controversie, but It must be done by an Army, and By the Sword. And it is very considerable, That when the Jesuites Spanish and Romish Agents had engaged the King and English Protestants against their Protestant Brethren of Scotland, 1639. to cut one anothers throats; the King of Spain had provided a great new Spanish Armado by the Jesuites sollicitation, and a great Land-Army of old Spanish Soldiers to invade the Western and Southern parts of England, then destitute of all forces, Arms & Ammunition to defend it, all drawn to the Northern parts against the Scots; and to joyn with the Popish confederates here, to extirpate the English he retickes [Page] and Protestants: which designe of theirs, through the Hol­landers unexpected encounter, which scattered their fleet upon the English Coasts, and the Pacification with the Scots, before any engagement of both Armies, was happily prevented. That this Spanish Fleet was then especial­ly designed for England, appeares (besides other Eviden­ces, which I haveThe Royal Popish favou­rite p. 58, 59. Hidden workes of darkness brought to light p. 198. elsewhere touched) by the confession of an English Pilot in that Navy upon his death-bed, mortally wounded in the first fight, to an English Minister and others, to whom he revealed it out of conscience; by some Letters I have met with; and by a Pamphlet made and printed by the Jesuites, Anno 1640. intituledThe Royall Popish favou­rite. p. 58. 59. Hidden workes of darkness p. 198. The Jubilee of the Je­suites, taken from a Papist at Redriffe, and presented by Sheriffe Warner to the whole Commons House, November 14. 1640. Wherein among other Passages then read in the House, (entred in the Journal of that day, out of which I transcribed them:) there was a Particular prayer, For the holy martyrs that Suffered in the Fleet sent against the Hereticks of England,Nota 1639. with this advice; That the Papists must fish in troubled waters, (to wit, whiles that The King was Ingaged in the wars against the Scots:) with Exact Collect. p. 12, 13. certain prayers added, For their good success in that Designe against the Scots. For the more effectuall carry­ing on whereof, the Popes Nuncio, with theHidden workes of dark­ness brought to publique light p. 189. to 199. and Romes Master-Peece. Colledge of Jesuites then in Queen-street, secretly summoned a kind of Parliament of Roman Catholicks and Jesuites in London, out of every County of England and Wales, in which Conne the Popes Nuncio sate President, by the Queens commission and direction, in April, 1639. Who granted and collected an extraordinary large Contribution, by way of Subsidy, from the Papists, to carry on this war against our Protestant Brethren of Scotland, and raise forces to joyne with the Spainards, whom they then expected, to cut the English Protestants throats. The Jesuitical and Prelatical Popish party much displeased with the defeat of this their Plot, by the unexpected Pacification with the Scots, 1639. induced the King soon after to break and revoke it, See the Kings declara­tion concerning that Treaty, Hidden workes of darkness. Anno 1640. (the very year of theSpeculum sive Jubilaeum Je­suiticum. Jesuites Jubilee, which they solemnized in all places, [Page] being the 100. yeer from the first Erection of their Order by Ignatius, Anno 1540.) they caused a new Army to be raised and sent into the North against the Protestants of Scotland, to subdue & destroy them. At the same time they secretly Hidden workes of darkness p. 225. 226. Canterburies Doom. p. 459. listed an Army of no less then 7000. Romish Catho­lickes, kept in private pay, of purpose To cut the Protestants throats who should resist them, and to Conquer the Pro­testants in England first, and then in Ireland; which Designe they were to put in execution, when the Pope or his Legat, with the Spanish, French and Venetian Ambassadours should appoint; who designed them to begin to execute it, When the King went into Scotland against the Scots; as O Conner (the Queen-Mothers Priest) confessed to Anne Hussey, Nota. who justified it to the Lords of the Councel then, and afterwards, before the Lords in Parliament upon her Oath. The Jesuites were so confident of the good success of their designes amongst us, and compleat Victory over all the Protestants throughout the world this yeare of their Jubilee (makingSee Bellar­min. de No [...]is Eccl. Nota. 15. Triumph over their Enemies, one of their Notes of the true Church) thatSpeculum five Jubilaeum Jesuiticum. p. 220. to 224. they appoint­ed a solemne Enterlude to be acted by their Society in the pub­lique Hall at Aquisgran in Germany, in honour of their Ju­bilee: wherein they signified to the people, by printed Tickets and Pageants, that the Popish Church of Rome should be brought in upon the Stage, happily fighting against, triumph­ing and reigning over all her enemies every where throughout the world, in all ages till that present day, and especially of later times, by their meanes. The beginning of this Enterlude being happily acted, and succeeding according to their mindes; at last there were two Armies of soldiers brought by them upon the Stage, ready to encounter each other: the one of Jesuites and Papists, fighting for the Church of Rome; the other, re­presenting the Protestants warring against her. Before their fight, a Jesuitical actor, clad in black, personating a Popish Masse-Priest, divineth good success to the Popish Army, pray­ing for it with an affected devotion and solemne invocation (or rather profanation) of Gods name: after which, the Popish Army of actors, as being certain of the instant victory, [Page] uttered these words to their Captain (as their parts directed them) with a loud reiterated voyce and shout; Pereat, Pereat, Quisquis est hostis Ecclesiae: Let him perish, let him perish, whoever is an enemy of the Church: whereupon a great part of the Stage on which they acted, together with the whole Popish Army (not one Souldier or Captain excepted) at the repeating of these words and wishes, fell to the ground immediately, with so great celerity, that many of them felt they were fallen down, before they discerned themselves to fall; their feigned enemies of the Church (representing the Protestants) standing all fast, at least in place, if not in mind, on the other part of the Stage, which fell not at all. With this sudden fall, many of the Popish Army were bruised in peeces with the beames of the Stage falling upon them; who through pain and horror, needed Monitors to silence their outcries; others having their bones broken and Limbes put out of joynt, were carried to the Chi­rugions to be dressed; and all the rest confounded with shame, crept away secretly under the Veile to their Lodging. And so this Jesuitical Enterlude, by divine justice, ended in a real unexpected bloody Tragedy and real rout of the whole pre­tended victorious Popish Army of Jesuites; and the Scotish Wars that yeer (which they so much depended on) through Gods mercy, concluded in a blessed Peace and Union be­tween both Nations. Whereupon, theSee Hidden works of dark­ness brought to publike light, p. 219. to 250. The Rise and Progress of the Irish R. bellion, and others. Irish Popish Re­bels, by the Jesuites Plots and instigations, seconded with secret encouragements, and promises of assistance with Arms and Moneys from Cardinal Richliou, the King of Spain, Pope, and other forraign Popish Princes, undertook the late horrid bloody Massacre of all the Protestants in Ire­land, and surprisal of all the Forts, Castles, Arms and Am­munition therein, on the 23 of October, 1641.Hidden works of dark­ness, p. 243. be­ing Ignatius day, the Founder and New Canonized Saint of the Jesuited Society, for the greater Honour of their Patron, Order; they being the chief Plotters of this hor­rid bloody Treason. Which horrid Conspiracie, though hap­pily discovered the night before its execution, at Dublin, and some few places else; yet it took effect in most other parts of Ireland, to the slaughter of neer two hundred thousand [Page] Protestants there, in few months space; seconded with a bloody Warre, for sundry years; to the losse of many thousands more lives. To this Plot Hidden work [...] of darknes, p. 226. all the Papists in England were privy, who intended the like Massacre in England; and soon after by the Popes and Exact Coll. p. 662, 666, 813 to 832. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 267, 318, 354, 424, and the History of In­dependency. Jesuits instigations, by the assistance of sorragin Popish Princes, they eugaged the King and Parliament in a long­lasting bloody uncivill, unchristian war against each other, con­cluding in the Kings and Parliaments joynt ruines by an Army raised for their mutual defence, seduced thereunto through the Jesuits instigations and policies. After which, they engaged the Protestants of England and Scotland (formerly united by the strictest B [...]nds and Covenants against them) to war upon, invade and destroy each other by land; and soon after that (by the Spanish See Tho. Cam­panella de Mo­narchi [...] Hisp. c. 25, 27. Agents Assistance) raised a most dangerous bloody Warre between our Protestant old Allies of the Neitherlands and the English by Sea; to the infinite dam­mage, prejudice of both, and the effusions of whole O­ceans of the Gallantest Christian Protestant blood, that e­ver yet was shed, the expence of more treasure and men in these intest [...]e Wars, than would have conquered all Spain, Italy, and the Indies, had they been imployed up­on such a designe; and to the entailing of a See the 27 Article of the Instrument of Government. perpetuall Ar­my on us and our Posterities; more ready (as we have of late years found by sad experiments) to hearken to the Je­suits clandestine suggestions, [...]eductions, and execute their fore­plotted Designes to ruine our Kingdomes, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Monarchy, Church, Religion, then to follow the Advice, Votes Councels, Directions, Commands of our Parlia­ments, Kingdomes, and the best affected Protestants of all ranks who first raised, and have so long maintained them, for quite other ends (hereafter touched) then what they (of late times) have most pursued, to the Popes and Jesuits great content.

5. That the Jesuits have endeavoured, attempted the convulsion, concussion, subversion not onely of the Empires, Realms, and ancient setled Governments and States of Germa­ny, Russia, Bohemia, Hungaria, France, Poland, but likewise of England, Scotland and Ireland, and to new model them [Page] intoExact Coll. p. 3, 4. 461, 462 491 497, 498, 917, 631. other Forms of Government. What mould of Government they intended to cast England into, is thus long since described by William Watson (a secular Priest) in his Quodlibets, Anno 1602. page 309, 310, 330, 331. England is the main chance of Christendome at this present, by seditions, factions, tampering and aspiring Heads: the onely But, Mark, White, the Jesuits aym at, as well in intention as execution of their pretended expedition, exploit and action. I am of opinion, that no man on earth can tell what Govern­ment it is they intend to establish, ratifie and confirm, when they come to their preconceited Monarchy; no not any of their Plot casters. No question it is, but their Government shall be as uncertain as their New conceited Monarchy; their Monar­chy as mutable as their Reign, and their Reign as variable as the Winde, or Proteus in his Complements. But no que­stion is to be made of it, but that the Government they do di­rectly intend at this present is, A MOST ABSOLUTE SOVERAIGNTY, DOMINION AND STATE, CLEARLY EXEMPTED from any subordination, TO ANY LAW or Legifer divine or humane; and there­fore it is rightly called DESPOTICON in the highest de­gree of exemplary immuni [...]le, Is not ours so [...]ow? IMPERIALITY AND ABSOLUTE REIGN, RULE AND AUTHO­RITY, as containing in it three sorts of Government; S [...]il. Monarchical, Aristocraticall, Democraticall, in mat­ters of Counsell and mannaging of Common wealths causes; not in point OF REGALITY, HONOUR AND IN­HERITANCE; For there shall be neither Title, nor Name, nor Honour given, taken or done to any Prince, Duke, Mar­quesse, Earl, Viscount, Lord, Baron, or the like, (all the Jesui­tical Governours being Puritan like, Seniours, Elders, Pro­vincials, &c.) neither shall there be any successions by Birth or blood, TO ANY HONOUR, OFFICE OR MA­GISTRACY from the Monarch, Pater General, to the Minor, P [...]ter Minister, but ALL SHALL GO BY See the New Government of the Common­wealth of Eng­land, Artic. 25, 26, 32. 33, 34. 41. ELECTION OR CHOICE. Whether our late and present variable floating New moulded Governments have not been cast by this long since predicted Jesuiticall [Page] Mould, let wise men, with all our late, yea present Go­vernours, now sadly consider and determine.

6. That theAlphonsi de Va [...]gas Rela­tio cap. 5. Jesuits in a publique Disputation held at Madrid, published by them under this Title; Con­clusiones Politicae sub Regis Domini nostri praesidio, instruct­ed the King of Spain (their Chief Protector,Speculum Je­suiticum p. 217 218, 219. whom they most extoll above all other Kings, to promote both his universall Monarchy and their own thereby.) ‘That in relation to his Empire, Power was necessary, which power they defined to be;’ A faculty, not onely of re­taining the Kingdomes he already possessed, but like­wise of acquiring other mens. ‘Perswading him by this Doctrine to believe: That he was therefore consecra­ted a Catholike King by God, that he might enjoy a faculty, not onely of keeping his own, but also OF IN­VADING AND SEISING UPON OTHER MENS DOMINIONS. For to retain ones own, was the praise onely of a private family: DE ALIENIS CERTARE REGIA LAUS EST: but it was a Royall praise to fight for that which is other mens: NEC REGNAN­DI CAUSA JUS VIOLARE CRIMEN EST, DUM CAETERIS REBUS PIETAS COLATUR: Neither is it a Crime to violate Law or Right, to reign or gain a Crown, whiles that Piety in other things shall be ob­served.’ Which Jesuitical Machivilian unrighteous Do­ctrine, though (as Alphonsus Vargas, a Spanish Popish Priest resolves) it be diametrically contrary to the do­ctrine of our Lord Jesus himself, instructing men, that See Joh. 10. 1. Ezech. 18. 5. to 14. Levit. 6. 1. 4. Job. 20. 19, 20 c. 24. 2. to 15 Obad. 5. Jer. 49. 9, 10. aliena obtinere non Potentis Principis, SED IMPOTEN­TIS AC VIOLENTI PRAEDONIS EST: Yet the Je­suites and their Instruments of late years have sufficiently propagated it amongst our English Grandees and Army-Saints; for a most sacred Oracle, as their violent invasions of other mens Realms, Powers, Offices, Pallaces, Lands, Estates, and Possessions of all kindes, by meer armed power and might, demonstrate beyond contradiction.

7. That theAlphonsi de Vargas relati [...] &c. c. 5. 7. see c. 2, 3, 16, 18, 19 56, 57. & Ho­spinian Historia Jesuitical. 206 207. Jesuites in their Book, De Zelo S. Igna­tii in Religione sua instituenda, printed at Madrid, p. 13, [Page] do glory; Hoc Societatis proprium esse, ut quotidie nov [...] promat inventiones quibus homines ad Deum perducantur: That this is the property of their Society, that it DAI­LY BRINGS FORTH NEW INVENTIONS, where­by men may be brought home to God (that is, to their Religion and Society) the principle whereof they, and Vargas record, to be these. Their perswading of men to embrace the Gospel, by AN ARMY; the use of ARMES, Power, Terrour, Fire: Their Exercise of Merchandize (which many of them in most places & inHidden works of dark­nesse brought to publique light, p. 203, 204. England too, now use, they being very great Merchants, Factors, and ‘Returners of Moneys by Bils of Exchange) and of all other Secular Imployments, Callings, in Lay-mens ha­bits, the more easily to insinuate themselves into all Countries, Places, Companies and Societies of men to infect, seduce, and discover their secrets, according to this their received Maxime; JESUITA EST OMNIS HOMO: a Jesuit is every man:’ that is, a man of all Professions, Callings, Sects, Religions to effect his ends: ‘Their questioning, traducing, oppugning, censuring of all the Articles of the Apostles Creed, and received Principles, Doctrines of Christian Religion; corrup­ting, slighting, falsifying the Scriptures themselves, to­gether with Councils, Fathers, Schoolmen, and all other Divines; but those onely of their own Order, which they incomparably extoll above and prefer be­fore all other: Their venting of new Opinions, No­tions, Revelations, Expos [...]ions, Crochets, Herefies, Problems, both in Divinity itself, and all other Arts and Sciences in the Presse, Pulpit, Universities, Schools.’ And if these (as Vargas assures us) be their properties and new inventions to propagate the Gospel, and draw men unto God (which our Lord Jesus himself and his true Disciples were wholy ignorant of) may we not certain­ly conclude, that they have of late years been extraor­dinary busie at this their harvest work amongst us, and more especially in spreading their Gospel by AN AR­MY, and taking upon them the use of Arms, in [...] [Page] of their Military Father Ignatius, with all other secular Imployments, and New Sects to draw Proselites and new separate Congregations to them, throughout our Realms, to destroy both our Church Discipline and Re­ligion, as well as our Civill Government and Laws?

