Cromwell's Bloody Slaughter-house; OR, His Damnable designs laid and practised by him and his negroes, in Contriving the murder of his Sacred Majesty KING CHARLES I. DISCOVERED.  
By a Person of honour.  
LONDON: Printed for James Davis, and are to be sold at the greyhound in St. Paul's churchyard. 1660.   

THE STATIONER TO THE READER.  
Courteous Reader!  
BE pleased to take notice, that this Loyal Treatise was penned many years ago, and sent over from the Hague to be Printed here, for his majesty's service; but was hindered hitherto upon this occasion. The Printer, to whose care it was commended, fell into some trouble, for some Acts of Loyalty, which were then called Treason; such as were the Printing the late King's incomparable Book, entitled ἘΙΚῺΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚῊ, in English, Latin, French and Italic: Salmasii Defensio Regia: Elenchus Motuum nuperorum in Anglia, by Dr. Bates; and some other things of the like nature; He was committed to Newgate; his Press and other Materials seized upon and carried away by Hunscott; his Wife and six Children turned out of doors; and threatened to be tried by an high Court of In-justice. Under which time of Tyranny and persecution this Notable {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman}, arraigning and condemning the traitorous and Rebellious actions of bloody-minded men, hath been forced silently to keep within doors. But since God, in his infinite mercy to this languishing Nation, hath been pleased to dispel these black clouds, and to restore the sunshine of his favour by the glorious presence of his Gracious Majesty, I presume it may boldly come abroad, and tell these Miscreants to their faces, their horrid wickedness in the barbarous Murder of the most pious Prince that ever swayed the English sceptre, their designing the destruction of Church and State, and sacrificing both to their own lusts of Ambition and Covetousness, the Original (as of all, so) of this cursed Rebellion against their lawful sovereign.  
But I shall no longer detain thee in the Porch, be pleased to walk into the House, whic●●ill entertain thee 〈◊〉 to thy Desire.   

  

CROMWELL's Bloody Slaughter-house Discovered.  
HAve you killed our King, and also taken possession of his Goods Lands and Kingdoms? O ye bloodthirsty and deceitful men! Is this your Zion, that must be built with royal blood, and your Jerusalem, that must be raised with such detestabl● iniquity? O ye painted Sepulchers, w●ll no bones serve to fill you, but those of your King?  
You ravening Wolves, (whom God hath suffered to uncase yourselves of your sheep's Clothing) can nothing satiate your cruel Appetites and hydropic thirst, but only the flesh and blood of our King? whom with merciless hands and hearts, in an impudent Triumph you have murdered before the face of God and his Subjects; whose royal Posterities, and people's Lives and Estates you now hope to devour without any opposition or gainsaying. (So cruelly heavy and barbarous is that Iron sceptre, with which you think to rule this Nation; not allowing any fair and legal plea for either Kings or p●oples Lives, Liberties, Estates or R●ligion: but beyond all papal and Mahume●ane Tyranny you usurp over our Souls, no less than our bodies; and seek (now) by slavish fears, and sinful agreements to make us all as much the Children of the devil as yourselves: whose Consciences (no doubt) like ●ai●'s tell you, your desperate and damnable Estate: having sinned against the light of God, and his holy Spirit, (some of you) so impudently and maliciously, as justly excludes all hope of pity or pardon from God and Man: having first treacherously betrayed, then barbarously murdered, both your and our King.  
Go on you Apollions, you Abaddons, in the Spirit of Antichrist, to fill up the measure of your Abominations, till you are drunk with blood, and stumble and fall together: O you Locusts, the black●st smoke, and noysomest vapour that ever the breath of the bottomless pit exhaled or sent forth into the Christian worl●, your Maiden faces, in your first seemingly modest and fair pretensions to the King and kingdom, have now brought on the poisonous Scorpions of your Tails, after many cunning windings of flattery, perjury and hypocrisi●.  
B●hold the fruits of your Oaths, Prayers, Fastings, your Illuminations, Raptures, and the Sacred madnesses of your Prophets; are they not as the Gr●pes of Sodom, sour and unsavoury, setting on edge the teeth of all men that have any taste or relish of true piety?  
Are these the practices of Saints of spiritual and seraphic minds; of men living in God and in Christ by the Spirit? We call Heav●n and E●r●h, and yourselves (who are to us as Hell and devils) to witness against you; What can the most carnal, loose and profane A●●●ists do● more abominable, than you have done? What have the fal●est Jews, the fierc●st Turks, the most brutish Heathens, the Renegado Chr●stians, the s●bt●lest Jesuits, or the m●st fanatic Anabaptists, and Sc●●●maticks, or any other, th●t are wholly without God in this world, ever done comparable to your immense villainies? Yea what could Devils do more, if they had t●eir w●lls, bu● by such Instruments as you are, extend their malice to the utmost latitude of their powe●?  
Have you not by Treachery and Tyranny usurped upo● all just power, and exalted yourselves (such despicable worms) above a●l that is cal●e● God? Neither King, nor Parliament, nor laws, nor your own Engagemen●s to all, nor your m●ny Proposals, Promises and D●clarations have any rever●nce with you, or we●ght upon you● but like riotou● and enrag●d Beasts, you have overborne and trampled under your feet all th●t is either Sacred or civil; in the Laws of God, N●ture, Nation●, or this kingdom, of which you are Members, though the most ulcerous and pestilent that ever the Earth can bring forth, or bear.  
Haply your stupid pride and bruit●sh insolency will not suffer you to consider how odious, abominable and accursed you now are to all men, but such as are Cockatrices of the same egg and brood with yourselves; that is, seared Saints, honest Hypocrites, and Enlightened Satans.  
We assure you, you are now looked upon by all sober and honest minds, as the heaviest and filthyest incubus' that ever oppressed Church or State; as the Legions of unclean spirits, which by diabolical Arts and magic of hypocrisy, have got possession of this Church and kingdom, (till Christ by his power cast you out of, and suffer you like the demoniac swine, through the just judgement of God to be hurried headlong by your own terrors and despairs into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone.  
You are l●ke cursed Cams, not mockers only, but murderers of the Father of your country; impudent Ravishers both of Church and State, to satisfy your most abominable lusts of Tyranny, covetousness, and all licentious profaneness.  
Monsters of men, putrid Apostates, execrable Saints, shameless sinners, traitorous Tyrants, what have you to plead for, or palliate with, your late horrid outrages and unparalleled villainies, by which you have obstructed the Fountain of Justice, altered the channel, broken the Cistern, turned the clear and wholesome waters of our Laws into blood, Wormwood, and deadly poison; while you have with unheard of tyranny and treachery, set up your private wills, by that public power (wherewith you were in●●usted only for some limited uses) above the M●jesty and lives of our King and his Ch●ldren; above the Dignity of our Parliaments, the honour of our laws, the reverence of your C●untrey, and the regard due to your fellow Subj●cts, and Con●ederate Nations; and all this without the least colour of any call or Authority from God or Man; Reason or Religion, against all Obligations both Sacred and civil, that might possibly lie on men's souls to God or man, against many your particular pretensions and former p●om●ses of such due observance as became you● both as Men, Subjects, Soldiers and Christians.  
You who are not the thousand part of his M●jesties Subject, how durst you knowingly act as in the name of all, and yet indeed against the duty, desi●es and consciences of all, but such children of Belial as yourselves.  
You that are for the most part such sons of the Earth of so base extraction, of meaner education, strangers to all good Literature, Honour, or Civility; heirs of beggary and contempt; whom most of the Subj●cts in England might for your rudeness and b●rbarity justly have disdain●d to have set with the Dogs of their Flocks: How are you become the Creators of a new Heaven, and a new Earth, who are such sons of Tohu and Bohu, of Chaos, obscurity and confusion?  
You that at best are but God's brothers, the unjust executioners of his just vengeance; as the evil and destroying Angels sent among us for a time; (though your exorbita●● malice and lusts disdain to be limited by your Military Commission, yet God, we hope, will restrain your fury who hath manifested your impious folly.) With what forehead could you thus lift up your hand against, and set yourselves above all those who are confessed your betters, masters and superiors: As if in a Giantly impuden●●●●d Cyclop●ck cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy; nor fierce and wick●● enough, unless you ●ought against Heaven, against the express word of God, and his Vicegerents on earth. Thus heaping up mountains of lies, perjuries, hypocrisies and cru●l●ies, upon those vast and enormous lusts of rapine, sacrilege, covetousness, rev●nge and tyranny in yo●r hea●●s, which nothing hath ●v●r equalled or can exceed.  
You have indeed finished the masterpiece of your Father the devil, whom as his first-born he hath filled with a double portion of malice, subtlety and cruelty beyond any, whose hearts like Elymas the Sorcerer, or Simon Magus he hath possessed. You have nothing left you but Impenitence and Hell, (which you neither believe nor fear) by which to make farther progress in your most flagitious and ever accursed villainies.  
What step have you more to advance to the blaspheming of the Majesty of the most high God, both in himself and his Deputies, lawful Kings and sovereign Magistrates? what more can you do or invent to the scandal of the Gospel, to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame, to the trampling his blood under feet, through the hat●ed and de●estation of all Nations, that are without the Church? How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Pap●sts? to whose tails you are tied, though your fac●s seem contrary: and whose business you have done, while you pretend to abhor their Names, as much as D●vils do pot●n● Ch●rms.  
What Sea could ever wash away from the face of the Christian Reformed Religion, the stain of that blood of our King, which you have (in a Page●nt o● Justice) most unjustly, inhumanly and barbarously ●hed, to colour your malice, to sa●iate your revenge and to make way for your tyranny, if we the people of England should b● our silence adopt, and by our assistance nourish those prod●gies of Rebellion, Treason and Confusion, which your libidi●ous Mars, by the h●lp of your prostitute and officious Venus, your Unparliamentary Junto hath lately brought forth and astonished the world withal. Was it ever so done, since the Name of Christ was planted on the earth, save only by the spawn of those furies, from whom you are descended, who made such havoc first in Africa, after in other Western Churches, and lately in Germany? whose principles and practices you have as much surpassed, in Hypocrisic, Anarchy, cruelty, and blasphemy, as B●elzebub (your Prince) may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Sp●rits.  
