A BRIEF TREATISE containing a full DISCOVERY  

1. Of Caesar's politic state, or civil Government,  
2. Of the Divine politic state, or Kingdom of Christ Jesus, given him of his Father.  
3. Of the devilish politic state or kingdom of Antichrist.   
Laid open in the essential and main circumstantial parts of each body or state by substantial and fundamental reasons and principles of policy both divine and humane, and confirmed by holy Scripture.  
Whereby the great and intolerable grievances of Christ Jesus and his subjects are made known:  
Also how honourable Magistracy and civil Government is, and how fare it extends, without entrenching upon the prerogative of Christ, doth evidently appear in this Treatise.  
Humbly presented to the serious consideration of the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the High Court of Parliament now assembled.  
By Michael Quintine.  Matth. 22.21. 
Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are Gods.  2 Thess. 2.8, 9 
And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.  
London printed. 1641.   

TO THE MOST HIGH COURT OF Parliament, the Right Honourable the Lords and Barons, and the Honourable House of COMMONS, to all and every of them now assembled, be a full blessing of wisdom and right spirit, from the glorious Trinity, suitable to their callings, and the weighty occasions that concern them therein.  
ACcording to my undoubted duty in discharging my Conscience of fulfilling the will of jesus Christ, I do present to both Houses of this Honourable Court, the greatest and most general cause of the particular grievances of Christ jesus, and his servants, the upright, the innocent, and tender in conscience; which as it did in special manner concern my Sovereign Lord the King, from whose hand it might most seasonably have been cast upon the consideration of this high Court, from whence only do issue all politic acts, statute-lawes, and ordinances, concerning matters Ecclesiastical and Civil within his Majesty's Realm of England, I procured to be presented to his Highness own hand in january last, 1640. The copy of the passages therein contained; lest those should sleep, I have here again recited, and do present them unto you: accept & peruse them as you see cause.  
And this be pleased to take notice of; as the Laws of Divine and Civil Policy admit not of two heads in one body, so likewise doth not the transcendent and glorious Kingdom of Christ, which is above the humane element, admit of Civil Lawmakers in confining conscience and disposing of matters thereto belonging; the same Scripture and reason which denieth Caesar to sit on Christ's throne; denieth you power of making Laws for the ordering the Laws thereof, who shall increase or diminish the liberties, Laws, and privileges of the Gospel of Christ's Kingdom, but they must incur the curse, and who shall be wiser than his maker but to his own destruction?  
The cause aforesaid of all grievances of Christ and his servants is oppression of conscience, otherwise conscionable oppression, for so it is taken, although it be impossible, being oppression, so to be; the root from whence it springeth, the tree, and every part of it, is discovered by the following passages, to which I refer you.  
And that you may not be found false in the trust committed to you by the King and Country, for the ordering of the affairs of this Land, for the peace and welfare of the Church of God, and likewise of the King and Commonwealth; let it be your special care to remove and repeal all things and statutes, tending to the bondage of conscience, be not wiser than the Trinity in continuing and establishing penal acts, and statutes, to bring people under conformity, in external worship; if you consider from whence every good and spiritual gift is, who it is that giveth light, what it is that is acceptable to him, to whom all worship is due, and that Law, Do unto all as you would they should do unto you: ye cannot, neither would ye go about Antichristianlike, to make yokes for conscience, it is most Papistical, and why will ye do what ye condemn yourselves in others? do not correct Tyrants with tyranny, but overcome evil with good: if you fear Papists will be treacherous to State & Commonwealth, let them have a civil providence over them for prevention, and in case they or any of them prove so, as some prove naught and treacherous of all Religions, let them have civil correclion; for it is that, not conscience keepeth people in general within bounds of Civility, and leave the cutting off, or rooting out of errors in matters spiritual to the free use of the sword of God's Spirit, which is sharper than a twoedged sword; and fear ye not but in case of liberty of conscience, true Religion, which only is of God, will have the upper hand, and fullest approbation of all civilly disposed persons; if it be not Caesar's due, to sit on the Ecclesiastical Throne, nor any man's beside, look you to it, how you set or continue any person thereon; and except God had consecrated and set apart a parcel of the earthly revenues for spiritual uses, how dare ye powers of the earth to do it, or to allow of it? but to avoid tediousness, I commend you to the serious minding of the following passages, hoping you will not slight what is substantially appliable to yourselves, by the injunction of the will of the Lord Almighty, lest ye be found resisters of God: and so I remain yours in all due service, even to my power and life.  