8. That as the whole House of Commons in theirExact Coll. p. 3, 4 &c. Re­monstrance of 15. December 1641. charge the Jesuites, and late Jesuited Court-Counsellors, with a Malignant and pernicious designe, of SUBVERTING THE FUNDA­MENTAL LAWS and Principles of Government upon which the Religion and Justice of the Kingdome are firmly e­stablished. So William Watson a Secular Priest, chargeth Father Parsons, the English Jesuite, and his Jesuited com­panions, in their Memorial for Reformation of England, when it should be reduced under the power of the Jesuites (as Parsons was confident it would be, though he should not live to see it) written at Sevil in Spain, Anno Dom. 1590. that they intended to have Magna Charta, with our Common Fundamental Laws and Liberties, abrogated and suppressed: thus expressed by William Watson in his Quodlibets, pag. 92, 94, 95. Father Parsons and the Jesuites in their deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament, begun at Styx in Phlegeton, have compiled their Acts in a compleat Volume, intituled: THE Quere, whe­ther the High Court of Justice had not its title from hence HIGH COƲRT OF REFORMA­TION FOR ENGLAND. ‘And to give you a taste of their intent by that base Court of A TRIBE of TRAI­TORS sawcily (like to Gade, Jack Straw, and Tom Tiler) ƲSƲRPING the AƲTHORITY of both STATES, EC­CLESIASTICAL and TEMPORALL in all their RE­BELLIOƲS ENTERPRICES: these were principall points discussed, set down, and so decreed by them, &c. He first mentions three of them relating toStew Watsons Dialogue be­tween a secular Priest and Lay Gentleman▪ printed at Rhemes, 160 [...]. p. 95. Church­men, Scholars, and Church and Colledge-Lands: which were to be put in Fee off [...]s hands, and they all to be re­duced unto Arbitrary Pensions, &c. And then proceeds thus to the Fourth. The fourth Statute was there made concerning the COMMON LAWS of this LAND; and that consisted of this one principal point, That, ALL [Page] THE GREAT CHARTERS of ENGLAND MUST BE BURNT; the manner of holding Lands in Fee simple, Fee tail; Kings service, Soccage or Villanage, brought into villany, scogg [...]y and popularity; and in few, the Common Law must be wholy annihillated, abolished, and troden down under foot, and Caesars civill Imperials brought amongst us, and sway for a time in their pla­ces. All whatsoever England yeelds, being but base, bar­barous, and void of all sence, knowledge, or discretion shewed in the first Founders, and Legifers; and on the other side, all whatsoever is or shal be brought in by these out­casts of Moses, stain of Solon, and refuse of Lycurgus, must be reputed for metaphysical, seme-divine, and of more excel­lency than the other were. Which he thus seconds, Quod­libet 9. Article 2. p. 286. First, it is plain, that Father Par­sons and his Company (divide it amongst them how they list) have laid a plot, as being most consonant and fitting for their other Designments, That the Common Laws of the Realm of England must be (forsooth) either abolished utterly: or else, bear no greater sway in the Realm than the Civil Law doth. And the And is not this the cheif Reason of their late endeavou­red alterations chief reason is, for that the State of the Crown and Kingdome by the Common Laws is so strongly settled, as whilest they continue, the Jesuites see not how they can work their wills. And on the other side, in the Civil laws, they think they have some shreds, whereby they may patch a cloak together to cover a bloody shew of their Treasons for the present, from the eys of the Vulgar people. 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 King John of Leydon, to draw all the world into Mutiny, [...]ebellion and Combustion. And the Stratagem is, how theAnd was not this the very principal engin lately used to alter our old Fundamental Government, cut off the King, and divest his Posterity of their three Kingdoms? witnesse the Armies printed Declarations, and the Junctoes Votes in pursuance of them, Jan. 3. 1648. See Mene T [...]kel Percz by John Rogers. Common people may be inveig­led & seduced to conceit to themselves such a liberty or prero­gative, [Page] as that it may be lawfull for them, when they think meet, 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 turbul [...]nt tribe of Traiterous Puritan [...]s, and other He­reticks, this treacherous Jesuite would now foist into the Catholick Church, as a ground of his corrupt Divinity. And p. 330, 332. He intends to alter and change all Laws, Customs, and Orders of this Noble Isle. He hath prejudi­ced the law of Property, in instituting Government, Governours, and Hereditary Princes to be, BENEPLA­CITƲM POPƲLI, and all other private possessions, ad bene-pla­citum sui &c’ Whether any such new deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament, and high Court of Reformation for England, to carry on this old Design of the Jesuites against our Laws, hath been of late years sitting amongst us in or neer West­minster, or elswhere, in secret Counsel every week, as di­vers intelligent Protestants have informed me, andA great stick­ler against our Laws and a promoter of this Jesuitical de­signe. Hugh Peters reported to divers on his own knowledge (being well acquainted with their Persons and practises of late years) it concerns others neerer to them, and more able then I to examine. Sure I am, a greater man by far then Hugh Peters, in an Assembly of Divines and others, for re­conciling all dissenting parties, not long sinceThis he hath since this Epistle penned, affirm­ed in a printed speech in the Painted Cham­ber before a greater Assem­bly, Sep. 4. 1654 p. 16, 17. averred to them on his own knowledge: ‘That during our late innovations, distractions, subversions in Church, State, and overturning of Laws and Government, the common adversary hath taken many advantages, to effect his de­signes thereby in civill and spiritual respects. That he knew very well, that Emissaries of the Jesuites The more shame for those who suffer it? never came over in those swarms, as they have done, since these things were on foot. That DIVERS GENTLEMNE CAN BEAR WITNES WITH HIM, that they had a CONSISTORY AND COUNCEL ABROAD, THATTherefore of the army and others Rulers by this clear publike confes­sion in print. RULES ALL THE AFFAIRS OF THE THINGS IN ENGLAND. That they had fixed in England, in the limits of most Cathe­drals (of which he was able to produce the PARTI­CULAR INSTRUMENT) an Episcopal power, with [Page] Archdeacons and other persons, to pervert, seduce, and deceive the people: And all this, whiles we were in this sad and deplorable distracted condition.’ Yea, most certain it is, that many hundreds (if not some thousands) of them, within these few years, have been sent over from Forraign Seminaries into England under the disguises ofA [...] amongst o­ther, Eleazar and Joseph Bar Isaiah, 2 chea­ting Impostors and Villains, who bavechea­ted good people of some thou­sands of pounds The 1 of them would have for tibly ravished a maid in March last, & fled away in the night to a­void apprehen­sion, from Durs­ly in Glocester­shire. He confes­sed in his drink he was a soul­dier in Prince Ruperts army. converted Jews, Physitians, Chyrurgions, Mechanicks of all sorts, Merchants, Factors, Travellers, Soul­diers, and some of them particularly into the Army; as appears by the late printed Examination of Ramsey the Anabaptized, New-dipped Jesuite, under the mask of a Jewish Convert, taken at New Castle in June 1653. and by sundry severall late instances I could name. To pretermit all instances of diverse particular Jesuites come over into England, not only within these few years but moneths, discovered by persons of credit; with Sir Kenelm Digby; who though the son of one of the executed old popish Gunpowder Traitors; a dangerous active seducing Jesuited papist, if not a professed Jesuit; 3 Jac. c. 1, 2. The arraign­ment of trai­tors, Speed, Stow. 3. Jac. who in the years 1638 and 1639. conspired with the Popes Nuncio and a Conclave of Jesuites sitting in Council at London, to subvert our Religion, introduce a universall tolleration of the popish Religion in our kingomes, new modle and shake our former established govern­ment, and to poyson, destroy the late King himself, in case he con­sented not to them therein: and for this very purpose, both plot­ted, raised, promoted the first Wars between the Protestants of England and Scotland,Romes Master piece p. 8. &c. 13, 24. Hidden works of dark­nesse brought to publike light p. 189. 190. 196. 202. 211. 253, 254. Ex­act Collection p. 12. 13. Canterburies Doom p. 453. which he abetted all he could, by his letters and secret Collections of moneys from all the Papists throughout England and elswhere, who largly contributed to this war and designe: for which he, Sir John Winter, Master Mountague and others (who had a hand in this conspira­cy) were convented and brought upon their knees at the Com­mons House-bar, Jan. 28. 1640. upon which he retyring into France was about May 1645. sent as a speciall Embas­sadour from the Queen to the Pope of Rome himself, to soli­cit him for ayds of monies, men, arms, against the Parliament; [Page] is first audience, he had the best reception; and fairest Promi­ses of Aid in general that could be wished; writing hopefully of supplies of Moneys from Rome to the Queen and others, as both Houses of Parliament in their A Colle­ction of Or­dinances, &c. p. 831, 832, 833 851, 852, 858, 869. Declaration and Let­ters, (published 26 March 1646.) proclaim to all the world) and likewise good Hopes of Hidden Works of Darkness, &c. p. 252, 253, 254. a Cardinals Cap for himself, or the Lord Aubeny, or Mr. Mountagne, for which he and the Queen sollicited. After that, upon his return from Rome, he was sent over into England about Decemb. 1648. asSee the Letter in the Appendix to my Speech in Parliament, & Relation of the Armies Proceedings against the Members: The II. Part of the History of In­dependency. a fit instrument to New-moddle us into a Commonwealth, and promote the violent Proceedings of the Army Officers and their Confederates (set on work by the Jesuits and their A­gents,) against the late King, Parliament, Members: where, upon his arrival, he was, instead of being apprehended and brought to justice for the premises, hugged by some Grandees whom he courted, permitted to ride and walk about at large, while the Members were under strict guards and restraints; frequently repaired to Whitehall, where he was well received; his Sequestration totally taken off, without any Fees or gratifi­cation, by special order; and himself now at last permitted to lodge not only in Wildemans House, (where the Queens Ca­puchins formerly resided) but sometimes in Whitehall it self; to the admiration of many understanding Protestants, who justly suspect, he hath there more disguised Iesuits to consult with, and promote both their old and new designs against our Church, State, Religion, Laws, Liberties, till they have brought them and us to utter ruine. I shall for brevity sake acquaint you with one memorable general instance, discovering what swarms of Jesuites are now amongst us, under other visors. An English Protestant Nobleman (a person of honor) whose Ancestors were Papists, being courteously entertained within these two years at Rome by some eminent Iesuits, in their chief Colledge there, was brought by them into a Gallery having Chambers round about it, with Titles over every door for se­veral Kingdoms, and amongst the rest, one for ENGLAND. Upon which, he enquiring of the Iesuits, what these titles sig­nified; was answered by them, That they were the Chambers of the Provincial Iesuits, of each Kingdom and Province (written ever the respective doors) wherein they had any members of their [Page] society now residing, who received all Letters of intelligence from their Agents in those places every week, and gave account of the to the General of their Order. That the Provincial for England, lodged in the Chamber over which the title ENGLAND was written, who could shew him the last news from England: which he desiring to see, they thereupon knocked at the door, which was presently opened: the Provincial being informed who & what the Lord was, read the last news from England to them. Here­upon the Nobleman demanded of them. Whether any of their society were now in England? & how they could stay with safety, or support themselves there, seeing most of the English Nobility, Gentry, and Families that were Papists, were ruined in their e­states, or sequestred by the late wars & troubles, so as they could neither harbour, conceal nor maintain them, as they had done heretofore? They answered, It was true; but the greater the dangers and difficulties of those of their society now in England were, the greater was their merit. And that they had then above fiftéen hundred of their Society in England,Nota, able to work in several Professions & Trades, which they had there taken upon them, the better to support & secure themselves from being discovered; (who, together with some Popish Priests and Friers no doubt, upon diligent inquiry will appear to be theSee the Quakers un­masked. chiefest Speakers, Quakers, Disputers, Seducers, Rulers in most separate Congregations, and the principle bro­chers of all New Opinions, Blasphemies, now abounding a­mongst us.) This Relation I have heard from the mouth of a Reverend Divine more than once; to whom this Noble Lord, upo his return into England not many Months since, seriously related the Premises, averring the truth of them upon his Ho­nour. Yet for all this, since the stupendious pretended repeals and annihilations of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, & that of Abjuration of Popery (consented to by the late King in the Isle of Wight) purposely made for the better detection and prevention of Iesuites, and their treasonable forementio­ned practises against our Church, Kingdoms, Princes, Religion, Parliaments,1 Eliz. c. 1. Eliz. c. 1. Jac. c. 1, 2, 3, 7 Jac. c. 6. and Government, by the wisdom and zeal of our best affected vigilant * Protestant Parliaments; I can neither hear nor read of any effectual means, endeavoured or prescri­bed by any in power, for the discovery of these Romish Ia­nizaries, [Page] or banishing, feretting, and keeping them out of England, where they have wrought so much mischief of late years, and whose utter ruine they attempt: nor any incou­ragement at all given to the Discoverers of their Plots and Persons; but many affronts and discouragements put upon them, and particularly on my self, lately mewed up close Prisoner, under strictest Guards in remotest Castles, near three years space (withoutMy Impri­soners have lately profes­sed to me, that they knew▪ not the cause why I was thus close im­prisoned. any Accusation, hearing or particular cause yet assigned or disclosed to me, though oft then and since demanded by me from my Imprisoners) whiles they all walked abroad at large, of purpose to hinder me from any discoveries of their practises by my Pen, where as they printed, vended publickly here in England above 30000 Popish Books of several kinds during my imprisonment, without the least restraint, to oppugne our Protestant established Religi­on (asSee Causia, the Jesuites Holy Court printed in Folio. many of them do in terminis as most damnable Here­sie) propagate the Jesuites Plots, and antichristian Romish Church and Religion amongst us, as you may read at large in the Stationers Beacon fired; which seasonable book, and Discovery of these Romish Emissaries books and plots, some T. P. the new Faux is first. Officers of the Army, in their Beacon quenched, publickly tra­duced in print, as a New-Powder-Treason of the Presbyteri­an Party, to blow up the Army, and that pretended Parlia­ment (of their own erection) which themselves soon after blew up and dissolved in good earnest, pleading for a free Toleration of such Popish Books, and all Religions, as agreeable to the Armies Engagements and Principles, to carry on their designs against our Religion and Laws. But most certain it is; there hath been of late years not only a General Councel of Officers of the Army sitting many moneths together in Councel, toSee their Declarations, Proposals, and printed Pa­pers, 1647. 1648, 1649, 1652. & since for that purpose. alter and new model all our ancient Laws and Statutes, in pursuance of Father Parson's design; but like­wise two Conventicles of their own selection and election, sit­ting of late in the Parliament House at Westminster, assuming to themselves the Name, and far more than the Power, of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England; together with the transcendent ambitious Title of The Supream Authority of the Nation, (in derogation of the Army Officers Suprema­cy, who sufficiently chastised them for this strange Usurpation) [Page] who have made it their chief businesse, not only to New­model our ancient Fundamental Government, Parliaments, Ministry, Ministers maintenance, by Glebes, Tithes, and our Universities, much according to Parsons and his Fellow Jesu­ites forementioned Plat-formes, and Thomas Campanella his Instructions to the King of Spain, De Monarchia Hisp. c. 25. but likewise to New-mould, subvert, eradicate the whole Body of our Qui tam fa­cile receptas & patrias leges cum novis aliis commutant, certe legum ip­sarum authori­talem debili­tant atque e­nervant. Necenim tantum legis abrogatio proderit, quan­tum Magistrati­bus non obedi­endi mos obe­rit. Aristotle Polit. l. 2. c. 6. municipal Laws, and with them the great Charter of our Liberties it self. And in their last cas [...]iered, unelected Convention, (as some of their Companions, now in greatest Power assure us, in theirAnd since this in a Printed Speech, Sept. 4 1654. True State of the Case of the Commonwealth of England, &c. London, 1654. p. 5, 16, 17, 18.) there was a strong prevailing party whom nothing would satisfie, but A Total Eradication of the whole body of the good old Laws of England (the Guardians of our Lives and Fortunes) to the utter subversion of civil Right and Propriety; who likewise took upon them (by vertue of a supposed right of Saintship in themselves) to lay the foundation of a new Platform, which was to go under the Name of A Fift Monar­chy▪ never to have an end, but ToHath not the Army done this in our three Na­tions? See their own Chaplain Sedgewick, his Justice on the Armies Re­monstrance 1648. war withall other powers and break them to pieces, baptizing all their prose­lites into this Principle and perswasion; that the Powers former­ly in being, were branches of the The Mo­narchy of England hath been, 1. In the Britons, 2. in the Saxons, 3. in the Danes, 4. in the Nor­mans Royal Line', & now the 5. must be elective in others. Fourth Monarchy (of England, Scotland; and Ireland) which must be rooted up and destroyed. And what other Fifth Monarchy this could be, but that projected universal Monarchy of the Iesuites, which would bring the whole Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland, together with France, Spain, and all other Princes, States in Christendome under the [...]esuites subjection, and break all other powers in pieces; (mentioned by Watson, in his Quodlibets p. 306, to 333. and Alphonsus de Vargas, Relatio de Stratage­matis & Sophismatis Politicis societatis Iesu, Ad Monarchi­am orbis terrarum sibi conficiendam c. 8. &c.) or else, that Elective New Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland, pro­jected byDe Monarchia Hisp. c. 25. See the Epistle to my Jus Patrona­tus. Campanella and Cardinal Richelieu, which some Grandees now endeavour by their Instrument to erect and perpetuate for ever Art. 1, 2, 12, 25, 32, 33, 41, 42. without alteration in themselves [Page] and their Successors, (though they thus expresly brand it in others;) let themselves, and wise men resolve? it being apparent, by the practises and proceedings of all the Propug­ners of this new Project, that this Fifth Monarchy they intend to erect, is neither the spiritual Luke 17. 21. Rom. 14. 17. 2 Pet. 1. 11. Col. 1, 13. Heb. 12. 28. Rev. 12. 10. Kingdom of Iesus Christ in their own hearts, mortifying their ambitiō, covetousness, pride, self-seeking, unrighteousness, violence, rapines, & other world­ly lusts; nor the personal reign of Christ himself alone, in and over our 3 Kingdoms, and all other Nations for ever,Non abripit mortalia, qui Regna dat coe­lestia. Sedu­lius in hym­no acrast: de vita Christi. Rex iste quina­tus est non ve­nit Reges pug­nando superare, sed moriendo mirabiliter sub­jugare. Venit enim non ut regnet vivus, sed ut trium­phet occisus; nec ut de aliis gentibus auro exercitum quae­rat, sed pro salvandis Gen­tibus preti [...]sum sanguinem fun­dat. Hujus pueri regnum non est de hoc mundo; sed per ipsum regnatar in hoc mundo. Ipse est enim Sapientia Dei, quae dicit in Proverbiis, Per me Reges reg­nant. Tu enim regnum nulla­tenus habuisses, nisi ab isto puero qui nunc natus est accepisses. Claudius l. 1. in Matth. depri­ving all Temporal Kings and Princes of their Crowns, Rights, and Government over their Subjects; which they falsly en­deavour to evince from Dan. 2. 44, 45, c. 7. 14, 27. Micah 4. 1, 2, 7. Luke 1. 32, 33. Rev. 20. 1. to 8. 1 Cor. 15. 24, 25. Heb. 12. 26, 27, 28. but a meer supream, arbitrary, temporal Autho­rity without Bounds or Limits, encroached by and erected in themselves and their confederates, without any colour of Right or Title by the Laws of God or the Realm, and no ways intended, but refuted by all these sacred Scriptures & others, which explain them. This design of the Jesuites, to alter and subvert the whole body of our Laws, was so far promoted by the Iesuitical and Anabaptistical party in this last Assembly, (ele­cted only by the A True State, &c. p. 13. Army-Officers,) that on Aug. 20. 1653. (as our News-books print,) they Ordered, there should be a Committee selected, to consider of a A new Body of the Law, for the Government of this Commonwealth, who were to new-mould The whole Body of the Law: according to Parsons his mould. And hereupon our cheating Astrologers (especially Lilly & Culpeper, theSee Th [...]: [...] Iesuites grand Factors to cry down our Laws, Tithes, Ministers) from the meer visible earthly Conjunctions, Votes, Motions, Influences of these New wan­dring excentrick Planets at Westminster only, (not of any Coe­lestial Stars, as they would make Country-Clowns believe, al­wayes moving and acting themselves by an unalterable Law from the very Creation until now, Gen. 1. 14. to 19. c. 8. 22. Psal. 104. 19. Psal. 136. 8. 9. Ier. 31. 35, 36. c. 33. 20, 21. Iob 38. 32, 33. therefore no ways exciting men to alter Fun­damental Laws and Governments here on earth) took upon them in theirSee [...]h [...]ir Alm [...]n [...]k [...] in Janurary▪ February▪ [...] Monthly Prognostications for this year 1654. [Page] versity & College Lands by Monthly endless Taxes, Excises, & a perpetual Law, Tith-oppugning, Parliament-dissolving Army, in whose Councels, we have cause to fear, the Iesuites have been most predominant of late years, and will still make use of them to our final ruine, if not effectually purged out, and the Army new moulded, new principled, if any longer con­tinued under pretext of publick safety, and not wholy disban­ded for the peoples ease and Liberty.