Those impure Catharists exercised (indeed) their Donat●sticall and anabaptistical frauds and furi●s, chiefly upon the vulgar, to the ruin of many thous●n●s of the Coun●rey people and Citizens; But you like so many Ravilliacks, are not content to have spoiled so many Noble and flourishing Families, to have exhausted so many plentiful Estates, to have made so many mourning Widows, and fatherless Children, to have destroyed the lives, and sucked the blood of so many Christians, your fellow-Subjects, but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Parliament, in another murder the King, in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir, and all the King's Children. At last you conspire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paperfalsly called, The Agreement of the people, to join with you in the utter overthrowing of our laws, Liberties, and the whole frame of this ancient and renowned kingdom, whose weight you will find too heavy for such weak atlases as you will shortly appear, both in counsel and in Power, who are only wise to do wickedly, and strong to shed or drink the blood of your King and countrymen. Your cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula, at one blow to cut off the head of three kingdoms, and with him all M●narchy; to make way for your Lole●ocracy, a Military Tyranny, or Schismatichal Anarchy.  
Thus have you been profound to deceive, skilful to destroy; our souls ●aint within us, because of such treacherous dealers, such hideous murderers, into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen, and in whose deep dissembling pits the anointed of the Lord, our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up; under the shadow of whose just Authority, Princely wisdom, and judicious piety w● hoped to have been safe.  
How doth this sometime famous and flourishing kingdom, now sit as a Widow, oppressed, desolate, ●espised; full of unexpressible lamentations● The bitterness and gall of your cruel hypocrisy hath entered into, filled and overwhelmed our souls.  
How is she that was the joy, Crown and Queen of all Nations, the Envy or Emulation of all Christian Churches, now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about, the pity and calamity of all her friends, the ●corn, reproach, hissing and triumph of all her Enemies? Nor is there any helper, comforter, or Deliverer left, till God take the matter into his own hands, and pl●ad the cause of the King and kingdom against these proud Goliah's, whose uncircumcised hearts and lips, out of a ●iot and supe●fluity of wickedness, have blasphemed our God, destroyed our King, laid waste and exhaust the Ki●gdome, and turned this Church into a Den of Thieves.  
O Lord arise, O Lord consider, O Lord hear the v●yce of our sig●s, tears and prayers; let the cry of the blood of ●ur King and our people come up to Heaven; have mercy on us for we are brought very low.  
Our gracious King, the Husband of the kingdom, the Father of his Subj●cts, the preserver of our Laws, the Patron of Religion, the Protector of the Church, you have treacherously and barbarously murdered; the two Houses of Parliament, (whose weakness, perverseness, unevenness, inconstancy and cowardice God hath seen, disliked, judged, and punished) you have forcibly invaded, scattered and oppressed; notwithstanding all your special Engagements to them both of duty and promise, commission and trust. The ●oyalty and love of the people, you everywhere either with terror and cruelty seek to suppress and smother, so that they shall not dare to petition for redress, or complain of those endless calamities which they suffer under your tyranny; or ●lse making lies your hope and refuge, with forged semblances of compliant Petitions, and counterfeit Gratulations, you falsely and impudently pretend the concurrent Votes of the countries, and the Communities ●pprobation to your most abominated practices: When God knows and even yourselves in your bloody di●●imulation cannot be ignorant, that the generality of all men in all places, of all degrees, do from their souls utterly abhor, deprecate and detest, your execrable counsels, and accursed actions, which have thus brought upon us the abomination of desolation, through the damnable deceiveableness of your unrighteousness: Nor do we believe that your pride and tyrannous hypocrisy either finds any comfort in them, or much con●iders those papers, which seem to own you or applaud your wicked deeds, further than they may carry on your strong delusions with the vulgar, whom you know to be neither very wary of evil, nor very steady in what is good. If you had the general consent of the Vulgar (which you know you have in no sort) yet neither is their judgement any good rule to measure the morality of your actions; nor their inconstant pleasure any test of honour, virtue or piety: But indeed you (as well as we) are sadly conscious, that all those clamorous Petitions for Justice, by which you would seem (as by Oracles of your own inspiring to be fatally directed and divinely encouraged in your Cruelties and Treasons) were nothing else but the strokes of the lions own tail, the more to enrage himself; the very froth and scum, which arose only from the zealous activity and boilings of your own bloody Faction; who restless as Devils, continually go about seeking whom they may deceive and destroy, we are well assured that your schismatical crew of Regicides are no more to be compared to the people of England, than the Gleanings may be to the Harvest; or Canters, Thi●ves, Beggars and jugglers to the sober and settled Dwellers in this kingdom.  
No, every honest man, who hath any sense of piety, loyalty, modesty, pity or humanity left in his soul, (as you have none) takes up Jacob's words against you, Cursed be your wrath for it is fierce and your anger for it is cruel: into the secrets of these men let not our souls enter; Lord lay not the guilt of the sins of these men to the Charge of the people of this kingdom.  
No, let the blood of our pious, patient and most Christian King be upon you and your Abettors for ever; who, as without any sense of loyalty, pity or charity, so without any shadow as well as substance of Justice, having neither Law, Rule, nor any due Authority, first by fraud and unheard of Insolency seized upon his majesty's person, afterward by flatteries, lies, and terrors sought to deceive him; At last by mere force and b●●stl●ke cruelty have massacred and as so many horrid Assa●sinates utterly destroyed him.  
And all this after many fawnings, and shows of loyal and tender regard toward his Majesty and his royal Family, as both your first Proposals, and your after Agitations, (honestly and very providentially discovered by Major Huntington) do declare; In which all men now plainly see, that you did but make way by the Fox, to let in the Wolf, and by your Dalilah to bring the Philistines upon our Samson: Yea, after his Majesty was not only entered into and advanced in a Treaty with the two Houses, agreeable to their Votes, and the general desires of all his Subjects; under the most solemn national security and public Faith, which could be given or pass between a King and his Subjects, or indeed any honest men: But even when his majesty's great wisdom and goodness had so far brought all things to a fair closure and happy Agreement, that the two Houses were satisfied and resolved to proceed upon his majesty's Conce●ions, as a firm ground of Peace to the kingdom.  
Yet after all these public, civil and Sacred Obligations, which lay upon the two Houses and the kingdom, on yourselves as well as any and all of us; for you to seize again upon his majesty's person, without any pretended Authority, and with your Iron hands, and Adamantine hearts to ravish and pull him out of the arms and embraces of his Subjects, violently to hale and tear him from the reviving love and loyalty of the two Houses and his people; thence to hurry and toss him to and fro, to what inhospitable places, and desolate Prisons you listed, there to deprive him, not only of all things proportionable to his quality as a King, but even of those civil accommodations, which ought to be allowed to any Gentleman, though an ●nemy and a Captive of War; which the King never was, not being taken by force, but rendering himself to the professed love and sworn loyalty of his Subjects. After this, with a sacrilegious mo●kery of Justice, in the highest affronting of God, the King, the Parliament, and the three kingdoms, by an unheard of and most horrid Outrage, and riotous force to oppress and utterly destroy the remaining honour, freedom and power of the two Houses; and in despite of them to erect a new Court of Justice (as you most unjustly term it) for which you have no colour of Law from God or Man, no precedent in this or any other Christian kingdom, no ground or pretence of Parliamentary consent or Autho●ity, of either Houses (whose members, three parts of ●our at least, you forcibly detained and deterred from sitting in the House of Commons, the Lords being unanimously against you; by all which methods of cunning and violence you seek like Absalo● (the co●tradiction be●tween whose name and actions, very well fits your affected but undeserved title of Saints) to intrude yourselves into a Judicative as well as a Military power, (as if Hangmen and Executioners should u●urp t●e seats of Judges, who are not fit to be of a Jury; since their interest and advantage (like yours) lying in the destruction of others, will ●asily tempt them to condemn any man.)  
At length you make a shift to pack, not a high Court of Justice, as you shamelessly style it, but the basest Conventic●e of Injustice that ever was in the world; In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out, you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game: A very medley and R●psody of the most ignorant, shallow, cowardly, cruel, weak, debauched and insolent fools or atheists; Hypocrites, traitors and Tyrants, that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man: Your President Bradshaw and your clerk Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt souls as any lived in their profession; their most traitorous and covetous villainies not allowing the least pretence of ignorance in the Laws, which are in no case more clearly, expressly, and se●verely contrary, then in this, of taking away the King's life, wherein they, against all law, du●y and conscience, were as Judas●s ●hiefly employed.  
At last upon the wicked, most unjust, and cruel sentence of these mercenary, unauthorised● and Tyrannous Sycophants, and Hucksters of Justice, (who must needs have their Comm●ssion from him that is the Father of lies, the false Accuser, the Old murderer, the deceiving Serpent, the R●aring Lion, the Red Dragon, the Dead Sea of cruelty and the sink of all Confusion, the Damned and Damning devil, and not from God (the Fountain of Justice, the Father of Mercy, the Institutor of Order, the Author of Peace, and the Commander of ●●bjection to lawful Kings) in any ●●tion imaginable; further than the devil may have Commission from God, permitting and limiting the activity but not approving the activity but not approving the iniquity of his rage and malice,) to compel such a King, so Great a Monarch of three kingdoms, their Undoubted sovereign Lord, to submit to the●r Arraignment, Accusations●, and Sentence (who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies) without allowing him the l●be●ty of protesting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority, or of pleading for his own both Innocency, and well known privilege, sovereignty, and unquestionable Immunity, according to the Laws of God and of this kingdom; which are expr●ssely against their traitorous and tyrannous proceedings, as well as the nullity of their Authority.  
