O Friends! No Friends, TO KING, Church and State.  
OR, Thames, Twede and Tyne paraelled with Rome's Tiber and King-poysoning Po.  
WITH Positions and Practices from Rome and from Rheims, from Edinburgh and Geneva, poised to some purpose, as the Case now stands:  
AND, Presented to all impartial Patriots and Presbyterians.  
By Veridicus, praeterea nihil.  
LONDON, Printed by R. Austin. 1648.   

Thames, Tweed, and Tyne paralleled with Rome's Tiber, and King-poysoning Po.  
TO unbowel my acts, yea intentions to the censorious and itching times with Athenian ears, desiring novelties more insatiably than Messalina and Proculus new lusts, or materia prima, the first matter, new forms, nothing now venting but news and toys, even Bibles themselves less looked on or after then Babbles, Pamphlets, and Ballads, all solid books being slighted by the vulgar as Pearls by Hogs, and Gold by Fools, and turned by misspent time into eare-tickling news, as Religion in our late abused peace, in most places was turned all into Rites and Ceremonies, as Bottle-Ale into froth, or as they say of Sycomore trees, their barks being more than thrir brier: there being lately by a near friend of mine a Treatise penned called Ominous Court Ravens croaking Kings above Laws, silenced by Laws sacred and secular, and being as soon rejected by as presented to some Stationers for the press, because it was too solid and judicious for the light headed staggering intoxicated times, fed rather now (like the Gospels' prodigal) with husks, haws and light Awnes then with solid meat, yea with lusted Quails rather than Manna; I having seriously perused that elaborate work amongst other discussions useful for the times, (had it seen the light) I noted the poisonous packs and fatal fardels of Popish Counselors, Favourites and Abettors, to Protestant Princes, fully unripped. Now to set footing or to wade after where the unprinted Manuscript broke the ice, I desire, as the case now stands, to anchor all Fluctuations and doubts, that all the blinded eyes in the Kingdom were Swalllow-like, rubbed with Celedine or Collirium, and that all insatuated brains were purged with Hellibore, to discern what firm friends Papists have been to Protestant Princes ever since Papism, chief Jesuitism was hatched (like all other our late renewed Heresies) from hell itself: and to look with in partialll eyes into their plots oft effected, if according to their sanguinnolent positions, commented by their practices in all States, they be not and ever have been as sure friends to Orthodox Princes, as Hawks to innocent Doves, Hounds to hunted Hares, Wolves to Lambs, and all kinds of Serpents, from the Basilisk and great Regulus to the little Dipsas, to all of humane races, yet hinc nostri fundi calamitas, here is our fore-seen wrack and woe, that these Serpents that we have so long fought against to crush them, as Pigmees against Craines, yea as Meleager against the Caledonian Boar, and the Roman Regulus against the great Serpent at Bagrada, must now by a promiscuous Toleration of an  and Gallamawfrey of all Sects, if some powers as their pates and pens may rule the Roast, be warmed again in the bosom of our Church and State to sting us to death, whom the sword of War with the effusion of Hecatombs of blood hath so long endeavoured to crush and curb like Cockatrices or Crocodiles in their shells, or as State-firing, Church-poisoning Snakes in their heads, which to prevent what afterwards (like Trojans after-wise) we may repent, as well as ruinated Germany, and the Palatinate, by Papal imperialists; let us not be hoodwinked any more, nor carried like Hawks blindfolded on the fist, and though Popery now like a little river swallowed into a great Sea, seem to be drowned in the vast gulfs of greater Heresies, and more horrid blasphemies then either Michael Servetus vomited out in Geneva, or Simon Magus in Samaria, or Montanus with his Priscilla, or Arrius, or Ebion, or Cerinthus in the Primitive times, or Munster, or David George, or Familist, or Enthusiast in Belgia, or Ket, or Hacket, or Ardington, or Coppingger here in England, as our zealous Ministers in London have protested against them, though now the great Antichrist, as some think, now come into the world as the great Dragon hath devoured in a manner Popery the lesser Antichrist, as the greater sound is said to drown the lesser, and the greater light to dim the lesser, yea as Naturians tell us, as a Serpent eats a Serpent before he comes to be a Dragon, yet never the less as a lesser Bodkin may stab a Caesar, every Jesuitized Papist according to their doctrine and practices being armed as a Ravillack, a Parry, a Lopus, a Lupus, a Jaques Clement still, with a Bodkin, a Pistol, a poison even for a suspected regal Protestant. Antagonist against their Hierarchy, as well as against the two French Henry's, much more a detected Adversary to their proceed, as some of the German frederick's and Henries, and our English Henry the 8. knowing still how to hit the basilical vein, how ever they have lately pretended to be Caesar's best Catholic Subjects, as good as any man ever hanged upon his hedge, as true friends to him as ever judas pretended himself towards Christ, joab to Abner, weeping Ishmael to Gedeliah, Jer. 41.6. yea as the French Laffin to the great Byron, and our English Banister to his Duke, or any other Traitors to Potentates, and States, whom these Quoy-ducks have betrayed, as Sinon once did Troy, Zopirus Babylon, and our English York Deventree to the Spaniards; yea, however as flattering Zibaes' they stole away the ear and heart of regality for a time so fare from true hearted Mephibosheths, 2 Sam. 16.3. as to be thought to stand and fight for Caesar, and to side with him and with his Religion, as the wolves should take part with the Shepherd against the Shepherd's Dogs that keep the Flocks, and that the best Sentinels over the flocks should be no better than painted Traitors, as though Catiline Rome's Firebrand, and his Catilinarians were only the best Bulwarks of and Benefactors unto Caesar, the Senate and the Plebeians, and Lucius Sicinius, called the Achilles of Rome, and Marcellus the Sword of Rome, 
De his & Aliis vide Sibyl. in supple. lib. 6. c. 3. & Valer. lib. 5. cap. 2.  and lingering Fabius the Atlas of Rome, and Tully the Father of his Country, and Codrus the Father of the Senate, should be counted as Tobiah and Sanballat, and Hamman were to the Jews, or every one of them like Hannibal, a professed enemy and adversary to the Romans, this were as though Penelope, Lucrece and Susanna should be thought as dishonest as once the Pope's Mazoria, the Grecian Helena, or any Italian Courtesans and the Corinthian Lais and Thais, the Roman Flora, and our English Conquerors Arlet or Harlot, yea the shameless Pasiphae were as honest as Abraham's Sarah, or Willowbies Avisa, so incurring by this crosse-capering, no less than this curse, of calling evil good, and good evil, light darkness, and darkness light, Esa. 5.20. the Crow white and the Swan black, a Plebeian a Preacher, a Mechanic a Minister, a Dunce a Doctor; a Tailor a Teacher, a Mute a Vowel, a Dulman a Divine, and a Divine a Dry vine, a blind Guide a seer, a Barne-Babler a brave Benclark, a poor arrogant ignorant a Prophet, a cloud a Juno, a Figure a cipher, and a cipher a Figure; Asinus ad Liram, asinus ad Tribunal, an Ass a Musician, yea an Ass a Magistrate, and Balaams' Ass a Minister, reproving Prophets, and Saul seeking Asses a Mushroom Prophet: in such an Hysteron Proteron and Phaetonian confusion, as though this giddyheaded age should turn every thing topsie turvy, susque deque the heavens to stand still, as Celum once in the Comedy called Lingua, and the dull earth to move, as Copernicus once conceited all things running on wheels, as some Grandees and Professors rotten at the core, go to heaven the clean contrary way.  
