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<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="decree">
<PB REF="1">
<HEAD>Die Saturni, Apr. 6. 1645.</HEAD>
<P>It is <HI>Decreed,</HI> and <HI>Ordained</HI> by the reverend <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Divines</HI> now a&s;&s;em|bled in <HI>holy Convocation,</HI> that Dr. <HI>Burge&s;&s;e,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Edwards</HI> doe returne thankes unto the worthy Authour of this <HI>Treati&s;e,</HI> intituled, <HI>The Araigne|ment of Per&s;ecution,</HI> for his pious endevoures, and vigilant care he hath taken therein, at the intreaty of this <HI>Synod:</HI> And it is further <HI>Ordained,</HI> that they doe de&s;ire him to print and publi&s;h the &s;aid Treati&s;e forthwith, and that it be commended to the people, as a <HI>divine Hand-Maide</HI> to the right under&s;tan|ding of the <HI>Directory:</HI> And it is yet furcher Decreed and Ordained, that none &s;hall pre&s;ume to print or reprint the &s;aid Treati&s;e, but whome he &s;hall authorize under his own hand writing till this mo&s;t <HI>Holy Synod</HI> &s;hall take furuther Order.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<HEAD>Scribes.</HEAD>
<ITEM>Henry Roborough,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Adoniran Byfeild,</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="appointment">
<P>I appoynt my Cozen MARTIN CLAW-CLERGIE <HI>Printer</HI> to the <HI>reverend A&s;&s;embly of Divines,</HI> and none el&s;e, to <HI>Print this Treati&s;e.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yongue MARTIN MAR-PREIST,</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y">
<P>THE Araignement OF Mr. PERSECUTION: Pre&s;ented to the CONSIDERATION OF THE HOUSE OF COM|mons, and to all the COMMON PEOPLE of <HI>England WHEREIN HE IS INDICTED, ARAIGNED, CONVICTED, AND CON|demned</HI> of <HI>emnity again&s;t God, and all Goodne&s;&s;e, of Trea&s;ons, Rebellion, Blood&s;hed, &amp;c.</HI> and &s;ent to the place of <HI>Execution.</HI></P>
<P><HI>In the pro&s;ecution whereof, the</HI> Je&s;uiticall De&s;ignes, <HI>and</HI> &s;ecret Encroachments <HI>of his D|fendants, Sir SYMON SYNOD, and the JOHN of all Sir JOHNS, Sir JONH PRESBITER, upon the Liberty of the Subject is detected, and laid open,</HI> By Yongue MARTIN MAR-PREIST, Son to old MARTIN the Metrapolitane.</P>
<P>This is Licenced, and printed according to Holy Order, but not Entered into the Stationers Monopole.</P>
<Q><HI>Anglia MARTINIS di&s;ce &s;avere tuis.</HI></Q>
<P><HI>EUROPE.</HI></P>
<P>Printed by <HI>MARTIN CLAW CLERGIE,</HI> Printer to the <HI>Reverend A&s;&s;embly of Divines,</HI> and are to be &s;ould at his Shop in <HI>Tolera|tion Street,</HI> at the <HI>Signe</HI> of the <HI>Subjects Liberty,</HI> right oppo&s;ite to <HI>Per&s;ecuting Court.</HI> 1645.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
<PB REF="2">
<PB REF="2">
<HEAD>TO THE REVEREND LEARNED THE PROLO|cutor, A&s;&s;o&s;&s;ors, the Commi&s;&s;ioners of the Church of <HI>Scot|land,</HI> and the re&s;t of the venerable A&s;&s;embly of Di|vines, now &s;itting in holy Convocation at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Reverend Sirs,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>According to my duty at your</HI> divine entreaty, <HI>I have reduced tho&s;e</HI> pious in&s;tructi|ons <HI>received from you, into &s;uch a</HI> plea&s;ing forme, <HI>as I hope, &s;hall not only</HI> affect, <HI>but abundantly</HI> edefie <HI>the people of this</HI> Kingdome <HI>under your</HI> holy Jurisdiction; <HI>for con&s;idering your</HI> &s;pirituall care <HI>over them, and how your time hath been taken up wholy in the procurement of that</HI> &s;acred Ordinance for Tythes, <HI>wi&s;ely thought on before the</HI> Directory, <HI>for</HI> he is an Infidell and denyeth the faith, that doth not provide for his family: <HI>your late</HI> humble Advice <HI>dige&s;ted into &s;everall</HI> A&s;&s;er|tions: <HI>your &s;ore travill and paine you have daly ever &s;ince your</HI> holy Convocation <HI>undergon, to</HI> bring to birth <HI>his</HI> Holyne&s;&s;e, <HI>Sir</HI> JOHN PRESBYTER; <HI>and o|ther your toyle&s;ome endeavours for the Henone of your</HI> holy cloth, <HI>I have therefore more willingly become your</HI> Joyrnoman <HI>to ea&s;e</HI> your Burthen <HI>in this</HI> your toyle|&s;ome time of Deformation; <HI>and having thus prepar'd my</HI> endeavoures, <HI>fit for the</HI> puolike vew, <HI>I am emboldned to</HI> Dedicate <HI>them unto</HI> your divine protection, <HI>not doubting of