After this, without an● remorse or pity to their and our King, to force a person of so excellent worth, wisdom, virtue, honour, and Majesty to bow down at the feet of so vile persons, and then to Chop off h●s Head which was Sacred, Crowned and anointed, as rightful King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions. (A Butchery so barbarous, that the common Headsman abhorred to do it; nor may we think those bloody Zealots were willing he should d●prive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice, to inaugurate them in their royal Priesthood; by which their schismatical fury p●etends a title against, or above all lawful Kings and governors.  
What Words, what Tera●, what Sihgs, what oppressive Thoughts, what secret and unutterable Reflect●ons of most stupifi●d and aston●●hed Sou●s, are sufficient to measure the Immensity, to weigh the burden, to express or conceive the h●rror of this outrag●ous sin, and most flagitious villainy.  
Poor Prince, after so many delusions, so many lying Addresses, made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army; after so much patience, so great demonstrations of excellent wisdom, meekn●sse, calmness and Christian gentleness to his very Enemies and jailors; under infinite reproaches, injuries and indignities, even to the very spitting in his face; after all those gracious descendings, by which he had reduced himself almost to the v●ry shadow and bare name of a King (saving that he had gained the highest and most absolute Empire in the renewed love and loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects) that he might please all, secure and satis●ie all, purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience: Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of goodness, capable to have softened even Devils themselves, to be thus butcher●d by a Soldie●y and schismatical cruelty, to be brought to public execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people (who generally abominated so horrid, inhuman, unseen, and unheard of a Spectacle; whose public Faith, besides their personal Al●egiance was engaged for his Majest●es honour and safety,) what ●●art can be large enough to equal the sorrow, what ●yes can be Fountains sufficient to d●plore so unmerited a Fate, befalling so excellent a Prince, by the malice, ambition, cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villainies.  
And all this Tragedy of Tragedies c●rried on to such bloody conclusions, under colour of Safety and Reformation at first; afterward of satisfaction and Indemp●ity to the Army; in both which the Good King deny●d nothing, that men of an● mod●st●, worth or ingenuity, could exp●ct or would d●sire. Yet a●t●r ●●fi●ite delusions, and mutinous insolences committed against King, Pa●l●am●nt and People, some impotent and amb●t●ous Tyrants, (who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their faces and on their Foreheads, in the Army and Commons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice, which must speedily be acted by them● lest the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their employment useless, as it hath long been burdensome; and forcing their buff Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles, their Hammers, their Lasts, their Sl●ngs, their Carts and their Flails, should qui●e defeat those designs of power, estate and all licentious profaneness both in Opinions and practices; which their Chief Officers and Levelling sticklers have all this while designed for themselves and their false, giddy, cruel, covetous and unreasonable Faction; through that power and influence, which by their lies, sorceries and hypocrisies, they with the help of that mongrel Minister, that Military Priest, that modern Simon Magus, th●t disguised Executioner, that bloody Butcher of the King H— P— they have gained upon the Common soldiery. Upon whose simpl●city and val●ur they have presumed tyrannously and trayterou●●y to advance the mere will and pleasure of some Officers in the Army, and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons, over all the laws and Liberties, the Lives, Estates and Inheritances both of King, Prince and People.  
Yet after all these Scenes of various villainies, they have the impudence to glory, as if they had done God good service, and so extremely pleased God and the People, that they expect all should agree to their Pla●dite, as if might and right were well met in the Army.  
O you most seared Consci●nces, you most R●bellious Souls against God, the King, and your own light; you most accursed Doers● you deaf Adders, whether you will hear or w●●ther you will forbear, know this, That we the Christ●an people and l●yall Subjects of England, do in the bitterness of our Souls declare (●s in the ●ight of God, to whose just tribunal we appeal, and summon your stupid and cruel hypocrisy) to all the world, our to all detestation, and utter ab●orring of your Counsels, Actions and future Designs. You glory, as if you were now Masters of our Estates, Liberties and Lives: But we shall by God's grace keep our Souls unspotted from those great Offences and presumptuous wickedness, wherewith you are infected beyond all cure or recovery.  
No we would have your impeni●ent hardness, as well as the softer world to know, That we look back with extreme sorrow, shame and repentance, upon our former Delusions and forwardness to this Unhappy war; wherein though they were most to blame who were the Deceive●s and Instigators of us; yet we cannot excuse ourselves further than thus, That we did it out of credulo●● inconsiderateness, and not out of malicious wickednesse● The God of Heaven, whose mer●ie● exceed our sins and your cruel ies, forgive the Errors and ●reat sins of this Nation in this Unnatura●l war; which have deservedly as from the Divine vengeance, though most perfidiously, as from your multiplied Tre●sons and wilful R●bellions, b ought upon these Kin●doms such a sore plague and intolerable opp ession as you are.  
Whose detected hypocrisy hath now made it clearly appear, That both King, Parliament and People ●ere merely cheated and abused, by the Fra●d first, after by the Force of those Factiouss, schismatical, bloody and implacable spirits, your chief genius'; who de●paired to carry on their wicked D●signs of Ambition and Tyranny, but by the means of Anarchy, P●ofanen●sse, Disloyalty, and public ruin of Church and State.  
All which rottenness and villainy must be masked awhile under the Names of Reformation, Laws and Liberties, King and Parliament, which we see too evidently (though too late) after infinite miseries, Oppressions, bloodshed, and Delusions, amount to no more but a slavish Submission to the will and Arbitrary Tyranny of a few sanguinary schismatics, cruel Hypocrites, and desperate usurpers over all; who, like deep Ditches, and open Sepulchers, having swallowed up, our King, our Parliament, our Estates, our Liberties, and many of our brethren's Lives, now like impudent Strumpets, in the wantonness and security, to which success have hardened their hearts and Foreheads, wipe their mouths as if they had done no evil; and now lying in wait for our precious Souls, dress their whorish Faces with the Harlotry and temptation of a New fashioned Representative, and that both silly and ridiculous babble called the Agre●ment of the People.  
Then which never any poison was presented in a sordider and less suspected Cup; nor foolish Devil never used less inviting baits for his snares: Their gross and brutish unpoliticness offering nothing in that beggar's dish to the miserably abused, and justly discontented kingdom, but only such general dull and confused notions, as might become the soberer sort of ●icts or Highlanders, or the less savage Ind●ans, when from their Acorns, nakedness, and barbarity they began to form some conceptions of casting themselves into more orderly and civil Societies, for their better Government and Common welfare; so vastly short their m●tly Agreement comes of those most tried, wise, noble, rational, just, and indeed Divine Principles and Foundations of True Government, Order and Polity, on which this famous Monarchy hath for many hundred of years been raised to so stately a fabric; having flourished to so perfect a beauty, to so ancient and venerable a glory, as became the Wisdom●, Piety and Gravity of our former Kings, Parliaments and Ancestors; men of Renown for true wisdom and heroic greatness; to whom these late overturners and Innovators of all Government would scarce have served for their Dwarfs, Zanies, and Bussoons.  
But least these Cursed movers of the Ancient Boundaries and landmarks should lose both themselves and us in the Wood and wilderness of their poor, rude, barbarous and novel projections they bring forth their Ignes Fatui, lights of private Inspirations, Fan●tick Delusions, False and falsified Interpretations of wrested and corrupted Scriptures, to make some show to their seduced Pr●selytes (whom they would rebaptize in the blood of the King with themselves) as if they were the little stone cut without hands which must become a great Mountain, &c. They the Saints which must bind Kings in Chains, and Nobles in Links of Iron, &c. They the people of the most High, to which the Kingdoms of the Earth must be given, &c. Whereas true Saints, which had the power, not show only of godliness, would not take all the Kingdoms of the world upon such D●v●l●sh Co●d●tions, and by such d●mnable practis●s, as yours are, most apparent, and by yourselves confessed to be unjustifi●ble. Such Scripture paintings upon the f●ce of your Jezeb●ll would have served the turn of John of Leyden, Knipp●rdoling, Muncer, and those other Impostors your infamous predecessors, as well as you and indeed they were by them no less pretended; but with how blessed success you are loath to own or remember, as presaging your like destinies in God's due time.  
It is a strange and unwonted way of any sound and true Christians, apparently to violate and wholly decline from the obedience of clear moral precepts of justice and other both Religious and Civil Duties to God and man, under a pretence of Zeal and a Call to fulfil prophetic Obscurities; which darkly foretell what shall be done but do not precisely command us to do this or that; In which eve●●s even the wickedest men and Antichrists (such as these are) may, as the Vials of the wrath of God, pour out themselves, and have a great part to act, and yet receive no comfort or reward, other than that of Hypocrites; who may (as Joseph's Brethren, and N●buchadnezzar did) then most serve God's P●ophetick and providential disposings, when they act most contrary to h●s Revealed will, and only seek to se●ve their own envy, covetousness and unsatiable Tyranny, however they may as the Devil bait their Temptations with Scripture Allegations.  
But know O ye hard-●earted belsazzars (whom no ●and-writing out of God's Words, clearly setting forth your sin, curse, woe and damnation can yet scan or deter from your frolic villainies) That, if you were Angels from Heaven, as you are Luciferan brats from Hell, (transforming yourselves at first into Angels of light: but now fully uncased; so that now your fiery eyes, your black and wide mouths, your blasting and sulphurous breath, your proud horns, and your cloven feet appear to all but your own besotted ●mps and familiars● if (we say) you yet appeared as Angels, yet you should give us leave to believe the express will and Word of God, rather than your juggling fancies, to which that is diametrically contrary, both in the Precept and all practices of Christ and his true Saints. H●ar how the voice of God disagrees with your apparent folly and madness. He bids honour and obey the King and our lawful governors; you cry cr●cifie, destroy, and scatter them. Christ commands to give unto Caesar's that which is Caesar's, no less than to God what is God's: But you take away as from God and his Church what is his; so from our Caesar, his Empire, Liberty, life, posterity and all.  
