THE CONVERSION, CONFESSION, CONTRITION, coming to himself, & Advice, of a misled, Ill-bred, REBELLIOUS ROUND-HEAD. WHICH Is very fitting to be Read to such as wear short hair, and long ears, or desire ears Long. Written by JOHN TAYLOR.  
Printed, 1643.   

The Conversion, Confession, Contrition, coming to himself, and advice of a Misled, ill-bred, Rebellious ROUND-HEAD.  
HE goes far that never turns, but if I had not turned squarely and quickly from my Orbicular Singularity, or Circular Rotundity, I might corporally have turned Round under the gallows, and spiritually gone Roundly to the devil. Therefore know all you (my seduced, abused, misled and bewitched Brethren) that though in this following discourse, I do treat particularly or single of myself, yet I would have you understand, that my intention is general too, and of as many as have been wickedly Cheated by the devil or his Agents, Factors, and brokers, of their souls, their Consciences, their Loyalties, their Lives, their Goods, their Wits, their moneys, and what not?  
Be it known unto all men (I could have said Neverint Vniversi, but that I loved neither Latin nor university) that I was an honest Weaver, and in my quondam time, or days of yore, I whilom dwelled in Whitechapel near, that great Magazine of mischief, London, where I lived poorly, painfully, patiently, and contentedly; neither wanting or abounding, not greedy or needy, having neither debtors to pay me, or myself any debts to pay. Thus did I spend my diebis illis in a Mellifluous, dulcet, Candid Haltion of Harmony, which continued to the expiration of a jury of almanacs, (for so long I lived single, & wore bachelors buttons, till I was at the years or age of whipper-ginny) and then I was unluckily Ingeminated to a Reverend Corpulent midwife (or mad-wife) one whose experienced Gravity, and Grave experience, did quickly assuage the fervour of my concupiscential cupidity, that before the Consumption of one moons various Perambulation, my old new Bride, had so metamorphised my flexible Pericranian, that I resolved to waver from a Weaver, intending to cast the beam out of mine eye, which was no sooner in, but the Shuttle entered into my brain, so that (before I was aware) my head was turned with a trice, as Round as a Top or whirligig.  
For my Motherly wife had at the least 500 daughters, maids, wives, widows, married, and unmarried, all Breeders (or Teeming women) the most, or greatest number of which, were exceeding zealous in sundry Religions (scarce three of them in threescore in one opinion) all devout in diversities, and all differing in their devotions; and from all these (my sincere wife Saphira) had sucked so many documents and doctrines, that she could discourse and dispute of all points of Religion, beyond her understanding; all which she made me so perfect in, that I was quickly perfectly mad, and imperfectly out of my wits; for I had as many new diseases in my mind, as a horse could have in his body; first the Wind colic of self love, and Ambition made me presume to seem to know more, and interpret the Scriptures more near the original, than all the learned and Reverend Bishops and Doctors could do. Secondly, I was Broke-winded with a Round whirlwind of Tautology, that I held him the Rarest man that could talk longest, and believed the greatest lies to be certain truths. Thirdly, I was troubled with the Staggers, that betwixt the Dura Mater of schismatical opinions, & the Pia mater of the true Protestant doctrine, there were some whimsies infused, which made my brains constantly inconstant, tossed to and fro (like a dog in a Blanket) giddily from one new purified Conventicle to another, and (like a jade) I had all paces within the Circumclusion of my supernodical Noddle, I could Pace, Amble, Trot, Hand-gallop, Wild-gallop, false-gallop, tongue-gallop, to all the private meetings, holy Assemblies, seditious Consultations, brownistical Rebellions, anabaptistical, fustian fopperies, zealous Treasons, and most devout disobedience; I traveled to every Contentious Congregation, and Edified most wickedly wheresoever I came, I was at Boston, in Lincolnshire, where I heard Mr Anderson the diligent Preacher say, that the Earl of Essex was Michael the archangel, and that the King was the Dragon, which he must Tread under his feet. verily it was strange doctrine to me, and I (like an ass) believed him, for I thought that Preachers should not lie, or speak blasphemy and Treason in the Pulpits. But since my Conversion I find, that the archangel Michael and the Dragon are typical, figurative or allegorical allusions, of Christ's Treading down of Satan, and his Triumphant victory over death and hell. It were too much for me to write, or any Reader to read the numberless instructions that those Topheticall Lecturers did in too many places belch and bluster out, and all to no other end but (their own ends) to draw, enforce, entice, persuade, admonish and compel by all means to be rebels against God and the King, to despise the church-governors government, to trample down all Law, and order, to scorn obedience, to hate Loyalty, to contemn faith, truth, and honesty, to steal, rob, plunder, wound, deflower, ravish, imprison, fine, beggar, and murder all, that durst obey God in the observing of the Protestant Religion, or be loyal to the King in the obedience to him, and observation of the laws established.  
