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<P>Summary Rea&s;ons again&s;t the New
OATH &amp; ENGAGEMENT.</P>
<P>AND
<HI>An Admonition to all &s;uch as have al|ready
Sub&s;cribed it.</HI></P>
<P>WITH
A Cautionarie Exhortation to all Hone&s;t En|gli&s;h
Spirits, to avoid the danger of
Perjurie by taking of it.</P>
<BIBL>PROVERBS. 24. 21. 22.</BIBL>
<Q><P>My Sonne, feare thou the Lord, and the King: and meddle not with
them that are given to change.</P>
<P>For their calamity &s;hall ri&s;e &s;uddenly, and who knoweth the ruine of
them both.</P></Q>
<P>PRINTED in the yeere 1649.</P>
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<HEAD>Summary Rea&s;ons again&s;t the New Oath and
Engagement.</HEAD>
<P>YO&V; &s;hall Sweare, [or] I Declare and Promi&s;e, That I
will bee True and Faithfull to the Common-wealth of
England, as the &s;ame is now E&s;tabli&s;hed WITHOUT
KING OR HOUSE OF LORDS.</P>
<P>FIRST, This <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement</HI> is impo&s;ed by tho&s;e
who, by the Lawes of God and the Realme, had never
any Power (admit them a full and free Hou&s;e of
Commons, under no Force, as they are not) to Ad|mini&s;ter,
much le&s;&s;e to Make or Impo&s;e any <HI>Oath</HI> in any Ca&s;e.
<HI>Cookes 3. In&s;titut. p.</HI> 165. and le&s;&s;e Authority then the Bi&s;hops
and Clergy in Convocation, who made the &amp;c Oath, not &s;o bad
as this; adjudged high-Trea&s;on in <HI>Canterburies</HI> Ca&s;e, for which
hee lo&s;t his head: <HI>Canterburies Doome p.</HI> 26. 40. though not &s;o
bad as this.</P>
<P>Secondly, It is contrary to all the antient Oathes of our Judg|es,
Ju&s;tices of Peace, Mayors, Sheriffs, Recorders, Clearkes of
Chancery and other courts of Ju&s;tice: To the Oathes of Fealty
and Homage, made by all the Kings Tenants: The antient and
late Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance; the Vow and Prote|&s;tation;
the &s;olemne League and Covenant, and Engagement
of the whole Kingdome to the <HI>King, his Heires Succe&s;&s;ours,
and Po&s;teritie for ever, to defend their undoubted Right to the
Crowne with the la&s;t drop of their Bloods,</HI> conteined in the Sta|tutes
of 1. <HI>Jacobi cap.</HI> 1. 2. and involves the Makers and Takers
thereof, in manifold execrable perjuries; to the &s;candall of our
<PB N="2" REF="3">
Religion,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Levit. 19. 12.</NOTE> Nation, <HI>[a] Di&s;honour and high Di&s;plea&s;ure of God,</HI>
and <HI>ju&s;t damnation</HI> of their Soules.<NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 5. 11.</NOTE></P>
<P>Thirdly,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jer. 5. 2. c 7 9.</NOTE> It is a new <HI>Gunpowder-Trea&s;on,</HI> blowing up the
King and his Po&s;teritie,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ezech. 17. 12. <HI>to</HI> 20. Zech. 5. 3. 4. Mal. 3. 5.</NOTE> Monarchy, the Hou&s;e of Lords, the
Con&s;titution and Priviledges of our Engli&s;h Parliaments, our
ancient fundamentall Government,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 5. 34.</NOTE> Lawes, Liberties, and our
three Kingdomes at one crack;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1. 31 32. 2. Tim. 3. 3. 4.</NOTE> the very &s;ame and farre wor&s;e
then that of the <HI>Je&s;uites</HI> and <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> condemned by the Statutes
of 3. <HI>Jacobi cap.</HI> 1. 2. 4. executing farre more then what they in|tended,
and quite deleting the Infamy and memory of that, and
all future celebration <HI>of that joyfull day of November 5. never to
bee forgotten.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly, It di&s;&s;ei&s;eth, di&s;inheriteth, fore-judgeth the King
of his<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">1. Jac c 1. 2 4. 3. Jacobi. 1. 2.</NOTE> <HI>Rightfull Crowne and Revenues,</HI> the Hou&s;e of Lords
of their Peerage, Priviledges, and<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">A Plea for the Lords.</NOTE> the undoubted Rights our
Engli&s;h Parliament and Kingdom of their very Liberties and be|ings;
un-Kinging, un-Lording, un-Parliamenting, un-King|doming
them all at once, without once &s;ummoning and <HI>bringing
them to An&s;wer by any legall Proce&s;&s;e, to heare what they can &s;ay
for them&s;elves,</HI> and without any <HI>lawfull Judgement of their Peers
according to the Lawe of the Land,</HI> contrary to the expre&s;&s;e Let|ter
of <HI>Magna Charta</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">. <HI>E. 3. c. 9. 25. E, 3. c. 4. 28. E. 3. c.</HI> 3.
