Historical Vindication Part 1 and 2

Errata.

IN the Epistle, letter C. page 8. l. 6. read effect, D. p. 2. l. 9. 〈◊〉 Tesmond, H. p. 5. l. 19. Censurers, I. p. 5. l. 13 of r. our K. p. 7. l. 28. r. Heirs, L. p. 4. l. 20. r. exercerunt. In the Margin H. p. 3. l. 42. aliquem, I. p. 6. l. 27. pacti L. p. 8. 13. r. 23.

In the Book p. 4. l. 25. r. as of, p. 13. l. 36. r. were resolved. p. 19. l. 14. r. Vote of p. 24. l. 16. of p. 26. l. 15. of and p. 29. l. 33. Statutes. p. 32. l. 26. r. E. 6. c. 5. p. 35. l. 6. to sedition p. 38. l. 19. r. parts.

Margin, p. 27. l. 13. there r. other, p. 64. l. 3, 4, 5. r. 10. R. 2. cap. 1. 1 H. 5. c. 1. 28 H. 6. n. 51. l. 11. r. 4. E. 4.

To all truly Christian Free men of England, Patrons of Religion, Freedom, Laws, Parliaments, who shall peruse this Treatise.

IT hath been one of the most detestable Crimes, and highest Impeachments against the Antichristian Popes of Rome, that under a Saint-like Religious pretext of advancing the Church, Cause, Kingdom of Jesus Christ, they have for some hundred years by-past, usurped to themselves ( as fole Monarchs of the World in the Right of Christ, whose Vicars they pretend themselves to be) both by Doctrinal Positions and Treasonable Practises, an absolute Sovereign, Tyrannical Power over all Christian Emperors, Kings, Princes of the World (who must derive and hold their Crowns from them alone, upon their good behaviours at their pleasures) not only to Excommunicate, Censure, Judge, Depose, Murder, Destroy their sacred Persons; but likewise to dispose of their Crowns, Scepters, Kingdoms, and translate them to whom they please.

In pursuance whereof, they have most traitorously, wickedly, seditiously, atheistically, presumed to absolve their Subjects from all their sacred Oaths, Homages, natural Allegiance, and due Obedience to them, instigated, encouraged, yea expressly, enjoined (under pain of interdiction, excommunication, and other censures) their own Subjects, (yea own sons sometimes) both by their Bulls and Agents, to revolt from, rebel, war against, depose, dethrone, murder, stab, poison, destroy them by open force, or secret conspiracies: and stirred up one Christian King, Realm, State, to invade, infest, destroy, usurp upon another; only to advance their own Antichristian Soveraignties, Usurpations, Ambition, Rapines, worldly Pomp and Ends: as you may read at leisure in the Statutes of 25 H. 8. c. 22. 28 H. 8. c. 10. 37 H. 8. c. 17. 13 Eliz. c. 2. 23 Eliz. c. 1. 35 Eliz. c. 2. 3 Jacob. c. 1, 2, 4, 5. 7 Jacob. c. 6. The Emperor Frederick his Epistles against Pope Gregory the 9. and Innocent the 4. recorded in Matthew Paris, and others, Aventinus Annalium Boiorum, Mr. William Tyndale's Practice of Popish Prelates; the second Homily upon Witsunday; the Homilies against disobedience, and willful Rebellion; Bishop Jewels view of a seditious Bull; John Bale in his lives of the Roman Pontifs; Doctor Thomas Bilson in his True difference between Christian subjection, and unchristian Rebellion; Doctor John White his Sermon at Paul,s Cross, March 24. 1625. and Defense of the Way, c. 6, 10. Doctor Crakenthorpe of the Popes temporal Monarchy; Bishop Morton's Protestant Apology; Doctor Beard 's Theater of God's Judgments, l. 1. c, 27, 28. Doctor Squire of Antichrist; John Bodin his Commonwealth, l. 1. c. 9. The learned Morney Lord du Plessy, his Mystery of Iniquity, and History of the Papacy. The General History of France. Grimston's Imperial History. Matthew Paris, Speed, Holinshed, Cambden, and others, in the lives of King John, Henry the 3. Queen Elizabeth, and other of our Kings, with hundreds of printed Sermons on the 5 of November.

The principal Instruments the Popes employed of late years, in these their unchristian Treasonable Designes, have been pragmatical, furious, active Jesuits, whose Society was first erected by Ignatius Loyola (a Spaniard by Birth, but A SOULDIER by Profession) and confirmed by Pope Paul the 3. Anno 1540 • which Order consisting only of ten persons at first, and confined only to sixty by this Pope, hath so monstrously increased by the Popes and Spaniards favors and assistance (whose chief Janizaries, Factors, Intelligencers they are) that in the year 1626. they caused the picture of Ign • tius their Founder to be cut in Brass, with a goodly Olive Tree growing (like Jessees root) out of his side, spreading its branches into all kingdoms and Provinces of the World, where the Jesuits have any Colleges and Seminaries, with the name of the Province at the foot of the branch, which hath as many leaves as they have Colleges and Residencies in that Province; in which leaves, are the names of the Towns and Villages where these Colleges are situated: Round about the Tree are the Pictures of all the illustrious Persons of their Order; and in Ignvtius his right hand, there is a Paper, wherein these words are engraven, Ego sicut Oliva fructifera in domo Dei; taken out of Ps. 52. 8. which pourtraictures they then printed and published to the world: wherein they set forth the number of their Colleges and Seminaries to be no less then 777. (increased to 155 more, by the year 1640.) in all 932. as they published in like Pictures & Pageants printed at Antwerp, 1640. Besides sundry New Colleges and Seminaries erected since.

In these Colleges and Seminaries of theirs, they had then (as they print ) 15591 Fellews of their Society of Jesus, besides the Novices, Scholars, and Lay-brethren of their Order, amounting to near ten times that number. So infinitely did this evil weed grow and spread itself, within one hundred years after its first planting. And which is most observable, of these Colleges and Seminaries they reckoned then no less then 15 ( secret ones ) IN PROVINCIA ANGLICANA, in the Province of ENGLAND, where were 267 SOCII or Fellows of that Society: besides 4 COLLEDGES OF ENGLISH JESUITES ELSEWHERE. In IRELAND and elsewhere 8 Colleges of IRISH JESUITES: and in SCOTLAND and otherwhere 2 Residencies of SCOTTISH JESUITES.

What the chief employments of Ignatius and his numerous swarms of Disciples are in the World, his own Society at the time of his Canonization for a Romish Saint, sufficiently discovered in their painted Pageants, then shown to the people, wherein they pourtraied this new Saint holding the whole world in his hand, and fire streaming out forth of his heart (rather to set the whole world on fire by Combustions, Wars, Treasons, Powder-plots, Schisms new State, and old Church-Heresies, then to enlighten it) with this Motto; VENI IGNEM MITTFRE: I came to send fire into the World; which the University of Cracow in Poland objected (amongst other Articles ) against them, Anno 1622. and Alphonsus de Vargas more largely insisteth on in his Relatio, de Stratagematis & Sophismatis Politicis Jesuitarum, &c. An. 1641. c. 7, 8, 24.

Their number being so infinite, and the Pope and Spaniard too, having long since (by Campanella's advice) erected many Colleges in Rome, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and elsewhere, for English, Scottish, Irish Jesuits (as well as for such secular Priests, Friers, Nuns) of purpose to promote their designs against the Protestant Princes, Realms, Churches, Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, & to reduce them under their long prosecuted UNIVERSAL MONARCHY over them, by Fraud, Policy, Treason, intestine Divisions, and Wars, being unable to effect it by their own Power; no doubt of late years many hundreds, if not thousands, of this Society, have crept into England, Scotland and Ireland, lurking under several disguises; yea, an whole College of them sat weekly in counsel, in or near Westminster, some few years since, under Conne the Popes Nuntio, on purpose to embroyle England and Scotland in bloody civil wars, thereby to endanger, shake, subvert these Realms, and destroy the late King (as you may read at large in my Rome's Master-piece, published by the Commons special Order, An. 1643.) who occasioned, excited, from • nted, the first and second intended (but happily prevented) wars between England and Scotland, and after that, the unhappy Differences, Wars, between the King, Parliament, and our three Protestant Kingdoms, to bring them to utter desolation, and extirpate our reformed Religion.

The Kings Forces (in which many of them were Soldiers) after some years wars being defeated, thereupon their Father Ignatius being a SOULDIER, and they his Military sons, not a few of them secretly insinuated themselves as Soldiers, into the Parliaments Army and Forces, (as they had formerly done into the Kings) where they so cunningly acted their parts, as extraordinary illuminates, gifted brethren, and grand States-men, that they soon leavened many of the Officers, Troopers and common Soldiers, with their dangerous Jesuitical State-politics, and Practises, put them upon sundry strange designs, to new-mould the old Monarchical Government, Parliaments, Church, Ministers, Laws of England; erecting a New General Council of Army-Officers and Agitators for that purpose; acting more like a Parliament and Supreme Dictators, then Soldiers. And at last instigated the Army by open force▪ (against their Commissions, Duties, Oaths, Protestations and Solemn League & Covenant) to Impeach, imprison, seclude, first elevē Commoners; then some six or seven Lord's; after that to secure, seclude the Majority of the Commons House, suppress the whole House of Lord's, destroy the King, Parliament, Government, Privileges, Liberties of the Kingdom & Nation, for whose defense they were first raised, which by no other adverse power they could effect. This produced new bloody divisions, animosities, wars, in and between our three Protestant Realms and Nations; & after with our Protestant Allies of the Netherlands, ( Campanella's express old projected Plots to subject us both to the Popes and Spaniards Monarchies, effected by the Spaniards Gold and Agents ) with sundry heavy Monthly Taxes, Excises, Oppressions, Sales of the Churches, Crowns, and of many Nobles and Gentlemens Lands and Estates, to their undoing, our whole Nations impoverishing, and discontent, an infinite profuse expense of Treasure, of Protestant blood both by Land and Sea, decay of Trade, with other sad effects in all our three Kingdoms; yea, sundry successive New changes of our public Government, made by the Army-Officers, (who are still ringing the changes) according to Campanela's and Parsons Platforms. So that if Fire may be certainly discerned by the smoke; or the Tree commonly known by its Fruits, as the Truth itself resolves, Matth. 12. 33. we may truly cry out to all our Rulers, as the Jews did once to the Rulers of Thessalonica, in another case, Act. 17. 6. THOSE ( Jesuits ) WHO HAVE TURNED THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN, ARE COME HITHER ALSO; and have turned our Kingdoms, Kings, Peers, Monarchy, Parliaments, Government, Laws, Liberties, (yea, our very Church and Religion too, in a great measure ) UPSIDE DOWNE, even by those very Persons, who were purposely raised, commissiond, waged, engaged by Protestations, Covenanes, Vows, Oaths, Laws, Allegiance and Duty, to protect them from these Jesuitical Innovations and subversions.

And those Jesuits, Spanish Romish Agents, who have so far seduced, so deeply engaged them, contrary to all these Obligations, and to their own former printed Engagements, Remonstrances, Representations, Proposals, Desires, and RESOLUTIONS, for settling this Nation in its just Rights, the Parliament in their just Privileges, and the Subjects in their Liberties and Freedoms; published to all the World, in the name of Sir Thomas Fairfax, THE ARMY, AND THE GENERAL COUNCEL OF THE ARMY, none Volume. London, 1647. (which they may do well to peruse) yea, against the Votes, Entreaties, Desires, Advices, of both Houses of Parliament, the Generality of the good Ministers, people of the three whole Kingdoms, and their wisest, best affected Protestant Friends, who commissioned, raised, paid, assisted them for far other ends O whether may they, will they not (in all human probability) rashly, blindly, suriously henceforth lead, drive, precipitate them, to our whole three Kingdoms, Churches, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties total, final desolation, and the Armies too in conclusion, beyond all hopes of prevention, unless God himself shall miraculously change their Hearts, Councils, and reclaim them from their late destructive, heady violent courses: or put an hook into their Noses, to turn them back by the way by which they came: or, set a timely period to their usurped Armed power and extravagant late proceedings, of such a desperate unparalleled, unprotestant strange Nature, as none but the very worst of Ignatius his Disciples and Engineers durst set on foot, or still drive on amongst us Protestants. Which I earnestly beseech, adjure, and conjure them now most seriously to lay • o heart, before it be overlate.

Those who will take the pains to peruse all or any of these several printed Books (most of them very well worth their reading) written against the Jesuits and their Practises, as well by Papists as Protestants, as namely, Fides Jesus & Iesuitarum, printed 1573. Doctrinae Iesuiticae praecipua capita, Delph. 1589. Aphorismi Doctrinae Jesus • ticae. 1608. Cambitonius, De Studiis Jesuitarum abstrusioribus. Anno 1608. Jacobus Thuanus, Passages of the Jesuits. Hist. l. 69, 79, 83, 94, 95, 96, 108, 110, 114, 116, 119, 121, 124, 126, 129, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137. 138. Immanuel Meteranus his Passages of them. Belgicae Hist. l. 9, 12, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 26, to 34. Wilhelmus Baudartius, Continuatio Meterani, l. 37, 38, 39, 40. Donatus Wesagus, Fides Jesus & Iesuitarum, 1610. Characteres Iesuiticae, in several Tomes. Elias Husenmullerus, Historia Iesuitici Ordin • , Anno 1605. Speculum sive Theoria Doctrinae Iesuiticae, necnon Praxis Jesuitarum, 1608. Pasquier his Jesuit displayed. Petrus de Wangen, Physiogmonia Jesuitica, 1610. Christopherus Pelargus, his Novus Jesuitismus. Franciscus. de Verone, his Jesuitismus Sicarius, 1611. Narratio de proditione Jesuitarum in Magnae Brit. Regem, 1607. Consilium de lesuitis Regno Polonia ejiciendis. The Acts of the States of Rhetia, Anno 1561, & 1612. for banishing the Jesuits wholly out of their Territories, NE STATUS POLITICUS TURBARETUR, &c. mentioned by Fortunatus Sprecherus, Palladis Rheticae, l. 6. p. 251, 273. Melchior Valcius, his Furiae Gretzero, &c. remissae, 1611. Censura Jesuitarum, Articuli Jesuitarum, cum commonefactione illis oppositae Anti-Jesuits, au Roy par. 1611. Variae Doctorum Theologorum Theses adversus quaedam Jesuitica Dogmata. The Remonstrance of the Parliament of Paris to Henry the Great against the re-establishment of the Jesuits; And their Censure of Mariana his book, to be publicly burnt, printed in French, 1610. recited in the General History of France, in Lewis 13. his life, & Peter Matthew, l. 6. par. 3. Historia Franciae. Variae Facultatis Thologiae & Curiae Parisiensis, quam aliorum Opuscula, Decreta & Censurae contra Jesuitas, Paris 1612. Conradus Deckerus, De proprietatibus Iesuitarum, 1611. Quaerelarum inclyti Regni Hungariae adversus corruptelas Iesuiticas defensio. Lucas Osiander, his writing about the Jesuits bloody Plot, Han. 1614. Iesuitarum per unitas Belgii Provincias Negotiatio, Anno 1616. Radulphus Hospinianus, Historia Iesuitica, 1619. Bogermannus his Catechismus Iesuiticus. Lodovicus Lucius, Historia Iesuitica, Basil. 1627. Arcana Imperii Hispanici, 1628. Mercure Jesuit, in several Tomes, Geneve 1626, De Conscientia Iesuitarum, tractat. Censura sacrae Theology. Parisiensis, in librum qui inscribitur, Antonii Sanctarelli societatis Jesus, de Haeresi, Schismate & Apostasia, &c. Paris, 1626. Anti-Cotton; Johannes Henricius, Deliberatio de compescendo perpetuo crudeli Conatu Iesuitarum, Fran. 1633. A Proclamation of the States of the united Provinces, Anno 1612. And another Proclamation of theirs: with two other Proclamations of the Protestant States of the Marquesate of M • ravia, for the banishing of the Jesuits, London 1629. Alfonsi de Vargas Toletani, Relatio ad Reges & Principes Christianos, De Stratagematis & Sophismatis Politicis Societatis Jesu, ad Monarchiam Orbis terrarum sibi conficiendam: in qua Jesuitarum erga Reges & Populos optime de se meritos infidelitas, ergaq́ ipsum Poutificem perfidia, contumacia, & IN FIDEI REBUS NOVANDI LIBIDO, illustribus documentis comprobatur, Anno 1641. Jubilaeum, sive Speculum Jesuiticum, exhibens PRAECIPUA JESUITARUM SCELERA, MOLITIONES, INNOVATIONES, FRAUDES, IMPOSTURAS, ET MENDACIA, CONTRA STATUM ECCLESIASTICUM POLITICUMQUE, in & extra EUROPEUM ORBEM; primo hoc centenario, confirmati illius Ordinis INSTITUTA ET PERPETRATA: ex variis Historiis, inprimis vero Pontificiis collecta, Anno 1644. (a piece worth perusing) Or else will but cast their eyes upon our own forecited Statutes, and the Proclamations of Queen Elizabeth, King James, and King Charles against Jesuits, and Seminary Priests. A brief Discovery of Doctor Allens Seditious Drifts, London 1588. Charles Paget ( a Seminary Priest) his Answer to Dolman, concerning the succession of the English Crown, 1601. William Watson ( a secular Priest) his Dedachordon or Quodlibets, printed 1602. now very well worthy all Protestants reading. A Letter of A. C. to his Dis-Jesuited Kinsman, concerning the Jesuits, London 1602. Romish Positions and Practises for Rebellion, London 1605. The Arraignment of Traitors, London 1605. John King Bishop of London, his Sermons on November 5. 1607, 1608. King James his Conjuratio Sulphurea, Apologia pro Juramento fidelitatis: &, Responsio ad Epistolam Cardinalis Peronii. An Exact Discovery of the chief Mysteryes of the Jesuitical iniquity: and, The Jesuits secret Consultations; both printed London 1619. William Crashaw his Jesuits Gospel, London 1621. William Feak of the Doctrine and Practice of the Society of Jesus, London 1630. The many printed Sermons of Doctor John White, Bishop Lake, Bishop Andrew's, Doctor Donne, Doctor Featly, Doctor Clerk, and others, preached on the fifth of November. Lewis Owen, his Running Register, London, 1620. His Unmasking of all Popish Monks and Jesuits, 1628. And his Jesuits Looking-Glass, London, 1629. John Gee, his Foot out of the Snare, &c. London, 1624. with the Jesuitical Plots discovered in my Rome's Master-piece; and, Hidden works of darkness brought to public Light, London 1645. shall see the Jesuits and their Seminaries charged with, convinced of, and condemned for these ensuing Seditious, Treasonable, Antimonarchical, Anarchical Positions and Practises; for which, their Society hath by public Acts and Proclamations been several times banished out of Hungaria, Bohemia, Moravia, Poland, the Low Countries, Rhetia, France, Transylvania, Sweden, Denmark, the Palatinate, Venice, Ethiopia, Japan and Turkey, as well as out of England, Scotland and Ireland, as most insufferable Pests and Traitors; in many of which they have yet gotten footing again.

1. That at least • ifty several prime Authors of that infernal Society of Jesus▪ in several printed books (which you shall find specified in Doctor John Whites Defense of the Way, c. 6, 10. Aphorismi-Jesuitarum: Iubilaeum, or, Speculum Iesuiticum, p. 187, 188. and the Appendix to my Fourth part of the Sovereign power of Parliaments, p. 187, 188.) have dogmatically maintained; That the Pope hath absolute power, not only to excommunicate, but judicially to suspend, mulct with temporal penalties, depose, dethrone, PVT TO DEATH, and destroy any Christian Emperors, Kings, Princes, Potentates, by open Sentence, War, Force, secret Conspiracies, or private assasinations, and to give away their Crowns and Dominions to whoever will invade them, by Treason or Rebellion, at the Popes command; and that in cases of Heresy, Schism, Disobedience to, Rebellion against the Pope or See of Rome, Male-administration, refusal to defend the Pope or Church against her adversaries, Insufficency to Govern, Negligence, Tyranny, Excesses, Abuses in Gove • nment, Incorrigibility, Vitiousness of Life, and NECESSITY OF THE PUBLICK GOOD, OR SAFETY OF THE CHURCH, STATE, OR CAVSE OF GOD; as Antonius Sanctarellus the Jesuit particularly defines, in his Book De Haeresibus, Schismatibus, &c. printed in Rome it self, Anno 1625. who affirms it to be, Multum aequum & Reipublicae expediens, ut sit aliquis supremus Monarcha, qui Regum hujusmodi excessus possit corrigere, & DE IPSIS IVSTITIAM MINISTRARE; sicut PETRD concessa fuit facultas PVNIENDI PAENA TEMPORALI, imo etiam, PAENA MORTIS, DICTAS PERSONAS AD AL •• • VM COKKEECMIONEM ET EXEMPLVM. (Whether the Erection, Title of, or Proceedings against our beheaded King, in the late mis-named High Court of Justice, had not their original from hence; and whether the Army-Officers derived not their very phrase, of bringing the King TO IVSTIEE, with their pretended NECESSITY OF PVBLICK GOOD AND SAFETY, for it, from these very Jesuits, or their Agents in the Army; let themselves, the whole Kingdom, and all Wisemen now consider.) Moreover, some of the fifty Authors, (as Creswel, or Parsons the English Jesuit, in his Philopater, Sect. 2. and De Officio Principis Christiani, chap. 5. affirm, That the whole School both of (their) Divines and Lawyers, make it a Position certain and undoubtedly to be believed, That if any Christian Prince whatsoever, shall manifestly turn from the Roman Catholic Religion, or desire, or seek to reclaim others from the same; or but favor, or show countenance to an Heretic (as they deem all Protestants, and Dissenters from the See of Rome in any punctilio, such ) HE PRESENTLY FALLETH FROM, & LOSETH AL PRINCELY POWER & Dignity; & that By Vertus & Power OF THE LAW IT SELF, BOTH DIVINE AND HVMANE, EVEN BEFORE ANY SENTENCE PRONOVNCED AGAINST HIM BY THE SVPREAM PAS • OR AND IVDGE. That thereby his Subjects are absolved from ALL OATHES AND BONDS OF ALLEGIANCE TO HIM AS TO THEIR LAWFUL PRINCE. Nay, THAT THEY MAY AND OVGHT ( PROVIDED THEY HAVE COMPETENT POWER AND FORCE) TO CAST OUT SVCH A PRINCE FROM BEAKING RVLE AMONGST CHRISTIANS, as an Apostate, an Heretic, a Back-slider, a Revolter from our Lord Jesus Christ, AND AN ENEMY TO HIS OWN ESTATE AND COMMONWEALTH; lest perhaps he might infect others, or by his example or command, turn them from the faith. And that the Kingdom of such an Heretic or Prince, is to be bestowed at the pleasure of the Pope, with whom the people upon pain of Damnation, are to take part, and Fight against their SOVERAIGN. Out of which detestible and Treasonable Conclusions, most Treasons and Rebellions of late time have risen in the Christian World; and the first smoke of the Gunpowder-treason too, as John Speed observes in his History of Great Britain, p. 1250. Whereupon the whole University of Paris censured them, An. 1625, and 1626. not only as most pernioious, detestable, damnable, erroneous, and perturbing the public Peace; but likewise, as Subversive of Kingdoms, States, and Republics, seducing Subjects from their Obedience and subjection, and stirring them up to Wars, Factions, Seditions, & Principum parricidia, and the Murthers of their KINGS.