It is worthy observation, that Tho. Campanella De Monar­chia Hispanica c. 25. p. 204, &c. prescri­bed the sowing, and continual nourishing of Divisions, Dis­sentions, Discords, Sects and Schisms among us, both in State and Church (by the Machivilian Plots and Policies he sug­gests, punctually prosecuted among us of late years) as the principal means to weaken, ruine both our Nation and Reli­gion, and bring us under the Spanish and Popish yokes at last: witness his, IAMVERO AD ENERVANDOS AN­GLOS NIHIL TAM CONDUCIT QUAM DISSEN­TIO ET DISCORDIA INTER ILLOS EXCIT AT A PERPETUOQUE NUTRITA, Quod cit [...] meli [...]res occasi­ones suppeditabi [...]: and that principally, by instigating the No­bles and chief Men of the Parliament of England: UT AN­GLIAMIN FORMAM REIPUBLICAE REDUCANT AD IMITATIONEM HOLLANDORVM: which our Republicans lately did by the power of the Army-Officers; or, by sowing the seeds of an inexplicable war, between England and Scotland; By making it an Elective Kingdom, (as some now endeavour under another Notion) or by setting up Other Kings of another Race, without Legal Right, or just Title, against that ancient, unquestioned, undoubted Right and Title setled, established in King Iames and his Royal Po­sterity by Inherent Birthright, and lawfull right of De­scent by See 25 H. 8. c. 22. 31 H. 8. c. 4. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 1. Eliz. c. 3. God himself and his Laws, confirmned & strength­ned by all possible Titles and Rights of compact, Laws, Statutes, Oaths, perpetual uncontradicted custome, Protestations, Co­venants, the solemn Publick Faith and Engagement of our English Parliaments & Nation, for themselves, Their Heirs & Posterities for ever, as the Statutes of 1 Iacobi c. 1. 2, 3, Iac. c. 1. 4, 7. Iac. c. 6. which both houses of Parliament in their De­claration of Nov. 2. 1642. Exact Collect. p. 705 resolve. And that upon this suggestion to the People; Crudelem fore SCO­TUM ubi semel Imperium in illos obtinuerit▪ [...] ­mente, [Page] repostum, quanta injuria Angli Scotos superioribus illis annis afficerint. Praeterea suspicionem cis incu [...]iat, fore ut Jaco­bus CAEDEM MATERNAM VINDICATURUS SIT, &c. Exasperandi sunt etiam animi Episcoporū (Presbyterorū) An­glicorum proponendo illis REGEM SCOTIAE Calvinismum amplexum esse SPE & CUPIDITATE REGNI, ADAC­TUMQVE VI, A BARONIBUS HAERETICIS; quod si vero Regnu [...] Angliae etiam [...]btineat, TVM ILLVM CITO PRIO­REM RELIGIONEM REVOCATURUM ESSE: qùando­quidem non solum MARIA EJVS MATER moriens, virum etiā REX IPSE GALLIARVM SVMMOPORE EI RELI­GIONEM CATHOLICAM COMMENDARINT, &c. yet now transcribed almost verbatim out ofDe Monarchia Hisp. c. 25. Thomas Campanella, (who suggested it against King James to alienate the English from him, & keep him from the Crown) & very freshly by the Authors of, The True state of the Case of the Commonwealth, &c. p. 48, 49. objected against the present King of Scots and roy­al Issue, to deprive him and them from the Crowne of Eng­land, and engage the whole English Nation against their Title, to vest it in some other Family in greatest power.) Or if these projects should fail, then by dividing us into many Kingdoms or Republicks, dislinct one from another; and by sowing the seeds of Schisms, and making alterations and innovations in all Arts, Sciences, and our Religion. The old Plots ofDe Monar­chia Hispan. c. 25. Campanella, Seewatsons Quodlibets, p. 286. to 332. A Dialogue be­tween a secular Priest and Lay Gentleman, printed at Rhemes, 1601. p. 93, 94, 95. Parsons, and late designs ofConte de Galeazzo Gual­do Priorato, Hist. part. 3. Venetiis 1648. p. 175, 176. Cardinal Richelieu, of the Pope, Spaniard, Jesuites, to undo, subvert our Protestant Church­es, Kings, Kingdoms and Religion, as the marginal Authors irre­fragably evidence: yet all visibly set on foot, yea, openly pursu­ed, and in a great measure accomplished by some late, nay pre­sent Grandees and Army-Officers, who cry up themselves for our greatest Patrons, Preservers, Deliverers, and Anti-Jesuits, when they have rather been but theEt quidem quid refert an Mulieres (& Iesuitae) praesint an hi qui prae­sunt mulieribus obedient? Arist. Polit. l. 2. c. 7. Jesuites, Popes, Spani­ards and other Forraign enemies instruments and factors, in all the late changes, new-models of our Government, Parliaments, & pretended reformations of our laws and Religion, through inad­vertency, circumvention, or self-ended respects, as many wise and godly men justly fear. For prevention whereof, I shall recommend to the whole Kingdoms serious consideration, the memorable Preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22. disco­vering the like Plots of the Pope and our Forraign Enemies to [...] [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] to prevent them for the future, in these ensuing words. In their most humble wise shewen unto your Majesty, Your most humble and obedient Subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Tempo­ral, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled: that since it is the natural inclination of every man, gladly and willingly to provide for the surety, both of his Title and Successi­on, although it touch his only private cause: We therefore, most rightful and dreadful Soveraign Lord, reck [...]n our selves much more bounden, to beseech and instant your Highness, although we doubt not of your Princely heart and wisdom, mixed with a na­tural affection to the same, to foresee and provide for the perfect surety of both you and of your most lawful Succession and heirs, upon which dependeth all our joy & wealth; Nota. in whom also is united and knit, the only meer true inheritance and title of this Realm, without any contradiction: Wherefore, We your said most humble and obedient Subjects in this present Parliament assem­bled, calling to our mind the great divisions, which in times past have been in this Realm, by reason of several Titles pretended to the Imperial Crown of the same; which sometimes, and for the most p [...]rt, ensued by occasion of ambiguity and doubts, then not so perfectly declared, but that men might upon froward in­tents expound them to every mans sinister appetite and affe­ction, after their sence, contrary to the right Legality of the Succession and Posterity of the lawfull Kings & Emperors of this Realm, whereof hath ensued great effusion & destruction of Mans blood, as well of a great number of the Nobles, as of other Subjects, and specially Inheritors in the same. And the greatest occasion hath been, because no perfect & substantial pro­vision by law hath binmade within this realm it self, when doubts and questions have been moved, & proponed of the certainty & legality of the Succession & posterity of the Crown. By reason whereof,Nota. The Bishop of Rome, & See Apostolick, contrary to the great and inviolable grants of Jurisdictions By God immediatly to Emperours, Kings & Princes in succession to their heirs, hath presumed in time past, to invest who should please them to inherit in other mens Kingdoms & Domini­ons; which thing, we your most humble Subjects, both Spiri­tual and Temporal, do most abhor & detest: And sometimes other forraign Princes and Potentates of sundry degrees, [...]ota. minding rather dissention & discord to continue in the realm, to th'utter desolatiō therof, then charity, equity, or unity, have [Page] many times supported wrong titles, wher by they might easily & facilly aspire to the Superiority of the same, the continuance & sufferance whereof deeply considered & pondered, were too dangerous and perillous to be suffered any longer within this Realm, & too much contrary to the unity, peace and tranqui­lity of the same, being greatly reproachful and dishonourable to the whole Realm. In consideration wherof, your said most hum­ble and obedient Subjects, the Nobles and Commons of this Realm, calling further to their remembrance, that the good, unity, peace, and wealth of this Realm, and the succession of the Subjects of the same,Nota. Most specially & principally above all wordly things, consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the pro­creation, & posterity of your Highness, in whose most royal per­son at this present time, is no manner of doubt or question, Do therefore most humbly beseech your Highnes, &c. to declare the establishment of the successiō of your royal posterity in the Imperial Crowns of this realm: as he and they did by this & other succeeding acts of Parl. & in 1 Eliz c. 3. & 1 Jac. c. 1. to prevent the like civil wars and mischiefs for succee­ding ages, now revived, promoted by the Pope, Jesuits, & Foraign Popish Princes to work our ruine.

Certainly, whosoever shall seriously ponder the premises, with these pas­sages in William Watsons Quodlibets concerning the Jesuits,Quodlib. 3. ar. 4. p. 65. 41. 1. That some of the Jesuits society have insinuated themselves into all the Princes Courts of Christendom, where some of their Intelligencers reside, and set up a secret coun­sel, of purpose to receive and give intelligence to their General at Rome, of the secrets of their Soveraigns, and of all occurrents in those parts of the world, which they dispatch to and fro by such cyphers, which are to themselves best, but comm̄only only to themselves known, so that nothing is done in Eng­land, but it is known at Rome within a month after at least, Nota. & reply made back as occasion is offered, to the consequent over­throw of their own natural Country of England, and their native Princes and Realms, by their unnatural Treasons against them; that so the Jesuits might be those long gowns, which should reign and govern the Island of Great Britain. To which I shall add that of Rob: Turner an English Jesuit, in his Epistles printed at Ingolstad, An. 1584. Ep. 19. Volui irrepere, volui irrumpere in in­timas Aulas Principum; volui videre omnia, ut ad Justitiae norman praeclare exigerem. Vix coeperam obi [...]e Principū Aulas, cum viderim Hoereticorū illum Mundum ADMINISTRARI A STULTIS, &c. with that of Hospinian, Historia Jesuitica l. 3. p. 148. That the Jesuits are so subtil, vigilant, bold, la­borious, and indued with such a faci [...]lty of flattery, insinuation, acting and hur­ting in Princes Courts, that they exactly discover, know, and fish out all their secrets, (which they eve [...]l to their Superiors, the Pope and Spaniard) and alone rule all things in them: so that the Courts of Europe are more grievously infested & afflicted by the Iesuites, than the Court of Pharoah was of old by the Aegyptian [...]rogs. And may we not then justly fear our new Court hath been as much pestered and infest­ed by them of late years, as our old Court heretofore?

[...] Quodlibets p. 39. 209, 233, 234, 305, 306, 307, 30 [...]. That the Jesuites hope and endeavour to have England, Scotland [Page] and Ireland under them, to make these Northern Islands a Iaponian I­sland of Iesuites, and one Iesuitical Monarchy,; and to infeoffe themselves by hook or by crook In the whole imperial Domini­ons of great Britain with the remainder over To their Corpo­ration, or puni-Fathers succeeding them, as heirs specially in their society, by a state of perpetuity: Putting all the whole Blood Royal of England to the Formidon, As but Heirs general in one Predicament together, as now they have done.

3.Quodlibets p. 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 42, 45, 50, 283, 285, &c, 332, 333. A Dialogue between a se­cular Priest & a Lay Gentle­man, An. 1601. That the Jesuites have Magistracy, Kings, Magistrates, Ministers, Priesthood, and Priests in high contempt; publishing many slanderous, seditious; trayterous, and infamous speeches, libels, and books against them, to render them odious and contemptible to the People, full of Plots, exasperations a­gainst the Church and Commonwealth, like rebellious Traytors, to bring all in­to an uproar, that they may have all Countries, Kingdoms, Governments, Suc­cessions, States, Inhabitants, and all at their pleasure.

4. That theQuodlibets p. 295 to 313 61, 286, 287, See the Right & Jurisdiction of the Prelate and Prince, by J. E. 1617 Jesuites have taught the people (in order to get England un­der their power, and in order to God or Religion, as they stile it,) That Sub­jects are bound no longer to obey wicked or heretical Princes and Kings de­flecting from the Catholick Religion, and drawing others with them, but till they be able by force of arms to resist and depose them. That the popular multi­tude may upon these grounds, when they think meet, place and displace their Princes and chief Officers at their pleasure, as men may do their Tenants at will, hirelings, or ordinary Servants, putting no difference in their choice Vpon any Right or Title to Crowns or Kingdome, by Birth or Blood or otherwise, then as these Fathers (forsooth) shall approve it, By this all things must be wrought and framed, conformable to opportunities of times and occasions; as for example: The people must have a right and interest in them, and to doe what they list in choice of their Kings and Supream Governours, til they have set such a person or Usurper in the Crown,See I. E. his Treatise of the Right and Ju­risdiction of the Prelat & Prince, prin­ted 1616. & re-printed 1621, by the Jesuits. as they for their ends have designed; and then the times and occasions changing, when such a one is setled in the Throne, the former doctrine and practises must be holden FOR A MISTAKING; yet such, as seeing it can­not be holpen, the people must beware herafter of attempting the like again. By this a check must be given to the publishers of such paradoxes, (when they have accomplished their designed ends,) after that a dispensation procured for the Offenders, and then all shall be well ever after; till a new oppor­tunity for their further advantage.

5. That theQuodlibets p. 26. Jesuits by abs [...]rd equivocations, counterfeited perjuries, Sacri­ledges, and cousenage, become all things to all men, that they may gain all; as to be Seminary Priests amongst Seminaries; Secular Priests, among Seculars; Religious men, among Religious; Seditious men among Seditious; Factions Spaniards amongst Spaniards; ENGLISH TRAYTORS AMONG TRAYTORS; SCOTISH VILAINS, AMONG SCOTS, &c. and amongst all these, to deny and affirm, to object and answer, to swear and for­swear, whatsoever may be a gain to them, for their pragmatical Commonwealth and society. No wonder then, if they transform themselves into all shapes, and take upon them all professions now amongst us.

6. That theQuodlibets p. 62, 69, and elsewhere. Jesuits by their devices and practises, have brought all to Machiavels rule, DIVIDE ET IMPERA, in sowing division, breeding of jealousies, and making of hoslile strife, by opposition of King against King, State against State, Priest against Priest, Peer against Peer, Parents against [Page] children, children against parents, sisters against brothers, ser­vants against masters, wives against husbands, husbands a­gainst wives, and one friend against another, raising up rebel­lions, MVRDRING OF PRINCES, making uproars eve­ry where, until they make those they cannot otherwise winne unto them, either yield to be their vassals to live quiet by them, or force them to flight, or drive them out of their wits, or other­wise plague them to death.

7. That theQuodlibets p. 43. 61, 62, 64. 16. Jesuits by their cursed positions, and machia­villian practises, have made religion it self a meer political and atheal device; a pragmatical science of Figboys, and but an art of such as live by their wits, and the principles of Machi­avel taught by their Rabb [...]es; yea, a very hotch potch of omnium gatherum, religious, secular, clergical, laical, ecclesiastical, spiritual, temporal, MARTIAL, civil, Aecomenical, poli­tical, liberal, mechannical, municipal, irregular, and ALL WITHOVT ORDER; so that they are not worthy to be cal­led religious, ecclesiasticks, catholicks, nor temporal mechan­nical Christians; but rather Machiavillians, Atheists, Apostates; their course of life shewing what their study is; and that howsoever they boast of their perfections, holiness, medi­tations and exercises, (as if they were all Superlatives, all Metaphysicians, all entia transcendentia) yet their platform is heathenish, tyrannical, sathannical, able to set Aretine, Lu­cian, Machiavel, yea, and Don Lucifer, in a sort to school.

Those, I say, who shall sadly ponder all these premises, and compare them with the late practises, policies and pro­ceedings of some swaying politicians of our age (infected likewise with this Atheistical State-Maxime, amongst others derived from the Jesuits, and Machiavillian Spanish State-Counsellers:) In Reipublicae administratione, quaedam LICI­TA ESSE RATIONE STATVS, alia respectu Consci­entiae: whichDe Monar­chia Hisp. c. 32. p. 297, 298. Thomas Campanella (as bad as he is) not only severely censures, but thus declaims against with high­est detestation, Qua opinione profecto NIHIL MAGIS AB­SVRDVM AV [...] IMPIVM ne excogitari quidem potest: Nam qui conscientiae universalem suam jurisdictionem in om­nes res humanas TAM PVBLICAS QVAM PRIVATAS, [Page] subtrahit, ostendit, SE NEC CONSCIENTIAM, NEC DE­VM HABERE, &c. Siquidem omnia scandala Ecclesiae Dei, & PERTVRBATIONES ORBIS TERRARVM, INDE ORTA SVNT: that men may do against all Laws of God and Man, their own Consciences, Trusts, Oaths, out of a pretext of the benefit, safety of the State, & publick good, as most now do; Or, compare thē with the constitution of our Church, State, Religion, publike affairs, must needs acknow­ledg, that these pragmatical Iesuits have bin very active, pre­valent, powerful, successful, and not only militant but tri­umphant, of late years amongst us, under some disguise or other: that they have dangerously poysoned us with these their Machiavillian and Atheal policies, practises positions, and have more real Disciples, Factors, if not Tutors, now a­mongst us, then in any former ages: And is it not high time then to endeavour to detect their persons, and prevent their dangerous designs upon us, with greatest care and diligence? Truly though most others be negligent and fearfull here­in, yet that text of Ezek. 2. 6, 7. And thou son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though bryars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions, be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellions house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are most REBELLIOVS; hath anima­ted me to exonerate my conscience herein, and to say with the prophet, Isai. 62. 1. For Zions (Englands) sake I will not hold my peace, and for Ierusalems sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth. Wherefore,