37, <HI>E. 3. c. 18. 42. E. 3. c.</HI> 3. and <HI>the Petition of Right;</HI> yea<NOTE N="d" PLACE="marg">Votes of <HI>Octob.</HI> 11. 22. 1649.</NOTE>
<HI>debarres the&s;e Mini&s;ters, Officers, Lawyers, Students, from their
Augmentations, Callings, Offices, Preferments and Degrees, who
Refu&s;e or Neglect to Sub&s;cribe it;</HI> contrary to all the&s;e Statutes
and the Lawe of the Land, without any hearing or Tryall;
the extremitie of Tyranny and Inju&s;tice; tran&s;cending
that of King, Prelates, Starre-Chamber or High-Commi&s;|&s;ion.</P>
<P>Fiftly, It inevitably involves the Makers, Takers and Sub&s;cri|bers
thereof in <HI>manifold</HI> High<HI>-Trea&s;ons again&s;t King, Kingdome,
Parliament,</HI> for &s;ome of which only in a farre lower Degree,
<HI>Strafford, Canterbury</HI> and many <HI>others have lo&s;t their Heads,</HI> as
you may read in Ma&s;ter <HI>St. John</HI>'s <HI>Argument</HI> again&s;t <HI>Strafford,</HI>
and Sir <HI>Edward Cookes 3. In&s;titutes cap.</HI> 1. 2. to the forfeiture
of their Lives, E&s;tates, Soules; yea, Infamy and Ruine of their
Families.</P>
<P><PB N="3" REF="3">
Sixtly, It enjoynes us to bee <HI>True and Faithfull to the new
Common-wealth of England</HI> (the Generall Councell of Officers
of the Army; the new created Councell of State, and their <HI>We&s;t|min&s;ter</HI>
Conclave of Journey-men) <HI>as it is now E&s;tabli&s;hed</HI>
WITHOUT KING OR LORDS (without con&s;ent of
Kingdome, People or Parliament) by force of Armes, Treachery,
Perjury, &amp;c; that is, to a&s;&s;i&s;t and <HI>defend them with our Lives,
Councells, E&s;tates, and to &s;ubmit to all their</HI> (illegall) <HI>Acts and
Taxes</HI> (to the <HI>lo&s;&s;e of Lives, Liberties, Properties again&s;t the
Kings or Lords ju&s;t Titles;</HI> and our owne Lawes, Liberties,
Byrth-Rights; which to doe, is not only contrary to Lawe
(&s;ince no <HI>Homage</HI> or <HI>Fealty is due from any Subject, what&s;oever,
to other Subject,</HI> but to the <HI>King alone, and with a &s;aving of that
Faith which hee owes to our Soveraigne Lord the King,</HI> and that
only where <HI>there is a legall Tenure betweene them,</HI> as Sir <HI>Edward
Cooke</HI> Re&s;olves, 1. <HI>In&s;titutes f.</HI> 64. 65. 67. 68.) but no le&s;&s;e then
<HI>High-Trea&s;on</HI> within the Statute of 25. <HI>E. 3. c.</HI> 2. as he Re&s;olves
in his 3. <HI>In&s;titut. c.</HI> 1, and therefore unrea&s;onable and Trea&s;ona|ble
for &s;uch as are True and Faithfull neither to King, Lords,
Parliament, Kingdome or People, to exact or expect from any
others.</P>
<P>Seventhly, It mo&s;t ingratefully and unworthily obliterates the
memoriall of all the good Lawes, Liberties, Franchi&s;es, Prote|ction,
Benefits, Deliverances wee have received, and the Peace,
Pro&s;perity, Freedome and Happine&s;&s;e, Wee and our Ance&s;tors
have enjoyed under the Reignes of mo&s;t Generous, Valorous,
Bountifull, Pious, Religious Kings and Queenes (e&s;pecially
our late renowned King, <HI>Edward</HI> the &s;ixt, Queene <HI>Elizabeth,</HI>
King <HI>James,</HI> and a great part of King <HI>Charles</HI> his Reigne, which
the Parliaments in their Reigns in<NOTE N="e" PLACE="marg">15 <HI>H 8 c.</HI> 12. &amp; all Acts of the Sub&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ies granted by the Laity or Clergy in their reignes</NOTE> &s;undry <HI>Acts,</HI> our own &amp;
forreigne Hi&s;torians and Writers have &s;o highly <HI>magnified</HI> and
ble&s;&s;ed God for; and our very la&s;t Parliament remembred and
thankfully acknowledged in &s;ome of their<NOTE N="f" PLACE="marg">Exact. Collection<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>p.</HI> 14. 15. 16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">96.</NOTE> <HI>Remon&s;trances,</HI>
of which we need no other te&s;timony but our<NOTE N="g" PLACE="marg">Exact Col|lection. <HI>p</HI> 712&punc; 713. 714.</NOTE> <HI>Kings</HI> &amp; <HI>Co|ronation</HI>
Oath; in extirpating Kings and Monarchy for ever after,
for &s;ome confe&s;&s;ed extravagancies and Errors of the beheaded
King, not halfe &s;o grievous, oppre&s;&s;ive, unju&s;t or impious, as
tho&s;e them&s;elves are guilty of, e&s;pecially in Repealing as much as
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in them lies the <HI>Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance, and the &s;o|lemne
League and Covenant</HI> (the principall Bullwarks again&s;t the
Pope and Papi&s;ts encroachments) and impo&s;ing this new <HI>Oath
and Engagement,</HI> again&s;t the very Letter, Scope of the&s;e and &s;un|dry
other ju&s;t and ancient <HI>Oathes,</HI> and forcing it again&s;t mens
Con&s;ciences, to make them willfully perjured<NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 15. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> Rom 1 31 32</NOTE> <HI>and damne
their Soules.</HI></P>
<P>Eightly; The maine end of this <HI>Oath</HI> is to extingui&s;h, irradi|cate
our Engli&s;h Monarchy and King&s;hip; though the<NOTE N="i" PLACE="marg">P&s;al 22. 11 P&s;al. 47 2. 7. P&s;al. 29 10.</NOTE>
<HI>Government of God him&s;elfe over the whole World,</HI> and of our<NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 1 6 I&s;ay 9. 7 Luke 1 33.</NOTE>