So it is and so it hath been for any Jesuitized Papist by his pate, or purse, or arm, (for all his charms) to help any Protestant Prince, to establish any Religion, though Episcopized, but his own, as if a Millstone, or wedges of lead or irons tied about a swimming man's neck should help him to swim to the shore; or as though a handful of soot, ink, or tar, should better then clear water, oil of Lilies, or of Tartar, help a man to wash his face, and to take out all abstersive spots: I am as sensible as the Spider of the least touch of her web, that this pressed point in diebus illis in our ill days, in B. Quondams time had been durus sermo, a harsh doctrine, it would have incurred either a silencing, chief at the Court with, Prophesy not this in bethel, for it is the King's Chapel, Amos 7.13. or it might have incurred a currish censure of a slit nose, or a cropped ear in touching Papists Favourites to many Prelates, to their little Laud be it spoken, in many things both political and Ecclesiastical, as familiarly sympathising as Simeon and Levi, Gen. 49.5. or as Herod and Pilate reconciled: amongst other demonstrations more than Mathematical, this is one that for many bypast year's Episcopacy tutor Regality, that it sailed betwixt two Rocks, the Scylla of Popery, and the more dangerous Carybdis of Puritanisme, as then all true zeal for Reformation was nicknamed, of the two evils minimum eligendum, the less being to be chosen, Queen Elizabeth, and two succeeding Monarches after her, were persuaded that more favour and connivance was to be used to the first as birds of their own feather, then to the last as more factious, and so more perilous to Church and State: And for this purpose to make up their mouths, and to set a gloss and varnish on their false and frivolous surmises and suggestions, one Owen a Papal Proctor, in his Antipareus, and Omerod a scurrilous fellow in his picturé of a Puritan, and the disguised Author of Lysimachus Nicanor, with many such Panders for the Scarlet Whore, chief that great Dick Ecclesiae Bankcroft the petty Pope of Canterbury in his Theses Periculosa, out of the writings of some Presbyterians, culls out some positions dangerous and State-firing, as they are branded, which are wrested and wrung so as a man his nose till it give blood, and so set on the Tenterhooks of construction as that Tyrant in History racked out every short guest to fit a long bed, to the equallizing of Presbyterians in their positions, if not practices, to be as great Antagonists to the peace and safety of Princes, as the worst of Papists which ever filled the Trojan horse of any State with the armed Greeks of Traitors: but they may put all in their eyes which they gain by their sophistry and prevarications, making as Bellarmine that Tortus in his torturing the Greek and Latin Fathers and other Postillers, quid libet ex quolibet, every thing of any thing: for he that seriously peruseth Vrsinus his Exercitations, 
a Lib. 2. Exer. 4.  Peter Martyr upon the judges, chap. 3. Calvin's Institutions, 
b Lib. 4. cap. 20. Sect. 24.  Daneus his politics, 
c lib. 3. c. 6. & l. 6. c. 3.  the Scotch Buckanan de jure Regni, pag. 12.13.58.61. and the zealous Goodman, p. 180.184.186. and Knox his History of the Church, p. 265. and his Epistle to the English, p. 98. and a book de Obedientia, p. 26.259.139. printed by some Exiles in Geneva in Queen Mary's days, out of whom pretermitting others, these Spiders though from flowers gather poison, and he shall see that the substance and result of all they writ, is only thus much in effect, that si principes tyrannidem exerceant contra Deum cjusque veritatem, eorum subditi non tenentur obedire, if Princes exercise tyranny against God, and his truth and Gospel, their Subjects are not bound to any active obebience more than the people were obliged by Oath to obey Saul in his cruel mandates of massacring the Lords Priests, 1 Sam. 22.17. and jonathan, 1 Sam. 14.45. or Elias to go to that Idolatrous King who sent his Captains of fifties for him, 2 King. 1. or Elisha (after the slavish subjection of the Turkish Pashas to their Ottomans) to yield his head to that Tyrant who swore to take it of, 2 Kin. 32. or the Jewish Captives to worship Nabuchadnezars' Image, Dan. 3.18. or Irene to worship her Father's Idols, which she pulled down as Gideon Baal's groves, though with the reluctance of authority, Judg. 6.31. or no more than any were subjected to yield any obedience to Maacha after she was deposed for her Idolatry, 2 Ch. 15, 16. or to Athalia, legally deposed by jehojada and the Peers of Israel for her usurpations and her cruelties, or to Vzzah after he was extruded his Regiment for his Leprosies by those Priests whose office he abused, all subjection being in ordine quoad Deum, only in God, for God, and as to God in things legal warranted by God according to the precept and practice of S. Peter, Acts 5. & Rom. 13.4.  