The voice of God bids us se●k peace and ensue it, branding with the reprobate marks of Hypocrites, those that as traitors, heady, high-minded, and fierce despisers of what is good, break all Truce or Treaties, which you have done, beyond what ever the falsest miscreants ever did.  
The Word of God is a clear constant, uniform light as to the rules of an holy life in Piety, Equity and Charity; ●ut your opinions, practices and pious pretensions, centaur-like are various and deformed changelings, many-shapen and misshapen Monsters, shifting Proteuses, slippery and virtiginou● Serpents, folded and hidden in the winding labarinths and intr●cate circulations of your many subtle, ●ly, and perplexed designs.  
The truth is, there is as wide a difference between your clamours, h●wlings, and hideous yellings (which sound nothing but war, blood, Rebellion, Famine, Death, Desolation and Damnation) and that soft● sweet gracious and most glorious v●yce of God in the holy Scriptures, (which you use for a Net not a Garment) as there is between the most bright beautiful Soul savi●g-Truths, and most black deformed Souldamning-lies. yourselves cannot think us uncharitable, if we do believe and tell you, That you have more blasphemed the Spirit, Name, Grace, Word, Saints, and Servants of God, by intitling these as Inspirers, Authors, and Approvers of your most graceless and devilish practices; then ever those hard-hearted and impudent Hypocrites the Pharisees did, by imputing the saving miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ to your Beelzebub the Prince of Devils; whose servants you are, whose work you do, and whose wages you must expect.  
Nor do we doubt but all the curses written in the Book of God (which like that of Meroz, have been causelessly, factiously and falsely by some of you●double●faced Janus' formerly imprecated upon the King and his loya●●●st Subjects) will certainly overtake and fall upon both you and your viperous generation.  
We hope God will in his infinite goodn●sse not suffer this dying Church and desolated Nation, to be further partakers of your Babylonish sins and open Sorceries lest we be partakers of your plagues and torments; which are laid up in the treasures of the wrath both of God and all good men against you and your desperate faction.  
We tell you, we are so far from counting you Saints and Saviours, that we look up●n you as the Tophet which God hath indeed prepared for the King and these Kingdoms, to try and torment them a while; but we doubt not, but God will at last cast you (who are our sin, our death, and our Hell) into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone for ever.  
Unless you repent; so many of you Officers and soldiers as are capable of Repentance, not being so deeply and maliciously engaged in the desperate sins of those men your chief leaders and seducers, who being past feeling, of a most r●probate sense, greedy and unreas●nable sinners, make no conscience to damn your souls, for the perf●cting their ambitious and covetous designs, for which they have hitherto made use of the hands of so many valiant men worthy of a better work and a nobler war, whereby to destroy your and our King, subvert our Parliaments, Laws, Government, and Religion; and all this, against all your and our Protestations, Vows, oaths, Promises and Covenants to God and man.  
O you that have followed these Theudasses, as the seduced people sometime did Absalon in the simplicity of your hearts, not aware of their devilish stratagems, devices, and designs; you that have any touch of God's Spirit, or his grace in your hearts; any fear of God or dread of sin left in you; you that have any sense of your souls eternal welfare (which those either qu●stion or deny) any terror of the wrath of God, or hope of his love and mercy; you that are afraid to degenerate into unreasonable Beasts, or incarnate Devils, (That you may enjoy the benefit of the Kings last charitable Prayers for your pardon and repentance) make haste to depart from the tents of these Achan's, these Korah's, these sinners who know themselves accursed of God and men. Come out of their Babylon, which is become the habitation of Devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, a cage of every unclean and hateful Bird, by a penit●nt and pious withdrawing from such filthy Harpies, such cunning, yet cruel hyenas, such weeping yet devouring Crocodiles; such Banners as bear not the King's Arms, but his head cut from his body; such Banners as are died in the blood of their King, murdered by them, while they pretended to fight for him, and preserve him.  
O drink no more of the wine of the wrath of their Fornications, which they hold forth in that poisonous and filthy cup of their Agreement of the P●ople; with which they hope to make drunk this whole Nation; that as Lot's incestuous Daughters; their lusts may be fully impregnated b● the conjunction of the strength, riches and counsel of these Kingdoms: Know you for certain (O you soldiers) that no place of Repentance can be found among those Esau's and Judas' who have been the chief and mal●cious actors and contrivers of these wicked and cruel confusions; whose names as we well know; so we are sure the hand of God will find them out; making them (who have been the terror and torture of men of all degrees,) to become as Pashur, Magorncissabis; terror round about, as a wheel, in past revolutions from prosperous wickedness to miserable punishments; as chaff tossed to and fro by the breath of God's displeasure, and the execration or abhorrence of all people in all Nations, Christian and Heathen; where ever they are driven to be Vagab●nds and runagates: carrying with them in their festered conscienc●s the forked arrow, of their deceiving and then cruelly destroying both their King, and their Country.  
And this, till they are cast into the chains of utter da●kness, who have quenched the light of Israel; and to everlasting flames, whose wrath kindled with the fire of Hell, hath burned to the very foundations of so happy a Nation.  
No person of worth, honour or Piety, but will ever loath to eat, dri●k, or converse with them, looking upon them as unlucky prodigies: much more will every ingenuous man or woman abhor ever to marry or make any affinity with them, or their families polluted with the blood of their King; but mo●t of all abominated will they be as to any Communion with them in Prayer or other religious duties; who having turned the grace of God into wantonness; cannot but already hear Judases si enter clamours, deep despairings and self-condemnings; like Julian the Apostate, they cannot but feel the secret and sma●t strokes of God in their consciences, for betraying, persecuting and destroying the innocent blood of our King. O E●rth cover it not, O Tim● forget it not, O Heaven fail not to reveng● their prodigal a●d cruel wast of so royal and precio●s blood! Sur●ly without any uncharitab●e ra●●n●sse, they may be suspected to be past all grace and recovery by any Prayers. There remaining for such sinners of the sin to death, such relapsing Swine and reso●bing Dogs, who pre●ending to have escaped the poll of the world, are returned to their mire and vomit; feigning to be illuminated Saints; yet have wrought such works of thick darkness, nothing but a fearful expectation of vengeance, a●d fiery indignation to consume them.  
They have impudently and traitorously judged, condemned, and murdered the King upon the pretence of his raising war against the Parliament; of which fact themselves are doubly and most unquestionably guilty before all the world, twice menacing, invading, and forcibly assaulting their Masters in the two Houses of Parliament. Nor if their charge had been true against the King (which upon his death he both denied, and most evid●ntly p●oved by the legal right he had to the Militia, and the date of their Commissions for raising war, before his Majesties were out) yet were not these Usurpers any competent Judges by God or man appointed; nor was indeed that calumny the real motive of their sudden, bloody, and resumed cruelty; but only that extreme fear, hatred and terror their hypocrisy and villainy had conceived against the King's excellent wisdom, constant piety, and immovable goodness; which they had so often, and so unmeasurably abused; and which they saw was the chiefest obstacle in the way of their Sacrilegious Ambition.  
And now like desperate empirics upon whose c●uel tamperings we have sp●nt our Blood, our Estates, our Lives; the honour of our Nation● and the credit of our Reformed Religion: You (now) pr●●end to stop that bloody Issue (which by tumult and treason you have made) by destroying the whole royal Family, and le●ting out all the ancient blood of our Kings out of the veins of these Kingdoms; to ext rpate Kings, Peers, and Parliaments; and by ●●dle fi●tions of your weak and c●n●used brains to obtrude the fri●p●ry and gull●ry of ●our Agreeme●t of the People.  
As if all rules of Justice, all true Policy and Reason of State, and good grounds of Government (no less than all wickedness, cruelty, hypocrisy and treason) only dwelled in your shallow brains and narrow ●earts: Who for the most part are not guilty of any Learning or Civil Improvements; are open and declared Authors of Ignorance, Con●usion and Tyranny; Enemies to all sober manners and good Order, both in Church and State.  
Nor do those great things (as you call them) which you have hitherto with most inf●mous treachery and cruelty peracted and attained, any way render you considerable with sober, godly and truly wi●e men: For what may not frontless Hypo●rites do, who have forsaken God, and given themselves over to the devil's Captivity, when impowered with Arms and might, they resolve barbarously to break through, and cast off, all bonds of right, trust, duty, credit and conscience to God and Man, as you h●ve done.  
But O you hardened and infatuated Regicides, c●n you in good earnest flatter yourselves, that this foolish Toy, this shameless Imposture, your Bastard Brat, your headl●sse Chimaera, your many-headed Hydra, call●d The Agreement of the people, (but by as ●ull an Antiphrasis, as the Fiends and ●uries of Hell were called Eumenides) will be a salve sufficient to heal, or plaster to cover the wide deep and festered wounds, which your treacherous cruelty hath made upon this kingdom in all Estates, both jointly, as in Parliament, and severally, as in t●e interests of the Crown, the Nobility, the Clergy and the Comm●ns.  
No, yourselves know, that very Ti●le, which you shameles●y impose upon your mad and deformed model is nothing but a lie and F●lsity; b●ing in no sense The A●r●ement of the people, nor we hope ever like to be. Neither in their Representatives the Commons, whom you have disbanded and cashiered in the Majority; leaving ●nly som● few Members left● whose A●inine p●tience and stupidity suffers th' Bala●ms of the Army, as mad and false Prophets to ride upon them for the price of blood, and wages of Iniquity: To which vassalage, we hope no Gentlemen of any Honour or Conscience, will ever betray themselves or their country by returning to that House again, or sitting and voting there, while it is under such insolent Tyrants.  
Nor will you find it more agreeable to the generality of the people throughout the kingdom both Ministers and others, who in their souls disagree as much from what you have done and by that further design, ●s li●ht doth from darkness, liberty from Oppression, and G●d from your Dictator the Devil.  
No, the People of England, will o●e day (if God please to cast his Net upon you, and put his hook into the all d●vouring jaws of your Leviathan) make you and your Dawbers with the untempered mortar of a mouldered and dissolved Parliament, to unde●stand; that they abominate ●ou and your deeds, as much as Hell itself; for your monstrous sins are their own Hell and Horror, more to be detested then all the sinl●sse sufferings of He●l.  