the</HI> &s;acred impo&s;ition of your hands upon them, <HI>to &s;anctifie them unto the people, as,</HI> truly Presbyterean, <HI>that comeing</HI> forth <HI>with</HI> your Cla&s;&s;icall Authority, <HI>they may obtaine a</HI> reverent e&s;timation <HI>with them. And &s;eeing I have made &s;uch a happy</HI> beginning, <HI>I doubt not of an</HI> an&s;werable encouragement <HI>from you to</HI> proceed <HI>as I have begun, but a &s;mall matter will plea&s;e</HI> MARTIN, <HI>if you</HI> &s;anctifie <HI>him with the</HI> Benediciae <HI>of a</HI> Cornelian Benefice <HI>of 400. l. per annum, to</HI> knocke downe <HI>the</HI> Anabapt&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, <HI>&amp;c. with your thumping, bumping,</HI> Presbyterean, Cla&s;&s;icall CLUB, <HI>that &s;hall &s;uffice</HI> pro tempore, <HI>and withall to gratifie him with the De me of</HI> Pauls <HI>Hou&s;e that's but a &s;mall matter, it will be|come his</HI> wor&s;hip <HI>very well for the pre&s;ent, and afterwards you may doe, as it &s;hall &s;eem be&s;t to your divine wi&s;edomes aeeording to his be&s;t de&s;ervings therein; he is a &s;ingular man in &s;uch a bu&s;ines, and wants nothing but</HI> preforment; <HI>you doe not thinke, neither doth it enter into your hearts, how</HI> reverend Yongue MARTIN <HI>can</HI> thunder-thump <HI>the</HI> Pulpit, <HI>O, he can</HI> &s;taer <HI>mo&s;t devnitly, raile and bawle mo&s;t fervently, &s;torme mo&s;t tempe&s;tiou&s;ly even till be</HI> foame at mouth <HI>mo&s;t preci&s;e|ly; Oh how be can &s;petter't out! O the&s;e cau&s;ed</HI> Anabapri&s;ts, <HI>the&s;e wicked</HI> Brow|ni&s;ts, <HI>the&s;e Hecetickes, the&s;e Sci&s;matickes, the&s;e Sectaries; O</HI> MARTIN <HI>hath it at his fingers end, ha's an</HI> Vniver&s;ity man, <HI>skild in the</HI> Tongues and Sciences, and can &s;ophi&s;tioue any Text, O he is excellent at fal&s;e Glo&s;&s;es, and Schola|&s;ticke Interpretations, he can wre&s;t the Scriptures mo&s;t nearly, tell the people
<PB REF="3">
it is thus and thus in the Originall, an excellent man to make a Presbyter! <HI>and O</HI> Bretheren, <HI>if</HI> MARTIN <HI>thus delude the people &amp; thra&s;h tho&s;e Hereticks in hope &s;ure</HI> MARTIN <HI>&s;hall be partaker of his hope, you will not</HI> muzle the oxe that trendeth out your corne; <HI>no,</HI> MARTIN <HI>hath better e&s;teeme of the</HI> A&s;&s;embly, <HI>he doth not once &s;uppo&s;e, that like</HI> Bell's <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Prie&s;ts they'l devoure all them|&s;elves, and leave nothing for</HI> MARTIN, <HI>but it is no matter,</HI> MARTIN <HI>will be content with hard meats rather then de&s;ert the &s;ervice of &s;uch on holy, &s;uch a reve|rend A&s;&s;embly, &s;uch a</HI> Quagmire <HI>of</HI> croaking skip-jacke Presbyters, <HI>&s;uch is his zeale and pious affection to the Cau&s;e, he is re&s;olved to worke with his awne hands, rather then be trouble&s;ome: Thus committing his endeavoures to your</HI> learned Con&s;ultations, pious Debates, <HI>and</HI> &s;acred Conclu&s;ions <HI>he re&s;ts in expectation of his Reward,</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Yours humbly devoated in all Synoddicall, Cla&s;&s;icall, Con&s;i&s;toreall, or Predicatory Function, till death us depars,
Yongue MARTIN MAR-PREIST, Son to old MARTIN the Metrapo|litane.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="poem">
<HEAD>To his Freind the Authour upon his Booke.</HEAD>
<LG>
<L>'Twas boldly ventured to &s;et upon</L>
<L>This foule blacke Feind, mad <HI>PERSECUTION,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pluto's</HI> Grand Agent, whom the world be&s;ide,</L>
<L>Dur&s;t not but fawne upon, thou'&s;t tane, and try'd:</L>
<L>Thy paines &s;ure have been great, to &s;eeke him out,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t encompa&s;t <HI>Europe</HI> all about,</L>
<L>The <HI>Sotti&s;h, Engli&s;h, Iri&s;h</HI> Climates too,</L>
<L>Thou ha&s;t trac'd'ore, to &s;ee what things they doe:</L>
<L>What was the cau&s;e that &s;o much blood was &s;hed</L>
<L>In all tho&s;e places? Why rents and &s;ad divi&s;ions</L>
<L>In Kingdomes once made happy? now the vi&s;ions</L>
<L>Of woefull ruine; Spectacles for time,</L>
<L>To write de&s;tructions everla&s;ting line.</L>
<L>Thanke then Yongue <HI>MARTIN</HI> for his love and care,</L>
<L>T'impart to theo, who the&s;e proud actours are,</L>
<L>And let him have thy prayers, &s;o thou &s;halt be,</L>
<L>As much belov'd of virteous men as he.</L>
</LG>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>A. B.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