<HI>Saviour Je&s;us Chri&s;t over his Church,</HI> who have the Titles of<NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 10. 16 P&s;al. 47 2. P&s;al 89 18. P&s; 48 2 P&s; 95 3. P&s;. 149. 2. P&s; 33 17 20 1. Tim. 1 17.</NOTE>
<HI>King of Kings, &amp;c.</HI> &s;o frequently given them in Scripture, though
the<NOTE N="m" PLACE="marg"><HI>Seldius</HI> ti|tles of honor part. 1. c. 1. 2. 3.</NOTE> <HI>fir&s;t, antiente&s;t, univer&s;alle&s;t, honourable&s;t, freee&s;t,</HI>
<NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">Acknow|ledged by Mr. <HI>Pym.</HI> him&s;elfe and the hou&s;e of Commons <HI>Canterburie's</HI> doome <HI>p.</HI> 29 Exact Colle|ctions <HI>p.</HI> 696.</NOTE> <HI>be&s;t, happie&s;t, &s;afe&s;t, peaceable&s;t, durable&s;t</HI> Government
of all others in the World; as the Scripture, Hi&s;tories, Politi|tians
and Divines accord: That Government under which all
the Inhabitants of this I&s;le, &s;ince it was fir&s;t Peopled, have ever
lived, flouri&s;hed; continuing unalterable in all Changes and
Succe&s;&s;ions of tho&s;e Nations which have invaded, peopled, or
Conquered it, as be&s;t and mo&s;t agreeable and plea&s;ing to the Peo+ple:
That of which we have &s;o long experience, and enjoyed the
happie&s;t, free&s;t, peaceable&s;t and mo&s;t Religious we are ever like
to &s;ee; that which is e&s;tabli&s;hed, ratified with &s;o many &s;acred
<HI>Oathes, Lawes, Vowes, Acts, Records and Fences</HI> of all &s;orts
that Piety or Policy could invent, that Impiety, Impudence and
Treachery it &s;elfe might ju&s;tly feare to invade it; and honoured
with &s;uch &s;ignall pre&s;ervations and deliverances, in the Per&s;ons
of <HI>Querne Elizabeth</HI> and <HI>King James,</HI> &s;pecified in our Annals,
and<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">1 Jac. c. 1. 2 3. Jacobi c. 1. 2. 4.</NOTE> &s;ome <HI>Acts of Parliament,</HI> as might daunt all <HI>Traytors</HI>
from attempting its &s;ubver&s;ion; and all to introduce a Lowe-Country
Government, under as many Kings and Tyrants, as
there are <HI>new Lords, Officers, Souldiers,</HI> &s;upported by a nume|rous
&s;tanding Army, and con&s;tant Garri&s;ons in all Counties;
which mu&s;t bee maintained at the Kingdomes and Peoples charge
by a <HI>Perpetuall Exci&s;e &s;o</HI><NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg">Exact Col|lection. <HI>p.</HI> 6.</NOTE> <HI>much declamed again&s;t in the
King,</HI> who did only once &s;ecretly <HI>attempt,</HI> (but not impo&s;e it)
great <HI>arbitrary Monthly Contributions,</HI> renued and augmented at
our new <HI>Governours</HI> meere plea&s;ures (who both impo&s;e, receive
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and di&s;po&s;e thereof as they plea&s;e) and levy it by meere force
of Armes (reputed <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> in<NOTE N="q" PLACE="marg">Mr. <HI>St. Jonns</HI> Argu|ment at Law.</NOTE> <HI>Strafford's</HI> Ca&s;e, and a le|vying
Warre again&s;t the <HI>King and Kingdome</HI>) and that accom|panied
with the undoing pe&s;t of<NOTE N="r" PLACE="marg"><HI>Condem|ned in the</HI> Pe|tion of Right 3. Caroli.</NOTE> <HI>Free Quarter,</HI> upon e|very
March, or pretence of Arreares, or Pay: And what happy
free <HI>new State and Government</HI> this will prove (the very be&s;t
all rationall men mu&s;t expect, being &s;upportable only by a per|petuall
Army, Garri&s;ons, Exci&s;e, Contributions, &amp;c. as the Low-Countries
are) to ju&s;tle out our anciente&s;t Monarchy in the
World, under which wee were freed from all <HI>Armies, Garri&s;ons,
Exci&s;e, Contributions, Free-Quarter,</HI> and feares of Forraigne
Inva&s;ions, which now affright us, granting only a <HI>Sub&s;idy or
two</HI> in devers yeares, only by <HI>Acts of Parliament,</HI> to which all
con&s;ented (wherein the Commons never pre&s;umed to Tax the
Lords and Clergy at their plea&s;ure, as they now unju&s;tly doe,
without their own free con&s;ents) amounting not to one Moneths
Exci&s;e and Contribution in many yeares; let all men judge be|before
they take or &s;ub&s;cribe this new <HI>Oath and Engagement</HI> to
aboli&s;h the one which was &s;o ea&s;y, and erect the other, which
mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;ity prove &s;o grievous.</P>
<P>Ninthly, It will really verifiy and make good all the late
<HI>King's</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Exact Col|lection <HI>p.</HI> 262. 282 284 to 289. 297. 298. 500. 514. 517. 521. 522. 526. 528. 530 531. 534 550 551. 554 558. 561. 562. A Col|lection, &amp;c. <HI>p.</HI> 177 worthy our &s;erious con|&s;ideration.</NOTE> <HI>Declarations</HI> and <HI>Remon&s;trances</HI> again&s;t the proceedings
of the late <HI>Hou&s;es</HI> of <HI>Parliament;</HI> wherein Hee prophetically
and frequently charged them (or rather <HI>a few Factious and am|bitious
di&s;contented spirits, that over-&s;wayed and &s;educed them,
under the &s;pecious pretences</HI> OF RELIGION <HI>and</HI> LIBER|TY)
<HI>with a Trayterous</HI> RESOLUTION <HI>and</HI> DESIGNE
<HI>to alter, destroy, di&s;&s;olve, &s;hake, and rent in pieces the whole frame
and con&s;titution of this Kingdome, &s;o admirably framed and con|tinued
by the ble&s;&s;ing of God and the wi&s;edome of our Ancestors to
the wonder and envy of all the Neigbouring Kingdomes. To turne
