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<P>A DECLARATION of Great <HI>L&V;CIFER,</HI> Prince of the Ayre, and of Divells, and of all the damned crew in Hell. In An&s;wer to a Petition pre&s;ented to them by a Parliament Man, Dated in Augu&s;t 1648.</P>
<P>Printed in Hell neere We&s;tmin&s;ter. 1648.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="satirical declaration">
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<HEAD>A Declaration of great <HI>Lucifer, &amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_TRue, tru&s;ty, and well-beloved &s;ervants of great <HI>Lucifer</HI> throughout the whole world, e&s;pecially you of the Kingdome of England, our &s;peciall benediction; where|as wee have received a petition which was lately pre&s;ented to us by the hands of &s;ome of our obedient &s;ervants, contain|ning &s;undry Acts, Pa&s;&s;ages, Orders and Ordinances, by you commanded, and by the people in generall performed to the great advance of our Kingdome, in which you de&s;ire our approbation by way of petition, which wee have looked upon as acts of great concernment; for whereas you &s;ay you have &s;hooke off all Loyalty and hone&s;ty, and have rai|&s;ed an Army and fought again&s;t your King, and tooke him pri&s;oner, where he at this day remaines under your cu&s;tody to your great applau&s;e, and have managed a war for the &s;pace of &s;eaven yeares or well nigh; and hunted your Queen out of the Land, and driven your Prince away, tooke your Kings revenew from him, and left him nothing but what you judge meet for &s;uch a one, and maintained your &s;elves like Princes with congratulatory gifts, and al&s;o as you &s;ay, you have &s;old many or all the Bi&s;hops Lands, where|with you have encrea&s;ed your owne e&s;tates and Lands, and murdered the good people of the Land, and voted tho&s;e to be Traytours that have ri&s;en in armes again&s;t you, and &s;et up an Exici&s;e Office, where you receive and gather in the fat of the Land, and the fruits of the Kingdome: And al&s;o have (to keep the people in &s;ubjection) &s;ettled a Committee at Gold&s;miths Hall, at Darby hou&s;e, and &s;uch like places, that who&s;oever misbehaveth him&s;elfe, breakes your Orders, or will not pay tho&s;e a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ements that you in your wi&s;dome
<PB N="4" REF="3">thinke meet to be paid for your u&s;e, and have i&s;&s;ued many warrants to bring refractory per&s;ons, and have procured Knights of the Po&s;t to &s;weare point blancke again&s;t &s;uch, and have commanded to plunder, to kill and &s;lay your oppo|&s;ers, and have maintained Sectaries, Divi&s;ions, Here&s;ies, A|nabapti&s;ts, Independency, Presbyters, Sects, Schi&s;mes, &s;a|criledge, bla&s;phemy, and what not, to the advance of our Kingdome, and have countenanced trea&s;on, and rebellion, applauded Rebels, rewarded murthers, fomented untruths, falcified Oathes broken Covenants, robbed the people, and u&s;ed that mo&s;t excellent art of equivocating; for the&s;e Acts, and deeds, and &s;uch like, which we have not time at pre&s;ent to recapitulate; we accept, affect, applaud, and approve; and put the ca&s;e you faile in any thing that you cannot procure, nor compa&s;&s;e by wit or art to obtaine, be it on the Seas, or on the Land, or under the earth; yea be it in the ayre, wee with our politick, wi&s;e, crafty complices, will accompli&s;h your de&s;ire, though the whole world were engaged again&s;t you; for what have we not power to command the whole earth? yea we have, and it will obey, for in the twinckling of an eye we have our de&s;ire, and our &s;ervants &s;hall be yours to command, be the act never &s;o unju&s;t, for with their helpe you &s;hall &s;ubdue, only thus much you mu&s;t acknowledge this to be of our great power, and impute nothing of it to your &s;elves; in this throne we are greate&s;t, and as you have done mo&s;t worthily hitherto, and as it becomes our obedient &s;er|vants; &s;o we exhort you, and command you in our name to per&s;i&s;t in the&s;e wayes, for we are the great payma&s;ter in the world, and if wee &s;et you on worke be &s;ure we will pay you your wages.</P>
