29-7~ 7 ksvr^-i ('■ A^" i-^ /? §TVW* /S-*^- y 4 / <7~- c^r-L^- <£*--*-+ — ^- Cf/^ *d y /d^S \ * '. v - * * MYSTERIE INIQVITIE. YET WORKING ■,In the Kingdoms of England, Scotiand, ? and Ireland, /or tfa AAjftw of Re- figiott truly Protejiant. DISCOVERED, Asby other grounds apparent and probable r y n u , ,£. bte Cetlanon in Ireland, noway fohke- 7 and Scotland, in the late folemne Cove- nam, and a religious pur- iuance oi it Zeph.j. 3 4 5. Hat Pn«r« MriM. her «&m*g***\ her Judge, .re evcmng f +L.mi,«Mw not the hones till the morrow. V l T^ZZl^ treacherous ferfonf. her Priefis have 4 H %^fJSJXtbej have done violence to the law. lt^iflliS mi Jjl thereof: hee ^U not doe ini^ity every m&p ho* th no iht,me - j ______ Printed at London by A, S. t-v.v. ( i ) MYSTERIE OF INIQJUITIE, Tet working in the Kingdomes of Eng- land, Scotland, and Ireland, for the deflruUion of Religion truely Vroteflant. . Ere there not a more then ordinary ftupiditie poflefftng the hearts of men , which God ufually permits as the fore-runner of heavie judge ments , after fo many reall and bloody demonftrations of a dam- nable defigne upon our Religion and Liberty, it were the moft wi- neceflary worke imaginable to publifh written ones. But let this unhappy neceffity be obeyed , and honeft men bee perfwaded a little to withdraw their thoughts from their perplexed refle&ions upon the bufineffe of Hull, and the Atilitia&nd the Lundon Tumults ,( which are ufually looked upon as the grounds, but never were other then occafions and advantages fought to throw us into this confufion which now overfpr'eads the face of EngUnd , and , unlefle God who cafieth out the counfels of Princes , and ta^es the wife in their mncraf- tfaefle, mercifully prevent , is like to ovcnvhtlmeit) and apply A 2 themfeive* ttiemfelves to a diligent obfervationof the contexture and com- pehenfion of affaires , as they have beene thefe latter years ma- naged by our Adversaries-: Thatfo comparingonepart of their proceeding with another*- and all with this propofed end of fuhvercing the P K r*t eft ant Religion, -together with t\\t.Sub\e.tls Liberty (~,he Elme of chat Vi ie) the impartiall and diligent Rea- der may diicerne an evident conjuncture offefoites,PrieJrs 3 Prin~ €es, Prelates, Papifls, Politicians, Atheifls, profane, and igno- rant perfons, for the ruine of that Religion to which fome of xhem are Profejfed ' E ntmiesiothers Pretended Friends ,but which of them the moft pernicious is hard to judges Bur, that no body may be wronged,this Heterogeneous num- ber muft,in reference to this great work,receive its proportio- nable diftribution, and wee mud not conceive all thefe equally engaged,or upon the fame grounds. Babel is to be built, the Ar- chitects are the fefuites, taking in fome Atheifiicall Politicians to their affiftance, as Surveyors of the worke : Princes muft finde the materials, as being made beleeve that the work is de- fined for the Houfe of their Kingdom, and the honour of their Majefty. Papifls, with the rabble of fuperftitiow and ambiti- ous Clergy, are the daily Labourers, the prophane and ignorant multitude are employed in themoft fervile workes, as Hewers of wood, and Drawers of water, and are now made to tread morter for this building moiftened with their own bloud, And becaufe all thefe mud bee prefumed reafonable men ( though the later fort are ufed as natural bruk beafts,made to be taken & deftroytd) who though they are not fo wife as to know wha t they do,yet muft not be thought fo fooiifli as not to know why they take this paines , different ends are held out. And therefore this great building is defigned as a Churchiox the Pa- pifts Devotion, as a Palace for the Prelates ambition, as a fa/Me- ter the Princes power, and the reft have feverall baits by thefe cunning Anglers caft out unto them, according to the variety of their difpofition. But left I fhould feem rather to write then to reveale a My- flery, it will bee convenient to ufe all plainneffe of fpeech, that they who are concerned may difcerne truth before it be beaten into their heads witha Poleax. Firfl, (3) Firft, I prefume it will be granted on all parts, that the Ro- man Strumpet is very induftrious to corrupt the Earth with her Fornications,/?^. I p. 2. and hath to that end conftituted a great Councell, Depropaganda §de % as they call it, but rather, Depro** pagana^perfidi4 y whofemo{k vigilant Jnftruments andEmifla- ries are xht\Jefuits> who have by their diligence obtained the honour to bee Cupbearers of this Wine of Fornication, and are juftly accounted by us thofe Frogs , comming out of the mouth of the Dragon , the Be aft , and the falfe Prophet, going forth un- to the Kings of the Earthy and of the whole world , Rev, 16.1 2. Thefe mentis they compafie fea and land,and have fpread them- feives well nigh in all parts, fo they have alwayes had a fpeciall eye to the Kingdoms of Brittaine, it being doubtlefle propoun- ded to them, and allRomifh Agents, asa piece of eminent fer- viccy if by any meanes that might bee reduced to the vaflalage of Rome. And this is the fecond ftep wh ich I think there will be no con- tending for, that the Romifti Agents have been very earneft and induftrious in reconciling this Hand with the adjacent to their Religion 3 it being a fervice which the Pope himfeif difdained not to ftoope to, in that Letterfyet uncontradicted) which hee writ to the Prince in Spain,now extant in the Englifti tongue; where he detires that tht Prince of Wales might be brought back again into the lap of the Romifli Church, and the Prince of the Apo files put into poffeffion of this mpft noble I fie. Which de- fires of the Pope have beenefeconded with continuall endea- vours of fwarmes of Jefuitcs. and Priefts refident amongell us. It being then granted, that ever fince the Reformation there hath been fuch a defigne, it remaines to fliew how it hath been profecuted, and how farre it hath prevailed, where the Impedi- ment now is what labour there is to remove it, that all true Proceftants may the better underfland their own condition and Inter efts. Onely let this bee premifed, that wee beisg to deale with a My fterie , a work of darknefle , itmuft not be expected that all which ftiali bee produced, fnould bee cleare and con- vincingias if a judiciall proceeding were undertaken>but that the A 3 Arguments (4) Arguments be fo probable and d:pendant,as,though not a legal! yet a rational] judgement may be palfed again ft our Adverfaric's in this caufe. Andit hath becne a very un/uft triumph of the E- nemy over the Parliament and their friends in want of evidence when they have (though the nature of the bufinefle, being trea- fonable, and therefore clandeftinely carryed, and bound up by oathes of fecrecie) beeneputto make up the grounds of their proceedings from the connexion offeverall particulars and pro- babilities, which are enough for a Statesman , though not a Judge. And the diligent obferver may take notice how thefe Feares and jealoufies , pretended to be groundleffe , have bcenc juftified by after proceedings,as' the ufe made ofNervcaftle hath vindicated the fecuring Hull. The Shipfrom Denmtrke hatk juftified their fufpition,grounded (as it is (aid) upon the flighted teftimony of the Skipper at Roterdam The Lord Digbies endea- vours, and the refidence there ok King and Cochran, the Propo- fitions to the Scots at Newcaftle (hereafter to be mentioned )for the joyning of the Scottifh and Englifh Armies againft the Par- liament, have juftified all the fufpitions and accufatfons , then pretended and protefted to becun/uftand groundleflfe. In fuch times and cafes as thefe,feares and jealoufies are par donab!e,and diftruft, cfpecially after evident breaches of rruft, is the mother offecurity. It is a very uncquall thing that the King with his Cavaliers fhould renounce the Parliament, deftroy his good Subjects, upon the jealoufie that Parliaments and Puritans arc Enemies to his Prerogative and Power (which can never bee proved ifjuftice be made the Rute of Power) and we railed on for defending our,felves againft the confederacie of Papifts, Prelates, Court Parafites , and their adherents, whofe endea- vours of introducing Popery and Tyrannie, are far beyond jea- loufie, as is now to be demonftrated. I will not retire fo farre backe ( having fo much work before me) as to iniift upon the manifeft and manifold attempts upon thisKingdome in the dayes ofQjeen Slizabeth > whom when they had difcerned to have fetcled her Interefts for theProte- flants againft Spaing and Rome , and eftablifh-d her Councell according to thofe IntereJtsiSo that thougfrthe Btfbrfp brought - - - - her her to dif-favour Pttritanes, yet they could not perfwade her to favour the Papifis, out fhe ft ill kept a ftricl and vigilant eye over them, as being rightly informed* that they, and not the other, were the grcateft Enemies to Royall Power . When they faw this, the ufuall arts of Rome againft dif-affecTred Princes are pue in pra&ice, viz*. Bulls, Interdifts, Poyfoniugs, Aftafinations, which God wonderfully preferved that hetfcicke Ladie from the Spanifh Armado, the Rebellion in Ireland, may be further Teftimonies of their zeal in this bufineflc. To the enumeration of theie, let us only adde thankfulnefle and caution, and pro- ceed to their after Machinations •, the better fruits of which the Proteftant Churches yet feel. King ^a^before he came to the Crowne of England, had a heart too large for his Dominion, and therefore extended his affectionate thoughts to the Kingdomes of England and Ireland, which he longed for a peaceable poffeffion of. The Fadors of Rome having ftudiedhisintereftand nature^ according to their wonted confidence attempt him : as for his ZJnderfianding, fo well informed in the Forgeries and Faljboods of the Romifh Re\igion,it was not to be ventured on,and there- fore they proportion their workings tohisP^7^j,which were, defire of the acceffton of power, mixt with a more than ordina- ry feare fin which he was naturally unhappyj left he fhould be interrupted, if not difappointed in the entrance : And in this ConfticT: obtain from him fome intimations, if not aflurances, of favour to the Catholique Caufe, with which they were for the prefentfatisfied.