THE OXONIAN ANTIPODES, OR, The OXFORD Anty-Parliament.  

First, Setting forth who it is that calls that Parliament.  
Secondly, Who they are that sit in that Parliament.  
Thirdly, What Parliament it is, when the Members of it are in one body.  
Fourthly, To what end this Parliament is called.  
Fifthly, What they are for their Religion, their lives and conversations, that bear Arms in defence of that Parliament.  
Sixthly, That the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawful Parliament.  
Seventhly, That whatsoever is done against this Lawful Parliament, is against God, the Protestant Religion, the Laws of the Land, and the Liberty of the Subjects.   
By I.B. Gent.  
LONDON, Printed for Richard Lounds, and are to be sold at his shop near Ludgate, 1644.   

To the Reader.  
COURTEOUS READER,  
THe inexhausted Treasures of the neverdying virtues of this faithful Parliament hath encouraged my quaking Pen to salute you, by presenting unto your view, the weak endeavours of a Soldier's Quill; And the rather, to give satisfaction to the world, that I gird not sword to my thigh, till such time I well weighed the reasons that moved me to it, which were these; To defend the Protestant Religion, this lawful Parliament, the Laws of the Land, and my own liberty, from the violence and oppression of proffessed Papists, Traitors, and Rebels. And now having some leisure, being in my Winter quarters, after a sad contemplation of my Country's misery, I thought fit to spend some hours in compiling this undigested fragment, for the better satisfaction of some various conceits that are amongst us, and for the stopping the mouths of malignant spirits, who with their stupidity flatter themselves with the bare name of a King, never arguing to themselves how fare a King may command, or what commands of the King the Subject may not obey. Now here is discovered how fare the King's power doth extend, to Command his subjects; And what Commands of the King the Subject may not obey. Here is set forth what the Ruler is by his Counsel, and that a good King will not suffer wicked Counselors to be about him; All I shall add is one by his request, courteously to accept my weak labours: And how ever you please to censure, I wish you a contented life, and an honourable death.  
Yours faithfully affected, JO. BRANDON Gent.   

The Oxonian Antipodes, or the Oxford Anty-Parliament.  
KIngs are appointed by God to govern the people committed to their charge with wisdom and knowledge, like Solomon who desired of the Lord to give him wisdom and knowledge, 2 Chron. the 7.10. that he might go out and in before the Lord's people: for saith he, who can judge this thy people; as if he should have said that I may govern this thy people with wisdom and knowledge, by establishing to them a saveing Religion and wholesome Laws both which include a comfortable Liberty as King jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. the 17 the 7, 8, 9 verses, in the third year of his Reign, he sent his Princes with divers of his Priests and Levites to judah, and with them the book of the Law of the Lord, to teach the people of judah the Laws that were written in that book.  
Now the Law of God expressed in holy Scripture, is a Law that is written in the conscience of every man, in the conscience of the King so well as in the conscience of a Subject, which Law the Philosophers call the Law of Nature, and the Lawyers call it the Law of Nations whereof the Law of Moses is a plain exposition, hence it is that the fundamental Laws are grounded upon these Laws, and the King is sworn at his Coronation to maintain them to the Subjects, with such Religion and Liberties as the same Laws do allow of.  
