THE REBELS LOOKING-GLASSE: OR, THE TRAYTORS doom. Wherein is discovered the judgements of God upon Rebels and Traytors in all Ages: Collected out of several Histories both Sacred & Profane. WITH A Narration of this present Rebellion, and of the horrid and execrable acts committed therein, and the judgments of God already observed to be fallen upon the first actors and fomenters thereof. Published for the reducing of those that are already Rebells, and deterring others from that sin. By a faithful and loyal Subject to the present KING, and a Lover of His Country.  
Printed in the Year 1649.   

To the Members of that junto that sit in the Commons House at Westminster.  
Gentlemen,  
FOr so many of you were, till you tainted your blood with Rebellion; when you were called to sit in that House, you took not the Covenant, or Negative Oath, but the Oath of allegiance and Supremacy, flat contrary to those other two; If the King were not supreme, you are forsworn; If He were,( as undoubtedly He was) you had no power to bring Him to trial, and wanting Power,( as by the Letter of the Law of this Land assuredly you did) His Execution was not Justice, but Murder. Though thoughts are free, yet to think evil of the King is condemned by Solomon, to speak evil of the King is Treason by the Law, to take up arms against the King, it is against the express both of Scripture and Law: surely then to Murder the King, must needs be Treason in the abstract: we have a long time justly termed you Rebells, but now we must call you Rebells in a more exalted note, and style you Regicides. When you were summoned to that House, you were called to repair, and not enlarge the breaches of the kingdom, to strengthen; and not subvert Religion; to conserve, and not overthrow the laws; to consult with, and not confounded His Majesty: in acting whereof, you have most impiously broken your Oath with God, your allegiance to the King; your obedience to the Church, and the trust reposed in you by the People. It hath been the happiness of former Parliaments, and their utmost industry, to preserve the kingdom, with the laws and People thereof: It hath been your continual employment, indefatigable pains, and esteemed happiness to destroy the kingdom, laws, People, and the preservers thereof. There are many amongst you learned in the laws, and if they have neglected their Duty, yet their tenacity cannot warrant your proceedings; For that grave and learned Oracle of the Law, Judge Jenkins hath sufficiently explained the difficulties of the Law, and your Duties, whose pains you have rerewarded with a most long and loathsome imprisonment. For which, and other your most execrable and unparalleled impieties, you must expect to have the thunderbolts of Gods anger thrown down upon you; for God is a just God, and cannot lye, neither will he suffer those to go unpunished, that not onely resist his Ordinance, but advance their own above his. The Presbyterians were the first that fomented this Rebellion against the King, and you see the heavy Judgement of God upon them: in so speedy snatching the power from them, when they thought themselves so securely the Lords of all: and Waller, Massey, and the rest, that were the great pillars of that cause, are now, you see, become the scorn and contempt both of friends and foes, and undoubtedly as you have been more violent and bloody in your Rebellion then they, so your judgement shall be more fearful: For prevention whereof, I have directed this little theatre of Gods Judgements upon Rebells and Traytors in all Ages to you: that, when you see such small Rebellions and petty treasons so fearfully punished, you being conscious of the ferventnes of your execrable and unparalleled Treasons may endeavour to avoid your approaching Judgement, by a speedy desisting from your damnable designs.  
Sero medicina paratur  
Cam mala per longas invaluere moras.  
I shall conclude with this advice, that you purge your House of all those Factious Members, that of late have illegally crept in, men, whose Principles are as base as their Births, and have no way to shake off the poverty of their parentage, but by Rapine, and Oppression of the kingdom. That you call home the young King; and seat Him in His Throne in freedom, Safety, and Honour, that you deliver up Bradshaw, Cook, and others that had hands in the late Kings, your sovereigns Murder, to speedy and impartial Justice. That you endeavour your utmost to Disband the Army; who are a crew of beggarly Sectaries, the scum and offal of the Common-wealth, and onely Disturbers of our quiet. That you sue to His Majesty for your Pardon, and crave an Act of Indemnity; and in so doing, you may save the effusion of much Christian blood, and render yourselves, and your Country happy, which otherwise will spew them out as noisome rubbish, and deliver your remembrance to Posterity in an infamous and loathsome Character.  
Vale.   

To Tho: Lord Fairfax, Baron of Cameron, general of the ARMY.  