- The King upon his entrance andfettlement in England, faw caufe rather to difpence with his promifes then his principles; whereupon the Pop ifh faction grew difcon ten ted againft him, and a fruit ofthatdifcontent was the Ronnfi HeMJb Powder- Plot, never to be mentioned by any good Proteftant, but with due gratitude to Almighty God,and juft deteftation of the Ro- mifti Religion. This Treafon wrought not kindely with his Majefty : for whereas he might have made the Plot a ground of defiance, and the Deliverance a ground of confidence 5 the horrour of the bufinefle tufineffe Wrought fuch impreffion of dread upon his timorous fpirit, that though hee was not blown up, yet hee was fhaken by it all his life after, and drawn fuccefllvely to a Compliance with, at leaft a Connivance at their proceedings. And notwith- standing the free exercifeof his wit and pen agairift Poprry, which they could well allow him,they conftrained him to pur- chafe his own fecurity (contrary to the Interefts of Proteftant Religion, and Paternall affection,) with the ruine of the neigh- bour Churches of Bohemia and the Palatinate. We ihould not have looked upon the day or our brethren: to that we may reduce the many impediments that have fallen in tetwixt us and the helpof our friends, and that pofture wherein God himfelf (lands towards us, even as a man afionified,a migh- t j man that cannot fave,Jer.i<\ 9. Though wee have this hope ieft, that God will recompence that mifchkfe, not upon the Nation, the body whereof had a jufl fellow-feeling with the diftrdfes of their neighbours, but upon that accurfed Paction whofe pernicious Councels yet rule among us. This was the moft confiderable Progrefle made in his time, though the preparatory workings for a fitter opportunity were not omitted,as the chcridiing in him a dif-arLction to Puritans, an inclination to Bishops, procuring countenance to Profane* nejfe, both by practice, and Declaration to the remote Counties for licentious Sabbath breaking, and fettling about him perfons regardlefle of the good of Church or Commonwealth. To which may be added the untimely death of Prince Henrj,when it was once obferved that he grew popular, inclined to martiall affaires, and d if- affected to Spanifh proceedings. As alfothe Proportions of the Treaty of marriage with Spaine offered from England, revifed at Rome, and then by theN.gotiation of BriHoU agreed to ( though after broken ) witrvfo many. advan- tages to the fpreading of Popery in England, as might discover the defigne to have been confiderably advanced in King'^raw his time. 1 {hall (Hut up the difcourfe of his Reigne with this obferva- tion of the providence of God : That thofe Princes who have trufied God with their lives and Kingdoms,and kept Spain and JLmt \&M* I (h all endeavour to avoid known falfhoods, or unfeafonable truths. An earned affeftion to the Prefervation and Reformation of the Church of God hath put me upon this difquifition , and the deflre ofprtfervinggoodmenfromafnare,whichihaU bee in valnefpread in the fight of any bird.hath prevailed with me for the difcovery of my thoughts: It is in fervice to that Caufe, which I defire not to overlive the welfare of. And therefore without any more complement, let us begin to fearchoutthe Plateformes , Groondworkes , Materialls, Xnftruments of this great fervice, forTecovery of Brittaine to Babylon. In the beginning of his now Majefties reigne, they having in 5/rfwrandothtrwife obtained teftimonkfcof his ditpofition, a r so flrange wife is prepared for him, which according to Scripture truth, is a dangerous preparative for a fir -an ge god : Surely they will turn away your heart after their gods, i Kings 1 1 . 2 .. Upon this marriage is the Court (fufficientiy loofe, andluxu- ■rious enough at all times ) diflblved into Riots and Mafquings, andinthemidftof that noife were our Counfels and Ester- prifesmoft perfidiouflymif-laid and betrayed, -as thofe of Re* and C^/,and eipecially tnat of Rochel, which,as if no {lighter a Complement could be thought of for the faire Lady received from France, mu ft by Englifh hands and Popifli Councells be betrayed in its Religion and Liberty. Thus is our guilt ii>- creafed , and our ftrength dim inifhed. And left the Remainder of it fhould be employed according to the Interefts/of our.Reli- gionand Nation,a peace with Spaine is concluded , the Palati- nate left to that which leaves it yet miferable , and is haftening Ais after it, a Courfe of treating with them, who carry defirutlion andmifery in their pathes , bufi the way of peace they have not knowne. Thefe things have been long knowne, but little confi- dered : and it ftands well enough with my intent and pnrpofe to repeat things mentioned by others^ecaufe I aime at iliewiag the dependance of the Jefuiticall proceedings one upon an- other, and all upon the maine end of fubverting Religion and Liberty. After thefe parts fo well plaid abroad, let us confider how the defigne was carried on among our felvcs, from the fourth yearc of his Majefties reigne. And here, as good workmen ufe to doe: they forecaft the manner * and provide the Jnftruments of their worke. It muft be done either by force,or frauds the firfl is dis- approved, probably upon thefe reafons : i The King could not be fuppofed to yeeld to an invafion of his owneKingdome,andit waspitic to betray fo hopefull a Prince, 2 It was more full ofhazzard , as Subject to the Accidents of vrarre ; as alio, that a violent attempt would probably ;oyne the Proteftant and Purltaue againft the Papift, whereas a frau- dulent graduall proceeding might poffibly unite the Papifi and indifferent Ptotefim againft the Puritofc^ which they have now how accompliftied.The latter way is refolded upon, and Tnftm- ments accordingly fitted, which are certainly themoft confide- table requifites in any worke. And becaufe it was of very great concernment, that the King (hould be brought to favour and further thefe Popifh pro- ceedings and preparations, he muft be ingaged either upon reli- gious or politick confiderations to promote this Reconciliation with Rome, "Not to difpute how far he was prevailed with in matters of Religion, if not for an abfolute alteration, yet an Accommoda- tion ; crwhether thdultimate End and full Defigne were difco- vered to him, or rather he made to profecute it under another Notion:This is certain,that he manifeftly favoured thofeCourfes that made way for Popery & Tyranny,and it is to be conceived, rather withrefpeft to power and profit ( which wtrealwayes obierved to be his Majefties well confident Interefts)then to the Popifh or any other Religion, which istvidenced by that pafla-ge that fellfrom his Majefty, obferv*ed by the Venetian that wrote the Narrative, called the Popes Nuncio, fc. That hisAfajeftie Could at that time reconcile him/elf to Rome -with much advan* *age. And when it was difcerned that the Intereft of abfolute Rule, with its advantages, was fofirmely fettled in his Majefty, and that he was fubisft to be violent in the proftcution of it, and not likely to dumb I eat final lblockes, which they might well gheffe by the dhTolution of Parliaments, billetting Souldi- Crs, the defigne of the Germane horfe, &c. they cherifh him in it, and CetVrance with its broken Parliaments and full power as an Ob;eft or Emulation before him, as finding the Inter efts ^f Popery and Tyrannie very well to agree. Now therefore is his Majeftie perfwaded that his Crown and the ^PopesGhatire have common Friends, and Common Ene- mies. Parliaments and Puritanes are their Enemies^ Ptelacie and Profhanenefe their Friends. Let lis fee how things were carried with refpeft to them all. f irft for Parliaments, which the Popish Partie knew Bi to fio) to be very good advantages in their conftitutio.vothepreferva- tion and reformation of the Protefhnt Religion, they reprefent them to hisMaj^fty as moft difad vantageous.to his d fired pow- er and profit. They wereonely times ofrecompence for wrong, of petitions for right, Controllers of Prerogative, Aflertors of popular Liberty, and therefore are they diflblved, difgraced by fcandalousDeclarations^ublikely afperfed both from the Prefle and Pulpit, as by Doctor Alobl*fter> Stale, Manxvaring^ and o- thersofthatftamp. And that there might be no occafion of drawing (upplies of money that way, which had fo many other Inconveniences attending it,feverall exquiiite Engines of iniqui- ty and oppreffion were found out by We/ion, 2VVy,arid others,as Loanes,Patents,Ship-money,&c. And thus for twelve yea rs,or thereabouts,were Parliaments intermitted, and thehopes,if not remembrance, of them almoft worneout. Then for Pttritanes y men cordially proteftant and zealous of their own Religion, which no where but among us is a fault, becaufe they were tenacious ofjuft Liberty, and true Religion, how ftudioutly and fpightiully are they difgraced, as men of An- timonarchicall Principles, factious fpirits, ranked with fefrntei^ fwho were yet better ufed)as the Incendiaries of C lurches and States. For the fuppreffing thefe men the authority of the High Commiffion, Star-chamber, Biftiops Courts, and the ordinarie Courts of Juftke, through the corruption of Judges and other inferior Oirieers,made very ferviceabie;and that they might hive no Shelter nearer then New England>mQ& of the faithful! Mi- nisters and religious Juftices were for fome preterfce or other difcountenanced, difplaced; and it was grown to that pa(Te,that he that departed from evil made himfelfa prey. For the rooting out of Minifters, whofe onely fault was painfulneffe irr their places, Overall artifices wereufed. And becaufe there werea fort of conformable Puritanes , whom the old Ceremonies reached not ( who were the leaft tolerable, becaufe the leaft liaole ) feverall Innovations, and that peftiknt Declaration of the Sabbath, were introduced,which to oppofe or refuk,was to be marked out to deftruclion. And all this done,that the FacTi% on, as they called it, that fo much hindered the goodworl^'m hand, hand , this intended rtconcitiathh, might be weakened , and re- moved. But were not the Cup in the hand of the Whore very ftupi- fying, it were impoffible to make Princes fo much miftake their friendsfor enemies. The Principles of Poperie are certainely morepropenfe to Treafons and Rebellions then thofe of the Proteftant Religion,which aiwaies made good «r#£j*tf/,though not Slaves. Andbefides Reafon and experience of former Prin- ces, this prefent Conjuncture of time and affiures may give.te- ftimony thereof. Suppofe a Popifti Prince that had broken the Origiuall Contract, bound with Oath, fubverted thefundamen- tali Contentions of government in his Kingdome, imagine by Parliaments, and give evident teftimony of not being firme to the eftabliflied Religion > can it be conceived that (uch a one could enjoy any fecurity in the midft of Romane Catholiques ? Yet with us, after manifold oppofitions, breaches of priviledge intrenchments upon liberty , fettiogupofthe Standard, which fome would have interpreted a renouncing of the peoples pro- tection , upon which their allegiance depends, cafting off a Par- liament, by fo late an Aftmadeindiflbluble, ,with their own confent , charging them with a dual 1 rebellion, and difclaiming ^11 Acts done by them, or right in them to excrcife his or their owne power. The King hears no other language then Gracious Soveraigne, Your facred Ma;efty, not onely in formall compi- lations, but folerme Covenants, Let the world judge whether the challenged Power of the Pope, and the grounds of Popery, would not have given the Subjects an abloJution , and efta- -blifried proceedings upon other grounds then the Puritanes of England and Scotland yet do. Yetfo farre, through the Juft Judgements of God, have the intoxications of Rome, backed with continuall evil Councels, prevailed with his Majefty, as that it may be faid Juftly of him as of David, he loves his ene- mies, and hates his friends, and preferres them who haveplayd feme of Abfaloms tricks with him , to his moft feithfull fervan'ts and people. It maybe his Majefty is led be this Principle, that if he prevaile he gaines much, if not, he lofeth nothing, onely is. W^Jiere he was : but this may prove a deceitfull arguing , if not B3 prevented t prevented in time. That of the wife man may te peculiarly ap2 rplkdto thefeCouncelis,fofuIl of folly and hazzard , Theme* ed worketh adeceitfullrvor\e: Bat pardon this digreffion,it was well meant, however it may be interpreted. So fared it with the Friends of Popery the "Pr elates ; who but they muft be the Kings Fr iends/Neale to King Jamer % Laud to King CW/*\f, and there they fuborned a fraudulent Proverb to ferve their turne, which was, No Bifhop.norKing, nay (in «$/- denhams Rhetorieke ) no God, whereas the truth was, No Pre- late , no Pope, And here aga.ne was the King cheated by the Birtiops. which will evidently appeare if ever f which God for- bid ) thefe Cockatrice egges be hatched. In the meane time let reafon and former experience be Judges. The pomp and (plen- liourofthe Church is the Pops proper Intereft, to which the greatnefie ofprinces is rather oppofite then fubfervienclncreafe of power was in the Negotiation pretended for the King„inten- 'ded for the Bifhops , who onely made ufe of the Kings power for the advancement of their own. And though the King might eafily judge that no addition of power could be in them, without a Diminution of A/V,yet fo far re had this Circean Cup prevailed, that Bifliops and their Agents,becaufe they ferved the turne for the prefent, and proftituted their learning, power, and confeien- ces,to the vindication of iilegall actions and authority, were en- trufted not onely with Ecclfiafticall , but a very great fliare in Command was given, as to the Midwives there, to kill the Males in the birth; and not fatisfied with that, as if one age Were too narrowlimits for their iniquity to be exercifed in,or- dcr was given for the re-printing bookes formerly licenced ' with %ith their Correftlont ,or rather Corruptions, zcccft&m§ to the Tridentine invention of Index expurgatorins. •■ The like care was taken in nrnttr o£ Prophanneffe -, which, as if it had not beene fufficiently provided for by Ignorance , the naturall mother of it, thePrelates by the examples of their owne families for the moft part, and the procuring and preffing the booke of licentioufaeiTe upon the Sabbath, were diligent Nurfes thereof. And if it be further enquired how thefe Twinnes became fer- « viceable to Popery ; the refolution i* very clear : Ignorance, you know, is the mother of Popifh Devotion, that is, ^uperfti- tion, and a fpeciall qualification of a Difciple of Rome , where blindfold is the onely play, a tricke the Pope borro wes from the Dive II, the god of 4 his world hath blinded their mindes, 2. Coy, 44. And io Jikewife Propiianeneflfe is a borderer upon Popery, by the loofe Principles of which it is much couarenanced. It is true, fomc (ins are not fo good cheap among th;m as others, but all may be had at a reafonable rate. And prophane perfons, Whole remainders of Confcience tell them they muftatleaft pretend to fome Religion or other ( unlefle they have arrived at the height ofAtheifmJ readily pitch upon that next hand, which would allow moft Liberty. And our prefent experience gives teftimony of the fervice thefe two fruits of the Bifliops Go- vernment have done: Prophatieflehath made ,a generall averfe- nefleto Reformation,and lgnorance,with the help of that, hath furniflied the King with an Army againft the Parliament, fetchc from the barren Mountaines of Wales , Come wall , and the North* which were kept fure without the means of knowledge, as a fit referve for fuch a time as this. I fpeake of the common fort offouldiers, many of the reft have too much knowledge, and too little Confcience. Thus have we an account of the more remote preparations for this great fervice, which had wrought fo well, that if was thought feafonable to adventure more boldly upon the bufines* And the Prelats, with their forwardDependants,as impatient of this dilatory proceeding, begin to offer & preffePopifh innovati- ons,^ preach divers Doftrines ofgroffe Popery-jfor the which I % referre referre you to the CanterbHriansfelf-conviElion € The School^ the Preffe, the Pulpit, began to fpeak Italian apace. The CMar- tyres of the Proteflant Religion difgraced ; the Confpirators in the Powder Treafon excuied* as in a Sermon at Saint Maries in Cambridge by Kemp of &c. And if all this will not perfwade the incredulous Reader, that there was a ftrong endeavour of altering Religion among us, I (hall commend to his conflderation, not fo much Romes Mafter-piece, ( which may be Canterburies Mafter-piece for ought I know, it looks fo like a difguife) as that fcrious and in- genious Tract, called, The Englifo Pope, together with the Popes Nuncioes annexed, which gives a more exact account then I thought the fecrecie of thofe Negotiations could have af- forded to a man dif-aCcted to them : Wherein you have the propounding and driving of the bargaine betwixt the Agents for Rome,and the Archbifhop with hisComplices,who bought and fold the Puntanesfor Cardinals Caps, and Penfions,among whom the then Cbichefler, now Salisbury, was a Chkfe, and therefore fitteft to be the Princes Tutour. But Ifhould wrong both that Authour, and my Reader, to tell that ftorie after him. And though England was the mains Shop of this Forgerie,' as being moft considerable, as alfo becaufe in Ireland there need- ed not fo much diligence , and in Scotland there was not much matter to be wrought upon ; yet in the two other Kingdomes this pious inclination to peace with Rome was not neglected. In Ireland, in the fourth year of his Majefty, feveraT Immuni- ties and Encouragements were granted to the Papifls, The then C Deputie. (26) Deputy, though his Veine lay more right for tyranny and ex^ a&ion, in regard of his imperious fpirit, yet he failed not to doe- many good Offices for the Papifts, by Connivance and Conn* te nance given to the free and publike exercife of Idolatry. This the King helped on by making many Popifh Peeves, that aPar- ltament in that Kingdome might occafionally prove rather ad- vantagious to thedeligne, then otherwife. The fruit of which liberality of honour was reaped in the Irifh Parliaments,allow- ing a Contribution to thevvaragainft Scotland, and their fend- ing a Committee, many of which were forward papifts, now chief Rebel?, to white-hall, the fummer before the Rebellion brake forth, who -in all probability fhufited the Cards for the bloudy Game which was plaid October after. And that Can* tcrbnry might not ftand idle, he difpatcht thither Chappell^nd other luch Agents,who by their Arminianifme and Superftition, might train up the ordinary fort of Proteftants there,and bring them to that t mper, that upon a difference they (hou-id prcpend rather to the Papifts then the true Proteftants, of which allay, Ormovd Canterburies Nurfling, and his followers, now prove* Thus was Ireland managed, that it might ferve the turn it now doth : ofwhich afterwards. In ^m/^WIikewifeallpoffiWeinduftry was ufed to Facili- tate an Accommodation with England fir ft, and fo with Rome. And to that purpofe the Popifh and Prelaticall party were Very bufte there.; particularly Spctfaood Axhbifhop of Saint An* drews, a deep and fubtle DilTembler, who had difcouraged and extirpated by degrees, and under div.rs pretexts, moft of the faithfull Minifters thtre 5 and had he been left to his own Poli- ticks, in which he was beyond his patron Canterbury ,i 1 proba* biiity, he had made the condition of that Nation almoft defpe- rate. But Canterbury meeting wirh a man of his own mettall, Maxwell Zifaop of Rofle (tit tobe Jehus Coachman, being a furious driver to this Samaritane mixture, who apprehended and rt prefenred the condition of that Nation too forwardly and prcfumpruoufly, in his zeal rather then difcretion ) gave heed to him, and would needs be gathering the fruits of the Scottish endeavours before they could be ripened in that cold Conntrey, rxore" more backward then England,and To fet hisowtie and fel lowes teeth on edge. In confidence therefore that the Scottifti Church and Nation was fo well prepared,f as by other endeavours, fo by hisSermon preached at Edinburgh,when he was there with the King,about the Partition-wall, £ph.i 14. which hee miferably handled, when he made it to be the Jefuites and Puritans hindering this Reformation, that is, Reconciliation with Rome) as to receive theEnglifliLiturgie,and that corrupted, or to give good advan- tages to the Deligne by their refufall. It was boldly oft. red them, back d with the Kings power, profiituted to all iiich fer- vices, by that Prelaticall Pandar, to the Whore of Rome. As alfo a book of corrupt Canons, which though they comprehen- ded abundantriniq'iity,yet it was thought. fit by oneCanon,com- mended by Rojfe to (Ranter bury y that a doore (hould be left op~n wide enough for the Pope himfeifto enter at a fit opportunity, to this effect ; That fince no Reformation in Dottrineor Difci- pline can bee made per feci at once , it pjouldbeelawfttll by his Makefiles confent, &c. which fell in fo directly with Canterbu- ries Dcfigne, that he procured it to be approved by the King at Greenwich , May 2 3 . 