the well founded Monarchy into a Democarcy: To ruine Mo|narchy
it &s;elfe and Regall Power, never before &s;trucken at, To De|po&s;e,
Murther, and De&s;tory both Him&s;elfe and His Royall Po&s;te|rity,
and Di&s;&s;olve His Government and Authority. To alter and
&s;ubvert the ancient Frame, Con&s;titution, and Government of Church,
State, Parliament, and Fundamentall Lawes, Liberties of the
Kingdome and People&punc; To destroy the hou&s;e of Lords&punc; and the Pri|viledges,
<PB N="6" REF="5">
Rights and Freedome of our Parliaments: To &s;ubject
both King and People, Lawes and Liberties, together with His and
his good Subjects Lives and Fortunes, and bring them into perpe|tuall
&s;lavery and bondage to their Va&s;t, &V;nlimited, Lawle&s;&s;e, Ar|bitrary,
Seditious, Juri&s;diction, Tyranny, Power Government,
(which would revive that Tragedy Mr.</HI> Hooker <HI>relates of the An|abapti&s;ts
in</HI> Germany) <HI>and to de&s;troy both Religion and Liberty,
King and People; over which they de&s;igned to make them&s;elves
perpetuall Dictators:</HI> And that <HI>their Armies were rai&s;ed pur|po&s;ely
to effect all the&s;e De&s;ignes:</HI> (all which wee now finde effe|cted,
and fully accompli&s;hed by the treachery of the Army and
tho&s;e now acting) <HI>The timely prevention whereof, the King and
his Party profe&s;&s;ed&punc; was the only end and De&s;igne of taking up Armes
again&s;t them, for the pre&s;ervation of Religion, Lawes, Liberties,
Monarchy, and prevention of this fore-&s;eene Anarchy, Tyranny,
and Confu&s;ion, now brought upon us by our new pretended Gover|nours
(through perjury, treachery, and violence) again&s;t the Votes
and Remon&s;trances of both hou&s;es, who particularly</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Exact Col|lection. <HI>p.</HI> 695. 696 657 658 A Collection, &amp;c. <HI>p.</HI> 420. to 428 698 699. 700. 877, 878.</NOTE> <HI>Renounced
and Prote&s;ted again&s;t them;</HI> And whereof the <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> Con|clave
in the 16. and 17. pages of their <HI>late Declaration of Septem|ber</HI>
la&s;t (ordered to bee read in Churches) doe &s;ufficiently acquit
both Hou&s;es, and tho&s;e who adhered to them only out of hone&s;t
and publique Intention; <HI>as De&s;ignes of their owne,</HI> not <HI>revealed
till of late,</HI> the <HI>timely di&s;covery whereof would have deterred all
from attempting or adhering to the chiefe Contrivers of them.</HI> Now
our &s;ub&s;cription to this <HI>new Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement,</HI> will <HI>po&s;t fa|ctum,</HI>
make both our &s;elves, the late Hou&s;es, and all their adhe|rents
apparently guilty of all the&s;e <HI>trayterous horrid De&s;ignes</HI> (to
which they were no wales privie nor a&s;&s;enting, but ever abjured
in their <HI>Prote&s;tation, Vow, Solemne League and Covenant,</HI> and
abhominated from their &s;oules) and thereby not only verifie
but ju&s;tifie the <HI>Declarations</HI> and <HI>Proceedings</HI> of the King in e|very
particular, as mo&s;t Ju&s;t, Nece&s;&s;ary and Honourable for
the publique Liberty and Safety; but likewi&s;e canonize (as it
were) him with all his &s;laine and &s;uffering Party, as <HI>Martyrs
for the Kingdomes and Peoples Safety,</HI> and the <HI>Publique Liberty;</HI>
(for which they lo&s;t their lives and e&s;tates; as all <HI>Pre&s;cribers</HI> and
<HI>Sub&s;cribers</HI> of this <HI>Oath and Engagement</HI> mu&s;t now nece&s;&s;arily
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acknowledge, and all the World will conclude again&s;t them)
and brand our &s;elves, our Bretheren of <HI>Scotland</HI> and all tho&s;e
who have lo&s;t their lives, limbs and e&s;tates in oppo&s;ition or
warres again&s;t them, with both the late <HI>Hou&s;es,</HI> for <HI>notorious
Rebells, Traytors, Con&s;pirators, Murtherers;</HI> on who&s;e <HI>Heads</HI>
and <HI>Soules</HI> the guilt of all the <HI>precious blood</HI> &s;hed in our late and
pre&s;ent Warres, both in <HI>England, Ireland</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> mu&s;t
now bee tran&s;lated from the King and his Party (on whom wee
have formerly charged it) and ju&s;tly re&s;t for the future, to their
eternall infamy, condemnation, ruine. Which unavoyda|ble
con&s;equence of our &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion and &s;ub&s;cription to this <HI>Oath</HI>
and <HI>Engagement,</HI> with the horrers of Con&s;cience, and divine
Judgements that mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily &s;eize upon us, when under
the guilt of &s;o much <HI>Treachery</HI> and <HI>Blood &s;hed,</HI> is &s;ufficient of
it &s;elfe alone to deterre us from the lea&s;t a&s;&s;ent thereto, and to
engage our utmo&s;t power again&s;t them, without any other
arguments; '&s;pecially if compared with the Loyall and He|roicall
re&s;olutions and engagements of our Ance&s;tors in the Par|liament
at <HI>Lincolne. An. 28. E.</HI> 1. (Recorded in <HI>Wal&s;ingham
Hist. Angliae. p.</HI> 49. to 56. <HI>Cookes 2. In&s;tit. p. 97. 98.) 20. H.
3. ch. 9. 40. E. 3. rot. Parl. n. 8. Cookes 4. In&s;tit. p.</HI> 13. 14.
The notable Statute of 16. <HI>R. 3. c.</HI> 5. of <HI>Praemunire. 11. H. 7.
c. 18. 19. H. 7. c. 1. 25. H. 8. c. 22. 35. H. 8. c. 1. 1. Mariae.
