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<P>THE
Butchers Ble&s;sing,
<HI>OR
THE BLOODY INTENTIONS</HI>
Of Romi&s;h CAVALIERS again&s;t the
City of LONDON above other places,
Demon&s;trated by 5. <HI>Arguments,</HI></P>
<P>To the Right Honourable the Lord Major,
the Sheriffes, and other the religious and worthy
Inhabitants of the &s;aid CITY.</P>
<P>Delivered by way of <HI>Prologue</HI> before a <HI>Sermon</HI>
the la&s;t publique FAST-DAY,</P>
<P><HI>By</HI> J: GOODWIN.</P>
<Q><BIBL>GENESIS, 19. 9.</BIBL>
<P>And they &s;aid, &s;tand back: and they &s;aid againe, this one fellow
came in to Sojourne, and hee will needs be a Judge; now will we
deale wor&s;e with thee, then with them.</P></Q>
<Q><L>Sic ego torrentem, qua nil ob&s;tabat eunti,</L>
<L>Lenius, et modico &s;trepitu decurrere vidi:</L>
<L>At quacun&abque; trabes, ob&s;tracta&abque; &s;axa jacebant,</L>
<L>Spumeus, et fervens, et ab obice &s;aevior ibat.</L> <BIBL>Ovid. Met.</BIBL></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON:</HI>
Printed for HENRY OVERTON, and are to be &s;old
at his Shop in <HI>Popes-head Alley,</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>Right Honourable, Right Wor&s;hipfull,
and you the re&s;t of the worthy Inhabitants
of this great and famous CITY.</HEAD>
<P>_TO engage you all as one man, to ri&s;e up at once in
your might, for the pre&s;ervation and defence, a&s;|well
of your &s;elves, as of your City, again&s;t that
whirlewind of cruelty and blood, which rends
and teares the Kingdom in pieces where it falls.
You &s;hall do well to con&s;ider; That your &s;elves
in particular, and this your City, are the great
hatred and wrath and indignation of the&s;e men:
What they have done unto others, whether great or &s;mall, in waies
of ho&s;tility, violence and blood, throughout the Land, they have
done it chiefly in relation to you and your ruine; all the Moun|taines
they have ca&s;t downe, and the valleys they have fild up, have
bin to prepare them&s;elves away to you and your City. They have
practi&s;ed in cruelty hitherto, and train'd up their right hand in
blood, that by that time they come to you, they may be Butchers
by occuppation: they have taught their right hand terrible things
again&s;t others, that their right hand might teach them terrible
things again&s;t you: they have forc'd a di&s;po&s;ition of cruelty upon
them&s;elves, to practi&s;e cruell things upon others, that &s;o by cu&s;tom
it might become naturall to them, by that time they &s;hall come to
doe execution upon you. They have tempred a cup, the mixture
whereof is red and they powre out hereof daily, but you are their
wicked ones that mu&s;t be made to wring out the draggs thereof,
&amp; to drinke them up. The rods wherewith they cha&s;ti&s;e your Bre|thren
el&s;ewhere favourers of the &s;ame cau&s;e with you, will (you
mu&s;t looke) be turned into Scorpions when they come to you:
and if <HI>Che&s;hire</HI> and <HI>Shrop&s;hire</HI> and other parts of the Land have bin
puni&s;hed &s;even-fold, <HI>London</HI> (doubtle&s;&s;e) &s;hall be puni&s;hed &s;eventy
times &s;even fold if they &s;hall enter and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Gates thereof.