In a word, I quickly learned the Art of ignorance, the Mystery of iniquity, the Science of villainy, the Society of Rebellion, the Vocation of Treason, the function of hypocrisy, and the knavery of all Trades. I had an excellent memory to forget, to forgive any injury, and I was infused with an admirable forgetfulness, not to remember benefits received. Me thought he was but a Barren stirrel-brained Preacher, that could not rail at the King, abuse my suffering Lord, revile the State, and call the right Honourable Lords, wicked councillors; I heard one at Roderhich (or Rederiffe near London) exhort the People on a Sunday, to be valiant and courageous in the Cause, that they ought not to stand in fear, or to be awed, cowed, or commanded, by the power or authority of any one man, nor should they be afraid to sheathe their swords in the bowels of him and his Posterity, (whosoever he was) without respect of Persons; and verily the man talked exceedingly edifying, I was taken mightily with his doctrine, and so were many more of the Brethren and Sisters at that time, in that sanctimonious Congregation. There was at the hearing of him one tailor (whom some do style, entitle, nominate, and cognominate, the aquatical, or Water-Poet) he (I say) was so bold to say then and there, on the day aforesaid, in the place aforesaid, that the Preacher aforesaid, that prated the Lecture aforesaid, was worthy to be hanged, as aforesaid, as many Traitors had been aforesaid, in other Princes reigns aforesaid, for less fault then aforesaid, for the which tailor aforesaid, for saying as aforesaid, was like to be knocked aforeside and backside, but that he made use of his heels, got into a Boat and away, as aforesaid.  
Thus these provoking, moving, unbeneficed Lecturers did fill me and the rest with such forcible undoing documents, that we were all mad till we were undone and beggared; I ran with all speed and carried that plate and money I had to the Guile-Hall, where some crafty merchants, like decoy ducks, had brought in their plate first, which was heaped and piled up to make a glistering show, to draw and toll in such poor Widgeons and Woodcocks as myself, to bring our goods and money in. And afterwards the Rich decoys did take theirs away again, whilst we left our estates there, having no other security but the most immense, unlimitable, inimitable, universal, inexhaustible, and unvaluable public Faith. Which Faith I have found (by singular deplorable experience) to be nothing kin to the symbol of the faithful 12 good men and true, for their faith was, and is a saving faith, but I have lost all the goods and goodness that I had by fixing my hopes upon the Rotten foundation of the Faith politic and public. Besides every good Faith (or Creed) hath 12 good Articles; but this new Faith hath but two, (which two are true both, without Contradiction) which are, give or lend with a good or an ill will, and be cheated, or beggared like a fool; or deny to give or lend, and be imprisoned, rifled, and undone; upon these two Maxims is this Faith grounded, and will be proved authentical by 10000 witnesses, and some of them have sealed it with their bloods.  