Parl. 2. ch. 1. 1. Eliz. c. 1. 3. 5. Eliz c. 1. 23. Eliz. c.</HI> 1. 2.
1. <HI>Jacobi ch. 1. 2. 3. Jac. ch. 1. 2. 4. 5. &amp; 7. Jac. ch.</HI> 6. which
all <HI>perjured Judges, Sergeants and Lawyers</HI> (<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ho have di&s;ho|noured
their profe&s;&s;ions by their late &s;ub&s;criptions, and exceeded
<HI>Judge Thorpe, Tre&s;ilian</HI> and his companions, and the <HI>Ship-Money</HI>
Judges, in their <HI>Perjuries</HI> and <HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> again&s;t <HI>King,
Kingdome, Lords, People, Lawes, Liberties,</HI> which they have
ba&s;ely and wickedly betrayed, again&s;t their Science and Con|&s;cience)
may doe well to chew the cudde upon and on Mr. <HI>St.
Johns Speech</HI> at the <HI>Impeachment of the Judges</HI> concerning <HI>Ship-Money,</HI>
and Argument at Law at <HI>Straffords Attainder</HI> (enough
to hang and damne them all twenty times over, with all other
Impo&s;ers and Sub&s;cribers of this <HI>Trea&s;onable Engagement</HI>)
doe well to-head other <HI>Straffords</HI> who&s;e crimes were not halfe
&s;o trea&s;onable and abhominable as the enforcing or &s;ub&s;cribing
<PB N="10" REF="6">
of this <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement,</HI> by the meete pretended Autho|rity
of tho&s;e, who never had the lea&s;t legall power to admini|&s;ter
any old lawfull Oath, in any ca&s;e, when a full free and
lawfull Commons Hou&s;e; much le&s;&s;e to make and impo&s;e a
new trea&s;onable and illegall Oath of Allegiance to them&s;elves
(who are oblieged by no &s;uch reciprocall Oath to pre&s;erve our
Lawes, Liberties and free Cu&s;tomes, as our Kings alwaies
were) upon all the Nation, again&s;t the Lawes and Statutes of
the Realme, and above thirty legall Oathes yet in force, which
&s;undry Officers are oblieged to take before they may or ought to
execute their re&s;pective Offices.</P>
<P>Tenthly, The Scripture is expre&s;&s;e, that <HI>Monarchicall Govern|ment
is Gods owne &s;peciall Ordinance, Deut.</HI> 17. 14 15. and <HI>Prov.</HI>
8. 15. 16. <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 1. 2. That the enjoyment of <HI>Kings and
Kingly Government is a great honour, happine&s;&s;e and benefit to
a Nation and a &s;peciall ble&s;&s;ing promi&s;ed and given to them by God
him&s;elfe, Gen. 17 6. 16. Jer. 17. 25 c. 22. 4 2. Chron. 9. 8.
Ez<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ch.</HI> 16. 13. And can it then bee a mi&s;erie and Judgment to
us? that is a <HI>mo&s;t &s;evere Judgement</HI> of God, and the cau&s;e of
many mi&s;eries, oppre&s;&s;ions, di&s;orders and de&s;truction to a Na|tion
or Kingdome, to bee without a King, by the Scriptures
and Gods owne Re&s;olution. <HI>Judg. 17. 6. c. 18. 1. c. 19. 1. c. 21.
25. Ho&s;ea 1. 4 c. 3. 4 5. c. 10 3. Jer</HI> 22. 3. to 13. <HI>Ho&s;ea 13.
11. 12. Mich. 4. 9. 10. Am<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">s 1. 13. 14 15. Zech.</HI> 9. 5. And
can it bee then any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">appine&s;t and no judgement unto us to bee
without a King? That Kings have beene the <HI>greate&s;t Reformers
and Promoters of Gods Wor&s;hip and Religion and &s;uppre&s;&s;ors of
Idolatry under the Law</HI> (is the Bookes of <HI>Kings, Chronicles,
Ezra, E&s;ter, Nehemiah, Daniel</HI> the <HI>P&s;almes, Proverbs</HI> te&s;tify)
and are &s;pecially <HI>prophecied and promi&s;ed to bee the chiefe Patri|ots,
Fathers, Promoters, Propagators and Reformers of Religion,
Gods Church and Wor&s;hip under the Go&s;pell,</HI> in &s;undry texts, as
<HI>P&s;al. 62. 29. P&s;. 72. 10. 11. P&s;. 112. 15. P&s;. 138. 4. 5. P&s;.</HI> 148.
11. <HI>I&s;ay 41. 2. c. 45. 1. 2. 5. c. 49. 7. 23. c. 52. 15. c. 60. 3. 10. 11. c.</HI> 62
2. <HI>Rev. 11. 15. c.</HI> 21. 24. which Hi&s;tories witne&s;&s;e to bee expe|rimentally
verified, and more e&s;pecialy in our <HI>I&s;land</HI> (according
to that Prophecio <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72. 10. relating unto <HI>I&s;lands</HI>) which had
the fift <HI>Chri&s;tian King</HI><NOTE N="s" PLACE="marg">Math. We&s;t. An 185. 307. Speed, God|win, Spelman, U&s;her, De Ec|cle&s;. Brit. Pri|mordi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</NOTE> <HI>Lucius,</HI> and fir&s;t mo&s;t renouned
<PB N="11" REF="6">
<HI>Chri&s;tian Emperor, Con&s;tantine the Great,</HI> borne and Crowned
in it; and many pious, devout and <HI>religious Princes</HI> &s;ince, of an|cient
and later times, by who&s;e <HI>bonnty, care, zeale; religion</HI> and
<HI>learning</HI> were advanced, continued and propagated among&s;t us,
and are now likely to expire with our Monarchy, for want of
protection, maintenance, encouragement, and puni&s;hment of
Athei&s;me, Here&s;y, Bla&s;phemy and Prophanene&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">, and defrauding
Mini&s;ters both of their Tythes and promi&s;ed augmentations,
eating them out with taxes, &amp; turning them out of their Livings
and livelihood, by arbitrary Committees again&s;t Law and Ju|&s;tice,
upon the bare &s;ugge&s;tions of every malicious Sectary, or
Tythe-declaiming pro&s;ecutor. Upon which grounds Chri&s;tians
under the Go&s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ll are in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>fir&s;t place enjoyned to make prayers,
interce&s;&s;ions and thanks-givings for Kings that under them they
may live a peaceable life in all Godline&s;&s;e and Hone&s;ty:</HI> FOR
THIS IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABL IN THE SIGHT
OF GOD OUR SAVIOUR (therefore to aboli&s;h Kings is
&s;infull and di&s;plea&s;ing in his fight, and contrary to his reavealed
will) 1. <HI>Tim.</HI> 2. 1. 2. To <HI>&s;ubmis to Kings as unto the Supreme,
and honour them for the Lords &s;ake; for &s;o it is the will of God.</HI>
1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 13. 14&punc; 15. 17. To <HI>bee &s;ubject to Principalities and Powers.