It remains then that there is a Religion, Laws, and Liberties belonging to the Subjects of England, and they are to be maintained unto them by the King, whence is it then that our Religion, Laws and Liberties, had long ere this been taken from us by him that is sworn to maintain them to us? had not God of his great mercy stirred up the hearts of a Parliament to stand for us? by reason his Majesty gave himself over to evil Counsellors, he did choose rather to come in a hostile manner to the House of Parliament, to accuse five of his faithfullest Counsellors of high treason, then suffer to be brought to condign punishment Digby, or Germin, or Windibancke, who are known Traitors to this State and Kingdom, such Counselors they are ro him as Ahab was, and Ahaziahs' mother was to him, she counselled him to do wickedly, wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord, Chron. 2.22. Chap. 3.4. like the house of Ahab for they were His Counselors to his destruction; it must needs follow that the Rulers are such as their Counselors be, that there cannot be a good King that suffereth wicked Counselors, if Kings be entrusted with Subjects, Laws, and Liberties, to the end they should maintain them by the best means they can to the loss of life, and inheritance, and yet labour to circumvent them of their Religion, Laws and Liberties, and this being done in a Kingdom, which is governed by a Parliamentary government, and their Privileges lying engaged with the Subject's Laws and Liberties, its time then for that Parliament to be stir themselves and by all the means they can, defend themselves, their Religion, their Privileges, with all the faithful subjects, with their Laws and Liberties, from violence and oppression, and from being delivered into the over ruling power of papists and Rebels, and Violators of Laws and Liberties but now the word Liberty has taken that possession in the hearts of English Subjects, that all the Monarchical Prerogatives in Oxford, or elsewhere cannot tell how either by declaring against it at common Law by the advice of Banks, and Heath, or by preferring a Bill in Chancery against it with the advice of Littelton, or by thundering sentences out of the high Commission and Star chamber by the Archprelates to put it out of possession: when these would not do; to bring their design to perfection, they have thundered forth Proclamations to terrify the hearts of His Majesty's loyal and faithful Subjects by proclaiming them Traitors and Rebels, for no other cause, then for standing in defence of their Religion, Laws and Liberties, And have raised an Army to suppress their lawful Parliament: and now they have persuaded His Majesty to call a Parliament to sit at Oxford, there to sit in council (as I conceive) against God himself, for the rooting out of the Protestant Religion, for the destruction of his lawful Parliament, and the Laws and Liberties of the faithful Protestants in England, Scotland, and Ireland; You may see to what end they call this great Council, if we do but look bacl for seven years before the sitting of this Parliament of blessed memory, who seeing what action they have continually been in, as by private ways and means under pretence of Religion, still bringing in several Innovations into the Church, by limiting the Subjects in their devotion upon Sabbath days and others, as if they should have said, God doth not give men the power of prayer, but we must set them a Form how they shall pray, and for what; And if they do not pray thus, God will not hear them, with divers other Cerimoniall actions to be used in the Church; As to bow to the Table, it being set popish Altarwise, and to bow at the name of Jesus and in many Churches and Chapels there was set up the Death and Passion of our blessed Saviour. And in His Majesties own Chapel at Whitehall, there was an absolute Altar, with the holy Book guarded with Tapers, with worshipping of God at that Altar, by singing of Anthems in their popish Copes; All which being burdens to tender consciences, caused many Ministers of God rather choose to be silenced, other some to leave the Kingdom, then to give way to such popish Innovations, and to have their consciences limited to such great inconveniences as these were, and for other godly learned men, whose judgements did foresee what great opposites these mountains would prove, to eclipse the pure divine worship of God for ever being settled in the Church of England. These men (for the discharging of their consciences to God, as it was his honour that then lay at stake, to the people of this Kingdom, as it was the means of their salvation that lay at stake, by making known to the people of this Kingdom, the private plots these Innovators used under the habit of the Protestant Religion, for the circumventing of the true Protestant Religion,) were some of them pillored and Branded, some of them had their Ears cut, and some whipped, and all of them had the sentence of perpetual imprisonment. But it pleased God to raise himself Instruments of honour contrary to their expectation, to cast out the Babilonish government which was crept into our Church, and to raise them up again, who for a long time before, lay under the heavy burdens of the prelatical suppressions, when as the Archprelates did see that their Gods and god divices must be thrown down by a Reforming Parliament, than they conspire once more to exasperate the business a little further, and that must be done by protesting against all that ever this Parliament had done, to see how it pleased God they should work their own ruin. I verily believe that protestation did disable them for ever having Vote in Parliaments any more, or to be so much honoured as to come into the inside of one or both the Houses, unless it be to receive sentence for condign punishment.  