Upon serious consideration of all these Premises, and of all those Sacred Solemn Oaths, that Protestation, Vow, League, and National Covenant, which I have formerly taken (lying still as so many)Josh. 9. 19, 20. & Psal. 89. 34. Psal. 15. 4. Heb. 6. 17, 18. indissoluble Obligations on my Soul, notwithstanding the ingrate, malicious, unchristian Requi­tals of all my former unmercinary services, Sufferings for Re­ligion, Laws, Liberties, and the publique, in times of greatest Danger, recompenced only with long causeless, close impri­sonments, [Page] injuries, affronts, losses of all kinds, by pretended friends and Patrons of our Liberties, as well as by professed causeless Enemies. And notwithstanding all other Dis­couragements from the general baseness, cowardise, Sottish­ness, slavishness, degenerated Spirits of the whole Nation, and their strange fearfulness even publiquely to own, much less cordially, to assist, defend, (according to the sixth Ar­ticle of the Covenant) those few couragious Patrons who have hazarded their Lives, Liberties, Limbs, Estates, and all earthly comforts for the publique defence of our Religion, the Laws, Liberties, Priviledges of our Kingdom, Church, Parliament, against the old and late avowed sub­verters of them, whose veryWhen our Saviour him­self was appre­hended, car­ried away prisoner, and like to be cru­cified, all his Disciples for­sook him, and fled, and Peter denyed him with an oath, Mat. 26. 56. 70. 10 75. And at Pauls first ap­pearance be­fore Nero, no mā stood with him, but all men forsook him, I pray God it be not laid to their charge, 2 Tim. 4. 9. 16. And so it is now with most publike sufferers. Company, visits the gene­rality of their former friends and acquaintance have decli­ned, (as if they had some plague sores on them;) not on­ly during their late restraints, but likewise since their en­largements out of them, (enough to perswade them never to write, speak, act, or suffer any thing more, for such ingrate, unworthy Creatures, but rather to put their helping hands, to make them and their Posterities slaves for ever.) I have yet once more, out of pure zeal, love, conscience towards my native Country, adventured my life, liberty, and decayed estate, (considering the lawless­ness and Danger of the times, not the justice and good­ness of the Common Cause, I plead) for the necessary de­fence of the Fundamental Liberties, Franchises, Lawes, Rights, Parliaments, Priviledges, and Government of our enslaved Nation, (though every wayZeph: 2. 1. unworthy to be beloved by God, or men of noble spirits) in this Seasona­ble, Legal, Historical Vindication and Collection; wherein I have with all boldness, faithfulness, without the least fear or flattery of any Mortals or created powers whatsoever, argued, evinced, maintained my own particular, with the whole Nations publique right and inheritance in them, (of which few or none take any care, but only of their own private gains, case, safely, though with theUnusquisque majorem tem­poris sui partē in rebus priva­tis curandis ponit, & Rem­publicam nihil detrimenti ex hac sua negli­gentia cap [...]re posse putat; sed & aliquam ali­um esse existi­mat qui Rem­publicam curet, ei pro setpso perspiciat. Ita [...] cadem omnium privatorum opinionè Universam Rempublicam perdi, non a­nimadvèrtit. Thucidides H [...]st. l. 1. pag. 110. Publike ru­ine) and endeavoured (as much as in me lies) to preserve [Page] them and our Religion from the several Jesuitical plots, counsels, specified in the whole Commons House Remon­strance of 15 December 1641. Exact Collection, p. 3. to 14. of late years revived, and more vigorously pursued than ever, and to rescue them out of the Claws of Tyranny, and all usurping arbitrary powers, which have avowedly encroa­ched on, yea trampled them under feet of late, more than ever the worst of all our Monarchs, or beheaded King did, though declaimed against, as the greatest of Tyrants by some who have transcended him in his worst Regal Exorbitances; and particularly in this, which the Lords and Commons in Par­liament, in their Exact Coll. p. 492. 497. 494. Declaration of Aug. 4. 1642. thus grie­vously complained of, and objected against the Kings ill Counsellers, ‘That the LAWS, were no protection or defence of any mans right, all was subject to will and power, which imposed WHAT PAYMENTS THEY THOVGHT FIT, to drain the Subjects purses, and supply THOSE NECESSITIES, which their ill counsel had brought upon the King, and gratify such as were in­strumental in promoting most ILLEGAL and OPRES­SIVE COVRSES. Those who yielded and complied were countenanced and advanced,’ all others disgraced and kept under, (and are they not so now, as much as then?) that [...]o their minds made poor and base, (as they were never so poor and base as now) ‘and THEIR LIBERTIES lost and gone (as they were never so much as now) they might be ready toAre they not now more ready to let it go, then e­ver? & have not thousands done it? LET GO THEIR RELIGION whensoever it should be resolved to alter it, which was, and still is, the GREAT DESIGN,’ and all the rest made use of as in­strumental and subservient to it. Upon which considera­tion they thus concluded that Declaration, ‘Therefore we the Lords and Commons are resolved, to expose our lives and fortunes for the defence and maintenance of the true Religion, the Kings person, honor and estate, the power and priviledge of Parliament, the just rights and liberty of the Subject, And we do hereby require all those who have any sence of piety, honor or compassion, TO HELP A DISTRESSED STATE, especially SVCH WHO [Page] HAVE TAKEN THE PROTESTATION, and are bound in the same duty with us unto their God, their King and Country, to come into their aid and assistance.’

That which hath not a little encouraged me hereunto, is not only this their publick call, but likewise this memora­ble passage, vow, protestation of the Lords and Commons as­sembled in Parliament, in their printedExact col. p. 650. 659. 660. Declaration in answer to his Majesties of October 23. 1642. Which I fear most of them since in power have quite forgotten; and therefore I beseech them now seriously to remember it. Though we know very well, there are too many of the Gentry of this Kingdom, who to satisfy the LVSTS OF THEIR OWN AMBITION, are content, like Esau, TO SELL THEIR BIRTH-RIGHT, AND CARE NOT TO SVB­MIT THEMSELVES TO ANY ARBITRARY AND UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT,Nota. so they may FOR THEIR OWN TIME PARTAKE OF THAT POW­ER, to trample and insult over others: (And have not, are not some of these declarers and censures such them­selves?) ‘yet we are assured, that there are of the Gen­try many worthy and true hearted Patriots, (but where are those many now?) who are ready to lay down their lives and fortunes, and of late have given ample testi­mony thereof, for maintenance of their Lawes, Liberties, and Religion; and with them and others of their resolu­tion we shall be ready to live and die.’ (But how many of these Declarers have made good this publike engage­ment? yea, have not some of them been, and still are more ready to secure, seclude, disoffice, imprison, kill, slay any such true-hearted Patrons, as I have felt by sad ex­perience, than to live and die with them?) ‘And we must own it as our duty, to use our best endeavors, that the meanest of the Commonalty may enjoy their own Birth-rights, Freedom and Liberty of the Laws of the Land, being Nota. equally entituled thereto with the greatest Subject.’ I trust therefore the greatest Grandees in late or present power, neither will nor can be offended with me, and that all the Nobility, Gentry, Commons, and true-hearted. Pa­trons [Page] in the Nation, who bear any love to the Laws, Li-Liberties, Freedom of the people, for which their Ancestors and they have so long, so stoutly contended heretofore, and lately with our Kings; will live and die with me in this their Vi [...]dication and Defence, against any of their fellow-Subjects, who shall endeavor to subvert or deprive them of the full and free enjoyment of all or any of them, ac­cording to this Engagement and Declaration: Wherein there are these further observable passages, relating to the Parliaments priviledges and its Members, which I desire our Army-Grandees, who impeached, secured, secluded my self with other Members of the last true Parliament, levi­ed war against and forcibly dissolved it; with the Contri­vers of our late New-Modelled Governments, would seri­ously ponder; who in common justice must be content to be as freely told of and reprehended for theirFraudes pro­pemodū omnes at (que) Injuriae ab Ambitione & Ava [...]itia p [...]ofi­ciseuntur. Arist. Polit. l. 2. c. 7. frauds, faults in print (where the publike and every mans private interest, Right, Liberty, Security, is concerned) as they have cen­sured others, as well their Superiors, as Equalls, oft in print, though perchance l [...]sse peccant than themselves See the Armies old & new Declara­tions against the Parliam. & Members. Their True state of the Commonwealth &c. which, mutato nomin [...], is but a direct Arraignment of themselves under the name of o­thers. in that they object against them. Exact col. P. 652. 654. 655, &c. For the matter of his Ma­jesties raising an Army against the Parliament (wherein many Papists, Priests, Jesuites were imployed) and taking away the priviledge thereof, we shall refer it to the judgement of every ordinary capacity, whether it be void of sense to say, that this War is raised against the Parliament; But the truth is, that it is not a few persons, but the Parliament it self, is the thorn that lies in these mens sides, which, heretofore when it was wont to [...]rick them, was with much ease (by a sudden dis­solution) pulled out: But now that is more deeply fastned by the Act of Continuance, they would force it out by the power of an Army. (Hath not this been the very practise of some Army-Grandees of late, here objected against the King Jesuitical and Popish ill Counsellors?) And whosoe­ver will peruse the several Speeches and Declarations, made upon the breaking up of former Parliaments, since the begin­nning of his Majesties Reign, will find, the pretences of those unjust and illegal Dissolutions, to be grounded upon the [Page] exceptions against some particular Members, under the name of A few factious and seditious persons: so that the aspersing and wounding of the Parliament through the sides of a few Members, is no new invention: (And hath not this been the very Army-Officers practise, since the first year of their reign till now, to wound the last real Parliament; yea, their own late dissolved Mock Parliaments since, through the sides of a few corrupt Members, or a corrupt Majority in the House, as all their PrintedSee their declarations in May, June, Iuly, Aug. 1647 in [...]ovemb. Decemb. Jan. 1648. An. 1652, & 1653. & their True state of the case of the Commonwealth of England, &c. p. 4. to 35. Ann. 1654. with some o­ther Papers & Speeches since. Declarations upon their d [...]ssolutions attest. And is this then no crime? or no Jesuitical practise in them, though such in the lateExact collect. p. 3, 4. to 16. King and his ill Counsellors?) And for the satisfaction of all indiffe­rent men, that this War is raised against the Parliament, we shall refer them to former Declarations, [...]issued out in His Majesties name, being so many invectives and ground lesse accusations, not against particular Members only, but against the Vote and proceedings of both Houses. (And are not many of the Armies Declarations in 1647. and 1648. yea, the late Pamphlet of some present Grandees, intituled, A True State of the Case of the Commonwealth of England, Printed 1654, Such? let them now then see whence they took their pattern, even from the beheaded Kings Exact col. p. 3, 4, to 16. 651, 652, 653. Nota. Jesuited evil Counsellors, whose steps they exactly trace in this:) But if the truth were, as that Declaration seems to imply, That this Army is raised to force someIf one Member suf­fer, all the Members suf­fer with it, 1 Cor. 12. 26. particular Members of this Parliament to be delivered up, yet upon that ground would it follow, that the same is levied against the Parliament. For it cannot be denied by any inge­nious man, but that the Parliament by theirSee Cooks 4 Instit. c. 1. p. 15, 16, 17. 23. 24, 25, and my Plea for the Lords. inherent rights and priviledges hath the power to judge and punish their own Members: [yet the Army Officers took upon them to secure, seclude them without Charge, and their future New-minted▪ Parliament Members, though only elected by the People, must be tryed, judged by the new Whitehall Members, ere they can be admitted to sit, Ar­ticle 21 of the New Government.] ‘And we have often declared to His Majestie and the World, That we are alwayes ready to receive any evidence or accusations [Page] against any of them, and to judge and punish them accor­ding to their demerits; yet hithertoNor yet against my self, and o­ther secured secluded and long impriso­ned Members. no evidence pro­duced, no Accuser appearing: And yet notwistanding, to raise an Army to compel the Parliament to expose those Members to the fury of those wicked Counsellors, that thirst for nothing more than the ruine of them and the Commonwealth: What can be more evident, than that the same is levied against the Parliament? For did they prevail in this, then by the same reason (pray observe it) They might demand 20 more, and never rest satisfied until their malice and Tyrany did devour all those Mem­bers they found crosse and opposite to their lewd and wicked designs’ [And was not this the practice of the Army-Officers, who levied a real actual War against the Parliament? They first impeached, secluded XI. Members of the Commons-House; and some Lords soon after. An. 1647. [...] then they secluded other Members, by their high Declaration of Aug. 18. 1647. after that they secured, im­prisoned my self, with 44 Members more, and secluded the greatest part of the Commons House, leaving not above 50 or 60 at first sitting, who confederated with them, in December 1648. within two moneths after this, they be­headed the King; then suppressed the whole Lords House, to carry on their designs since acted: At last they dissolved their own Mock Parliaments, when they crossed their am­bitious aspires: What they did in September last since this was first penned to those now sitting, is fresh in memory.] ‘Touching the Privileges of Parliament, which the contri­vers of that Declaration in his Majesties name,’ (and the Contrivers of sundry See that of Iune 14. of Aug. 2 & 18. 1647, and the Letters of Iuly 29. 1647. The Decla­rations of Nov. 16. Dec. 6. 1648. Declarations since in the Armies name, who imitated them herein.) ‘seem to be so tender of, and to professe all conformity unto, and deny this Army to be raised in any degree to violate: we shall appeal to the judgement of any indifferent man, how little truth is contained in this their assertion,’ (or in the Army Offi­cers printed Papers to the same effect.)

The Parliament is to be considered in three severall respects: ‘First, As a Councell to advise. Secondly, As a [Page] Court to judge. 3. As it is the body representative of the whole Kingdom, to make, repeal, or alter Laws: and whe­ther the Parliament hath enjoyed its priviledges in any of these respects (under the Army-Officers and powers, as well as late King) let any that hath eyes open judge.’

‘For the first, We dare appeal even to the Conscien­ces of the Contrivers themselves, (and to the conscien­ces of the Army-Officers, Souldiers, and Whitehall men themselves)’ whether matters of the highest importance, (witness all the publick proceedings against the late Parliament, King, Peers, Government; the Warrs with Scotland, Holland: their new Magna Ch [...]rta, repealing the old, Entituled, The Government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, wherein they take upon them such an Omnipotent Soveraign power, as, To pass a decree upon the wavering humors of the people, and to say to this Nation, (yea to Scotland and Ireland too,) As the Almighty himself said once to the unruly Sea,Job 38. 11. Here shall be thy bounds, hitherto shalt thou come and no further; as some of them most arrogantly, if not blasphemously publish in print to all the world in their True State of the Case of the Commonwealth, p. 34. Their making of new binding Laws and Ordinances, repealing old Laws and Statutes in and by pretext of this Instrument, out of Parliament, as their ma­nifold Whitehall Folio new Edicts, amounting to near 700 pages, attest) have not been agitated and determined (in and by the Army-Officers, General Councel, and other unpar­liamentary Juncto's,) not only without, but contrary to their Advice, (and Votes too;) and whether private unknown Councels (in the Army, Whitehall, and elswhere, yea the private Councels, Plots, conspiracies of Iesuits, of For­raign Popish and Spanish Agents) have not been hearkned unto, approved and followed, when the Faithful and wholsom advice of the great Counsel hath been scorned & neglected (by the Army Officers and their Confederates.) And yet none can deny, but it is one of the Principle ends why a Parliament is called, To Consult the great Affairs of the Church and State. And what miserable effects and sad events, this neg­lect [Page] of the great Councel, ‘and preferring of unknown and private Councels before it, hath produced; let the present Distractions of this Kingdom bear witnesse,’ (with all the bloody, unchristian Wars, Taxes, Oppressions, Distractions, since the Armies force upon the King, Members, Houses, An­no 1647. and 1648. to this present time.)

Concerning the Second, it sufficiently appears by ‘the ma­king the Kings Court, by the Force and Power of the Kings Army; the Sanctuary and refuge of All sorts of Delinquents against the Parliament and Kingdom, and protecting and de­fending them from the Justice thereof: and by admitting such to bear places of great trust in the Army, and to stand in de­fiance of the Parliament and the Authority thereof;’ (and is it not a far greater crime to make the Parliaments Ar­my it self, a Delinquent against the Parliament and King­dom; the sanctuary of such Delinquents against both, and to continue such Officers in places of greatest trust in the Army, who have levied actual war against the Parliament, secluded, secured members of Parliament, kept divers years under their armed guards in defiance of the Parliament, without any particular Charge or Impeachment, refusing to release them, even when the Serjeant was sent at first from the House it self, to demand the Members seised?)

By all which it is apparent, how our Privledges have been torn from us by piece-meals, from time to time. ‘And we might mention many passages, whereby they were endea­voured to beAnd are they not so now, almost past hopes of any future re-planting? pulled up by the root, and totally subverted. As the attempt to bring up the late Army from the North to force Conditions upon the Parliament: His Majesties Letters and Commands to the Members of both Houses (which found obedience in a great many) to attend him at York;’ and so, By depriving the Parliament of their Mem­bers, destroy the whole Body: (And was not the actual twice bringing up of the Parliaments own Army, by the Army Officers, against the Parliament it self, to impeach, secure some principal Members of both Houses; seclude the Majority of the Commons House, suppress the whole House of Lords; break off the Treaty, behead the King, [Page] (the Modus tenen­di Parliamen­tum. Cook 4. Instit. c. 1. Head of the Parliament) against the Parliaments Votes, alter the Government, force conditions on the Par­liament it self, to omit the 12, 21, 24, 32, 37, 38, 39 Ar­ticles of their New Government, with the secluding of all the Members lately admitted by Armed Souldiers, till they took a New Engagement, and keeping out all others) a taking of the Privileges of the Parliament from them all by Whole-sale, and a more desperate pulling up by the Roots, and total subversion of all the Priviledges and whole Body of the Parliament, than this objected against the Northern Army, or the Kings Jesuitical ill Councel?) Which is enough to prove the vanity of the Contrivers of that Declaration (and of the Army Officers too) to feed themselves with hope of belief, That the Priviledges of Parliament are not Violated, but intended to be preserved, with all due observance.

Concerning the Allegation, That the Army raised by the Parliament, is to murder the KING, (oft alledged by the Exact Coll. p. 550. 595. 321, 322, 364. 618. 894, 895. 919, 920. A Collection of Ordinances, p. 28 39. 116. 117. King and his Party, in many printed PROCLAMATI­ONS, Declarations before and after this here mentioned) We hoped the Contrivers of that Declaration, or any that pro­fessed but the name of a Christian, could not have so little cha­rity as to raise such a SCANDAL, especially when they must needs know, the Let those who took it, remember their violati­ons of it, & repent, See Exact Collect. p. 497, 498. Protestation taken by every Member of both Houses (and Army Officers too) whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God, TO DEFEND HIS MA­JESTIES PERSON. ‘The Promise and Protestation made by the Members of both Houses upon the nomination of the Earl of Essex to be General, and to live and die with him;’ wherein is expressed, THAT THIS ARMY WAS RAISED FOR DEFENCE OF THE KINGS PERSON, ‘Our oft, earnest, and most humble Address to his Majesty to leave that desperate and dangerous Army, &c. A request inconsistent with any purpose to offer the least violence to His Person, which hath, andWas this ve­rified by ma­ny of these Remon­strants? e­ver shall be dear unto us.’