2. That the Jesuits have frequently put these Treasonable, Seditious, Antimonarchical, Jesuitical, damnable Doctrines into practice, as well against some Popish, as against Protestant Kings, Queens, Princes, States: which they manifest,

1. By their poisoning Jone Albreta Queen of Navarre, with a pair of deadly perfumed Gloves, only for favoring and protecting the Protestants in France against their violence, Anno. 1572.

2. By their suborning and animating James Clement a Dominican Frier, to stab King Henry the third of France in the belly with a poisoned Knife, whereof he presently died, Anno. 1589. for which they promised this Traitor, a Saintship in heaven. Pope Sixtus the fifth himself commending this foul Fact in a long Oration to his Cardinals, as Insigne & memorabile sacinus, non sine Dei Opt. Max. particulari providentia, & dispositione, ET SPIRITUS SANCTI SUGGESTIONE DESIGNATUM: facinus{que} longe majus quam illud S. Judith, quae Holofernum e medio sustulit.

3. By Cammolet the Jesuits public justification of this Clement in a Sermon at Paris Anno 1593. wherein he not only extolled him above all the Saints, for his Treason against, and murder of Henry the 3. but broke out likewise into this further Exclamation to the people: We ought to have some Ehud, whether it be a A Monk, or A Soldier, or a Varlet, or at least a Cow-herd. For it is necessary, that at least we should have some Ehud. This one thing only yet remains behind: for then we shall compose all our Affairs very well, and at last bring them to a destred end. Whereupon, by the Jesuits instigation, the same year 1593. one Peter Bariere, undertook the assasination of King Henry the 4 of France: which being prevented, and he executed, thereupon they suborned and enjoined one of their own Jesuitical Disciples, John Castle, a youth of 19 years old, to destroy the King: who on the 27 of December 1594. intending to stab him to the heart, missing his aim, wounded him only in the cheek, and stroke out one of his teeth; for which Treasonable act he was justified, applauded, as a renowned Saint and Martyr, by the Jesuits, in a printed Book or two, published in commendation of this his undertaking. As namely, by Bonarscius the Jesuit, in his Amphitheatrum, Franciscus Verona Constantine, (a Jesuit) in his Apologiapro Iohanne Castello, contra Edictum Parliamenti, & supplicium de eo ob Parricidium sumptum, An. 1595. Where he thus writes of the attempt upon Hen. 4. Whosoever diligently ponders, that Henry was excommunicated, an Heretic, relapsed, a prof • ner of holy things, a declared public enemy, an oppressor of Religion; and (thereupon) a person secluded from all right to the Kingdom; and therefore a Tyrant, not a King; an Usurper, not a lawful Lord; he verily, unless he be mad, and destitute of human sense, and love towards God, the Church, and his Country, cannot otherwise think or speak; but that the fact of Castle was generous, conjoined with Virtue; and Heroical, to be compared with the greatest and most praise-worthy facts which the ancient Monuments of Sacred and Profane Histories have recorded. One thing only may be disliked, namely, That Castle hath not utterly slain and taken him from the midst of us. In sum, He denies this Henry to be any King of France, by right or inheritance, because, (in his and the Jesuits Opinion only, not in Truth) he was both an Heretic, and A TYRANT. Asserting, That it was lawful for Castle, or any other private man, TO DESTROY AN HERETICK OR TYRANT, much more then, him that was both.

And John Guignardus a Jesuit, (Fellow of the Jesuits College of Claremount ) in his Papers then seised by, and reported to the Parliament of Paris, Anno 1595. not only compared Henry the third and fourth to Nero and Herod, and justified Clements murder of the one, and Castles attempt upon the other, as most Heroical and praise-worthy Actions: but likewise added, That if we in the year 1572. on Saint Bartholomew's day, (in the General Massacre of the French Protestants) had CVT OFF THE BASILICON VEINE, ( Henry King of Navarre) we had not fallen out of a Feavour, into that Plague, which now we find. Sed quicquid delirant Reges plectunctur Achivi, SANGVINI PARCENDO. That King Henry should be but over-mildly dealt with, if he were thrust from the Crown of France, into a Monastery, and there had his crown shaven. That if he could not be deposed without a war, then a war was to be raised against him: but if a war could not be levied against him, the cause being dead, CLAM E MEDIO TOLLATVR: he should then be privily murdered and taken out of the way. For which the Parliament of Paris adjudged and executed him for a Traitor. Yea, so desperately were the Jesuits after this, bent to destroy this King, that Alexander Hay (a Scottish Jesuit of Claremont, ) privy to Castles villainy, used to say, That if King Henry the fourth should pass by their College (the first there built for them) he would willingly cast himself out of his window headlong upon him, so as he might break the Kings neck, though thereby he brake his own. Yet was he punished but with perpetual Banishment. After which Jesuitical conspiracies detected and prevented, notwithstanding this King Henry (before these two attempts to murder him) had by their solicitations, renounced the Protestant Religion, professed himself a zealous Romanist, recalled the Jesuits formerly banished for the murder of Henry the third, against his Parliaments and Counsels advice, reversed all the decrees of Parliament against them, razed the public Pillar set up in Paris, as a lasting Monument of their Treasons and Conspiracies; built them a magnificent College in Paris, endowed them with a very large Revenue; entertained Pere Cotten (one of their Society) for his Confessor (who revealed all his Secrets to the King of Spain;) bequeathed a large Legacy of Plate and Lands to their Society by his will, and was extraordinary bountiful and favorable towards them; yet these bloody ingrateful Villains, animated that desperate wretch, Ravilliac, to stab him to death in the open street in Paris, Anno 1610. Albigni the Jesuit being privy to this murder, before it was perpetrated. Yea, Francis de Verona in his Apology for John Castle, p. 258. thus predicted his second mortal stab, in these words, Though this Prince of Orange scaped the first blow, given him in his cheek, yet the next hit, whereof this was a presage; as the blow given by Castle SHALL BE THE FORE-RVNNER OF ANOTHER BLOW. Such implacable Regicides are the Jesuits.

4. By their suborning, instigating sundry bloody instruments one after another, to murder William Prince of Orange, prevented in their attempts by God's providence, till at last they procured one Balthasar Gerard to shoot him to death with a Pistol, charged with three Bullets, An. 1584. the Jesuits promising him no less then HEAVEN itself, AND A CANONIZATION AMONG THE SAINTS AND MARTYRS, for this bloody Treason, as they did to James Clement before, for murdering the French King. And it is very remarkable, That after this murder of his, Thomas Campanella (a Jesuited Italian Frier) prescribed this as a principal means to the King of Spain of reducing the Netherlands under his Monarchy again, to sow emulation and discords amongst their Nobles, States, and to murder Prince Maurice his son and successor, which he expresseth in these direct terms. Maxim opus est, ut Serpens seditionis, Comes Scilicet Maurice Interimatur; non vero per bellum diuturnum, copia illi danda est, magis magis{que} succrescendi: which they twice likewise attempted to affect; An. 1594, and 1598. No wonder that they so much endeavor by all means & instruments to suppress that noble family now, to whom the Netherlands principally owe their infranchisement from the Spanish yoke of bondage.

5. By their poisoning Stephen Botzkay Prince of Transylvania, for opposing their bloody persecution.

6. By their manifold bloody Plots and Attempts from time to time, to murder, depose, stab, poison, destroy our famous Protestant Queen Elizabeth, by open Insurrections, Rebellions, Invasions, Wars, raised against her both in England and Ireland; and by intestine clandestine Conjurations; from which God's ever-waking providence did preserve her. Amongst other Conspiracies, that of Patrick Cullen, an Irish Frier, (hired by the Jesuits and their Agents to kill the Queen) is observable. Holt the Jesuit, (who persuaded him to undertake the murdering of her) told him, that it was not only lawful by the Laws, but that he should merit God's Favor, and Heaven by it; and thereupon gave him remission of all his sins, & the Eucharist, to encourage him in this Treason; the chief ground whereof (and of all their other Treasons against this Queen) was thus openly expressed by Iaquis Francis, for Cullens further encouragement; That the Realm of England, then was and would be so well settled, that unless Mistras Elizabeth (so he termed his Dread Sovereign, though but a base Landressson;) were suddenly taken away, All the Devils in Hell would not be able to prevail, to shake and overturn it. Which then it seems they principally endeavored, and ofttimes since attempted, and have now at last effected, by those who conceit they demerit the Title of Saints (though not in a Romish Calendar ) and no less then Heaven, for shaking, overturning, and making it No Kingdom.

7. By their Conspiracy against King James, to dep • ive him of his Right to the Crown of England, imprison, or destroy his person: raise Rebellion, alter Religion, and Subvert the Stat • and Government; by virtue of Pope Clement the eighth his Bull directed to Henry Garnet, Superior of the Jesuits in England: whereby he commanded all the Archpriests, Priests, Popish Clergy, Peers, Nobles and Catholics of England, That after the death of Queen Elizabeth by the course of Nature, or otherwise, whosoever shall lay claim or title to the Crown of England, (though never so directly or nearly interested by descent) should not be admitted unto the Throne, unless he would first tolerate the Rom • sh Religion, and by his best endeavors promote the Catholic cause; unto which by his Solemn and Sacred Oath he should religiously subscribe, after the death of that miserable woman; ( as he stilled Queen Elizabeth.) By virtue of which Bull, the Jesuits, after her decease, dissuaded the Romishminded Subjects, from yielding in any wise obedience to King James, as their Sovereign; and entr • d into a Treasonable Conspiracy with the Lord Cobham, Lord Gray, and others, against him, to imprison him for the ends aforesaid; or destroy him: pretending that King James was no King at all before his Coronation; and that therefore they might by force of Arms, lawfully surprise his person, and Prince Henry his Son, and imprison them in the Tower of London, or Dover-Castle, till they enforced them by duress, to grant a free toleration of their Catholic Religion, to remove some evil Counselors from about them, and to grant them a free Pardon for this violence; or else they would put some further project in execution against them, to their destruction. But this Conspiricy being discovered, The Traitors were apprehended, arraighned, condemned, and Watson and Clerk ( two Jesuited Priests who had drawn them into this Conspiracy, upon the aforesaid Pretext) with some others, executed as Traitors; all the Judges of England resolving, that King James being right Heir to the Crown by descent, was immediately upon the death of Queen Elizabeth, actually possessed of the Crown, and lawful King of England, before any Proclamat • on or Coronation of him, which are but Ceremonies, (as was formerly adjudged in the case of Queen Mary, and Queed Jane, 1 Mariae ) there being no Interregnum by the Law of ENGLAND, as is adjudged, declared by Act of Parliament, 1 Iac. c. 1. worthy serious perusal.

8. their horrid Gun-powder Treason Plot; contrived, fomented, by Garnet (Superior of the English Jesuits) Gerard, Tensmod and other Jesuits; who by their Apostolical power, did not only commend, but absolve from all sin the other Jesuited Popish Conspirators, and Faux The Sculdier, who were their instruments to effect it. Yea, the Jesuitical Priests were so Atheistical, as that they usually concluded their Masses with Prayers, for the good success of this hellish Plot, which was, suddenly, with no less then 36 Barrels of Gunpowder, placed in a secret Vault under the House of Lord's, to have blown up and destroyed at once, King James himself, the Queen, Prince, Lord's Spiritual and Temporal, with the Commons assembled together in the Upper-House of Parliament, upon the 5 of November, Anno Dom. 1605. and then forcibly to have seised with armed men prepared for that purpose, the persons of our late beheaded King, then Dake of York, and of the Lady Elizabeth his Sister (if absent from the Parliament, and not there destroyed with the rest) that so there might be none of the Royal Line left to inherit the Crown of England, Scotland and Ireland; to the utter overthrow and subversion of the whole Royal Family, Parliament, State and Government of this Realm. Which unparalleled, inhumane, bloody Plot, being miraculously discovered, prevented, the very day before its execution, in perpetual detestation of it, and of the Jesuits and their traitorous Romish Religion, (which both contrived and approved it) the 5 day of November, by the Statute of 3 Jacobi, ch. 1. was enacted to be had in perpetual Remembrance, that all Ages to come, might thereon meet together publicly throughout the whole Nation, to render public praises unto God, for preventing this infernal Jesuitical Design, and keep in memory this joyful Day of Deliverance; for which end, special forms of public Prayers and Thankesgivings were then appointed, and that Day ever since more or less annually observed, till this present. And it is worthy special observation, that had this Plot taken effect, It was agreed by the Jesuits and Popish Conspirators beforehand, That the Imputation of this Treason should be cast upon the Puritans, to make them more Odious: as now they father all the Powder-Plots of this kind, which they have not only laid, but fully accomplished of late years against the King, Prince, Royal Posterity, the Lord's and Commons House, our old English Parliaments and Government, upon those Independents, and Anabaptistical Sword-men, (whom they now repute and style, the most reformed PURITANS,) who were in truth, but their mere under- Instruments to effect them; When as they originally laid the Plots; as is clear by Campanella's Book, De Monarchia Hisp. ch. 25. and Cardinal Richelieu his Instructions at his death, to the King of France. And it is very observable, that as Courtney the Jesuit, Rector of the English Jesuits College at Rome did in the year 1641. (when the name of Independents, was scarce heard of in England ) openly affirm to some English Gentlemen, and a Reverend Minister (of late in Cornwall ) from whom I had this Relation, then and there feasted by the English Jesuits in their College, That now at last, after all their former Plots had miscarried, they had found out a sure way to subvert and ruin the Church of England (which was most formidable to them of all others ) by the Independents; who immediately after (by the Jesuits clandestine assistance) infinitely increased, supplanted the Presbyterians by degrees, got the whole power of the Army, (and by it, of the Kingdom) into their hands, & then subverted both the Presbyterian Government and Church of England in a great measure, with the Parliament, King and his Posterity; as Monsieur Militiere a Jesuited French-Papist observes. So some Independent Ministers, Sectaries and Anabaptists, ever since 1648. have neglected the observation of the fifth of November, (as I am credibly informed) and refused to render public thanks to God for the deliverance thereon, contrary to the Act, for this very reason, which some of them have rendered; That they would not mock God in public by praising him for delivering the late King, Royal Posterity, and House of Lord's from destruction then, by Jesuits and Papists, when as themselves have since destroyed and subverted them through God's providence; and repute it a special mercy and deliverance to the Nation from Tyranny and Bondage, for which they have cause to bless the Lord: Performing that for the Jesuits and Powder-Traitors, which themselves could not effect. The Lord give them grace and hearts to consider, how much they acted the Jesuits, and promoted their very worst Designes against us therein; what infamy and scandal they have thereby drawn upon all zealous Professors of our Protestant Religion, and what will they do in the end thereof?

9. (To omit all other Foreign instances cited in Speculum Jesuiticum, p. 124, to 130. where you may peruse them at leisure) By their poisoning King James himself in conclusion, as some of them have boasted.

10. By the Popes Nuntio 's, and a Conclave of Jesuits Conspiracy at London, Anno 1640. to poison our late King Charles himself, (as they had poisoned his Father) with a poisoned Indian Nut, kept by the Jesuits, and shown often by Conne the Popes Nuntio to the Discoverer of that Plot; or else, to destroy him by the Scottish wars and troubles, (raised for that very end by the Jesuits,) in case he refused to grant them a universal liberty of exercising their Popish Religion throughout his Realms and Dominions: and then to train up his Son under them, in the Popish Religion; To which not only heretofore, but now likewise they strenuously endeavor by all possible means to seduce him; as appears more especially by Monsieur Militiere his late book dedicated to Him for that purpose, to invite him to the Roman Catholic Faith. Surely all these premised instances compared together, and with that memorable passage of the English Jesuit Campian, in his Concertatio Ecclesiae Catholicae: (or Epistle to Queen Elizabeth's Council.) Treviris 1583. p. 22. Velim sciatis, quod ad Societatem nostram attinet, omnes nos, qui per totum Orbeni longe lateque diffusi sunt, quarum est continua successio, & magnus numerus, Sanctum foedus infisse, nec quamdiu unus nostrum supererit, studium, & consilia nostra intermissuros, ad Reges Hereticos quovis modo tollendos (as Hospinian relates, and expounds his words and meaning) & Religionem vestram exting • ere. Iampridem jacta est ratio, & inchoatum certamen nulla vis, nullus Anglorum impetus superabit; so as to hinder this their holy League and Covenant long since entered into, To destroy, take out of the way, ruin all Protestant Kings throughout the World, under the Notion of Heretics by any means whatsoever, (and the Protestant Religion togetherwith them. ) With a Copy of a Letter sent by an Independent Agent from Paris, some few weeks before the Kings removal from the Isle of Weight, by the Army-Officers, declaring the Jesuits implacable Enmity to the King, and to hereditary Monarchy throughout the World. And an Express sent from Paris to the King himself, some three days before his seisure and translation from Weight, to this effect, (as I have heard from persons of Honor) That the Jesuits at a general meeting in France, had resolved, by the power of their friends in England, to seise on his Majesty, bring him to justice, and cut off his head, because he had, contrary to their expectation, closed with the Parliament, consented to the abolishing of Episcopacy, and ) to five new Bills against Jesuits, Popish Priests, Mass, Popery, and all Popish Ceremonies, in the last Treaty; and advising Him, to prepare for this new storm, which within few days after fell upon him: will sufficiently inform the world, that the late unparalleled capital proceedings against our Protestant King, (contrary to the Votes of both Houses of Parliament) the Parliament Members, Peers House, and forced, dissolved late Parliament too, proceeded not from the Principles of our reformed Protestant Religion, as this Monsieur in his printed Pamphlet, would make his Reader, the youg King; to whom he dedicates it, and all the World believe; but from the Popes and Jesuits forecited Treasonable Opinions, seconded with their clandestine Sollicitations and Practises: and that they, with some French Cardinals, Jesuits, as well as Spanish and English, (then present in England to promote their Designes) were the chief original Contrivers, Promoters of them, whoever were the immediate visible Instruments, as I have elsewhere more fully demonstrated, for the wiping off this Scandal from our reformed Religion, & the sincere Professors of it, who both abominated and protested against it in print. 〈◊〉 Radolphus Hospinian in his excellent Historia Jesuitica, l. 4. f. 244, 245. reckons up these three prime causes of the Jesuits Regicides, & other Notorious Treasons. The first is, that blind Obedience, which they vow to their Superiors, to execute with great celerity, spiritual joy, and perseverance, whatever their Superiors shall enjoin them, by being persuaded, That all their Cemmands are Just to them; by renouncing their own Opinion and Judgment with a certain Blind Obedience: and by believing, that those who live under Obedience, are carried and governed by Divine Providence, (a word now most in use with our Army-Saints, and Soldiers, wholly infected with this Jesuitical Doctrine of Obedience) by their Superiors, whithersoever they shall suffer themselves to be carried, or in what sort soever they shall be dealt with by them, (like a staff in the hand of a man, which readily obeys him that holds it, wheresoever and in what thing soever he will please to use it, ) especially when backed with a pretext of Necessity, Religions Safety, Public Good, Exemplary Justice, and promoting the common Cause for which their Society was first instituted. 2. That they hold themselves obliged to no Kings, Princes, or Civil Magistrates by any Oath of Allegiance, but only to the Pope and their Generals; and therefore think themselves free and unable to commit any Treason at all against them, although at the Popes and • heir Superiors commands they still rise up against, murder, • stroy them. 3. That they deem those Kings, Princes, which the Pope and Jesuits, or other learned men of their Religion, or the common people shall deem Heretics, to be thereby wholly made uncapable of any Empires, Kingdoms, or Principalities, or any other civil Diguity; yea, to be accursed Tyrants, unworthy of the name of Kings; that thereby their Subjects are totally absolved from the bond of Allegiance to them; and that thereupon it is lawful to kill and destroy them, and the murders of such are meritorious. Now that these three Jesuitical Grounds and Principles, (infused into our Army-Officers and Soldiers by the Jesuits and their Instruments of late years, against their Primitive Orthodox Positions, Protestations, Declarations, Oaths, Covenants, Engagements) backed with secret Avarice, Ambition, and Self-ends, were the principal impulsive Causes of all the extravagant violent Proceedings both against the late King, and Parliament (not the loyal Principles of the Protestant Religion ) is apparent unto all the World, by the Armies own Declarations of Nov. 16. and Decemb. 7. 1648. Their True State of the Commonwealth of England, &c. 1654. and other Pamphlets for their justification, which all true Protestants blush at. 〈◊〉