It was in disputation what trade or Craftsmen they were that first invented this new Rare detrimental Faith; some said they were tailors, that with the mystical shears of their Authority, could cut the commonwealth (like broad-cloth) into what shape or fashion they pleased, making such large shreds as may keep them and their children's Children warm till doom's day. Some said they were the only skilful Fishers in the world, and that they went beyond Ovid in metamorphising, for they had transformed this kingdom into a Sea, and all the goods of the kingdom were turned into Fishes, which they catched with the Net of their Almighty power, and disposed of as they pleased, the Mashes of the said Net being so cunningly and strongly woven, that the huge Leviathan, or the mighty Whale, the overgrown Grampus, or mounting Pork-pice, could not break through, nor the small Pilchard, the little Sprat, or the least Minnow could escape, (for the proverb in them was verified) All is Fish that comes to the Net. But there was a third sort that said the public Faith was made by a company of Dyers, that died nothing but false fading Colours, scarce using any wood at all but Logwood, and such sophisticated stuff being their chief materials, which would not hold Colour, but stain & spotted shamefully, so that the people conceiving themselves to be gulled and consend, and the dyers (taking notice of the people's distaste) will give over dying of false Colours any more, and do purpose shortly to die knaves in grain.  
I am almost mad, frantic, lunatic, besides myself, out of my wits, at my wit's end, or (call it what you will) i am not as I might, could, would, should, or aught to be, in confiding what pains, cost, and peril i have undergone, to make myself a beggarly thief, a rebel, a Traitor, or any thing, but an honest man, and now too late, I find that knavery is a dear purchase, and that truth & a good Conscience may be had and maintained at a cheaper rate than villainy. It grieves me to remember how often His majesty's Forces have taken pains to beat me and my brothers into a little good manners; yet I cannot choose but rejoice at a speech spoken by a valiant Vintner at the George at Queenhith, he being one of the Trained-Band of London, swore he would catch the King, & came purposely to Newbury battle, on wednesday the 20 of September last, for that purpose, but being well thwackd there, and (with the nimbleness of his feet) got home again, he swore that he would never (whilst he lived) go any more a King Catching.  
And thus, by the sway and command which mother Midnight my wife bare over me, and the false instigations of such Pulpiteers, which she (upon the pain of her scolding sealding hot indignation) enforced me to hear and believe, I grew to such a pass, that I held the greatest rebels to be the most worthy of places of Eminency, and titles of Excellency, and that they (alone) were the best Subjects and truest Christians that did most oppose the King, the Law, the gospel (and the Epistles too) without all manner & form, as followed, for the first, it is said I should have but one God, which I find and know now to be he that brought all the Israelites out of Egyptian Bondage under Pharaoth, and hath also delivered and redeemed all true believers from the eternal thraldom of our spiritual Egypt, from our slavery under sin, death, and hell; This God commands, we should have no other Gods but him, but i (with my associates) instead of serving him, (the only God) served no God at all. Moreover my zeal was so hot, that because superstitious services hath above 100 years ago, been used in our Churches, because Romish Masses, and too many idolatrous Rites have been said, sung, and frequently exercised long since in our cathedrals and other Churches and chapels; therefore, because they have been abused formerly, I thought it convenient, to disgrace, deface, demolish, cast down and ruinate all those famous fabrics, and magnificent Structures, never remembering (like a Rogue as I was) that the Churches were not to blame, for the abuses committed in them, and that the holy Ghost did graciously enter and dwell in a woman, whom seven devils had formerly possessed.  
Secondly, whereas he commands no graven Image, or any figure or likeness to be made and worshipped, I (like an ignorant ass) presently began to tear, spoil, and pull down, all Ornaments, Ceremonies, decent gestures, and all things whatsoever was any way laudable, or any memory either of patriarch, Prophet, Christ, Apostle, Saint, Martyr, or Confessor, all which we knew to be neither papistical or superstitious, neither would any one that hath wit or grace, either pray, adore, or confide in, to, or before, any thing, but to the Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth, and his blessed son our gracious Redeemer. We knew the cross in Cheapside, was a stately and sumptuous ornament to the City, and it signified to all Nations of Christendom, besides Turks, Jews, Pagans, Heathens, infidels, and Atheists, might take notice by that, and all other Crosses, that we were not ashamed to be Christians, or to maintain the sign or memory of our Saviour Crucified.  