The ancient and most Honourable H●●se of Peers, whom sometimes you flattered into a fool's Paradise, (while the poor shreds and remnants of that Court might serve your ●urn to face yo●r affairs by any s●●w of their Authority) as if you had designed nothing to their dim●●●tion: Yet you have wholly laid t●em aside, as useless and dangerous Idols of honour, fit to be cast out to the Bats and Moles, to be leveled unto or abased beneath, the meanest Animals, and vilest beasts of the People; for though they should, any of them, so dishonour themselves as to descend into the Hell of your infected walls; yet c●uld ●hey never there ascend to any degree of public influence either for counsel or Action, be●ng sure to be always overlay●d, smothered and oppressed by your over voting crew of mechanic Idols; who saving that they have mouths to speak a Treasonable Y●a or No; in other points, have Eyes and see not, Noses but smell not, Hearts but consider not, the blood, cruor, carcases, skulls and dead bo●es of their King and their Brethren of all degrees, with which they have inhuman●ly filled that Charn●ll-house, that Golgotha of that quondam H●use of Comm●ns.  
Sure the numerous, and once both famous and flourishing Nobility of England, besides those of Ireland and Scotland, cannot but infinitely abhor and detest your arrogant despising of them, and trampling upon them; if they have but any drops of their Ancestors noble blood running in their veins, or any sparks of true Honour left in their Breasts: It will at length kindle such a fire of just indignation and revenge in those Cedars as shall consume such base shrubs, such offensive thistles, and such domineering briars: But if their ignoble despondency have so debased them to Luxury and cowardice, that they dare not vindicate the Honour of their Nation, Name and Order, together with the rights of the Crown, the Fountain of their Honour, but are content to be either bowed, or hewed down, or overdripped, or exsuccated by such Aspiring ivies as you are; our counsel is, that the ancient Barons of England, sometimes Peers and chief Counsellors in Parliament, would solemnly Degrade themselves, lay aside their vain and ridiculous Titles, reverse their escutcheons, sell their Scarlet Robes to the Brokers in Long-lane, rather than keep them, either to feed Moths, or to be Monuments to all Posterity, What Capons, Poultroons and degenerous Buzzards they are, descended from such Eagl●s, as many of their Ancestors were.  
But if the Nobility should so far betray and desert themselves, their Posterity, their King and their country (who though their number be not great, yet their interest is; and so might their influence on the public yet be, both great and good, if their spirits and gallantry were such, yet, how can you the greater bugs of the Army; or you the lesser vermin and Maggots of the Commons (who survive and crawl after the dissolution of your Parliament; bred of, and feeding upon, the putrefaction of that House) How can you think, that the People of England, who are generally and highly concerned in the honour, Credit and Religion of the Nation, can ever with a good Con●cience, or any face of common honesty agree to your juggling and Sophistry; as if you or your Western Mahomet and new Antichrist (Hugh peter's) had any Pap●l power to absolve their souls from those Protestations, Covenants, O●ths of Allegiance and Supremacy, by all which they were and are both lawfully and ●eligiously bound, under the greatest curses of God both to the Kingdom in general, and specially to the Parliaments privileges, and the Rights of the King and his lawful Successors: of which gross and manifold perjuries they must make themselves guilty, only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of yo●r greater Brambl●s; That (forsooth) the People of England might enjoy that Liberty, Peace and Plenty under your unavoidable Tyranny, unsatiable Rapine, and cruel Oppression; o● such Beggars as most of you are, and were, which formerly they c●uld never have under the gracious King's wi●e and Loyal Parliaments, the ingenuous Laws, and excellent Government of this sometime flourishing Kingdom.  
Sure you are not yet so much beasts as to think, that the Community of this great people can all govern themselves, or mutually one another: Government must necessarily be settled a●d centred somewhere: Nor is it likely, that your Leaders and bashas, whose hands are embrued in the blood of their King, will ever be so modest, as to lay themselves aside; and denying their own most ambitious and cov●tous desires, to let any others but themselves and their creatures reap the fruit of their projects and labours; for which they have pawned their souls to the Devil, and sold themselves as Ahab to do wickedly.  
But, if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial, let the people of England without your terror, cunning, injurious restraints and exceptions be their own Umpires, and Choosers, whether they will bear the light and easy yoke of the ●aws, and the gentle as well as just chastisements of their penalties under a lawful King, or the iron-yoke of your Tyranny, and the Scorpions of your wills, being so many Evening Wolves, bloody Traitors, and unlimited Tyrants, (whose little fingers in these last three years have been infinitely heavier than the loins of all the Kings, that ever were in this Kingdom) let the people have free suffrages, you will soon find, That the true Agreement of the People (a hundred voices to one) is this, to shake off your cruel Tyranny, to bring to condign punishment such unheard of Traitors; and to invest in his Throne our lawful King Charles the Second; the Eldest Son of that good King you lately murdered. But how can the people of England ever hope to have any other Civil Agreement of theirs bin●ing to you and your pragmat●ck faction; further than your own fancies, lusts, and pleasures think fit; since they find you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man; all Ancient and Fundamental Agreemen's in this Nation, on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings, the privileges of our Pa●liaments, the Liberties of the People, the Order and Purity of our Church, and the happiness of our Nation were settled? What Cautions can you give that you will hereafter submit to any public Agreement; who are such shifters, jugglers and dissemblers, that no Laws, Leagues, Covenants, Protestations or Promises you freely make can bind ●ou; No faith to King, Parliament, People, neighbour Nations, or God A●mighty can hold you; but like the man possessed with the unclean spirit, you break all ties and bonds, casting Church and State into fire or water, as the rash motions of your frantic humours carry you, &c.  
Conscience you can have none; since your lights are so lunatic, and your principles vary every month.  
Credit you have none, who have made bankrupt of the Publiq●e Faith, and forfeited so many solemn and Sacred Obligations to God and Man.  
Sense of Honour or Duty you can have none, since you have neither fear of God, nor reverence of man.  
Estates you have little or none to hazard or lose upon any forfeiture of your Faith or Agreement: And for your Heads and Lives they are now so vile and cheap, that although you are not fit to live, yet they are scarce worth the taking.  
Sure you cannot but appear to yourselves as well as to all men, the most outlawed, notorious and stigmatised Re●els, the most perfidious traitors that ever any King, or Senate, State or People employed or trusted: Having utterly blotted out all your former promeritings and good service so much boasted of; Since the Event proclaims you served not King, Parliament, or Co●ntrey, but your own lusts and villainous designs, which by the advantages of mutinous power you now seek to accomplish under the now void and forfeited Commission of that stupid Saint, that stain of Honour, that dumb show of your silent, extatick and seduced General the poor and Unexcellent Lord  
So that the darkening of your most wicked designs by this title of The Agreement of the People, amounts to no more in the true and last sense of it, but this, That you would have the People of England, and the other two united Kingdoms, willingly to bow down to your Hoddy dody; your all Breech-Idol, as your own Prophet so variously and falsely inspired, justly calls your unlicked and monstrous projects, not of Government, but of Anarchy and Tyranny.  
You would have us all to pledge you in that horrible draught of the King's blood, which you have greedily drank; to approve and ab●● your execrable villainies; and to submit for ever to the intolerable Tyranny of such Goths, Vandals, and Saracens as you are.  
Who are but the devil's lieutenants; Factors for the God of this impure world; signal Antichrists, accurate fulfillers of all the characters foretold, and brands set upon you in the last and perilous times; in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and manners.  
It is hoped, that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful (and by you most miserable) kingdoms; as he gives us grace utterly to abhor your desperate sins●● So that we trust he will never suffer us by a devilish apostasy to fall from all Vows, Oaths, and Covenants to God and man, by which we and our posterity are bound to God, the Crown, and our Countrie●; only to have yours and the D●vils absolution, to m●ke a Cove●●nt and Agreement with Hell and Death; with your most irreligious ●nd damnable designs and practices.  
No, the sin and horror of your ways are now like Absaloms' incestuous and noonday Rapes, discovered in the sight of the Sun and all the world; Nor will the s●btilty of your soft and feigned voices like Sirens any more charm, and enchant the honest people of England, into such Beasts and Monsters, ●s yourselves are; to whose hell●sh deformities you would have a●l others to conform: They have seen and felt too much already of your cruel Hypocr●sies; your devilish and strong delusions.  
Have not your words been always Soloecisms to your purposes and your practices contradictions to your pretences?  
Have you not as much as lies in your power and mal●ce cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty, perjury, cruelty, barbarity, irreligion, and confusion, that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into, after so many Sacred and Solemn Professions of Loyalty, and Reformation to God and the world, whom we called to w●tness upon our souls?  
Agreeable to all which, and to fill up the measure of our sins, as if our Rebellion against God and the King were hitherto but a light and small matter, by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death, by the hands of cruel Edomites and cursed Amal●kites as you are; which most deplorable calamity to us and this Na●ion we penitently look upon as the severest temporal st●oke which the wrath of God, gone out against us, can infl●ct upon us. Yet your impudent hypocrisy now seeks to obtrude upon us your wretched and abhorred Agreement; The sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King; Government without Authority; Magistrates without Power; a People without Laws; a body without an head; Sheep without a Shepherd; Christians without Christ; Churches without Ministers; Ministers without Maintenance; a Nation without Fai●h: In a word, you would have us live as men without souls, without God; wilfully degenerating to beasts, without sense of virtue or vice, shame or honour; without fear of Hell, hopes of Heaven, or thoughts of Eternity; and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites, and Sodomitick Saints, the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Heaven, and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear; Have you not already made the Name of these Pretestant and Reform●d Churches to stink among ●ll Na●ions both Christian and Heathen, through the dead flies, and ●ot en●●ss of your principles and manners.  