3. That the Jesuits ever since the Establishment of their Military Order, under Ignatius their Martial General, have been the principal Firebrands, Bellows, Instruments of kindling, somenting, raising, continuing all the public commotions, wars, seditions and bloody fewds that have happened in or between any Kings, Kingdoms, States, Princes, Sovereigns or Subjects throughout the Christians world; and more particularly, of all the Civil commotions, wars in France, Germany, Transylvania, Bohemia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, England, Scotland and Ireland, to the effusion of whole Oceans of Christian blood: which one poetically thus expresseth,

Yea, it is well worthy observation, what Jacobus Crucius, a Jesuit (Rector of the Jesuits Novices at Landsberge ) presumed to publish, in his Explication of the Rules of the Jesuits, Anno 1584. in these words: The Father of our Society ought to be a Soldier; because, as it is the part of a Sculdier, to rush upon the Enemy with all his Forces, and not to desist, till he become a Conqueror; so it is our duty to run violently upon all, who resist the Pope of Rome; and to Destroy and Abolish them, not only with Counsels, Writings, and Words; Sed invocato etiam brachio seculari, Igne & Ferro tollere & abolere, sicut Pontifer & nostra Vota (contra Lutheranos suscepta) Volunt & Mandant. But likewise by calling in to our assistance the secular Arm (of an Army) to take away, and destroy them with Fire and Sword, as the Pope and our Oaths (taken against the Protestants) Will and Command. And may we not then safely conclude, they have been the Original Contrivers, Fomenters, Continuers of all our late intestine and foreign wars, by Land and Sea, with our Christian Protestant Brethren and Allies, (as sundry Parliament Declarations of both Houses aver and attest?) And that many of them have secretly crept into, and listed themselves Soldiers in our Armies, on purpose to put on foot their designs against our King, Kingdoms, Churches, Religion, and perpetuate our Civil Wars? And so much the rather, because, Alphonsus de Vargas (a Spanish Popish Priest) informs us: That the Jesuits, being a Generation of Incendiaries, are so welpleased with the name of their Founder Ignatius, derived from Fire, and signifying a Caster about of wild-Fire, or an Incendiary; that though his christened name at first was Innicus, or Inighistas; Yet Johannes Eusebius Nirenberger, a Jesuit, in his Book, De Vita Ignatii, printed at Madrid, 1630. most falsely records, That his Parents at his Baptism, being in doubt what name to give him, thereupon the Infant himself, with a loud voice, said, He would be named Ignatius, to signify what office he should obtain in the Church and world, even to cast abroad fire in them, and set them all in a flame. Hereupon his Disciples the Jesuits, considering that this their founder was by his name A firebrand, and a Soldier by his profession, professed publicly to the King of Spain, his council and the world, that it was no less consonant to the mind, institution and statutes, then to the name of their warlike Father Ignatius, that they should not only exercise, but Publikely profess and teach to others, Artem Pyrotechnisam, &c. the art how to make and cast abroad fire-balls, fire-works and wild-fire, to fire and burn houses and Cities: and likewise the art of war, of setting Armies in battle array, of Assaulting cities, the manner of making Gun-powder, bullets, fire-bals; of casting Guns, and the manner and ways of making all other Military works, Engines, together with rules and precepts belonging to Navigation, & omnia maritini belli munia: and all duties and incidents belonging to Sea-fights. Upon which they persuaded the King of Spain (notwithstanding the opposition of all the Universit • es of Spain against it) to erect a public University for their fiery martial order at Madrid, and to endow it with an annual Revenue of ten thousand Crowns; wherein they set up a public Lecture concerning war and all incidents appertaining thereunto; with this Printed title: Acroasis, De re Militari; in qua pracipietur Doctrina & forma Militiae veteris & Hodiernae, & Species Mathematum arti isti subordinatarum: quae sunt Tactica, five De Acie instruenda, Topographica, Machinaria Militaris, Organo Poetica, Pyrotechnica, &c. Hanc acrosia faciet, P. Hermannus Hago (a Jesuit) quarta pomeridiana usque ad quintam. This is the first public Military Lecture I ever read of erected in any University amongst Christians, and Professors of the Gospel of peace; who are expressly enjoined by the God of peace, and Prince of peace To put up their swords into their scabberds, because all those that that the sword, shall perish with the sword. To beat their swords into plow • shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: not to lift up the sword against one another, neither To learn war anymore. Yet such bloody incendiaries and delighters in war are the Jesuits, that they thus publicly teach others the art of war and fire-works, to set the whole Christian world in combustions and open wars against each other; which they have everywhere accomplished, and that upon this accompt: that the Gospel of Jesus is principally to be taught and propagated by armed power, exercitu & armorum usu; by An army and the use of arms (whereby they now propagate it in our Kingdoms the quite contrary way, to the ruin of our Church and religion:) whereupon Vargas passeth this just censure on them: Hos velut Ignigenos illis Comici verbis recte quis a se amoliri, & in malam rem abire jusserit.

And a German Frier in his Astrum inextinctum, gives this true Character of them: Discordias inter suprema Reipublicae Christianae capita seminare credimus esse veritati patrocinari; quam salvam esse negant, quamdiu Principes isti inter se non colliduntur Hoc est flammas in Europa suscitare, sicut gloriantur Patrem societatis Ignatium, esse illum, de quo Christus dexerit, Veni ignem mittere in terram, hoc est, classicum in aulis Principum canere, & illos inter so committere.

4. That the Jesuits from the first erection of their Military order, have conspired, attempted to subvert and utterly extirpate (under the name of Schismatics, Heretics, Gospellers, Heresy, and the Gospel) all professors whatsoever of the Protestant Religion and their Doctrines throughout the world, not only by Machivilian plots and treasons, but by war, fire, sword, holy leagues, Armies & armed power, as is evident both by their books and Practices. To instance in a few particulars both abroad and at home. Franciscus Veronas Constantiensis, a Jesuit, in his Apology for John Castle, Anno 1595. part 5. c. 13. resolves, That all wars to extirpate heretics (Protestants) Ar • lawful, yea more lawful then against all other Infidels, because Heresy according to God's word, is worse then all Infidelity. And if war be Just against Heretics, how much more just is it against the head of the Heretics? And if it be just to Extirpats heretical Kings out of all Christian Kingdoms (which the Jesuits entered into an holy League to effect, as you heard before out of Campian) How much more just is it in the most Christian Kingdom (France) to root out King Henry the 4? (whom they not only warred against, but stabbed and murdered as aforesaid.) Thuanus Historiae, l. 65. p 238. and lib. 67. 299. records; That it is the opinion and Sentence of the Jesuits, that it is a Pious and wholesome thing, that all Christians should lay violent hands upon Sectaries and Protestants, ought to be armed against them, and to make no peace, keep no faith nor truce with them; yea, that it would be more profitable for the Church, and more conducing to God's glory, for all Christians to give over their wars they wage against the Turks by common consent, and to let the Turks alone, and to turn all their arms and forces against the Evangelical Sectaries (or Protestants) which live amongst them, who are worser, and ought to be more odious to true Christians then Turks; and utterly to destroy and persecute them to death, rather then to delete the unbelieving Mohammedans, who are not so dangerous as they. Hoc quàm pie, et juxta mansuetudinem Christianam dicatur, ipsi qui conscientias alioram moderantur, conscientiam suam rogant; Subjoynes Thuanus, though a Papist. And Joannis Paulus Windeck, in his Book De extirpandis Haeres. antid. 10. p. 404. 412. antid. 11. p. 480. and p. 244. positively determines, That the Lutherans and Calvinists are to be persecuted with wars, and not only to be terrified, but likewise deleted, cut off, taken out of the way, and utterly extirpated with arms and flames. That all Catholic Princes ought to enter into Holy leagues, associations & confederacies, to destroy and root them out, as they did in France, Anno 1587. That the opportunity is not to be neglected, namely, Quando Protestants Pecuniis exhausti sunt; when the Protestants Purses and money are exhausted (as they are now amongst us by excessive endless Taxes, Excises, Civil wars, and a perpetual army too much swayed by Jesuitical counsels, to eat us out, and ruin us with our Religion in conclusion, ere disbanded.) And that the Catholics may more easily oppress and destroy these Sectaries, they are to be severed one from, and divided against each other, by sundry various arts and means, and all occasions laid hold on for this purpose. (And are we not so now in all our Realms and Dominions more then ever, by the Jesuits and Romish Emissaries?) Which the Emperor Charles the 5 observed (in his proceedings against the Protestants in Germany) to his great advantage. In pursuance of these Jesuitical Positions, Anno 1576. and 1577. the King of Spain, Duke of Guise, with sundry others, Jesuited Popish Princes, Nobles and Papists of all degrees, by the Jesuits instigation, and Popes special approbation, entered into a bloody Conspiracy, or holy League, as they term it: To restore and retain the most holy worship of God, according to the form and manner of the holy catholic Apostolic Church of Rome: to abjure all errors or corruptions contrary thereunto, &c. To spend not only all their Estates, but lives, to repeal all public Edicts in favor of the Protestants and their associates; to extirpate all Heresies, heretics, and pursue all such as public enemies, with fire and sword to death, who should any way oppose or withstand this League, or refuse to join with them in it, or fall off from it upon any pretext, after this Oath to observe it. Which League they several times renewed: and in the renovation thereof Anno 1598. the Jesuits openly boasted, That they would use their utmost endeavors, that before the year 1600. began, Evangelium (So they termed the Protestant Religion) Radicitus ex orbs toto extirpetur; Should be clean extirpated out of the whole world. The Massacres, Slaughters of how many thousand Protestants by open intestine wars and bloody Conspiracies, this League occasioned in France, Germany and the Netherlands, together with the murders of two French Roman Catholic Kings, the French and Belgic Histories of those times, will sufficiently inform the Reader. In the year 1602. the Jesuits erected a new College and Society at Thonon in Savoy, to convert or utterly extirpate the Protestants, under the Notion of Heretics. 1. by Preachings. 2. by pious frauds. 3. by Vi armata: by force of arms: to which new Society, many Popish Kings, Nobles and others, gave their names; and in June that year listed above 25000 expert Soldiers, all Roman Catholics, to put this their Design against the Protestants in execution upon the next opportunity: there being above 50 Jesuits disguised in Lay-men's habits employed in England, to stir up the Papists and people there to join with them in this new Association, to root out the Protestants in all places by the Sword, the Principal Engine used by these Ignatians to effect it. To pass by all the conspiracies and attempts of the Jesuits in Queen Elizabeth's reign, to extirpate our Religion and the Professors of it by open wars, Rebellions, Spanish and foreign invasions both in England, Ireland and Scotland, recorded by Mr. Cambden, Speed and others in her life, and William Watson in his Quodlibets; with their attempts of like Nature in the beginning of King James his reign, recited in the Statutes of 3. Jacobi, c. 2. where all may peruse them: I shall only acquaint you; That a little before the beginning of our late bloody wars, Divisions, ( contrived, fomented by the Jesuits and Papists, as I have elsewhere at large, discovered, and many Parliament-Declarations attest ) one Francis Smith an English Jesuit, openly affirmed to Mr. Waddesworth and Mr. Yaxly, That it was not now a time to bring their Religion by disputing or Books of controversy, but It must be done by an Army, and By the Sword. And it is very considerable, That when the Jesuits Spanish and Romish Agents had engaged the King and English Protestants against their Protestant Brethren of Scotland, 1639. to cut one another's throats; the King of Spain had provided a great new Spanish Armado by the Jesuits solicitation, and a great Land-Army of old Spanish Soldiers to invade the Western and Southern parts of England, then destitute of all forces, Arms & Ammunition to defend it, all drawn to the Northern parts against the Scots; and to join with the Popish confederates here, to extirpate the English he retickes and Protestants: which design of theirs, through the Hollanders unexpected encounter, which scattered their fleet upon the English Coasts, and the Pacification with the Scots, before any engagement of both Armies, was happily prevented. That this Spanish Fleet was then especially designed for England, appears (besides other Evidences, which I have elsewhere touched) by the confession of an English Pilot in that Navy upon his death-bed, mortally wounded in the first fight, to an English Minister and others, to whom he revealed it out of conscience; by some Letters I have met with; and by a Pamphlet made and printed by the Jesuits, Anno 1640. entitled The Jubilee of the Jesuits, taken from a Papist at Redriffe, and presented by Sheriff Warner to the whole Commons House, November 14. 1640. Wherein among other Passages then read in the House, (entered in the Journal of that day, out of which I transcribed them:) there was a Particular prayer, For the holy martyrs that Suffered in the Fleet sent against the Heretics of England, 1639. with this advice; That the Papists must fish in troubled waters, (to wit, whiles that The King was Ingaged in the wars against the Scots:) with certain prayers added, For their good success in that Design against the Scots. For the more effectual carrying on whereof, the Popes Nuncio, with the College of Jesuits then in Queen-street, secretly summoned a kind of Parliament of Roman Catholics and Jesuits in London, out of every County of England and Wales, in which Conne the Popes Nuncio sat President, by the Queens commission and direction, in April, 1639. Who granted and collected an extraordinary large Contribution, by way of Subsidy, from the Papists, to carry on this war against our Protestant Brethren of Scotland, and raise forces to join with the Spainards, whom they then expected, to cut the English Protestants throats. The Jesuitical and Prelatical Popish party much displeased with the defeat of this their Plot, by the unexpected Pacification with the Scots, 1639. induced the King soon after to break and revoke it, Anno 1640. (the very year of the Jesuits Jubilee, which they solemnized in all places, being the 100. year from the first Erection of their Order by Ignatius, Anno 1540.) they caused a new Army to be raised and sent into the North against the Protestants of Scotland, to subdue & destroy them. At the same time they secretly listed an Army of no less then 7000. Romish Catholics, kept in private pay, of purpose To cut the Protestants throats who should resist them, and to Conquer the Protestants in England first, and then in Ireland; which Design they were to put in execution, when the Pope or his Legat, with the Spanish, French and Venetian Ambassadors should appoint; who designed them to begin to execute it, When the King went into Scotland against the Scots; as O Conner (the Queen-Mothers Priest ) confessed to Anne Hussey, who justified it to the Lord's of the Council then, and afterwards, before the Lord's in Parliament upon her Oath. The Jesuits were so confident of the good success of their designs amongst us, and complete Victory over all the Protestants throughout the world this year of their Jubilee (making Triumph over their Enemies, one of their Notes of the true Church ) that they appointed a solemn Enterlude to be acted by their Society in the public Hall at Aquisgran in Germany, in honor of their Jubilee: wherein they signified to the people, by printed Tickets and Pageants, that the Popish Church of Rome should be brought in upon the Stage, happily fighting against, triumphing and reigning over all her enemies everywhere throughout the world, in all ages till that present day, and especially of later times, by their means. The beginning of this Enterlude being happily acted, and succeeding according to their minds; at last there were two Armies of soldiers brought by them upon the Stage, ready to encounter each other: the one of Jesuits and Papists, fighting for the Church of Rome; the other, representing the Protestants warring against her. Before their fight, a Jesuitical actor, clad in black, personating a Popish Mass-Priest, divineth good success to the Popish Army, praying for it with an affected devotion and solemn invocation (or rather profanation) of God's name: after which, the Popish Army of actors, as being certain of the instant victory, uttered these words to their Captain (as their parts directed them) with a loud reiterated voice and shout; Pereat, Pereat, Quisquis est hostis Ecclesiae: Let him perish, let him perish, whoever is an enemy of the Church: whereupon a great part of the Stage on which they acted, together with the whole Popish Army (not one Soldier or Captain excepted) at the repeating of these words and wishes, fell to the ground immediately, with so great celerity, that many of them felt they were fallen down, before they discerned themselves to fall; their feigned enemies of the Church (representing the Protestants) standing all fast, at least in place, if not in mind, on the other part of the Stage, which fell not at all. With this sudden fall, many of the Popish Army were bruised in pieces with the beams of the Stage falling upon them; who through pain and horror, needed Monitors to silence their outcries; others having their bones broken and Limbes put out of joint, were carried to the Chirugions to be dressed; and all the rest confounded with shame, crept away secretly under the Veile to their Lodging. And so this Jesuitical Enterlude, by divine justice, ended in a real unexpected bloody Tragedy and real rout of the whole pretended victorious Popish Army of Jesuits; and the Scottish Wars that year (which they so much depended on) through God's mercy, concluded in a blessed Peace and Union between both Nations. Whereupon, the Irish Popish Rebels, by the Jesuits Plots and instigations, seconded with secret encouragements, and promises of assistance with Arms and Moneys from Cardinal Richliou, the King of Spain, Pope, and other foreign Popish Princes, undertook the late horrid bloody Massacre of all the Protestants in Ireland, and surprisal of all the Forts, Castles, Arms and Ammunition therein, on the 23 of October, 1641. being Ignatius day, the Founder and New Canonized Saint of the Jesuited Society, for the greater Honor of their Patron, Order; they being the chief Plotters of this horrid bloody Treason. Which horrid Conspiracie, though happily discovered the night before its execution, at Dublin, and some few places else; yet it took effect in most other parts of Ireland, to the slaughter of near two hundred thousand Protestants there, in few months space; seconded with a bloody War, for sundry years; to the loss of many thousands more lives. To this Plot all the Papists in England were privy, who intended the like Massacre in England; and soon after by the Popes and Jesuits instigations, by the assistance of sorragin Popish Princes, they eugaged the King and Parliament in a longlasting bloody uncivil, unchristian war against each other, concluding in the Kings and Parliaments joint ruins by an Army raised for their mutual defense, seduced thereunto through the Jesuits instigations and policies. After which, they engaged the Protestants of England and Scotland (formerly united by the strictest B • nds and Covenants against them) to war upon, invade and destroy each other by land; and soon after that (by the Spanish Agents Assistance) raised a most dangerous bloody War between our Protestant old Allies of the Neitherlands and the English by Sea; to the infinite damage, prejudice of both, and the effusions of whole Oceans of the Gallantest Christian Protestant blood, that ever yet was shed, the expense of more treasure and men in these intest •• e Wars, than would have conquered all Spain, Italy, and the Indies, had they been employed upon such a design; and to the entailing of a perpetual Army on us and our Posterities; more ready (as we have of late years found by sad experiments) to hearken to the Jesuits clandestine suggestions, • eductions, and execute their foreplotted Designes to ruin our Kingdoms, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Monarchy, Church, Religion, then to follow the Advice, Votes Councils, Directions, Commands of our Parliaments, Kingdoms, and the best affected Protestants of all ranks who first raised, and have so long maintained them, for quite other ends (hereafter touched) then what they (of late times) have most pursued, to the Popes and Jesuits great content.

5. That the Jesuits have endeavored, attempted the convulsion, concussion, subversion not only of the Empires, Realms, and ancient settled Governments and States of Germany, Russia, Bohemia, Hungaria, France, Poland, but likewise of England, Scotland and Ireland, and to new model them into other Forms of Government. What mould of Government they intended to cast England into, is thus long since described by William Watson (a secular Priest) in his Quodlibets, Anno 1602. page 309, 310, 330, 331. England is the main chance of Christendom at this present, by seditions, factions, tampering and aspiring Heads: the only But, Mark, White, the Jesuits aim at, as well in intention as execution of their pretended expedition, exploit and action. I am of opinion, that no man on earth can tell what Government it is they intend to establish, ratify and confirm, when they come to their preconceited Monarchy; no not any of their Plot casters. No question it is, but their Government shall be as uncertain as their New conceited Monarchy; their Monarchy as mutable as their Reign, and their Reign as variable as the Wind, or Proteus in his Complements. But no question is to be made of it, but that the Government they do directly intend at this present is, A MOST ABSOLUTE SOVERAIGNTY, DOMINION AND STATE, CLEARLY EXEMPTED from any subordination, TO ANY LAW or Legifer divine or human; and therefore it is rightly called DESPOTICON in the highest degree of exemplary immuni • le, IMPERIALITY AND ABSOLUTE REIGN, RULE AND AUTHORITY, as containing in it three sorts of Government; S • il. Monarchical, Aristocratical, Democratical, in matters of Counsel and managing of Common wealths causes; not in point OF REGALITY, HONOUR AND INHERITANCE; For there shall be neither Title, nor Name, nor Honor given, taken or done to any Prince, Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, Lord, Baron, or the like, (all the Jesuitical Governors being Puritan like, Seniours, Elders, Provincials, &c.) neither shall there be any successions by Birth or blood, TO ANY HONOUR, OFFICE OR MAGISTRACY from the Monarch, Pater General, to the Minor, P • ter Minister, but ALL SHALL GO BY ELECTION OR CHOICE. Whether our late and present variable floating New molded Governments have not been cast by this long since predicted Jesuitical Mould, let wise men, with all our late, yea present Governors, now sadly consider and determine.

6. That the Jesuits in a public Disputation held at Madrid, published by them under this Title; Conclusiones Politicae sub Regis Domini nostri praesidio, instructed the King of Spain (their Chief Protector, whom they most extol above all other Kings, to promote both his universal Monarchy and their own thereby.)