1635. and inj oyned it to bee inferted, giving thankes to his Agent the Bijhop ofRoffe, in a letter yet to beefeene, faying, hee was glad of the Canon foufefullj placed behinde the Cnrtaine , and commanded it to bee fully prin- ted; But thefe Southerns Plants, being Slips of an Italian Stocke, could not endure this Northerne Climate,but were forely nipt, and (hinc ill* lach,ym Andfurther the exampleof that Kingdome will not onelyre- maine as an encouragement, but their unbroken ftrength will (it is to be fear rd) prove ferviceable to the Puritans of England., who are juftly thought fo many and obftinate , that without a blow they are not to be fabdued. It is therefore concluded ne- ccifary by the Factors for Tyrannie and Poperie, that Armes be refumed by the King, of which at leaft they thought to reap this advantage, that which fide foever prevailed, it would be an ingagementoftheKingdomesin warre (which was foearneftly prefled by Strafford) that fo they might be dif-united, and made the more unferviceable to each other in cafe of neceffity.T here- upon they further perfwading the King of the poffibility of pre- vailing, (which hee ufed to regard more then the nature of the CouncellJ Armes are taken up againe. Strafford, with his Affi- ftant Sir Toby Matthews, an Epifcopall Extract, are difpatched for Ireland, the one deales with the Parliament, the other with the Papifts, for fupplies in this Catholiquecaufe, and prevailed not onely in that , but an auxiliary ftrength is there raifed of a- bout 8000. men, moft of them Papifts , who might bee tranf- ported for England or Scotland, as occafion fhould require. And Canterbury no lefle bufie at home, difpatcheshis Butts to the Clergy furContributions to the prefent defigne,and S6ul- diers are preffed with the advantages of Coat and conduct-mo- ney in the feverall Counties. But the Souldiers raifed in Effex 9 Hartfordfiire , and thereabouts, as if they had rather beene to ferve under a Scottifti Covenant , then a Popifh Command,fall to pulling downe Images, burning the railes about the Altars, and affronting Papifts, which was an untoward Omen , but yet dif-heartened not the ftout Prelates and reft of the Faction from their enterprifes. While thefe Firebrands were fmoaking in England and Ire- land, the Scottifh Nation, who love not After-games, were not idle,but made good their bearing,theirLion was rampant, while the Englifti were but paflant, and fo not being willing to trull another Pacification at the Borders, march into England with an Army > carrying a Petition to the King, and Declaration to C 3 , the the Kingdome , in oae hand , and Armes ( the onely arguments then hopefuljin the other, and forced their pa(Tag;e at Ncwburn, with the repulfe ofthe Engliflh , if they deferve to to be called. mod of them having changed their hearts for French and Spa- nifh > fo were they poflTefled of New caftle, and the Bifhopricke of Durham , and fought w ich their Adverfaries upon their owne ground and charges. The Succtffe of this deflgne being ill , and the expence great and infupportable to the Contrivers , not withftanding all their extravagant oppreflions , they are fo impudent as to trie if they could intitlc that Nation to the mainteance and couu tenance of that warre, which was levied by a Fattion , and per- fwade the King to callaParliament,intending,through theip:- cious pretences of Loyaltie , and promifes of taking away grie- vances, to deceive them into a contribution to this warre, which throughGods great mercy,and good providence, they avoyded though it coft them a diflolution, Hereupon the Inftruments of violence double their diligent in;uftice , which grew fo intolerable, that fome of the Lords take the confidence to petition theKing, who beingbetwixt the SeylUoiz Northerne Army, and the Charibdis of a Southerne petition, yeelded to a fecond Parliament , yet continued, and en- ters into a Treaty with'the Scots, being out of hopes of any o- ther End, unletfe it were of his men and money. Thus have you a briefe account of the Scott i fh broiles,and let the Reader but confider the ground thereof, ( sw*. the reducing that Nation to a conformity with England, now in treaty of^c- commodation with Rome, the Inftruments raifing and fomenting it, Crftfm-^rj and the reft of that Faction, zealous for Popery and Tyranny J and the forwardneffe ofthe Papifts , who Life not to make blinde bargaines in the furthering thatDefigne,and give a free and impartiall liberty to the ufeof his owne reafon , I doubt not but he will conclude with me, and for me, that this warre was undertaken asahopefull meane of fubverting the proteftant Religion, and the native Liberty ofthe Brittifh Na- tion. Well Bag noH fuccefsitt a/id tggrediendum via, The dif- appointment appointment andfoile that theenterpize received be the Scot* • tiih bufineffe, wasfo farre from making them caft away their confidence, that they do but double their diligence, and call a Col ledge of thefe State Phyficians to recover life in this bro- ken bufinefle. And, that the Proverb might not bee renewed, Dumconfulitur Rom*,capitur Saguntum, the fudden refalt of thofe Counctls appears to have been, that fome way or other this Parliamentf going a courfe fo contray to theirs,and,through the lownefTe of their prefent State, gaining ground apace* though put to difpute every ftep ) muft be interrupted and dis- appointed, nay, rather then fail, deftroyed. And no wonder at this practice againft the Parliament, which went on at that time fo roundly againft their interefts,and cour - fes formerly mentioned, propounding a farther diftance from Romeby a Reformation, in (lead of their Reconciliation by Cor- ruptions, ftrik ing fore at the abatement , threatning the abolition c&Prelacie, which they could not fpare ; countenancing Puri- tanes, whom they could not endure 5 accudng and puni/hing ^Delinquents, their grand Inftruments } not (paring Canterbury or Strafford, who were the left andright hand of the De- figne. So that we need not look any further for a ground of all pof- fible mifchiefs to be plotted and pradlifedaga ; nftthe Parlia- ment, then its direct oppofition to the projected Defigneof Ty- ranny and Popery, which had been fo farre advanced, and was now like to be interrupted and broken .-All the other diflfcren-- ces,as particularly that of Hull was but the picking a Quarrel andfeeing occafion to raife an Armj, under pretence of a Guaid % for that purpofe to which it is now employed. And it being of fo great confequence to the difcovery of this 7 My fiery, that we underftandthe true natural! ground of this- war, on the Kings part, as alfo that the Cure is more eafily pre- fcribed, when the Caufe is found out; Ifhalltakea little pains to demonftrate, that the grounds of thefe prefent calamities was not the pretended invafion of the Kings right in the bufi- nefle of Hull and the Militia,but a refolutionto perfift in the in- tended mifchief to Religion and Liberty. To (21) To which purpofe let it be knovvne to the world, which to . me is fufficiently evident, that before the execution of the Earle of Strafford, when his Majefty had received no other carriage from his Parliament, then what he profefled himfelf fatisfied with, and that if the Biis he had paft, were again to be offered, he fliouldchearfullyand readily affent unto them ; even then, were difpatched Letters and an Agent to the King otDeuma^ from his Majefty, complaining of the Parliament, that in ftead of his fupplies expe&ed from thence, among other Ends, ad frofulfandos hofics, you may eaiily gheffe who were meant (we being in a deep peace with allPopifh Princes,) he found it,^*r- tinaciter> & in j a fits decaufis, in twins viri exitiam intent urn & defixum (undoubtedly Strafford, betwixt whofe impeach- ment and execution the Letters were fent ) and thereupon de- clares himfelf in thefe words, ad alia cenfilia animum con* vertendum dfiximus. What thtk Counfels were will hereafter more fully appear. One part of them was executed in the f*me Letter, wherein an Agent was named, with credit given, and aid defired. And that it may appear this Letter was lent out of which thefe paflages are excerpted, not only the Copy of the Letter, but the authentick Anfwer hath been feen,andthatit prevailed in fome fort, appeares not only by the Anfwer from ,at that very inftant,againft Forraigne Forces. And if there want further proofe, it may be added, that the intention to bring up the Army to over-awe if not deftroy the Parliament, was Jong before his Majefties departure from Lon- don, which intention if it be not furrlcientiy proved by the De- claration of the Lords and Commons of the nineteenth of May 1642. with the Depositions and Letters annexed, which may poflibly prevaile with the indifferent Reader s yet the PropoG- tions about thefame time made to the Scots at Newcaftle, of joyning with the E.iglifli Army againft the Parliament, and the bountifull Offer made thereupon, Of $oooooA. to tee payed downe Cdovne Of four e Northcrne Counties, and the plunder of Lon- don , The quitting of his Revenues and Cuftomes in that Kjhg- dometo their pub lick, ufe, the Kings refidence at Yorke , for the better accommodation of both Nations y or fuller revenge to Lch- don y ( which Sir 7oh i Henderfon , who imparted thar gracious Meflageby venue of Letters of full credence given him by his Majefty figned C R. can teftifie,or if he will not,many I: one fie r men may, though the paper be regained ) may firiEclentlv con- vince any man , who hath not determined, with htniic=f, Nor* perfuadebis etiamfi ferjuaferis : which I have made the more bold to adde , becaule though the Penner of the Anfwer to the Petition of both Houfes March 16 1 tf42.de fie the Dcvi^whom he knew would never take pain.es to difeover his owqe p ot) to prove there was any iiich Dcfigne with his Maj\,ftjrs know- ledge, yet heedem.es not honcil men liberty of fp.aking the truth. And not to let this bufineflepafTe without the juft honour and vindication of the ScottilK Nation, let the worJd take notice, that they not one ly refuted this off.r, but acquainted thofe who were moft entrufted with the affairs of the tnglifli Parliament and offered rather ("if need were J their beft affiftince tofecure the /uft and la wfull proceedings and priviledges of Parliament, and fettle both Nations in truth and peace, the embracing whereof might have probably prevented a great deal cibloud- fhed both in England and Ireland, and had been the Fore game of our prefent After game. But they were then fo farremore tender of his Majefties honour then their own fafety, that they made ufe neither of the Kings ( ff:r