Michael Quintyne.   

To the Kings most Excellent Majesty.  
WHereas your most submissive and faithful subject hath in some measure perceived, and in the following Treatise substantially discovered the way of greatest deceit, wherein God and the King are insufferably and most subtly deprived of their due, and doth in the freedom and strength of fidelity in the sight of all hazards of good success, humbly present it unto your most Excellent Majesty.  
His just and humble request is, that your Highness will be graciously pleased to accept of it accordingly, and now the Scales of this your Kingdom are in use, let it be truly weighed, not cast by, and as it is found in the balance, for the main scope and substance thereof, even so, let it be done to your poor subject, who during life, shall hearty pray for your long happy and most prosperous reign,  
Michael Quintyne.   

TO THE KING'S most Excellent Majesty, God's greatest and most special Officer and Minister within his Majesty's Dominions in place of Authority and power of Justice, be a full blessing from the blessed Trinity, of a right and suitable spirit, for his high Calling, with all truly  issues thereof.  
IN the cause of Heavens right no man is enjoined silence, but may move the case before the greatest of men on earth, Matth. 10.31, 3●. who are but men in person, though Gods anointed, Gods in place of Government, to whom with God belongeth a due to be rendered, Matth. 22.21. Rom. 13▪ 7 Let not place of honour, as it hath been in times past, be an occasion of pride, and forgetfulness, whereby men have forgotten that they were men, and the remembrance of their Master, his cause, and servants, the upright and innocent; but examine, consider, and scorn not, the real demonstration and reasonable motion in the case of greatest wrong put upon the Trinity and the whole Host of Heaven, and your Majesty's dignity and honour of civil Government; for relief wherein if you do not your part, let your neglect rest with yourself, for I will present it to you with my life in my hand, accept it as you please.  
The Kingdom of the Gospel, the divine politic state, the Ecclesiastical Government, or visible Church, which was given to Christ Jesus by his Father, is by the Kingdom of Darkness the false Ecclesiastical state, and false Church, together with the deluded and abused assistance of your own civil state, the honourable Ordinance of God, utterly defaced, trodden under foot, excluded and banished your Dominions, to the greatest dishonour, and undervaluing of the Trinity, the power, wisdom, and goodness thereof, represented and expressed in the contrivance and establishment of the said Kingdom of Christ, to the greatest destruction, desolation, disconsolation, and loss of conscionable and saintlike persons, and to the great overthrow of your own subjects, and decay or strength in your own Dominions.  
To prove the truth of this cause is not hard, the Laws and Rules of the policy of Divinity and Humanity jump home to it: neither will the Laws and Rules of devilish policy, be able to contrary it, although they may dazzle and cloud it.  
All bodies of policy, as well Ecclesiastical as Civil, true and false, as all other things, do consist of matter and form, by the quality of which two essential parts all politic bodies transcendent, different, and contrary in nature, are reasonably and substantially distinguished, and known one from the other: and all bodies politic of one nature, whether Ecclesiastical, true, false, or civil are distinguished one from another by the extent, limitation, and confines of those two forenamed essential parts.  
The realty and truth of this Rule will appear in the incontradictable and undeniable discovery and manifestation of each politic body and Kingdom in an essential way.  
Every body and state of policy consisteth of like, or one and the same essential and circumstantial parts in respect of name and number, the difference or means of distinction lieth in the transcendent, different, and contrary qualities of those parts.  