A faculty, not only of retaining the Kingdoms he already possessed, but likewise of acquiring other men's. Which Jesuitical Machivilian unrighteous Doctrine, though (as Alphonsus Vargas, a Spanish Popish Priest resolves) it be diametrically contrary to the doctrine of our Lord Jesus himself, instructing men, that aliena obtinere non Potentis Principis, SED IMPOTENTIS AC VIOLENTI PRAEDONIS EST: Yet the Jesuits and their Instruments of late years have sufficiently propagated it amongst our English Grandees and Army-Saints; for a most sacred Oracle, as their violent invasions of other men's Realms, Powers, Offices, Palaces, Lands, Estates, and Possessions of all kinds, by mere armed power and might, demonstrate beyond contradiction.

7. That the Jesuits in their Book, De Zelo S. Ignatii in Religion sua instituenda, printed at Madrid, p. 13, do glory; Hoc Societatis proprium esse, ut quotidie nov •• promat inventiones quibus homines ad Deum perducantur: That this is the property of their Society, that it DAILY BRINGS FORTH NEW INVENTIONS, whereby men may be brought home to God (that is, to their Religion and Society) the principle whereof they, and Vargas record, to be these. Their persuading of men to embrace the Gospel, by AN ARMY; the use of ARMES, Power, Terror, Fire: Their Exercise of Merchandize (which many of them in most places & in England too, now use, they being very great Merchants, Factors, and

that is, a man of all Professions, Callings, Sects, Religions to effect his ends: And if these (as Vargas assures us) be their properties and new inventions to propagate the Gospel, and draw men unto God (which our Lord Jesus himself and his true Disciples were wholly ignorant of) may we not certainly conclude, that they have of late years been extraordinary busy at this their harvest work amongst us, and more especially in spreading their Gospel by AN ARMY, and taking upon them the use of Arms, in 〈◊〉 of their Military Father Ignatius, with all other secular Employments, and New Sects to draw Proselytes and new separate Congregations to them, throughout our Realms, to destroy both our Church Discipline and Religion, as well as our Civil Government and Laws?

8. That as the whole House of Commons in their Remonstrance of 15. December 1641. charge the Jesuits, and late Jesuited Court-Counselors, with a Malignant and pernicious design, of SUBVERTING THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS and Principles of Government upon which the Religion and Justice of the Kingdom are firmly established. So William Watson a Secular Priest, chargeth Father Parsons, the English Jesuit, and his Jesuited companions, in their Memorial for Reformation of England, when it should be reduced under the power of the Jesuits (as Parsons was confident it would be, though he should not live to see it) written at Sevil in Spain, Anno Dom. 1590. that they intended to have Magna Charta, with our Common Fundamental Laws and Liberties, abrogated and suppressed: thus expressed by William Watson in his Quodlibets, pag. 92, 94, 95. Father Parsons and the Jesuits in their deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament, begun at Styx in Phlegeton, have compiled their Acts in a complete Volume, entitled: THE HIGH COURT OF REFORMATION FOR ENGLAND.

Whether any such new deep Jesuitical Court of Parliament, and high Court of Reformation for England, to carry on this old Design of the Jesuits against our Laws, hath been of late years sitting amongst us in or near Westminster, or elsewhere, in secret Counsel every week, as divers intelligent Protestants have informed me, and Hugh Peters reported to divers on his own knowledge (being well acquainted with their Persons and practices of late years) it concerns others nearer to them, and more able then I to examine. Sure I am, a greater man by far then Hugh Peters, in an Assembly of Divines and others, for reconciling all dissenting parties, not long since averred to them on his own knowledge: Yea, most certain it is, that many hundreds (if not some thousands) of them, within these few years, have been sent over from Foreign Seminaries into England under the disguises of converted Jews, Physicians, Surgeons, Mechanics of all sorts, Merchants, Factors, Travelers, Soldiers, and some of them particularly into the Army; as appears by the late printed Examination of Ramsey the Anabaptized, New-dipped Jesuit, under the mask of a Jewish Convert, taken at New Castle in June 1653. and by sundry several late instances I could name. To pretermit all instances of diverse particular Jesuits come over into England, not only within these few years but months, discovered by persons of credit; with Sir Kenelm Digby; who though the son of one of the executed old popish Gunpowder Traitors; a dangerous active seducing Jesuited papist, if not a professed Jesuit; who in the years 1638 and 1639. conspired with the Popes Nuncio and a Conclave of Jesuits sitting in Council at London, to subvert our Religion, introduce a universal toleration of the popish Religion in our kingomes, new modle and shake our former established government, and to poison, destroy the late King himself, in case he consented not to them therein: and for this very purpose, both plotted, raised, promoted the first Wars between the Protestants of England and Scotland, which he abetted all he could, by his letters and secret Collections of moneys from all the Papists throughout England and elsewhere, who largely contributed to this war and design: for which he, Sir John Winter, Master Montague and others (who had a hand in this conspiracy) were convented and brought upon their knees at the Commons House-bar, Jan. 28. 1640. upon which he retiring into France was about May 1645. sent as a special Ambassador from the Queen to the Pope of Rome himself, to solicit him for ayds of monies, men, arms, against the Parliament; is first audience, he had the best reception; and fairest Promises of Aid in general that could be wished; writing hopefully of supplies of Moneys from Rome to the Queen and others, as both Houses of Parliament in their Declaration and Letters, (published 26 March 1646.) proclaim to all the world) and likewise good Hopes of a Cardinals Cap for himself, or the Lord Aubeny, or Mr. Mountagne, for which he and the Queen solicited. After that, upon his return from Rome, he was sent over into England about Decemb. 1648. as a fit instrument to New-moddle us into a Commonwealth, and promote the violent Proceedings of the Army Officers and their Confederates (set on work by the Jesuits and their Agents,) against the late King, Parliament, Members: where, upon his arrival, he was, instead of being apprehended and brought to justice for the premises, hugged by some Grandees whom he courted, permitted to ride and walk about at large, while the Members were under strict guards and restraints; frequently repaired to Whitehall, where he was well received; his Sequestration totally taken off, without any Fees or gratification, by special order; and himself now at last permitted to lodge not only in Wildemans House, (where the Queens Capuchins formerly resided) but sometimes in Whitehall itself; to the admiration of many understanding Protestants, who justly suspect, he hath there more disguised Jesuits to consult with, and promote both their old and new designs against our Church, State, Religion, Laws, Liberties, till they have brought them and us to utter ruin. I shall for brevity sake acquaint you with one memorable general instance, discovering what swarms of Jesuits are now amongst us, under other visors. An English Protestant Nobleman (a person of honor) whose Ancestors were Papists, being courteously entertained within these two years at Rome by some eminent Jesuits, in their chief College there, was brought by them into a Gallery having Chambers round about it, with Titles over every door for several Kingdoms, and amongst the rest, one for ENGLAND. Upon which, he enquiring of the Jesuits, what these titles signified; was answered by them, That they were the Chambers of the Provincial Jesuits, of each Kingdom and Province (written ever the respective doors) wherein they had any members of their society now residing, who received all Letters of intelligence from their Agents in those places every week, and gave account of the to the General of their Order. That the Provincial for England, lodged in the Chamber over which the title ENGLAND was written, who could show him the last news from England: which he desiring to see, they thereupon knocked at the door, which was presently opened: the Provincial being informed who & what the Lord was, read the last news from England to them. Hereupon the Nobleman demanded of them. Whether any of their society were now in England? & how they could stay with safety, or support themselves there, seeing most of the English Nobility, Gentry, and Families that were Papists, were ruined in their estates, or sequestered by the late wars & troubles, so as they could neither harbor, conceal nor maintain them, as they had done heretofore? They answered, It was true; but the greater the dangers and difficulties of those of their society now in England were, the greater was their merit. And that they had then above fifteen hundred of their Society in England, able to work in several Professions & Trades, which they had there taken upon them, the better to support & secure themselves from being discovered; (who, together with some Popish Priests and Friers no doubt, upon diligent inquiry will appear to be the chiefest Speakers, Quakers, Disputers, Seducers, Rulers in most separate Congregations, and the principle brochers of all New Opinions, Blasphemies, now abounding amongst us.) This Relation I have heard from the mouth of a Reverend Divine more than once; to whom this Noble Lord, upo his return into England not many Months since, seriously related the Premises, averring the truth of them upon his Honor. Yet for all this, since the stupendous pretended repeals and annihilations of the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance, & that of Abjuration of Popery (consented to by the late King in the Isle of Wight ) purposely made for the better detection and prevention of Jesuits, and their treasonable forementioned practices against our Church, Kingdoms, Princes, Religion, Parliaments, and Government, by the wisdom and zeal of our best affected vigilant * Protestant Parliaments; I can neither hear nor read of any effectual means, endeavored or prescribed by any in power, for the discovery of these Romish Ianizaries, or banishing, feretting, and keeping them out of England, where they have wrought so much mischief of late years, and whose utter ruin they attempt: nor any encouragement at all given to the Discoverers of their Plots and Persons; but many affronts and discouragements put upon them, and particularly on myself, lately mewed up close Prisoner, under strictest Guards in remotest Castles, near three years space (without any Accusation, hearing or particular cause yet assigned or disclosed to me, though oft then and since demanded by me from my Imprisoners) whiles they all walked abroad at large, of purpose to hinder me from any discoveries of their practices by my Pen, where as they printed, vended publicly here in England above 30000 Popish Books of several kinds during my imprisonment, without the least restraint, to oppugn our Protestant established Religion (as many of them do in terminis as most damnable Heresy) propagate the Jesuits Plots, and antichristian Romish Church and Religion amongst us, as you may read at large in the Stationers Beacon fired; which seasonable book, and Discovery of these Romish Emissaries books and plots, some Officers of the Army, in their Beacon quenched, publicly traduced in print, as a New-Powder-Treason of the Presbyterian Party, to blow up the Army, and that pretended Parliament (of their own erection) which themselves soon after blew up and dissolved in good earnest, pleading for a free Toleration of such Popish Books, and all Religions, as agreeable to the Armies Engagements and Principles, to carry on their designs against our Religion and Laws. But most certain it is; there hath been of late years not only a General Council of Officers of the Army sitting many months together in Council, to alter and new model all our ancient Laws and Statutes, in pursuance of Father Parson 's design; but likewise two Conventicles of their own selection and election, sitting of late in the Parliament House at Westminster, assuming to themselves the Name, and far more than the Power, of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England; together with the transcendent ambitious Title of The Supreme Authority of the Nation, (in derogation of the Army Officers Supremacy, who sufficiently chastised them for this strange Usurpation ) who have made it their chief business, not only to Newmodel our ancient Fundamental Government, Parliaments, Ministry, Ministers maintenance, by Glebes, Tithes, and our Universities, much according to Parsons and his Fellow Jesuits forementioned Plat-forms, and Thomas Campanella his Instructions to the King of Spain, De Monarchia Hisp. c. 25. but likewise to New-mould, subvert, eradicate the whole Body of our municipal Laws, and with them the great Charter of our Liberties itself. And in their last cas • iered, unelected Convention, (as some of their Companions, now in greatest Power assure us, in their True State of the Case of the Commonwealth of England, &c. London, 1654. p. 5, 16, 17, 18.) there was a strong prevailing party whom nothing would satisfy, but A Total Eradication of the whole body of the good old Laws of England ( the Guardians of our Lives and Fortunes) to the utter subversion of civil Right and Propriety; who likewise took upon them (by virtue of a supposed right of Saintship in themselves) to lay the foundation of a new Platform, which was to go under the Name of A Fift Monarchy▪ never to have an end, but To war withal other powers and break them to pieces, baptizing all their proselytes into this Principle and persuasion; that the Powers formerly in being, were branches of the Fourth Monarchy (of England, Scotland; and Ireland) which must be rooted up and destroyed. And what other Fifth Monarchy this could be, but that projected universal Monarchy of the Jesuits, which would bring the whole Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland, together with France, Spain, and all other Princes, States in Christendom under the • esuites subjection, and break all other powers in pieces; (mentioned by Watson, in his Quodlibets p. 306, to 333. and Alphonsus de Vargas, Relatio de Stratagematis & Sophismatis Politicis societatis Jesus, Ad Monarchiam orbis terrarum sibi conficiendam c. 8. &c.) or else, that Elective New Monarchy of Great Britain and Ireland, projected by Campanella and Cardinal Richelieu, which some Grandees now endeavor by their Instrument to erect and perpetuate forever without alteration in themselves and their Successors, (though they thus expressly brand it in others;) let themselves, and wise men resolve? it being apparent, by the practices and proceedings of all the Propugners of this new Project, that this Fifth Monarchy they intend to erect, is neither the spiritual Kingdom of Jesus Christ in their own hearts, mortifying their ambitiō, covetousness, pride, self-seeking, unrighteousness, violence, rapines, & other worldly lusts; nor the personal reign of Christ himself alone, in and over our 3 Kingdoms, and all other Nations forever, depriving all Temporal Kings and Princes of their Crowns, Rights, and Government over their Subjects; which they falsely endeavor to evince from Dan. 2. 44, 45, c. 7. 14, 27. Micah 4. 1, 2, 7. Luke 1. 32, 33. Rev. 20. 1. to 8. 1 Cor. 15. 24, 25. Heb. 12. 26, 27, 28. but a mere supreme, arbitrary, temporal Authority without Bounds or Limits, encroached by and erected in themselves and their confederates, without any color of Right or Title by the Laws of God or the Realm, and no ways intended, but refuted by all these sacred Scriptures & others, which explain them. This design of the Jesuits, to alter and subvert the whole body of our Laws, was so far promoted by the Jesuitical and Anabaptistical party in this last Assembly, (elected only by the Army-Officers, ) that on Aug. 20. 1653. (as our News-books print,) they Ordered, there should be a Committee selected, to consider of a A new Body of the Law, for the Government of this Commonwealth, who were to new-mould The whole Body of the Law: according to Parsons his mould. And hereupon our cheating Astrologers (especially Lily & Culpepper, the Jesuits grand Factors to cry down our Laws, Tithes, Ministers ) from the mere visible earthly Conjunctions, Votes, Motions, Influences of these New wandering excentrick Planets at Westminster only, (not of any Celestial Stars, as they would make Country-Clowns believe, always moving and acting themselves by an unalterable Law from the very Creation until now, Gen. 1. 14. to 19. c. 8. 22. Psal. 104. 19. Psal. 136. 8. 9. Ier. 31. 35, 36. c. 33. 20, 21. Job 38. 32, 33. therefore no ways exciting men to alter Fundamental Laws and Governments here on earth) took upon them in their Monthly Prognostications for this year 1654. versity & College Lands by Monthly endless Taxes, Excises, & a perpetual Law, Tith-oppugning, Parliament-dissolving Army, in whose Councils, we have cause to fear, the Jesuits have been most predominant of late years, and will still make use of them to our final ruin, if not effectually purged out, and the Army new molded, new principled, if any longer continued under pretext of public safety, and not wholly disbanded for the people's ease and Liberty.

It is worthy observation, that Tho. Campanella prescribed the sowing, and continual nourishing of Divisions, Dissensions, Discords, Sects and Schisms among us, both in State and Church (by the Machivilian Plots and Policies he suggests, punctually prosecuted among us of late years) as the principal means to weaken, ruin both our Nation and Religion, and bring us under the Spanish and Popish yokes at last: witness his, IAMVERO AD ENERVANDOS ANGLOS NIHIL TAM CONDUCIT QUAM DISSENTIO ET DISCORDIA INTER ILLOS EXCIT AT A PERPETUOQUE NUTRITA, Quod cit • meli • res occasiones suppeditabi • : and that principally, by instigating the Nobles and chief Men of the Parliament of England: UT ANGLIAMIN FORMAM REIPUBLICAE REDUCANT AD IMITATIONEM HOLLANDORVM: which our Republicans lately did by the power of the Army- Officers; or, by sowing the seeds of an inexplicable war, between England and Scotland; By making it an Elective Kingdom, (as some now endeavor under another Notion) or by setting up Other Kings of another Race, without Legal Right, or just Title, against that ancient, unquestioned, undoubted Right and Title settled, established in King James and his Royal Posterity by Inherent Birthright, and lawful right of Descent by God himself and his Laws, confirmned & strengthened by all possible Titles and Rights of compact, Laws, Statutes, Oaths, perpetual uncontradicted custom, Protestations, Covenants, the solemn Public Faith and Engagement of our English Parliaments & Nation, for themselves, Their Heirs & Posterities forever, as the Statutes of 1 Iacobi c. 1. 2, 3, Iac. c. 1. 4, 7. Iac. c. 6. which both houses of Parliament in their Declaration of Nov. 2. 1642. Exact Collect. p. 705 resolve. And that upon this suggestion to the People; Crudelem fore SCOTUM ubi semel Imperium in illos obtinuerit▪ 〈…〉 mente, repostum, quanta injuria Angli Scotos superioribus illis annis afficerint. Praeterea suspicionem cis incu • iat, fore ut Jacobus CAEDEM MATERNAM VINDICATURUS SIT, &c. Exasperandi sunt etiam animi Episcoporū (Presbyterorū) Anglicorum proponendo illis REGEM SCOTIAE Calvinismum amplexum esse SPE & CUPIDITATE REGNI, ADACTUMQVE VI, A BARONIBUS HAERETICIS; quod si vero Regnu • Angliae etiam • btineat, TVM ILLVM CITO PRIOREM RELIGIONEM REVOCATURUM ESSE: qùandoquidem non solum MARIA EJVS MATER moriens, virum etiā REX IPSE GALLIARVM SVMMOPORE EI RELIGIONEM CATHOLICAM COMMENDARINT, &c. yet now transcribed almost verbatim out of Thomas Campanella, (who suggested it against King James to alienate the English from him, & keep him from the Crown) & very freshly by the Authors of, The True state of the Case of the Commonwealth, &c. p. 48, 49. objected against the present King of Scots and royal Issue, to deprive him and them from the Crown of England, and engage the whole English Nation against their Title, to vest it in some other Family in greatest power.) Or if these projects should fail, then by dividing us into many Kingdoms or Republics, dislinct one from another; and by sowing the seeds of Schisms, and making alterations and innovations in all Arts, Sciences, and our Religion. The old Plots of Campanella, Parsons, and late designs of Cardinal Richelieu, of the Pope, Spaniard, Jesuits, to undo, subvert our Protestant Churches, Kings, Kingdoms and Religion, as the marginal Authors irrefragably evidence: yet all visibly set on foot, yea, openly pursued, and in a great measure accomplished by some late, nay present Grandees and Army-Officers, who cry up themselves for our greatest Patrons, Preservers, Deliverers, and Anti-Jesuits, when they have rather been but the Jesuits, Popes, Spaniards and other Foreign enemies instruments and factors, in all the late changes, new-models of our Government, Parliaments, & pretended reformations of our laws and Religion, through inadvertency, circumvention, or self-ended respects, as many wise and godly men justly fear. For prevention whereof, I shall recommend to the whole Kingdoms serious consideration, the memorable Preamble of the Statute of 25 H. 8. c. 22. discovering the like Plots of the Pope and our Foreign Enemies to 〈…〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 〈1 page duplicate〉 to prevent them for the future, in these ensuing words. In their most humble wise shown unto your Majesty, Your most humble and obedient Subjects, the Lord's Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled: that since it is the natural inclination of every man, gladly and willingly to provide for the surety, both of his Title and Succession, although it touch his only private cause: We therefore, most rightful and dreadful Sovereign Lord, reck • n ourselves much more bounden, to beseech and instant your Highness, although we doubt not of your Princely heart and wisdom, mixed with a natural affection to the same, to foresee and provide for the perfect surety of both you and of your most lawful Succession and heirs, upon which dependeth all our joy & wealth; in whom also is united and knit, the only mere true inheritance and title of this Realm, without any contradiction: Wherefore, We your said most humble and obedient Subjects in this present Parliament assembled, calling to our mind the great divisions, which in times past have been in this Realm, by reason of several Titles pretended to the Imperial Crown of the same; which sometimes, and for the most p • rt, ensued by occasion of ambiguity and doubts, then not so perfectly declared, but that men might upon froward intents expound them to every man's sinister appetite and affection, after their sense, contrary to the right Legality of the Succession and Posterity of the lawful Kings & Emperors of this Realm, whereof hath ensued great effusion & destruction of Mans blood, as well of a great number of the Nobles, as of other Subjects, and specially Inheritors in the same. And the greatest occasion hath been, because no perfect & substantial provision by law hath binmade within this realm itself, when doubts and questions have been moved, & proponed of the certainty & legality of the Succession & posterity of the Crown. By reason whereof, The Bishop of Rome, & See Apostolic, contrary to the great and inviolable grants of Jurisdictions By God immediately to Emperors, Kings & Princes in succession to their heirs, hath presumed in time past, to invest who should please them to inherit in other men's Kingdoms & Dominions; which thing, we your most humble Subjects, both Spiritual and Temporal, do most abhor & detest: And sometimes other foreign Princes and Potentates of sundry degrees, minding rather dissention & discord to continue in the realm, to th'utter desolatiō thereof, then charity, equity, or unity, have many times supported wrong titles, where by they might easily & facilly aspire to the Superiority of the same, the continuance & sufferance whereof deeply considered & pondered, were too dangerous and perilous to be suffered any longer within this Realm, & too much contrary to the unity, peace and tranquility of the same, being greatly reproachful and dishonorable to the whole Realm. In consideration whereof, your said most humble and obedient Subjects, the Nobles and Commons of this Realm, calling further to their remembrance, that the good, unity, peace, and wealth of this Realm, and the succession of the Subjects of the same, Most specially & principally above all worldly things, consisteth and resteth in the certainty and surety of the procreation, & posterity of your Highness, in whose most royal person at this present time, is no manner of doubt or question, Do therefore most humbly beseech your Highnes, &c. to declare the establishment of the successiō of your royal posterity in the Imperial Crowns of this realm: as he and they did by this & other succeeding acts of Parl. & in 1 Eliz c. 3. & 1 Jac. c. 1. to prevent the like civil wars and mischiefs for succeeding ages, now revived, promoted by the Pope, Jesuits, & Foraign Popish Princes to work our ruin.