This former consideration being well weighed in an even balance by every true Protestant, the consequence will be, that since they cannot disinherit us of the pure worship of God by fomenting our Religion, and so consequently to have disinherited us of God himself, for where the pure worship of God is, there is God himself, by subverting our Laws, by protecting of Papists and Recusants, and professed Priests and Jesuits from being brought to condign punishment according to the known laws of the Land.  
It remains therefore, that they will cast in one bone more, and try if they can pluck up our Religion, the parliamentary government, the Laws of the Kingdom, the Liberties of the Subject, by the root, striking at the very being of Parliaments. What colour do you think they have for this? They say this Parliament is a pretended Parliament, wherefore they will have an Anti-Parliament called to sit at Oxford, could not His Majesty's Cabinet Council, with their stupid injenuous advice, advise him to appoint this Antipodes to be held at no other place than Oxford? there would have been room enough for himself to have sat with His lawful Parliament at Westminster, if He had pleased to have come thither, and for His Counselors too, provided he would br●ng them to receive that condign punishment which justly they have deserved. The place where this Anti-parliament must be held, is at no other place than Oxford, even there, from whence should flow both Milk and Honey, there where the Gospel of Jesus Christ should be in its greatest splendour; It should be a main light to the Kingdom, a place where Kings should be instructed in the ways of peace, and not to war with His own faithful and loyal Subjects, but to enlarge their Liberties; A place from whence should flow such streams of Sovereign graces, and spiritual Balsams as should purge away all Spanish and French factious Advisers from about His Majesty, and heal up all differences betwixt His Majesty and His faithful Parliament. But here we have it quite contrary, for in stead of Milk and Honey, thence proceeds gall and bitterness. In stead of giving light to the Kingdom, it yields nothing but darkness: In stead of Instructing the King in the ways of peace, there he is advised to war against his lawful Parliament: In stead of purging streams, to purge away Factious advisers, there are Rivers that increase, and bring them to His Majesty: In stead of healing up the differences that are between His Majesty and His Parliament, there is greater differences made: In stead of Advising His Majesty to come and sit with His lawful Parliament, He is there advised to call an Anti-Parliament in opposition to His lawful Parliament. This proves the place to be Antipodes.   

Now it remains,  

1. Who it is that calls this Anti-Parliament.  
2. Secondly, who they are that are called to sit in this Parliament.  
3. Thirdly, what this Parliament in itself is, that is called, when the Members of it are in one Body.  
4. Fourthly, to what end this Parliament is called.  
5. Fifthly, what they are in their Religion, Lives, and Conversations, that bear Arms for the defence of this Parliament.  
6. Sixthly, that the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawful Parliament.  
7. Seventhly and lastly, that whatsoever is done against this lawful Parliament by the Anti-Parliament, is against God, Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of the Subjects of England.   

Question 1. Who is it that calls this Parliament.  
Answer.  