My Lord,  
ITs very probable, that the sight of this Epistle will possess you with a double wonder, first that your servants, or rather slaves, the Commons, should be preferred before you, and then, that such a subject as this should be Dedicated to you; to the first I answer, that I have but conformed myself to your practise, for if the Subject may be preferred above the KING, well may the servant before the Master. And to the second I answer, that I know no man fitter to patronise this work then yourself, who is the Ringleader of the greatest, most horrid, and bloody Rebellion, that ever was managed in any Age of the world, and have committed and countenanced such execrable and damnable Acts, as the most Barbarous rebel that ever drew a Sword in the most barbarous and Heathenish Age, would have blushed and trembled at the Relation thereof. My Lord, you must excuse me, if like a skilful chirurgeon, I thoroughly launch the festered wounds of your guilty Conscience which is laden with ingratitude, breach of Faith, Perjury, Murder, Rebellion, and Regicide. Me thinks, that if the principles of Loyalty and Conscience could not, yet those of gratitude,( ingratitude being a sin so much abhorred by the very Heathens, that they esteemed it worthy of death) might have prevailed with you, to have been so far from drawing your sword in Rebellion, that you would have turned it into the breasts of Rebels. That Title of Honour which you now enjoy( For your Additions, are rather the stiles of shane and infamy, then of Honour and renown, was, by His Majesty, conferred upon your Noble Grand-father; who undoubtedly so abhorred Rebellion, that had he known what Vipers he had to his son and Grand-sonne, he would not onely have made you the heires of his curses, but have loathed his very loins for begetting such a pestilent Issue; the same King that conferred on your Family the Honour of Lordship, begird you likewise with the Sword of Knighthood: which high favour you have ingratefully rewarded with the loss of the Donors life: It were but vain for me to refresh your memory by repeating your Oath of allegiance and Supremacy, and your Protestation, which you have most palpably broken by taking up arms against your sovereign, and killing and slaying His most faithful and loyal Subjects, but even your solemn League and covenant, and that solemn engagement which you and your Commanders gave His Majesty upon your Honours at Newmarket, and ratified with vows and oaths, that you would settle His Majesty in His Throne with security, and Honour to himself and His Posterity; which your have most basely and dishonourably broken; For it was you, My Lord, that signed that Remonstrance, and sent it with your minatory letter to the Houses, wherein you desired, or rather commanded, that His Majesty, whom your unmannerly language styled the Grand & capital Enemy of this Nation, might be brought to slaughter, which you mis-called Justice. In conclusion, although as Pilate once did, so you would now wash your hands from the guilt of your sovereigns innocent blood, yet you and your Sectarian Army are certainly guilty of that barbarous Murder, which was a cruel Execution, an inhuman cruelty, a brutish immanity, a devilish brutishness, and an hyperbolical, yea, an hyperdiabolicall devilishnesse, so that what cursed Shimei did once as a reproach falsely cast upon David, the blessed people of God may justly throw upon you, and say, Thou man of blood: And now My Lord, having preached your wounds, and, I hope, let forth the corruption; I will prescribe you a method of cure, which must be by applying the plaster of Repentance to them; and washing your bloud-stained Conscience with the tears of Contrition, For which end onely, I protest that I, who cannot honour your Family for your sake, yet cannot but honour you for your Families sake, have Dedicated this little book to your Lordship; hoping that when you red the success of former Rebellions, your lordship will repent of yours, and perform the Oath to the son which your swore to His Father: in doing whereof, you will remove that cloud of blood which darkens the ancient splendour of your Noble Family, and pay the debt which you owe to the kingdom for their ruin in making them to become your debters for the restauration to right; and your lordship and we be at once happy, in living quietly, and Religiously under the peaceable Government of our gracious King CHARLES the Second, whom God preserve.  
VALE.   

The Rebells Looking-glasse: OR, The Traytors doom.  
KINGS are Gods Vice-gerents; who do immediately present the Person, and exercise the power of God upon Earth: and every evil act committed against the KING, is a loud-speaking Blasphemy against the divine majesty of God; forasmuch as from thence, the majesty of Kings is derived. As it is required both by Law and Reason, that Children should honour and reverence their Parents: so it is requisite and necessary, that Subjects should perform their duty of Honour and Allegiance to their Kings. Where the word of a King is, there is Power, And who may say unto him what dost thou? saith the Spirit of God by the mouth of Solomon. Rebellion is as the sin of witch-craft, that is, is as abominable in Gods sight as witch-craft. For demonstration of which truth, I shall present you with a view of Gods Justice, manifested in the world upon Rebels and Traytors, both in elder and latter times; and show both out of sacred and profane Histories, how the tempest of Gods wrath hath been degrandinated upon the heads of the mighty ones of this world, that have been disobedient, and Rebellious against their Princes: And how his vengeance hath pursued those Malefactors to their shane and confusion.  
The dismal and unparallelled Judgement of God upon Corah, Dathan and Abiram, and the Rebels under their Command, who set themselves against Moses and Aaron; is not unknown to any who have been conversant in the Book of God. 
Numbers 26.  Likewise the Children of Israel, who slandered and mutined against Moses, their sovereign Magistate and Conductor, that so meekly had brought them out of the Land of egypt, by the special command of God; and charged him with conspiring the murder of those Rebels, whom not he, but God for their pride and stubbornness, had rooted out and destroyed. Felt the fury of Gods displeasure for this their fact, who scourged them with a most grievous plague, whereof dyed about fourteen thousand, and seven hundred persons.  