Circumstantial differences are of consequence, the misplacing, misapplying, and misusing of any such part in any body of policy, deserveth reproof and disclamation of the members or subjects of any such body; but essential differences misplacing, misapplying, and misusing any such parts is intolerable and incommunicable, and requireth separation: the truth of all these things will be most fully proved by humane and natural reason, and holy Scripture, is setting forth the several kinds of bodies of policy in their essential and main circumstantial parts.  
That there is a true and false Ecclesiastical state, I need not stand to prove, but refer it to the several definitions and full demonstration of them justifiable from Scripture, Laws of all policy, and common experience, for all Europe granteth the same, and most foreign and domestic wars and jars are more concerning Ecclesiastical affairs, than all the matters in the earth besides, according as Christ prophetically speaketh, Matth. 24. 5, 6, 7. The whole earth is filled with the cry, Lo here, Lo there, the voice of greatest deceivers, of which special care is to be had for the avoiding them, Matth. 24.23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28.  
And that the world in general, and most especially, my native King and his Dominions, may not continue in contention, which is the readiest way to confusion, and to be made a prey to strangers about which is the true Church, or about circumstances thereof, I have with heart in hand, yea heart in hand, undertaken, and shall essentially and fully make it appear from the Rule of divine and humane wisdom and policy, that it is impossible for any national Church to be the true Church of Christ, or to be righted by force of Arms, in case it were really so; either by the King in way of offence, or by his subjects in way or defence; and why should not great ones be as ready to try and prove the truth hereof, as to kill me in wrath, which no way accomplisheth God's will in righteousness, jam 1.20. But what Effects shall be expected of Creatures lifted up above their Element, but actions of pride and scorn, in oblivion of God and man, and what Laws of Divinity shall rule the Potentates of the Earth, who make Laws and confines for the same: the glory of high powers is mercy and the grace of humanity is to be humble and faultless, not cowardly and murderous; and that I may briefly come at, and accomplish the performance of what I have undertaken, even essentially to discover the Church of Christ, to be trodden under foot, and made desolate, by on Antichristian and false Ecclesiastical state, through the assistance of the civil state, obtained by delusion, and deceivableness of unrighreousnesse, in all the Kingdoms of the Earth; I have thought it necessary to begin with a discovery of the Civil State, in the essential parts of it, the circumstantial ones also, and the use of the whole.  
Civil State or body of humanity, wheresoever thou dwellest in any measure of truth and realty, thou art God's Ordinance, the offspring of the second Table of the Moral Law of God, the Image of Innocency in the first Creation, in man towards man thou art the Parent of all Nations, in whole honour and dishonour is length and shortness of days.  
The subject or material part of the consistence of this body of Civility is Mankindle in general, contained within the limits and confines of any such body.  
The formal or part of life which giveth being to this Civil politic body, is the Kingly or Regal Civil politic Power, by which any member hath any politic motion, actively or passively, by which also any Law belonging thereto hath any vigour or current.  
The quality of both these essential parts is merely civil and humane, and such as have relation to this state, concerneth them only in temporal affairs, for the civil ordering and governing their persons and estates according to the Law of equity between man and man.  
To prove the matter and form of this, Civil body politic, to be as aforesaid, the reason of all unions and bodies in the world serveth (hand pat) to do it, for the matter and form of every body is comprehended within itself, neither without either of those two parts can the body well or ill subist; the Creator, Parent, and institutor can be no part of the Creature, production and platform or institution, and all other things, belonging to this body are circumstantial, and serve properly to prove the quality of the essential parts to be merely civil and humane.  
The instrumental means of the being of this body is ordinarily Victory or Conquest, by force of Arms, whereof only men's bodies and goods are capable, for conscience who is all the witnesses of a reasonable, or unreasonable soul is free, beyond the reach of the power of man to command and subdue, because if a man subject his body unto the sword of the Magistrate to maintain the freedom and peculiar use of his conscience, and soul, as in some cases Christ adviseth, Matth. 10.17, 18. Also verse 28 & 39 and looseth the use of his body and bodily life, his conscience and soul is not overcome and subdued, but overcommeth, which plainly proveth the quality and disposition of this body to be humane.  
