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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>A DECLARATION OF OLD NICK, Prince of the Air, and all his Infernal crew, to the inhabitants of the whole world, but chiefly to the <HI>Q&V;AKERS</HI> of <HI>Great Britain</HI> &amp;c</HEAD>
<P>WHereas it is well known to the whole univer&s;e, that our dominions extend from one end of the earth to the other, and that we are the fir&s;t, and the mo&s;t antient helli&s;h Prince, that ever raigned on the earth, or in the hearts of the di&s;obedient, and that our Kingdome is an everla&s;ting Kingdome of darkne&s;&s;e, horror, burning pain, fire, &s;tinch, and what not, which no hone&s;t body can deny: and &s;eeing there is in this later age, and e|&s;pecially in the&s;e South countries, crept into our dominions, a fallacy, which is got into the hearts of &s;ome &s;orts of people, which do affirm, and &s;ay, they have new lights and in&s;pirations, wherewith they begin to dazle, and blind the eyes and minds of our well affected &s;ubjects to our Kingdome, who are pur&s;uing to their utmo&s;t power, and &s;trive to be greate&s;t, and mo&s;t emi|nent in the &s;ame; the&s;e &s;orts we &s;ay do indeavour to bring them out of our old way of errour, blindne&s;&s;e, &s;edition, trea&s;on, murder, and &s;uch like, which as far as we can apprehend, will be to the utter (if it were po&s;sible) overthrowing and &s;ubver|&s;ion of us, and our territories, by their pretended holine&s;&s;e of life; a fal&s;e zeal, and a counterfeited Religion, if not timely prevented, we therefore &s;eeing this danger approaching, and what is like to en&s;ue, do declare, with all our infernal &s;pirits and angels; that we ever were, are, and &s;till will be utter enemies to all that is called good, hone&s;t piety, love, unity, peace, faith, obedience, ho|ly life, and chri&s;tianity, and what&s;oever is contrary to our meaning and excellent nature.</P>
<P>And likewi&s;e we do declare, that who&s;oever &s;hall attempt at any time, to u&s;urp any power, beyond or above us, whereby to deprive us, or our &s;ucce&s;&s;ors of their undoubted government, thereby to procure any thing in that kind, to the advancement of their own intere&s;t; they &s;hall &s;uffer the mo&s;t heavy hand of vengeance, cur&s;e, and burning with fire, and gna&s;hing of teeth (for ever) that can be imagined or thought on.</P>
<P>And we do declare, that we will do our endeavour, by our own power, to root out of our Dominions, all <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">he re&s;te, (called by them truth) &amp; all that kind of Religion, which they &s;o much brag &amp; boa&s;t of, and pretend to have a right unto: and we do grant a toleration to all our &s;ubjects under our juri&s;diction, to be of any judgment or belief they plea&s;e; whether it be Athei&s;tical, Pa|pi&s;tical, Tyrannical, Turki&s;h, Heatheni&s;h, Mahometical, Antichri&s;tian or Infidel, provided it be not Chri&s;tiani&s;me or Judai&s;me.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We declare, that we will mantain and defend all manner of perjury, bla&s;phemy, murder, &s;acrilege, witchcraft, conju|ring, inchantments, &s;orcery, &s;edition, envy, backbiting, idolatry, adultery, oppre&s;sion, pride, drunkenne&s;&s;e, covetou&s;ne&s;s, hypo|cri&s;ie, and whatever is delight&s;ome to the will, and &s;atisfying of fle&s;h and bloud with all manner of be&s;tiality; that is, to defile them&s;elves even with bea&s;ts, and with their own kin; by having to do with as many as their corrupt imagination can think upon, with all manner of ravi&s;hments.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We Declare to all our obedient Servants, of what Degree, Condition, Age, or Sex they be: to Device, Plot, Coun|terplot, Undermine, Deceive, defraud, Co&s;in, Cog, Di&s;&s;emble, Circumvent, Cony-catcht, Befool, Be&s;ot, Baffle, Cheat, and Delude, any other of what Nation &s;oever they be.</P>
<P>Al&s;o we Declare by our Satanical power to u&s;e all the means po&s;&s;ible to &s;et whole Kingdoms together by the Ears, to de|vide the people one again&s;t another, and they again&s;t their lawful Governour, even to the Death, be it by Poy&s;oning, Head|ing, Killing, or Hanging; and to &s;tir them up to Rebellion, by in&s;inuating into their minds, all m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ner of mi&s;chief, bloody|mindedne&s;&s;e, Revenge, Quarreling, and Di&s;obedience, to bring all things out of Order and Frame into confu&s;ion; to invent Lies, Forgeries, and to broach our damnable Doctrines, to fill their Ears and Hearts with Novelties, and Fal&s;hoods, to pre|tend one thing, and to mean another to di&s;&s;emble to the life like as our beloved Son <HI>Judas</HI> did, with a Ki&s;s.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> We declare to the World, that we would have all in the &s;ame as we are, and have been from the beginning, Lyars, Mur|derers, Perjurers, breakers of Oaths, Vows, and Covenants, Sabath breakers, to fa&s;t for Debate, and Strife, to fea&s;t to &s;uperfluity of Gormandi&s;ing, Surfitings, Gluttony, Drunkenne&s;&s;e, even to exce&s;s.</P>
<P>All which we command and charge upon the incurring of our high di&s;plea&s;ure of Everla&s;ting Puni&s;hment to tho&s;e that di&s;o|bey our real meaning and intention.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated at the High Court of <HI>Gehenna</HI> the bottomle&s;s Pit, <DATE>in the &s;ix thou&s;and year of our Reign,</DATE></DATELINE> witne&s;s our &s;elf Great <HI>Belze|bub</HI> Prince of Darkne&s;s, and our infernal Spirits.
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Lucifer:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Satan:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Serpent:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Diablus;</ITEM>
<ITEM>Mammon:</ITEM>
<ITEM>Abadon:</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>POSTCRIPT.</HEAD>
<P>GIve no place to the Devil; Know yee not that to whom yee yield your &s;elves Servants to obey, his Servants yee are to whom yee obey; the wages of Sin is death without</P>
<TRAILER>END.</TRAILER>
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<P>Printed by <HI>George Morgan,</HI></P>
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