Tit. 3. 1. Rom.</HI> 13. 1. which Scriptures mu&s;t bee rai&s;ed out of
the Bible as Apocriphall, if wee will extirpate Kings and Mo|narchy
out of the Realme and Chri&s;tian World, as &s;ome now
endeavour: the attempting whereof mu&s;t needes bee an high
affront to <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> him&s;elfe, which robs him of one of his mo&s;t
glorious Go&s;pell Titles, <HI>King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. 1 Tim.</HI>
6 15. <HI>Rev. 17. 14. c.</HI> 19 16. Ad to this, that the Scripture relates
it a great <HI>honour and pro&s;perity to a Nation to become a Kingdom.
Ezech.</HI> 16. 13. and a great <HI>judgement, mi&s;ery, and di&s;honour to bee
un-Kingdomed, or made a ba&s;e, or no Kingdom. Jer. 16. 7 9. c.</HI> 22.
4 5 6. <HI>&amp;c. Ezech. 29. 14. 15. Dan. 11 9. Ho&s;ea 1 4 Dan.</HI> 2. 44.
That the Church of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> the <HI>Go&s;pell,</HI> and <HI>Heaven</HI> it &s;elfe are
alwaies and<NOTE N="t" PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 145. 11. 13&punc; I&s;ay 9 7 Dan. 4 35. c. 6. 27. Math. 3. 2. c. 5 7. 19 c. 12. 18 c 21. 43. c. 25. 34. c. 26. 25. u. 3. 33. c. 10 11 1. Cor. 6. 9. Col. 1. 13. 1. Tim. 4 1. 18 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">. 2. 5. 2. Pe. 1 11. Rav. 12. 10.</NOTE> very <HI>frequently</HI> &s;tiled a <HI>Kingdom</HI> never a Stat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">
or Republique (in contradiction to a Kingdome) throughout
the <HI>Old</HI> and <HI>New-Te&s;tament.</HI> That the highe&s;t honour <HI>Christ</HI>
hath purcha&s;ed for us with his mo&s;t precious blood is&punc; to <HI>make
us Kings to God his Father:</HI> to admit us into his <HI>Kingdome of
<PB N="12" REF="7">
Grace here, and of Glory hereafter, where we &s;hall reigne as Kings
for ever. Rev. 1. 5. 6. c. 5. 10 Lu. 1. 13. 1. The&s;&s;. 2. 12. 2. Tim.</HI> 4. 18.
And that the <HI>Kingdomes</HI> only (not States and Republ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="3 letters">) <HI>of
the Earth</HI> are Prophecied and Promi&s;ed to become the <HI>King|doms
of the Lord, and of his Christ. P&s;. 8. 31. 32 Rev. 1. 15. Obad.</HI>
21. upon all which con&s;iderations, we can never &s;ub&s;cribe to
the extirpation of our Kingly Government, or tran&s;lating our
anciente&s;t Kingdome into the punie&s;t Republiqu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> in the World
for feare wee lo&s;e Gods protect on of and intere&s;t, reigne, pre|&s;ence
by his Ordinances in our Kingdome, and be for ever ex|cluded
ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> of his Kingdomes of Grace, Glory, and from reigning
as Kings in either of them, which the pre&s;cribers and &s;ub&s;cri|bers
of this <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement</HI> (who u&s;urpe upon Gods &s;pe|ciall
prerogative to di&s;po&s;e of the <HI>Kingdomes of the Earth at his
own plea&s;ure. Da. 4 32. 17. Je.</HI> 18 6. 7. 9.) again&s;t &s;o many Oaths,
Covenants, Rea&s;ons, Scriptures, have cau&s;e to feare and expect.</P>
<P>Eleventhly, Wee are per&s;waded in our con&s;ciences, that the
change of our rightfull King into many new &s;elfe created States,
our Kingdome into a Common-Wealth, and ancien<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> Parlia|ments
of King, Lords and Commons into a new Repre&s;entative
of Commons alone without King or Lords, the principall De|&s;igne
of this new <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement,</HI> again&s;t &s;o many Oaths,
Lawes, and Engagements of former &amp; later times inviolably to
pre&s;erve them with our lives, e&s;tates, &amp; la&s;t drop of our bloods,
and that by the far le&s;&s;er part of the Kingdome and Hou&s;e of
Commons, again&s;t the wills and Prote&s;tations of the Major part
who are mo&s;t concerned therein, and without hearing their rea|&s;ons
and objections to the contrary, or convincing them of the
nece&s;&s;itie or conveniency thereof by a free hearing and debate
thereof, in a full and free Parliament &s;pecially convened for that
purpo&s;e; is not only a mo&s;t unju&s;t, illegall and tyrannicall act,
contrary to the Lawes of God, Nature and the Realme, a great
&s;candall to our Religion, and injury and di&s;honour to our whol
Engli&s;h Nation, not to be pre&s;idented in any age, e&s;pecially by
&s;o great pretenders to publique Liberty; but likewi&s;e an under|taking
of &s;uch dangerous con&s;equence, as none endowed with
right Rea&s;on, the feare of God, or any reall love to their Coun|try,
dur&s;t once for to attempt, as is clear to us by the&s;e particulars.</P>
<P><PB N="13" REF="7">
1. It will involve us in perpetuall Warres and troubles &s;o
long as there are any of the blood Royall who have title to the
Crowne, or any of the Nobility endowed with any &s;parkes of
honour left alive; who will never de&s;i&s;t from attempting the
recovery of their lo&s;t Rights and Priviledges.</P>
<P>2. It will &s;ever the united Kingdoms of <HI>Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI>