Strange was the malice of Absolom in rebelling so furiously against his Father and sovereign Lord King David, and as strange was his punishment: for having in Battle lost the day, and being in flight from the pursuit of his Enemies, 
2 Sam. 18.  was overtaken by Gods Judgement, from which he could not fly; for riding along the forest to save himself, his Mule carrying him under a thick oak, left him hanging by the hair upon a bough, betwixt Heaven and Earth, until being found by Joab, he was wounded to death. An accident strange and wonderful, yet such an one, as God himself provided to punish this Rebellious wretch; which fearful spectacle of Gods Judgement may serve to terrify the most impudent rebel from this horrible sin.  
achitophel, who forsook his sovereign liege Lord, and anointed King, and with his counsel and presence aided Absolom in his Rebellion; God in anger, suffered him to be his own executioner, for he fell into despair, and hanged himself.  
Shimei, 
2 Sam. 16.  who in the time of Absoloms Rebellion, in his wicked and perverse humour, instead of Service due unto his sovereign in that extremity; presented himself not as a Subject, but as a Railer, cursing him with most reproachful terms, and throwing stones at him, and his followers in most traitorous manner: for which Rebellious act, though David did not question him, yet God would not exempt him from punishment; for in the end, his wickedness fell upon his own head, and destruction overtook him by desert of another fault, at the command of King Solomon. 
1 Kings 2.   
The punishment of Shiba, 
2 Sam. 20.  the son of Bichri tarried not so long, who with a proud and audacious heart stirred up the greatest part of Israel to rebel against David, when he thought to have been most at quiet; for he enjoyed not long his disloyal enterprise, for being speedily pursued by Davids servants, and besieged in the City Abell, his head was cut off by the Citizens, and thrown over the wall, as a just reward for his Rebellious Act.  
But to let pass these sacred Histories, and come to profane, yet probable and more near examples. theodoric, 
Albert Crautz.  King of France, and Irminfride, King of Thuringia, being professed Foes, after many cruel Battels fought, Irminfride was conquered by King theodoric, who being subdued, sued for pardon and release at the conquerors hand, who was so far from pitying his estate, that he corrupted one Iringus a noble man, and Irminfrides Subject to murder his sovereign, which he performed kneeling before theodoric, running him through with his sword at his back: which traitorous dead being finished, King theodoric though the promoter of it, yet so abhorred the Actor, that he commanded him forthwith to avoid his presence, for he could not put any trust in him, that had betrayed his own Master. At which words Iringus( mad with anger and rage) ran at theodoric also, with purpose to have slain him; but his hand missing the mark, returned his sword into his own Bowels, so that he fell down dead upon his Masters carcase. A notable and wonderful Judgement, and an example worthy to be written in golden letters, and to be red and remembered of every one, to teach menallegeance and obedience to their Princes, lest more sudden destruction then this fall upon them.  
After the death of Jeronimus, King of Siracusa, Andronodorus and Themistius provoked by their Wives descending of the blood royal, affencted an usurpation of the crown, 
Titus Livius.  and wrought much hurt to the Common-wealth; but their practices being discovered, the fervours( by the consent of the Senators) slay them both in the Market-place, as rotten members of their common body, and therefore fit to be cut off. And when they understood how their Wives, Damarata and Harmonia were the incensers of this mischief, they sent to kill them also: yea, and Heraclia, Harmoniaes sister, guiltless of the crime,( for no other cause but because she was her Sister) was plucked from the Altar, and slain in the tumult with two of her Daughters that were Virgins. Thus is Treason plauged, not onely in Traytors themselves, but also in those that are linked unto them in friendship, and affinity.  
What notable Treasons did Hadrian the fourth, Pope of Rome, practise against the Emperour, Frederick Barbarossa, yet all was frustrate, For the Lord protected the Emperour, and punished the traitor with a sudden and strange death; for he was choked with a fly which went down his throat, and stopped his breath, and could by no means be pulled out till it made an end of him. Besides, many others that went about the same practise, were brought to notable Destructions: as that counterfeit fool whom the Italians set on to murder Frederick in his chamber, which had been performed, had he not leaped out of a window into a River, and so saved his life: for the fool being taken, was thrown headlong out of the same window, and so broken his neck. As also an Arabian Doctor, a grand poisoner, who going about to infect with poison his Bridle, Saddle, Spurs, and stirrups, that as soon as he should but touch them he might be poisoned, was discovered and hanged for his labour.  
When Emanuel, 
Otto Frisingensis de rebus Freder. Prin. lib. 1. c. 47  Emperour of Constantinople, lay about Antioch with an Army prepared against the Turk, one of his chiefest Officers, namely his chancellor, put in practise this notable piece of Treason against him: he waged three desperate young men with an infinite sum of money to kill him upon an appointed day, and then with a band of Souldiers determined to possess himself of the Crown, and the City, and to slay all that any way crossed his purpose. But the Treason being discovered secretly to the Empresse, she acquainted her Lord with it, who took the three Traytors, and put them all to cruel deaths: and as for the chancellor, he first bored out his eyes, and plucking his tongue through his throat, tormented him to death with a most rigorous and miserable punishment.  