The manner of the being of this body, state, or platform, which was and may be when that of Christ was not and may not be, it is of imparity, superiority and degrees of Authority, consisting of lordly and inferior offices; which are necessary for the well being thereof; for what else should rule national and confused lumps of the cursed posterity of Adam, and it is but meet that some in order of office should have a sword ready drawn to cut off intolerably uncivil, and inhuman persons; and to disable them in their strength and command of estate; and that all uncivil and brutish persons and actions may be prevented, which is the only means of a peaceable and godly life; all Christians are exhorted to pray for all men in Civil Government, for Kings and all in place of Authority, 2 Tim. 2.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And this also is a means to distinguish and discern the quality of the essence of this body to be as aforesaid, Luke 22.24, 25, 26, 27.  
The Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances belonging to this body communicable between the head and members thereof, and conveyed from one to another by the several offices of the state thereof; they all generally▪ tend to the prevention of oppression, and preservation of equity in the civil use of men's bodies and personal estates, the truth hereof daily experience testifieth in the use of all Courts of common justice and belonging to the Laity, this witnesseth the Spirit of Christ who suffered under Civil Authority approving their stately calling and the Laws and Ordinances, and the good and necessary use of them, Rom. 13. This likewise proveth the quality of the essential parts of this body to be humane and civil only.  
Divine politic body, true Ecclesiastical state, visible Church of Christ, or Kingdom, to which belongs the Gospel and all the Records of new Testament; thou art the new Jerusalem, the Body comprehending the substances of all Types and shadows, the perfection of all order of sacrifice, the union of the fullness of him that filleth all things, thou art the Government of the everlasting Prince the Son of David, of which there shall be no end, Isay 9.6, 7. This is the most beautiful daughter of the first Table of the Moral Law, the most perfect and fullest resemblance of the invisible bond in divine nature, the compleatest use whereof the elect shall enjoy, when they have put off their mortality, and are all accomplished, when also Christ also shall deliver up his Kingdom, and government to his Father, 1 Cor. 15.24. etc. Which resemblance and expression of the Law written in the heart shall remain for ever and ever.  
The subject or material part of this divine politic body and true Ecclesiastical state, (of the true Son and Heir apparent of God, and right Successor of the Crown and Ecclesiastical Throne of David, the Alone Redeemer of the whole company of Gods elect, the believing seed of Abraham both Jews and Gentiles, who broke down the partition-wall, the Jewish national state, and set up and established a divine spiritual Kingdom, capable of the Saints, of all sorts whatsoever) Is the sort of all mankind which Jesus Christ pronounceth blessed, Matth. 5. Such as worship God in spirit and in truth, john 4.23, 24. without respect to Nation or Tribe, Acts 10.34, 35. In short it is faithful persons, believers, real, saintlike people, as the several Epistles to the Churches nominated in the New Testament do declare; to shut up the proof of this truth that the subject or material part of the Kingdom of Christ is as aforesaid, of Christian people take also this one witness more, Rom. 8.8, 9 Here take notice, real profession giveth real being to members, and is the form of a member, but not the form of the Church, but the material quality thereof.  
But the formal part of this divine politic body or true Ecclesiastical state or kingdom which Christ Jesus hath upon earth, which also is the life of the same, is the divine regal and kingly politic power of Christ; by which every member performeth every Church action, whereby every Law in every Office is communicable, and executed; in this sense, not in a personal sense speaketh Christ, Matth. 18.20. 1 Cor. 5.4.  
The quality of the two essential parts of this divine politic body is divine love, the Fountain of all merciful goodness, from whence issueth every good gift toward man, and the communicable benefits thereof, between man and man; this is the quality of wisdom's house, derived from the Father and the Son, and expressed by the holy Spirit proceeding from both, and lively set forth in the matter and form of the same, as largely will appear by the discovery of the circumstantial parts, belonging to the being and wellbeing of this body.  