Thirdly, there hath no perfidious perjured people, that have more profaned or taken the name of the Lord in vain, than we have done. I (for my part) did swear and take the oath of Allegiance, and after that I took the oath of Supremacy, which oaths and vows any reasonable man may believe had been sufficient, and fit to be held and kept inviolable, but (as if those were of no validity, and that we might Equivocate, Juggle, and play at fast and loose with the searcher of all hearts) I with thousands more of fools and wicked wretches, some voluntary, and maliciously, and some upon constraint, fearfully & foolishly, took and bound ourselves by oaths, vows, protestations, of combinations, associations, and contracts, quite contrary to all that we had formerly sworn, for our last swearing, were to continue rebels all the days of our lives.  
Fourthly, we have in general, or for the most of us, remembered to unsanctify the Sabbath day, that whereas the Lord commanded it strictly to be observed for a day of rest, we have frequently prayed, preached and practised on that day chiefly, nothing but disturbant Rebellions, Treasons, commotions, seditions, and most horrible blasphemies, wherein the Lord and the Lord's Anointed, were either ridiculously, or treacherously abused, and neither the peace of God or the kingdom so much as mentioned.  
Fiftly, whereas we are commanded to give honour to Parents, or our Fathers and Mothers, whether they be Kings, Queens, or any other spiritual or temporal Fathers and Magistrates, or our natural Fathers and Mothers, or Masters, who should rule and govern us; In stead of honouring them, we have trod all honour, obedience, allegiance, loyalty, respect, and duty under foot; The Subjects have fought against the sovereign, the people have despised the Magistrate, the servants have resisted against their Masters, and the sons have drawn their swords, and sheathed them in the bowels of their Fathers.  
The sixth commandment forbids doing any murder, and we have observed it so well, that we have, by committing most barbarous and inhuman murders and slaughters, made this sometimes kingdom of Peace, an Aceldema, or field of blood, a very Golgotha of dead men's sculls, as if it were the slaughter house of the world, and shambles of butchered man's flesh for all the anthropophagy of man-eating cannibals.  
Seaventhly, Adultery is forbidden, and for the defence and maintenance of Adultery, we have providently forbidden all power and authority that should punish it, so that we having freedom, as Beasts have, have done worse than beasts would do, for some Sons have made so bold with their own Mothers, that they have proved with Child by them so that with Incests, Adulteries, Rapes, deflowrings, Fornications, and other venereal postures & actions which daily pass and escape uncontrolled & unpunished, and as it may be conjectured tolerated, England is almost changed in that point to the Isle of Paphos, and if this world hold Venus is like to be mother of the maids.  
Eightly, Thou shalt not steal; Alas the breach of this commandment hath been the only prop, & supportation in maintaining this unmatchable Rebellion, and all the rebels that are in it, were it not for stealing, theft, robbery, plundering, and forcible extorting, we might all go hang ourselves, for if once we give over thieving, than comes Peace, to which we are mortal Enemies.  
Ninthly, we should not bear false witness against our Neighbours, and we hold none to be our Neighbours that love or obey either God or the King; therefore we hold it no sin to traduce, slander, scandalize, belie, and falsely to testify, accuse, and bear false wicked witness against any honest man whosoever, and in our testimony we have been believed and rewarded, countenanced and defended.  
Concerning the tenth and last commandment, which saith, Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy Neighbours, be it either, house, wife, Servant, Cattle, r Goods; It is written that covetousness is the root of all evil, and had we not coveted things that were none of our own, and with an avaricious greedy desire, raked and ransacked that which belonged not unto us; then had the King still had our bounden obedience & tributary duty, then had all true Subjects quietly enjoyed their own, than had his Majesty not been deprived of his towns, His Ships, his Castles, his Magazines, his Houses, his Lands, his customs, his Children, his Revenue, his Ammunition, his Subjects, and as near as we could, of all that was near or dear unto Him, than had these mischiefs never have been begun, this Kingdom had not lain weltering in her own blood, we had not then been involved in unspeakable misery, nor kept in this perpetual slavery, under the Abortive and usurping power of a pretended Parliament-Everlasting.  
