AN Impartial Survey Of such as are not, and such as are, fitly Qualified FOR CANDIDATES For the approaching PARLIAMENT. Humbly offered to all that truly Love their King and Country.  
By a hearty wellwisher to the Prosperity of Both.  
1. THE Presbyterians are such, for there is not one in forty of them (in the Rank of Politicians) for they have their several Classes, as well as the Priests have Orders, but will with all the force of their inexhaustible stock of Seditious Rhetoric, justify the late Rebellion, and such without all question will be ready to foment a new One; besides their insufferable Pride in owning no Superiors (but themselves) in Spirituals.  
2. The Independants are such, for besides their horrid and detestable adherence to the High Court of Justice (as they Blasphemously called that Infernal Brood) their strict Conjunction with the most Damnable Iniquities of the twelve years' Interval, they have such Democratical Principles of Government, as is inconsistent with human Society.  
3. The Anabaptists are such, and not to be trusted in any Affair that concerns the Government, for they and the Independants are Brethren in Iniquity, and joined Hand and Head (in all the wicked stratagems) throughout the Usurpation, to involve the Nation in a perpetual slavery, and that 〈◊〉 methods so unconscionable and bloody, as the most Savage Barbarian would abhor.  
4. The Rumpe● are such, they having run Parallel with (if not exceeded) all the dete●●●ble Villainies above cited.  
5. All those are su● (if any such there be) that did actually receive Pensions with design t●●nflame the Nation.  
6. The Worcester-Fig● men are such, for if they had not in their hearts approved the horrid Murder of the Father, they would not have attempted to imbrue their h●●ds in the blood of the Son, which must be the natural result of that opposition: For than they had laid aside their Visor and walked bare-Faced, and made use of none of those delusory pretences of bringing him home to his Parliament, and making him a glorious King.  
7. The Papists, Quakers, Levellers, Brownists, and Fifth-Monarchy-men are all alike obnoxious, for though they differ in themselves, yet are they Confederated together in an inseparable Union against the Common Enemy, as they call the Church of England, and do with the utmost of their force and skill levelly their inexorable Malice against the very Root of it: and that their Malice is as implacable against the State I refer the Reader to their former practices (which instruct far better than Precepts) which Modern History is pregnant with. They have deceived us once, for which God forgive them, but if ever they deceive us more, than I say God forgive us; and if some men there be (as I fear there are too many) of distinct Principles from the rest (guided by their own Avaricious and Ungodly Appetites) that would build up the State on the Ruins of the Church, be assured that God will never bless the work of such hands, and such a Structure cannot stand. King James his Aphorism, no Bishop, no King, we have (by a most lamentable and sad experience) found true. It is true we cannot Divine of the future behaviour of men, but when they have, like Cain, a Mark set upon them, we ought to fly them, as we would Infection, and let it be remembered that such as give their Votes for any under these Circumstances, are , wilfully blind, or of the same Leven, and do as much as in them lies, to repeat the same Mischiefs over again.  
Now to choose such as are without exception, such I say are men of good Estates, true Sons of the Church, and of untainted Loyalty to their Prince, and such men can have no designs apart from the good of their Country. Some of those brave Souls are still living, that exhausted their Estates, and emptied their Veins in the Defence of Church and State, and is it not more Rational to think, nay is it not Irrational to think otherwise, that these men or their Sons, will rather do the like again, than such or the Sons of such, as once steered a quite contrary Course, till they made Shipwreck of three Kingdoms? It is probable they may (nay, it is certain they will if permitted) again make long harangues for the Liberty and Property of the Subject, (which they invaded and destroyed) Redress of Grievances, which they multiplied a 1000 times over, Reformation of Church Government, which they turned into a Chaos of Confusion; and though they have laid aside (as a State-device out of date) their Religious Mask, (with which they covered such multitudes of horrid Impieties, as would make a Pagan blush to behold) yet they have found out fresh slights to debauch the people from their Allegiance. These are, I say, our  Schismatical Separatists, whose Masterpiece now is to persuade the honest and  Church of England man, that their Spiritual nor Secular concerns cannot be safe, except they choose such men as may be as obnoxious to our present Sovereign, as some others were barbarous to his Father: and the more effectually to wheadle them into this snare, they tell the●, that it was not they (good men!) that Murdered him, but the Papists; and if they can but throughly delude the people with this Imposture, their Game will play itself without trouble of shifting Scenes, for the Good Old Cause, which is still so nauseous, will then have a savour Relish. True it is, the Priests and Jesuits had their part (and acted into the life) in fomenting those unhappy and inhuman Discords; as A●dreas ab Habernfields Discovery to Sir William Boswell, and from him transmitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury (that Mirror of Learning and Pious Constancy) whom they intended to have Massacre● for being so firm a Protestant, and the Parliament actually murdered under the false pretence of being a Papist, do plainly demonstrate. So that we see, that as our dear Lord and Saviour was Crucified between to Thiefs, so was the Lords Anointed our dear Sovereign between the Jesuits and fanatics: It matters not what Principles the High-Court of Justice were of, whether Presbyterian, Independent (or which is most likely) Infidel, or a mixed crew made up of all sorts; but this use may be made on't, there were and still are many thousands in this Kingdom (and few Towns so inconsiderable as not to have some of them) that entitled themselves the Asserters of the Protestant Religion, and were (in their several Capacities) strenous Abettors of their most wicked and execrable Practices, and as they did then, so they do still call themselves Protestant's. And so far are they from expressing any true signs of Repentance, that I fear they are more ready to justify the Fact, and that for this Reason: At Crouches Meetinghouse in moorfield's, and several others about the City, where on Sundays are eighteen hundred or two thousand Hearers, they keep the Fifth of November mighty strict, which proves them not Papists, but on the Thirtieth of January there is not a soul in them; and so far are some of them from keeping it as a day of Humiliation, that they make it a day of Feasting: these are bad signs, my Masters.  