The instrumental means of the being of this divine politic body or union, is by agreement and free consent of love, issuing from one Lord through one Faith, one Spirit, one Baptism, john 5.12, 13 There is no other instrumental means of a peculiar body, consistting of Volunteers; and of such consisteth this Kingdom of the Lamb of God, as prophetically speaketh the holy Ghost by way of proclamation, Isai 55.1. Fulfilling the same in like manner, speaketh the same Spirit, Rev. 22.15. In this way a right Captain accomplisheth a right Band or body of Soldiers, Rev. 14.4. Rev. 17.14. By instinct of nature, not compulsion, Birds of a Feather flock together, this main circumstantial part belonging to the being of this body aforesaid, declareth it to be the Tabernacle of God, who is love, 1 joh. 4.16. which is the prepared dwelling for persons of love, Revel 21.1, 2, 3.  
The state platform or manner of being of this Kingdom of heaven upon earth, wherein the matter and form are united, and the divine Laws and Ordinances thereof executed, and performed, consisteth of Offices of service, not of command and authority, Matth. 20.25, 26, 27. Luke 22.24, 25, 26, 27. And is the perfect Emblem or representation of the most complete current of divine, and most perfect love, as the only necessary Offices cf Administration of the head, which in Divinity as in humanity are three; to wit, direction, provision, and protection; and because humanity is inseparable from Christianity, wisdom hath left civil protection to the head thereof, but hath provided an Office of distribution for his subjects, in necessity, and tender attendance for the sick and weak in body, that his body may be as one in all things, communicating according to occasion the gifts and graces which God hath given them, for the building up and for divine and reasonable preservation of one another, and this the holy Ghost testifieth, Rom. 12.4, 5, 6, 7, 8. This also maketh it plain that the power of the disposing of Offices and execution of all Laws and Ordinances truly Ecclesiastical and belonging to this body of Christ which is the Church, Col 1.24. is in the Church, and derived from the Church, as plainly witnesseth, Matth 18.17. here is the state or manner of being of the house of God, which is the Church, 1 Tim. 3.15. of the body of parity, whose members are all Kings and Priests, Rev. 1.6. This is the state of the body (not the body of the state,) which is the representation or expression of the current of the divine nature of the Church of Christ which is the express Image of the form thereof, and when that faileth, members or Church cease to be, and state & all; for this see the seven Churches mentioned in Rev. 2. & 3. cl.  
This circumstantial part belonging to the being of this body, declareth the matter and form to be qualified as aforesaid.  
The Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances belonging to this body of Christ are transcending in nature those of humanity (which prevent oppression and enjoin equity and civil and reasonable use of men's persons and estates:) for these not only allow the same; but prevent oppression, enjoin equity, and command mercy and compassion; yea, doing good for evil, in all cases belonging to soul and body, thus Christ teacheth Christians, Matth. 5.44, 45, etc. Thus the Spirit of Christ is exercised, and against such there is no Law, Gal. ●. 22, 23. In the performance of such is fulfilling the Law of Love, established by the Son of God, john 13.34. These divine, yea, most heavenly Laws, etc. manifestly discovereth the matter and form of the body of Christ his Visible Church, to be qualified as aforesaid, to the bodies of such a constitution did the Apostles writ their Epistles.  