And concerning the imputation laid to our Charge, ‘of Rai­sing this Army, to Alter the whole Frame of Govern­ment and Established Laws of the Land, (which the King [Page] and his partyExact Coll. P. 262. 282. 284. to 289. 297, 298. 490. 424. 500, 502, 404, 514, 517, 521, 522, 526. 528, 530, 531, 534. 550, 551, 554, 558, 561, 564, 574. A Collection, p. 117. 452, 453. frequently objected in print) we shall need give no other Answer but this: That the Army Raised by the Parliament is to no other end, but for the Preservation of his Majesties Person, to Defend themselves, the Laws of the Land,’ and the true Protestant Religion. After which, they there and elswhere conclude. ‘And by this time (we doubt not) but every man doth plainly discern through the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrifie, what their (the Kings ill Counsels) design is, To Subject both King and Parliament and Kingdom to their nee­dy, Ambitious, and Avaritious Spirits, and to the violent Laws, Martial law, of Governing the People by guards and by the Souldiers.’

But alas for grief, how superlatively have many of the Army Officers, and their confederate members (though parties to these Declarations and Protestations) violated them, and both Houses Faiths, Trusts, intentions, ends in raising the Army, in every of these particulars? How have they verified, justified the Kings Declarations, Jealousies, concerning the Parliaments Army, in every point, here (andExact Coll. p. 688, 689. 696, 697. elswhere) disclaimed by both Houses? How have they exceeded, out-acted the Kings Jesuitical Counsellers, and most desperate Popish Army, in violating, subverting both the Parliaments Priviledges, Members and Parlia­ments themselves, together with ourSo stiled, Exact Col. p. 4. 12. 34. 61. 243. 262. 321. 500, 502. in the Decl. of the Lords & Commons concerning His Majesties Proclamatiō. Iune 6. 1642. p. 4. besides the authorities in the 1. chap. Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Government; for whose preservation they were only raised, paid? How have they pursued the Kings and his worst Jesuited Counsellers footsteps in all the charges here objected against them by both Houses, in relation to the Parliaments priviledges, Members, Constitution, Rights, Laws, to their utter subversion, dissolution, and waged war against them? And doth not every man plainly discern through the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrifie, (to use both Hou­ses expressions) that their design is just the same with that here objected by the Parliament to the Kings ill Jesuited Counsellers, and Popish army; even to subject both King, Parliament and Kingdom, to their needy, ambitious, avaritions spirits, and to the violent Laws, marshal Law, of Governing [Page] the People, (yea Parliaments themselves) by Guards, and by the Souldiers? and ‘By Conquest to establish an absolute and unlimited power over the Parliament and good Sub­jects of this Kingdom;’ as the HousesExact Coll. p. 617. 631, 730. elswhere thrice ob­jected against the late King, his Army and party: being the very design (as many wisemen fear) of the 27 Article of their New Government; to settle a ‘constant Annual re­venue for the maintenance of 20000 Foot, & 10000 Horse and Dragoones, (to be alwayes constantly, kept up Win­ter and Summer, without disbanding or diminution) for the Defence and Security of England, Scotland, and Ire­land?’ Which must henceforth be kept under by Mercinary Fo [...]ces, to guard of Protectors, when as theHorace. Heathen Poet assures us, [...]nteger vitae scel [...]ris (que) purus, non eget Mauri jacu­lis nec arcu; much less our English Nation, ever formerly se­cured by their own unmercinary Militia of the Trained Bands, and those Lords and Gentlemen who hold their Lands by Knight-service. O that they would now in the name and fear of God (as they tender the eternal salvati­on of their Souls, the honour and priviledges of all future Parliaments, the ease, welfare, settlement of our Nation) Lay all this most seriously to their Hearts, and make it a matter of their greatest lamentation, and repentance! Be­sides this, have they not falsified that memorableExact Col. p. 686, to 730. late Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parlia­ment, Novemb. 2. 1642. in Answer to his Majesties (well worthy perusal now) and made good (both for the time past, and all succeeding Parliaments, whiles there shall be any standing Army in England able to over-power them) all the odious, scandalous positions, in relation to the English Parliament, its Members and priviledges (de­duced from the Kings Declaration, only by inference, but disclaimed by the King) summed up by them, in the close of that Remonstrance; and published in these ensuing terms, as will evidently appear, if applied to the Army, and their Generall Councel of Officers, by adding or exchanging their names, only for the Kings in a paren­thesis?

[Page] 1.Exact coll. p. 729. See their De­clarations & Papers of Aug. 7. 1647. D. c. 7. & Jan. 3. 1648 where they thus Declare and brand them. ‘That the King (the * Army, General, and their Gene­ral Councel of Officers) when he pleaseth, may declare the Major part of both Houses,’ (which in all sorts of Re­publicks doth, yea ought of right to over sway the Minority, & their Votes to be firm and binding to all men, asQuod pluri­bus visum pro­batumque fue­rit, id in OM­NIBUS RE­BUS-PUB­LICIS VALET. In O­ligarchia enim & Aristocratia, & Democratia, quod eorum qui Rempubli­cam gerunt, MAJORI PARTIS PLACUE­RIT, i. e. RA­TUM AC FIRMUM. Politicorum l. 4. c. 8. See 33 H. 8. c. 27. ‘Aristotle himself resolves;) a faction of Malignant, Schismatical, and ambitious Persons: so that all Parliaments that have been heretofore and SHALL BE HEREAFTER, AND ALL LAWS MADE IN THEM▪ may by this means be called in question at pleasure;’ (yea nulled and repealed for ever, as some former Parliaments have been, when held and over-awed by armed power, or unduly elected, packed, sum­moned without Lawfull Authority, or some of the Mem­bers forcibly secluded, as you may read at large in the Sta­tutes of 21 R. 2. c. 11, 12, 16, 17, 18. 1 H. 4. c. 3. 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 22, 23, 36, 48, 66, 70. 113. 39 H. 6. c. 1. & 17 E. 4. c. 7. worthy the serious perusal of our present Grandees, and all illegitimate Parliaments, where they may read the fatal end of all new unparliamentary projects, laws, devices, wherein many now so much glory, as if they would continue form for ever: when as in a few years space, they will all probably prove nullities, be for e­ver reversed; yea, branded to posterity, as most pernicious presidents.

2. ‘That his Majesty (the Army and their General Coun­cel) may declare what is the known Law of the Land, a­gainst the judgement of the Highest Court, and conse­quently of all his Courts: So that the safety and right of King and people, and THE LAW IT SELF must depend upon his Majesties (the Army, General, and their Coun­cels) pleasure.’

4. ‘That as the King hath a property in his Townes, Forts, and Kingdoms; so he (the Army and their General Councel) mayWhich now they do. dispose of them as he pleaseth; and the Re­presentative body of the whole Kingdom may not inter­medle in discharge of his Majesties (the Armies, Generals, Councels) trust, though by the advice of evil Councellers they see it diverted to the hazard of the publique peace & safety of the Kingdom.’

[Page] 5. ‘That his Majesty (the Army, General, and their Coun­cel) or any other person, may upon suggestions and pre­tences of Treason, Felony, or breach of peace (or of their Trusts, a fourth See their im­peachment of the xi. Mem­bers, & the humble An­swer of the Gen. Councel & Officers of the Army, &c. Jan. 3. 1648. Army new-minted cause) Take the Members of Parliament, without giving satisfaction to the House, whereof they are Members, of the grounds of such suggestion or accusation, and without and against their consent (as in the case of the late secured,’ secluded Members, and their two Junct [...]'s since) so they may Have they not lately done so since this was pen­ned, as well as hereto­fore? Dis­member ‘a Parliament, when they please, and make it what they will, when they will.’

6. ‘That whosoever shall follow the King (Army, Ge­neral and their Councel,) in the wars (against the Par­liament) though it were to destroy Laws, Liberty, Re­ligion, the Parliament it self, and the whole Kingdom; yet he shall be free from all crime or punishment. And that on the other side, to oppose by force any such force, though in the most Legal way, and by authority of the Representative body of the whole Kingdom, is to leavy war against the King (Army, General) and TREASON (within the Letter of 25 E. 3. or of their new Knacks since:)’ So our Lands, Liberties, Lives, Religion, and Laws themselves, Whereby all the Rights both of King and People are due to them, and preserved for them, shall be at the sole will and pleas [...]re of the Prince (Army, General, and Ge­neral Councel of Officers, in their new High Courts of In­justice, or other Martial Judicatories, as now they are.)

O consider, consider seriously by these particulars, to what a sad, low, despicable condition all English Parlia­ments are now for ever reduced, and their pristine antient Priviledges, Honor, Freedom, Power, violently ravished from them by the late Army practises, violences, and re­bellious insolencies against them, never to be parallel'd in any age; which hath really verified this clause in the De­claration of both Houses, Exact coll. P. 496. August 4. 1642. objected a­gainst the King and his popish Army, in relation to the Parliaments Army, purposely raised, commissioned, & enga­ged for their defence. ‘That if the King (by his Army) [Page] may force this Parliament (as the Parliaments Army both forced and dissolved it) they may bid farewell to all Par­liaments, for ever receiving good by them; And if Par­liaments beAnd are they not so lost now? lost, they (the People) are lost, their Laws are lost, as well those lately made, as in former times, ALL WHICH WILL BE CVT IN SVNDER WITH THE SAME SWORD, NOW DRAWN FOR THE DESTRVCTION OF THIS PARLIAMENT: (as we now find true by sad experience.)’

Epistola ad solitariam Vi­tam agentes. Sir Christopher Sybthorpe his Reply to an Answer made by a Popish Adversary, Dublin 1625. p. 27, 28, 29. Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (about the year of our Lord 340.) objected this as a great crime, barba­rism, cruelty, and violation of the priviledges of Councels, to the Arrian Emperour Constantius. ‘That whensoever he called a Councel or Assembly of Bishops, it was but for a shew: For he would not permit them to be guided by the Ecclesiastical Canons, but his Will alone must be their only Canon. And when they advised him, not to subvert the Ecclesiastical order, nor bring the Arrian Heresie into the Church of God, he would neither hear, nor permit them to speak freely; but grievously bending his brows (if they had spoken cross to his designs) and SHAKING HIS SWORD AT THEM, COMMAN­DED THEM TO BE TAKEN AWAY. Where­upon he thus infers, What Liberty for perswasion, or place for advice is there left, when he that contradicteth, shall for his labour lose either his Life, or his Country? Why hath the Emperour gathered so great a number of Bishops, partly terrified with threats, partly inticed with promises, to condescend, that they will not communicate wi [...]h A­thanasius?’ And Hilary Bishop of Poictou Ann. 360. in his first Book against this Tyrannical Arrian Emperour Constantius, thus censures his violent proceedings of this kind, to the subversion of the freedom and priviledge of Councils and their members. Thou gatherest COUNCILS, and when they be shut up together in one City, thou TERRI­FIEST THEM WITH THREATS; THOU PI­NEST THEM WITH HVNGER, THOU LAMEST THEM WITH COLD, (as the Army Officers did the [Page] secluded Members 6 and 7 Decemb. 1648. when they shut them up all night in Hell, on the bare boards without beds in the cold, and kept them fasting all the next day at Whitehall, til 7 a clock at night) Thou depravest them with Dissembling; O THOU WICKED ONE, what a mocke­ry dost thou make of the Church and Councels? Only Dogs return to their Vomit; and thou compellest the Priests of Christ, to sup up those things which they have disgorged, and commandest them in their confessions, to allow that WHICH BEFORE THEY CONDEMNED. What Bishops hand hast thou left innocent? What tongue hast thou not forced to falshood? Whose heart hast thou not brought to the con­demning of his former opinion? Thou hast subjected all to thy will, yea, to thy violence. And have not some swaying Ar­my Officers, by their frowns, menaces, frauds, Swords, open force upon the Parliament and its Members, beyond all the presidents in any ages, done the like, and exceeded this Arri­an Tyrant herein? And is it not then high time for all friends to Parliaments, to protest and provide against such detesta­ble, treasonable violences for the future, destructive to all Parliaments, if permitted, or silently pretermitted without question, exemplary censure, righting of the imprisoned Members, or any provision to redresse them for the future?

Our prudent Ancesters were so carefull to prevent all violence, force, arms, and armed men, in or near any places where Parliaments were held, to terrifie, over­awe, or disturb their proceedings or Members;See the De­claration of the Lords and Commons, June 6. 1642. concerning this Statute. That in the Parliament of 7 E. 1. (as you may read in Rastals Abridgement, Armour, 1. Provision was made by the King, by common consent of the Prelates, Earls, and Barons, by a ge­neral act, That in all Parliaments, Treaties, and other Assemblies, ‘which should be made in the Realm of England FOR EVER, every man shall come without Force, and without Armour, well and peaceably to the honour of the King, and of the peace of him, and of his Realm, and they together with the Commonal­ty of the Realm upon solemn advise, declared; That it belonged to the King, and his part it is by his Royal [Page] Signiory strictly to defend Wearing of Armour, and all other Force, against his peace at all times, when it shall please him’ (especially at such times, and in places where such Parliaments, Treaties, and Assemblies are held) ‘and to punish them which shall doe contrary according to the Laws and usage of the Realm▪ And hereunto they are bound to aid the Kind, as their Soveraign Lord, at all seasons when need shall be.’ Hereupon our Kings ever since this statute, by virtue thereof, and by the Law and Custom of the PARLIAMENT, (as Sir Edward Cook in his 4 Institutes c. 1. p. 14. informs us) ‘did at the beginning of every Parliament, make a speci­all Proclamation, Prohibiting the bearing of Arms or weapons, in or near the places, where the Parlia­ment sate, under pain of forfeiting all they had;’ Of which there are sundry presidents cited by Sir Edward Cook in his Margin; whereof I shall transcribe but one (which he omits) and that is 6 E. 3. Rot. Parliament n. 2. 3. ‘Because that before these days, at the Parliaments and Counsels of our Lord the King, Debates, Riots and commotions have risen and been moved, for that People have come to the Is not the quartering of Horse and Foot in or near such pla­ces, to affright and overawe Parliaments and their Members, a Violation of this Law, Pro­clamation, Law and Cu­stom of all English Par­liaments, fit to be redres­sed? places where Parliaments have been summoned and assembled, armed with privy coats of plate, spears, swords, long, knives, (or daggers) and other sort of arms, by which the businesses of our Lord the King and his Realm have been impeached, and the great men which have come thither by his command, have been affrigh­ted: Our Lord the King, willing to provide remedy against such mischiefs, defendeth, that no man of what estate or condition soever he be, upon pain of forfeiting all that he may forfeit, to the King, shall be seen armed with a Coat of Male, nor yet of plate, nor with an Halberd, nor with a spear, nor sword, nor long knife, nor any other suspitious arms, within the City of LONDON, nor within the Suburbs thereof; nor any place near the said City, nor yet within the Palace of WEST MINSTER, or any place near the said Palace, by Land or Water, un­der the foresaid pain: except only such of the Kings [Page] men as he shall depute, or by his command shall be deputed to keep the peace within the said places: and also except the Kings servants, according to the Statute of Northampton. And it is not the intention of our Lord the King, that any Earl, or Baron may not have his Lance brought to him in any place, but onely in the Kings presence, and in the place of Councell.’ The like Proclamations were made in the beginning of the Parliaments of 9. 1 [...], 17, 18. 20, 25 [...]dw. 3. and sundry others: more necessary to be revived in all succeeding English Parliaments now than ever heretofore, since the unpresidented forces upon the late Members of both Houses, and the Parliament it self, by the Army-Officers and Souldiers, raised to defend them from Violence: The Treasonablenesse and Transcendency whereof be­ing at large related in my Epistle to the Reader, before my Speech in Parliament 4 December 1648, I shall not here criminally presse, nor insist on, but referred them thereunto: However for the future security and free­dome of our Parliaments from violence, I must crave liberty to inform these Army Parliament drivers, forcers, dissolvers, (habituated to this trade) That if theExact coll. p. 34. 56. 66, 67, 68, 76, 77, 198, 200, 201, 202, 246, 695, 723. 729. late Kings march to the House of Commons, accompanied only with some of his Pensioners and others, armed with Pistols and Swords, meerly to demand but five Members thereof to be delivered up to Justice, particularly impeached by him of High Treason some dayes before: to wit,Let those ob­serve this Im­peachment, who are now really guilty of it in the highest de­gree. That they had traiterously endeavoured to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdome: To deprive the King of his Royal power: To place over the Subjects an Arbitrary and Tyrannical power, To subvert the very Rights and be­ing of Parliaments: and by force and terrour to compell the Parliament to joyn with them in their designs; for which end they had actually raised and countenanced Tu­mults against the King and Parliament.

Or if theExact Coll. p. 118, 195, 207. to 237. 248, 273, 293. 523, 524, 525, 617, 631, 660, 695. Kings ‘bare tampering with some Officers of his own Northern Army, to draw a Petition from them to the Houses, or march towards London from [Page] their quarters; (not to seise upon, force or dissolve the Parliament or its Members, but only to over-aw them, and impeach the freedom of their debates, Votes tou­ching Episcopacy, Church-Government, and the Kings Revenues) were such high transcendent violati­ons of the Priviledges and Freedome of Parliament, and unsufferable injuries, as both Houses of Parliament separately, and joyntly proclaimed them to all the world, inExact Coll. in the pages quoted before. severall Declarations, during his life;’ Or such capitall crimes, as those who condemned and executed him for a Traytor and Tyrant, have published in their Declaration of 17 March 1648. (touching the grounds of their proceedings against him, and setling the Government in the way of a Free State, without King or House of Lords) since his beheading, in these very words. ‘But ABOVE ALL, the English army was laboured by the King to be engaged against the English Parliament; a thing of that strange in piety and unnaturalness for the King of England, that nothing can answer it, but his being a Forraigner; nei­ther could it have easily purchased belief, but by his suc­ceeding visible actions in full pursuance of the same; as the Kings comming in Person to the House of Commons, to seise the five Members, whither he was followed with some hundreds of unworthy debauched persons, armed with swords, and pistols, and other arms; and they attending him at the door of the House, ready to execute what the Leader should command them.’ Which they charged against the King, as the highest of his unpar­ralleld Offences; for which they appeal to all the world of in­different men to judge, whether they had not sufficient cause to bring him to Justice? Though neither he nor his follow­ers then seized, secured, secluded, injured any one Member, when they thus went to the Commons House; Yea Exact Coll. p. 51, 52, 54. 66, 67. and elswhere. present­ly retracted his Impeachment, and offered all satisfaction that should be desired by the House for this breach of Privilege: and though neither the Northern Army, nor their Officers ever advanced towards, or offered the least violence to the Hou­ses, or their priviledges, by Petition or otherwise.