IT is the King; and true it is, Kings may Command, and Subjects ought to obey their King so fare forth as he shall Command them nothing but what is warrantable by holy Writ, and the Laws of the Land where he Rules. The name of a King that Rules with wisdom and knowledge, with peace and Tranquillity, revives the spirits of his faithful Subjects, when as the name of an obstinate King, that rules by a Tyrannical government strikes terror, and makes them careless in their duty to their Prince. That King who by his ruling in Justice, hath the love of all his faithful Subjects, seems glorious in his Throne, and terrible to his enemies; The King is to be ruled by Law, so well as to rule by Law, as by making the Law his guide or rule how to govern his people in love; it is a charge laid upon the King expressly, the 17 Deut. 18.19.20. verses, That when he shall sit upon the Throne of his Kingdom, then shall he write him this Law, and in the next verse, And it shall be with him, and he shall read them therein all days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this Law, and these ordinances for to do them, that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren; whereby is meant, that Kings ought to love their Subjects as nature bindeth one brother to love another, and Kings are to rule by Law, and the Law is to be grounded upon the word of God, that so it be, what the Law commands, God commands; And what King soever he be, that commands any thing contrary to Law, the Subject may refuse to obey. Hence it is that the laws of England being grounded upon the law of God, the King having already called a Parliament to sit at Westminster according to the Customs the Law doth allow of, and as yet not lawfully dissolved. Be it to that Subjects conscience that shall now obey the Kings Command to sit in his Anti-Parliament, and to disert his lawful Parliament, before such time as the work be finished, to which end they were summoned; As to root out popery out of this Kingdom to redeem the Subjects out of oppressions Courts; and out of the hands of oppressions Monopolists, and to bring Offenders and Delinquents to condign punishment; But if this had been done, there would be no Anti-Parliament at all, unless his Majesty would sit by himself, there would be no Inscendiaries left to sit with him, which brings me to the second thing.   

Question. 2 Who they are that are summoned to sit in this Anty-Parliament.  
Answer.  
PArliament said I, the name of a Parliament is the greatest comfort English Subjects, have. Lawful Parliaments reform Kings, and their Laws, if they be not grounded upon the Law of God, they have power to repeal them, and choose such Laws as shall be rules whereby the King shall rule his people according to the revealed will of God, we cannot expect these comfortable effects from this Anty-Parliament, as might be expected by faithful and religious Subjects from a faithful and religious Parliamentary Council, perhaps you will say the King himself sits here; It's true he does the presencement, of a gracious Prince does animate a lawful Parliament to go on courageously for the advancing Religion, Laws and Liberties for the throwing down of Antichrist and Antichristian government, but this must not be expected here, although the King be there in person, for by this you may see of what value his Protestations and Declarations have been all along from the first time he left his Parliament he protested always he aimed at no other than to maintain the Protestant Religion the Privileges of that Parliament, which at that time, and now, sitteth at Westminster, the Laws of the land and the Liberty of the Subject, he hath called God to witness to these his protestations, and yet used all the means possible, by blood thirsting instruments, to kill and stay all his faithful and loyal Subjects to fire their houses, plunder their estates, when all this would not do, hath summoned all those together, who were his advisers to forsake his Parliament, to sit in Council with him in his Anty-Parliament, where he will be furnished with Counsels of all sorts, there will be Counsellors to advise him how to punish Fomenters of Religion and subverters of the laws of the Kingdom, and in fringers of the Subjects Liberty, such as will advise him how to thrust out the Spanish and French factions, such as will advise him, how to punish such as shall betray the trust that the faithful Subjects of England have entrusted them with, such as Subjects will advise his Majesty, how to bring to condign punishment, all such as have had Articles of high Treason drawn against them, such as shall advise his Majesty how to gain the love of his Subjects, and to secure his own Crown and dignity.  