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<DIV1 TYPE="text">
<PB N="1" REF="3">
<HEAD>THF ARAIGNEMENT OF PERSECUTION.</HEAD>
<P>_A Certaine dreadfull, and &s;evere Gentleman by name, <HI>Gods-ven|gance,</HI> of the Towne of <HI>Impartiallity,</HI> in the County of <HI>Ju&s;t|judgment,</HI> having a long time through the daily per&s;wations of his Kin&s;man, Mr. <HI>Long-&s;ufferance</HI> (an hone&s;t peaceable Gentle|man, unwilling his enemie &s;hould peri&s;h) forborne to proceed again&s;t the great Enemie and Incendiary of mankind, Mr. <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> according to his inquity, at length taking occa&s;ion at his Kin&s;mans abu&s;ed patience, forth|with procurss a warrant from the Lord Cheife Ju&s;tice, <HI>Peace-with-all-men,</HI> for the Con&s;table, Mr. <HI>Reward-of-tyranny,</HI> to attach him; who takes with him two approved men of the Pari&s;h, old Mr. <HI>Woefull-experience,</HI> and hone&s;t Mr. <HI>Sound-judgment;</HI> and making &s;trict &s;earch and inquiry after him front Religion to Religion, found him at length among&s;t the Papi&s;ts, under the name of Mr. <HI>Spani&s;h-Inqui&s;ition;</HI> but the &s;uitable. Fox no &s;ooner perceived their <HI>Authority,</HI> but &s;hrunke out of his Roman Papall Robe, and pre&s;ently turned <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> clad with an Engli&s;h Epi&s;copall habit, under the name of Mr. <HI>High-Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> but Con&s;table <HI>Reward-of-Tyranny,</HI> with old <HI>Woefull-Ex|perience,</HI> and hone&s;t <HI>Sound-Judgment</HI> being acquainted with his trikes, made after him, whereat he ca&s;t of his <HI>Lawne &s;leeves, Hoode, Typpit,</HI> &amp;c and forth|with, lea&s;t all Trades &s;hould faile, became a zealous <HI>Covenanter,</HI> in the godly &s;hape of a <HI>Presbyter,</HI> changing his name into <HI>Cla&s;&s;icall Presbytrie</HI> (a new cheat to co&s;en the world), and then Scholer like, as if it had been for a goodly fat Benefice, in the twinkling of an eye jumpt out of <HI>Scotland</HI> into <HI>England,</HI> and turn'd a reverend <HI>Synodian,</HI> di&s;gui&s;'d with a Sylogi&s;ticall pair of Britches (&s;a|ving your pre&s;ence) in <HI>Bocardo,</HI> and &s;natching a Rhetoricall Ca&s;&s;ok he girt up his loynes with a Sophi&s;ticall Girdle, and ran into the wilderne&s;&s;e of <HI>Tropes,</HI> and <HI>Figures,</HI> and there they had lo&s;t him, had it not been for the <HI>Spirits Teaching,</HI> by who&s;e direction they trac'd him through the various winding; &s;ubtile by-Pathes, &s;ecret tracts, and cunning Meanders the evening wolves,
<PB N="2" REF="4">
wild Boares and Bea&s;ts of the Forre&s;t in the briery thickets of Rhetoricall Glo&s;&s;es, Sophi&s;tications, and &s;chola&s;tick Interpretations had made, but being &s;it to lay hands on him, the cunning: <HI>Hocus Pocus</HI> vani&s;h'd out of their &s;ight, and pre&s;ently <HI>takes Sanctuary,</HI> for lookeing about for him, Behold, he was <HI>doing his bu&s;ines</HI> (Sr. <HI>Beverence)</HI> in the <HI>Pulpit,</HI> thumping it devoutly, and mo&s;t furi|ou&s;ly like the <HI>Son of Thunder</HI> he <HI>ratl'd</HI> the <HI>Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, &amp;c.</HI> letting his <HI>bolts</HI> (which according to the <HI>Proverbe</HI> were <HI>&s;oone &s;hot)</HI> &s;ly at randome a|gain&s;t them: but thinking to apprehend him, he skipt from them, from <HI>Pul|pit</HI> to <HI>Pulpit,</HI> from <HI>Vniver&s;ity</HI> to <HI>Vniver&s;ity,</HI> from <HI>Colledge</HI> to <HI>Colledge,</HI> even through all the <HI>Pulpits, Vniver&s;ities,</HI> and <HI>Colledges</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;tendome,</HI> and then he hied him from <HI>Par&s;onage</HI> to <HI>Par&s;onage,</HI> where the <HI>Par&s;ons Wifes</HI> had thought to have hid him among&s;t the <HI>Heards</HI> of <HI>Tyth Pigges,</HI> flockes of chickings, gee&s;e &amp;c. but that failing, he ran as if he had been wild through the <HI>Gleabe Land,</HI> and skipt over into a <HI>Tyth Cocko,</HI> and thought all had been <HI>cocke &s;ure;</HI> but per|ceiving they e&s;py'd him, up &s;tarts the Fox, and pre&s;ently fa&s;t by the <HI>Synod</HI> he caught hold on the <HI>Altar,</HI> but fearing lea&s;t he &s;hould be made a burnt Offering he vani&s;hed into 12. <HI>Articles,</HI> but that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e not thriving, the next &s;ight that was made of him, was in a petitionary garbe in the behalfe of the <HI>Lon|don</HI> Mini&s;tors: And