Devilish politic body, false Ecclesiastical state, Visible Church of Antichrist, or Kingdom to which belongeth the Charter books of humane Constitutions, and Canons, and all Records of Heathenish and Jewish national Traditions, touching matters Ecclesiastical, and cases of Conscience; Thou art the man of sin, whose complete image consisteth especially in the breach of the first Table of the Moral Law, the fullest expression whereof is in taking God's power from him, and Christ his kingly Office from him, sitting in the Temple of God which is Conscience, (for God dwelleth not in Temples made with hands) as God, and exalting thyself above all that is called God, commanding the Conscience of mankind in the way of politic (which only and property is public) worship, for in no other sense can any sit in the Temple of God, or exalt himself above all that is called God; Thou art Babylon the great, the mystery of iniquity, who robbest God of his honour, in usurping the Prerogative Royal of his Son, for thou interposest with thy power Ecclesiastical, which snareth and captivateth all Nations, in the liberties of their consciences, persons, personal and temporal estates; thou art the City spiritually called Sodom and Egypt▪ for no filthy person liveth that liveth not in thee, and the height of thy power Egypt like opposeth God, for who shall get out of thy merciless and more than inhuman murderous clutches? thou committest sin by a Law, and puttest a man to death for conscience sake, thou art the devil's masterpiece, the express image of devilish inhumanity, Cain like spoiling the innocent, and what thou canst not restore, the earth cannot bear a fuller measure or pride, craft, and envy, than thou art composed of, (the unlimited composition whereof is the devil himself) thou art a body of confusion, an hotchpotch without respect of good or bad, rich or poor, bond or free, devilish, humane or divine.  
The subject or material part of this false Ecclesiastical body or Kingdom of Antichrist, is mankind in general, without any respect of spiritual quality, or Christian spirit and divine disposition, only with relation to an enforced and conjured profession of Christ, which is of the devils putting on, not Christ's, and being compelled it is the garment of Hypocrisy, not of uprightness, and in the fleest use is often made an Hypocrites cloak, which is the very opposite quality of the material part of Christ's Church, but the special and chosen disposition of Antichrists, which is justified by these Scriptures, Matth. 24.5. 2 Tim. 3.1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 2 Thess 2.10, 11, 12. Rev. 13.7, 8. also verses 16, 17.  
The formal part which is the politic power of the false Ecclesiastical state or body of devilish policy, is dragonish, violent and compulsive commanding powers of death, to season such as will not subject their consciences to it; or rather be slavonized therein; which is clean contrary to heavenly powers, and is a stark enemy to humanity both personal and politic, for there is none under heaven able to give light or peace, or to deal for another's conscience between God and him, the contrary conceit whereof, begotten by delusion and conceived by corruption of humane nature, hath and will produce more unnatural and unreasonable wars and plagues upon the earth than it can bear with a seeming to subsist; that the quality of the formal part of the false Ecclesiastical body is really such as is now proposed, take these Scriptures for witness, Rev. 13.2. and verse 7, 8. also verse 15, 16, 17. This is the express image of the devil ruling in the generation of Cain and cursed seed of Adam, to their utter ruin, if it be not looked into in time.  
The instrumental means of the being of this body (with the other main circumstantial parts) prove the quality of the forenamed essential parts to be as aforesaid.  
For it is produced and effected by a compulsive powerful proclamation, conjured out of the civil powers of the earth by lying wonders and delusion, Matth. 24.5, 6, 7. also verse 24. 2 Thess. 2.8, 9, 10, 11. Rev. 13.13, 14.  
The state or manner of being of this body of devilish policy, or which is falsely called Ecclesiastical, and divine, it is most magnificently majestical and tyrannical, full of offices of greatest superiority and highest authority, Rev. 13.2. and are more for gain than administration of any good, 2 Pet. 2.3. This circumstantial part testifieth the matter and form to be as aforesaid.  
The Laws, Statutes, and Ordinances, Constitutions, and Canons, of this body of Antichrist, are devilish and inhuman, opposite to those of the body of Christ, and most pernicious to humanity; these bind Conscience which Christ's Laws set free, and compel external conformity in circumstantial matters, which breedeth more hypocrisy than sincerity, and destroyeth civilly disposed persons, for the proper and peculiar use of their own Consciences, the truth hereof, witnesseth all persons which have suffered, do and shall suffer for their Consciences; these are compulsive and enforcing Conscience, and although set on foot with fair pretences, yet are such snares and traps for men, that thereby their Consciences are made very slaves, or their persons and personal estates ruined; of these the Epistle to the Colossians speaketh pertinently in way of caution and preadmonition, Col. 2.8. also verse 20, 21, 22, 23. These circumstantial things also belonging to the being of this body, declare the quality of the matter and form to be most palpably, Antichristian as aforesaid.  