Have you not ●urp 〈◊〉 the cunning and c●uelt● o● t●● most ●●su●tick h●a●s a●d 〈◊〉 ●s ●●ch as you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 o● 〈…〉 an● 〈…〉 to adv●●ce 〈…〉 above that of Kings: But you upon baser principles seek to subject the Regal sovereignty to that of the People, as you call it; nor that you mean so in good earnest, further than to delude the people, and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all, both King, Prince, Peers and People.  
We appeal to all sober Christians, whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy; Inasmuch, as they plotted secretly, but you have peracted openly, the murder of the King, the ruin of all the Royal Issue; the overthrow of all our Laws; the blowing up of all Parliaments; the subverting of the whole State and Government; the devastation of your country; the abolition of all true Religion; the extirpation of all Liberty, Peace, Order, and Humanity.  
Your Elder Brother Faux himself might seem a Saint compared to you: whose New Light, and Dark lantern you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions: Nor were the rest of those Powder traitors so criminal as you, if they had effected what they designed; since they neither pr●tended to that Saintsh●p, or that smooth precisen●sse which you have done; nor had they upon them such signal ties of public and special Trust (besides your many voluntary Obligations) The total violation of all which, renders your sins out of measure sinful, and your Treasons incomparably traitorous: beyond what any Ca●elines but yourselves, ever had the desperate boldness to have conceived or committed.  
Had you been our Open Enemies, or self-raising Rebels in a declared r●valry and enmity against King, Parliament and country, we could either have prevented and opposed you; or have born with less shame and disdain your insolent and prevailing Cruelties against them all.  
But when we consider what ostentation and show you made of exact obedience and plenary a●quiescence in their Votes, Results, and Orders, from whom you had your unhappy Commission; also of loyal regard to his majesty's safety, Rights, Honour and Posterity, (to whom some of your chief Commanders (as they well know) engaged their souls, as much as was possible for any mortal men to do, devoting themselves to all the Curses of God, t●mporall and etern●ll upon the breach and failer of their words to his Ma●esty.  
Add to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting, of speedy and impartial endeavou●s to settle all things in Peace, Justice, due L●berty and Piety; which how faithfully you have effected, the present Deplored state of this Church and State may witness; whose face is now miserably squalled and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King, and those most indelible Reproaches wherewith you have blasphemed our God, our King, and our Religion.  
We the people of England, of all sorts, Lords, Gentry, Clergy and Commons, do again and again declare to God and all the world, the present Age and Posterity so long as the world shall endure, our infinite abhorrence, utter detestation, and to●all d●sagre●ment from what you the Officers of the Army; and your most slavish, ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done, or shall further do, (through God's vengeance upon this Nation) in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated villainies.  
Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Alm●ghty God, (not in order to the sati●faction of our private ma●●ce, or desire of revenge on any of you (though our par●icular injuries hav● been many from you) but o●●y in order to the publiqu● Vindication of Go●s glory, the Ho●our of the Reform●d Religion, the Loyalty, Faith and Credit of this Nat●on, the wiping away those foul sins of Tr●●s●n, Perjury, Truce-breaking and regal Parricide, (in all which villainies your execrable Faction, wallowing in the blood of your King and fellow-Subjects now seek impenitently and irreparably to implunge this whole Nation;) That we m●ght (as some solace under our immense sorrows, and tyrannising miseri●s infl●cted by you) but live to see God's temporal judgements so far upon you, as may pull down your Lucif●rian pride, and make your obstinate minds to see the horror of your villainies; That like Cain, you may be afraid of all men; like Judas, accursed to all Posterity; given over to Sa●an, and excommunicated by all good Chris●●ans, as murderers of your Father, Killers of your King; That you may ever be ha●ted with the r●full Ghost, and hideous phantasm of the King, whom you have trayterousl● butchered: That the exemplary vengeance of God may be upon you and your Adherents so rema●kably, and in such a proportion to your villainies, that if there be any place left for Repentance, you may find it; and yet all the world may see, your destruction is the Lord's doing, and say, doubtless, there is a God that judgeth the Earth.  
Nor do we despair, but God will upon our true Repentance for our great sins and sup●ne folly (which gave you advantages to fulfil your most odious villainies) so far remember his mercies to this most deplorable Kingdom, and by you (as so many wild boars) desolated Churches, as to stir up some powerful Avenger of the King's blood; and all that other innocent blood, which the depths and dece●ts at first, the force and violence afterward, o● your bloody Faction hath occasioned and caused to be shed; by your tumultuating the people; your instigating the spirits of the two Houses with false and panic fears; your calumniating the King, and perverting his gracious purposes; your enflaming the enmities, and heightening the Animosities on both sides; your fraudulently voting, No Addresses, and publishing that lying and most infamous libel for your pretended grounds; your widening the differences, and hindering all fair equable closings, both formerly, and in that last memorable Treaty at Newport; of which you were the most rude, savage and perfidious Violators, that ever History recorded.  
We know, that you can now only trust in your Arm of Flesh, in the devil's aid and council, having in your works denied the Living God; instead of whom, your Belly and the present World, are become your God and your glory: for the satisfaction of which, and the attaining places of profit and power (agreeable to your lusts, which are enlarged like Hell) you have dared to advance thus far to the destroying of King, Parliament and laws; which were the only boundaries and conservers of our Peace, Properti●s, Liv●s and Liberties; yet after all this, you inscribe on your Bloody Banners, and impudent foreheads, The Agreement of the People; and the Restorers of our Liberties.  
Which Plots, although you think them your masterpieces for artifice, juggling and policy (that so you might by fair words and flattering lies, allure the many and meaner People to maintain those Monsters which you have brought forth) yet you must know, That the People of Engl●nds eyes are not so bloodshot, nor their Consciences so seared, nor their Hearts so disloyal, nor their senses so bewitched by your magic and Charms, as not to see through, and fully both discover and detest your devilish designs of Tyranny, Anarchy and Profanen●sse, whereto you drive, through all these cloudings of immethodical nonsense, and indigested scribblings; which like your late damnable Remonstrance and your other illiterate and irrational Papers discover; that where there is so much want of grace and common honesty as in you, it is impossible not to want ●ven those shows of common sense and vulgar Reason, which are n●cessary (not to justify (which no tongue, pen or wit of devils can do) but so far as to palliate your filth, and cover your nakednesse● or to render your wicked projects but tole●●bly plausible to those, that have the grossest perception of things.  
The better to temper this your Cup of deadly poison, to please the vulgar relish (which you think is gross and undecerning) you tempt them with the name of Liberty; first in civil things; which all men see is but a mere Cheat, while they are l●ke to be held under your Iron hands, and squeezed under your tyrannous wills, and int●lerable Exactions; instead of in●o●ing the benefit of our ancient and famous laws (the best that any subjects in the world enjoyed, the ju●t and only bo●●ds of our Liberti●s, and Conserver● of our both Pe●ce and P●osperities; to which all ●●n●st men (who have no jo●n● stock with you in k●●very, Pov●rty and baseness) desire most humbly and ●arnestly ●o return; D●●pairing (an● w●t● good cause● that ●v●r their L●b●rties and P●ope●ties can be either a●vanced or def●●ded b● y●u, who have been so insol●nt u●u●pe●s over King, Parliament, and all our la●s and liberties; which o●r forefathers indeed ●njoyed m●ny years, through God●●l●ssing and ●h● Fatherly care of their P●●nc●s, to a g●ea●e● measure of peace, plen●y and Pie●y, ●hen ever can be hoped for under such bloody L●eches, such n●merous and unsatiable Caterpillars, as we have felt you to be: N●y, we tell you, we so far disdain, your hypocrisy, Treachery and Tyranny, that we had rather be under the Tyranny of our rightful King (of whose justice and clemency we nothing doubt) then owe our Liberty, as you call it, to such vile Mushrooms and detested Traitors as you are; who boast of Liberty, yet are indeed slaves to your damned and desperate lusts; studying nothing but how to delude the people with the name and fancy of Liberty; as if you would persuade us rather to be the devil's freemen, as you are, (led Captaive by his will) then to be Loyal Subjects to our lawful and most hopeful King; or hum●le servants to God, whose sacred ties are many w●yes upon our souls, binding us to fear God, and to honour the King; and no less to abhor you; and have no fellowship with such as are given to seditious or perjurious changes: forbidding us to use our Liberty, as men and Christians, for a cloak off maliciousness, perjury, tyranny, hypocrisy, and all licentious villainies, as you have done.  
The next pretence wherewith you bait the Mousetrap, and temper the Ratsbane of your Agreement, is that of Liber●y in Religion; your meaning is; That men may be free to profess no Religion; or any which they call such, so it be not the true one; which you know is most opposite to your seditious, traitorous, merciless, uncharitable and bloody Superstitions: The very truth is; you aim at such an Intolerable toleration in Religion, as you think is most agreeable to the profane hearts, and licentious manners of the most debauched lives and Atheistical Spirits, with which you have already pestered this English world.  
In order to this Truth-darkning, and Soul-damning design, we know you follow your Leader the Devil, and his Lieutenant General, to the utter dissolving of all Government, Order, and Discipline in the Church, to discourage all learned, godly and painful Ministers; to rob and spoil them of all settled maintenance; to reduce them and the work of the Ministry to that contempt, which in the pride and luxury of these times follows poverty and beggary; That they depending on the people's good will and charity, (which in many you have made bad and cold enough toward the best and ablest preachers) or upon your insolent and niggardly stipends, they and their families may either eat their own dung, and drink their own piss; or be forced by necessities of life to desert their Function and places; so as to leave their Congregations destitute of all holy public duties; or expose them to those Military Wolves and mechanic Foxes, which you have in great store provided for the supply of all places, in Church as well as State.  