The&s;e heights and depths of their rage and fury again&s;t you and
your City are demon&s;trable upon the&s;e 5 grounds.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, That purity of Religion, which is a &s;courge in their
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&s;ides, and thornes in their eyes, hath its Throne among&s;t you. That
generation, which is the great abhorring of their &s;oules, I meane
the generation of the righteous, of men and women feareing God,
which are in other places by tens and by fifties are with you by
hundreds and by thou&s;ands, your gleanings of them are better then
the Vintage of other places; your City is a Sanctuary unto them,
and place of refuge from all their quarters: you are looked upon as
the great friend, and favourers and protectors of them: You and
your City have been the great Bullwark again&s;t tho&s;e Prelaticall
inva&s;ions, wherewith the Kingdom was &s;o &s;orely infe&s;ted and an|noyed
of late, and wherewith the truth and purity of Religion
profe&s;&s;ed in it, was in danger of being turned up&s;ide downe, Had
not this City of yours bin a mor&s;ell too big for them to &s;wallow,
had it not &s;tuck &s;o long in their Throates as it did: the whole
Kingdom would have gon down merrily without any &s;training;
but now this &s;ticking in their throat as it did, hath cau&s;ed them
to vomit and ca&s;t up what they had devoured otherwi&s;e. And this
(doubtle&s;&s;e) is one maine ground and cau&s;e of their advancing and
heightening them&s;elves in malice, and purpo&s;es of revenge again&s;t
you: you are the principall &s;hield and Buckler of that Religion
which they labour to de&s;troy and roote up root and branch, not
out of the Land only, but out of the whole world, if it were in
their power.</P>
<P>Secondly, You and your City are look'd upon, as the chiefe
protection and &s;afeguard of that Honourable A&s;&s;embly and Court
of Parliament, and tho&s;e worthy Members thereof who have not
prevaricated, or turned head upno the Kingdome, and the great
tru&s;t repo&s;ed in them but &s;tand by the cau&s;e they have undertaken
again&s;t all the fierie encounters and oppo&s;itions both of men and
Divells. The&s;e being the men, who&s;e blood mu&s;t be the ran&s;ome
of the&s;e Sonnes of <HI>Belial,</HI> if ever they be redeemed out of the hand
of death and condemnation, which they have drawne upon their
heads by tho&s;e de&s;perate cour&s;es they have run, and you being the
men (as they judge and herein judge not much ami&s;&s;e) that chiefe|ly
&s;tand between them and their ran&s;ome, and will not &s;uffer
them to drink that blood that &s;hould heale them: You can expect
none other but that that Spirit of malice and blood which po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;eth
them, &s;hould rage and roare again&s;t you more then others, and
that the furnace of their indignation &s;hall be het &s;even times hot|ter
then ordinary for your burning; when men are bent and have
any &s;trong de&s;ires to offer violence or doe mi&s;chiefe unto others,
and are oppo&s;ed in the execution of their de&s;ires herein, it is com|monly
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found, that they double the &s;trength of their de&s;ires to doe
mi&s;chiefe to tho&s;e that oppo&s;e them in &s;uch a way, above the de|&s;ires
they had of doing mi&s;chiefe to tho&s;e others. Thus the men of
<HI>Soaom,</HI> having an <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> to offer violence to tho&s;e two men (as
they &s;uppo&s;ed them to be) that were come to <HI>Lots</HI> Hou&s;e, and <HI>Lot</HI>
interpo&s;ing him&s;elfe to prevent and inner the execution of tho&s;e
evill intentions, they threatned him, that <HI>they would deale wor&s;e with
him, then they would with them,</HI> Gen. 19. 9. and the rea&s;on hereof is
plaine; becau&s;e men &s;eldom de&s;ire any thing with &s;o great a de&s;ire,
as they do not to be oppo&s;ed or hindred in the pro&s;ecution of their
de&s;ires: They can more willingly quit their de&s;ires of many things
which yet plea&s;e them, freely and of them&s;elves, then they can
indure &s;trongly to be oppo&s;ed and interrupted in the &s;atisfaction of
them: This then is another rea&s;on, why you &s;hould be the height
of their malice and revenge.</P>
<P>Thirdly, They know that you and your City are the Parents
(as it were) that have begotten and brought forth all that oppo&s;i|tion
which hath appeared el&s;ewhere, or been rai&s;ed again&s;t them
and their proceedings in the Land: that it hath bin <HI>your zeale,</HI> in
rai&s;ing men and armes and moneys, <HI>that hath provoked</HI> multitudes in
the Land to doe likewi&s;e. They look upon others as partly pa&s;sive
in that very activene&s;&s;e wherein they have declared them&s;elves a|gain&s;t
them, &amp; &s;o make them (it's like) an allowance accordingly in
their hatred and thoughts of revenge again&s;t them. But upon you
they look not onely as merely active again&s;t them out of an inward
principle of your owne, but as actuating and animating others al&s;o.
And therefore what they deduct from, or abate in their hatred to|wards
the&s;e, they will adde to their hatred and malice again&s;t you:
you mu&s;t looke to pay for your &s;elves and for your Children too.