Scribonianus, 
Lanquet Chron.  a captain of the Romans in Dalmatia, rebelled against the Emperour Claudius, and name himself Emperour in the Army; but his Rebellion was miraculously punished, for though the whole Army favoured him very much, yet they could not by any means spread their Banners, or remove their Standards out of their places, as long as he was called by the name of Emperour, with which miracle being moved they turned their Loves into hatred, and their liking into loathing, so that whom lately they saluted as Emperour, him now they murdered as a traitor.  
To rehearse all the Traytors that have conspired against their Kings from the Conquest to this present Age, were unnecessary, and almost impossible: yet that their destruction may be our instruction; and the curse of God upon Traytors be made more manifest, I will city some of the chiefest of them.  
In the year 1264 Simon Montford Earl of Leicester, with divers other Earls and Barons, upon divers faire and specious pretences, for Religion, and the common good, raised a Rebellion against their sovereign Lord King Henry the Third; and in a Battle near Lewes in Sussex, became masters of the Field, took prisoners the King, Prince, the Earl of Cornwall, Brother to the King, and his son, together with the Earls of arundel, and Hereford, and divers Scottish Lords, had them in possession a year and a half, at length, by the providence of God, the Prince made an escape from the Castle of Hereford, where he was Prisoner, gathered an Army, and at Evesham, near Worcester, overthrew the Rebels Army, redeemed the King his Father, slay the Earl of Liecester their Ring-leader, and an eleven other Lords, the ensuing Parliament dis-inherited all their adherents, and the Londoners, who in all Ages were either the parents, or nurses of Rebellion, lost their Liberties, the Family of the Montfords were expelled the kingdom, and driven to seek their fortunes elsewhere; so just is God in revenging himself on those, that rebel against his Vice-gerents.  
In the year 1275. Lewlin, Prince of Wales Rebelled against King Edward the First, and after much ado was taken by Sir Roger Mortimer, and his Head set upon the Tower of London. After the same manner was his Brother David served, Ries and Madock had the same reward for stirring up the Welshmen to a Rebellion, No better measure had the Scots, who having of their own accord committed the Government of their kingdom to King Edward, after the death of Alexander,( who broken his neck with a fall from his Horse, and left no issue male) and sworn fealty unto him: yet dispensed with their Oath, by the Popes Commission, and the Frenchmens incitement, and rebelled divers times against King Edward: for he overcame them sundry times, and slay at one time 32000. and took divers of their nobility prisoners.  
In the reign of King Henry the Fourth there Rebelled at one time against him, John Holland, Duke of Excester, with the Dukes of Aumerl, Surrey, Salisbury, and gloucester; and at another time Thomas Percy Earl of Worcester, and Henry Lord Percy, son to the Earl of Northumberland, at another time Richard Scroop, Arch-bishop of york, and divers others of the house of the Lord Newbray; at another time Henry Earl of Northumberland, and the Lord Bardolph: and lastly, Rice ap d'ye, and own Glendour two welshmen: all which were either slain as Henry Lord Percy, or beheaded as the rest of these( though by Birth Noble, yet by practise Ignoble) Rebels; or starved to death as own Glendour was in the Mountaines of Wales, after he had devoured his own Flesh.  
In the reign of Henry the Fifth, Richard Earl of Cambridge, Sir Richard Scroop, Lord high Treasurer of England, and Sir Thomas Gray were beheaded for Treason.  
To pass over the time of the residue of the Kings, wherein many examples of Treasons, and punishments upon them are extant, and come nearer unto our own Age, let us consider the wonderful providence of God, in discovering the notorious Treasons, which were so often contrived against Q. Eliz: of happy memory, and protecting her so violently from the violence of them all. First, to begin with the earls of Northumberland and Westmerland, who in the eleven year of her reign, began a Rebellion in the North, pretending sometimes their purpose to be to defend the queens Person and Government from the invasion of Strangers, and sometimes for Conscience sake to seek Reformation and Religion; under colour whereof, they got together an Army of men, to the number of six thousand Souldiers: against whom marched the Earl of Sussex Lieutenant of the North, and the Earl of Warwick sent by the Queen to his aid: whose approach struck such a terror into their hearts, that the two earls, with divers of the Arch-rebels, fled into Scotland, leaving the rest of their company a prey unto their Enemies, whereof threescore and six, or thereabout, were hanged at Durham. As for the earls, Northumberland was after taken in Scotland, and beheaded at york. Westmerland fled into another Country, and left his House and Family destroyed, and undone by his Folly.  