Thus doth your rage reach as high as Heaven, and as low as Hell: But we hope the God of Heaven will look down upon us, and our children in mercy, and by some speedy rebuke of such Satans not suffer your folly and fury to proceed any further, it being manifest to all moral and sober men, that you are Factors not only for yourselves, to devour our Estates, Houses, Lands, Liberties, Peace, and Lives; but like the great Dragon, you pour forth a Sea off blood and poison, ignorance, and profaneness, such as may for ever drown both our and our children's souls in Heathenish Barbarism, Superstition, Atheism, and Eternal destruction.  
But know O you neither millstones, you poisonous asps, you King-killing-Basilisks, you desperate deceivers and damnably deceived: That although you have against all Faith of Turks, Jews, or any Heathens, by fraud and force usurped upon our secular and civil liberties; so that at present we have not any formed power to oppose you, and call your ringleaders to a sev●re accou●t for your unheard of crimes and injuries against our King and our Coun●rey. Yet sh●ll our constancy in, and our suffe●ing for our Rel●gion, and our encouragement of godly, learned and faithful ministers, to our best abilities, make the world to see, that there is no Agreement between Christ in us, and Belial in you; our God, and your Mammon.  
We hope the Triumphing of such Hypocrites as you are, is but short; nor shall you long insult over the dead and divided corpse of our late Lord and sovereign King; whose Wisdom, Piety, Faith, and Patience God (we doubt not) hath crowned with Glory and Immortality; having perfected those many Princely gifts and Divine graces in him (as God often doth in his dearest Saints and Martyrs, after the example of his crucified Son Jesus Christ) by his sufferings and your cruelties; whose Memory and Posterity will be ever dear, precious, and honoured, to us and our succeeding generations as a King; who now appears, beyond the Errors and Jealousies of former surmi●es ●chiefly raised and fomented by your false and envious Faction) to have been the most constant Pil●ar, the Noblest Patron, the resolutest Protector, and he most patient Martyr for our Laws, Liberties, Lives, and Religion: yea and of our Parliaments true privileges; which his M●jesty best saw, and fullest declare● at first to have been shamefully invaded and out-raged by your Tumults, after by your Armies, next by your new modelings, at last by actual mutinings, impude●t menaces, violent and warlike impressions upon their safety, liberty, faith, loyalty and honour, with which purposes you sometime falsely aspersed, and afterward accused the King: and for which calumnies you most unjustly condemned and traitorously murdered him; yourselves being most truly and notoriously guilty of that, for which you wickedly, cruelly and injustly destroyed your and our King. Shall you escape the righteous judgement of God? Will not God visit you for these things? shall he not be avenged of such 〈◊〉 Hypocrites?  
●or is it without a special Providence, that you should be left wholly naked and d●stitute of all pretended du● Authority in the fulfilling your ex●crable vill●nies, to which you would now fain invite the people of England, not having any sh●w or colour of any Parliamentary Votes, Authority, ●r Commands to countenance ●our mischiefs, murthe●s, and tyran●●●s, not any concurrence of either Lords or Commons; whom now under force, and without all freedom (becoming either Gentlemen or Christians) we must tell you, we look upon as no House; and their enforced or enslaved Votes as null; their after sittings and complyings with you, being nothing but infamous and base prostitutings of the Honour of that House, and Vassallatings of the Dignity and Liberty both of the Parliament and People of England, to the Tyranny of a few Mutinous cutthroats, traitorous rebels, and bloody schismatics; who are in no sense to be counted the People of England; any more than Scabs, or Plague-sores, or leprosy, or putrid Ulcers, and noisome Excrements are to be ●●puted any part of the Body, whose grief, burden and annoyance they are.  
So that unless you can flatter yourselves to have done well and worthily in all you have cru●lly, insolently and traiterou●ly acted against King, Lo●ds, Commons, Gentry, Clergy and all honest men.  
Unless you can propound something to recompense the inestimable Injuries you have done to all Estates in these three kingdoms, as in other acts of your Tyranny and Treason, so chiefly in that unparalleled villainy of murdering such a King, and depriving us of so Incomparable a Prince, for Wisdom, Piety, Gravity, Patience, Magnanimity, Courage, Constancy, Charity, and all other virtues most adorning a Man a King and a Christia● (the loss of whom all 〈◊〉 lives of you and your Approvers cannot countervayl or expiate, being but as so many dog's heads to such a Boon.)  
Unless you can stop the Mouths of all men, or cut their Throats, or sea● their Consciences, or persuade them to damn their Souls, for your sakes to gratify a few C●uterised Consciences, bloody and ambitious spirits among you.  
You cannot but hear the sound of much Vengeance coming upon you, to which your own black Souls summon you, and which your own Consciences will in the first place silently, but yet severely execute upon you.  
Nor will your Seeming Smiles, and forced confidences, nor yet the Applauses of your sordid Flatterers, and desperate Confederates, nor yet the assistance of your numerous and deluded Soldiers, be able to exempt you from that storm of fire and Brimstone, that pit, s●are, Curse and Hell, which pursues you, and is ready to overtake you.  
How can such Zimri's, who have so traitorously slain such a King, their Lord and Master, ever hope to have peace or impunity in this or the other World? Since the Justice of Divine Providence (in a Case where his Name was not blasphemed, and so his glory not so concerned as in this, (of your murdering so lawful and so Christian a King) suffered not any of the murderers of Julius Caesar, who was but an Usurper, to die other than a violent and immature death. Nor will (we hope) our Solomon by God's blessing and his Subjects assistance, suffer the Hairy Scalps of those who were the chief Counsellors and Actors in destroying his dear Father, and our Dread sovereign, to go down to the Grave in peace, or to die a dry death; who have shed the blood of war, in a time when all Differences were by a Treaty drawn to a Peace and Union.  
We can never think, that a Babel of so confused a fashion, of such a headlong height, as yours is; such a Toads-stool suddenly grown out of the Earth of beggary and Ignorance, by Fraud and Cruelty, lately watered with the blood of the King and his Subjects, can long thrive or stand; having no foundation in the world, or any show of reason, equity, honour, peace, liberty or piety to support it. Not any seeming Authority (for due and legal you could have none upon Earth.) Not any general desire, delight, consent or Agreement, in what you have done, or propound further to do; but rather a general detestation, an utter abhorrence, and a perfect hatred of you and your deeds; which honest men will then agree to, and subscribe, when they can be content to love Death and Hell, or to hate God and their own Souls.  
Nor doubt we, but many of those Soldiers, whose valour and simplicity you have thus far grossly abused by engaging them in such desperate assistances (whose profit will redound to but few or none of them,) when their Christian, penitent and smiting hearts shall come to see (as no doub● many of them already do, who are not throughly poisoned with your desperate Principles) to what horrid villainies they are made Gossips and accessary by your Fraud and hypocrisy, they will speedily return from you, dead Dogs, desperate Sheba's, and cursing Shimei's; whose mouths and hearts are full of the gall of bitterness, whose hands and feet are swift to shed blood, who know not the way of Peace, nor have any fear of God before your eyes; whose Curse is to boast yourselves in your iniquity; to fall from one wickedness to another, till eternal vengeance seize upon you.  
Penitently smiting their breasts, as those that came from crucifying Christ Jesus, (a work proportionate to the malice and cruelty of you our King's murderers, our Barabbasses) whose barbarity hath at once deprived the King of what is wont to be dearest to men, his Life and his kingdoms; robbing his Subjects, the Christian World, and all mankind, of the greatest glory, and most Illustrious example of virtue and Piety that ever sat upon a Christian Throne; the most unspotted person, the wisest ●rince, the most Charitable Christian, the most imitable pattern for moderation in Prosperity, for patience in Adversity, for devout humility toward God, for judicious zeal to true Religion, for constant love to the Church, for winning Majesty upon all men, that ever swayed the sceptre of this or any other kingdom; Accessible in his brightest splendour, Magnanimous in his greatest Diminutions; of a thriving and victorious virtue under the heavyest pressures and Crosses; w●ose excellent skill was never so much discovered as in the late storms; whose darkenings rendered him not less formidable to his Enemies, or less venerable to his Friends● nor was he ever more terrible to those, that are perfect haters of God, of Him, and of all goodness than when they saw, that the eminency of his virtues was not to be smothered by their Calumnious Expressions; but the beams and lustre of Divine Majesty in him daily conquered all Eclipsings that either his own misfortunes or your malice cast upon him.  
This was the Man, this the Christian, this the King, this the Saint, this the Martyr, whom these Judas' have betrayed, these ●ewes destroyed, these cannibals devoured.  
A sin questionless exceeding in many respects that of Christ's Crucifiers, (not as to the dignity of the person, wherein Christ infinitely surpassed the Majesty as well as merit of all Earthly Kings) but as to that eminency of Civil Dignity and sovereignty, wherewith the King from God was invested; which Christ Jesus never assumed, contenting himself with the form of a servant, and subjecting h●mself to Civil Magistracy. Also in regard of that malice, hypocrisy and pretenslesse Cruelty, which these Monsters showed against the King, destitute of any show of Due Authority; which the Crucifiers of our Saviour wanted not; urging also a Law they had, by which they said, (though falsely) he ought to die: What Law the King's murderers either produced or pretended to justify their Authority, their Accusations, or their Sentence against, and Execution upon the King, we and they are yet to learn; nor is it possible they ever should; since all● our laws do most fully and cleary declare the person of the King, as supreme, Sacred, Unaccountable, Inviolable by any Person, process, judgement or Punishment on Earth.  
When the Soldiery by Sea and Land shall once seriously reflect upon and consider the infinite odious aggravations, wherewith this horrid murder of such a Man, such a Prince, and their lawful King, is laden (to which villainy, their Valour was abused, to be only as bloodhounds, Butchers, and hangmen) no doubt they will conceive so just and generous a disdain, that no men's hands will be more ready to avenge their own dishonour, the shame of their Profession, the wound and stain of their Consciences, the Blood of their King, the Dignity of Parliaments, and the Loyalty of their Nation, (never so branded in any fo●mer age) than those soldiers, whose Valour you the Achitophel's, jeroboam's, Haman's and Ma●hiavels of our times have basely abused, only to serve you in accomplishing your Execrable villainies, and to preserve you from just and speedy Vengeance; which (as Severus said to those villains and traitors, who had murdered their Emperor Pertinax) can neither be invented for you, nor executed upon you, proportionable to the many and outrageous villainies committed by you.  