Men u&s;e to be more mercifull to tho&s;e that are drawn by others to
practi&s;e evill again&s;t them, in ca&s;e they come under their power,
then to tho&s;e that provoke and whet them on to doe it. God him|&s;elf
laid a heavier puni&s;hment upon <HI>Eve,</HI> then he did upon <HI>Adan,</HI> be|cau&s;e
&s;he was the temptre&s;&s;e, and partly by her example, partly by
her &s;olicitation wrought upon his infirmitie, and drew him into
part and fellow&s;hip with her in the &s;inne. Your righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, is
their &s;inne.</P>
<P>Fourthly you are the great <HI>remora</HI> &amp; barre in the way of their pro|ceedings
you &s;eperate between them &amp; their de&s;ires, between them
&amp; their &s;o dearely beloved ends: there is a contrary gale blowes &s;o
&s;trong and &s;tiff from your quar<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">er that, they cannot make he port
or Haven, that they have been bound for this long time; You are
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they that multiply their &s;orrowes, and increa&s;e their paines in
bringing forth: you make them buy their gold at a dearer rate, then
they are willing and had hope to have bought it: you keep them &s;till
in the &s;weat of their brows, wheras they had hoped before this, to
have bin eating their bread. You are to them as <HI>Moracats</HI> &s;itting in
the Gate was to <HI>Haman,</HI> all his honour and greatnes and favour
with the King, <HI>did not availe him,</HI> hee was not him&s;elfe for all his
great enjoyments becau&s;e <HI>Mordacai</HI> was not yet brought under,
to likc the du&s;t at his feet: &s;o all the &s;ucce&s;&s;e that the&s;e men
have in other parts of the Land, their plundering of this town
and of that, all the rapine and &s;poile they have made, all the prey
&amp; booty they have taken their &s;eizing upon this man &amp; upon that,
in a word, all that they have done or have hope to doe otherwi&s;e,
will give them little &s;atisfaction, will not make them fat, &s;o long as
you and your City are in peace, and able to with&s;tand them. And
therefore as <HI>Haman</HI> hated <HI>Mordicei</HI> more then all the nation of the
Jewes be&s;ides, and &s;ought the ruine and de&s;truction of the&s;e only or
chiefly by way of &s;ubordination and reference to his (as appeares by
the Story) for he had no quarrell to them, but for <HI>Mordicais</HI> &s;ake,
and upon occa&s;ion of that offence given by him. Even &s;o (doubtles)
tho&s;e men of wickedne&s;&s;e we &s;peak of burne in hatred and de&s;ires of
revenge again&s;t you, more then they doe again&s;t all other places in
the Land be&s;ides: and what outrages and in&s;olencies of violence
they practi&s;e el&s;ewhere is chiefly to accommodate and &s;trengthen
their hand, and to be &s;ub&s;ervient unto them for the rapine and ru|ine
of you and your Citie. Their plundering and pillaging and
&s;poyling in other places, is but the tuneing of their in&s;truments, the
plundering and pillaging of you, would be playing out of their &s;ong
or dittie: were it not for you, they might have all things according
to their hearts de&s;ire: they might eate tho&s;e apples their &s;oules &s;o
much lu&s;t after, they might feed fat upon the &s;weet bread of Ro|mi&s;h
&s;uper&s;titions and Doctrines. They might have Organs and
Altars, Cringings and Crouchings, they might have Copes and
Surpli&s;&s;es, Wafers and Tapers Crucifixes and Cro&s;&s;es, Pilgrimages
and Pictures, with all the accourements, and the whole prophane
glory of the Romi&s;h Sinagogue. Were it not for you, they might
have Lucifer put againe into Heaven, and Angels of light thrown
downe into Hell in&s;tead of him; Prelates I meane re&s;tored to their
former thrones and dignities and faithfull Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell
the great troublers of the I&s;raell of the Divel, troden and trampled
on like clay and mire in the &s;treets: they might were it not for you
have every man of them a doore open: which leadeth to his hearts
de&s;ire. They that de&s;ired to live loo&s;ely; might do it without pay|ing
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any tribute of being checked or reproved for it: and &s;o they that
had a mind to live prophanely, to oppre&s;&s;e, to tyrannize, to be drunk|en
to be uncleane, &amp;c. they might have gon roundly to Hell every
man his way no man asking them why do you &s;o, which (indeed) is
the &s;um of all happine&s;&s;e that the&s;e men de&s;ire or &s;eeke after. Wher|as
you and your Citie not being made their foot&s;toole, they can|not
get up into tho&s;e thrones; the &s;ummer fruits that their &s;oules
&s;o much lu&s;t after, do not ripen becau&s;e of the cold aire that breaths
upon them from your City. So that it is no marveile, if the &s;poile
and ruine of your City, be the fir&s;t borne of all the de&s;ignes of their
rage and crueltys You are the heire that &s;tand betweene them and
the inheritance, if they can kill you, the inheritance &s;hall be theirs.</P>