Most noble King, impartially let former passages be considered, and call to mind of what generation you came, of Adam and Eve in Paradise, and in the time of their innocency were miscarried by temptation of the devil; what may be the condition of their posterity, since the curse passed upon them and their being thrust out of the Presence Garden of God by head and shoulders; though I conceive your calling to be the chiefest that is given to the sons of men, and although God hath given you a Land flowing with milk and honey, yet I am persuaded you are no more privileged from temptation, and transgression, against God, than were your first parents, and those Kings of Israel (which were Types of Christ the King of new Jerusalem) whose calling or state and seat was above yours, yet no disparagement to yours neither, for upon that Throne sitteth the Son of God, and Lord of David; if your first parents were deceived by flattery and an ambitious inclination, and if they by looking after more than God gave them lost what they had, may not their posterity be taken in the same snare; yea, they are subjected to it under a curse, which followed since their fall; if the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World, was in the World, and the World was made by him, and the World knew Him not; if He came unto his own, and his own received Him not, john 1 9, 10, 11. may we not suspect our own averseness and the double advantage our old false friend the devil, who is worse than an open enemy to all mankind, hath against us, take notice of the passages of Scripture before mentioned, and these following, john 5.43. Matth. 7. 1●. Matth. 24.24. 1. john 2.18. If there be a generation to whom nothing is pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled, which profess they know God, but in works deny him, Titus 1.15, 16. who will talk of Christ or teach Him, yet deny Him to be come in the flesh, I mean so as to yield him the Throne of his father David, to sit as King in matters Ecclesiastical, and to let him rule in the Element of Conscience, which is that spirit of Antichrist, 1 john 4.3. O noble King, is not a double jealousy of being deceived necessarily called upon in you, whom these forenamed persons have made supreme Head of the Church, as if one body could have two heads, or two bodies (different in nature) one head, of which interposition and confusion the Laws of your own policy admit not; be judge yourself, it is not outward religious performances please God, witness Cain and Abe: under pretence of long prayers some devour widows houses: what is acceptable with God of this nature, see james 1.26, 27. To be short, fully plain and faithful, do but consider the Book or Revelation, which from the fifth Chapter includeth the discovery of the state of Christ and his Church, and Antichrist and his Kingdom, and the birth, life and death of him, and the main particular passages of the combat, between them both, and behaviour of the Kings of the earth therein toward either side, and observe how poor deluded man, in the state and seat of Kings is beset, when the vials of God's wrath are poured out to the destruction of the Beast, especially when he is touched upon his seat and revenue, which is his life and livelihood, Rev. 16.13, 14. Most royal Sovereign, be not angry and full of wrath which accomplisheth not the will of God, james 1.20. But look well to your going, Prov. 14.15, 16.  
And be pleased now to take into your hand the line of truth which defineth all the Creatures and things upon the face of the earth whatsoever, and judge and deal by all states and bodies of policy according to their several natures and qualities of their essential parts, and of their circumstantial parts, which belong unto them; wherein the Rules of holy Scripture and of humane reason and policy, will bear you out against all opposition.  
View the Ecclesiastical states within your own dominions, which are so apt to breed wars, to maintain the truth of their being, and to call for subscription thereof from all others, and examine how the quality of their essential and circumstantial parts suit with that of Christ's Church, or with that of Antichrist, and accordingly you may account of them, and deal by them, so fare as concerneth you in your state of civility. And thus fare I can do no less than move your Majesty to do, since to God and Caesar belongeth a due; and that you would take to what is your own, and give unto God the things that are Gods, to which Act I am confident all good and faithful Subjects would consent upon fair evidence (whereof sacred Scripture and natural reason will afford sufficient to all persons and Courts of Parliament) to the performance thereof.  