However for my part, as being homo ecclesiae, a man Orthodox and not willing to patronise any error, if once convicted, if any can prove that aught in these recited Authors is erroneous, as he that reads Scultetus his Medulla Patrum, Illiricus his Catalogue of the witnesses of the Truth, M. Perkins his Apology, and the writings of the Fathers, shall see in Cyprian, Tertullian, Basill and Augustine himself, chief in Origen, gross mists and clouds in these and others, counted the lights of the Church, as there is some dross in every Age in the best gold, or if any can prove these their opinions to be private Tenets, and not according to the Analogy of faith, nor according to the Nicen and the other three first General Counsels which Gregory so respected, nor according to the 39 Articles agreed upon and received by our Church: then I say, I am not bound to plead for them further than the truth is their Proctor, nor tied jurare in verba magistri, to call them, as Cyprian called Tertullian, my Masters, or to rest on them as the pythagoreans on their Masters ipse dixit, as on a Delphic Oracle, since sequor Cyprianum quatenus Cyprianus Scripturam, I follow Cyprian and all other others so fare as they follow the Scriptures which all must search, joh. 5. and to whom si runpantur Ilia codri, if the Devil should storm and all his upstart Heretics burst their guts, we must have recourse, tanquam ad lidium lapidem, as to the touchstone of all truths, Acts 11. without which quid mihi cum centum Cyprianis, cum centum Augustinis, what have I to do with all the Fathers, Counsels and Divines ancient and modern? yet thus much I say further for them, though my task be only to shred them from the poisonous positions of Papists, and though my resolutions be not to discuss nor determine the main point that exerciseth the pens, tongues, and pates of all the Politians in the world, howsoever being chief successive, like the Infantaes of Spain, the Dolphins of France, and the Princes of Wales, though entrenching upon tyranny, injustice, and misgovernment, may be opposed or deposed, as not willing without a calling, to put my finger in a flame which I cannot quench, so I will be so fare from a distasted fruit called Medlar, as new perhaps as dangerous to him that meddles with it too much, as once bulls blood to Themistocles, the raw Polipus to Diogenes, or a Fico from a jealous Italian, that I will not so much as recite, as I could at large the verdicts of some learned modern Civilians, Divines and Politicians in this so much controverted point: but only like the finger in the Dial, that points at the hour, refer every Sceptic and scrupulous spirit for his satisfaction, to Soto Major de Justitia & jure, quest. 4. art. 1. to Vasquez in his illustrious Controversies, lib. 1. cap. 26. Num. 22. to Pizzle in Rub part 1. cap. 2. num. 25. Gregory Tholosanus, that learned Civilian in his 6. Book of his Commonwealth, cap. 19 as also in his 22. Book, c. 7. & 14. and his 23. Book, c. 1. and his 26. Book, c. 4. 7. to Decianus his criminals, lib. 7. c. 47. to Covarraus his various Resolves, l. 3. c. 6. and to the elaborate Althusius in his Politicalls: But least some should object, that these produced were Papists, professed Antagonists to Princes unpapized, yet he that is booked, and hath leisure to read, may see their verdicts paralleled in substance, by Gentilis of the right of War, l. 1. c. 23. and by Aristotle, though a Pagan, in his Politikes, l. 7. c. 47. chief by our modern learned Arnisaus who spends many pages in quarto upon the very subject of describing, composing, reforming, resisting, or deposing a Tyrant: for me to interpose my opinion, if not judgement after these, were to light a candle to the Sun, though absit arrogantia, I have had a Caesar's resolution of jacta est alea, to fear no colours, to bear sail in a storm, and have never been wont to be bird-mouthed for a good cause, nor to new-trize it with Metius Suffetius, to sleep in a warm skin, nor to be like the Fox and the Mouse, not to trust to one securing hole in the ground, or the wall, and though I dare by God's grace, venture as fare as Luther once to Worms, Jerome of Prague to Constance, or as Latimer who was persuaded his zeal to the truth would cost him his heart's blood; so at this instant to stand the Church and State in stead, however the times should whirl, or the scales be cast, though I dare do aught legal, though it should be misconstrued, brevibus Gyris & carcere dignum, worthy of Jereremies' bonds, or john Baptists beheading, yet I suspend my further discussions, or determinations in this tickle point at this time; yet this main reason obstructs my pen in this point, these Foreigners recited, have given full satisfaction in this controverted question, how far the lusts of misgoverned Kings may be kept within the banks and limits of municipal Laws; and themselves, if they be obstinate in courses tending to ruination of Church and State, may be moved to better carriage, or removed, as also because some of these alleged chief Tholosanus 
a Lib 24. Reip. c. 5. & lib. 20. c. 5.  and Arnisaeus 
b De tyrannide in exercitio. , as also Hottoman in his ancient Laws of France, lib. 1. and Zionetta in his Tripartite defence 
c Part 3. num. 25. & 28. & seq. , and Bossius in his book of a Prince 
d Num. 55. & seq. , and Philadelphus in his second Dialogue of the affairs of France, and Farinus in his Criminal Questions, with other Humanists and Divines, have more plainly and punctually, proceeded in instructing their times what Rights, Privileges, and Powers the States and Parliamentary Tribunes for a people, have and ever had as true Patriots for their Countries, and State-Physitians, to purge out such peccant humours and lop off such unprofitable sprigs as once Gaveston to Edward the second, and Mortimer to a French Queen, and some ever about Dionysius, and Allexander, and Tiberius, and Caligula, and Croesus the Lydian, which were the Pests of Princes, as any may consult with my marginals 
e Patritius de Rep. l. 5. tit. 5. p. 229. de Regno, l. 4. p. 222. Antimaehavill, l. 1. p. 108. 104, 105. and Tholosanus de Repub. lib. 4. pag. 15. , and made them worse than they were by nature, but they have also ascribed power unto them, even to purge the head itself from the bad fumes of ill counsellors distempering it; yea to cure even the King's evil when the disease grew dangerous spreading as a Gangraene, and infectious to all the body political and Ecclesrasticall, chief when incurable by all admonitory and persuasive cordials, for which cause such Parliamentary Peers have ever had, as they say, honourable titles of Ephorists amongst the Lacedæmonians, of Patritians amongst the Romans, of Senators in Venice, of Electors the very pillars, ribs, sides, and strength of the Empire in Germany, many 