As for example the Archprelates of Armagh and York, and Doctor Fearn, they will advise his Majesty, how to punish Fomenters of Religion, by Enacting this present Parliament that Episcopacy with juredivino may stand in full force, & virtue with the triple Crown, Justice Banks, and Justice Heath, and Holborn, will advise his Majesty how to punish Subverters of the Laws of the Land by Enacting this their present Parliament that all such causes which have been tried and adjudged at Westminster since his Majesty's Proclamation for the adjurning the Term to Oxford, the Judgements are of no force nor virtue, but are contrary to the fundamental laws of the Kingdom, Sir Ralph Dutton and Sir Henry Poole will advise his Majesty to punish Infringers of the Subjects Liberty, by Enacting that Parliament, that no Clothier in Glocestershire shall make any cloth without paying to his Majesty one shilling per piece, and to themselves two shillings. The Earl of Bristol and the Lord Cottington will advise his Majesty how to thrust out of his Kingdom, the French and spanish factions by making an Act this present Parliament, for the establishing the Inquisition, the high Commission I would have said, in this Kingdom, and to keep an Army one foot, to keep his Subjects in subjection to the Commission of Array. Sir Faithless Foscu and the Lord Littelton, will advise his Majesty how to punish all such as betray the trust that the Subjects of England intrust them withal, by making an Act, that it was lawful for the one after so many Protestations as he did make to be faithful unto the employment which he had undertaken; yet afterwards to betray the lives of divers men into the hands of their cruel Enemies, and for the other to betray the Kingdom's Seal; from the body of the Kingdom, to be a colour for merciless actions. The Lord Digby & the pretended Lord Germin, will advise his Majesty how to bring to condign punishment all those who have had Articles of high Treason drawn against them, by making an Act that it is lawful for any such person if he make an escape before such time as he hath bintryed upon the said Articles of high Treason, to betake himself to his Majesty's Court for Sanctuary, and there to be received into his Majesty's grace and favour, and to be of his Counsel this present Parliament. Prince Rupert and the pretended Lord Byron, will advise his Majesty how to gain the love of all his faithful Subjects and for the securing of his own Crown and dignity, by making an Act, that it is lawful for any Commanders and Soldiers that are now in Arms for the defence of the King and this Parliament, to take plunder, and fire all such Towns, in the Kingom of England or Scotland or Ireland, as the inhabitants thereof shall oppose the Array government. Thus having shown you who they are that are called to sit in this Parliament, I come now to the third Question.   

Question. 3. What Parliament this is when the Members of it are together in one body.  
Answer.  
IT is an Antipodes or Anty-Parliament the rather called Antipodes in regard of the contrariety of the place where this Council is held, as I shown you before, an Antipodes in regard of the contrariety in their several Counsels, as for example, instead of punishing Fomenters of the Protestant Religion, they get Acts for the setting up of Popery. Instead of punishing the Subverters of the Laws of the Land, they subvert the Laws themselves instead of puntshing Infringers of the Subjects Liberty, they Enact Monoppolies to be lawful and so it is in all the rest of their proceed. Wherefore I conceive it deserves not the name of a Parliament, for Parliaments reform all things that are amiss, Enact good and wholesome Laws and Privileges, whereas on the contrary this Anty-labers all it can to confound wholesome Laws and Liberties, which brings me to the fourth question.   

Question. 4. To what end this Parliament is called.  
Answer.  
Which I shall answer upon this consideration, if you please to consider their several proceed from the first beginning of these unhappy differences, and who they are that sit in this great Council, you will easily find to what end this Anty Parliament was called, it was called to this very end and purpose that seeing they could not by all the means they have used hitherto, as by the King's Majesties deserting his lawful Parliament by the Arch-popish Prelates protesting against all that ever was done in that Parliament, by their insinuating his Majesty to take up Arms against his Parliament, as also by his Majesty's countenancing so many popish Lords and Delinquents to his palriament, in keeping them from being brought to condign punishment, according to the Law of the Land, all this being done, under pretence of monarchical power and prerogative, when all this would not enforce his parliament absolutely to dissolve, and leave themselves and those Subjects who had entrusted them with their lives, & Estates, to the mercy of tyrannical government, but have used all just and lawful means to defend their Religion, Laws and Liberties, even at that very time is this Anty-parliament called, thinking thereby to root, out all at once, Religion, parliament, Law and Liberty. Argue but thus and we shall find by what the Counsellors are what the Counsels, as if the Counsel be invected with popery, the advice must needs be for popery, if the Counsellors be invective with subvertion of Laws, the advice is for to subvert Laws, if the Counsellors be invective with Spanish and French factions, the Counell must needs be for Inquisition and Array; f the Counsellors be invective to Monopoliseing, the Counsel must needs be for Monoppolies, if the Counsellors be invective to plundering, the advice must needs be for plundering and firing of Towns, if the Counsellors be invective to Treason, the advice of those Counselors must needs be Treachery: Now hear you may see to what end this Anty-parliament was called. Now English faithful Subjects look to yourselves, for if this Anty-Counsell go on here is treachery a plotting to take away your Religion, to subvert your Laws, to Infringe your Liberties, and to root up the being of parliaments, all these to be blasted by this Anty-parliament (if it hold) at one time. Thus have I answered the fourth question and now come to the fifth.   