We the People of Engla●d, cannot but appeal to God, your own Consciences, (such as they are, cauterised and polluted with the Blood of our King) also to the judgement of all men, that have but common sober sense, Whether any Age, any Monuments of former times, any History of human Affairs, have ever recorded any excess of Riot, any superfluity of wickedness to have ever flowed from the hearts of any men, or have been f●lfilled parallel to yours? Whether any Combination of desperate men, filled with the Quintessence of all wickedness, fraught with flattery, cruelty, hypocrisy, tyranny, and all degrees of malicious villainy, incident to human nature, have since the world began, and mankind hath been planted upon the Earth, ever committed the like villainies (which exceed all names of Vice and Infamy) or ever more deserved to be made a public Curse, and universal Execration to all mankind, to have their persons cut off from the face of the Earth, and buried with the burial of an ass; to have their Posterity, as a pes●ilent Progeny spewed out of the Land, (Unless they fully declare their unfeigned and utter abhorrence of their father's villainies, who have defiled the Land with the blood of the King;) That their Houses ●which are neither great nor many) may be rased; that their memories may be blotted out from under Heaven, or only remembered with perpetual scorn, cursing and infamy.  
Since they have besides many other preparatory mischiefs, by murdering the King, disinheriting his Posterity, and dissolving this ancient and flourishing Monarchy, (as far as lies in their power and malice) put us upon this miserable choice; Either cowardly, basely and shamefully to submit to their detestable and unsatiable Tyranny; or to be ever oppressed with a war in our own bowels; in which we must either expose our Lives and Fortunes to these men's covetous Cruelty, or help to enslave and destroy ourselves by assisting these Usurpers; or compel the rightful Heir of these Kingdoms, our hopeful King CHARLES the Second, to plead and assert his Right by a foreign Sword; being denied that just assistance, which as his Subjects we ought to afford him against the murderers of his and our country's Father; his own Enemies, and indeed of all Kingly Majesty, and mankind; the dissolver's of our ●arliaments, the Oppressors of our Liberties, the Exhausters of our Estates, the Suckers of our Blood, the Blasphemers of our Religion, the Damners of our Souls (Unless God preserve us,) the Crucifiers afresh of the Lord of Glory, and putting him to open shame.  
The cry of the blood of our King, the voice of the Genius of this Nation, and the Alarm of God's Justice, call aloud to all honest men of foreign Nations round about; to all loyal Subjects in these three kingdoms, to all men of any common honesty or sober profession of Religion in all the world; summoning them to san●●ifie themselves, and lustrate and expiate not only this English Nation and these three kingdoms, but all mankind, and Civil Societies, by taking speedy vengeance, and executing Gods and man's severest Justice on these per●idious Truce-breakers, proud Usurpers, cruel Hypocrites, traitorous Apostates, and barbarous King-killers.  
We cannot but send the divided parts of our dead but endeared King, now a glorious Saint, (whom these men have with subtlety and cruelty lately murdered) to all the Tribes of this our Israel, to desire the advice of all good men, to see and consider, whether this hideous villainy were committed with their consent, or deserve to be patronised with their Agreement; whether it was ever thus done in any Christian Nation or kingdom, by any Army of pretending Saints, or any men, we say not of Common Honesty, but of the most exquisite and studied villainy: Whether any thing can be produced out of Common Principles of sound Reason, out of the laws of God, out of Christ's Holy Precepts, out of the Actions and Examples of any holy and good men; or lastly, out of any letter, sense or meaning of our laws, whereby in the least degree to countenance, cover or excuse the Actions of these men; or to satisfy any man's Conscience, that doth not utterly abhor and seriously endeavour to expiate the sin and guilt of such Detestable villainies.  
According to the heaped and overrunning measure of their open sins, and abominable villainies, so let every good man, that fears God, knows the Memory and virtues of so good a King, loves his country, will keep a good Conscience, and desires to save his own Soul, not only withdraw all voluntary assistance from them, lest they seem approvers of their wicked Deeds, and be partakers of their Guilt and Judgements; but heartily pray, and constantly endeavour the Restoring of the Crowns and kingdoms to the only lawful Heir, the late King's Eldest Son, upon whom are many happy Presages, and great Expectations of Glorious achievements; whom God hath in Mercy, we hope, to these Churches and kingdoms, preserved out of the hands of these bloody Villains, who Declared in their Devilish Remonstrance, their purpose to destroy him, with his Brother the Duke of York, and mingle their tender bloods with that of their Father; whom special Providence hath prepared for great and excellent Designs, by the maturity of his years, by the procerity of his person, by the gallantry of his Spirit, by the excellency of his Understanding, by the gravity of his Manners, and severity of his Example, far beyond what is wont or expected in young Men, or young Princes in point of Piety and virtue.  
This is that Person, this that Prince, worthy of his high Descent, worthy of such a Father, whose worth already promises to exceed all you can desire or hope for from a Good and Gracious King; upon him God, and our Laws, and our oaths, commands all loyal and Religious Subjects to fix their Eyes, to unite their Hearts and Hands to the Love and Assistance of him, to expiate the sin and shame of their former Errors and Defaults, which have produced such sad and abhorred Effects; to break the Strength, to extirpate the Persons, to oppose the Designs, ●nd to revenge the villainies, which have been with an high hand committed against God, the King, the Parliament, the laws, and the kingdoms, by these Miscreants, men always of Desperate Fortunes, but now of so Desperate minds and Manners, that all their paths lead to the Chambers of Death, and their steps are descending to the pit of Hell.  
From which the Lord in Mercy deliver the people of this Nation, by prospering our rightful 〈◊〉 and by his Valour and virtues, r●deeming us speedily from the sins, sufferings and tyrannies of these bloodthirsty and deceitful men; with whom no Agreement can be made by any man, who doth not desperately resolve to sin against the Holy Ghost, and eternally damn his own Soul.  
Rom. 16. 17. Now we beseech you, Brethren, mark them which cause Divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine you have learned, and avoid them.  
18. For they that are such, serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own Bellies, and by good Words and fair Speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.  
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Englished thus  by Edw. Hooker. 
Charles, best of Kings, for God's Laws and the Land's,  
Was martyred, murdered by unhallowed hand.   

IN THOMAM FOOT, Praetorem LONDINENSEM Anno Dom. 1648. Parricidio Sereniss. Regis Caroli I. infami.  
LOndino (miserum!) similis Respublica nostra,  
Est; ubi PES regnat, proteriturque CAPUT.   

Our commonwealth to London (more's the pity!)  
Is not unlike, where Foot is Head o th' City.  W. D.  

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Here lies the Mother of that Cursed Son,  
Who hath three Kingdoms, and two Kings undone.   

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Cromwellus jacet hic, scelerato sanguine tinctus;  
Morte tamen siccâ (mirum!) descendit ad Orcum.   

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Populi  
Monachi   sua Regna capessit  
Maii primo, 1660.    

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THE Natural man's Case stated, Or an Exact Map of the little World, Man, in 17 Sermon●, by Mr. Christopher Love; to which is added a Sermon preached at his funeral, by Mr. Thomas Manton of Ne●nington: In Octavo.  
A Comment on Ruth; together with two Sermons, one teaching how to live well, the other minding all how to die well; by Thomas Fuller, Author of the Holy State.  
Gospel public Worship, Or the Translation, Metaphrase, Analysis, and Exposition of Rom. 12. from verse. 1. to 8. describing the complete Pattern of Gospel Worship.  
Also an Exposition of the 18. Chapter of Matthe●● to which is added, a Discovery of Adam's threefold Estate in Paradise, Viz. Moral, Legal and Evangelical; by Thomas Brewer. In Octavo.  
God's Glory in man's happiness, or the freeness of God's Grace Electing us, by Francis Tailor of Canterbury. In Octav.  
The Lord's Prayer unclasped, being a Vindication of it against all schismatics and heretics, called Enthusiasts and Pratricilli. By Harwood, B. D.  
The Grand Inquiry who is the Righteous man, by William Moor Minister in Whaley in Lancashire.  
The Just man's Defense, being the Declaration of the Judgement of James Arminius, concerning Election and Reprobation.  
Pearls of Eloquence, or the School of compliments, wherein Ladies and Gentlewomen may accommodate their Court by practice, by William Elder Gent. In 12.  
The universal Body of physic, in Five Books; Comprehending the several Treatises of the Nature of Diseases, and their Causes, of Symptoms, of the preservation of Health, and of Cures. Written in Latin by that famous and learned Doctor Laz. Riverius, Counsellor and physician to the present K. of France. and Professor in the University of Montpelier. Exactly translated into English by William Car Practitioner in physic.  
An Exposition with Practical Observations on the 9 first Chapters of the Proverbs. By Fran. Taylor Minister of Canterbury. In Quarto.  
An Exposition with Practical Observations on the whole Book of Canticles, by Jo. Robotham Minister of the Gospel: In Quarto.  
An Idea, or body of Church-Discipline in the theoric and practic, by Mr. Roggers: In Quarto.  
Lucas Redivivus, Or the gospel-physician, prescribing (by way of Medicine) Divine physic to prevent Diseases, not yet entered upon the Soul, by John Anthony, Doctor in physic: In Quarto.  
The original of the Dominion of Princes, founded upon God's sovereignty over the whole Earth, or the Kingly Prerogative instituted by God, and proved from the Holy Scriptures to be Jure Divino. By R. W. D. D.  
The History of his Sacred Majesty CHARLES the II. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. Begun from the Murder of his royal Father of happy memory, and continued to this present Year, 1660.  
The Subjects Joy for the King's Restoration, cheerfully made known in a Sacred Masque, Gratefully made public for his Sacred Majesty. By the Author of INQUISITIO ANGLICANA.  
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