f Bases latera columna corpus imperii, apud Bullam Charoli, 5. cap. 3.12, 24.26. , of Rulers, 1 King. 4.1, 2, 3. Elders, Num. 11.16.17. heads of the people, Deut. 33. in Sacred Writ, with other such dignified Titles in Antiquity and Honours, as any may peruse more at large in Cytrem his Chronicles, in Zwingers great Theatre, Volume 8. in Alexander ab Alexandro, his Genial days, lib. 6. cap. 24. in junior Brutus de Vindice quest. 3. and in the 11. discussion of him that is the Author of the political Treasury, such for authority as the greatest Princes, even Darius, Pyrrhus, Agamemnon, Augustus, Trajan, the Roman Caesars 
g In Suetonius, Lampridius, Tacitus his Annals, l. 1. and Pliny in his Panegyrics. , the great Persian Assuerus, Esther 1.3. the Kings of Israel, Jer. 26.10. and the Kings of Nineve, Joh. 3.7. have ever consulted with usually with as good success as those that have slighted them like Rehoboans, and preferred young Phaeton's, Green blades, and rash Rawheads before them, have had success thereafter, 1 King. 12.18.16. yea besides the powers given them by the body of a people, by these recited, he that consults with Boterus, lib. 4. cap. 3. and with Althusius his Politics, from the 193, 194. pag. to the 223. pag. shall see these Parliamentary powers in a conglobed body of reforming Censors and Senators to have been very great in all times, even equallized with these Magna Consilia, great Courts in Spain, and with those great Diets and Assemblies in Germany, and the great Court in Paris, and that Rota Romana and other places of Judicature amongst the Venetians, Polanders, Rhagusians, and other parts, so extolled by that great Beuclark Budaus in his last book of his Senate, and by Hottoman in his History of France, cap. 10, 11. and by Borrheus of the Authority of the great Counsel, num. 170. yea not to be like plutarch's Lamia, quick-sighted abroad, and to shut up our eyes at home, he that consults with our Oxford's case in his Politics, lib. 3. cap. 5. and with Sir Thomas Smith in his English Government, lib. 2. cap. 2. shall receive much satisfaction, unless he be hoodwinked, how fare a legal Parliament may curb, direct, or correct what is merely regal in a Persian humour or Tumour of quod libet licet, of every lust for law, which is illegal, especially by perusing the elaborate pains of our Teologicall Lawyers, M. Pryn in the Parliamentary passages in Hungary, France, Suevia, Spain, Italy. Bohemia, Denmark, Scotland, and how fare they have been improved against such Princes as have split the ship of State by misgovernment, or dilacerated their people by tyranny, or spunged them by injustice, such men-Monsters for Monarches as were once Ecclinus in Sabellicus his Chronicles, lib. 8. cap. 3. and Phereus' in Tully's Offices, lib. 2. and Melancthons' Chronologies, lib. 2. and Aristobulus in Josephus his Antiquities, lib. 13. cap. 18. as also Macrinus, Nero, Phraates, Vedius Pollio, and many more, whose tyrannies as incurable as cruel, are fully related by Tholosanus 
h Lib. 6. cap. 18.  and the French Bodin 
i Lib. 2. cap. 6. , in their Commonwealths, by Lipsius 
k Lib. 6. cap. 5. , and Danaeus 
l Lib. 6. c. 3. , in their Politics, by Valerius 
m Lib. 9 c. 14. , and Aelianus 
n Lib. 13. & 14. , in their Histories, Melancthon in his Chronicles, lib. 4. and Gorlicius in his Political Axioms, Axiom. 16. these with many more 
o The three Herod's Maximium, Antiochus, Adonizebeck, Scylla, Dionysius. , how fare they have been crossed, limited, bridled, censured in the severest manner, all may better drink at the fountains heads and be satisfied in their scruples, by consulting the large Tracts of the Authors quoted, then by my poor pitchers, if I should draw aught or lap ought from them, as Poets in another stream out of Homer's basin.  
These things being thus premised, it being extra alum, without both the sphere of my purpose, and not correspondent to the title of this Tractate, to discuss this main controverted point, how fare Regality turned to Tyranny may be opposed or deposed, about which most Civilians, yea Divines also, are as much divided, pro & contra, as the Poetized Deities in Homer and Virgil, about the Grecians and the Trojans, some siding with the one, some with the other, Mulciber in Trojam, pro Troja stabat Apollo, so that I may hoc agere, keep me only to my proposed and intended point, to clear our English Thames and Scotch tweed from running in such sanguinolent streams of regal and legal blood estused, both by guns and gowns in war and peace, as some lay to their charge in such Torrents and Heeatombes as have run daily from Po and Tiber, to the turning all States where Jesuits have acted, into red seas of blood, and washed Protestant Princes out of their Thrones: for which cause to open the eyes of the blinded Baalites, and to stop the mouths and blunt the horned pens of such blatrant beasts as Jurwicius in his book of the Professors of the fift Gospel, of Possevine, in his book of the Atheism of Protestants, of Rainolds in his Calvin's Turkism, of Gifford in his Preface before that book, of Feverdentius upon Judas, of Turner in one of his Orations against Queen Elizabeth, of Cocleus, Bolsecus, Eudaemon, Scurrilous Kellison in his Survey, and other Romish Rabshekahs who divulge all puritanical Protestants no better than Atheists, worse than Turks, Jews, worst of Heretics in the Church, worst of Traitors and Catilnarians in all States, Lisymachus Nicanor stretching much to parallel them in the last with the worst of Pontificians in his Invectives either for a larger Rotchet, like Parsons once, and Eccius, or for a Cardinal's Hat, or for a Mitre with Wolsey: however the former imputations be abundantly cleared, and retorted upon themselves by Doctor Willet in his Tetrastilon, by Gabriel powel and Doctor Beard, in their learned books of Antichrist, by Mr. Squire upon the Thessalonians, Doctor Sutcliffe in his Turkish Papism, Doctor Feild in his fift book of the Church, and many more, yet to quench this last brand, cast upon both our Patriots and Presbyterians of being as small friends, nay as intestine foes to all Caesars and their safeties, as the most malignant Massemongers, pestilent Priests, and Jebusiticall Jesuits, as fire may come forth from the repercussions of slint and steel; I desire to light a candle of truth to all sorts from our Dan to Bersheba; yea to this present and to future ages throughout Europe, to see the evident difference as much betwixt them, as betwixt Wolves and Lions, Doves and Serpents, in these subsequent positions, practices, postures, and passages propounded in these Queres.  