Not long after John Throgmorton, Thomas brook, George Redman, and divers other Gentlemen at Norwich pretended a Rebellion under colour of suppressing Strangers, being discovered by one of their own conspiracy, Tho. Ket, were executed at Norwich for their pains: To the same end came Francis Throgmorton, whose Treacheries, as they were abominable, and touching the queens own Person, so were they disclosed not without the special providence of God.  
But above all, that vile and ungrateful traitor William Parry, upon whom the Queen had plentifully powred her liberality, deserveth to have his shane written in an indeleable Character: whose horrible Treason being discovered, he justly paid the tribute of his life in recompense thereof. The justice of God did likewise appear in the end of a second Earl of Northumberland, who being attainted for Treason, became his own executioner, and slay himself in prison.  
Notorious were the conspiracies of those Arch traytors, Ballard, Babington, savage, and Tilney, yet God brought them down, and made them spectacles to the world of his justice. Likewise Dr. Lopus( the queens physician) that treacherous villain, who a long time had not onely been an Intelligencer to the Pope, and King of spain, of our English counsels, but also had poisoned many Noble Men, and went about also to poison the Queen herself, being surprised in his Treachery, was brought to sudden destruction.  
As it is not lawful for Children to rebel against their Parents, though they be cruel and unnatural, so also it is unlawful for subjects to withstand their Princes, though they be burdensome unto them: for no subject ought to shake off the yoke of subjection and obedience due unto his Prince, or exempt himself from any Tax by that Authority imposed. And generally in all actions we ought with all patience to endure what burden is laid upon us, without so much as discontent: for those that have otherwise behaved themselves, these following examples will set forth their reward.  
In the year of our Lord 1304. 
Nich. Gil.  after that Guy Earl of Flanders having rebelled against Philip the Faire, his sovereign, was by strength of arms reduced into subjection, and constrained to deliver himself, and his two sons prisoners into his hands: the Flemings made an insurrection against the King, because of a Tax which he had set upon their Ships that arrived at certain Havens: upon this occasion grew a war, wherein were fought divers Battels, and sundry overthrows on either side, yet at last the King remained conqueror; and the Flemings( for a reward of their Rebellion) lost in the Battle six and thirty thousand men, besides Prisoners.  
Two years after this Flemish stir, 
Nich. Gil. vol. 1  there arose a hurly-burly of the rascall and basest sort of people at Paris, because of the alteration of their coins, who not satisfied with the pillage of their houses, whom they supposed to be causers of the said alteration, came in great numbers before the Kings palace at his lodging in the Temple, with such an hideous noise and outrage, that all the day after, neither the King, nor any of his Officers durst stir forth; and they grew further to that overflow of pride and insolency, that the provision which was prepared for the Kings Table, was by them shamefully thrown under feet, and trampled upon in disdain: But three or four dayes after this Tumult was appeased, many of them for their pains were hanged before their own doors, and in the City Gates.  
In the time of Charles the sixth, 
Froiss. vol. 2. cap. 97.  King of France, the Flandrians and Inhabitants of Gaunt made an insurrection against Lewes, Earl of Flanders, their Lord, for divers Taxes and Tributes which he had laid upon them. The matter came to be decided by blows, much blood was  shed, and many losses endured on both sides; as a means appointed by God to chastise as well the one as the other. The Gaunts overthrew the Earls Army, and in pursuit of their Victory took burgess, whither the Earl was gone for safety; and lying in a poor womans house was constrained( in the habit of a beggar) to fly the City. Till at length Charles the sixth sent an Army to his succour, by whose support he overcame those Rebels in a Battle at Rose Bee, to the number of forty thousand: and the body of Philip Artevill, their Grand Ryoter slain in the throng, he caused to be hanged on a three; And this was the end of the cruel Tragedy, the Country being brought again to the obedience of their Old Lord.  
Anno Dom. 1525. certain Husbandman of Sovabey began to stand in resistance against the Earl of Lupsfen, 
Sleid. lib. 4.  by reason of certain burdens, wherewith they complained themselves to be overlaid; their neighbours seeing this, enterprised the like against their Lords: And so upon this small beginning, there grew a most dangerous commotion, that spread itself over all almain; the Sedition thus increasing in all quarters, and the swains being forty thousand strong, making their own Liberty, and the Gospels a cloak to cover their Treason and Rebellion, did not only fight with the roman catholics, but with all other without respect, as well in Sovabe as in Franconia, they destroyed the greater part of the Nobility, sacked, and burnt many Castles and Fortresses, to the number of two hundred, and put to death the Earl of Helfestin, whom they made to pass through the pikes. But at length their strength was broken, and themselves discomfitted and torn in pieces, with a most horrible massacre of more then eighteen thousand. During this Sedition there were slain on each side, fifty thousand men. Geismer the captain of the Sovabian swains, having betaken himself to flight, got over the Mountaines to Padua, where for Treason he was made away.  