Certainly, whosoever shall seriously ponder the premises, with these passages in William Watson's Quodlibets concerning the Jesuits, 1. That some of the Jesuits society have insinuated themselves into all the Princes Courts of Christendom, where some of their Intelligencers reside, and set up a secret counsel, of purpose to receive and give intelligence to their General at Rome, of the secrets of their Sovereigns, and of all occurrence in those parts of the world, which they dispatch to and fro by such cyphers, which are to themselves best, but comm̄only only to themselves known, so that nothing is done in England, but it is known at Rome within a month after at least, & reply made back as occasion is offered, to the consequent overthrow of their own natural Country of England, and their native Princes and Realms, by their unnatural Treasons against them; that so the Jesuits might be those long gowns, which should reign and govern the Island of Great Britain. To which I shall add that of Rob: Turner an English Jesuit, in his Epistles printed at Ingolstad, An. 1584. Ep. 19. Volui irrepere, volui irrumpere in intimas Aulas Principum; volui videre omnia, ut ad Justitiae norman praeclare exigerem. Vix coeperam obi • e Principū Aulas, cum viderim Hoereticorū illum Mundum ADMINISTRARI A STULTIS, &c. with that of Hospinian, Historia Jesuitica l. 3. p. 148. That the Jesuits are so subtle, vigilant, bold, laborious, and endued with such a faci • lty of flattery, insinuation, acting and hurting in Princes Courts, that they exactly discover, know, and fish out all their secrets, (which they eve • l to their Superiors, the Pope and Spaniard) and alone rule all things in them: so that the Courts of Europe are more grievously infested & afflicted by the Jesuits, than the Court of Pharaoh was of old by the Egyptian • rogs. And may we not then justly fear our new Court hath been as much pestered and infested by them of late years, as our old Court heretofore?

〈◊〉 That the Jesuits hope and endeavor to have England, Scotland and Ireland under them, to make these Northern Islands a Iaponian Island of Jesuits, and one Jesuitical Monarchy,; and to infeoffe themselves by hook or by crook In the whole imperial Dominions of great Britain with the remainder over To their Corporation, or puni-Fathers succeeding them, as heirs specially in their society, by a state of perpetuity: Putting all the whole Blood Royal of England to the Formidon, As but Heirs general in one Predicament together, as now they have done.

3. That the Jesuits have Magistracy, Kings, Magistrates, Ministers, Priesthood, and Priests in high contempt; publishing many slanderous, seditious; traiterous, and infamous speeches, libels, and books against them, to render them odious and contemptible to the People, full of Plots, exasperations against the Church and Commonwealth, like rebellious Traitors, to bring all into an uproar, that they may have all Countries, Kingdoms, Governments, Successions, States, Inhabitants, and all at their pleasure.

4. That the Jesuits have taught the people (in order to get England under their power, and in order to God or Religion, as they style it,) That Subjects are bound no longer to obey wicked or heretical Princes and Kings deflecting from the Catholic Religion, and drawing others with them, but till they be able by force of arms to resist and depose them. That the popular multitude may upon these grounds, when they think meet, place and displace their Princes and chief Officers at their pleasure, as men may do their Tenants at will, hirelings, or ordinary Servants, putting no difference in their choice Upon any Right or Title to Crowns or Kingdom, by Birth or Blood or otherwise, then as these Fathers (forsooth) shall approve it, By this all things must be wrought and framed, conformable to opportunities of times and occasions; as for example: The people must have a right and interest in them, and to do what they list in choice of their Kings and Supreme Governors, til they have set such a person or Usurper in the Crown, as they for their ends have designed; and then the times and occasions changing, when such a one is settled in the Throne, the former doctrine and practices must be holden FOR A MISTAKING; yet such, as seeing it cannot be holpen, the people must beware hereafter of attempting the like again. By this a check must be given to the publishers of such paradoxes, (when they have accomplished their designed ends,) after that a dispensation procured for the Offenders, and then all shall be well ever after; till a new opportunity for their further advantage.

5. That the Jesuits by abs • rd equivocations, counterfeited perjuries, Sacriledges, and cozenage, become all things to all men, that they may gain all; as to be Seminary Priests amongst Seminaries; Secular Priests, among Seculars; Religious men, among Religious; Seditious men among Seditious; Factions Spaniards amongst Spaniards; ENGLISH TRAYTORS AMONG TRAYTORS; SCOTISH VILAINS, AMONG SCOTS, &c. and amongst all these, to deny and affirm, to object and answer, to swear and forswear, whatsoever may be a gain to them, for their pragmatical Commonwealth and society. No wonder then, if they transform themselves into all shapes, and take upon them all professions now amongst us.

6. That the Jesuits by their devices and practices, have brought all to Machiavels rule, DIVIDE ET IMPERA, in sowing division, breeding of jealousies, and making of hoslile strife, by opposition of King against King, State against State, Priest against Priest, Peer against Peer, Parents against children, children against parents, sisters against brothers, servants against masters, wives against husbands, husbands against wives, and one friend against another, raising up rebellions, MVRDRING OF PRINCES, making uproars every where, until they make those they cannot otherwise win unto them, either yield to be their vassals to live quiet by them, or force them to flight, or drive them out of their wits, or otherwise plague them to death.

7. That the Jesuits by their cursed positions, and machiavillian practices, have made religion itself a mere political and atheal device; a pragmatical science of Figboys, and but an art of such as live by their wits, and the principles of Machiavel taught by their Rabb • es; yea, a very hotch potch of omnium gatherum, religious, secular, clergical, laical, ecclesiastical, spiritual, temporal, MARTIAL, civil, Aecomenical, political, liberal, mechannical, municipal, irregular, and ALL WITHOUT ORDER; so that they are not worthy to be called religious, ecclesiasticks, catholicks, nor temporal mechannical Christians; but rather Machiavillians, Atheists, Apostates; their course of life showing what their study is; and that howsoever they boast of their perfections, holiness, meditations and exercises, (as if they were all Superlatives, all Metaphysicians, all entia transcendentia ) yet their platform is heathenish, tyrannical, sathannical, able to set Aretine, Lucian, Machiavel, yea, and Don Lucifer, in a sort to school.

Those, I say, who shall sadly ponder all these premises, and compare them with the late practices, policies and proceedings of some swaying politicians of our age (infected likewise with this Atheistical State-Maxim, amongst others derived from the Jesuits, and Machiavillian Spanish State-Counsellers:) In Reipublicae administratione, quaedam LICITA ESSE RATIONE STATVS, alia respectu Conscientiae: which Thomas Campanella (as bad as he is) not only severely censures, but thus declaims against with highest detestation, Qua opinione profecto NIHIL MAGIS ABSVRDVM AV • IMPIVM ne excogitari quidem potest: Nam qui conscientiae universalem suam jurisdictionem in omnes res humanas TAM PVBLICAS QVAM PRIVATAS, subtrahit, ostendit, SE NEC CONSCIENTIAM, NEC DEVM HABERE, &c. Siquidem omnia scandala Ecclesiae Dei, & PERTVRBATIONES ORBIS TERRARVM, INDE ORTA SVNT: that men may do against all Laws of God and Man, their own Consciences, Trusts, Oaths, out of a pretext of the benefit, safety of the State, & public good, as most now do; Or, compare thē with the constitution of our Church, State, Religion, public affairs, must needs acknowledge, that these pragmatical Jesuits have been very active, prevalent, powerful, successful, and not only militant but triumphant, of late years amongst us, under some disguise or other: that they have dangerously poisoned us with these their Machiavillian and Atheal policies, practices positions, and have more real Disciples, Factors, if not Tutors, now amongst us, then in any former ages: And is it not high time then to endeavor to detect their persons, and prevent their dangerous designs upon us, with greatest care and diligence? Truly though most others be negligent and fearful herein, yet that text of Ezek. 2. 6, 7. And thou son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns be with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions, be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellions house. And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, for they are most REBELLIOVS; hath animated me to exonerate my conscience herein, and to say with the prophet, Isai. 62. 1. For Zion's (England's) sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a Lamp that burneth. Wherefore,

Upon serious consideration of all these Premises, and of all those Sacred Solemn Oaths, that Protestation, Vow, League, and National Covenant, which I have formerly taken (lying still as so many) indissoluble Obligations on my Soul, notwithstanding the ingrate, malicious, unchristian Requitals of all my former unmercinary services, Sufferings for Religion, Laws, Liberties, and the public, in times of greatest Danger, recompensed only with long causeless, close imprisonments, injuries, affronts, losses of all kinds, by pretended friends and Patrons of our Liberties, as well as by professed causeless Enemies. And notwithstanding all other Discouragements from the general baseness, cowardice, Sottishness, slavishness, degenerated Spirits of the whole Nation, and their strange fearfulness even publicly to own, much less cordially, to assist, defend, (according to the sixth Article of the Covenant ) those few courageous Patrons who have hazarded their Lives, Liberties, Limbs, Estates, and all earthly comforts for the public defense of our Religion, the Laws, Liberties, Privileges of our Kingdom, Church, Parliament, against the old and late avowed subverters of them, whose very Company, visits the generality of their former friends and acquaintance have declined, (as if they had some plague sores on them;) not only during their late restraints, but likewise since their enlargements out of them, (enough to persuade them never to write, speak, act, or suffer anything more, for such ingrate, unworthy Creatures, but rather to put their helping hands, to make them and their Posterities slaves forever. ) I have yet once more, out of pure zeal, love, conscience towards my native Country, adventured my life, liberty, and decayed estate, (considering the lawlessness and Danger of the times, not the justice and goodness of the Common Cause, I plead) for the necessary defense of the Fundamental Liberties, Franchises, Laws, Rights, Parliaments, Privileges, and Government of our enslaved Nation, (though every way unworthy to be beloved by God, or men of noble spirits) in this Seasonable, Legal, Historical Vindication and Collection; wherein I have with all boldness, faithfulness, without the least fear or flattery of any Mortals or created powers whatsoever, argued, evinced, maintained my own particular, with the whole Nations public right and inheritance in them, (of which few or none take any care, but only of their own private gains, case, safely, though with the Public ruin ) and endeavored (as much as in me lies) to preserve them and our Religion from the several Jesuitical plots, counsels, specified in the whole Commons House Remonstrance of 15 December 1641. Exact Collection, p. 3. to 14. of late years revived, and more vigorously pursued than ever, and to rescue them out of the Claws of Tyranny, and all usurping arbitrary powers, which have avowedly encroached on, yea trampled them under feet of late, more than ever the worst of all our Monarchs, or beheaded King did, though declaimed against, as the greatest of Tyrants by some who have transcended him in his worst Regal Exorbitances; and particularly in this, which the Lord's and Commons in Parliament, in their Declaration of Aug. 4. 1642. thus grievously complained of, and objected against the Kings ill Counsellers,

all others disgraced and kept under, ( and are they not so now, as much as then? ) that • o their minds made poor and base, (as they were never so poor and base as now) and all the rest made use of as instrumental and subservient to it. Upon which consideration they thus concluded that Declaration,

That which hath not a little encouraged me hereunto, is not only this their public call, but likewise this memorable passage, vow, protestation of the Lord's and Commons assembled in Parliament, in their printed Declaration in answer to his Majesty's of October 23. 1642. Which I fear most of them since in power have quite forgotten; and therefore I beseech them now seriously to remember it. Though we know very well, there are too many of the Gentry of this Kingdom, who to satisfy the LVSTS OF THEIR OWN AMBITION, are content, like Esau, TO SELL THEIR BIRTH-RIGHT, AND CARE NOT TO SVBMIT THEMSELVES TO ANY ARBITRARY AND UNLIMITED GOVERNMENT, so they may FOR THEIR OWN TIME PARTAKE OF THAT POWER, to trample and insult over others: (And have not, are not some of these declarers and censures such themselves?)

( But how many of these Declarers have made good this public engagement? yea, have not some of them been, and still are more ready to secure, seclude, disoffice, imprison, kill, slay any such true-hearted Patrons, as I have felt by sad experience, than to live and die with them? ) I trust therefore the greatest Grandees in late or present power, neither will nor can be offended with me, and that all the Nobility, Gentry, Commons, and true-hearted. Patrons in the Nation, who bear any love to the Laws, Li-Liberties, Freedom of the people, for which their Ancestors and they have so long, so stoutly contended heretofore, and lately with our Kings; will live and die with me in this their Vi • dication and Defense, against any of their fellow-Subjects, who shall endeavor to subvert or deprive them of the full and free enjoyment of all or any of them, according to this Engagement and Declaration: Wherein there are these further observable passages, relating to the Parliaments privileges and its Members, which I desire our Army-Grandees, who impeached, secured, secluded my self with other Members of the last true Parliament, levied war against and forcibly dissolved it; with the Contrivers of our late New-Modelled Governments, would seriously ponder; who in common justice must be content to be as freely told of and reprehended for their frauds, faults in print (where the public and every man's private interest, Right, Liberty, Security, is concerned) as they have censured others, as well their Superiors, as Equalls, oft in print, though perchance l • sse peccant than themselves in that they object against them. For the matter of his Majesty's raising an Army against the Parliament (wherein many Papists, Priests, Jesuits were employed) and taking away the privilege thereof, we shall refer it to the judgment of every ordinary capacity, whether it be void of sense to say, that this War is raised against the Parliament; But the truth is, that it is not a few persons, but the Parliament itself, is the thorn that lies in these men's sides, which, heretofore when it was wont to • rick them, was with much ease (by a sudden dissolution) pulled out: But now that is more deeply fastened by the Act of Continuance, they would force it out by the power of an Army. (Hath not this been the very practice of some Army-Grandees of late, here objected against the King Jesuitical and Popish ill Counselors?) And whosoever will peruse the several Speeches and Declarations, made upon the breaking up of former Parliaments, since the beginnning of his Majesty's Reign, will find, the pretences of those unjust and illegal Dissolutions, to be grounded upon the exceptions against some particular Members, under the name of A few factious and seditious persons: so that the aspersing and wounding of the Parliament through the sides of a few Members, is no new invention: (And hath not this been the very Army-Officers practice, since the first year of their reign till now, to wound the last real Parliament; yea, their own late dissolved Mock Parliaments since, through the sides of a few corrupt Members, or a corrupt Majority in the House, as all their Printed Declarations upon their d • ssolutions attest. And is this then no crime? or no Jesuitical practice in them, though such in the late King and his ill Counselors?) And for the satisfaction of all indifferent men, that this War is raised against the Parliament, we shall refer them to former Declarations, • issued out in His Majesty's name, being so many invectives and ground less accusations, not against particular Members only, but against the Vote and proceedings of both Houses. (And are not many of the Armies Declarations in 1647. and 1648. yea, the late Pamphlet of some present Grandees, entitled, A True State of the Case of the Commonwealth of England, Printed 1654, Such? let them now then see whence they took their pattern, even from the beheaded Kings Jesuited evil Counselors, whose steps they exactly trace in this:) But if the truth were, as that Declaration seems to imply, That this Army is raised to force some particular Members of this Parliament to be delivered up, yet upon that ground would it follow, that the same is levied against the Parliament. For it cannot be denied by any ingenious man, but that the Parliament by their inherent rights and privileges hath the power to judge and punish their own Members: [yet the Army Officers took upon them to secure, seclude them without Charge, and their future New-minted▪ Parliament Members, though only elected by the People, must be tried, judged by the new Whitehall Members, ere they can be admitted to sit, Article 21 of the New Government. ] [And was not this the practice of the Army-Officers, who levied a real actual War against the Parliament? They first impeached, secluded XI. Members of the Commons-House; and some Lord's soon after. An. 1647. 〈◊〉 then they secluded other Members, by their high Declaration of Aug. 18. 1647. after that they secured, imprisoned myself, with 44 Members more, and secluded the greatest part of the Commons House, leaving not above 50 or 60 at first sitting, who confederated with them, in December 1648. within two months after this, they beheaded the King; then suppressed the whole Lord's House, to carry on their designs since acted: At last they dissolved their own Mock Parliaments, when they crossed their ambitious aspires: What they did in September last since this was first penned to those now sitting, is fresh in memory.] ( and the Contrivers of sundry Declarations since in the Armies name, who imitated them herein. ) (or in the Army Officers printed Papers to the same effect.)

The Parliament is to be considered in three several respects:

whether matters of the highest importance, (witness all the public proceedings against the late Parliament, King, Peers, Government; the Warrs with Scotland, Holland: their new Magna Ch • rta, repealing the old, Entituled, The Government of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, wherein they take upon them such an Omnipotent Sovereign power, as, To pass a decree upon the wavering humors of the people, and to say to this Nation, (yea to Scotland and Ireland too,) As the Almighty himself said once to the unruly Sea, Here shall be thy bounds, hitherto shalt thou come and no further; as some of them most arrogantly, if not blasphemously publish in print to all the world in their True State of the Case of the Commonwealth, p. 34. Their making of new binding Laws and Ordinances, repealing old Laws and Statutes in and by pretext of this Instrument, out of Parliament, as their manifold Whitehall Folio new Edicts, amounting to near 700 pages, attest) have not been agitated and determined (in and by the Army-Officers, General Council, and other unparliamentary Juncto's,) not only without, but contrary to their Advice, (and Votes too;) and whether private unknown Councils (in the Army, Whitehall, and elsewhere, yea the private Councils, Plots, conspiracies of Jesuits, of Foreign Popish and Spanish Agents) have not been hearkened unto, approved and followed, when the Faithful and wholesome advice of the great Counsel hath been scorned & neglected (by the Army Officers and their Confederates.) And yet none can deny, but it is one of the Principle ends why a Parliament is called, To Consult the great Affairs of the Church and State. And what miserable effects and sad events, this neglect of the great Council, ( with all the bloody, unchristian Wars, Taxes, Oppressions, Distractions, since the Armies force upon the King, Members, Houses, Anno 1647. and 1648. to this present time. )

Concerning the Second, it sufficiently appears by

(and is it not a far greater crime to make the Parliaments Army itself, a Delinquent against the Parliament and Kingdom; the sanctuary of such Delinquents against both, and to continue such Officers in places of greatest trust in the Army, who have levied actual war against the Parliament, secluded, secured members of Parliament, kept divers years under their armed guards in defiance of the Parliament, without any particular Charge or Impeachment, refusing to release them, even when the Serjeant was sent at first from the House itself, to demand the Members seised?)

By all which it is apparent, how our Privledges have been torn from us by piece-meals, from time to time.

and so, By depriving the Parliament of their Members, destroy the whole Body: (And was not the actual twice bringing up of the Parliaments own Army, by the Army Officers, against the Parliament itself, to impeach, secure some principal Members of both Houses; seclude the Majority of the Commons House, suppress the whole House of Lord's; break off the Treaty, behead the King, ( the Head of the Parliament ) against the Parliaments Votes, alter the Government, force conditions on the Parliament itself, to omit the 12, 21, 24, 32, 37, 38, 39 Articles of their New Government, with the secluding of all the Members lately admitted by Armed Soldiers, till they took a New Engagement, and keeping out all others) a taking of the Privileges of the Parliament from them all by Whole-sale, and a more desperate pulling up by the Roots, and total subversion of all the Privileges and whole Body of the Parliament, than this objected against the Northern Army, or the Kings Jesuitical ill Council?) Which is enough to prove the vanity of the Contrivers of that Declaration (and of the Army Officers too) to feed themselves with hope of belief, That the Privileges of Parliament are not Violated, but intended to be preserved, with all due observance.

Concerning the Allegation, That the Army raised by the Parliament, is to murder the KING, (oft alleged by the King and his Party, in many printed PROCLAMATIONS, Declarations before and after this here mentioned) We hoped the Contrivers of that Declaration, or any that professed but the name of a Christian, could not have so little charity as to raise such a SCANDAL, especially when they must needs know, the Protestation taken by every Member of both Houses (and Army Officers too) whereby they promise in the presence of Almighty God, TO DEFEND HIS MAJESTIES PERSON.

wherein is expressed, THAT THIS ARMY WAS RAISED FOR DEFENCE OF THE KINGS PERSON,

And concerning the imputation laid to our Charge,

and the true Protestant Religion. After which, they there and elsewhere conclude.

But alas for grief, how superlatively have many of the Army Officers, and their confederate members (though parties to these Declarations and Protestations ) violated them, and both Houses Faiths, Trusts, intentions, ends in raising the Army, in every of these particulars? How have they verified, justified the Kings Declarations, Jealousies, concerning the Parliaments Army, in every point, here (and elsewhere) disclaimed by both Houses? How have they exceeded, out-acted the Kings Jesuitical Counsellers, and most desperate Popish Army, in violating, subverting both the Parliaments Privileges, Members and Parliaments themselves, together with our Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Government; for whose preservation they were only raised, paid? How have they pursued the Kings and his worst Jesuited Counsellers footsteps in all the charges here objected against them by both Houses, in relation to the Parliaments privileges, Members, Constitution, Rights, Laws, to their utter subversion, dissolution, and waged war against them? And doth not every man plainly discern through the Mask and Visard of their Hypocrisy, (to use both Houses expressions) that their design is just the same with that here objected by the Parliament to the Kings ill Jesuited Counsellers, and Popish army; even to subject both King, Parliament and Kingdom, to their needy, ambitious, avaritions spirits, and to the violent Laws, marshal Law, of Governing the People, (yea Parliaments themselves) by Guards, and by the Soldiers? and

as the Houses elsewhere thrice objected against the late King, his Army and party: being the very design (as many wisemen fear) of the 27 Article of their New Government; to settle a Which must henceforth be kept under by Mercinary Fo • ces, to guard of Protectors, when as the Heathen Poet assures us, • nteger vitae scel • ris{que} purus, non eget Mauri jaculis nec arcu; much less our English Nation, ever formerly secured by their own unmercinary Militia of the Trained Bands, and those Lord's and Gentlemen who hold their Lands by Knight-service. O that they would now in the name and fear of God (as they tender the eternal salvation of their Souls, the honor and privileges of all future Parliaments, the ease, welfare, settlement of our Nation) Lay all this most seriously to their Hearts, and make it a matter of their greatest lamentation, and repentance! Besides this, have they not falsified that memorable late Declaration of the Lord's and Commons assembled in Parliament, Novemb. 2. 1642. in Answer to his Majesty's (well worthy perusal now) and made good (both for the time past, and all succeeding Parliaments, whiles there shall be any standing Army in England able to over-power them) all the odious, scandalous positions, in relation to the English Parliament, its Members and privileges (deduced from the Kings Declaration, only by inference, but disclaimed by the King) summed up by them, in the close of that Remonstrance; and published in these ensuing terms, as will evidently appear, if applied to the Army, and their General Council of Officers, by adding or exchanging their names, only for the Kings in a parenthesis?