First, what Belgic Scotch or English Puritan (no not Brown, Penry, nor Martin Mar Prelate) ever preached or printed, that Princes, if they be Heretics and Tyrants, of Papists new minting and moulding, that is contradictory in judgement and practice to every novel Opinion, Idolatry, Superstition and Heresy in their Hierarchy, not down right for the Antichristian Papacy, but chief if so opposite to them and their Dotages in Doctrine and Discipline, that they seek to resist crush or curb their blasphemies by Statute, Laws, Edicts, Mulcts, Decrees, Exiles, Imprisonments, as Christian Emperors have done, (what ever Anabaptists and Libertines blatter to the contrary) as appears by Eusebius in his life of Constantine, lib. 3. cap. 62.63. Ambrose in his Explication upon Luke cap. 15. as also by Augustine, in his 48. Epist. and some Constitutions of the two Theodosians and others in the Common Law 
c Vide Theodos. l. 1. cod. de Trinitate & Cunctis cap. de Haeret. , that then as absolute Tyrants, they may eo nomine, be deposed, being first excommunicated, as were the Othoes, Henry's and frederick's in Germany, Childerick in France, and our English Deborah here in England, by five Popes, their great Monarch of the Church (as they call him) supreme under Christ, having power in ordine ad Deum, in his relation to Christ, to depose such Kings and dispose their Kingdoms, as once from an Henry to a Rodulph 
d Petradedit, Petro petra, Diadema Rodulpho. : did ever Calvin, Danaeus, Knox, Buchanan, Goodman, broach any such Doctrine as this which is writ in the blood of Kings by Creswell, in his Philopater, pag. 194. Molin in his unjust Tractate of Justice, Tract. 2. Disp. 39 p. 149. Saunders in his visible Monarchy, lib. 2. cap. 4. pag. 70. Coster in his Enchiridion, part 1. pag. 64. and Bellarmine their great Goliath, in his fift book of his Pope, cap. 6, 7.  
Secondly, what Puritan called Catharist, and Novatian in S. Cyprians time, and now Presbyterian or Parliamentary, yea where did any Synod of the whole Presbytery, or Senate of Orthodox Patritians, ever absolve all Subjects from all subjection and subordination, from all obedience sworn by solemn Oaths, from such Princes as the pillars, Caterpillars and Proctors for Antichrist in their senseless senses, in their Mints and Forges make Heteticall or Tyrannical (that is to say just and zealous Protestants) Oaths, being the only ties and Obligements which Princes have to secure their Crowns and lives; when did ever any Puritan, (unless they will make such impure ones as Munster and Familists in Belgia, and Straw, Cade, Tiler, and other Rebels in England, the scum and froth of men, Puritan) when I say, did they ever untie this Gordian knot, as both by their tongues and pens, (lavish, lose and poisonous) many of them, and not of the meanest fools, have attempted, as amongst the rest Azorius in his Institutions, cap. 15. sexto, and Massonius the Lawyer in his Majesty of the Militant Church, part 2. lib. 4. pag. 676. Simancha a Bishop in his Institutions, 'tis 23. Sect. 11. Cardinal Tolet in his Instructions (or Destructions) for his Priests, lib. 1. cap. 13. Creswell in his Philopater pag. 194. with Gregory de Valentia, upon Aquinas his Sums, Disp. 1. q. 2. punct. 2. p. 463. and Bannes the Schoolman on this Angelical Doctor, 2. 2. q. 12. Art. 2. Conc. 2. the decretals of their Popes, especially striking with the great Hammer, to the mauling of Monarches, as of Gregory the seventh in Gratian, Causa. 15.9.6. and of Gregory the ninth, lib. 5. tit. 7. cap. 5. Glossa with all the bleating Calves of Babel, such as Allen, Parsons, Saunders, after the roaring bulls of Pius (or Impius) the fift, and Gregory the 9 against Queen Elizabeth, as they have been well baited by many a valorous Papistomastix, chief by Michael Rhemigerus, Anno Dom. 1582. as also by him that hath writ the book called Brutum Fulmen, scoffing the Papal paper squibs and Balaams curses in their Excommunications of the French Kings.  
Thirdly, howsoever Puritan falsely nicknamed, that is zealous and Oxthodox Protestants may teach, that Princes whether elective or successive, subordinated to Laws divine and humane, may be bridled by State Ephorists in their unlimited humours and tumors, and kept in as the Hollanders the feared inundations of the Sea within banks, chief when their surging waves are swelled by the winds of ill Counselors; and withal as wife men use Law and Physic, tanquam ultimum refugium, as their last refuge, that Subjects se defendendo, by that Law which nature dictates selfe-preservation to man, birds and beasts, may take up defensive rather then offensive arms, as endangered David did when he was hunted as a Partridge over the Mountains by sanguinolent Saul, 1 Sam. 22.2. and as Mardocheus and the Jews stood upon their Guards, when their lives were sought and plotted by Haman, Esther 9.16. as also in defence of the Municipal Laws of a Kingdom, or for the prevention of the ruination of a Kingdom, by the confederacy of homebred viperous Tyrants and Foreign intestine enemies; yet nevertheless. when did any Presbyter or Patriot excite Subjects, as our Jesuitical Firebrands do, to take up arms against a Protestant King, and to kill him who ever can, by sword, pistol or poison, no more sparing him then a Bear or a Wolf in such cases of Treason, in such cases of Injustice, Heresy, and Tyranny, as Satan hatcheth and coddles in their Serpentine heads, that is, being not wholly leavened with their Romish Leaven, worse than that of the Scribes and Pharisees, when did ever Edinburgh or Geneva send forth such a Trojan horse filled with the armed Greeks' of treasonable positions, such as are vented or vomited in this kind, extant Cum Privilegio, by Gregory de Valentia, Tom. 3. Disp. 2. punct. 2. by Simancha, in his Institutions, tit. 23. sect. 12.13. by their Rainaldus in his Rosaeus, pag. 157. by Bannes on Aquinas, 2.2.9.12. art. 2. which King-killing and State-firing Tenets of theirs as they took effect in the Rebellions of Henry the 4. in Germany, persecuting Henry the Emperor with fire and sword, as we may see at large in the Chronicles of Cranzius and Vrspergensis, and in Oneale the Irish Rebel against Queen Elizabeth, so also in the French, bearing Arms against Henry the third, deprived of his Crown by Papal Instigation, as we may see in the book Extant of his just abdication, pag. 262. with such like bloody Pageants, as Paul or Saul the third played against our Henry the eighth, and six Popes, namely Gregory the 13. Sixtus the 5. Verban the 7. Gregory the 14. Innocent the 9 and Clemens the 9 against Henry the 4. of France ere they butchered him, and nine Popes even Paul the 4. Pius the 4. Pius the 5. Gregory the 13. Sixtus the 5. Verban the 7. and the 9 Vnclement Clemens, and the 9 Nocent, Innocent, against our Albion's Eliza, all whose spleens she outlived.  