Thus have I (with the rest of my wicked Brethren) broken all the ten commandments, but we should have broke the 11th too, if we had heard of it, and infringed all the laws of God, of man, of nature, of Nations, of Arts and arms, and in brief of all goodness both divine and moral; so that to make a particular confession of all the abhorred crimes we have committed, I am persuaded that auricular confession would be wearied, and all the race of mankind would be returned to the first matter, or nothing, of which it was made; but I humbly and heartily desire that this my acknowledgement & contrition, may not only have remission, but also admission again into my most wronged sovereign's grace and favour, of which happiness I am in certain hope, though I do almost despair that too many of my malicious and stiff Brethren, though they know they have been accursed rebels, yet they will rather go on desperately with Judas (be hanged) or hang themselves, then with Peter, Repent and weep bitterly for their apostasy.  
As naughty boys, when they first practise pilfering, begin to steal Pins, and proceed to points, and passing unreproved, fall at last to be perfectly Grammard in the Art of filching, thieving, and robbery, and make no scruple to commit any felony or villainy, so I at first, was but drawn in like an ignorant Sot, and shortly came to the degree of a malicious Knave, and in a little time (with the help of the devil) I grew to the high Calling of a rebel, and shortly after (Methought) Treason was the only way to be secure, and the impregnable Bulwark to defend me from the stroke and battery of Law and justice, for all my former notorious crimes committed, any manner of Roguery, whereby the King might be injured, was as good as Cake and Custard to me, and every scurvy song, rhyme, Lecture or libel against the office and persons of Bishops, Courtiers, and Cavaliers, was as sweet music to me, as the fat end of a Pudding, I was at a Market town, called Mansfield, in the forest of Sherwood in Nottinghamshire, where my Brethren bravely threw, pulled and haled down the Market cross, and after that they spied a Carved round piece of wood in the form of a crown, which was fairly wrought, painted and guilded, and stood for the sign of the crown, which we (like most violent valiant villains) did pluck from the sign post, and in reverence to the crown, & duty to the King, we dragged it through the dirt, and kicked it about the streets (O brave Rogues) so that the widow Hall, who was owneress of the house, was fain to have a new sign made at her own charge, and verily this was then, me thought, very pretty, foolish, witty, Roguish pastime.  
Indeed we were all so infused or enthusiasmed with the Babylonian Confusion of Amsterdamnable Religions and opinions, that we could never be quiet, till we had brought ourselves unto the slavery of the rotter-damed excise; for we had wisely considered that foreign Nations, with all their strength and policies, could never invade or overcome us, & therefore we thought it honourable to imitate Aiax, for as none but Aiax had the glory to kill Aiax, so none but Englishmen shall be famous for ruinating England, much like the pretty Bird called a Viper, who, as it is related by Gesur, doth murder his Mother by gnawing a passage out of her womb into the world. Besides we were infected with the heresy of the Counsellors of Benadad King of Syria. 1. King. 20 23. That God was the God of the Hills, and therefore we always ran to the Hills, and skulked in woods and hedges, (like thieves and Bandittes) for we never durst to show ourselves against the King's Forces in the plains, nor once abide the hazard of a fair pitched field; and yet for all these poor shifts and tricks, it hath always been our good fortune to be beaten, and to run away to London, and there we patchd up our Rebellious Cowardly disasters, with victorious Lies, in Pamphlets and Lectures, not worth pence a piece.  