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(which in all sorts of Republics doth, yea ought of right to over sway the Minority, & their Votes to be firm and binding to all men, as (yea nulled and repealed forever, as some former Parliaments have been, when held and over-awed by armed power, or unduly elected, packed, summoned without Lawfull Authority, or some of the Members forcibly secluded, as you may read at large in the Statutes of 21 R. 2. c. 11, 12, 16, 17, 18. 1 H. 4. c. 3. 1 H. 4. Rot. Parl. n. 22, 23, 36, 48, 66, 70. 113. 39 H. 6. c. 1. & 17 E. 4. c. 7. worthy the serious perusal of our present Grandees, and all illegitimate Parliaments, where they may read the fatal end of all new unparliamentary projects, laws, devices, wherein many now so much glory, as if they would continue form forever: when as in a few years space, they will all probably prove nullities, be forever reversed; yea, branded to posterity, as most pernicious presidents.

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secluded Members, and their two Junct • 's since) so they may Dismember

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So our Lands, Liberties, Lives, Religion, and Laws themselves, Whereby all the Rights both of King and People are due to them, and preserved for them, shall be at the sole will and pleas • re of the Prince (Army, General, and General Council of Officers, in their new High Courts of Injustice, or other Martial Judicatories, as now they are.)

O consider, consider seriously by these particulars, to what a sad, low, despicable condition all English Parliaments are now forever reduced, and their pristine ancient Privileges, Honor, Freedom, Power, violently ravished from them by the late Army practices, violences, and rebellious insolencies against them, never to be paralleled in any age; which hath really verified this clause in the Declaration of both Houses, August 4. 1642. objected against the King and his popish Army, in relation to the Parliaments Army, purposely raised, commissioned, & engaged for their defense.

Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria (about the year of our Lord 340.) objected this as a great crime, barbarism, cruelty, and violation of the privileges of Councils, to the Arian Emperor Constantius.

And Hilary Bishop of Poitou Ann. 360. in his first Book against this Tyrannical Arian Emperor Constantius, thus censures his violent proceedings of this kind, to the subversion of the freedom and privilege of Councils and their members. Thou gatherest COUNCILS, and when they be shut up together in one City, thou TERRIFIEST THEM WITH THREATS; THOU PINEST THEM WITH HVNGER, THOU LAMEST THEM WITH COLD, (as the Army Officers did the secluded Members 6 and 7 Decemb. 1648. when they shut them up all night in Hell, on the bare boards without beds in the cold, and kept them fasting all the next day at Whitehall, til 7 a clock at night) Thou depravest them with Dissembling; O THOU WICKED ONE, what a mockery dost thou make of the Church and Councils? Only Dogs return to their Vomit; and thou compellest the Priests of Christ, to sup up those things which they have disgorged, and commandest them in their confessions, to allow that WHICH BEFORE THEY CONDEMNED. What Bishops hand hast thou left innocent? What tongue hast thou not forced to falsehood? Whose heart hast thou not brought to the condemning of his former opinion? Thou hast subjected all to thy will, yea, to thy violence. And have not some swaying Army Officers, by their frowns, menaces, frauds, Swords, open force upon the Parliament and its Members, beyond all the presidents in any ages, done the like, and exceeded this Arian Tyrant herein? And is it not then high time for all friends to Parliaments, to protest and provide against such detestable, treasonable violences for the future, destructive to all Parliaments, if permitted, or silently pretermitted without question, exemplary censure, righting of the imprisoned Members, or any provision to redress them for the future?

Our prudent Ancesters were so careful to prevent all violence, force, arms, and armed men, in or near any places where Parliaments were held, to terrify, overawe, or disturb their proceedings or Members; That in the Parliament of 7 E. 1. (as you may read in Rastals Abridgement, Armor, 1. Provision was made by the King, by common consent of the Prelates, Earls, and Barons, by a general act, That in all Parliaments, Treaties, and other Assemblies,

(especially at such times, and in places where such Parliaments, Treaties, and Assemblies are held) Hereupon our Kings ever since this statute, by virtue thereof, and by the Law and Custom of the PARLIAMENT, (as Sir Edward Cook in his 4 Institutes c. 1. p. 14. informs us) Of which there are sundry presidents cited by Sir Edward Cook in his Margin; whereof I shall transcribe but one (which he omits) and that is 6 E. 3. Rot. Parliament n. 2. 3. The like Proclamations were made in the beginning of the Parliaments of 9. 1 • , 17, 18. 20, 25 • dw. 3. and sundry others: more necessary to be revived in all succeeding English Parliaments now than ever heretofore, since the unpresidented forces upon the late Members of both Houses, and the Parliament itself, by the Army-Officers and Soldiers, raised to defend them from Violence: The Treasonablenesse and Transcendency whereof being at large related in my Epistle to the Reader, before my Speech in Parliament 4 December 1648, I shall not here criminally press, nor insist on, but referred them thereunto: However for the future security and freedom of our Parliaments from violence, I must crave liberty to inform these Army Parliament drivers, forcers, dissolvers, (habituated to this trade) That if the late Kings march to the House of Commons, accompanied only with some of his Pensioners and others, armed with Pistols and Swords, merely to demand but five Members thereof to be delivered up to Justice, particularly impeached by him of High Treason some days before: to wit, That they had traitorously endeavored to subvert the Fundamental Laws and Government of this Kingdom: To deprive the King of his Royal power: To place over the Subjects an Arbitrary and Tyrannical power, To subvert the very Rights and being of Parliaments: and by force and terror to compel the Parliament to join with them in their designs; for which end they had actually raised and countenanced Tumults against the King and Parliament.

Or if the Kings

Or such capital crimes, as those who condemned and executed him for a Traitor and Tyrant, have published in their Declaration of 17 March 1648. (touching the grounds of their proceedings against him, and settling the Government in the way of a Free State, without King or House of Lord's ) since his beheading, in these very words. Which they charged against the King, as the highest of his unparralleld Offences; for which they appeal to all the world of indifferent men to judge, whether they had not sufficient cause to bring him to Justice? Though neither he nor his followers then seized, secured, secluded, injured any one Member, when they thus went to the Commons House; Yea presently retracted his Impeachment, and offered all satisfaction that should be desired by the House for this breach of Privilege: and though neither the Northern Army, nor their Officers ever advanced towards, or offered the least violence to the Houses, or their privileges, by Petition or otherwise.

Then certainly the Parliaments own Armies Officers, Counsels,

[ Printed by their order in their Book of Declarations, The History of Independency, and my Speech in Parliament, ] [ in their humble Answer touching the secured and secluded Members, Jan. 3. 1648. The true state of the case of the Commonwealth of England, 1654. and their Declarations concerning their dissolution of their two Junctoes] after these Misdemeanours of the King, without the least repentance for them, must needs be far more execrable, unwarrantable and criminal, than the Kings, and deserve a severer censure than his Peccadilioes in respect of their crimes. And if by the whole Armies printed Remonstrances, August 2. and 18. 1647. the Or if by their own Charge in the Name of the whole Army, June 14. 1647. against the XI. Members, it was so high an offense in them, That they jointly or severally invited, encouraged, abetted or countenanced several Reformadoes, and OTHER OFFICERS AND SOULDIERS TVMVLTVOVSLY AND VIOLENTLY TO GATHER TOGETHER AT WESTMINSTER, TO AFFRIGHT & ASSAULT THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IN PASSAGES TO & FROM THE HO • SE, TO OFFER VIOLENCE TO THE HOUSE IT SELF, & BY SVCH VNRVLY OVTRAGES & THREATS TO AWE AND INFORCE THE PARLIAMENT; And that upon their bare suggestion thereof (without any proof at all, or color of truth) they presently demanded, That the persons impeached MIGHT BE FORTHWITH SECLVDED FROM SITTING IN THE HOUSE, and removed thence, before any hearing or trial, which the Officers and Army eagerly pressed in their Paper of June 15. 1647. Nay, if by their own late printed as they there adjudge; though such persons as they intend thus to disable, never waged any actual war against the Parliament itself, or its Members, immediately, but only against the Forces raised by the Parliament, and so mediately and indirectly only against the Parliament, (the case of all the late Kings adherents and assistants, not within the letter, but meaning of these Articles:) then doubtless those Army-Officers, Soldiers, and their Confederats, who whom they immediately assaulted, forced, secured, secluded, dissipated, dissolved, destroyed, and have justified it several times in print, and in this their Instrument have laid many Chains, clogs, restraints, on all new future Parliaments, of their own framing, inconsistent with the Honor, Freedom, Privileges, being of real English Parliaments; deserve a far higher and severer censure than these Apprentices, or impeached Members did in their repute; or those Members they most insolently accuse and impeach, in their Declarations of June 2 • . and August 18. 1647. (not to be presidented in any age since the Creation, till then:) and they all are by their own Verdict, Instrument, totally disabled (as much as the archest Malignants and Cavaliers) by the very letter of these Articles, to be elected, or give any vote for the election of Members in the four next succeeding Parliaments; and those who have given their Votes in the late Elections, have thereby and one full third part of their personal estates; and deserve as high, (if not an higher) censure, as any sequestered, or other Delinquents condemned formerly by them, for bearing arms, levying or abetting any war, but only mediately against the Parliament; and as high an uncapacity to be put not only on themselves, but their Heir males to serve in Parliament, as the Statute of 21 R. 2. c. 6. imposed heretofore on others, for a far less offense; to secure the Members and Privileges of all succeeding Parliaments, from such unpresidented forcible violences, ruptures, dismembrings, dissolutions, as the last Parliament sustained, by the Armies outrage and confederacy against them, (of most dangerous president to Posterity;) of which I desire to make them truly sensible.

The last real and duly constituted English Parliament we had, were so deeply sensible, of the dangerous destructive Consequences of securing or secluding their Members, and keeping them from the Houses, upon any Impeachments or Surmises, without the Notice and consent of the House; that in their forementioned Remonstrance of Nov. 2. 1642. they claimed and asserted this. TO BE SO CLEAR AND ESSENTIAL A PRIVILEDGE OF PARLIAMENT, THAT THE WHOLE FREEDOM THEREOF DEPENDETH UPON IT. That NO MEMBER OF EITHER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT was to be proceeded against, or judged, NOR TAKEN AWAY, OR DETAINED FROM THE SERVICE OF THE HOUSE, WHEREOF HE IS A MEMBER; ( no, not in case of Treason, Felony, or Breach of Peace, much less in any other) until such time as that House hath satisfaction concerning the cause: though in such cases they confessed, he might be arrested by the Officers of Parliament, or any other Ministers of Justice, to the intent only, That he might be brought to the Parliament Corpus cum causa, and detained in safe custody till he may be brought to the Parliament; but not to be proceeded against in any inferior Court, before such time • as the cause be heard in Parliament, and dismissed from it. For (else) who se • s not, that by this means, UNDER FALSE PRETENCES OF CRIMES AND ACCUSATIONS, SVCH AND SO MANY MEMBERS OF BOTH OR EITHER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT MAY BE TAKEN OUT OF IT AT ANY TIME, BY ANY PERSONS TO SERVE A TVRN, AND TO MAKE A MAJOR PART OF WHOM THEY WILL AT PLEASVRE. And as the grand Inquest of the whole Kingdom should be (by this means) subject to the grand Inquest of one particular County; So the whole Representative Body of the Kingdom should be at the Devotion of a Middlesex Jury, (as since of their own Army, raised to protect them from these mischiefs.) And therefore, as THE FREEDOM OF PARLIAMENTS DEPENDETH IN A GREAT PART UPON THEIR PRIVILEGES, AND THE FREEDOM OF THIS NATION UPON THE FREEDOM OF PARLIAMENTS, WE HAVE GOOD REASON TO BELEIVE, that the People of England knowing their Lives and Fortunes are bound up in this bundle, will venture their Lives and Fortunes in this Quarrel: Which I entreat all those who have so highly infringed this principle Privilege of Parliament of late years, with all the people of England now seriously to consider, to vindicate, preserve it in all succeeding ages from the like violations, if ever they expect to be Freemen, or to enjoy free English Parliaments again; which are such an ESSENTIAL PART OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KINGDOM, that we can attain TO NO HAPPINESSE WITHOUT THEM, and like Hipocrates twins, We must laugh and cry, LIVE AND DIE TOGETHER WITH THEM.

Now farther to convince the Army-Officers, Soldiers, of their late great injustice to, and affronts, contempts against the Parliament which raised them, in relation to our ancient fundamental Government and chief Member of the Parliament; I shall desire them and all their confederates in cold blood, seriously to consider, whether they have not, by their undutiful, violent proceedings against them, contrary to the Votes, Declarations, Remonstrances of the PARLIAMENT, endeavored (as much as in them is) to falsify this clause in both Houses Declaration Nov. 2. 1642 Although they would persuade his Majesty, That there is little confidence to be placed in our Modesty and Duty; yet, AS GOD IS WITNESSE OF OUR THOVGHTS, SO SHALL OUR ACTIONS WITNESSE TO ALL THE WORLD; that TO THE HONOR OF OUR RELIGION, and OF THOSE WHO ARE MOST ZEALOUS IN IT (

And on the contrary, have they not fully and actually verified, in respect of themselves and their Confederates in the Houses, this Odious aspersion, then (only in prediction) cast by the KING on the PARLIAMENT, but by them at that time renounced with greatest detestation; and drawn those sad consequences on the whole Kingdom, wherewith both HOUSES conclude that Declaration in these words?

7. That the Representative Body of the whole Kingdom (since dissolved by the Army) is a Faction of Malignant, Schismatical, ambitious Persons, whose DESION IS AND ALWAYES HATH BEEN TO ALTER THE WHOLE FRAME OF GOVERNMENT, BOTH OF CHURCH AND STATE, AND TO SUBJECT BOTH KING AND PEOPLE TO THEIR OWN LAWLESSE ARBITRARY POWER AND GOVERNMENT, and that they DESIGN THE RUINE OF HIS MAJESTIES PERSON and OF MONARCHY IT SELF: and consequently that they are TRAITORS and all the Kingdom with them, (for their act is the act of the whole Kingdom ) And whether their punishment and ruin may not also INVOLVE THE WHOLE KINGDOM IN CONCLUSION, AND REDUCE IT INTO THE CONDITION OF A CONQUERED NATION (as some ARMY OFFICERS, & SOULDIERS openly aver we are now reduced to by and under them) NO MAN CAN TELL: BUT EXPERIENCE SHEWETH US (and now we find it most true in the ARMY-OFFICERS, COVNCELL, SOVLDIERS) THAT SVCCESSE OFTEN DRAWS MEN NOT ONELY BEYOND THEIR PROFESSION; but also many times beyond their first intentions.

Surely as the Armies and their Confederates late proceedings in relation to themselves, (though not unto the forced, dismembered, dissolved Parliament, and secured Members) have fully verified this charge in every particular, then reputed most false and scandalous; which I thus press upon their consciences at this time, and so largely insist on, not to defame or asperse them to the world, as many others do, who apply that black Character of Ier. 9. 2. to 6. c. 12. 6. Rev. 3. 10. to 19. ( They are all an ASSEMBLY OF TREACHEROVS MEN: Thine habitation is in the MIDST OF DECEIT, &c. Destruction and Misery are in their ways, and the way of Peace they have not known; there is no fear of God before their eyes ) unto them in a more eminent manner, as being really verified by their unparalleled exorbitances forementioned; but to vindicate the Innocency, Integrity of the Majority and secluded Members of both Houses, against the scandalous printed aspersions of Militiere and other Papists, to preserve and justify the Honor of our Reformed Religion, and of the most zealous Professors thereof; to restore, re-establish if possible, the Privileges, the Freedom of all Future Parliaments, much impaired, endangered by their heady violent Proceedings, and most pernicious Presidents to Posterity (if not publicly abominated, exploded by them, or exemplarily punished (to deter all others from their future imitation) to convince them by what Jesuitical, Popish, old Court-Principles, Counsels, Practises, they have hitherto been misguided; and to reclaim them, as much as in me lieth, for the future, from the like destructive. Practises, for the public Safety, Peace, Settlement of our distracted Kingdoms; and do most earnestly beseech them, as they are English-men, Soldiers, Christians, seriously to repent of and lay to heart, lest they perish eternally for them at last; as likewise to take heed, lest by teaching and instigating the Common Soldiers of the Army, to suppress, oppress, betray the Parliament, Kingdom, People, who raised, paid, and entrusted them only for their safeguard and defense, they do not thereby instruct and encourage them at last to betray and destroy themselves; it being a true observation of Seneca the Philosopher, Aliquando Tyrannorum praefidia in ipsos consurrexerunt. PERFIDIAMQVE ET IMPIETATEM ET FERITAREM, ET QVICQVID AB ILLIS DIDICERANT, IN IPSOS EXECRERVNT: Quid enim potest ab eo quisquam sperare, QVEM MALVM ESSE DOCVIT? Non diu paret, nequitia, nec quantum jubetur, peccat; as we have seen by many late presidents: So the Army-Officers, Soldiers Great Successes in all their Wars, Designs, and forcible ill Proceedings against the King, Parliament, Kingdom, Government, Laws and Liberties; as it hath caused them not only beyond their Professions, but also beyond their first Intentions, Commissions, Protestations, to forget that Gospel-precept given to Soldiers, Luke 3. 14. to advance themselves to a more absolute Sovereign arbitrary Power over them, than ever any Kings of England claimed or pretended to, (as their late Proceedings, Remonstrances, and transcendent Instrument of the Government of the three Kingdoms, manifest;) so it hath been the principal Ground, whereby they have justified all their unpresidented forementioned Exorbitances, as lawful, commendable, Christian: and that which hath struck such a stupefying panic fear, such a stupendous cowardice, baseness, sott • shness, into the Generality of the Nobility, Gentry, Ministry, and Commons of our late most heroic English Naton, that there is scarce a man to be found throughout the Realm of any Eminency (though we should seek after him like Diogenes, with a Candle) that dares freely open his mouth against their most irregular, illegal, violent, destructive arbitrary Proceedings, Usurpations, Innovations, Oppressions, Taxes, Projects, to the shaking and utter subverting of our ancient Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Rights, Properties, Parliaments, Parliamentary privileges, Government, and taking away of the very Lives of some (and thereby endangering the Lives of all other) English Freemen of all Degrees, in mischristened High Courts of Justice. Such a strange Charm is there in Success alone, to metamorphise Men into mere temporising, slavish, sordid sotts and beasts; yea, to cause not only persons truly honorable, but the very Devil himself, and the worst of beasts, to be wondered after, applauded, adored, not only as Saints, but God's. We read Rev. 13. of a Monstrous deformed BEAST, to whom the Dragon (the Devil) gave his Power, Seat and Great Authority; whereupon, all the world wondered after the Beast, and worshipped not only the Dragon, that gave him power, but the Beast likewise; saying, Who is like unto the Beast? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM? And there was given unto him a Mouth speaking Great things, and blasphemies, and power was given him to continue and make war forty and two months. And power was given unto him to make war with the SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM; and power was given him over all Kindreds, and Tongues, and Nations. And (HEREVPON IT FOLLOWS) all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the Lambs Book of Life. And another Beast (under him) caused the earth and all that dwell therein to set up the Image of this Beast, and to worship it; and he caused all both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive the ma • k of the Beast in their right hand, and in their foreheads; and none might buy or sell, but he that had this mark; and as many as would not worship this Beasts Image, were ordered to be killed. Yet this Blasphemous Beasts reign and power continued but forty two Months, Rev. 13. 5. This Beast, (in the height of his Power and Victories) was by God himself, threatened to go into captivity, and be killed with the Sword, as he had led others into captivity, and killed them with the Sword, ver. 10. All his followers and worshippers shall (soon after) drink of the wine of God's wrath, and be tormented with fire and brimstone, &c. Rev. 14. 9, 10, 11. The Saints at last shall get the victory over this Beast, Rev. 15. 2. And the Beast himself (notwithstanding all his former Victories, Friends, and great Armies) was at last taken, and his false Prophet with him; and were both cast alive into a lake burning with fire and brimstone, and all his Forces were slain with the Sword, and the fowls were filled with their flesh, Rev. 19. 18 19, 20, 21. From which Texts I have frequently silenced, confounded some of our conquering Army-Officers and Soldiers, whiles prisoner under them, when they were vapouring of their Great Victories, Successes, and concluding from thence, both their Saintship, and the Goodness of their Actions; saying ofttimes like the Beasts followers here, Who is able to make war with us? And that with these genuine deductions from these Texts, which they could not reply against; worthy all Soldiers and others saddest meditations.