to the Scots by declaring it, nor the Scots to them by accepting it, and one of them was fo farre more ambitious of his Majefties favour, then carefull of his owne honour, as to acquaint the King with the bufinefle : Aske my tordofjD to the intended fubverfioti of Religion and Liberty, either m their perfons or privileges. So that though thefe plots and tranfacTions did notfcrve the Kings turn,forthe intended mifchief, yet they ferve mine very well in the clear proof of the intention of the miTchief. Some- thing might further bee added out of the Irifh bufinefle, to make this affertion clear, but I referve that to its own place,, being the Mjftcry of this Myftery> and the Iniquity of this /»*- quit y. By what hath been declared, it may appear what afpeft the King and the Councels in which he was ingaged had toward the Parliament of Evglmd. Let us proceed to examine the*" courfes which were afterward taken in profecution of this De- fign againft them : &tho(e that for love of Rdigion and Liberty adhere to themj and by confidering the TVayes, Counfelsjnftrx- ments, which have been ufed in this fervice, we (hall obtain yet further Evidence, that this prefent warre, undertaken by the King & his party was intended for the fubverfion of the profef- fed Religion,&eftabli(ht Government. When therefore the Ar- mies railed both in England and Ireland (not without fomere- luclancie, as not having performed their intended fervicej were unavoidably to bee dif-banded in the declining part of the year i<54i .we muftfuppofca Councell mod folemnly to be called at White hall about July or Augaft, before the King? going inro Scotland ( it being then very fealonable in regard that the Irifh Committee (efpecially fo able and aclive men as Gormonflon^ M'uskerjyPlunkft) Browne, and Bonrke y who were privately treated with ) was then in England ) wherein, as may appeare by the precedent and future praclifes, it was laid as a ground, That this FarlUwent y with the Puritanes, their Adherenrs, who ftoodfo ohftinately in the way of this propounded, *and fofar promoted D^figne, muft be removed, or fubdued. And 10 this End wayes of violence ( bloud being she Whores drink, Rev. 17.6. and imperittm quolibet pretio conflans bene y an abfo- fute rule being cheap at any rate ) are refolved upon, efpeciahy confidering that many broken pieces of theArmies raifed againft Scotland.might eafily be made ufe of again, the Occafion being very - very.! i tie different. And inthisConfpiracy was that monftxous Rebellion m Ireland (to ufe the words in the Kings anfwer t& the Petition ofthelriflx Commanders, dated at Oxford De- cember i . 1 642 . for wee cannot wiih better words , though we expect better deeds ) pr a after fo many Acls of Grace , befides perfo- nall honours, and offers made to feme, accepted by others ) which was refolved doubtkflfe, nemine contradkente. The next confutation muft naturally and neceflar ily be of the manner, which muftlikewife be Confufion and Bioud ; SceleribHs.non nifi per feeler* ttttnm efiiter. But nothing is to be done rafhly , the Caufe being as full of hazard as importance : let thereforethe State of the Kiugdome of England, and the neighbour Kingdomes and States, in refe- rence to this Caufe,be duly confidcrecL The condition of England may be thus reprefented, for the body of it: It confifts of Pap ifts P rot eft ant s , viz. the K/ng, Prelates, Courtiers, and Cavaliers, the diflblute Gentry , che fu- perftitious Clergy, the profane & ignorant people,theonIy Pro- teftants now accounted of, all the reft are but Ana^aptifts and Brownifts ; and a third party of Puritanes, that h Lovers of the Protectant Religion , with the defire of Retortion , friends to the Parliament, and native Liberty of the S'-K^- This Jatt r part though very ft.rong, yet may befupp^d well balla need by the other two, whom they withouta m ;ta ^ e 5 as now app?*«^ prefumed might be made one,upon th- Coincidence of Poper , abfolute power, Prelacie , indifference in Religion, and pro- fanenelleiefpeciallywiththeadv^itagesofrheir oppofiticn to puritanifme and Reformation,^ the manifold pretences that might be continually made a^wft the Parliament, And where- as it mieht be obje&edtha- the Parliament now made iadiflb- ■-•■ L>2 luble (2andfonotoneIyoccafionthvexhauftion of England mi the l»J the diftra&ion of the Parliament there, by a warre, but, aau be ferviceable upon the perfection of their worke, or an allowed Cejfation from it, to ftrengthen the Kings party in England, or annoy Scotland,to the prevention of chcirAiiiftance,very good,- oratleaft very true. But what may be expected of Holland? from the people lit- tle hinderance, being drowned in their owneintereftcf gain: Were wee all Spaniards , we could have Supplies from thence for our money, and from the Prince of Orange (who hath well gained,not onely by thatState,but upon ir)ail poffible affiftancc byreafon of the concracl: of marriage with England, and the poffibility there may be of requiting him in the fame kind,when our worke is done Which (by the way) when the Netherlands ers are awake, they (hall do well to confider of, and reflect up- on the Belgickbloud and Snglijh treafure expended in the free- ing them from that bondage, to which by connivence at fup- plies againft the Parliament they are haftening again. Asfor Denmark the cafe is cleare, the Obligation k>f Conlanguinitie, the interell of Royaltie wili ingage that Prince,and to put it ut- terly out of doubt, the incouragement given by Letters under his ownehand,is aboundantlyfufficient. As for France and Spaine, Popery and Monarchy, (or rather Tiranny) will bring in them, notwithstanding, this great and important differences ) as Pilate and Herod y to joyne in crucifi- ing Chrifl: Thegreateft doubt may feem of France, Spain, ha- ving a firmer interell: in the Papifts of Ireland and England, but conu'dtring it is for the Catholique Caufe, And that if the pro- ceedings cf the true Proteftants ol England 2nd Scotland prof- per: it may bee an illprefident to the Proteftants of France, to fijrjve to raigne,vvhat the other ftrive to keep: no doubt he will cafta favourable eye upon this buiinefTe , as nowappeares by fending his Agent into Scotland,to hinder the LLrion of the two Nations. Things being thus digefted (as in allreafon they might and we r e) no wonder though the King upon his return from Scot- ~ iandy and the Rebellion begunne in i> hath ingendred a plentifull iffae of three or foure Armies. But what is all thistothefubverfionofthe Proteftant Reli- gioner" there had been any fuch intention in the railing theArmy the Papifls whofe fpeciall intereft it was, fhould have been ta- ken in , who are by a Proclamation dated at Tor^ t Auguft i o i 642 rorbidden,not onely the Court, (a place (o unfit for them the Queen being now ablentj but any Office orfervicein the Kings Arrm ; and as if his Majefty were fofarre from expecYmg theit affiftance , that he feared their vengeanee , in his inftrucTi- ons to the Commiflioners of Array, Auguft 29. 1 642. dated art Notigham, charge is given that Recufmts be difarmed. This cannot be denied, but it may be contraditled, as it was by his Majeftie, in an anfwer to the Petition of the Recufants of Lancafi-ire, dated at Chefter, September the 27. 1542. where they are net onely aHowed, but (according to the known Law of the Land) required to provide fuffieient armes, for themfei- vts, their fervants, and tennants. And whereas it may be faid,the cafe was different in Auguft and September, its yeelded,his Majifties Cafe was different,though his Caufe the fame. To have received them before others were ingaged, hadbeeneto diiingagethe Proteftants and interrupt the worke in its tender beginnings. And therefore it muft be fo timed, that as many Protefiants as could be deluded with pre- tences, might bee drawn in and ingaged, beyond a retreat, be- fore the afli (lance of the "Papifis was required. Thus have jpuan account of thofe grounds,/^ which thofe Counfells, Contrivances, and difguifes,^*?&/V£the maine Ar- my countenanced by the Kings favour and prefence , was raifed againft the Parliament.- I have nominde to trace it over fhooes, though that inno- cent bloud which hath been fpilt by it, neither is it to my pre- fers purpofe to doe it. The indeavours to the fame end in the North, by the Earle of Newcaftle, in Wales, and Cornewallby the Marqn t of Hertford , and Sir Ralph Hopton) (Thefe latter grounded rather as 1 fuppofe upon the Principles of Prerogative then (1°) -then Popery) I purpofely omit : onely let me take notice, that this work of darkneffe hath made the dark corners of the land its refuge , and received nioft affi trance from places moft void of the knowledge ofGod, which we are in a high degree to im- pute to the more then barbarous cruelty of the Prelats,notonely not providing, but preventing their fupplies, and difcouraging theLiberality and piety cfthofe whoindeavcured the propaga- tion of the Gofpell by difappointing the intention of buying in Impropriations, and difcountenancing Leclures. Thefe Armies thus raifed, and made up by Fapifts , Prelats, Courtiers, fuperftitious Clergie men, diflblute Gentry, and a Herd of prophane ignorant people , what by treating and fight - ing,by faife friends and bitter enemies( through the juft hand of God upon this Nnion.fcr their idolatry, ajd hdck{lidir ; g,bloud- ihed and oppreffion, and undervaluing the precious Gofpellof Jefus Chriit) have turned this Kingdome into a Field of bloud, and of the efteem and envie of other Nations, have n ade it the pitty of cur few friends , and the reproach of cur adver- saries. But why ihould all this Calamity be reduced to his Majrfties Counfells and Courfes, hath not he off. red Treaties cf peace, as at Nottingham, and intertained them, as at Oxford. I know there are many that afflict themfelves with the neg- lecl ofthecftjrfrom Nottingham, fentfrom the defolate Stan- dard, and looke upon it as theloflfeofahappyopportunitie. I de- ny not but his Majefty,in that condition, not out of love to peace ( and arT-ftion that could not well cor.fift with thofe inceflfant endeavours to kaviewarre ) butfear left he might lofe that power he ftrived to increafe,mightbe for fometime real in that motion, but his inclinations to it were not fo {hong as to revoke his Procla:Tration, ( which meafure not onely the Scots found, but the Iriih Rebells likewife , now by authority derived from hisMa;efty,cailedCathol;queSubjecl:$ )or toredft (a> there- port is) the fuggeftions of the Earle of Briftoll,who