As concerning the four Cardinal virtues (justice being one) one truly said there was more justice in Hell then in the Close Committee, for (said he) in Hell there are none punished but bad men, such as are profane Atheists, schismatics, rebels, Traitors, Thieves, Cheators; but these learned Thebans do afflict, imprison, murder, and torment, none but good men, such as are true Protestants, loyal Subjects, and such as have a care and conscience to live in God's fear, that by so living they may most happily die in his favour. And another, of our own Tribe, being demanded more money to spin out the Cause, he was so bold to tell the Publican tax and toll gatherers, that they who set them on work were more uncharitable than the devil, for which words he was brought before the tribunal of the Magnificent, Almighty Committee, and being examined, he confessed he spoke the words, and would prove that the devil had more Charity than they; for the devil did first bereave or take away jobs Children, before he took away his goods, but they did pill poll and take from him all his goods and livelihood, and left him his Children to be starved, for they had squeezd and drained him to the last drop, and left him nothing to buy bread to put in his children's heads, and just so much is their universal Charity.  
And whereas at the first they Rebelled most Gloriously, with Gold and Silver cursed contributions; now they are descended to that humble degree of Treason, that they make shift to Botch and piece out their wicked designs, with Goods and chattels, and with the sale of all manner of Houshold-stuffes, from the Altitude of the most stately Arras or Tapistery hangings, to the low descent and profundity of the coal-house, or House of office, and (in Imitation of the Emperor Vespasian) who made money by the sale or custom of urine, so they have, out of the profit of plundered pisspots and closestools, made a stinking stir, all over this afflicted kingdom, insomuch that he is worthy to be accounted a Witch or a cunning Man, that can tell us before hand, what will be their next shift, Milo the Crotinian (or Creatan) was famous for strength and a good stomach, for it is reported that he brought up a Bull calf, and every day would lift and carry the say Beast, by which daily exercise and practise, he could carry him when he was grown to be a Bull, and that he killed the said Bull with a blow with his Fist, and eat him up every bit in one day. and one Nicholas Wood, a great eater in Kent, would eat up a hog or a Sheep of Twenty shillings price at one meal, these Monsters were, and are famous in memory, for having good strokes in the Mouth▪ some are remembered for Lascivious Luxury, us Heliogabalus, some for drinking, as Alexander, some for Pride as Tarquin, &c. but we shall ever stand upon Record for the most unmatchable Renowned rebels, that ever lived in any Age or Nation, Jack Straw, Watt Tyler, Jack Cade, Lambert Simuel, Perkin Warbeck, and all the Rabble of such fellows never came near us in Impiety and Treachery, for they did never spoil and demolish church and Church ornaments▪ as we have done, and it is worthy of a most Regarding Consideration, that His majesty's forces wheresoever they have come, have not any way used any profanation or I●reverent demeanour towards any Church▪ chapel, or House that hath been consecrated or dedicated to the Service and Honour of God. So that the Turks, Pagans, and Infidels would have showed more Civility, and less Barbarous savage brutishness than we have done.  
I tell you plainly, and most truly certify you (my too much wicked and misconstruing Brethren) that I was persuaded in my Conscience, (as many Knaves and fools have been) that the King was inclined towards the Romish Religion, but since the eyes of my mind are open, and that I hold it a slandering unreverend and traitorous aspersion, to say or think that either Queen Elizabeth, or King James of ever blessed memories, were Papists, or did allow or tolerate any Popish doctrine, and that now finding that my most gracious King CHARLES, hath always been, is, and will be till His earthly Period, a most constant defender of the true Faith, as those two His royal Predecessors were, and as His inviolable oaths and Protestations do confirm, and farther as his unparalleled life and conversation justifies: for in all the Towns, Congregations, Churches and chapels, which have been and are under His majesty's command, there was never seen or heard any one mass, to be said, much less to be allowed or connived at.  
Therefore I boldly do give all those malicious, ignorant villains the lie, which lie (without repentance) will sink them to their Father of Lies, and therefore I pray you to examine what mischiefs have been committed, by our unmannerly, base mistakes, fears and causeless jealousies, & once more humbly return from the common Road-way, that leads to inevitable destruction, let us no more believe any Capcase, Candlecase, Fiddlecase, prating Lecturer, let us no longer be gulled with false Pamphlets, and abominable Lying diurnals, who are all as full of lies, as the writers of them are of Sin, for I have seen some of those famous devisors and Writers of Weekly news, that are so free and guiltless of shifting, that they hold a clean shirt odious, and quite out of fashion, and half a Breech, with a Doublet one sleeve hath been their only ware, eighteen pence, being a stationer's price for a copy, which presently the learned Author quaffs, puffes, and pipes away in fecundious Ale, and odoriferous Mundungoe.  