Anno Dom. 1381. in the reign of King Richard the Second, 
Stow. Chron.  the Commons of England,( and especially of Kent and Essex) by reason of a Tax that was set upon them, assembled in Rebellion on Black-heath, to the number of threescore thousand and upwards: which Rebellious rout had none but base mechanic Fellowes for their Captaines, as Wat Tylour, Jack Straw, and Tom Miller, but yet they were the cause of much trouble and disquietness in the realm, and chiefly about the City of London, where they committed many outrages in destroying the Savoy, and other places, and behaved themselves in Smithfield most proudly, and irreverently towards the King: but by the heroic spirit of Will. Walworth, then Lord Mayor of London,( who arrested their chief captain in the midst of them) that rude company was dicomfitted, and the Ring-leaders of them received condign punishment.  
In the reign of Henry the Seventh, King of England, 
Stow. Chron.  A great commotion was stirred up in England, by the Commons of the North, by reason of a Tax which was levied of the tenth penny of all mens Lands and Goods within the Land, in the which the Earl of Northumberland was slain: But their rash attempt was soon broken, and chamberlain their captain, with divers others slain at york for the same.  
In the same Kings reign the Cornishmen Rebelled, under the conduct of the Lord Audley, and by woeful experience felt the same Scourge; for the King met them upon Black-heath, and discomfitting their troops, took their Captains and Ring-leaders, and put them to most deserved Deaths.  
It is worthy of observation, that throughout the holy Histories of sacred Scripture ever after any Treason, the holy Ghost presently sets down the punishments of Traytors, as it were purposely to signify how God hates those Rebells that resist his own Ordinance: and although God may for a time defer his punishments, yet at last they shall assuredly fall heavy upon them.  
Edward the Second, King of England, by the procurement of Isabell his Wife, and Roger Mortimer, Earl of March, being unjustly deposed from his crown and Dignities, Edward his Eldest son as next heir, took upon him the regal State: Mortimer was afterwards beheaded for Treason, and King Edward himself, though he were but fourteen yeares of Age when his Father was deposed, and had no hand in that traitorous Act, and was so far from approving of it, that when he came to Age he punished the Actors; yet God, to manifest his wrath against Treason, though he inflicted no personal punishment upon the King. yet not one of his Children, though be had a very numerous Issue, ever sate in the Throne of England; And his Grand-child that succeeded him, was likewise unjustly deposed.  
Henry the Fourth, who contrary to all Right and Equity, by force of arms deposed King Richard the Second, and took upon himself the regal Title, was continnally plauged with a troubled Conscience, and violent Traytors, had a turbulent reign, a riatous son, and his crown taken from him before he dyed: For upon his Death-bed falling into a trance, he lay as though all his spirits had forsaken him, insomuch that all there present imagined him dead, and covered his face. The Prince, his son, having notice thereof, came and took away the Crown, and departed. The King not long after reviving, asked for the Crown, and hearing the Prince had taken it, sends for him, and in an angry dialect demands the reason of that his presumption: to whom the Prince with a confident brow made answer, That in his, and all mens Judgement there present he was dead, and then I being next heir apparent to the same, took it as my indubitate Right, not as yours, but mine; well said the King, and fighed, Fair son, what Right I had to it God knoweth. An undoubted token of Gods Judgement, that as he had Rebelliously snatched the Crown from his sovereign liege Lord, and traitorously caused him to be murdered; so his own Son should take it from him while he was yet alive, to perplex his mind, and fill his guilty soul with horrors at the hour of his death, and sand him with an unquiet Conscience to his Grave: Nor did the punishment rest here, for revenge prosecuted his Childrens Children, and their Issue, even King Henry the sixth, who though a most Gracious, Just, and Religious King, yet as his before-named Grand-father had snatched the sceptre from his sovereigns hand, so was he most contemptibly plucked from his imperial Throne in the Parliament House, deposed and Imprisoned: and though he was again restored, yet he was afterward Deposed, Imprisoned, and Murdered, his Queen, as a vagabond, thrust forth of the kingdom, and the Prince, his son, stabbed in Twexbury, so just is God in revenging Treason, and Regicide upon the Actors, and their Posterity.  
What reward Richard the Third, King of England, had for his Rebellious usurpation of his true sovereigns crown; those who have but any acquaintance with our English Histories cannot be ignorant. Who, contrary to the principles of Humanity, Loyalty, and Honesty, Murdered his sovereign Lord King Edward the Fifth, and Richard, Duke of York, his Brother, and seated himself in the Throne royal of England, but small Joy had he of his Kingdom, and little glory in his Kingly Majesty, the splendour of whose rays was clouded by the strict and just edict of the King of Kings, who fixed upon him the marks of his heavy displeasure, for he was continually affrighted with the perplexities of a guilty Conscience: for during the time of his short and turbulent reign, which continued not much above two years he scarce enjoyed one houres quiet, not daring to trust any, & suspecting for false his most trusty Friends, even those that were his partners in Rebellion and Murder: and as his Life, so was his Death, rueful, for he was most cruelly slain in the battle of Bosworth field near Leicester: his Body without any royal pomp being stark naked, all mangled and besmeared with blood and dust, without so much as the least rag to cover his privities, was trussed behind Bryan Senigleer his own pursuivant at arms, like a calf, his head and arms hanging on one side of the horse, his legs on the other, and so was brought to Leicester, where for a spectacle of hate and scorn, by the space of two dayes he lay bare and un-interred: At last by the charity of the Gray friars there, without any funeral Pomp, scarce with ordinary solemnity, he was inhumed in their monastery there.  