defired him to remember his promife to the Queene, and therefore not like to have been fo conftant, as to have produced a fettled peace. As for the other Treaties offered and entertained,as they were in "ov; intended fo they proved, accommodations for war, f athertheti peace, as that Overture before the Brainford bufinefle : And as for that treaty at Oxford, If the King had entertained the fame difpofition cowards his Parliament in England, as he hath fines exprefled towards his late Rebels in Ireland, he would nor have been fo fcrupulous in all the paffages of it,and fo indu'gent to the almoft ftarved Rebels, by the manifold advantages of chat Ceffation, afterward to be examined. Ic is true, there have been divers Overtures fince the mod of them private, but we have loft by every bargain; among the reft the Q^een was appointed and ufed as a moft. hopefull inftru- mentofqu.nchingthe flames (he had fo diligently kindled and < biowne,andas I am too truly informed, favour oft' red to her faction by thole who(though all this was come upon us J ought not to have ({retched out their hands to a ftrange God , (la/l not! God feareh this out ? Bat what peace fo loig as,&c. There were pofliblyfome Lords and Gentlemen (in other re- spects) of worth as Hartford, Southhampton, Fa/J^/and, and fome others, who finding things contrary to their expectation, aud being wearied with the tedioufnefle of this unnatural war, that had and have reall inclinations to peace : but what doth this avail us,when hu Maj\fty is wholly fwayed by thofe Coun- fels which areas averfe from peace,as to theProteftant Religi- 1 on, and the Liberties of the Kingdom, fo that there is little hope that theArmes taken up by the King fhould bee willingly laid downe, till the ends for which they wcreraifed,thefubduing the Parliament and Puritanes, thefubverfion of Religion and Liberty (which God prevent) beaccomplifhed. But I am not ignorant of the prejudce and unbeleefe that all which hath been or can be faid in this bufinefle is like to meere with, fo averfe are men from looking upon this as a Quarrel of Religion, and from laying it to heart accordingly. I fhal there- fore take the boldnefle to produce you fomefurther Evidence, whereby it may appeare that the Interefts of the King and pa- pifts, as in all partSj, fo particularly in Ireland, are deeply and defptratly involved. -Firft in general, the PajpiftsC who do not ufe to reckon with- E on t out their HoftJ in all places interpret the Caufeofthe King a* gainlt the Parliament 10 be their owne,and declare it not one ly. in words , but in their perfonali affiftance, and plentiful! Con-. tributions,as appearcsby the notice given tothePapiflsinFian- ders, of the acceptable krvice they ihould do to theCacholiqae^ Caule, by fending money for the maintenance of the Army a- gainft the Parliament , vvitneiTed upon Oath. And though our feives who are mod nearely concerned are fo hard ofbeliefe in this Cafe, yet the neighbour Proteftants as of Zealand and Scot- ixnd, do {q ftate it, as appeares by the Letter of folicitation for a- feafbnable ingsgeinent inthebchalfeofthe tngiifliProteftant?, from Zealand to the Generall Aff.-mbly of Scotland, and by the Remonftranceof the AfTembly ok Scotland, to the Convention of tftates there; and their anfwer thereunco, dated June 27. July 4>. 1*54?. But the fuiiefl and faddeft Evidence in this bufineflfe is to bee- drawn from the due examination, and confederation of the Re- bell ion in Irela nd, (for fo it was once called) wherein there have perifhed near two hundred thoufand foules , by the hands of thofe wicked and deteftabieRtbells, (as they are called by his Ma/efty in his Declaration of Aprill the 8. i642.)fo odious to God and all good men, with whom if his* Ma je (lies Counfehs prove confederate , I think it will be futficient to convince our moderate men, and awake them out of that Neutrality , which is as unprofitable as it is deteftable , fince it neither procures friends, nor reconciles enemies. That the ground of that Rebellion was the advancement of the Cathollque Caufe, is profefTedly declared by the Adts of the Generall Afllmbly of Rebells at Kilkenny, held 1 642. which AcY> were printed at London > March the fixth 1 (543. in thefe words. For the exaltation therefore of the Holy Romane Caiholiquc Church , for the advancement of his Mayflies fervice, and for the prefervation of the Lives, Eftates and Liberties of his Ma- je flies true Sub \e bis of this Kingdome, again ft the injuftice, mur- thersy maffacres , rapes, depredations, robberies \ burnings, frequent breaches of Publique Faith and quarter ^ and deftruttion dayly ailed ahled and perpetrated upon his Ma\e flies fttid SulyBs , and ad- vifed, contrivit , and dally executed by the malt g.i ant par tie fomeof them managing the Government and affaires of Efiate -in Dublin , and fome other parts of this Kingdometohis High- nejfe great differvice , and complying with their Confederates the malionant vartie in Snglaxd , and e If e where , nho as it it \nowne to all the world , complot and prallife to di [honour and de~ firoy his Ma]eflie , his Roy all Confcrt, their Children^ and Mo* narchicall Government , rthich is of moft dangeropts Confcauence^ to all the Monarchies and Princes of .Chriflendome. The [aid Affemblie doth order and eftaklifba C ounce 11 by i he name of a fupreame Councell , of the confederate Cathohques of Ire- land , &c. You fee how ncare the Exaltation of the holy Romane Cathj- licjue Church > and the advancement of his Makefiles fervice a ftand together , and who are accounted his Ma/efties true Sub- jects , who Malignant. But all this is eafily blafted with the Confederation that they are theexprtftions of Rebclls, pretend- ing his Majefties name and fervice for their advantage,No, un- der favour, they are the expreflions of hisRomane (fatholique SubjettsCo ftiled in the late CfJ/W/W,concluded in his Ma/ flies name, and by his Majefties authority, September i 5 1 6431134 ranked equally with other his Maj\fties good Subjects , and therefore no reafon to discountenance this Evidence, nor yet thofe of the like nature hereafter to bee produced. However it aboundantly (liewes the end for which it was mentioned, the proving that Rebellion to be a Quarre 11 of Religion. ■ Let us now trie what evidence may be brought forth to prove that the Papifts in Ireland,and the Armies in England, enc a- d againft the Parliament are doing the fame work, and that th re is a line of Communication betwixt their Counfells. To this purpofe, let us confider a Commifsion, and a Ce§atio* 3 to which whatsoever e]fe is to be laid in this matter may be reduced. Common fame, none ofthe worft witnefles, hath brought to every mans eares the noyfe of the Kings favouring the" Iriili Majfacre , and that the Catholique Subjects there have ca ! led themfelves the queens Armv , and intimated tkmfe Ives the E z Kings Kings, by faying they had good warrant m black and whitefbr their proceedings and cr^ ing out upon the Englifh Parliament andPuritanes, as the Kings Enemies and theirs. It were well worth the knowing the truth of this fo important bufinefle.Let us go as neare it as the nature of a Myfterie will admit. And fir ft let the Copy or the Commiffion , faid to be given by the King to his Catholique Subjects of Ireland 9 bee read an-d examined. From ourCamfatNewrie this fourth of November 1641. Thilim. Oneale. To all Catholiques of the.Romifb Pdrtie Rorie Macguire* both Englijh and Irijh , within the Kingdome of Ireland, we nijh all Hap- finejfe.Freedome of Confcience, and Vi- ftorie over the Engiifh Hereticks , re ho have for a long time tyrannized over our bodies , and ufurped by Extortion our E/t\. Our abode and rtfidence in Our Kingdome of Scotlwdftr alongfeafon, occafiontdby reafon of the ob- (tinate anddifobed t ent carriage of Our Parliament in Eng- land agai* ft Vs , who hath mtonely presumed to take upon them thegeverr ment anddifpejingofthofe Prina ly Rights and Prerogatives that have juftly defended upon Vs from Our Predtce ff.urs^ both Kings and guecnes of the (aid King* dome for many hundred yeares paft 5 but alfo have poffefed themjelvesofihe whole ftrength of the J aid Kingdome , in appointing G overnours , Commanders , andojficers^inall parts and places therein , at their own wills and plea fures^ without Ourconfenty whereby we are deprived o/OurSove- raignty y and left naked without defence. Andforafmuch as We are ( in Our felfe) very fen fible, that thefeftormes blowd- loft ? and are very likely to be carried by the vehemency of thet P rot eft ant Part j into Our Kingdome of Ireland , and endanger Our Regall power and authority there alfo. Knowt Puritan y e there fc re , that w e rcfofmg much care aid truft in y our dw anorf?er co £ ties and obedience, which we have for many yearespaft found, T>o hereby give unto you full power and authority to afftmble art d meet together with al the [peed and diligence that a hn- fincfc ofjo great aConfequence doth re quire , and to advifc and coufult together by fuffcient and difecret numbers, at all times ^dayes^and places t which yon fbaU in your judgements Ey hold it* (3«) hold mofl convenient and mater tall for the ordering,fetling t and effeeiingof this Greacworke (mentioned and direScd unto you in our Letters ) and to ufe all. politicize wayes and meawspoftibleto poffeffe your (elves {for Our ufe and fafety) of all the Forts, Cajiies, -and places of flrength and defence within t he faid Kingdome {except the places } P erf cm 5 and Eflates of Our r»yailand loving subnets the Scots) andalfo to arrejl andfei^e the Goods hftates 5 and Per fons of all the JEnglifh Protefiants within the [aid Kingdom e to Our ufe. An din jour care andfpeedy perform an ce of this Our w. U and pleafure We fb all perceive your wonted duty and allegiance untoVsyohich \Y e fhall accept and rew ar d in due time. Wit- neffe Our Jelfe at Edinburgh the fir jl day of October^ in the feventeenth yeare of our Reigne. This Deponent maketh Oath , that about the middle of No- vember laft, living then in the Parifh of Saint Michans , neare Dublin y being accompanied with one,mafter Stapleton of Dub- lin aforefaid, Gentleman , they happened into the company of a PopifhPneft, commonly called, Father Birne 3 whobeingfor- merly acquainted with thefaid m after Stap/eton y dtfived to drink with him at a Taverne called the Bull, upon Merchants key m Dublin, where difcourfing of the injuries and troubles of the times , the Prieft anfwered , that the lrifh( not enduring to have them