[Page] Then certainly the Parliaments own Armies Officers, Counsels, ‘manifold high printed Declarations, of June 14. 23. July 7. Aug. 18. 1647. Nov. 16. & Decemb 7. 1648. and others before and since, their professed open Op­positions, Impeachments, against the very Proceedings, Votes, Orders, Ordinances, Members of both Houses of Parliament, which first raised them principally for their defence;’ [Printed by their order in their Book of Decla­rations, The History of Independency, and my Speech in Parliament,] ‘their Impeachment of eleven Members of the House of Commons, and sundry Lords at once; their securing of above 40, and secluding of above five parts of six of the whole House of Commons at once; their See their Declaration of June 23. 1647. & Aug. 18. Dec. 6. 1648 avowed marches with the whole Body of the Army, in Ba [...]talia, severall times to force the Houses, seise their Members, over-aw, affright, dis-member, dissolve the Parliament it self, and their own new erected Jun­ctoes since, and justification of it to all the world in print’ [in their humble Answer touching the secured and secluded Members, Jan. 3. 1648. The true state of the case of the Commonwealth of England, 1654. and their Declarations concerning their dissolution of their two Junctoes] after these Misdemeanours of the King, without the least re­pentance for them, must needs be farre more execrable, unwarrantable and criminal, than the Kings, and deserve a severer censure than his Peccadilioes in respect of their crimes. And if by theAnd their Generals Let­ter from Bed­ford, 29 July 1647. whole Armies printed Remon­strances, August 2. and 18. 1647. the ‘tumult of some unarmed London Apprentices, who offered some small force to the Houses, to the violation of their Priviledges, (without securing or secluding any one Member) deser­ved a speedy and exemplary capital proceeding against the principal contrivers and Actors in it,See a Decla­ration of the Gen. Councel & Armies En­gagements, &c. p. 49. as they then decla­red, and vehemently urged again and again in those Re­monstrances)’ Or if by their own Charge in the Name of the whole Army, June 14. 1647. against the XI. Members, it was so high an offence in them, That they joyntly or seve­rally invited, encouraged, abetted or countenanced several [Page] Reformadoes, and OTHER OFFICERS AND SOUL­DIERS TVMVLTVOVSLY AND VIOLENTLY TO GATHER TOGETHER AT WESTMINSTER, TO AFFRIGHT & ASSAULT THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN PASSAGES TO & FROM THE HO [...]SE, TO OFFER VIOLENCE TO THE HOUSE IT SELF, & BY SVCH VNRVLY OVT­RAGES & THREATS TO AWE AND INFORCE THE PARLIAMENT; And that upon their bare sug­gestion thereof (without any proof at all, or colour of truth) they presently demanded, That the persons impea­ched MIGHT BE FORTHWITH SECLVDED FROM SITTING IN THE HOVSE, and removed thence, before any hearing or trial, which the Officers and Army eagerly pressed in their Paper of June 15. 1647. Nay, if by their own late printed ‘Instrument of the Government of the Commonwealth of England, &c. Articles 14. 16.’ ‘All and every person and persons, who have aided, advised, assisted, or abetted in any war against the Parliament since the first day of January, 1641. (un­lesse they have since been in the Service of the Parlia­ment, and given signal testimony of their good affections thereunto) shall be disabled, and be uncapable to be e­lected, or to give any Vote in the Election of any Mem­ber to serve in the next, or in the three succeeding trien­nial Parliaments: and all Votes and Elections given to the contrary, shall be null and void. And if any person so made uncapable, shall forfeit one full years value of his real estate, and one full third part of his personal estate, in case he shall give his Vote for election of Members to serve in Parliament:’ as they there adjudge; though such persons as they intend thus to disable, never waged any actual war against the Parliament it self, or its Mem­bers, immediatly, but only against the Forces raised by the Parliament, and so mediatly and indirectly only against the Parliament, (the case of all the late Kings adherents and assistants, not within the letter, but meaning of these Articles:) then doubtless those Army-Officers, Souldiers, [Page] and their Confederats, who ‘advised, sided, assisted abetted in one or more wars against the Parliament Houses, and Par­liament Members themselves,’ whom they immediately as­saulted, forced, secured, secluded, dissipated, dissolved, de­stroyed, and have justified it several times in print, ‘without giving any signal testimony of their good affections to the Parliament;’ and in this their Instrument have laidArticle 10, 12, 21, 22, 24, 27, 30, 32, 36, 37, 38, 39. ma­ny Chains, clogs, restraints, on all new future Parliaments, of their own framing, inconsistent with the Honour, Freedom, Priviledges, being of real English Parliaments; deserve a farre higher and severer censure than these Apprentices, or impeached Members did in their repute; or those Mem­bers they most insolently accuse and impeach, in their De­clarations of June 2 [...]. and August 18. 1647. (not to be presidented in any age since the Creation, till then:) and they all are by their own Verdict, Instrument, totally dis­abled (as much as the archest Malignants and Cavaliers) by the very letter of these Articles, to be elected, or give any vote for the election of Members in the four next succeeding Parliaments; and those who have given their Votes in the late Elections, have thereby ‘forfeited at least one full years value of their real,’ and one full third part of their personal estates; and deserve as high, (if not an higher) censure, as any sequestred, or other Delinquents condem­ned formerly by them, for bearing arms, levying or abet­ting any war, but only mediately against the Parliament; and as high an uncapacity to be put not only on themselves, but their Heir males to serve in Parliament, as the Statute of 21 R. 2. c. 6. imposed heretofore on others, for a farre lesse offence; to secure the Members and Priviledges of all succeeding Parliaments, from such unpresidented for­cible violences, ruptures, dismembrings, dissolutions, as the last Parliament sustained, by the Armies outrage and confederacy against them, (of most dangerous president to Posterity;) of which I desire to make them truly sensi­ble.

The last real andSee Exact Collect. p. 320 321, 322. 561, the true and excellent con­stitution of our Parliament. duly constituted English Parliament we had, were so deeply sensible, of the dangerous destru­ctive [Page] Consequences of securing or secluding their Members, and keeping them from the Houses, upon any Impeachments or Surmises, without the Notice and consent of the House; that in their forementioned Remonstrance of Nov. 2. 1642. they claimed and asserted this. TO BE SO CLEAR AND ESSENTIAL A PRIVILEDGE OF PARLIAMENT,Exact Col! p. 723, 724. 726, 727 THAT THE WHOLE FREEDOM THEREOF DE­PENDETH UPON IT. That NO MEMBER OF EI­THER HOVSE OF PARLIAMENT was to be proceeded against, or judged, NOR TAKEN AWAY, OR DETAI­NED FROM THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE, WHEREOF HE IS A MEMBER; (no, not in case of Treason, Felony, or Breach of Peace, much lesse in any other) until such time as that House hath satisfaction concerning the cause: though in such cases they confessed, he might be arrest­ed by the Officers of Parliament, or any other Ministers of Iustice, to the intent only, That he might be brought to the Parliament Corpus cum causa, and deteined in safe custody till he may be brought to the Parliament; but not to be pro­ceeded against in any inferior Court, before such time [...] as the cause be heard in Parliament, and dismissed from it. For (else) who se [...]s not, Nota. that by this means, UNDER FALSE PRETENCES OF CRIMES AND ACCUSATIONS, SVCH AND SO MANY MEMBERS OF BOTH OR EITHER HOVSE OF PARLIAMENT MAY BE TA­KEN OVT OF IT AT ANY TIME, BY ANY PER­SONS TO SERVE A TVRN, AND TO MAKE A MAJOR PART OF WHOM THEY WILL AT PLEA­SVRE. And as the grand Inquest of the whole Kingdom should be (by this means) subject to the grand Inquest of one particular County; So the whole Representative Body of the Kingdom should be at the Devotion of a Middlesex Iury, (as since of their own Army, raised to protect them from these mischiefs.) And therefore, as THE FREEDOM OF PAR­LIAMENTS DEPENDETH IN A GREAT PART VP­ON THEIR PRIVILEGES, AND THE FREEDOM OF THIS NATION UPON THE FREEDOM OF PARLIAMENTS,Nota. WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO [Page] BELEIVE, that the People of England knowing their Lives and Fortunes are bound up in this bundle, will venture their Lives and Fortunes in this Quarrel: Which I in­treat all those who have so highly infringed this principle Privilege of Parliament of late years, with all the people of England now seriously to consider, to vindicate, pre­serve it in all succeeding ages from the like violations, if e­ver they expect to be Freemen, or to enjoy free English Parliaments again; Exact Coli. p. 561. which are such an ESSENTIAL PART OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM, that we can attain TO NO HAPPINESSE WITHOUT THEM, and like Hipocrates twins, We must laugh and cry, LIVE AND DIE TOGETHER WITH THEM.

Now farther to convince the Army-Officers, Souldiers, of their late great injustice to, and affronts, contempts a­gainst the Parliament which raised them, in relation to our ancient fundamental Government and chief Member of the Parliament; I shall desire them and all their con­federates in cold blood, seriously to consider, whether they have not, by their undutifull, violent procee­dings against them, contrary to the Votes, Declarations, Remonstrances of the PARLIAMENT, endeavoured (as much as in them is) to falsifie this clause in both Houses Declaration Nov. 2. 1642Exact Coll. p. 696. Although they would perswade his Majesty, That there is little confidence to be placed in our Modesty and Duty; yet, AS GOD IS WITNESSE OF OUR THOVGHTS, SO SHALL OUR ACTIONS WITNESSE TO ALL THE WORLD; that TO THEHow much it and they have been dis­honoured by the contrary, let the Army Officers read at leasure in Militiere his Victory of Truth. HONOR OF OUR RELIGION, and OF THOSE WHO ARE MOST ZEALOUS IN IT (‘so much struck­en at by the contrivers of that Declaration, under odious names) we shall suffer more for and from our Soveraign, than we hope God will ever permit the malice of evil Counsellors to put us to: And although the happi­nesse of this and all Kingdomes dependeth chiefly upon God; Yet WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT DOTH SO MAINLY DEPEND UPON HIS MA­JESTY,Nota. and THE ROYALL BRANCHES OF THAT [Page] ROOT, that as WE HAVE HERETOFORE, SO WE SHALL HEREAFTER, esteem no hazard too great, no reproach too vile; but that we shall willingly goe through the one, and undergoe the other, That we, and the WHOLE KINGDOME MAY ENJOY THAT HAPPINESSE, which we cannot in an ordinary way of providence expect FROM ANY OTHER FOUNTAIN OR STREAM,Nota. than those from whence (were the poi­son of evil Councels once removed from about them) no doubt, but we and THE WHOLE KINGDOME SHOULD BE SATISFIED MOST ABUNDANTLY.’ And on the contrary, have they not fully and actually ve­rified, in respect of themselves and their Confederates in the Houses, this Odious aspersion, then (only in predi­ction) cast by the KING on the PARLIAMENT, but by them at that time renounced with greatest detestation; and drawn those sad consequences on the whole Kingdom, wherewith both HOUSES conclude that Declaration in these words?

7.Exact Coll. p. 730. That the Representative Body of the whole King­dom (since dissolved by the Army) is a Faction of Malignant, Schismatical, ambitious Persons, whose DE­SION IS AND ALWAYES HATH BEEN TO AL­TER THE WHOLE FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, BOTH OF CHURCH AND STATE, AND TO SUB­JECT BOTH KING AND PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN LAWLESSE ARBITRARY POWER AND GOVERN­MENT, and that they DESIGN THE RUINE OF HIS MAJESTIES PERSON and OF MONARCHY IT SELF: and consequently that they are TRAITORS and all the King­dome with them, (for their act is the act of the whole King­dome) And whether their punishment and ruine may not also INVOLVE THE WHOLE KINGDOM IN CONCLU­SION, AND REDUCE IT INTO THE CONDITION OF A CONQUERED NATION (as some ARMY OFFI­CERS, & SOULDIERS openly averre we are now redu­ced to by and under them) NO MAN CAN TELL: BUT EXPERIENCE SHEWETH US (and now we find it [Page] most true in theWho in their Letters of July 18. 1647. Pro­positions of Aug. 2. and o­ther of their Declarations, professed to all the world, That it was fully agreeable to all their Principles, & should be their desires and endeavours to maintain Monarchy, the Priviledges and Freedom of the Parliament; and the Rights of his Majesty and Royal Family, that so a lasting Peace and Agreement might be setled in this Nation, &c. Which otherwise, they confessed then in good earnest, could not be hoped for, nor expected. Whence they intituled their Printed Book, A Declaration of the Engagements, Remonstrances, Representations, Pro­posals, Desires, and Resolution from his Excellency Sir Thomas Fair [...]ax, and THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY, FOR SETLING OF HIS MAJESTY IN HIS JUST RIGHTS, THE PARLIAMENT IN THEIR JUST PRIVILEDGES, and THE SUBJECTS IN THEIR LIBERTIES AND FREEDOMES: Printed by their and the Lords House special Order London 1647. Let them now seriously consider and perform it in good earnest. ARMY-OFFICERS, COVNCELL, SOVLDIERS) THAT SVCCESSE OFTEN DRAWS MEN NOT ONELY BEYOND THEIR PROFES­SION; but also many times beyond their first intenti­ons.

Surely as the Armies and their Confederates late pro­ceedings in relation to themselves, (though not unto the forced, dismembred, dissolved Parliament, and secured Mem­bers) have fully verified this charge in every particular, then reputed most false and scandalous; which I thus press upon their consciences at this time, and so largely insist on, not to defame or asperse them to the world, as many others do, who apply that black Character of Ier. 9. 2. to 6. c. 12. 6. Rev. 3. 10. to 19. (They are all an ASSEMBLY OF TREACHEROVS MEN: Thine habitation is in the MIDST OF DECEIT, &c. Destruction and Misery are in their wayes, and the way of Peace they have not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes) unto them in a more emi­nent manner, as being really verified by their unparalleld exorbitances formentioned; but to vindicate the Innocency, Integrity of the Majority and secluded Members of both Houses, against the scandalous printed aspersions of Mili­tiere and other Papists, to preserve and justifie the Ho­nour of our Reformed Religion, and of the most zealous Professors thereof; to restore, re-establish if possible, the Priviledges, the Freedom of all Future Parliaments, much impaired, endangered by their heady violent Procee­dings, and most pernicious Presidents to Posterity (if not [Page] publikely abominated, exploded by them, or exemplarily punished (to deterr all others from their future imitation) to convince them by what Jesuitical, Popish, old Court-Prin­ciples, Counsels, Practises, they have hitherto been misgui­ded; and to reclaim them, as much as in me lieth, for the future, from the like destructive. Practises, for the publick Safety, Peace, Settlement of our distracted Kingdoms; and do most earnestly beseech them, as they are English-men, Souldiers, Christians, seriously to repent of and lay to heart, lest they perish eternally for them at last; as likewise to take heed, lest by teaching and instigating the Common Souldiers of the Army, to suppresse, oppresse, betray the Parliament, Kingdom, People, who raised, payed, and en­trusted them only for their safeguard and defence, they do not thereby instruct and encourage them at last to betray and destroy themselves; it being a true observation ofDe Clement. l. 1. c. 26. Se­neca the Philosopher, Aliquando Tyrannorum praefidia in ipsos consurrexerunt. PERFIDIAMQVE ET IMPIETA­TEM ET FERITAREM, ET QVICQVID AB ILLIS DIDICERANT, IN IPSOS EXECRERVNT: Quid enim potest ab eo quisquam sperare, QVEM MALVM ESSE DOCVIT? Non diu paret, nequitia, nec quantum jubetur, peccat; as we have seen by many late presidents: So the Army-Officers, Souldiers Great Successes in all their Wars, Designs, and forcible ill Proceedings against the King, Parliament, Kingdom, Government, Laws and Li­berties; as it hath caused them not only beyond their Pro­fessions, but also beyond their first Intentions, Commissions, Protestations, to forget that Gospel-precept given to Souldiers, Luke 3. 14. to advance themselves to a more absolute Soveraign arbitrary Power over them, than ever any Kings of England claimed or pretended to, (as their late Proceedings, Remonstrances, and transcendent Instru­ment of the Government of the three Kingdoms, manifest;) so it hath been thePsal. 37▪ 7 Psal. 73. 3, &c. Eccles. 8. 11, 12. principal Ground, whereby they have justified all their unpresidented forementioned Exorbitan­ces, as lawfull, commendable, Christian: and that which hath struck such a stupifying pannick fear, such a stupendious [Page] cowardize, baseness, sott [...]shness, into the Generality of the Nobility, Gentry, Ministery, and Commons of our late most heroick English Naton, that there is scarce Ez [...]k. 22. 30. a man to be found throughout the Realm of any Eminency (though we should seek after him like Diogenes, with a Candle) that dares freely open his mouth against their most irregu­lar, illegal, violent, destructive arbitrary Proceedings, Usur­pations, Innovations, Oppressions, Taxes, Projects, to the shaking and utter subverting of our ancient Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Rights, Properties, Parliaments, Parliamen­tary priviledges, Government, and taking away of the very Lives of some (and thereby endangering the Lives of all o­ther) English Freemen of all Degrees, in mischristened High Courts of Justice. Such a strange Charm is there in Success alone, to metamorphise Men into meerSee 2 King. 10. 1, to 12. Esth. 8. 17. tempo­rising, slavish, sordid sotts and beasts; yea, to cause not only persons truly honourable, but the veryDeut. 32. 17. 1 Cor. 10. 20. Rev. 9. 20. Ephes. 2. 2. Devil himself, and the worst of beasts, to be wondred after, applauded, a­dored, not only as Saints, but Gods. We read Rev. 13. of a Monstrous deformed BEAST, to whom the Dragon (the Devil) gave his Power, Seat and Great Authority; where­upon, all the world wondred after the Beast, and worshipped not onely the Dragon, that gave him power, but the Beast like­wise; saying, Who is like unto the Beast? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM? And there was given unto him a Mouth speaking Great things, and blasphemies, and power was given him to continue and make war forty and two months. And power was given unto him to make war with the SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM; and power was given him over all Kindreds, and Tongues, and Nations. And (HEREVPON IT FOLLOWS) all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life. And another Beast (un­der him) caused the earth and all that dwell therein to set up the Image of this Beast, and to worship it; and he caused all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive the ma [...]k of the Beast in their right hand, and in their fore­heads; and none might buy or sell, but he that had this mark; [Page] and as many as would not worship this Beasts Image, were or­dered to be killed. Yet this Blasphemous Beasts reign and power continued but forty two Months, Rev. 13. 5. This Beast, (in the height of his Power and Victories) was by God himself, threatned to go into captivity, and be killed with the Sword, as he had led others into captivity, and killed them with the Sword, ver. 10. All his followers and worshippers shall (soon after) drink of the wine of Gods wrath, and be tormented with fire and brimstone, &c. Rev. 14. 9, 10, 11. The Saints at last shall get the victory over this Beast, Rev. 15. 2. And the Beast himself (notwithstanding all his for­mer Victories, Friends, and great Armies) was at last taken, and his false Prophet with him; and were both cast alive in­to a lake burning with fire and brimstone, and all his Forces were slain with the Sword, and the fowls were filled with their flesh, Rev. 19. 18 19, 20, 21. From which Texts I have fre­quently silenced, confounded some of our conquering Ar­my-Officers and Souldiers, whiles prisoner under them, when they were vapouring of their Great Victories, Suc­cesses, and concluding from thence, both their Saintship, and the Goodness of their Actions; saying oft-times like the Beasts followers here, Who is able to make war with us? And that with these genuine deductions from these Texts, which they could not reply against; worthy all Souldiers and others saddest meditations.