<P>Wherefore we &s;ay againe, that we do approve of all and every act by you done, or &s;hall doe in this kind, for its done to the advancement of our Kingdome, and we are joyfull to heare that we have &s;uch faithfull and diligent &s;ervants, that are &s;o willing to performe our will, and as you have beene thus carefull and forward to execute our Lawes, and main|taine &s;uch acts; we doe here adde and ordaine other Laws
<PB N="5" REF="3">to be executed and put in practice by you, as you will an&s;wer the contrary at you perill.</P>
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<HEAD>A Declaration with Orders of <HI>Lucifer,</HI> Prince of Divels, and of all the infernall Princes, and damned crew in Hell.</HEAD>
<P>For as much as our Kingdome extends it &s;elfe to the ut|termo&s;t parts of the earth; and we are the greate&s;t Conque|rors that ever the world bred; for no Emperour, King, or Potentate, be he or they never &s;o mighty, is able to with|&s;tand our &s;trength, or any of our &s;ervants or agents whom we imploy in our cau&s;e.</P>
<P>Wherefore we great <HI>Lucifer,</HI> Prince of Devils, with the approbation of our infernall privy Coun&s;ell, doe order and declare (for theres no cau&s;e but we may declare as well as others, having the mo&s;t pollitick and &s;ubtele&s;t under the earth to be our Coun&s;ellours) and by whom other Coun&s;els are ingaged for advice, as followeth:</P>
<P>That I great <HI>Lucifer,</HI> Prince of the aire, am the Father of all lyes, murthers, adulteries, bla&s;phemies, ince&s;t, &s;acri|ledge, rapines, coveteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, drunkene&s;&s;e, &s;wearing, whoredomes, contempts, backbiting, &s;landers, di&s;&s;embling, and all manner of wickedne&s;&s;e what&s;oever can be named: and I with the re&s;t of my diveli&s;h Coun&s;ellours, will main|taine, defend, pre&s;erve, and put in practice, &s;et forward, and helpe the&s;e and the like de&s;ignes upon any per&s;on or per|&s;ons, he or &s;he, of what degree or calling &s;o ever they be, whether Kings, Princes, Lords, Earles, or Potentates, rich or poore, yong or old, I, I &s;ay will tempt, intice, provoke, and per&s;wade withall manner of &s;lights, baits and &s;ugge&s;ti|ons; that men and women commit the&s;e, and &s;uch like, by all the meanes and wayes that can be u&s;ed, whether in &s;ecret or publick, openly or privately, by night or by day, &s;leeping or waking, without giving re&s;t to any, no not for a minute; yea their be&s;t actions &s;hall be wor&s;t performed, and to make this more evident to the whole world, I with advice of
<PB N="6" REF="4">my helli&s;h infernall Coun&s;ell of the upper Region, and the lower Hell, doe order.</P>
<P><HI>Imprimis,</HI> Tis ordered and judged meet by us Imps of Hell, that all creatures &s;hall and may have as many Idols as they plea&s;e, whether Parliament Idols, Gold&s;miths Hall Idols, or Exci&s;e Idols, and &s;hall and may make as many kinde of I|dols, of gold or &s;ilver, wood or &s;tone, Parliament man or Committee man, to hug them, and &s;hall and may &s;et them up in any place where&s;oever in earth or hell, &s;ea or land, Tem|ple or market place, We&s;tmin&s;ter or London, or in their owne hearts, and &s;hall bow, and cringe to them as oft as they plea&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> its agreed by the infernall Councell of Hell that all daies &s;hall be alike to do any kinde of &s;ervice, except Fa|&s;ting daies; and tis ordered that they keep one day in a Moone-&s;hine, and to offer up their little Idol mony as a &s;a|crifice to us: And before &s;uch Moone-&s;hine day, the foure Windes &s;hall blow foure &s;everall wayes to give notice, and to put them in minde to prepare them&s;elves for that day of Moone-&s;hine, to meet at the unholy Court called the &s;acri|ficing Mount: in Engli&s;h, the Committees of Gold-&s;miths Hall.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> wee act if any man come into the world without Father or Mother, or our help to beget them, or if any Ma|lignant beget another, they &s;hall cur&s;e their begetters, and their genitors (Parliament and godle&s;&s;e men excepted) and tolleration &s;hall be given to all Rebels to cur&s;e, Autho|rities to raile at government, and Governours, to di&s;pi&s;e dignities, to live without order, to make one another o|dious, to practi&s;e trea&s;ons and rebellions, and to make eve|ry thing mine and thine, and the longe&s;t liver take all, what the Divell leaves.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> wee hold it Lawfull, and it is a commendable deed of darkne&s;&s;e, to imbrew one anothers hands in the bloud of others, and to hang up all Royali&s;ts, e&s;pecially tho&s;e that will not &s;ubmit to our Lawes, and whether this act bee done inwardly by potions, or outwardly by weapons,