And for your own due, none can deny, but as you are Head of all Civil powers, within your own do minions; so the execution of all Civil Laws (whereof your power is the life) for the preservation of your Subjects in all Civil respects, belongeth unto you: therefore keep it to yourself, and for that use only, and give it not into the hands of any Ecclesiastical persons, for Christ never called for the use of it, to cut off men for Conscience sake, but for incivility, and for that same purpose God did ordain it, Rom 9 And only in this respect are Kings and Queens held truly to be nursing Fathers and Mothers, to the Church of Christ, for in so doing they defend the innocent, relieve the oppressed, and preserve the meek, from unreasonable and Cain-like men of the world, and hatch up the people in general, by maintaining equity between man and man, out of which Christ calleth his chosen, such as are appointed for the worship and special service of the Trinity.  
Likewise for your own due, none can deny, since God hath put an end to the Jewish and national Ecclesiastical state; but that the use of all means set apart for Ecclesiastical uses of right belongeth to none but persons in Civil state, of Government, the lands and Tenths set apart for holy persons and holy uses are with the holy persons the Tribe of Levi, the holy places, holy times, and all external holiness ended in Christ; now the Kingdom of Heaven is within, it hath not relation to the matters of this World, john 18.36. Rom. 14.17. But the devil remembreth how to cousin and cheat mankind of old, make men believe they shall be as Gods, and the while bring them to be the greatest slaves to himself: let me speak freely though I hang for mine uprightness, so hath he since Christ to deceive the whole earth, even all Civil Government, set a company of deceivers, to lift up the Kings of the earth above their own Element, into Christ's seat: and to draw them to support such as are lifted up into it, and the while cousin the Kings of the earth of the greatest part of their temporal revenues, and were it not that Princes came out of the loins of Adam and Eve, and are most beset with witches and deluders, it were impossible to be thought that they should be so handled, to be persuaded that God should put an end to a natural generation, and raise an artificial one in their stead, and that out of a contrary Nation, which should carry five times a greater revenue of the earth than the former; considering how largely Christ and his Disciples declared themselves in this case, in the last recited Scriptures, and also in the passage of Tribute money, Matth. 22.19, 20, 21. Once let that old devilish suggested opinion and proverb be buried, I mean no Bishop no King, it is but a delusion and mere dream, for what shall more oblige Subjects than when they have all the freedom that conscience and natural reason can afford them? and were it no more for fear of penalty in transgressing civil Laws than for wounding Conscience; what would not be done in these days? I appeal to your own and the general experimental knowledge, and what pleasure hath God in such formality? Be no longer thus gulled of what is your own, and that in a devilish way, to the confusion of your own Kingdom; for every one shall be saved or damned by his own believing or unbelieving, Mark 16.16. Not every one that saith Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, etc. Matth. 7.21. Without faith it is impossible for any man to please God, Heb. 11.6. For whatsoever is not of faith is sin, Rom. 14.23. And since faith is the gift of God, not of: you, Ephes. 2.8. james 1.17. Take to yourself what is your own, and apply and employ both your sword and maintenance to and in the matters of your own Element, defending the innocent and civil, and relieving the poor and oppressed, than Christ shall bear rule in his own, and amongst his own, and you shall be master of your own: these things are easy to be accomplished by Parliament, how can any of any Religion which conceive themselves to be of God, be against the casting off of the tyrannical though golden bonds of conscience, and setting that at liberty they need not fear sinking, A 'tis 5.39. That which is not of God shall have a time to be rooted up, Matth. 15.13. And double and double the Laws and execution of them in all cases of civility, and what can your Majesty ask that will not be yours.  
And let the blessed Trinity in their own cause in matters of Conscience, use their own sword which is sharper than yours, Heb. ●. 12. Let the light be free, not limited and confined by the eyes of men, support none that add to it or detract from it, neither cut off any with your sword which are enemies to it; but in cases of intolerable incivility; for persecutors may be converted, if they be not intrade and custom of murdering: but if so, let no Cain's raging on the earth live within your Dominions; neither favour that posterity of his who exercise his spirit according to, 1 john 3.12.  
So I leave all passages to your royal consideration, and commit myself in the manifestation of realty and faithfulness in the service of God, my King, and Country, to your Majesty's sword of Justice and due protection.  
FINIS.