I have called to mind that, ever since we began to be rebels and schismatics, that we never gained any Good, or did any thing worthy the name of Well done. But as our leaders have been mischievously malicious, and Treacherous, so we have executed their damnable Inventions, to ruin the Protestant doctrine, our King, and ourselves, and this is the sweet sum of all our detestable pains and profits.  
Our Inventions and Actions have all been opposite to Piety and Humanity, so that if there were no other argument to prove His Majesty to be Godly, Good, gracious, and every way a complete unmatchable Prince for His innated virtues, our Disloyalty, our averseness, our Refractory stubbornness, were sufficient proof of His transcendent Clemency and goodness; for as lying Astronomers, when they Prognosticate of a foul day, or an unseasonable Harvest, are (or should be) ashamed when the weather falls out fair temperate and successful; so we with shame, horror, and terror of consciences, may hang down our wicked roundheads, and blush (if we were not past grace) when we do but think how ungratiously, undutifully, and perfidiously, we have dealt with so gracious a sovereign, upon no other grounds but malicious ignorance.  
If there were no other mark, sign or token to prove the Office and dignity of Bishops to be derivative from Christ and the Apostles, our opposition is Approbation sufficient, that they have been, are, and aught to be beloved, believed, Reverenced, and Honoured. By which consequence it is apparent to all the World, that those godly Members which His Majesty hath justly excluded out of his Grace and Favour, whom we adore and admire, as the Idolatrous Israelites did the Golden calf; If there were no other demonstration of the foulness of their Guilt, our servile, our slavish, our execrable obeying them, and their unlawful Votes, is testimony sufficient to prove the King's exception to be real, themselves cauterised in their crimes, and all we that have adhered unto them to be miserable, uncivil, simple, poor, abused▪ cheated, Rebellious Coxcombs.  
As the Law of God is a glass of death, wherein men may see their Sin, so is the gospel a glass of Grace, where true penit●nts may see their Saviour. And as the laws of this Land are (in their due execution) Rigorous and Terrible to such whose guilty souls tells them that they are plunged in horrible Treasons, whereby they have precipitated themselves into the bot●omlesse pit of despair, and by no means will dare to look the Law ●r justice in the face, so a clear and innocent man hath a Breast that is Law proof, he can sleep soundly, and eat his meat in quiet, and if it chance that he be questioned, either by malice or information▪ he cares not, and the severest censure he fears not, he bears his afflictions with magnanimous fortitude, and whether he Live or die, his sufferings are his Glory.  
And were th●se Almighty Beggermakers, those memorable Members and Commanders of our Miseries, clear, & right, as they should be, than they would never fear to put themselves to a fai●e and impartial trial of the Law, where if then they come handsomely of, their accusers will be perpetually infamous, and themselves will shine with such a Burnished splendour, that shall daz'e the eyes, and amaze the souls of their enemies, and their memories shall outlast time, and dwell in glory with Eternity. Therefore (my Brethren) let me advise you to harken no more to them, they have coufened us too much already, they have made us perfect in turning marks to eighteen pence, and Nobles to nine pence, and all to nothing; yet there is hope, though your moneys be gone, yet you may have a small proportion of Wit left, which (guided by grace) may make you turn a little honest, and assure yourselves that those who do die in this most Horrid and damned Rebellion, against their just and lawful King, they do die in as desperate a manner, as those that murder themselves, either by Hanging, Stabbing, poisoning, Drowning, or any other desperate Way.  
Return, God is gracious and merciful, despair not, the KING is full of Piety and Clemency, FAREWELL.  
FINIS.