<PB N="7" REF="4">we value it not, provided it be done to the life, yea of Kings.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> it is acted that it &s;hall be Lawfull for any one to co|ver, or any to pro&s;titute them&s;elves to any one, whether his or hers be &s;leeping or waking: provided it be done that none &s;ees it; and further by the &s;aid power it is held Law|full, that if any attempt this act, to any kinde of cattle, bea&s;t, &s;wine, or Dogs, it &s;hall be tollerable, yea and to foule <HI>Martin.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> we judge it Lawfull to rob, carry away, or to take any thing that is anothers in &s;pite of their no&s;es, whether we want it or not, and who &s;o &s;hall with&s;tand us &s;hall be torne in pieces with Divels: the Divell take them.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> it is Lawfull to back-bite, &s;lander, revile, and betray any one, be they friend or foe. Noble or ignoble, alwaies provided that before &s;uch an act they have recour&s;e to our high Court, or to &s;ome of our Committees, and from them procure a commi&s;&s;ion for the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>Item,</HI> it is ordered, and held Lawfull to de&s;ire anothers e&s;tate, Land, money, riches, wealth, wives, or children, or what&s;oever is anothers, be it never &s;o good, or never &s;o faire, or never &s;o much, &s;o it be to &s;atisfie our lu&s;ts, and to take any thing from any mans dwelling, bed, or board: provided it be done in a coveteous way, and he e&s;teemed a malignant or popi&s;h delinquent.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, it is agreed and concluded upon that we will that all men be as we are, Lyars, murtherers, bla&s;phemers, &s;wea|rers, di&s;&s;emblers, hypocrites, drunkards, idolaters, revellers, covenant breakers, haters of hone&s;t men, becau&s;e we &s;hall never come or have to do where hone&s;t men are, but &s;hall alwaies remaine bathing our &s;elves in the lake of hell where we would that all fal&s;e a&s;&s;emblers &s;hould be pertakers with us, to the advancement of our Kingdome without any di&s;|&s;olution or rejouring.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Unto which Articles, and orders we Lucifer with our Princes, Lords, Earles, and Pre&s;idents of our Kingdome who&s;e names are heere under written, have &s;ealed, &s;igned,
<PB N="8" REF="5">and a&s;&s;ented unto, and &s;et their helli&s;h clawes.
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<ITEM><HI>Lucifer.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Belzebub</HI> a King.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;toroth</HI> a Duke.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Berith</HI> a Duke.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Bilith</HI> a Pre&s;ident.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Demas</HI> a Marque&s;&s;e.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Baal Peor</HI> a Lord.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Satan</HI> a Captaine.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Belimoth</HI> a Duke.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Diabolus</HI> a Lord.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Demonon</HI> a King.</ITEM>
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<DATELINE>Given at our high infernall Court and Pallace of darknes, <DATE>this 32. of the month, and in the five thou&s;and &s;ix hundred and fifty eighth yeare of our raigne over the whole world.</DATE></DATELINE>
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<P>If any be plea&s;ed to li&s;t them&s;elves under any of our Offi|cers whom we &s;hall appoint, and &s;et over to fight our Bat|tles, let them repaire to our Court of Limbo, or Purgato|ry, neere We&s;tmin&s;ter, where they may li&s;t &s;oule or body, go as fa&s;t on foot or hor&s;eback as any of the Members.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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