from, and engage them and all the Kings forraigne friends and
Allyes again&s;t us; and nece&s;&s;itate us to mainta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">n a perpetuall
Army and Garri&s;ons by Land, and Navy by Sea; which will
undoe us, with Contribution, Exci&s;e, Free-Quarter; expo&s;e us
to perpetuall Murthers, Robberie, Outrages, Tumults, Opp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;|&s;ions,
Di&s;contents; Decrea&s;e and Decay all Trading, and end in
our ab&s;olute Slaverie, Mi&s;erie, Ruine.</P>
<P>3. It will nece&s;&s;iate our new Governours, after the &s;ale of
the Kings and Deanes and Chapters Lands, to help ea&s;e the
People (for a time only) and &s;upport their Army and Navy, to
&s;eize and &s;ell the Lands of all Corporations, Companies, Col|ledges,
Ho&s;pitalls, Schooles, and Rectories of Churches in the
Kingdome (a thing already projected by &s;ome) and to find out
&s;ome device or other to make new Delinquen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">s of purpo&s;e to
Seque&s;ter and Confi&s;cate their E&s;tates, till the whole Kingdome
be Seque&s;tred &amp; made Malignants to help pay the Soldiers: one
feared De&s;igne of this new <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement</HI> again&s;t tho&s;e
who out of grounds of con&s;cience, Law and &s;olid prudence,
refu&s;e to &s;ub&s;cribe it,</P>
<P>4. It will di&s;&s;olve all our ancient Leagues with forraigne
Kingdomes and States, made only with our King and King|dome,
and by the Law of Nations give them advantage and oc|ca&s;ion
to &s;eize our Ships, Merchants, Merchandize without
breach of League, in the behalfe of the King and tho&s;e who &s;tand
for the Kingdomes continuance, with whom only the Leagues
were made and &s;tand firme again&s;t others who oppo&s;e them.</P>
<P>5. It will lo&s;e our Intere&s;t, honour and reputation in and
withall other Kingdomes or States, who will refu&s;e to owne or
treat with us a State, thus forcibly and trea&s;onably erected; on
el&s;e treat with us, as the punie&s;t and meane&s;t State in the
World, who&s;e Agents and publique Mini&s;ters mu&s;t give place
to tho&s;e of all Kings, Princes and other States what&s;oever
<PB N="14" REF="8">
which are ancientes then it, ever by the [u] <HI>Law of Nations
and re&s;olution of all Heranlds;</HI><NOTE N="v" PLACE="marg">Ca&s;&s;anae|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters"> Catalogue gloriae Mundi Hi&s;t of the C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ll of Trent.</NOTE> which the genero&s;ity of the
Engli&s;h Nation (the anci<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">nt&s;t and fir&s;t Chri&s;tian Kingdome in
the Chri&s;tian World<NOTE N="x" PLACE="marg">Seld<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ns <HI>Titles of Hen.</HI> part. 2. ch. 11.</NOTE> claiming proceedency of all other
Kingdomes in Generall Councells add A&s;&s;emblies heretofore)
will hardly brooke.</P>
<P>6. It will null, di&s;&s;olve and extingui&s;h all the Corporations,
Tenures, ancient Cu&s;tomes, Rents, Services, Courts of Ju&s;tice,
ancient Seales, Proce&s;&s;e, Writs, Legall Proceedings, Charters,
Liberties, Cu&s;tomes, Forfeitures unpon penall Lawes, Titles
of Honou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> that are either hereditary or during life, and currant
Coynes of the Kingdome; which being derived only the Kings
and ancient Parliaments of <HI>England</HI> for them, their Heires and
Succe&s;&s;ors, or re&s;erved to them, their Heires and Succe&s;&s;ors, and
none others, and bearing their &s;tamp and image on them; mu&s;t
all fall, expire and vani&s;h together with them, as the Hou&s;e falls
all to pieces when the foundation is &s;ubverted; the Rivers quite
faile when the &s;prings from whence they flow, the effects cea&s;e
when the cau&s;e is de&s;troyed, and the deriva<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ives expire and va|ni&s;h
quite away when the primitives are aboli&s;hed: And what
confu&s;ions and mi&s;chiefes will en&s;ue, let the World judge.</P>
<P>7. If wee &s;hall once give way that our Kings, Kingdome,
Peers, and Parliaments; &s;etled, e&s;tabli&s;hed, &s;ecured and fenced
with &s;o long Pre&s;criptions, Lawes, Oathes, Covenants, Engage|ments
and Securities of all &s;orts that humane wi&s;dome can in|vent,
&s;hall be thus overturned, de&s;troyed, di&s;&s;ipated, annihila|ted
in a moment, at the wills and lu&s;ts of our pre&s;ent U&s;urpers,
again&s;t all their Solemne Oaths, Covenants and Prote&s;tations
not to doe it; wee cannot but imagine, conceive and believe,
that every particular per&s;ons e&s;tate, goods, life, liberties and en|joyments
in the Kingdome not halfe &s;o well e&s;talib&s;hed and fen|ced
as they, can be &s;ecure or exempt from their violence&punc; &amp; rapine
but &s;ubject to their lawle&s;&s;e wills, courts, acts, &s;eizures &amp; di&s;|po&s;als,
to deprive us of them at their plea&s;ures; which will ren|der
us the mi&s;erable&s;t &amp; &s;lavi&s;he&s;t People under Heaven, in&s;tead
of a free Republick; of which the late illegall proceedings in