I might proceed with the Gowries conspiracy, and the Gunpowder Treason, and the most apparent testimonies of Gods wrath upon the contrivers, but those as the rest beforementioned, being but weak and venial crimes in respect of that which is to follow, I will let them pass, and conclude with the most horrid, monstrous, and bloody Rebellion, the most unheard of tragic, and damnable piece of Treason, Acted by the most perfidious, perjured, and execrable Traytors that ever trod upon the face of the Earth. In the Year one thousand six hundred and forty, A Year of most woeful and unhappy memory began the present Parliament, which is the greatest and most destroying Plague, with which God ever visited this Nation: For they not having God before their eyes, studied their own advancement, not the Glory of God, and Honour of their sovereign, and pursued( not the preservation, but) ruin of State and Church. And that they might manifest their arrogarcy to the whole world, they presumed to demand that of their sovereign, which was neither fit for Subjects to ask, nor a King to grant, which was, that the continuance of this Parliament might be limited to the wills of the Members thereof, and it not to be dissolved without the consent of both Houses: And although it hath in all Ages been the indisputed right, and indubitate power of the Kings of England, to Call and Dissolve Parliaments at their pleasure: Yet His late Majesty, CHARLES the First, of most Glorious and blessed Memory; willing( if possible) to have satisfied His insatiable People, granted their request, and ratified his Grant by an Act of Parliament: & now the Sword being put into mad mens hands, both God and the King having given them up to their own hearts lusts, like bloody Caniballs they eagerly pursued their intended spoil, laying the foundation of their cursed reformation, in the Innocent blood of the Earl of Strafford, thereby robbing His Majesty of a most faithful and loyal Subject, and the Common-wealth of a most grave and careful Patriot; and as they began to lay their foundation in blood and wickedness, so they have still continued their Building: and to show how large a progress they were resolved to make into the paths of Impiety, they forced His Majesty( now with God) to pass an Act for the perpetual excluding Bishops from having any Votes in Parliament; thereby robbing the Bishops, those holy Fathers, of their Ancient and indubitate Right, and not enduring God to have any portion among them. Anno Dom. 1642. they raised an Army against King CHARLES the First, under the Command of Robert Earl of Essex and Ewe, of ignominious and loathed memory, which Army proceeded to many great and bloody Battels against that Kings own Person, Children and Subjects. Anno Dom. 1643. they caused two Innocent Gentlemen, Mr. Tompkins, and Mr. chaloner to be Murdered, for no other cause but their Loyalty to their sovereign; and for the same cause they Imprisoned, sequestered, and plundered all His Majesties loyal Subjects within their Quarters, to their utter ruin and Destruction. Anno Dom. 1644. they Murdered that most blessed Martyr of ever Glorious Memory, William Land, late Lord Arch-bishop of Canterbury, for no other cause but his Zeal, for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion in the purity thereof, as it is Established by the Law of this Land, and hath continued since the blessed Reformation in Queen Elizabeths dayes, according to the 39. Articles, and his faithful endeavour to preserve a decent uniformity of public Service in the Church. And that their wicked and traitorous design might not fall, they Silenced, sequestered, and Imprisoned all the Honest, Pious, and Learned Clergy of the Land, and placed in their rooms a Peevish, Ignorant, and Factious clergy, who preached nothing but Rebellion and Sedition. And for the further maintenance of this their most horrible and unparalleled Rebellion, they have continually imposed, to the extreme grief of the Subject, the Excise, Meal-money, fitfth and twentieth part, and many other insupportable Taxes and Burdens which our fore-fathers never heard of, and much beyond all the Taxes, Subsidies and loans that ever were paid by our ancestors to all the Kings of England since the Norman Conquest: so dear a rate have the mad and giddy people of England paid for their intolerable Slavery: and beyond all this, our great Task-masters have subverted Religior, robbed the Church of its Patrimony, murdered thousands of His Majesties good Subjects, countenanced and maintained schisms, Heresies, Blasphemies, both against the Lord, and his Anointed; sacrilege, Rebellion, Murder, Perjury, Theft, Oppression, Tyranny, and thousands of other most execrable enormities, the fourth part whereof would fill a volume. And I would to God I could have ended here, but I must go yet further, for after they had prosecuted their bloody Warres, and gotten His late Majesty into their hands, contrary to all their solemn oaths, Covenants, Protestations and Declarations, their engines of deceit, and Rebellion, instead of making Him a great and glorious King, they made Him a vile and despicable Prisoner, hurrying Him about from one prison to another, and instead of settling Him in His Throne with Glory and Honour, with scorn and contempt the perfidious Jews brought their King and