Fourthly, what Scotch or Genevean Presbyter, ever approved or applauded the base and bloody acts of any Traitor against his legal King, as Pope Xistus the fift in a solemn Oration amongst his Cardinals, Anno 1589. hiperbolically extolled Jaques Clement assassinating the French Henry, as may be seen in the printed pages, pag. 3. 5. 8. 9 10. equalizing his fact with the acts of Ehud, Judith, Harmolaus, Timoleon, Brutus, and other Patriots, who rid their Countries of Tyrants, as King Edgar rid England of Wolves.  
Fiftly, when did the whole Sanedrim of Protestant Patriots in any Country, or all the united Classes of Presbyterians ever assume unto themselves these more than humane Titles and prerogatives, which are given to the Pope and his Hierarchy by Bertach in his Repertory, part 4. in dict. Papa, by Bozius in the nature and rights of the Church, lib. 5. cap. 10. pag. 476. by Muscovius in his Majesty of the Militant Church, lib. 1. cap. 1. pag. 26. and by the extant Ceremonies of the Church, lib. 1. sect. 5. pag. 4. fol. 61. chief when did they ever assume to themselves that power which the Canonists and Clawback's give even in temporals, besides spirituals, unto their Antichristian Popes, as to be the heads over all the Kings of England, France, Ireland, Spain, Denmark, Portugal, Sicily, Suevia, Arragon, Naples, Hungary, Russia, Croatia, Dalmatia, yea over all Nations and Potentates, deposing whom and when they please, and disposing their Crowns and Diadems spurning them off as with their feet, as they dealt with Leo the third, Otho the first, Frederick the first, Childerick of France and others.  
Sixthly, when was ever any such Luciferian Doctrine broached that any Patriot or a whole Senate of them, and a College of Presbyters in translating Empires, as Zachary did the Empire of Greece to the Tutonicks, as though their Hierarchy being but the first begotten of the Devil, as Polycarpus called Martion, should outvie the brag of their father in disposing the Kingdoms of the earth, Mat. 4.9. to those that would worship the beast in a greater Papal pride, than ever was read of in Alexander, Clitus, Domitian, Cosroes, Herod, Sappho, Hanno, and others affecting Deities.  
Seventhly, what pen from Patriot or Presbyter ever justified the bold and bloody intrenchments and usurpations of any spiritual person above secular powers, about which Parsons hath drawn his steeled and rapier-like pricking pen in his Dolman, part 2. pag. 62. Bellarmine de Pontifice l. 5. c. 6. & 7. and Allen in his extant Letter to Sir William Stanley, with the rest of their Proctors and Factors.  
Eighthly, though the Patriots and Presbyters attribute very much to those whom the people, as in a conglobed body, choose to be their Tribunes for them in Parliaments, as I have noted from civilians, as namely, to stand for their Freedoms and legal Privileges; 2. For their Proprieties, not to be spunged nor squeezed, nor aught reaved from them, as once Elies sons by flesh-hooks, 1 Sam. ●. as also against Caterpillars, and Monopolising Officers, and all that should invade their civil Right, or exhaust aught from them, more than should be given according to the Custom in Spain, in a Parliamentary way, as Auxiliaries to their Customs and Crown-Revenues, as also to see that State-vipers be not hugged in the bosoms of Kings, chief such as should so fare poison regal ears that Lawmakers may be so fare Law-breakers to do what they list, when and with whom they list, yet they teach not with Bellarmine in his Roman Pompifex, lib. 2. cap. 7. & de Clericis, cap. 2. that Kings have no authority from God, and from his Law, but from the Law of nature, and that their power is so immediately in and from the multitude as in the proper Subject, that the people may make a King, which otherways should be no King, but as a private man, as he depresseth Regality under this main and many headed beast, in his books of Laics, lib. 4 cap. 6. and of Counsels, lib. 2. cap. 19 yea so fare doth vassalize them under a Plebeian yoke, that if such a King degenerate to be a Tyrant, that is, in his sense a Protestant, à populo posse deponi & eligi alium, the people may depose him and choose another, as though all the Hive should rise against the Master Be, and throw him out of Plato's Commonwealth, yea saith Gregory de Valentia, tom. 3. disp. 2.9.12. punct. 2. Si crimen Heresis ita sit notoria, if his Heresy (that is still the profession of the Orthodox truth) be so palpable that it cannot be concealed, that is to reject a Mass as a Mass of corruption, which was the Heresy of Henry the 8. Edward the 6. Queen Elizabeth and King James, and hold the Papal Hierarchy is (it's by so many learned pens) to be Antichrist, then ante Judicis sententiam, before any public Judicature, subditi licitè possunt negare obsequium, his Subjects may lawfully deny their obedience, yea as proceeding à malo ad pejus, from evil to worse, from potentials to Injunctions, omne operam dare debent subditi, saith Saunders in his visible Monarchy, lib. 2. cap. 4. his Subjects must bestir themselves like Bees to peerk another presently into his place. Indeed Mariana de Rege, c. 6. p. 59 & 60. though his book was burnt in Paris for his good Divinity, with more cause than Pareus, pausing as it were, a little leisurely; he would have this Heretical Prince first to be warned, à Comitiis Regni, of the Patriots of a Kingdom, but if he be as Origen was once called Adamantinus, and as Luther of a resolute and adamantine spirit, that he is grounded in his opinion, then in ejus personam licet quicquam attentare, like a hunted Wolf or wild Boar, any may knock him in the head, any sturdy Rogue like the Italian Bandits, may be his assassinate, yea and be renowned for the act as a second Codrus or Junior Brutus, and be registered in red Letters as a Saint in the Roman Rubric, with S. Faux, S. Ravillack, S. Garnet, as if S. Cain, S. Judas, S. Job, as many spurs and encouragements are put to the speed of the zealous Amorettoes of the Scarlet Whore to vindicate her in this kind, as many may ponder them with amazement from the porcupined pens of Squarez in his Defence of the Faith, l. 6. c. 4. sect. 14. of Santarellus in his Tractate of Schism, of Mariana in his book de Rege, l. 1. & 6. of Eudemon, or Cacodaemon, ali-as Andra in his Apology for Garnet, of Angerius in his Pedagogue of weapons, of Martin Becan in his Theological Sins, and of Arturus in his Books of the Church, it being a Scythian cruelty thinks the roaking Raven Mariana in his book alleged, l. 1. c. 6. p. 58. for a private man not to right his Father and Mother grossly wronged, much more to neglect his Country and his common Mother the Commonwealth in such a case as this, though non vox hominem sonat O Demon certè, not the voice of a man, but of a Devil is roaring in his pen terribly as in a Pump, in such noises as were never heard in the Colleges at Edinburgh, Glascow, and Aberden, nor in the Churches of Geneva, nor in that Synod in Westminster, much less in the Senate, Thames and Twede were never so poisoned and polluted with black ink, like the black scum which the fish Scylapendra casts from her to trouble the waters, much less stained with red ink from the basilical veins of Kings, who stood for the Ark of Religion, or to throw down the Dagon of Idolatry, or Superstition; in such postures as every regalized Gideon, Protestant Josias, and zealous Zerubbabel ought to be, that aims at the glory of Christ Crown, and the splendour and safety of his own Crown.  