1. That God may, nay ofttimes doth give great power to the very worst and most blasphemous of all Men and Beasts; & that not only over one or two, but many Tongues, Nations, as in this Text, and Dan. 7. 3, to 29. c. 8. 4. to 27.

2. That such Beasts many times may, and do not only make war with, but even overcome the very Saints themselves in battle, as the Babylonians, Assyrians, and other ungodly Beasts did the Israelites, God's own Saints and People, Psa. 79. 1, 2, &c. Dan. 7. 21, 23, 24, 25. Isa. 10. 5, &c. c. 14. 16, 17. Jer. 26. 6, 7, 8. c. 25. 9. &c. yet they were but blasphemous Beasts, and wretches still, not Saints.

3. That if such Beasts have but Great Power and Success in their Wars, Enterpri • es against their Enemies, or the Saints themselves; though their mouths utter blasphemy against the God of Heaven, his Name, Tabernacle, Saints; though their Actions, Designs be never so impious, atheistical, treasonable, detestable: their power but short and fading, yet whiles they are in Power and Prosperity, the whole world will wonder, run after, worship, flatter, Saint, Deifie and Adore them for God's, (as Alexander the Great, and Julius Caesar's friends, flatterers did them; and some wicked Popes Favorites them too;) yea, set up, and worship their very Images, receive their marks in their hands, foreheads, and extol them to the skies, saying, Who is like unto the Beast? who is able to make war with him?

4. That such adulatious Speeches, Vaunts, Practises as these, and such Arguments of Saintship, of the Goodness of men's causes, undertakings, actions, only from their present Power, Victories and Successes, are the arguments, practices, of worldly, earthly, beastly men; of worshippers of the Beast and Dragon of Assyrians, Turks, Popes, not of the Elect real Saints of God, Whose names are written in the Lambes Book of life; who will neither flatter, worship, nor adore such Beasts, nor receive their marks in their hands or fireheads, though they be prohibited to buy or sell, or slain for refusing it by their Instruments, Rev. 13. 8, 15, 17. Dan. 3. 12. to 29.

5. That such Beasts in power, will never want under-Beasts and Instruments, nor yet false Prophets to persuade or enforce Obedience and Subjection to them, even by dis-franchisements, death, lying wonders, flattering Prophecies, Speeches, Sermons, and Hypocritical Mockfasts.

6. That the Power and Dominion of such Beasts, is given and derived to them immediately by the Dragon (the Prince of the power of the Air ) only by God's permission, not his approbation; Rev. 13. 2. Hos. 8. 4. 2 Thess. 2. 4, 8 9. And that in wrath, for the punishment of the Peoples sins, and destruction, greater condemnation of the beasts themselves at last. Hos. 13. 11. Rev. 13. and 14, and 19. Psal. 94, 23. Ier. 51. 24, &c. c. 5 • . throughout. Hab. 2. 6, 7, 8.

7. That this their Dominion, Raign and Triumph, is commonly very short, like this Beasts here for forty two Months, Rev. 13. 5. which is but three years and an half Julius Caesar that great first Conqueror of this Island and a great part of the World; usurping the supreme Power over the Roman Senate, and changing the Government, lived only FIVE MONTHS A SOVERAIGN LORD IN PEACE (though some compute his whole dominion 3 years and 7 months ) and then was suddenly stabbed to death in the Senate-House, by those friends in whom he reposed greatest trust; for his Tyrannical Usurpations, and alteration of their former Government; for endeavoring (as was suspected) to make himself KING OF THE ROMANS, (though he rejected the Title of King when offered unto him by M. Antonius, saying, That Jove was only King of the Romans, that so he might seem to be compelled to receive it by the people, (being their King before in deed, though not in name: ) and for saying, That the Commonwealth was but a Voice or Name, without a Body or Substance. Nullum violentum est diuturnum, See Isa. 10, and 14. Job. 20. 4, 5, &c. Psal. 37 and 73. Psal. 92. 6, 7. Isa. 17, 13, 14. 2 Chron. 23. and Sir Walter Rawlies Preface to his History of the World, worthy serious perusal by the Grandees of these times.

8. That in conclusion such Conquering, Usurping Beasts, notwithstanding all their Power, Friends, Followers, Confederates, Armies, Policies, are usually conquered, taken, slain on Earth, and cast into the Lake burning with fire and brimstone forever, for their Tyrannies, Blasphemies, Bloodsheds Oppressions of the People and God's Saints, and their Confederates, Armies, false Prophets, followers, adorers destroyed with them even on earth; and then made to drink the Cup of God's wrath, fury and torments forever in hell, Isa. 10, and 14. Jer. 50. and 51. Rev. 19. 19. 20, 21. c. 6. 15, 16, 17.

9. That though they continue Conquerors and victorious for many years; and conquer not only, one, two or three, but many Kings and Kingdoms; cut off not only the thumbs of their Kings, that they might not lift up a Sword against them, and their great toes, that they may not run from them, but their Heads too; Yet God at last (in his retaliating Justice) doth usually pay them home in their own coin, as is evident, not only by Bajazet the Turkish Emperor, our King Penda, (who slew no less than 5. Christian Kings in several battles, took sundry other Kings prisoners, and at last was slain himself, with all his old victorious Captains and Soldiers, by King Oswi, and a small despicable Army of raw Soldiers, not half so many as they, Ann. 655. who thereupon seized on his Kingdom) and others in profane Stories; but by that memorable History of Adonibezeck; who after his Conquest of no less than seventy Kings, (whoever in this latter age, conquered one quarter so many?) and tyrannizing over their persons, was, by a small party of Judah and Simeon, fought with on his own dung-hill, his victorious old Army totally routed, ten thousand of them slain, himself forced to fly, pursued, and taken prisoner by these contemptible Enemies, who cut off his thumbs and his great toes. Whereupon Adoni-bezek (though an idolatrous Canaanite ) used these memorable words, worthy all Conquerors and Tyrants memorial; recorded by God himself to all Posterity, Judges 1. 7. Threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs, and their great toes cut off, have gathered their meat under my table (like so many Dogs rather than Kings) AS I HAVE DONE, SO GOD HATH REWARDED ME: and they brought him (Prisoner) to Jerusalem, and there he died. See the like retaliation threatened, inflicted. Hab. 2. 6, 7, 8. Isa. 33. 1. Dan. 7. 23. to 27. Obad. 15. Ezech. 35. 5, 6, 15. Rev. 16. 5. 6. Ier. 51, and 52. Nah. 3. 1. &c. Rev. 13. 10. Joel 3. 6, 7, 8. Deut. 32. 43. Isa. 10. & 14. 2 Chron. 22. 10. compared with c. 23. 12. to the end.

10. That the Elect Saints of God, do by faith in the Word of God, and upon consideration of the usual Providence and Justice of God towards such Beasts and bloody Conquerors, most assuredly see their downfall, and with patience expect it, Rev. 13. 9, 10. If any man have an ear let him hear. HE THAT LEADETH INTO CAPTIVITY, SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY; HE THAT KILLETH WITH THE SWORD, MVST BE KILLED WITH THE SWORD: Here is THE PATIENCE AND THE FAITH OF THE SAINTS. O that we had this Patience and Faith within us now!

11. That upon this Faith and Assurance, the true Elect Saints of God, neither will, nor do, nor dare to admire after, follow, worship or adore such B • asts, or their Image, nor receive their marks in their hands, or foreheads, though all the world else readily do it without opposition; enduring patiently rather to be warred upon, killed, secluded from buying or selling anything, then unchristianly to adore, subject, or enslave themselves unto them, Rev. 13. 2, 15, 17. Esther 3 • 1, to 7. 2 Kings 3. 13, 14. John 10. 4, 5. Dan. 3. 4. to 30. 1 King. 19. 18. 2 Chron. 11. 13. to 18.

Which serious seasonable considerations, as they should daunt the hearts and allay the high Presumptuous Spirits of the most Successfull Conquerors, Powerful Usurpers over and violent Invaders of the Liberties, Lives, Estates, Rights, Properties of their Lawfull Superio • s or Christian Brethren, and all Subverters of the Laws, Privileges, Parliaments, Government of their Native Country, especially against their Oaths and Trusts: So the Meditation on them, together with the contemplation of the infinite Power, Wisdom, Faithfulness, Justice, Holiness, Presence, and gracious Promises of God, have at all times and seasons hitherto, invincibly animated, steeled, fortified my Soul in the midst of all my sufferings, both under the domineering Prelates, Parliament-assaulting Army-Officers, the late Tyrannical cashiered Republicans, and all other self-created oppressing Powers, which (if not already dead and buried in the dust, with all their thoughts and high aspiring Projects,) yet shall certainly die ere long like men, and become us dung; yea, they have enabled me by Faith and Patience to be more than a conquering triumpher over them: and to sing aloud with magnanimous David (a man after God's own heart ) long before their down-fall, Psal. 27. 1, 2, 3. The Lord is my Light and my Salvation, wh • m shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked even mine enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an Host should encamp against me (as they did at Westminster, at my House, and in sundry Garrisons, where I was a Prisoner under Soldiers) my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round about. And to cry out in Paul's words of defiance against all Enemies and Perils in the cause of my God and Country (uttered in his own and all true Elected Saints names) Rom. 8. 35, &c. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? (or our Native Country, as well actively as passively considered;) Shall tribulation? or distress? or persecution? or famine? or peril? or SWORD? (of an whole Army, or other Powers) Nay, in all these things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor PRINCIPALITIES, NOR POWERS, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. And to say with him in all threatened Dangers for my sincere conscientious public Services, Act. 20. 22. 24. And now I go bound to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall there befall me, save, that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every City, saying; That Bonds and Afflictions wait for me. But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto me, so • s I may finish my course with joy, and the Ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, &c. And verily me thinks the serious contemplation thereof, and of all the premises, with that of 2 Sam. 10. 12. Isa: 51. 12. 13. Ier. 1. 8. Ezech. 2▪ 2, to 6. Matth. 10. 26. 28 coupled with Psal. 11. 2. If the foundati • ns be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Prov. 24. 22, 23. My Son, fear thou the Lord and the King, AND MEDDLE NOT WITH THOSE WHO ARE GIVEN TO CHANGE; For their calamity shall rise suddenly (which we have seen verified in many late Changers, Mock Parliaments, and self created new Powers,) and wh • knoweth the ruin of them both? should now at last banish all base carnal fears out of all timorous hearts, rouse up the languishing, fearful, dead, stupid Spirits of our degenerated English Nation, and engage them all unanimously, undauntedly to claim, vindicate, regain, re-establish those ancient undoubted Hereditary Fundamental Rights, • iberties, Privileges, Franchises, Laws, Government, (purchased with their Ancestors & their own dearest Blood, sweat, Treasures ) which belong to the whole Kingdom; to all true English Parliaments, Freemen in general, and to every of them in particular; whereof they have of late years been forcibly disseised, or • ypocritically cheated by pretended Patrons, Preservers, and Propuguers of them; the substance whereof I have here set before their eyes in ten brief Propositions, and by Records, Statutes, Presidents, Histories, Contests, Resolutions in all ages, undauntedly, (as their Common Advocate ) asserted, fortified to my power, for their Encouragement and president in this public work. And if they will now but courageously second me herein, with their join • , bold, rightful Claims, Votes, Declarations, and Resolut • Demands of all and every of their enjoyments, and future inviolable Establishments; with strenuous Oppositions of all illegal perpetual Imposts, Excises, Contributions, Payments (the chief nerves and cords to keep them still in bondage by Mercinary Forces, supported only by them to keep them still in slavery) according to their Oaths, Vows, Protestations, Duties, manifold late Declarations, Remonstrances, Solemn League, Covenant, and the encouraging memorable Presidents of their Ancestors in former ages here, recorded; I dare assure them (by God's blessing) a desired good-Success, whereof their Ancestors never failed: no mortal Powers nor Armies whatsoever, having either Impudency or Ability enough to deny, detain them from them, if they will but generally, unanimously, courageously, importunately claim and demand them as their Birth-rights. But if they will still basely disown, betray, and cowardly desert both them and their Assertors, and leave them to a single combat with their combined Jesuitical enemies (whom none take care to discover, suppress or banish out of our Realms, where they now swarm more than ever) and Armed Invaders; the Fate of our old English Britons, when they improvidently neglected to unite their Counsels, Forces against, and fought only singly with the invading united Armies of the Romans, is like to be England's condition now; Dum pugnant singuli, vincunntur universi: the single Champions of our Liberties, Laws, Rights, will be easily over-powered, destroyed, for the present; and all others (by their unworthy Treachery and Baseness, in not adhering to, but abandoning their present Patrons) discouraged, disabled to propugne, regain them for the future: and the whole Kingdom vanquished, yea enslaved for eternity in all human probability, to those who have broken your former yokes of wood, but instead thereof have made for, and put upon you yokes of Iron: and by the Jesuits Machiavilian Plots and Policies, will reduce you by degrees under a mere Papal yoke at last, having deeply leavened many in power and arms, with their forementioned most desperate Jesuitical Positions, Practises and Politicks, which will soon usher in the whole body of Popery, and all damnable Heresies whatsoever, by degrees, to the ruin of our Religion, as well as Laws and Liberties.

Wherefore, seeing it neither is, nor can be reputed Treason, Felony, Sedition, Faction, nor any Crime at all, but a commendable bounden Duty, to which our Protestations, Oaths, Leagues, Covenants, Reason, Law, Conscience, our own private and the public Interest, Safety of the Nation engage us, for all and every Freeborn Englishman, jointly and severally to claim, maintain, preserve, by all just, honorable, public and private ways they may, their unquestionable Hereditary Birth-rights, Laws, Liberties, Parliamentary Privileges, &c. here asserted and presented to them, after so much Blood, Treasure, Labor spent to rescue them out of the hands of old and late oppressing Tyrants; nor any Offence at all, but a praise-worthy service now in me, or any other, publicly to encourage them to this duty, (and the strenuous defense of our endangered undermined Protestant Religion, subverted with our Laws & Liberties, and living or dying together with them ) at this present season, as I have done heretofore upon all occasions; And seeing none can justly censure them or me, for discharging our Oaths, Consciences, Covenants, Protestations, Duties in this kind, but such as shall thereby declare themselves Public Enemies and Trayters to the whole Nation, Laws, Government, Parliaments of England, as the Resolutions, Presidents, herein cited, yea their own best friends, (and our Reformed Religion too) have already adjudged them: And seeing Sir Thomas Fairfax and the General Council of his Army, held at Putney Sept. 9. 1647. in their Declararation, concerning THE FVNDAMENTAL AVTHORITY & GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDON; printed by their appointment, in these words: Whereas a Member of the General Council of this ARMY, hath publicly declared and expressed himself, THAT THERE IS NO VISIBLE AUTHORITY IN THE KINGDOM, BVT THE POWER & FORCE OF THE SWORD, (as others of them say since, and now both by words and deeds, without control.) We therefore the said GENERAL COUNCEL (to testify. How FARRE OUR HEARTS & MINDS ARE FROM ANY DESIGN OF SETTING UP THE POWER OF THE SWORD ABOVE OR AGAINST THE FUNDAMENTAL AUTHORITY & GOVERNMENT OF THE KINGDOM & OUR READINESSE TO MAINTAIN AND UPHOLD THE SAID AUTHORITY:) have by a Free Vo • e (in the said Council, no man contradicting) judged the said Member, TO BE EXPELLED THE SAID COUNCEL. Which we hereby thought fit to publish, as A CLEAR MANIFESTATION OF OUR DISLIKE & DISAVOWING SVCH PRINCIPLES OR PRACTISES, (which notwithstanding they have since avowed pursued in the highest degree; and I desire them now to repent of▪ reform, and really make good) have engaged to maintain and propugne with their Swords, what I here endeavor to defend, support, with my Pen. And seeing they entitled their Printed Papers, A Declaration of the Engagements, Remonstrances, Representations, Proposals, Desires, and Resolutions, from his Excellency Sir Tho: Fairfax, and THE GENERAL COVNCEL OF THE ARMY, for settling OF HIS MAJESTY IN HIS JVST RIGHTS, The PARLIAMENT in their JVST PRIVILEGES, and the SVBJECTS in their LIBERTIES & FREEDOMS. Also Representations of THE GRIEVANCES OF THE KINGDOM, & REMEDIES PROPOVNDED, for REMOVING THE PRESENT PRESSVRES WHEREBY THE SVBJECTS ARE BVRDENED (and EXCISES, TAXES amongst the rest) And the Resolutions of the Army, For the establishment of a firm & lasting peace IN CHURCH & KINGDOM, printed by their own, and the Lord's House special Or • er, London 1647: the self-same things I here contend, plead for, (which I wish they would now really make good by their future consultations and actions to avoid the just censures of mere Hypocrites and Impostors, as the whole World will else repute them.) I shall therefore exhort not only the whole Army, Army-Officers, and their General Council; but likewise the whole English Nation, and all real Lovers of their own or their Countries Liberties, Peace, Laws, Ease, Safety, Religion, and future establishment in this common Cause, in the words of the Philistines one to another in a time of need, when they were greatly afraid, 1 Sam. 4. 9. Be strong and quit yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servante to the Hebrews, as they have been to you • quit yourselves like men, fight, &c. That so (as the Apostle writes in the like case, Phil. 1. 27, 28.) Whether I come and see you, or be absent from you▪ I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind, striving together for the faith of the Gospel; (and the ancient Fundamental Laws, Liberties, Rights, Privileges, Parliaments, Government and Religion of our Realm, which the Jesuits and their Instruments make their Master-piece totally to undermine and subvert) And in nothing terrified by your Adversaries, which is to them an evident token of Perdition, but to you of Salvation, and that of God. If the Presidents of your renowned Ancesters here recorded; the Paterns of many gallant Pagan Romans, Grecians, who have spent their Lives, for their Countries, Laws, Liberties; Or if my example and these my Lucubrations shall provoke you hereunto; I shall think my labor well bestowed; and you and your Posterities worthy to live like English-Freemen. But if you will now neither manfully demand, speak, nor contend for them anymore, out of a slavish fear of a prevailing Army raised only for their just defense, or any other human Powers whatsoever; nor once adventure with united Spirits now at last, so much as confidently, boldly to ask these your unquestionable Birthrights at the Thrones of any mortal Grandees, your Fellow-Subjects, when God Almighty himself commands you, to come with boldness to his coelestial Throne of Grace, that you may obtain (not mere right as here, but) Mercy itself, and Grace to help in time of need, Heb. 4. 16. Qui timide rogat, docet negare; you can neither hope for, nor ever obtain them for the future, but deserve eternally to forfeit them, and you and yours to be made slaves forever: However I (though these Collections prove successless) shall carry this as a comfortable Cordial with me to my grave, That I have faithfully discharged my Conscience and bounden Duty to my degenerous Native Country, by endeavoring all I could both to make and preserve it free indeed; to detect and prevent all Jesuitical Plots and Practises, to undermine, imbroyl, divide, subvert, ruin it; and used my utmost sincerest constant endeavors in my place and calling herein. But if through the Malice, Tyranny or Injustice of any prevailing Enemies of public Freedom, or Jesuitical Agents, I shall chance to suffer for it in any kind, (as I have formerly done for most of my public services of this nature) be it close-imprisonments, Fines, Pillories, Stigmatizings or Death itself; I shall only say beforehand, as Gregory the Great did heretofore: Indict. 2. Epist. 78. In causa qua Deo place • e cupio, homines non formido: and as noble Heroic Esther did, in a like public case for her endangered captivated Nation, If I perish, I perish: and this my unrighteous suffering, shall be a new Glorious permissive, ordering, over-ruling Providence, doth no ways justify nor extenuate the guilt of any Traitors, Rebels, Murderers, Conspirators sins▪ Treasons, Rebellions, Murders, Regicides, Conspiracies, Rapines, Oppressions, or Wicked Devices, which he permits them to plot, act, accomplish; so it doth in no wise exempt them in God's or Men's esteem from being the true Original Plotters, Contrivers, and immediate instrumental Actors of them; nor from the divine or human Punishments which they in justice demerit; as is most evident by Gen. 50. 15. to 21. Psal. 37. 7. 9. Prov. 24. 10, 21, 22. Job 20. 5, 6, &c. 1 Kings 12. 12. to 25. c. 15. 23. to 30. c. 16. 1. to 30. specially ver. 7, 8. 2 Kings 11. 1. to 17. c. 14. 5, 6. c. 15. 8. to 32. c. 17. 21, 22. 1 Sam. 8. 2 Sam. 1. 2. to 17. c. 4. throughout. Hos. 1. 4. c. 8. 4, 5. Isaiah 29. 15, 16 c. 10. 5, 6, 7, &c. Acts 1. 16. to 21. c. 2. 23. 1 Thess. 2. 14, 15, 16. Mat. 27▪ 3, 4, 5. compared together. And if we should look upon all our late Changes, Revolutions in our Kingdoms, Government, Church, Parliaments, Religion, Laws, (wrought by the Jesuits and their Instruments ) as the mere wonderful immediate Productions and Glorious Operations of God himself in the world, and upon the instruments employed in them, only as God's own precious chosen Saints and Servants, accomplishing nothing but his own determinate Will, Providence, Council, (though to satisfy their own ambition, covetousness, malice, rapine, blood-thirstiness, lusts) as many now proclaim them, and not as Conspirators, Treacherous, Perfidious, Pernicious Malefactors in the highest degree, as well as Jack Cade, Wat Tyler, Strafford, Canterbury, or the murderers of our Savior, Joash, Ishbosheth, with other Kings heretofore, and of Henry the 3. and 4. of France, of late; there should then be no Traitors, Conspirators, Murderers, Sinners, Treasons, Conspiracies, Murders, Sins, in the world (being all perpetrated by God's permissive Providence) no Law, nor Hell to punish them: and it would be no less than a direct resisting, fighting against God and his Providence, for any Christians, Kingdoms, Kings, or Loyal Subjects, to pray against, resist, oppose the Treasons, Murders, Conspiracies, Usurpations, Rebellions, Innovations, Plots, of any Jesuits or Romish Emissaries, or their under-Agents, against our Kings, Kingdoms, Governors, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Government and Religion; which would be professed Blasphemy, or Frenzy at least, for any man to affirm.