Question 5. Who and what they are in their lives and conversations that take up Arms in defence of this Anti-Parliament.  
Answer.  
AS for their General Prince Rupert, it is well known what he is, both for his life and conversation, glorying in nothing but lisentious luxuries, and plundering His Majesty's loyal and faithful Subjects: all his Ambition is to get himself an inheritance by the destruction of our Laws and Liberties, by an overruling power, with his Majesty's assent, witness so many Towns, as Banbury, Brummidgham and others, which he hath fired and plundered. So likewise for the rest of the Commanders that are joined with him. How many known Papists are there that have taken up Arms in this unnatural War. What else can we expect from such whose Religion is a bloodthirsty Religion; It allows them to massacre those that profess the Protestant Religion, and can we think they will fight for the Protestant Religion. Oh! let us not soothe up ourselves with such foolish fancies; As for those of their Commanders that are not professed Papists, as the pretended Lord Byron, the Lord Wilmoi, and Neale that was their Scout-Master, they are worse than those who are professed papists; They are like to subtle Woolves, who devour Lambs in sheep's clothing, who pretend they fight for the protestant Religion, when indeed they labour all that in them lieth for to destroy it. As for Neale, he hath been one of the greatest highway robbers this day in the Kingdom, yet now Knighted by his Majesty. Is it possible for those men to fight for the Protestant Religion, who joined in Commotion with professed Papists, English and Irish Rebels, and fight for one and the same cause with them, and plot and contrive how they shall destroy such a Parliament as shall be lawfully called for the defence of the protestant Religion. The protestant Religion cannot be maintained by such unjust means. If such are the Commanders what are the inferior Officers and Soldiers? as for them there are a great many professed Papists and Irish Rebels, Patentees and Servingmen, broken Tradesmen, Proctors and Officiates, Stage-players, Fiddlers, and Highway men, and a great many of ignorant Welshmen. The papists and Irish Rebels they will fight in defence of this Anti-parliament, against the lawful Parliament, because they know that if the parliament get the day, there will be a reformation of the protestant Religion, and popery should down quite, and the Irish Rebels would be quailed, and therefore they will fight it out to the last, for their Religion lieth at stake as well as their selves. The Patentees they will fight, they will join with the rest, they know if the King with his Anti-parliament get the day, they shall renew their Patents, which if the lawful parliament get the day, their hopes will be frustrate forever Monopolising more. The Servingmen they will fight too in defence of this Anti-parliament, because their Masters do; as if their Masters go to hell, they will go too for company. There are broken Tradesmen in this Army that will fight against the lawful parliament, because they will not allow them Protections whereby they might walk the streets in despite of their Creditors. The Proctors they will fight against this parliament, in hope his Majesty and his Anti-parliament will get the day, and then there will be Trading enough at Doctor's Commons, for there would be more Holidays than ever there was, and Etcetera as common as ever it was, and therefore they will fight and make as strong a party as they can against that parliament, that hath been the cause of their downfall. The Stage-players they will fight against the Reforming parliament, for they reform Church and people, they will not suffer more Stageplays, and by this consequence their trading is quite put down, but yet if there could be but a putting down of this parliament, the King would set their Trade in as great estimation as ever it was, and therefore they will join also with the rest, and try if they can beat this Reforming parliament out of all. The Highway men they will fight in this cause, for that the King alloweth his Soldier's good store of plunder, and then they shall not need to fear hanging for robbing their neighbours. The ignorant Welshmen they will fight too, but it is for no reason at all, but because hur King is in the field, tell not hur of Religions nor Laws, nor of a Parliament, for hur fight for hur King against them all.  