Ninthly, as reflexing a little further on what I have touched, when did ever any Protestant, Patrician, or Presbyter, spur up any Traitors to ride from Tiber to Tyburn by their encomiums and commendations, extolling old and new Patricides as much as Cardan did his Nero, and Catiline or Carolus Scribanius in his Amphitheatre of Honours, John Guiner the French Traitor, cap. 12. expostulating with his Popes why they will send forth no more such Timoleon's, Dions', and philopoemen's as he was to rid France of her Tarquins, Dionisians, Machamdams, Aristotemists, and such like seculorum portentia, men Monsters, as his Pope Rhetoric styles them: Campian also the Pope's Champion, Brastow, Saunders, and others as much extolling Penniman, Bishop Holtthrop, and other such Catilnarians as ever Hercules was for quelling Cacus, Cerberus, Hydra, Meleager for killing the Caledonian Boar, our S. George in Helyn, Warwick's Guy, or Bevis of Hampton, for subdning Dragons, Lions, Giants, and Monsters.  
Tenthly, when and where did any of our Senators and Synods disgorge such King-quelling and Church and State-firing Positions rightly poized and paralleled as Bellarmine in his fift book of his Pope, and his third book against Barklay, and in his Tractate of the office of a Prince, and Turrian in his first book, and third Chapter of the Church, and Becan in his Theology, part 2. cap. 3. tract. 1. chief Swarez most of Square in the Defence (or rather Offence) of the Faith, lib. 3. cap. 17. sect. 18. cap. 23. sect. 18.20. lib. 45. cap. 16. sect. 1. l. 16. c. 16. sect. 16. to whose perusalls I refer my Intelligent Reader.  
Eleventhly, to come from Lightning and Thunder to Bolts, from their Positions bad and bloody enough to their worse practices, as they say of Cockatrices, Foxes, Wolves, and all kind of Serpents, as of some Zelanders, that crescunt nequitia simul acerescente senecta, that they grow à malo ad pejus, ever worse and worse, pejores aves aetas tulit, they being now birds of a more bloody feather than their predecessors, as we feel bleeding experiments by their combustions in England and Ireland, being all of them now borne as it were, with teeth, as was said of Cham or Zoroaster: And a little to grapple with them as clasped ships, and spur with these spurred Cocks, when did ever any ancient or modern Presbyters called Puritans, by their tongues, pates, pens, agitations factious fractions, raise such wars amongst and against Princes, kindle such jars in Cities, States, Kingdoms and Countries, as Tiber's Jesuits have done in France, Italy, Germany of late, and the Palatinate, as also Moravia, Bohemia, Lions, Paris, Merindoll, Calabria, in the times of john de Roma and Minerius, as also in Poland, Anno, 1591. in Belgia, Anno, 2584. 1594. 1598. in Muscovy, Transilvania, the Duchess of Austria, the Marquisate of Silesia, Anno, 1608. 1009. as appears by the Chronicles of these States, as also of the Belgicks, tom. 1. 519. as also in Constantinople, Anno Dom. 1627. 1628. and of their like bloody and boisterous Pageants, let the judicious see them Anatomised fully by Pelargus in his Preface to his Jesuitism, by our Omerod in his picture of a Papist, by Gregory. Hieromonachus de Fraude jesuitaram, of the frauds of the Jesuits by a book extant, de turbis jesuitarum in Oriente, of the troubles of the Jesuits in the East, by Pope Vrban the 8. especially in his Bull printed against them, and by the Jesuits Catechism, composed by their Priests, who best studied them, pag. 430. ad pag. 528. by Watson also in his Quodlibets, and divers others so unripping their fardels, that all that will open their hoodwinked eyes may see, that non cum jesu itis, itis si cum jesuitis, in faith, in fact, who with a Jesuit do run, they cross way run from Jesus quite, answering their names no more than bloody Antiochus called Epiphanes, or then Zacheus before his conversion, or Judas to be the praise of God, or that Theophilus who was origen's great enemy, or that Bencocas in the days of Adrian a great Impostor like them, described by Eusebius, Hist. l. 2. c. 28. & l. 4. c. 7. proved Bencosba the son of lying, yea no more answering their names, than that Pseudo-Mastapha in Lanclavins his Annals pag. 34. and that Pseudo-Alexander in Josephus his Wars, l. 2. c. 5. and that counterfeit Nero in Tacitus, Hist. l. 18. p. 58. and that counterfeit Wooldemar in Marchia, in Peucers' Chronicles lib. 5. pag. 60. or that counterfeit Agrippa in Cuspiman, in Tiberio, p. 13. or that artifizing Smerdis in Persia in Justin, pag. 26. or that suborned Parkins and Lambert in Henry the 7. time, in our own Chronicles, and in Cambdens Remains, pag. 241. were real Kings, whose parts they Histrionically acted on bloody Stages, like our Jesuits, though they were but base Peasants, as fare from Princes as our pride-puft Plebeians from gifted and called Preachers; these being indeed (and not our Presbyterian Puritans, or Patriots) as all just pens have branded them, Cathedrae Pestilentiae, the Chairs of Pestilence, the Turrets of Heresies, the Pandora's Box of Church-diseases, the fatal Palladiun filled full of Treasons, the chief Panders and Bawds of the Scarlet Whore, the Academies of Impieties, the Assassinates of Kings, poisoners of Kingdoms, overthrowers of Cities, Incendiaries of States, Legates for Satan, Agents for Hell, Opposites to Heaven, and the very Phaeton's of the world; which to demonstrate more then Mathematically, as we have traced the case with them abroad, so we might join issues with them at home in