2. That this Jesuit Parsons▪ in his • o • ks of the Reformation of all the States of England, as he prescribed Reformations to the Prince, Court, Counselors, Noblemen, Bishops, Prelates, Pastors, Universities, Lawyers, Laws, in which he will have STRANGE METAMORPHOSES; so likewise, THE COVRT OF PARLIAMENT HE WILL HAVE BROVGHT TO BETTER FORM, as W. W. (a secular Priest) in A Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay-Gentleman, printed at Reims, An. 1601. p. 95. Watson in his Quadlibets, p. 92. to 96. 320. to 334. William Clark (a s • cular Priest in his Answer to Father Parsons L • bel, p. 75. &c. ) in direct terms attest. And may we not then justly suspect, that the late New-models and Reformations of our Kingdoms, Parliaments, Government, Laws, &c. (originally promoted by our Army Counsels, and Officers) proceeded primarily from the Jesuits Projections & Plots against them, if the Statutes of 23 Eliz. c. 1. 27 Eliz. c. 2. 35 Eliz. c. 2, 3. Iac. c. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7. 7 Iac. c. 6. and the manifold Declarations of both Houses of Parliament, Exact Collection, p. 491, 492, 497, 498, 616. 631, 666, 698, 813, to 828. may be judges?

3. That the Jesuits drift directly is (immediately by means of CONQUEST intended for England ) to bring it and all Christendom into an uproar, FOR COMMON SOVLDIERS TO EXAMINE THEIR SOVERAIGNS, WHAT TITLE THEY HOLD BY; that thereupon themselves by craft, money and multitudes gathered together through their Policy, may bring England, ( and then ) Spain, and all the rest under their subjection and Monarchy: And that principally by this Jesuitical Position; That every Precopie or Tartarian multitude, getting once the style and title of a PUBLICK STATE, or HELVETIAN COMMONWEALTH, may alter, change and innovate the course of inheritances and succession TO CROWNS AND KINGDOMS, and also to every private Persons heritage holden in Fee-s • mple: as William Watson assures us in these very terms. And whether the Jesuits have not instructed our Army Officers and Common Soldiers upon this pretext, and for this very end, to examine their Sovereigns, yea, our Parliaments Titles, Privileges, and Powers too of late, and dispose of, reject, suppress them at their pleasure; let themselves, the whole Nation, with all in present power, in the fear of God, most seriously consider, without passion or affection, before it be over-late.

4. That the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance ( which all Members of Parliament ought by Law to take, before they can sit, or vote as Members) specially made and prescribed by our most wise, zealous Protestant Parliaments, to prevent the Treasonable plots and designs of Popes, Jesuits, and Papists, against our Protestant Princes, Realms, Parliaments, Religion, though confirmed by many Statutes, and containing in them, only the Declaration of such a Duty, as every true and well-affected Subject, not only by the bond of Allegiance, but also by the COMMANDMENT OF GOD, ought to bear to the King, his Heirs and Successors; and none but persons infected with Popish Superstition formerly oppugned, ( as the Prologue of the Statute of 7 Iacobi c. 6. positively resolves) have by late State innovators, not only been discontinued, suspended, but declaimed against and repealed (as much as in them lay) as VNLAWFUL OATHS; the old Laws against Jesuits and Popish Seminaries, discontinued, abrogated, or coldly executed. The New Oath for abjuration of Popery, with all Bills against Jesuits and Papists, presented to the late King by both Houses the last Parliament, and by him consented to in the Isle of Wight, wholly laid aside, and quite buried in oblivion. The Solemn Protestation, League and Covenant, prescribed by the last Parliaments taken by all the well-affected in all the 3 Kingdoms (to prevent the dangerous plots of Papists, Jesuits, and our common enemies to destroy our Religion, Churches, Realms, Government, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties) quite antiquated, dec • ied, detested, and a New Engagement forcibly imposed under highest penalties and disabilities upon all men, diametrically contrary to these Oaths, Protestations and Covenants, which have been (by a new kind of Papal power ) publicly dispensed with, and the people absolved from them, to become sworn Homages to other new self-created Lord's and Masters. And are not all these, with the late Proclaimed Universal Toleration and Protection of all Religions, to considerate zealous Protestants, strong Arguments of the Jesuits Predominancy in our late counsels, transactions, and changes of public Government?

5. That the Notion of THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT, (in my weak apprehension) derived its original from the Jesuits late-invented PRESENT CHURCH, the only Supreme Power and Judge of Controversies, which all men must submit unto, by a mere absolute blind Obedience, and implicit faith, without dispute by their determination: as they must do, by a like Jesuitical blind obedience ( newly taught and obtruded on us) to that present Republican Government, and new Optimacity, and Popularity, lately set up instead of our Monarchy. Which two forms of Government, and want of a King and Monarchy, as they are the punishment of a people's Sins, and the Transgressions of a Land by God's own resolution, not a Mercy. Hosea 10. 3. c. 1. 4. Ier. 18. 7. Prov. 28. 2. Ez • . 19. 14. Lam. 4. 20. c. 5, 7, 8, 12. so they were the inventions of Factious Grecians at first, w • ch put all their Cities into Combustions, fury, frenzy, and civil wars against each other, to their utter overthrow in conclusion: witness these verses of Heniochus, a Greek Comedian:

Tum geminae ad illas accesserunt Mulieres (TITAS QUAE CUNCTA CONTURBARUNT: OPTIMAEst nomen alteri: alteri POPULARITAS; (RUNT. Quarum incitatis PRIDEM EXTERNATAE FU •

So the Jesuits, Parsons, Campanella, Car. Richelieu, designed to introduce & set them up among so us in Engl. Scotl. and Ireland, of purpose to divide • destroy us by civil wars and combustions, and bring us under their Jesuitical power at last, as the marginal Authorities declare to all the world. And if this be undeniable to all having any sense of Religion, Peace or public Safety left within their breasts, is it not more than high time for us to awake out of our former lethargy, & fordid, selfish stupidity, to prevent our ruin, by these and other forementioned Jesuitical practices? Of can any Englishman, or real Parl. be justly offended with me for this impartial discovery of them? Or for my endeavors to put all the dislocated Members and broken bones of our old inverted fundamental body Politick, into their due places, joints and postures again, without which there is no more possibility of reducing it to its, pr • stine health, ease, settlement, tranquility, prosperity, or of preserving it from perpetual pain, inquietation, consumption and approaching death, than of a natural body whose principal members continue dis-jointed, and bones broken all in pieces, as all prudent State-Physicians must acknowledge.

These five Considerations, together with the Premises; will I presume sufficiently wipe off all the malicious scandalous Imputations, which Militiere and other Papists, have injuriously cast upon the Principles and chief Professors of our Reformed Religion, in relation to the late exorbitant Proceedings against the King, Parliament, the public Revolutions, Confusions, Ataxies both in our Church & Kingdoms; and retort them on the Jesuitical, Papal, seditious, Treasonable, Antimonarchical Principles and Professors of their Religion, especially the Jesuits and French Cardinals (Militiere his late Lord's and Masters) the original Contrivers, and chief clandestine Promoters of them, as every day more and more discovers to the world. And withal abundantly justify this my undertaking & impartial discovery of Jesuitical plots to ruin our Church, Religion, Kingdoms, Parliaments, Laws, Liberties, Government, against all malicious Enemies, Accusers Maligners whatsoever, before all the Tribunals of God or Men, where I shall be ready to justify them upon all occasions. In perpetual testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand, and by God's Grace shall ever be ready to seal them and the truth of God with my blood, if called out to do it.

A Seasonable Legal and Historical VINDICATION and Chronologicall Collection of the good Old Fundamental Liberties, Franchise • , Rights, Laws of all English Freem • n; (their best Inheritance, Birth-right, Security, against all Arbitrary Tyranny, Egyptian Slavery and Burdens) of late years most dangerously undermined, oppugned, and almost totally subverted, under the specious feigned Disguise of their Defense, Enlargement, and future Establishment upon a sure Basis.

IT is an universal received Principle, and experimental truth, beyond all contradiction, That no natural structure, no artificial building, no Civil or Ecclesiastical Corporation, Realm, Republic, Government, or Society of men; no Art or Science whatsoever, can possibly be erected, supported, established, preserved or continued in their being or well-being, without FOVNDATIONS; Whereon, as they were at first erected, so they must necessarily still depend, or else they will presently fall to utter ruin.

Hence it is (to wave all Human Authorities in so clear a verity) that in God's own sacred unerring word of Truth, we find frequent mention of the natural Foundations of the the vast natural Fabric of the Earth, Heavens and world itself; of the Artificial, Material Foundations of the Material Temple, Walls, City of God's own most famous Jerusalem; and of private Houses: of the spiritual Foundations of the Spiritual Temple, City, Jerusalem, and whole Church of God; even Jesus Christ himself: of Doctrinal Foundations, and first Principles of Religion; Christianity, Salvation: yea, of the Political Foundations of Kingdoms, Republics, Churches, Governments, States: Which being once shaken, undermined, subverted, razed, or d • stroyed, bring unavoidable ruin and desolation upon them, ( Psal. 11. 3. Psal. 82. 5. Jer. 50. 15. & 51. 25, 26. Micah 1. 6, 7, 9.) Even as we daily see Castles, Walls, Houses to fall instantly to the ground, and become an heap of Confusion, when their Foundations are blown up, decayed, or demolished.

Upon which consideration, those public Laws, which establish, fence, fortify, support the Fundamental Constitutions, Rights, Liberties, Privileges of any Nation, Kingdom, Republic, (essential to their being and subsistence, as a free or happy people, against the Invasions, underminings, enchroachments of any Tyrants, Usurpers, Oppressors, or public enemies, are usually styled Fundamental Laws; and have ever been reputed so sacred, inviolable, immutable, in all ages, upon any pretences of necessity, or public safety, that most Nations, and our own English Ancestors above others, have freely chosen to hazard, yea, lose their estates, lives, in their just defense, against such exorbitant tyrannical Kings, and other Powers, who by force or policy have endeavored to violate, alter, or subvert them; rather than out of a Cowardice, Sottishnesse, Carelesnesse, or want of cordial love to the Public, to suffer the least infringment, repeal, or alteration of them to the inthrawling of themselves or their posterities to the arbitrary wills of such domineering Tyrants and Usurping Powers.

Now because, after all our Old and New (many years) bloody, costly, dangerous Contests and Wars, for the maintenance of our good Old Fundamental Liberties, Laws, • ights, Privileges, against all secret or open underminers of them, I clearly behold with grief of heart, that there is a strang monstrous generation of new Tyrannical State-Heretics, sprung up amongst us; who are grown so desperately impudent, as not only to write, but publicly to assert in print, in Books printed by AUTHORITY, (even in Capitals, in every Title page) That the Freemen and People of England have no such unalterable Fundamental Laws and Liberties left them by their forefathers (as our Ancestors heretofore contested for, both in the Field and Parliament-House, with William the Conqueror, Henry the first, King John, Henry the third, Edward 1. 2. 3. Richard 2. with other Kings and Princes; and our late Parliament • and Armies too, with King James and King Charles.) That neither Magna Charta, nor the Petition of Right, nor the Laws for trying Malefactors by Juries of their Pears, are Fundamental or unalterable; but that the State Physicians (or rather Mountebanks) of our time (who are not tied up to them, but left free unto themselves) may lay them quite aside, either in part or whole, as they see cause. Yea, have now attained to such a super-transcendent Authority, that they may (as they assert) lay aside all Parliaments & Parliamentary ways, & appoint something else, as more seasonable and proper to us, and as Providence makes way for it, if they see it more conducing to the safety and good of the Commonwealth (that is, to their own private Interests, Honors; Profits, Securities, Designes, Oppressions, Rapines, gilded over with this specious pretext) And then peremptorily conclude, That to plead for these and other fundamental laws and liberties, as unalterable, (though the only Bulwarks & Badges of our Freedom) is nothing else, but to enslave the Nation: for by such a Principle, people do not only lose their Liberty, but are brought under such a kind of Tyranny, out of which (AS BEING WORSE THAN THE AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE) there is no hope of deliverance. An absurd Tyrannical Paradox, transcending any I ever yet met with in any Author; stripping us naked of all our long enjoyed Laws, Liberties, Franchises, great Charters at once; tending only to reduce, and perpetually enthrall us under such an absolute AEGYPTIAN BONDAGE and Tyranny, without any hope of future deliverance from it, which some now endeavor to entaile on us and our posterities forever, by an Iron law, and Yoke of Steel, instead of restoring to us that glorious Freedom, which we have so long expected from them in vain.

And because I find the generality of the Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, Commonalty of our Nation, after all their late years expensive bloody wars, and Parliamentary Disputes, for the defense and preservation of these our ancient Hereditary Fundamental Charters, Laws, Liberties, Privileges, so strangely degenerated both from themselves, and their Heroic prudent Ancestors, as that they are more readily inclined, upon every occasion, out of a base, unchristian, unmanly, un-english fear, or sottish cowardice and stupidity, wittingly to desert, betray, surrender them all up into the hands of any invading Us • rpers, without the least Public Claim, Dissertation, Defense, Dspute; then diligently or courageously to contend or suffer for them, of late they did: So as that which Paul once taxed in the • lavish besotted Corinthians, 2 Epist. 11. 20. may be most truly averred of our degenerated, infatuated English Nation: Ye suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man de •• ur you, if a man take of you, if a man ex • lt himself (above your Laws, Liberties, Franchises, Parliaments, Kings, Nobles, Properties, Lives, Consciences, and all that is called God, or warshipped) if a man smite you on the face; notwithstanding all their manifold late Protestations, Vows, Covenants, Remonstrances, Declaration • and Public Engagements to the contrary. And withal, after diligent enquiry, discovering scarce one man of Eminency or Power in the Nation, nor so much as one of my degenerated temporizing Profession of the Law, (even when the whole body of our laws, and all its Professors, are violently assault • d, and devoted unto sudden ruin, by many lawless spirits ) who hath so much courage, magnanimity, honesty, zeal, or cordial love to his Native Country, remaining in his breast, as manfully to appear in public, for the strenuous necessary defense of these our Hereditary, fundamental laws, liberties, rights, franchises, (though their own, and every other English Freemans best inheritance and security ) for fear of being persecuted, imprisoned, close imprisoned, exiled, condemned, destroyed, as a Traitor, Rebell, Seditious person, enemy to the Public, or disturber of the Kingdoms peace, by those who are truly such: I thereupon conceived, I could not undertake or perform a more necessary, seasonable, beneficial service for my Country and ingrate unworthy Nation (who are now ashamed, afraid, for the most part, to own, visit, or be seen in the company of those Gallant men, much less to assist, defend, and stick close unto them in their dangers, according to the sixth Article of their late Solemn League and Covenant, who have suffered, acted, and stood up most for their Common Liberties, Rights, Freedoms, Religion, against all invading Tyrant • , to their great discouragement and betraying:) not pitch upon any Subject more proper for me, either as a common Lawyer, or as a constant Advocate and Sufferer for the public Cause, and Liberties of the Nation, as well under our late extravagant Free State, as former Regal and Episcopal arbitrary Tyranny, than in this juncture of our public affairs, to present our whole distracted unsettled Kingdom, with A Legal and Historical Vindication, and Chronological Collection, in all ages, of these Ancient, Hereditary liberties, Franchises, Rights, and all those National, Parliamentall, legal and Martial Contests, Laws, Charters, Records, Monuments of former and late times, for their Confirmation and inviolable observation, which our Ancestors and ourselves have always hitherto reputed Fundamental, unalterable and inviolable, upon any pretext, and have most eagerly contended for, with the Prodigal expense of many millions of treasure, and whole Oceans of gallant Christian English blood.

And if upon the serious perusal of them, the universality of our degenerated Nation, after their many solemn Protestations, Vows, Leagues, Covenants, Remonstrances, inviolably to defend and maintain them, shall still so undervalue them now at last, (as most actually have done) as

which their many late years pretended necessary defense and preservation have brought upon our three whole Nations; let them henceforth, like so many dastardly conquered bondslaves, bored through the ears, publicly disavow, disclaim, renounce, abjure them, for themselves and their posterities forever, as mere worthless toys, or pernicious inventions, fit only to kindle perpetual wars and discords between King and People, head and members, superiors and inferiors; or, as poor slender Cobwebs, (as now they prove) able to hold none within compass, but the very weakest Flies, broken thorough with ease and impunity, by every greater Fly, or armed Waspe, creeping up into any Power or Supreme Authority, by right or wrong; and swept down to the very ground, by every new Broom in the hand of upstart Innovators.

But if upon saddest deliberation, they shall really estimate them to be such incompatable, rich, precious Jewels, and ancient Inheritances, as are every way worth the infinite Treasures, Wars, Blood, Cares, Consultations, Troubles, heretofore and of late years expended, both to gain, retain, confirm, and perpetuate them, to them and their Posterities forever, as their principal earthly security, and beatitude; I hope they will all then unanimously conclude with the Poet,

Non minor est virtus quàm quaerere, PARTA TVERI: And both by their Votes and Actions, return the self-same peremptory magnanimous answer to any Caesar, Conqueror, Potentate, power, or Combination of men, whatsoever, (who shall endeavor by force, fraud, or flattery to compel or persuade them, to sell, resign, betray, or give up these their Ancestrall Privileges, Inheritances, Birthrights to them) as Naboth once did to King Ahab, 1 Kings 21. 3. The Lord forbid it us, that we should give (sell or betray) the INHERITANCE OF OUR FATHERS (and our Posterities likewise) unto thee, or you; though they should suffer for this Answer and Refusall, as much as Naboth did from bloody Ahab and Jezebel.

But whatever low price or estimate this spurious, stupid, sordid, slavish age may set upon these richest Pearls; yet for my own particular, upon serious consideration of these Chronological Collections, and the Solemn Oaths, Protestations, Vows, League and Covenant, obliging me to defend them to the uttermost; I value the whole Nations public, and my own (with my cordial friends ) private interest in them, at so high a rate, that I would rather cheerfully part with ten thousand lives, and all the treasures of the Nation, Indies, were I owner of them, then wittingly, negligently, or unworthily sell, betray, or resign them up to any mortals or powers whatsoever, upon any pretences or Conditions, after all my former Publications, Contests, Sufferings, Losses, &c. for their just defense.

And to the end all others might now take special notice of the inestimable value our Ancestors in all ages have set upon them, and what successive wars, conflicts, they have cheerfully undertaken for their preservation; I have at vacant hours compiled this ensuing Vindication and Collection of the old Fundamental liberties, franchises, laws of all English freemen, which I shall bequeath to my most beloved Native Country, in general, and every real Heroic Patron of them in particular, as the best Legacy I can leave behind me, both for their present and future Enfranchisment, Immunity, security, from all Arbitrary Tyranny, Slavery and yokes of Bondage, under which they have a long time languished, and lamented in the bitterness of their spirits.

The Method I resolve herein to pursue, is this:

1. I shall produce some punctual Authorities of moment, to evidence, That the Kingdom and Freemen of England, have some ancient Hereditary just Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises, Laws and Customs, properly called FVNDAMENTAL; and likewise a Fundamental Government, no ways to be altered, undermined, subverted directly or indirectly, to the public prejudice, under pain of highest Treason in those, who shall attempt it, especially by fraud, force, or armed power.

2. I shall, in brief Propositions, present you with the chiefest and most considerable of them, which our Ancestors in former ages, and our latest real Parliaments have resolved to be, and eargerly contended for, as FUNDAMENTAL, essential to their being and well-being, as a Free People, Kingdom, Republic, unwilling to be enslaved under any Yokes of Tyranny, any arbitrary, 〈◊〉 positions or Powers whatsoever, Then give you a brief touch of their several late unparalelld violations, both by the Edicts and Actions of usurping Powers.

3. I shall in a Chronological way, tender you a large Historical Catalogue of National Parliamental, civil and military▪ Contests, Votes, Declarations, • emonstrances, Oaths, Vows, Protestations, Covenants, Engagements, Excommunications, Confirmations, Evidences, Statutes, Charters, Writs, Records, Judgments and Authorities in all ages, undeniably evidencing, declaring, vindicating, establishing, perpetuating these Fundamental Hereditary Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises, Customs, Laws, and abundantly manifesting the extraordinary care, industry, zeal, courage, wisdom, vigilancy of our Ancestors, to defend, preserve, and perpetuate them to posterity, without the least violation or diminution.

4. I shall vindicate the excellency, indifferency, and leg • lity of trying all Malefactors whatsoever, by Juries of their • eers, upon legal Processe and Indictments; and manifest the illegallity, injustice, partiality, dangerous consequences, of admitting or introducing any other form of Trials, by New. Arbitrary Martial Commissions, or Courts of High Justice, (or rather injustice ) inconsistent with, and destructive to the Fundamental Rights, Liberties, Privileges, Laws, Franchises of the English Nation, and of most dangerous President to Posterity; being set up by the greatest pretenders to public Liberty, Law, and the • heifest inveighers against Arbitrary Regal Tyranny and Power, which never publicly established such arbitrary illegal Trials and new Butcheries of Christian English Freemen, by any law, and may fall to imitate them in future Ages, by their example. Each of these I intend to prosecute in distinct Chapters in their order.