Saviour to the cross instead of the crown, they bring His Majesty to the Scaffold, the bed of Death, putting Him to death as a malefactor, who was a King, most Religious in His profession, most innocent from wrong, and clear in His Conscience from doing the least injury to the worst of His Subjects: Upon the Stage( the Scaffold) on the 30. of January, Anno Dom. 1648. they acted a most fearful and bloody Tragedy upon the Person of King CHARLES the First, their sovereign Lord; after they had passed the faith of the kingdom, and given the security of the Houses for His security during their Treaty with Him; wherein of His benign goodness, He had granted them such free Concessions of grace and favour, such, and so many, as were never given, not onely by all the Kings of England, but by all the Kings of the world in all Ages thereof: nor were so much as thought of, or desired by the most haughty or audacious People. Thus carelessly did they throw away the blessing of such a King, of such excellent, delectable, and unimaginable endowments, as no Age or Kingdom of the world ever enjoyed. And after all this can we hope to be free from Judgements? no, here is Judgement enough if we were plagued with no more, to be bereft of such a King, but to bereave ourselves of such a King, is an exalcation of that. But if we will open our eyes, and not be wilfully blind, we may see Judgements thick and three-fold follow the Actors of this Rebellion: The Presbyterians, who were the first fomenters thereof, who once made honest men Malignants to them, are now made Malignants to worse Rebels themselves; the Lords, who were once so forward to Vote Bishops out of their House, are now thrown out of their House by their Companions in Rebellion, and said aside as unuseful Members, having been hither to made use on but as Close-stooles for the necessity, and pandours to the lusts of the Common-people. Those Members that at first were so active in the cause, and were looked upon as the Glorious workers of Reformation, the Pillars of the Common-wealth, and Fathers of their Country; are now droven out of the verge of the House, and thrown away as Rotten Members; Waller, Massey, brown, and others the great Champions of Reformation, are now looked upon as Enemies to the Common-wealth, biased men, Imprisoned, and to be proceeded against as traitors; Essex their magnanimous Herod, was at best but carried to his Grave with a few compliments, where he lies forgotten, scarce worth an Epitaph; The Hathams received the reward of their Rebellion upon Towerhill from the hands of their fellow Traytors; the Covenant, the stalking-horse of Rebellion, is cast into the fire as an almanac out of Date: The new modeled Assembly with their Calvinian Levites, those bawling Rabshekaes, who stretch their Consciences upon the centers of HILL, breathing from their Pulpits blasphemy against God and his Anointed, roaring Rebellion, blood and Sedition, and possessing the People with spirits of madness; now are looked upon with envy and contempt, as those Caterpillars and Locusts, that devour not onely the substance, but the souls of the People: The City, that Parliament-prop, the Refuge and Sanctuary of them, and their Adherents, the Grand Artillery, and Magazine of confiding men, the inn and hospital of all their maimed Souldiers, and the common Purse and Exchequer together, and heap up money for their Service, now is looked upon as the onely Remora to Reformation, a dis-affected place, and filled with their Enemies: that Army which they raised, and sent into the bowels of the kingdom for the destruction of Monarchy, is now crept into their own entrails, threatening and reputing their ruin and devastation, the onely warrant of their security: That City which could not live contentedly under the prosperous Government of Kings, who gave them their Charter, must live patiently in Slavery and Bondage to those Tyrants that will take it from them, and level their freedom and immunities to a miserable community. Nor must any of the Authors or Cherishers of this Rebellion expect to have their punishments end here: For as they walked in untrodden paths of Rebellion, so they must expect to be plagued with unknown Judgements: Nor must the present Tragedians think to go free, for as they have acted a more bloody scene, so must they expect to drink deeper of the Cup of more dire revenge, for God is just, and will not suffer blood, especially royal blood to go unrevenged, but will assuredly make strict inquisition for the blood of the King, of Strafford, Canterbury, Hamilton, Holland, capel, Lucas, Lisle, and thousands of others, that have already, or shall hereafter be murdered by these bloody Caniballs. For undoubtedly the blood of Innocents, the blood of Martyrs, the tears of widows, Orphans, and Oppressed men and Women, now ready to starve through their means, have filled Heaven and Earth with cries for Vengeance. And no doubt but the just God to whom Vengeance belongs, will in his good time show himself in Vengeance, hurling it down upon their Heads, and pouring forth the full Vyalls of his Indignation upon these Disturbers of this poor kingdoms Peace.  
God in his mercy settle King CHARLES the Second in Peace, and either speedily convert, or confounded his Enemies; to which, let all loyal hearted English-men say Amen.  
FINIS.