Some of the misled Flock of Presbyterians make loud boasts of the Loyalty of their Omnipotent Doctor's Love and Baxter, and how the first died a Martyr for the sake and cause of the King; but to rectify that mistake, see his Narrative, where he prays that God would redeem the King from the Iniquity of his Father's House. Again, It is earnestly wished that our King's heart may be tender and be truly humble before the Lord for the sins of his Father's House. And see his speech upon the Scaffold where he says, I did (it is true) oppose in my Place and Calling, the Forces of the late King, and were he alive again, and should I live longer, the Cause being as then it was, I should oppose him longer. And in his Petition, he doth protest in the presence of God, the searcher of all hearts, that he knoweth no Plot or Design against the present Government (the Rump) nor is he privy in the least, to any preparations for, or intendments towards any Intestine Insurrections, or Foreign Invasions, or to any Correspondence now held with any in or of the Scottish Nation, or any other whatsoever. And again, He promiseth never to Plot, Contrive, or design any thing to the hurt of this present Government, (Rump) and that he is sorrowful for his high Crimes and Offences against the Parliament, in his late and great miscarriages: and desires them to pass by these sundry and great Offences. And concludes thus, That I shall devote the remainder of my days to the Glory of God, and good of his people, the peace and safety of this Commonwealth, against all the Malignant Enemies and Opposers thereof. By this we may see his Loyal Conceptions and Endeavours for the King's Restauration; and that St. Baxter comes not a jot short of him, see his Preface to his Holy Commonwealth, where he says, That if the War was to begin again, he would take the Parliaments part; If I should do otherwise, I should be guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Sovereign Power of the Land, for I knew not how to resist or disobey them, without violation of the Command of God, Rom. xiii. Let every soul be subject to the Higher Power, and without incurring the danger of the Condemnation there threatened to Resisters. Now if these grave, prudent, modest, sober, sincere, and unexampled Patterns of Loyalty go thus far, we may cease to wonder, when we hear others of that Fraternity with greater boldness, and in plain terms justify the late Rebellion: and we all know the event of that was, of a Glorious King (as they canted it to gull the people) to make a Royal Martyr. Nor is it any wonder, that their Allegiance should have so feeble a tie upon them, the word of God being obligatory with them no further, than it conduceth to their design. For tell them, God Almighty by the mouth of his Holy Prophet Samuel says, Rebellion is like the sin of Witchcraft, and the reiterated admonition of the Apostles, Fear God, honour the King; Where the word of a King is, there is power, and who shall say what dost thou? And happy is the man that feareth the Lord and the King, Prov. xxiv. 21. A divine sentence is in the lips of the King, his mouth transgresseth not in Judgement, Prov. xiv. 10. This their Sophisters tell us, is not to be understood in the extensive Latitude of the Word, but must admit of Construction, though we are Commanded by the Word of God in direct terms, not to add to or diminish aught from the Scripture. And not unlike this was their Exposition on that Clause in the Covenant (which they so solemnly swore to adhere to) to defend the King's Person, which they expounded to be the Kingdom. This is true Jesuit all over, yet that the wicked Rump Parliament, nor their Complices were Papists, nor favourers of Papists, is most certain; for besides their incessant Exclamation against them, there were no sort of people, throughout the Usurpation, that lay under those heavy pressures that they did, as frequent Imprisonments, Sequestrations, Fines, and Decimations: and this will be said to their Eternal Honour (and to the unparalleled reproach of those that called themselves Protestants, and pass for such now, had wickedly Conspired to shed their Sovereign's blood) after that fatal defeat at Worcester, the Giffords and Pendrels Papists, and Huddleson a Popish Priest, were the chief Instruments (under God) of his Miraculous Deliverance. It is not meant by this to extenuate the mischievous practices of the Papists, for their Putney-Consult and the product of that (a Petition to Cromwell to abjure the Royal Family for a Toleration) will proclaim their monstrous ingratitude to all Posterity; but to show that some of that King-Killing, and detestable Race of mankind were better principled, than such reputed Protestants. But I will cease to enumerate the Slights, Cheats, and Forgeries (which are well enough known, if but half so well considered) of an implacable Faction, who would if possible once more turn all into Confusion, as their wishing (nay almost Praying in Public) for the success of the Rebels in Scotland do Witness. But this is lost Labour I well know, for their Faces are as impenetrable as the Walls of Ostend, and they will no more recoil at the sight of ten thousand Apparitions of their horrid Impieties, than the Mountain would remove at Mahomet's call; but to the last, like the Jesuits at Tyburn, aver themselves as innocent as the Child unborn. These things should not now have been remembered, it being a main Principle in the Church of England to forgive our Enemies, and forget Injuries, and Consonant to the Great and Pious Example of our most Gracious King, who has Converted the Act of Indemnity, into one of Oblivion; did not they themselves with their Scurrilous and Seditious Libels hourly awake us out of our resolved silence. I will conclude with these Divine Admonitions. These filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities, Judas 8. Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, Matth. iii. 2. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgement upon them all, Judas 14, 15. My son, fear thou the Lord and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, Prov. xxiv. 21.  
FINIS.