<P>Fiftly and la&s;tly, you and your City are looked upon as the great
Magazine of wealth, riches, &amp; trea&s;ure in the Kingdom: the garden
of the <HI>He&s;perides,</HI> where the trees grow that beare the golden apples,
is known to be compa&s;&s;ed about with the walls of your City. Now
the love of the&s;e men is &s;o above mea&s;ure exce&s;sive to your Silver
and gold, their &s;oules cleave &s;o to it, that except you will give it
them into their bo&s;omes quietly, and in a way of peace, they mu&s;t
needs, though with the extreame&s;t perill and hazard of their owne
lives, attempt yours, for your moneys &s;ake. This wine of yours
looks &s;o red and plea&s;antly in the gla&s;&s;e upon them; that their hearts
are inflamed with it: yea the zeale of it hath &s;o farre eat them up
that they cannot live without it; you mu&s;t give it them, you mu&s;t
let them have it one way or other, or el&s;e they die. And therfore
their re&s;olution to make the adventure how&s;oever upon you, may
well be like that of the foure Lepers (2 <HI>King.</HI> 7. 5.) to adventure
them&s;elves into the camp of the <HI>Aramites;</HI> If they &s;ate &s;till, or if
they went into the Citie, they were certainely dead: and if they
went among&s;t the <HI>Aramites,</HI> if the wor&s;t came to the wor&s;t, <HI>they
could but die;</HI> but by making the attempt they might po&s;sibly live;
&s;o that de&s;perate Generation we &s;peak of, being not able to live, not
knowing how to doe, how to &s;ub&s;i&s;t without the &s;poile of your Ci|tie,
and the po&s;&s;e&s;sion of your trea&s;ure looking upon them&s;elves as
dead men without it, may in a way of ordinary di&s;cour&s;e and rea|&s;on,
come to this i&s;&s;ue in point of re&s;olution again&s;t you, to make
the attempt and venture upon you how&s;oever, if they &s;hall mi&s;cary
inmaking the attempt, they were but dead men if they &s;hall &s;it &s;till
and make no attempt upon you, they were but dead men neither:
and this was more certainly death, then the other, in making the
attempt they might (haply) pro&s;per and &s;o live, you have this pa&s;|&s;age,
2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 14. 14. that <HI>A&s;a</HI> and his men &s;poiled all the Cities of
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the <HI>Ethiopians,</HI> for this rea&s;on, <HI>becau&s;e their was much in them: And they
&s;poiled all the Cities</HI> (&s;aith the text) <HI>for there was exceeding much &s;poile in
them.</HI> The aboundance of wealth and trea&s;ure in them, was the
rea&s;on why they were plundered and ran&s;ack'd and de&s;troyed.
Plenty of &s;ilver and gold are of dangerous con&s;equence and influ|ence,
to advance the courage and re&s;olutions of enemies; to turne
weak men into &s;trong, and cowards and &s;uch as are fearefull other|wi&s;e,
into men of valour and re&s;olution. So that now this is ano|ther
rea&s;on very con&s;iderable, why you and your Cities above all
other per&s;ons or places in the Kingdome &s;hould be prede&s;tinated to
&s;poile and ruine in the&s;e mens councels, intentions and decrees: be|cau&s;e
in other places they can but gleane; but here they know they
&s;hall have a full harve&s;t.</P>
<P>Now then, it being a thing &s;o apparent and evident upon the&s;e
rea&s;ons (and many more po&s;sible of like importance might be added)
that you and your City are principally intended for the great &s;acri|fice
to be offered upon the &s;ervice of the rage, malice, hatred and
cruelty of the&s;e men, doth it not concerne you in &s;peciall manner;
more then all the Kingdome be&s;ides, to looke about you, and quit
your &s;elves like men, yea and more then like men (if it were po&s;sible)
to ca&s;t if it were your whole &s;ub&s;tance into the trea&s;urie of your
pre&s;ervation and peace? Let any thing you &s;hall keep back of what
is in your power to do or give for the advancement of the great &s;er|vice
that hath been recomended unto you, every time you &s;ee it or
thinke upon it, be as an <HI>omen</HI> or pre&s;age unto you, of the lo&s;&s;e and
&s;poile of your City, if you &s;hall &s;till detaine it. You know that
wheras ordinarily men u&s;e to cut or clip their haire with &s;heeres or
&s;i&s;&s;ers, in &s;ome di&s;ea&s;es which are dangerous and violent, they &s;have
it clo&s;e with a razor preferring baldne&s;&s;e and nakedne&s;&s;e for a time,
before lo&s;&s;e of life. In like manner, though moderation and &s;obri|ety
of expence bee the commendation of wi&s;e men at other times;
yet ca&s;es of exigencie alter the rule, and make any thing le&s;&s;e then
what men are able to doe with their utmo&s;t might, extremity of
weakne&s;&s;e and mi&s;pri&s;ion. Nothing le&s;&s;e then all things, is like to
doe any thing.</P>
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<Q><L>Vt jugulent homines, &s;urgunt de nocte, Latrones.</L>
<L>Vt teip&s;um &s;erves, non expergi&s;ceris?</L></Q>
<BIBL>Horat.</BIBL>
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