called Rebels ) had fufficient warrant for what they did, and flood ftrongly in defence of their actions , and prefently to juftifie his words, produced a writing, according to the tenour of the premifes mentioned in this writing abcvelaid , whereof the Deponent defire a Copy, and he willingly yeelded unto it, and thereupon he wrote this Copy out of his literatim , in the prcfence of the faid nizfctStapleton , who is new livirg in Dublin* This (71) This is the true copy of that CommifTion, with the annexed Warrant and Deposition (for I will conceal nothing in a bun> neffe of this importance,) as it came to my hands in a paper thus endorfed i A Copy of the forged Commifsion hi Irelandjub*. lipid by thvfe traiterom Rebels, Sir philemy Oaeale Kmaht Rory Maguier Sfquite, and others, with their lying perfwafion tofeduce and flirre up the whole Romish Party to Rebellion therein may befeenhow hainoptfiy his Majeftie is abufed, and the Parliament un\uftly taxed by the Papifts. This laft claufe I take for granted, but as for the reft, give me leave to try whether the in fide or the outfide of my paper be the truer. And this I friall do with all due refpeft both to the King and Parliament, that his Ma/iftiemay fce that there was fome fire in.themidft of all thefmoake,and that the jealoufiesofhis people, concerning the Irifh bufinefle, were not altogether groundkfkjas alfo that the King may have a fit occafion to ab- jure this Commifsion 9 and clear himfelfofthe Afperfions caft upon him, with refpect thereto, and chaftife (as his Ma/tftitS phrafe isj thofe wicked fcllows(bu't I crave mercy, they are not my fellows, they are owned Subjects, but L and the reft of the Parliaments friends proclaimed Rebels.) And that the more full and particular fa cisfacl: ion may be given(for difcourfes and pre- reflations will not be taken any longer for payment) I fhall give all the Arguments 1 can to prove the reality of it. Fir ft therefore let us confider the time (a materiall cirenm- ftance) when this Commiffion is dated,that is, the firft of Octo- ber 164 1. in one Copy, and the fourth in another, (no great dif- ference) the Maffacrf beginning the 23 of the fame moneth, which was prefently after the conference at white- Hall with the Lord Muskery and his fellows, who returned into Ireltnd the fame moneth his Majeftie went for Scotland, leaving the Lord "Dillon, who was prefently after fent with the Qaeencs Letters, nquefting or requiring his being made Counfeilor of Ireland, to his Majefty then at Edinburgh, where it is faid this Commiffion was figned with the broad Seal of that Kingdome, . being nor then fettled in the hands of any Officer who could be anfwerable for the aii of it/but during the vacancy of the Chan- cellors eellors place,intrufted with Marquefie Hammitton, and by him with one matter John Hammilto.n } the Scribe to the CroflTe Peti- tioners of Scotland, and fometimes under the care of mafl.r En* dimion Porter^ very fit opportunity for fuch a clandeftine trans- action. And let it not be omitted, that prefently after the date of this Commiifion 'Dillon, Butler , and divers other Irifh Com- manders, of which the Court was then full, was difpatched for Ireland by his Majefties .Licence, not without the juft fufpiti- enof By-ftanders. The Com million it feIf,for the grounds and language of it, is veryfuitab ? e toother difpatches and writings undtr hisMa;e- flics name, txpreiTing much bitternefle agaioftthe Parliament, and jealoufieof the diminution of his Prerogative, which was alwayes his great feare. Butlfhallbe unwilling to fetch the leaftproofe from the matter crftileof the Commiffion, the ar- gument is not fo beggarly as to neceffuate a fetitio frinci* pii. Let us go on to examine the grounds why fuch a thing fhould be forged, and why fuch a thing fliould be granted, and fee which are the mod probable. I know no ground why fuch aCommiffion fhould be forged. It was not tomake his Majefty odious,for in all their writings they exprefle all tendernefle of his honour,and forwardneffe of their obedience, particularly in the forementioned ArTemblyat Kil- kenny, where, next after the Article for the injoyment of all the Priviledges and Immunities of the Romane Church, as in the ninth yeareof Henry the third, the Oath of Allegiance to his Ma/efty is eftablimed, (its likely according to the agreement of the Reconciliation with a Salvo to the Sea of Rome) and their conftaut and generall profeflions of loyaltie (now fo well con- firmed by his Majrflies expreifions to them, and their contribu- tions to him) do clearly evince,that they had not fo much ill will to the King, as to raife fuch afcandall of him. And more efpecially, though a Commiflion might doe them fome advan- tage, yet the forgery of one could not but be pre/udiciall, it be- ing a necefiary ingagementof his Maj.fty in his owne juftifica- tionjto have ufed the utmoft of his skil and power againft them as a s to have flayed with his Pariiament , and prevented a war in England. But though a forged Commiflion was unprofitable, yttareallone , I wonder not, fhouldbs demanded, thougha ftranger to the Myfter'ie would wonder it iliould he granted. Firft, hereby the King , whom they knew in his owne difpo- fition apt enough to ftart from his ExprcHions upon an advan- tage, might be firmly bound to them and their proceedings, as alfo that the more backward Papifls, who were more good na- tured thentorebellagnnftaKing whom they had found fo pro- pitious, and more wary,then by iuch Rebellion to forfeit their Eftates, which under him, with the advantag: of their religion, they doubted not to enpy, might the more eafily be brought ir^ If it be objected, this might be done by a forged Commiffion * I anfwer, not fo well , Forgery is an unruly help, being often requited with the double hindcrance of adiicovery. Papfts though fometimes they delude us,they deal freely, efpecialiy in a common Cathoiique Caufe, with one another. What end fuch fraud could have upon the Proteftants, unlefle a little to amaze them at firft,and then exafperate them,l cannot conceive.How- .everit is, bee affured that OneMe and Mac- Carty bear fo high upon this Commiffion, that they have offered Major Monro y and the Scots in Vlft*^ an 'appeale to the King, which have the truer Commiflion, and which are the better Subjects, and ac- cording to that determination to quit or hold their empl^^^ if the Scots would mutually promife the fame. Butfure, fayes myhoneft Reader, who thinkes other men meaneaswellashe, this cannot be. Why not? as well as that -Commiflion for the cutting thy throat at London, much after this tenour , and paffed in the fame private manner. But how can it ftand with his Majefties Protections againft them, un- der the name of wicked and deteftable Rebels, with his Decla- ration againft any toleration of Religion there, or abolition of the Lawes in force againft recufants, with his Proclamation of •Rebellion againft them, dated January 1. 1641. direclly op- -pofite to this CommrfTton? It were heartily to be wiihed, that his Majr.fty had kept his Word as well with the Proteftants as with the Popifh Fadiom F There ( 4° ) 'there patted one Article in the Treaty of marriage with the Queen, which through rhe care of Canterbury , and the paines of tvindebanke> hath beene better kept then any Proteftant Pro- teftation, The words of which Article are faithfully tranfhted out ofthe French copy, to this cffvCt: The 2 7 Article is , That the King of Great Brittaine y having regard unto the fray er of the Ladie, and to teftifie his affection to her , (ball grant unto his Ca~ tholique Subjetls the fecuritie of their lives and goods , fo that they f hall not bee troubled for making profefsion ofthe Catholicjue Religion, they rendring unto him the obedience and fidelity they owe unto him y to which they fhall not be thought deficient for re- futing to tai>e any Oath, or do any all contrary to their religion. But it is antwered , It concerns his Ma jetty mod to look to that,how his words and warrants agree: yet we will be fo bold, in a Caufc of fo great confequence as the imminent danger of the Proteftant Religion, as to examine fome or his actions , and fee whether they have been more futeable to the Commiilion , or Proclamation; The Proclamation itfelf, though in its nature oppofite, yet in its time and circumftances was too futeable to the Commiflidn, being deferred from the latter end of October to the iirft of Ja- nmry, and then fofparingly printed, fo warily publifhed,as if it had beene under the controll of fome former act whofe leave mutt firft be craved. Bat his Ma jetty hath reafon to exprefle vio- lence againtt thefe his Catholique Subjects, or to chaftife them at haft, for they went beyond this CommifTion, though fuppo- fed reallj that gave but a Yard, they took an Ell: though they were allowed to (eize the goods, eftates, and perfons of his Ma- jefties Proteftant Subjects, yet they were not allowed to cut their throats , unlefle the private Letters concomitant can help out atfuch a pinch; and their very tranfgreiTion in this matter 'night juftly occafion and provoke the tine of mercilefle wicked rebels. But to return to actions r the belt Commentaries upon words; it is to be feared they will bee fouad more agree- able to the CommifTion then the Proclamation, as may bee dif- cerned in the unanfwered Remonftranceoftherifeandprogreffc »f the grand rebellion in Ireland. For inftance , What fhall in- different C4*J different men thinke of his Ma;efties withdrawing himfelfe from his Parliament, and raifing arnies, declared by the then reall, though now pretended, Parliament, to be a great obftru- dlion to the profp^rity of the Iriih undertakings ? Of his railing waragainfl his Subjects here, the greatell fervice that could be done to the pretended Rebels thcre,being a diverfion of that flrength, & a diftraclion of thofe Councels that fhoutd have fupprefTed them? Of his granting partes for notorious Papifts,as ##//*r,thefonsofthe Lord Nettersfidd , and others, to go thi- ther, for which fee the Declaration of Parliament March i 6. 