nearer discussions, and so it will appear luce clarius as evident as the light, that the firebrands of sedition, and the greatest Antagonists to the safeties of our English Caesars, have been ever Jesuitized Romanists hugged in the breasts of some States, as vipers in their bosoms, and growing up by them as Elder Trees in walls to their subversion, and bringing down even by such a blind and bloody zeal, as by a  Toleration, and by a Liberty, such Libertines as the late destructive Belgic Familists would again plant amongst us, as legally as the Jews with their Thalmud, and Turks with their Alcoran; such as these will appear to be those that have been, are, and will be not only the disturbers, but destroyers of our Israel, and not those that are as unjustly taxed and traduced for such factious and seditious Incendiaries, as once Elias was branded by Ahab, 1 King. 18.17. and Paul by Tertullus to be a pestilent fellow, a mover and Ringleader of sedition, Acts 24.5: I know well, that all these sanguinolent commotions writ with bloody ink by Sleidan in his History, lib. 22, & 28. by Ostander in his Epitomised Centuries, Cent. 16. p. 626. Cuspinian in his Gallican Church, p. 625. Ferres in his History, p. 588. and by Chitraeus in his Chronicles, p. 71. are laid upon Calvinists, on new Resormers, and new Reformation, even as Satan's Masterpiece the Powder plot, had it taken effect, had been malignantly fathered upon the Puritans, I know also that sanguinolent rustic war in Germany for the time and manner exceeding in cruelty, and destruction, any faction that I have read either in France, Anno, 1335. or Venice, 1310. or in Austria, 1456. or in Vienna by the Plebeians against the Senate, Anno, 1462. or in Milan, Florence, Milan, Parma, Genoa, or elsewhere, as it's tragically penned by Munster in his Cosmography, Sleidan la Gast, and Hondorssius in his Theatre, fol. 358. as it was more tragically acted by John a Leiden, and his Familists: I say I know this is laid upon the ridged Lutherians, as the fomenters of it, and Ringleaders in it, but they may as well tax them, for all these commotions made by the Begards and Beguines in Germany in Charles the 5. time, or by the naked Adamites in Bohemia, or by the Fratricells in Bergomas his Chronicle, lib. 19 or by Dulcinus and Margeret, Anno, 1308. and their Anabaptists in Platina, and in the Sums of Counsels, or by the Crucigerians, with the Banner of their bloody Cross, so pathetically bleeding yet, in Tholosanus his Commonwealth, l. 13. c. 8. from pag. 912. to 920. as also cap. 13. pag. 440. & cap. 19 pag. 974. yea as justly may all these troubles and shake of our Church and State now, by our new Seekers for the man in the Moon, and Shakers', be taken from the right Davusses, and heretical blasphemous white Devils turned Angels, and be laid on our Orthodox Divines which cast on the waters of the Sanctuaries on their wildfires, from Styx and Avernus as to tax Protestants with the Belgic blood shed by Anabaptists, against whom we know how solidly and vehemently Calvin and Bullinger hath writ, as also how Luther hath zealously declaimed, hath Munster the Pseudo-Prophet of these sanguinolent Anabaptists, and declared himself against these Enthusiasts, as freely as ever Augustine against the Donatists, Cyprian against the Novatians, Epiphanius against our inspired Gnostics, and our London Ministers, yea M. Edwards himself in his Gangraena and Anti-Toleration, against our Mushroom Preachers, and in most points blasphemous Heresiarkes, withal it's well known, that not only D. Baeson in his learned Tract de Obedientia, of Obedience, and D. Hackwell in his Scutum Regale, his Buckler for Kings, and D. Morton mauling Bellarmine's Prince, Antichristianly if not Machavilianly drawn, but many more both sound heads and honest hearts have prescribed all legal obedience unto Kings, usque ad Aras, so fare as Caesar doth not entrench upon God's part and prerogative, nor on the public good of his people, for whom he is placed a Shepherd to protect them and feed them, not a Wolf in sheep's clothing to pluck them nor feed on them; it's my hope and desire that all may be satfsfied with these Parallels betwixt tweed and Tiber, which our own experiments tell us spawned so many Traitors even in Queen Elezabeths' time, as York, Squire, Babington, Tichburn, Parry, Lopus that Lupus, and more than a good many others, for Tyburn, as their marchings thither in the road and broad way of Treason were directed and encouraged by Cardinal Allen, Cardinal Como, Parkins, Creswell, and other Incendiaries, Factors for Hell, and actors for the Papal Hierarchy, compounded of lying equivocation, forgery, humane policy, Machavilian plots, hell-hatched stratagems, and all the powers of darkness to exalt itself above Christ his Kingdom, his Ordinances, his Word, his Will, his Worship, and whoever is called a Terrestrial God, in trampling upon all Sceptres terrestrial to exalt one Mitre with a triple Crown, spiritual, temporal, and infernal; from all which exorbitances how fare all true Protestants differ, (once nicknamed Puritan, as Christ was called a Galilaean, and Athanasius once Sathanasius) let any judge, that are not drunk with Romish dregs, French philters, or half poisoned with jatalian Ficoes, and he shall with an unpartial eye see as much discrepance betwixt Protestants, Patriots, and Patricidians, as Sciboleth and Shiboleth made betwixt Ephraimites and Giliadites, and as Civilians make betwixt errors in Regality, and terrors in Tyranny.  
FINIS.