All this while there is no questioning what Religion they fight for, only by the professed Papists, and all the rest fight for their own by ends, and yet all against the Protestant Religion, and a lawful Parliament, and the Laws and Liberties of English Subjects.  
Here you see plainly what sorts of men they are, that are in this Army, and as they are drawn up in Battalia they seem to be a great many, and who but the professed Papists have more care of fowls welfare then the seeming Protestant, in regard they fight for the advancement of their own Religion, and the other for the exhausting their own by-ends and respects, never thinking of the advancement of the Religion they profess but fight against it. Now the next thing is to prove this Parliament the lawful Parliament.   

Question 6. That the Parliament now sitting at Westminster is the absolute lawful Parliament?  
Answer.  
TO prove that this Parliament is a lawful Parliament, I shall not need much to dispute, For that Parliament that is lawfully called, is a lawful parliament; To prove that this Parliament was lawfully called, is only thus; His Majesty sending forth His Writs to the Sheriffs of every City, Burrough, County, and Corporation in the Kingdom of England, and Dominion of Wales, giving them full power & Authority to summon the Freeholders of their several Cities, Burroughs, Counties and Corporations, to meet at their usual places of meetings, There freely to Elect and choose by voice or pole, such men for Knights and Burgesses for their several Cities, Boroughs, Counties and Corporations, as the major part of them shall choose, and these Knights and Burgesses are to meet at such time and place as shall be expressed in His Majesty's Warrant. Thus was this parliament called, and if thus lawfully called, than no question it is a lawful parliament; If this be not sufficient to prove it so you have ●is Majesty's own Act. For it is enacted by the King, the Lords and Commons in this present parliament, that it shall not be dissolved without a general consent of both the said Houses. Thus is this parliament proved to be the absolute lawful parliament of England. Hence it is that this must be lawfully dissolved, before there can be another lawfully called in England; For it is as possible for two Suns to be in one Horizon, as two lawful parliaments at one instant of time in the Kingdom of England, but it is with them of this Anti-party in this case, as in all the rest hitherto, always labouring against this Parliament, that if once they could get it down, it should never rise again. And seeing they could not prevail, they will now have some colour for their rebellious actions. They will have an Anti-Parliament to fight for; So by this think to m●ke good all their actions by having Acts made, that what ever they have done was lawful, why? because it was done in defence of the King and their Parliament, as it was in defence of those who now are called to sit in that parliament.  
Since it is so that His Majesty and his Queen band themselves together, with popish Rebels and Traitors, with other Incendiaries to this State and Kingdom, against God, the Protestant Religion, the lawful parliament of England, the Laws of the Land, the Liberty of the Subject, let us break their bonds and cast their cords from us, and now stand up for the Gospel of jesus Christ, by standing against those who labour to disinherit us of a faithful parliament, and of the pure worship of God, and so consequently of God himself, this must be done by uniteing ourselves together in that faithful Covenant set forth by order of parliament, covenanting with ourselves that we will stand in defence of our lawful and just reforming parliament, to the loss of Lives and Estates, against all that ever shall oppose it, withal blessing God that ever he sent us such a parliament, to stand so faithfully for the honour of God, for the advancement of his Gospel and for their own privileges, and for the Laws, of the Land and the Subjects Liberty, as this parliament has done, let them not want your prayers, let them not want your persons to encourage them, nor your Estates to advance that cause they have undertaken for God's glory, and for your future comforts, and without all doubt the God of Heaven will stand for you, if you will stand for the advancing of his Gospel, and you shall find that the Conspiracies of papists and Traitors, nor the murmuring of malignants, and the power of Kings shall not prevail against the Cause of Christ; For God is a light to comfort his people, and a fire to burn his Enemies.    

This is licenced and Entered into the Hall-book according to Order.  
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