1641. and, if you will, the Anlvver March ip Th- flopping ofprovifions going to the fupplyofthe Army againd them, ta- king away the Horfes prepared by the Earl of Leiceftcr for that fervice, as appears by his complaint in a printed letter to the £arl of Northumberland} Of the free a:c( ff: of thofe that have beenaclivein thatDefigneto hisMaj (lies Camp and Court? Of his putting in Demurres to the Bill of preffmg Souldiers, anddeniall to the fending Ships for that fervice? It mud not be denyed that his Majefly was earneft in preffi g tkecare of that bufineffe of Ireland upon the Houfes,aud pafled fome things to the advantage of it, and i( in a mtflage the 8 of April 1 64* ,) fpared not to offer his going in perfon to cbaflife thofe wicked and deteftable Rebels,with the renouncing of all other Ends, ( but if his Majefly had continued in that angry minde, he might with eafe have chaflifed them, when they c imc over to him, as they have done fince plentifully.) I wifh I had many more fuch actions to repeat. But it mufl be confide- red, there was a Proclamation that required fome countenance, and could not well have leffe then it had : but I foreftall no mans judgement, but leave the impartiall Reader to the weigh- ing what hath been faid, and what hath been produced upon Oath in the Declaration of the Commons July 2? . 164?. And if theballancebeecjuall, 1 fhall onelycafl in fome Scruples of the late Ceflation, which, unKffe the beam be falfe, will make the Commiilion weigh down the Proclamation. 1 The firfF Scruple of &c. in the nomination of the Parries in this Treaty. Is his MajVfties litle of Defender of the Faith F 2 come (40 corns to an intr!cate,&cYes, and good reafon,for the other par- ty with whom hi* Majeftie treats upon e quail termes, are con- tent with an &c. and are called His Romane Catholiqrte Sub\e8s now in armes : 3£C* whereas it fhould hive been added according, to the A&s of Kilkenny, for the Exaltation of the Hely Roman C.itb clique Church, a.Thefcruple of their fudden transformation, from mon- ftrous mercikile Rebels into Sub\ecls,Qov\)ayi\td with other his Ma/efties good Subjects. What fhal\ the Subjects at Scotland think of this, who hardly obtained the like retra&ation when they defended the Proteftant Religion, or the Parliament of England) and their adherents, who cannot yet trade that fa- vour. Butyet, Moffo Nifadattsr,qttidnon ffcremus, &c. Hig Ma/efty fure had thoughts of this di /honourable recantation, when he was fo loth to pubiifh the Proclamation againft them. . 3 . The third fcruple is Perfecute, for that is the word in the Iriih copy, not profecute, a licenfe granted to Fe.fecute, Sure Che Bifhopshad a fuger in this Article, and that Perfected Proteftants fhould expeft no protection from his Majefty, or any cf his forces, ngainft the Perfecntior^of the Papifts, tut ra- ther have occafion to fear the joyning ofthe force: the King H. all have in tere ft in, in the Perfection, as it is defired by the Cathol'qus, to whom nofuch trifle muftbedenyed, is to me a fad (lory. 4. The fourth fcruple, that thefe Catholique Sub/eels fhall have lib -rtyto fendfuch Agents to his Majcfty, as they (h ail think fit from time to time. Prieflsand J.fuices not accepted. If the Scales be not yet turned, take the whole (Deflation, and the thirty cfaodfarid tight hundred pound, and that will lure weigh it dowi:e to the ground. But I have much adoe to lave the contemplation of this Cejfation, Let us take a f cond view. 1 Ofthe time when it was granted, mod (eafonably, when rhePcpiGi party was driven to great Extremities for want of vidua'?, and had been in greater, had not the Forces railed and payed by the Parliament been feduced into a difafliftion to their 2 Of ( 43 J 2. Of the grounds, at! A&s of importance that are to patfe the eye and cenfjre of the world ufe to come armed againft all Exceptions with a preamble , fhewing the ground and neceflity of them ; How comes it to be here omitted, that wee have nei- ther real nor* pretended caufes and confederations, but a down- right Ce(Tation,or rather Accommodation, as Souldiers judge * Thi$ difcove it. Was it fuch broad-faced iniquitie, that no Maske, neither in was paid upo n ry Oxford nor Dublin would fit it. Was it neither for the prefer- &§&£*'■ vationor the Protdtant Religion, nor aft crion to the ancient as it came from and native Kingdome of Scotland, nor for the reconciling of the Se ! 3StS?riai Diftraclions or the Kingdome of England : Since thofe dull called, The * contrivers could finde no matter for a foundation: Give us leave ^c&c.^Jf " tofupply. Seeing the Catholique caufe ( which the King of arc not — ( ¥ ) work they are about , fuppoling their prevailing ( not fo proba^ ble as they may conceive )a lictie worke with them. Will it not as much trouble them to lee the Kingdome governed (as now one part of it is ) by a Spanifh Popiih Junto , as by an Englilh Protcftant Parliament ; To fee their beloved moderation f wal- lowed up in the violenceof that defperate Jduiticall Partis that rules at the Court, as in the fuppofed Severity of thofe -Councels, Civil or Ecckfiafticall, thatgoverne at the City? Let iuch men be allured that their Ends,unle(s (uch as are confident with Tyrany *nd Popery,muft give way to the predominant In- tercft, which will be found to be that of the Feminine Planet in the Iflue , which when they have ferved, they {hall like ufelelfe Inftruments, be laid afide,and dif regarded. Certainly the intentions of thole who are drawne into this Popifh confederacy are fo different, that«I am confident if they prevail againft us, their Quarrels will be as many and bitter a- gainft each other, as now againft the Parliament. Vices are op- polite and deftruftive , not onely to vertue . but one to another Me thinks thefe Gentlemen , who pretend to juftice, peace,mo- deration , and fomething of Religion, fliould think themfelves but ill alfociated , in the midft of luch prophane plundering companions, to which they are notfo much companions as fub- .jecls. Sure they cannot be well at eafe to fee the flrft fruits of this Irifh Geftation prefented to their union,, but how then can they endure, when his Majefties Rereguard of his Romane Ca- tholique Sud je&s (hall be brought over with their hands full of the bloud of more then i ooooo, oftencelelfe Proteftanfs, whom they have cruelly maflacred ? Sure the apprehenlions of this cannot but fhake their Prerogative faith, and make them appre- hend themfelves in more danger from their confederates, then their fuppofed Adverfaries. if this labour to them be loft> 1 am forry, hut glad it was no more. Let mefpeak to them who are counfellable, that is, thofe who in the truth and uprightnefle of their Hearts have entred into this Covenant, and thereby ingaged themfelves to the Preferva- tion of true Religion and Liberty, who muft labour for ftedfaft- nefle in that Covenant, left our medicine prove our poyfon. Let ( 47) Let none ofus go about to deceive our felves with unprofi- table Treat ies,or hopes of a yet impoffible Accommoda ion,but chcarfully and faithfully accompli/ha fpeedyand firme Union with the Couneds and Strength of Scorland ( which will eti- t:ourage } notonly rdigious,hut wife men to joy ne with «s)it be- in^ beyond a reafoiable expectation that by our owne ftrcngth or wifedbrrie we fhould extricate our fe!ves from this growif g calamity, in which we are daily more and more involved, i c now becomes every mm to wind up his thoughts to a Chriftian ilcletarion bt rrccing the prcfent neceflities and condition of the Church of God, and walk worrhy of it, and let the Lord doe what feemeth good unto hirr. I might now make my felfe a great deal of more work, and create (b me trouble to my Reader, if I ihou-d after this latisfa- clionl have given to my owne h< art, and the friends of this •Caufe of Religion, go about to fads fie the world,and anfwer theirfeveral Quarrels with this undertaking; but I will bee more mercifull to the Reader, and more juft to my felf, then to accufe my felfeby Excufes : Onely I will give you a tafte of that which I am like to have plenty of. The firft queftion will be, who is this* I anfwer, It matters not who, but what. The next is a Pofition. Sure hie was a mad man, thus to provoke Maj eft] it felf : did he ever learn that verfg in Homer, Yes but he hath, and that of fob too, in fuch a cafe as this 5 Let me not I pray you accept any mans per/on, neither let me give flattering titles unto man, I hope to fee the day when I fhall bee accounted a better fubjecT: to the King, then he that accufes me. In the mean time, lam fatisfied with being a good fubjecl: to . the.Khgdome, and no Traitor to the Church: lTl have incur- red any danger, it was to (hew thee thine, if a good Proteftan% But there need not have been fo much bitterneffe u/ed, which of- ten aifadvantageth agoodCaufe. It is the language of the times, and not mine. A filthy Ulcer muft have a {harp Lance: the Maflacre of Ireland is a bitter cup$ J^w tempera invettivis* G Tut 11 But here are man} things prciitc-edi* this Treatise that are but fender proof es. Then take them all together. AUvgcther are but a Rapfodyf craped up out of the Parliament Declarati- on s, audfiechftandalous Pamphlets as Plaine English , and , The SngUjh Pope, Truth is a common inheritance , and now fo fearce that I was glad to take it where I could fiade *it, Tttfh lean tell more of the feajf aires then this D if cover er. Then tell them, or tell me, and I will. But Mircttrim Aulkus will he fare to meet withjou. This is no time Co be afraid of Courc Bull r beggars but if he meet with rn.ee, he mud goe out of his way , f tell truth, hetels Iks* But I have now done, and, it may bee, done that which bath provoked almoft every body but my owne conscience , which witness with me, that I have nor written any willing or ne.- g'igent falfhoods , nor (to my belt undcrftandingj any unfea,- f ernable or unneccrTiry truth. There is no ' man but will Hand m need of fome charity , I (hail fitide it from them that have u, from thofe that have it notl fhallnot expscli St; There a ?e other Afyfleries in this, world of Iniquity* carried on by them, who under the pretence of fervice* doe thegreatcft dii-ferviceaj>i difhonour to the Gaufe of Religion ana Liberty* which mud either bcamended, or not concealed. Lft other men do$ their fhareas I have d©«« mine, aud the world will certainly bee ei- ther honefter or wiPer. This difcourfe' cannxjt be better concluded then with that .which is theearneiTandconftant requcft bf the Author, to toe Lord God or Boafb, the God of Ifrael, thaeiee+ng wifcdome and might are his, he would vouchsafe 1 wifedoiwt to theCoun- fellours, courage and conftancie-to the Souldters , wi.Hir*g..i«fle tothe people, and faiehrutoefle* toall thofe that-haveor fnall in^age themfeives in this grea* Qmfe', foinfiaiuly valuabte , bic- yond the Eftates and Lives of ; al'l t hi* undertake it. To Him-foe Glory, and Peac* upon Ifr*el; Sobeit\ FINIS: 7^ I i