martiall arbitrary Courts and Committees again&s;t the beheaded
King, Lords and others, with their late impo&s;ed arbitrary Ta|xes,
<PB N="15" REF="8">
Exci&s;es, Acts for new Trea&s;ons, and this very <HI>Oath</HI> and
<HI>Engagement</HI> give us undeniable experiments.</P>
<P>Upon which, and &s;undry other weighty con&s;iderations, we
are pere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ptorily re&s;olved, by the grace and a&s;&s;i&s;tance of our O|mnipotent
God, rather to endure ten thou&s;and S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">que&s;trations,
Impri&s;onments, Deaths; then to betray our King, Kingdomes,
Parliaments, Lawes, Liberties, Religion, all our earthly com|forts,
wound our Con&s;ciences, damnour immortall Souls by our
&s;ubmi&s;&s;ion or &s;ub&s;cription to this irreligious, fl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">gitious, pernic|ous,
&s;candalous, illegall, irrationall, uncon&s;cionable, trea&s;ona|ble
New <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement;</HI> and adhere to the death con|&s;tantly
and &s;incerely to our former <HI>Oathes&punc; Covenants</HI> and <HI>En|gagements,</HI>
which they diametrically oppo&s;e, maugre any hu|mans
powers or forces what&s;oever.</P>
<P>To clo&s;e up all wee heartily wi&s;h all perjured Pre&s;cribers of
this New <HI>Oath</HI> and <HI>Engagement</HI> (e&s;pecially apo&s;tate A&s;&s;embly|men,
D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">vines and Lawyers, who contrary to their former
<HI>Oathes, Covenants, Prote&s;tations</HI> and <HI>Sub&s;criptions</HI>) have &s;ub|&s;cribed
this new <HI>Oath,</HI> Con&s;cienciou&s;ly and &s;adly to con&s;ider
and peru&s;e: <HI>Levit. 19. 12. P&s;al. 15. 1 2. 4. Io&s;h. 9. 18. 19. 20.
2 Sam. 21. 1. &amp; 1 King. 1 29. 30. c. 2. 42. 43 46. 2 Chron. 13.
5. 6 &amp; Neh. 5 12. 13. Ier. 34. 8 to 20. Ezech. 17. 11. to 22.
Zech. 5. 1. to 5. Mal. 3 5 Rom.</HI> 1&punc; 28. 31. 32. 2 <HI>Tim&punc; 3. 1. to</HI> 6.
Dr. <HI>Beards</HI> Theatre or God Judgements <HI>L. 1. c.</HI> 27. 28. of Per|jurers
divine puni&s;hments (e&s;pecially the example of <HI>Rodulph.
p.</HI> 174. with another of that nature <HI>p.</HI> 176. and the example of
that perj<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">red U&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">per of the Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e, again&s;t his <HI>Oath,</HI> King
<HI>Hera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ld Math. We&s;t. An. 1066. p.</HI> 430. 438. with the &s;ad Sto|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="4 letters">
of Archbi&s;hop <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">nm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">rs</HI> tortu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">s of Con&s;cience, and Mr.
<HI>Bilneys</HI> for &s;ub&s;cribing again&s;t their Con&s;ciences to &s;ave their
Lives, in Mr. <HI>Fox</HI> his Mon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ments: And then they will eyther
with <HI>Peter,</HI> after he had abju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ed his Lord and Ma&s;ter with an
oath, goe forth and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> bitterly, if they have any &s;parkes of
Grace or hopes of Salva&s;ion remaining in them; or el&s;e with
tr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">cherous <HI>Iudas,</HI> who betrayed his Lord and Ma&s;ter to grati|fie
the High-Prie&s;ts, goe out de&s;pairing, and hang them&s;elves
to avoid the &s;hame of the World, and angui&s;h of their torment|ing
Con&s;ciences.</P>
<DIV2 TYPE="query">
<PB N="16" REF="9">
<HEAD>A Quaere touching an Engli&s;h Monarchy, and a Low-Country
Free-State; which of them is the
Free&s;t, and mo&s;t to bee de&s;ired.</HEAD>
<DIV3 N="monarchy" TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>An Engli&s;h Monarchie,</HEAD>
<P>Is a mo&s;t Honorable free Government by an hereditary King ac|cording
to the Lawes of the Kingdoms, &s;upplyed only (without any
&s;tanding Army, Garri&s;ons, Free-Quarter, Exci&s;e, or Monethly
Contributions, by a bare Ordinance of a few Commons) with a
Sub&s;idy or two, in divers yeares, freely granted by the Laity and
Clergy in full Parliament by di&s;tinct Acts of Parliament.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="free state" TYPE="answer">
<HEAD>A Low-Country Free-State,</HEAD>
<P>Is an Ignoble Servitude under the Militarie Command of many
&s;elfe-Created new States, erected and &s;upported by the meere Power
of a &s;tanding Army, con&s;tant Garri&s;ons, Citadels, accompanied
with perpetuall Monethly Contributions, Taxes, Exci&s;es and
Free-Quarter impo&s;ed on the Clergy &amp; Laity by the&s;e new States
alone, without common con&s;ent or Act of Parliament, and aug|mented
and di&s;po&s;ed of at their owne Will and Plea&s;ures.</P>
<EPIGRAPH>
<Q>Utrum horum mavis, accipe.</Q>
</EPIGRAPH>
<PB REF="9">
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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