1. That God may, nay oft-times doth give great power to the very worst and most blasphemous of all Men and Beasts; & that not only over one or two, but many Tongues, Nations, as in this Text, and Dan. 7. 3, to 29. c. 8. 4. to 27.

2. That such Beasts many times may, and do not onely make war with, but even overcome the very Saints themselves in battel, as the Babylonians, Assyrians, and other ungodly Beasts did the Israelites, Gods own Saints and People, Psa. 79. 1, 2, &c. Dan. 7. 21, 23, 24, 25. Isa. 10. 5, &c. c. 14. 16, 17. Jer. 26. 6, 7, 8. c. 25. 9. &c. yet they were but blasphemous Beasts, and wretches still, not Saints.

3. That if such Beasts have but Great Power and Success in their Wars, Enterpri [...]es against their Enemies, or the Saints [Page] themselves; though their mouths utter blasphemy against the God of Heaven, his Name, Tabernacle, Saints; though their Actions, Designs be never so impious, atheistical, treasonable, detestable: their power but short and fading, yet whiles they are in Power and Prosperity, the whole world will wonder, run after, worship, flatter, Saint, Deifie and Adore them for Gods, (asPlutarch Arrianus, Quintus Curti­us, Suetonius, Grimston, in the life of A­lexander, and Julius Caesar, Balaeus, his Lives of the Popes. Mor­nyes Mystery of Iniquity. Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesars friends, flatterers did them; and some wicked Popes Favourites them too;) yea, set up, and worship their very Images, receive their marks in their hands, fore­heads, and extol them to the skies, saying, Who is like un­to the Beast? who is able to make war with him?

4. That such adulatious Speeches, Vaunts, Practises as these, and such Arguments of Saintship, of the Goodnesse of mens causes, undertakings, actions, only from their present Power, Victories and Successes, are the arguments, practises, of worldly, earthly, beastly men; of worshippers of the Beast and Dragon of2 King. 18. 33, 34, 35. c. 19. 17, 18, 19. Isa. 10. 7. to 16. Assyrians, Turks, Popes, not of the E­lect real Saints of God, Whose names are written in the Lambes Book of life; who will neither flatter, worship, nor adore such Beasts, nor receive their marks in their hands or fireheads, though they be prohibited to buy or sell, or slain for refusing it by their Instruments, Rev. 13. 8, 15, 17. Dan. 3. 12. to 29.

5. That such Beasts in power, will never want under-Beasts and Instruments, nor yetRev. 13. 1. to 18. c. 16. 13. 14. c. 19, 20. 1 King. 22. 6. to 24. false Prophets to per­swade or enforce Obedience and Subjection to them, even by dis-franchisements, death, lying wonders, flattering Prophecies, Speeches, Sermons, and Hypocritical Mock­fasts.

6. That the Power and Dominion of such Beasts, is given and derived to them immediatly by the Dragon (theEphes. 2. 2. Prince of the power of the Air) only by Gods permission, not his approbation; Rev. 13. 2. Hos. 8. 4. 2 Thess. 2. 4, 8 9. And that in wrath, for the punishment of the Peoples sins, and de­struction, greater condemnation of the beasts themselves at last. Hos. 13. 11. Rev. 13. and 14, and 19. Psal. 94, 23. Ier. 51. 24, &c. c. 5 [...]. throughout. Hab. 2. 6, 7, 8.

[Page] 7. That this their Dominion, Raign and Triumph, is commonly very short, like this Beasts here for forty two Months, Rev. 13. 5. which is but three years and an halfPaterculus, Pluta [...]h, Su [...] ­tomus, Anton­ni Chronica, Grimston, and others, in hi [...] Life. Jacobus Usserius Ann [...] ­lium pars p [...] ­sterior, p. 366, 367. Julius Caesar that great first Conqueror of this I­sland and a great part of the World; usurping the supream Power over the Roman Senate, and changing the Government, lived only FIVE MONTHS A SOVERAIGN LORD IN PEACE (though some compute his whole dominion 3 years and 7 months) and then was suddenly stabbed to death in the Senate-House, by those friends in whom he reposed greatest trust; for his Tyrannical Usurpations, and alteration of their former Government; for endeavouring (as was suspected) to make himself KING OF THE ROMANS, (though he re­jected the Title of King when offered unto him by M. An­tonius, saying, That Jove was only King of the Romans, that so he might seem to be compelled to receive it by the peo­ple, (being their King before in deed, though not in name:) and for saying, That the Do not some now by words and deeds, re­pute it and the People so? Commonwealth was but a Voice or Name, without a Body or Substance. Nullum violentum est diuturnum, See Isa. 10, and 14. Iob. 20. 4, 5, &c. Psal. 37 and 73. Psal. 92. 6, 7. Isa. 17, 13, 14. 2 Chron. 23. and Sir Walter Rawlies Preface to his History of the World, worthy serious perusal by the Grandees of these times.

8. That in conclusion such Conquering, Usurping Beasts, not­withstanding all their Power, Friends, Followers, Confe­derates, Armies, Policies, are usually conquered, taken, slain on Earth, and cast into the Lake burning with fire and brimstone for ever, for their Tyrannies, Blasphemies, Bloodsheds Oppressions of the People and Gods Saints, and their Confede­rates, Armies, false Prophets, followers, adorers See Mat. West. an. 655. 1 Kings 16. 2 Kings 15. 2. Chron. 13. 17, 18, 19, 20. and our King Ri­chard the third. destroyed with them even on earth; and then made to drink the Cup of Gods wrath, fury and torments for ever in hell, Isa. 10, and 14. Jer. 50. and 51. Rev. 19. 19. 20, 21. c. 6. 15, 16, 17.

9. That though they continue Conquerors and victo­rious for many years; and conquer not only, one, two or three, but many Kings and Kingdoms; cut off not on­ly the thumbs of their Kings, that they might not lift up a Sword against them, and their great toes, that they may not [Page] run from them, but their Heads too; Yet God at last (in his retaliating Justice) doth usually pay them home in their own coyne, as is evident, not onely bySee the Turkish History in his life. Bajazet the Turkish Emperour, ourSee Hunting­don, Mat. west. An. 655. Graf­ton, Speed, Ho­linshed, Fabian Brompton, in the life of Penda. King Penda, (who slew no lesse than 5. Christian Kings in several battles, took sundry other Kings prisoners, and at last was slain himself, with all his old victorious Captains and Souldiers, by King Oswi, and a small despicable Army of raw Souldiers, not half so many as they, Ann. 655. who thereupon seized on his Kingdom) and o­thers in prophane Stories; but by that memorable History ofJudg. 1. 2. to 8. Adonibezeck; who after his Conquest of no less than seventy Kings, (who ever in this latter age, conquered one quarter so many?) and tyrannizing over their persons, was, by a small party of Judah and Simeon, fought with on his own dung-hil, his victorious old Army totally routed, ten thousand of them slain, himself forced to fly, pursued, and taken prisoner by these contemptible Enemies, who cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Whereupon Adoni-bezek (though an idolatrous Canaanite) used these memorable words, worthy all Conquerours and Tyrants memorial; recorded by God himself to all Posterity, Iudges 1. 7. Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs, and their great toes cut off, have gathered their meat under my table (like so many Dogs rather than Kings) AS I HAVE DONE, SO GOD HATH REWARDED ME: and they brought him (Prisoner) to Ierusalem, and there he di­ed. See the like retaliation threatned, inflicted. Hab. 2. 6, 7, 8. Isa. 33. 1. Dan. 7. 23. to 27. Obad. 15. Ezech. 35. 5, 6, 15. Rev. 16. 5. 6. Ier. 51, and 52. Nah. 3. 1. &c. Rev. 13. 10. Ioel 3. 6, 7, 8. Deut. 32. 43. Isa. 10. & 14. 2 Chron. 22. 10. compared with c. 23. 12. to the end.

10. That the Elect Saints of God, do by faith in the Word of God, and upon consideration of the usual Provi­dence and Justice of God towards such Beasts and bloody Conquerors, most assuredly see their downfall, and with pa­tience expect it, Rev. 13. 9, 10. If any man have an ear let him hear. See Joel 3. 6, 7, 8. Mat. 26. 52. Sir Wal­ter Rawleighs Preface to his History of the World, & Dr. Beards Theatre of Gods Judge­ments, on the 6 and 8 Com­mandements. HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAP­TIVITY, SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY; HE [Page] THAT KILLETH WITH THE SWORD, MVST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD: Here is THE PATI­ENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS. O that we had this Patience and Faith within us now!

11. That upon this Faith and Assurance, the true E­lect Saints of God, neither will, nor do, nor dare to admire after, follow, worship or adore such B [...]asts, or their Image, nor receive their marks in their hands, or foreheads, though all the world else readily do it without opposition; enduring pati­ently rather to be warred upon, killed, secluded from buying or selling any thing, then unchristianly to adore, subject, or enslave themselves unto them, Rev. 13. 2, 15, 17. Esther 3 [...] 1, to 7. 2 Kings 3. 13, 14. Iohn 10. 4, 5. Dan. 3. 4. to 30. 1 King. 19. 18. 2 Chron. 11. 13. to 18.

Which serious seasonable considerations, as they should daunt the hearts and allay the high Presumptious Spirits of the most Successfull Conquerors, Powerfull Usurpers o­ver and violent Invaders of the Liberties, Lives, Estates, Rights, Properties of their Lawfull Superio [...]s or Christian Brethren, and all Subverters of the Laws, Priviledges, Par­liaments, Government of their Native Country, especially a­gainst their Oathes and Trusts: So the Meditation on them, together with the contemplation of the infinite Power, Wisdom, Faithfulness, Iustice, Holiness, Presence, and gracious Promises of God, have at all times and seasons hitherto, invincibly animated, steeled, fortified my Soul in the midst of all my sufferings, both under the domineer­ing Prelates, Parliament-assaulting Army-Officers, the late Tyrannical cashiered Republicans, and all other self-created oppressing Powers, which (if not already dead and buried in the dust, with all their thoughts and high aspiring Projects,) yet shall certainly Isa. 51. 6. 12. c. 26. 13, 14. Psal. 82. 7. Psal. 146. 354. die ere long like men, and become us dung; yea, they have enabled me by Faith and Patience to beRom. 8. 36. 37. Psal. 3. 6. more than a conquering triumpher over them: and to sing aloud with magnanimous David (a man after Gods own heart) long before their down-fall, Psal. 27. 1, 2, 3. The Lord is my Light and my Salvation, wh [...]m shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall [Page] I be afraid? When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an Host should encamp against me (as they did at Westminster, at my House, and in sundry Garrisons, where I was a Pri­soner under Souldiers) my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about. And to cry out in Pauls words of defi­ance against all Enemies and Perils in the cause of my God and Country (uttered in his own and all true Elected Saints names) Rom. 8. 35, &c. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (or our Native Country, as well actively as passively considered;) Shall tribulation? or distress? or per­secution? or famine? or peril? or SWORD? (of an whole Army, or other Powers) Nay, in all these things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us. For I am per­swaded, that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor PRIN­CIPALITIES, NOR POWERS, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Iesus our Lord. And to say with him in all threatned Dangers for my sincere conscientious publick Services, Act. 20. 22. 24. And now I go bound to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall there befall me, save, that the Ho­ly Ghost witnesseth in every City, saying; That Bonds and Af­flictions wait for me. But none of these things move me, nei­ther count I my life dear unto me, so [...]s I may finish my course with joy, and the Ministery which I have received of the Lord Iesus, &c. And verily me thinks the serious contemplation thereof, and of all the premises, with that of 2 Sam. 10. 12. Isa: 51. 12. 13. Ier. 1. 8. Ezech. 2▪ 2, to 6. Matth. 10. 26. 28 coupled with Psal. 11. 2. If the foundati [...]ns be de­stroyed, what can the righteous do? Prov. 24. 22, 23. My Son, fear thou the Lord and the King, AND MEDDLE NOT WITH THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE; For their calamity shall rise suddenly (which we have seen verified in many late Changers, Mock Par­liaments, and self created new Powers,) and wh [...] knoweth [Page] the ruine of them both? should now at last banish all base carnal fears out of all timerous hearts, rouse up the lan­guishing, fearfull, dead, stupid Spirits of our degenerated English Nation, and engage them all unanimously, un­dauntedly to claim, vindicate, regain, re-establish those an­cient undoubted Hereditary Fundamental Rights, [...]iberties, Priviledges, Franchises, Laws, Government, (purchased with their Ancestors & their own dearest Blood, sweat, Treasures) which belong to the whole Kingdom; to all true English Parliaments, Freemen in general, and to every of them in particular; whereof they have of late years been forcibly disseised, or [...]ypocritically cheated by pretended Patrons, Pre­servers, and Propuguers of them; the substance whereof I have here set before their eyes in ten brief Propositions, and by Records, Statutes, Presidents, Histories, Contests, Re­solutions in all ages, undauntedly, (as their Common Advo­cate) asserted, fortified to my power, for their Encourage­ment and president in this publick work. And if they will now but couragiously second me herein, with their joyn [...], bold, rightfull Claims, Votes, Declarations, and Re­solut [...] Demands of all and every of their enjoyments, and fu­ture inviolable Establishments; with strenuous Oppositions of all illegal perpetual Imposts, Excises, Contributions, Pay­ments (the chief nerves and cords to keep them still in bon­dage by Mercinary Forces, supported only by them to keep them still in slavery) according to their Oaths, Vows, Pro­testations, Duties, manifold late Declarations, Remonstran­ces, Solemn League, Covenant, and the encouraging memo­rable Presidents of their Ancestors in former ages here, re­corded; I dare assure them (by Gods blessing) a desired good-Success, whereof theirSee Part. 1. p, 14, 15, 16. Ancestors never failed: no mortal Powers nor Armies whatsoever, having either Im­pudency or Ability enough to deny, detain them from them, if they will butSee 1 Sam. 8. 4, to 22. ch. 12. 2. 2 Sam. 18. 2, 3, 4. Jer. 38. 5. generally, unanimously, couragiously, im­portunately claim and demand them as their Birth-rights. But if they will still basely disown, betray, and cowardly desert both them and their Assertors, and leave them to a single combate with their combined Jesuitical enemies [Page] (whom none take care to discover, suppress or banish out of our Realms, where they now swarm more than ever) and Armed Invaders; the Fate of our old English Britons, when they improvidently neglected to unite their Coun­sels, Forces against, and fought only singly with the inva­ding united Armies of the Romans, is like to be Englands condition now;Tac [...]us in vita Agricole. Dum pugnant singuli, vincunntur uni­versi: the single Champions of our Liberties, Laws, Rights, will be easily over-powered, destroyed, for the present; and all others (by their unworthy Treachery and Baseness, in not adhering to, but abandoning their present Patrons) discou­raged, disabled to propugne, regain them for the future: and the whole Kingdom vanquished, yea enslaved for e­ternity in all humane probability, to those who have bro­ken your Jer. 28. 13, 14. former yokes of wood, but instead thereof have made for, and put upon you yokes of Iron: and by the Jesuites Machiavilian Plots and Policies, will reduce you by degrees under a meer Papal yoke at last, having deeply leavened many in power and arms, with their forementioned most desperate Jesuitical Positions, Practises and Politicks, which will soon usher in the whole body of Popery, and all dam­nable Heresies whatsoever, by degrees, to the ruine of our Religion, as well as Laws and Liberties.

Wherefore, seeing it neither is, nor can be reputed Treason, Felony, Sedition, Faction, nor any Crime at all, but a commendable bounden Duty, to which our Protestations, Oaths, Leagues, Covenants, Reason, Law, Conscience, our own private and the publick Interest, Safety of the Nation engage us, for all and every Freeborn Englishman, joyntly and severally to claim, maintain, preserve, by all just, ho­nourable, publick and private wayes they may, their un­questionable Hereditary Birth-rights, Laws, Liberties, Par­liamentary Priviledges, &c. here asserted and presented to them, after so much Blood, Treasure, Labour spent to rescue them out of the hands of old and late oppressing Tyrants; nor any Offence at all, but a praise-worthy service now in me, or any other, publickly to encourage them to this du­ty, (and the strenuous defence of our endangered under­mined [Page] Protestant Religion, subverted with our Laws & Li­berties, and living or dying together with them) at this present season, as I have done heretofore upon all occasions; And seeing none can justly censure them or me, for discharging our Oathes, Consciences, Covenants, Protestations, Duties in this kinde, but such as shall thereby declare themselves Pub­lick Enemies and Trayters to the whole Nation, Laws, Go­vernment, Parliaments of England, as the Resolutions, Presidents,Part. 1. ch. 1. herein cited, yea their own best friends, (and ourSee the Ho­milies against Disobedience, & wilfull Re­bellion. Reformed Religion too) have already adjudged them: And seeingA Declarati­on of the E­gagements, Remonstran­ces, & Reso­lutions of Sir Tho. Fanfax, & the Gene­ral Councel of the Armie, London, 1647. p. 150. Sir Thomas Fairfax and the General Councel of his Army, held at Putney Sept. 9. 1647. in their Declara­ration, concerning THE FVNDAMENTAL AVTHORI­TY & GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDON; prin­ted by their appointment, in these words: Whereas a Mem­ber of the General Councel of this ARMY, hath publikely de­clared and expressed himself, THAT THERE IS NO VI­SIBLE AUTHORITY IN THE KINGDOM, BVT THE POWER & FORCE OF THE SWORD, (as others of them say since, and now both by words and deeds, without controll.) We therefore the said GENERAL COUNCEL (to testifie. How FARRE OUR HEARTS & MINDS ARE FROM ANY DESIGN OF SETTING UP THE POWER OF THE SWORD ABOVE OR AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTAL AUTHORITY & GOVERN­MENT OF THE KINGDOM & OUR READINESSE TO MAINTAIN AND UPHOLD THE SAID AU­THORITY:) have by a Free Vo [...]e (in the said Councel, no man contradicting) judged the said Member, TO BE EX­PELLED THE SAID COUNCEL. Which we hereby thought fit to publish, as A CLEAR MANIFESTATION OF OUR DISLIKE & DISAVOWING SVCH PRIN­CIPLES OR PRACTISES, (which notwithstanding they have since avowed pursued in the highest degree; and I desire them now to repent of▪ reform, and really make good) have engaged to maintain and propugne with their Swords, what I here endeavour to defend, support, with my Pen. And seeing they intituled their Printed Papers, [Page] A Declaration of the Engagements, Remonstrances, Reprè­sentations, Proposals, Desires, and Resolutions, from his Ex­cellency Sir Tho: Fairfax, and THE GENERAL COVN­CEL OF THE ARMY, for setling OF HIS MAJESTY IN HIS JVST RIGHTS, The PARLIAMENT in their JVST PRIVILEGES, and the SVBJECTS in their LI­BERTIES & FREEDOMS. Also Representations of THE GRIEVANCES OF THE KINGDOM, & REMEDIES PROPOVNDED, for REMOVING THE PRESENT PRESSVRES WHEREBY THE SVBJECTS ARE BVRDENED (and EXCISES, TAXES amongst the rest) And the Resolutions of the Army, For the estab­lishment of a firm & lasting peace IN CHVRCH & KING­DOM, printed by their own, and the Lords House special Or [...]er, London 1647: the self-same things I here contend, plead for, (which I wish they would now really make good by their future consultations and actions to avoid the just censures of meer Hypocrites and Impostors, as the whole World will else repute them.) I shall therefore exhort not only the whole Army, Army-Officers, and their General Councel; but likewise the whole English Nation, and all real Lovers of their own or their Countries Liberties, Peace, Laws, Ease, Safety, Religion, and future establishment in this common Cause, in the words of the Philistines one to another in a time of need, when they were greatly affraid, 1 Sam. 4. 9. Be strong and 1 Cor. 16. 13. quit your selves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servante to the Hebrews, as they have been to you [...] quit your selves like men, fight, &c. That so (as the Apostle writes in the like case, Phil. 1. 27, 28.) Whether I come and see you, or be absent from you▪ I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the Gospel; (and the anci­ent Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Rights, Priviledges, Par­liaments, Government and Religion of our Realm, which the Jesuites and their Instruments make their Master-piece totally to undermine and subvert) And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries, which is to them an evident token of Perdition, but to you of Salvation, and that of God. If the Pre­sidents [Page] of your renowned Ancesters here recorded; the Pa­terns of Recorded in Livy, Tully, Plutarch, Vale­rius Maximus, and others. Recta honesta digna Imperio, digna populo Romano, omnia pericula pro Re­publica subire, mori pro patria. Cicero de Fini­bus bonorum, &c. p. 365. and Tus [...]c. Q [...]aest. p. 445. many gallant Pagan Romans, Graecians, who have spent their Lives, for their Countries, Laws, Liberties; Or if my example and these my Lucubrations shall provoke you hereunto; I shall think my labour well bestowed; and you and your Posterities worthy to live like English-Freemen. But if you wil now neither manfully demand, speak, nor con­tend for them any more, out of a slavish fear of a prevailing Army raised only for their just defence, or any other hu­mane Powers whatsoever; nor once adventure with uni­ted Spirits now at last, so much as confidently, boldly to ask these your unquestionable Birthrights at the Thrones of any mortal Grandees, your Fellow-Subjects, when God Almigh­ty himself commands you, to come with boldnesse to his coelesti­al Throne of Grace, that you may obtain (not meer right as here, but) Mercy it self, and Grace to help in time of need, Heb. 4. 16. Qui timide rogat, docet negare; you can neither hope for, nor ever obtain them for the future, but deserve eternally to forfeit them, and you and yours to be made slaves for ever: However I (though these Collections prove successless) shal carry this as a comfortable Cordial with me to my grave, That I have faithfully discharged my Conscience and bounden Duty to my degenerous Native Country, by en­devouring all I could both to make and preserve it free indeed; to detect and prevent all Jesuitical Plots and Practises, to undermine, imbroyl, divide, subvert, ruine it; and used my utmost sincerest constant endeavours in my place and calling herein. But if through the Malice, Tyranny or In­justice of any prevailing Enemies of publick Freedom, or Jesuitical Agents, I shall chance to suffer for it in any kind, (as I have formerly done for most of my publick services of this nature) be it close-imprisonments, Fines, Pillories, Stig­matizings or Death it self; I shall onely say beforehand, as Gregory the Great did heretofore: Indict. 2. Epist. 78. In causa qua Deo place [...]e cupio, homines non formido: and as noble Heroick Esther did, in a like publick case for her en­dangered captivated Nation, Esth. 4. 16. If I perish, I perish: and this my unrighteous suffering, shall be a new Glorious [Page] permissive, ordering, over-ruling Providence, doth no wayes justify nor extenuate the guilt of any Traytors, Rebels, Mur­derers, Conspirators sinnes▪ Treasons, Rebellions, Murders, Regicides, Conspiracies, Rapines, Oppressions, or Wicked Devices, which he permits them to plot, act, accomplish; so it doth in no wise exempt them in Gods or Mens esteem from being the true Original Plotters, Contrivers, and imme­diate instrumental Actors of them; nor from the divine or humane Punishments which they in justice demerit; as is most evident by Gen. 50. 15. to 21. Psal. 37. 7. 9. Prov. 24. 10, 21, 22. Iob 20. 5, 6, &c. 1 Kings 12. 12. to 25. c. 15. 23. to 30. c. 16. 1. to 30. specially ver. 7, 8. 2 Kings 11. 1. to 17. c. 14. 5, 6. c. 15. 8. to 32. c. 17. 21, 22. 1 Sam. 8. 2 Sam. 1. 2. to 17. c. 4. throughout. Hos. 1. 4. c. 8. 4, 5. Isay 29. 15, 16 c. 10. 5, 6, 7, &c. Acts 1. 16. to 21. c. 2. 23. 1 Thess. 2. 14, 15, 16. Mat. 27▪ 3, 4, 5. compared to­gether. And if we should look upon all our late Changes, Revolutions in our Kingdoms, Government, Church, Parlia­ments, Religion, Laws, (wrought by the Iesuites and their Instruments) as the meer wonderfull immediate Productions and Glorious Operations of God himself in the world, and upon the instruments imployed in them, only as Gods own precious chosen Saints and Servants, accomplishing nothing but his own determinate Will, Providence, Councel, (though to satisfie their own ambition, covetousnesse, malice, rapine, blood-thir­stinesse, lusts) as many now proclaim them, and not as Conspirators, Treacherous, Perfidious, Pernicious Malefact­ors in the highest degree, as well as Iack Cade, Wat Tyler, Strafford, Canterbury, or the murderers of our Saviour, Jo­ash, Ishbosheth, with other Kings heretofore, and of Henry the 3. and 4. of France, of late; there should then be no Traytors, Conspirators, Murderers, Sinners, Treasons, Con­spiracies, Murders, Sinnes, in the world (being all perpetra­ted by Gods permissive Providence) no Law, nor Hell to pu­nish them: and it would be no less than a direct resisting, fighting against God and his Providence, for any Christians, Kingdoms, Kings, or Loyal Subjects, to pray against, resist, oppose the Treasons, Murders, Conspiracies, Vsurpations, [Page] Rebellions, Innovations, Plots, of any Iesuites or Romish Emissaries, or their under-Agents, against our Kings, King­doms, Governors, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Govern­ment and Religion; which would be professed Blasphemy, or Frenzy at least, for any man to affirm.

2. That this Iesuite Parsons▪ in his [...]o [...]ks of the Reforma­tion of all the States of England, as he prescribed Reforma­tions to the Prince, Court, Counsellors, Noblemen, Bishops, Prelates, Pastors, Universities, Lawyers, Laws, in which he will have STRANGE METAMORPHOSES; so likewise, THE COVRT OF PARLIAMENT HE WILL HAVE BROVGHT TO BETTER FORM, as W. W. (a secular Priest) in A Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay-Gentleman, printed at Rhemes, An. 1601. p. 95. Watson in his Quadlibets, p. 92. to 96. 320. to 334. William Clark (a s [...]cular Priest in his Answer to Father Parsons L [...]bel, p. 75. &c.) in direct terms attest. And may we not then justly suspect, that the late New-models and Reformations of our Kingdoms, Parliaments, Government, Laws, &c. (ori­ginally promoted by ourSee their printed Decla­rations of Iune 14. 23. Aug. 1. 2. 1647. Their Agree­ment of the People, Jan. 1648. & Go­vernment of the Common­wealth of England, 1654. moulded by them. Army Counsels, and Officers) proceeded primarily from the Iesuites Projections & Plots against them, if the Statutes of 23 Eliz. c. 1. 27 Eliz. c. 2. 35 Eliz. c. 2, 3. Iac. c. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7. 7 Iac. c. 6. and the ma­nifold Declarations of both Houses of Parliament, Exact Collection, p. 491, 492, 497, 498, 616. 631, 666, 698, 813, to 828. may be judges?

3. That the Iesuites drift directly is (immediatly by means ofDo not many now boast, talk, write of such a Con­quest by the Army over England? CONQUEST intended for England) to bring it and all Christendom into an uproar, FOR COMMON SOVLDI­ERS TO EXAMINE THEIR SOVERAIGNS, WHAT TITLE THEY HOLD BY; that thereupon themselves by craft, money and multitudes gathered together through their Policy, may bring England, (and then) Spain, and all the rest under their subjection and Monarchy: And that princi­pally by this Iesuitical Position; That every Precopie or Tar­tarian multitude, getting once the stile and title of a PUB­LICK STATE, or HELVETIAN COMMON­WEALTH, may alter, change and innovate the course of in­heritances [Page] and succession TO CROWNS AND KING­DOMS, and also to every private Persons heritage holden in Fee-s [...]mple: as Quodlibets, p. 322, 323, 333, 334. William Watson assures us in these very terms. And whether the Jesuites have not instructed our Army Officers and Common Souldiers upon this pretext, and for this very end, to examine their Soveraigns, yea, our Par­liaments Titles, Priviledges, and Powers too of late, and dis­pose of, reject, suppress them at their pleasure; let themselves, the whole Nation, with all in present power, in the fear of God, most seriously consider, without passion or affection, before it be over-late.

4. That the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance (which all Members of Parliament ought by Law to take, before they can sit, or vote as Members) specially made and pre­scribed by our most wise, zealous 1 Eliz. c. 1. 5 Eu. c. 1. 1. Jac. c. 4. 3. Jac. c. 4, 5. 7 Jac. c. 6. 16 Caroli. The Act for Trien­nial Parlia­ments. Protestant Parliaments, to prevent the Treasonable plots and designs of Popes, Iesuites, and Papists, against our Protestant Princes, Realms, Parlia­ments, Religion, though confirmed by many Statutes, and con­taining in them, only the Declaration of such a Duty, as every true and well-affected Subject, not only by the bond of Allegi­ance, but also by the COMMANDMENT OF GOD, ought to bear to the King, his Heirs and Successors; and none but See J. E. his Right & Juris­diction of the Prelate and the Prince; cap. 15. Beca­nus, Bellarmine, Lessius, Eudoe­mon Johannis, & others a­gainst this Oath. persons infected with Popish Superstition formerly oppugned, (as the Prologue of the Statute of 7 Iacobi c. 6. positively resolves) have by late State innovators, not only been dis­continued, suspended, but declaimed against and repealed (as much as in them lay) as See the printed Edicts repealing thē, & enforcing the Engage­ment, An. 1649. VNLAWFUL OATHS; the old Lawes against Iesuits and Popish Seminaries, discontinu­ed, abrogated, or coldly executed. See the Propositions for the Trea­ty. The New Oath for abjuration of Popery, with all Bills against Iesuites and Pa­pists, presented to the late King by both Houses the last Parlia­ment, and by him consented to in the Isle of Wight, wholly laid aside, and quite buried in oblivion. The Solemn Pro­testation, League and Covenant, prescribed by the last Par­liaments taken by all the well-affected in all the 3 Kingdoms (toSee the Preface to the Covenant. prevent the dangerous plots of Papists, Iesuites, and our common enemies to destroy our Religion, Churches, Realms, Government, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties) quite [Page] antiquated, dec [...]ied, detested, and aSee the E­dicts for the Engagement, An. 1649. New Engagement forcibly imposed under highest penalties and disabilities upon all men, diametrically contrary to these Oaths, Protestations and Covenants, which have been (by a new kind of Papal power) publickly dispenced with, and the people absolved from them, to become sworn Homages to other new self-created Lords and Masters. And are not all these, with the late Proclaimed Universal Toleration and Protection of all Religi­ons, to considerate zealous Protestants, strong Arguments of the Jesuites Predominancy in our late counsels, transactions, and changes of publike Government?

5. That the Notion of THE PRESENT GOVERN­MENT, (in my weak apprehension) derived its original from the Iesuites late-inventedBellarmin de Pont [...]f. Ro­mano. Sir Hum: Linde his Via devia. PRESENT CHURCH, the onely Supream Power and Judge of Controversies, which all men must submit unto, by a meer absolute blind Obedience, and implicit faith, without dispute by their determination: as they must do, by a like Iesuitical blind obedience (newly taught and obtruded on us) to that present Republican Go­vernment, and new Optimacity, and Popularity, lately set up instead of our Monarchy. Which two forms of Govern­ment, and want of a King and Monarchy, as they are the punishment of a peoples Sins, and the Transgressions of a Land by Gods own resolution, not a Mercy. Hosea 10. 3. c. 1. 4. Ier. 18. 7. Prov. 28. 2. Ez [...]. 19. 14. Lam. 4. 20. c. 5, 7, 8, 12. so they were the inventions of Factious Grecians at first, w [...]ch Thucidides Hist. l. 1. 3. Plutarch, Ly­sander, Aristot. Polit. l. 4, & 5. put all their Cities into Combustions, fury, frenzy, and civil wars against each other, to their utter overthrow in conclusi­on: witness these verses of See Grotius de jure Belli & Pacis, l. 3. c. 15. P. 537. Heniochus, a Greek Comedian:

Tum geminae ad illas accesserunt Mulieres (TITAS QUAE CUNCTA CONTURBARUNT: OPTIMA­Est nomen alteri: alteri POPULARITAS; (RUNT. Quarum incitatis PRIDEM EXTERNATAE FU­ [...]

So the Iesuits, Watsons Qu [...]dlibets, p. 320, 321, 312, 332, 333. Parsons, De Monar. Hisp. c. 25. Campanella, Conte de Galiazzo, Gualdo Priorato Hist. part 3. p. 175, 176. Car. Richelieu, designed to introduce & set them up among so us in Engl. Scotl. and Ireland, of purpose to divide [...] destroy us by civil wars and combustions, and bring us under their Jesuitical power at last, [Page] as the marginal Authorities declare to all the world. And if this be undeniable to all having any sence of Religion, Peace or publick Safety left within their brests, is it not more than high time for us to awake out of our former lethargy, & for­did, selfish stupidity, to prevent our ruine, by these and other forementioned Jesuitical practises? Of can any Englishman, or real Parl. be justly offended with me for this impartial discovery of them? Or for my endeavours to put all the dis­located Members and broken bones of our old inverted fun­damental body Politick, into their Optandū qui­dem est, st modo Respublica sal­va et incolumis futura sit, ut Civitatis part [...]s omnes quidem sibi constent, in suo statu per­maneant. At ut praesen [...]ti statu gaudeant, Reges Regiae dignita­tis splendore commoventur; Optimates Se­natoriae, haec enim illis pro virtutis suae praemio est: po­pulus Ephoriae. Aristot. Polit. l. 2. c. 7. due places, joints and po­stures again, without which there is no moreSee 1 Cor. 12. 12. to 31. 25 H. 8. c. 22. 26 H. 8. c. 3. 1 Jac. c. 1, 2. 3 Jac. c. 1, 2. possibility of reducing it to its, pr [...]stine health, ease, settlement, tranquility, prosperity, or of preserving it from perpetual pain, inquieta­tion, consumption and approaching death, than of a natural body whose principal members continue dis-joynted, and bones broken all in pieces, as all prudent State-Physicians must acknowledge.

These five Considerations, together with the Premises; will I presume sufficiently wipe off all the malicious scanda­lous Imputations, which Militiere and other Papists, have injuriously cast upon the Principles and chief Professors of our Reformed Religion, in relation to the late exorbitant Procee­dings against the King, Parliament, the publike Revolutions, Confusions, Ataxies both in our Church & Kingdoms; and retort them on the Iesuitical, Papal, seditious, Treasonable, Antimonarchical Principles and Professors of their Religion, especially the Iesuits and French Cardinals (Militiere his late Lords and Masters) the original Contrivers, and chief clande­stine Promoters of them, as every day more and more disco­vers to the world. And withall abundantly justifie this my undertaking & impartial discovery of Jesuitical plots to ruin our Church, Religion, Kingdoms, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Government, against all malicious Enemies, Accusers Malig­ners whatsoever, before all the Tribunals of God or Men, where I shal be ready to justifie them upon all occasions. In perpetual testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and by Gods Grace shall ever be ready to seal them and the truth of God with my blood, if called out to do it.