a thou&s;and other trickes, that I cannot reckon, he had; but one above all the re&s;t I mu&s;t not forget, which was the <HI>ma&s;ter peace</HI> of all the re&s;t; for to bloke up all pa&s;&s;ages; &s;top all mouthes, and fortifie him&s;elfe round, he turn'd <HI>reverend Imprimatur:</HI> and here tho <HI>pur&s;uers</HI> were at a &s;tand, for all was as fa&s;t as the <HI>Divel</HI> and tho <HI>Presbyters</HI> could make it, they &s;ought to Authority to open the <HI>Pre&s;&s;e,</HI> and &s;till the <HI>Pre&s;-byters</HI> (as their cu&s;tome is) were in the way, that nothing could be done: Well, no good was to be done in publike, they then goe to it privatoly, and to worke a deliverance, fell in|to dangrous labour, and at length brought forth the villaine into publike vew, and notwith&s;tanding all his trickos detected, apprehended, and caried him to Ju&s;tice <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> who hauing examined the Malefactour, &s;ets downe his <HI>Examination,</HI> and binds over <HI>Gods-Vengance</HI> to pro&s;ecute the <HI>Malefactour</HI> at the next <HI>A&s;&s;izes,</HI> and finding him not baylable, makes his <HI>Mittimus</HI> for the Coh&s;table to commit him to the Goale, there to be kept in &s;afe cu&s;tody with|out <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> or <HI>Manupri&s;e</HI> till the, next <HI>Goale delivery.</HI></P>
<P>Now for the better under&s;tanding of this <HI>Araignment</HI> this en&s;uing Cata|logue of the names of the &s;everall Officers of the Court is here annexed.</P>
<P>The <HI>Court</HI> of <HI>A&s;&s;izes</HI> held at the <HI>Araignment</HI> of <HI>Per&s;ecution.</HI> 1645.</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL ROLE="label">Lord <HI>Parliament</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">The Judge</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Ju&s;tice</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Rea&s;on</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Humanity</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Conformity</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></CELL>
<CELL>Ju&s;tices the Peace.</CELL>
</ROW>
<PB N="3" REF="4">
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Sir Charles-Royall-Prerogative.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>The Kings <HI>Sergeant.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Sir Peter-prote&s;tant.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>The Kings Arturney.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sir <HI>John-Equity</HI></CELL>
<CELL>High-Sherriffe.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Mr. <HI>Obedience</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Under Sherriffe.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Clarke. Cryer.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Mr.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Soveraignty-of-Chri&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Power-of-Parliamentes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vnity-of-Kingdomes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nationall-Strength.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Setled-Peace.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Humaine-Society</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Grand Jnque&s;t.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Vnited-Provinces.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>De&s;olate-Germany.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Blood-of-Primes.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Publike-Good.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Nationall-Wealth.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Civill-Government.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Dome&s;tick-Mi&s;eries</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Mr.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Creation.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Go&s;pell.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Politique-power</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>State-policy.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Innocent-blood.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Good-&s;amaritane.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Trueth-and-peace.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Orphan.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Jury of life and death.</ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Light-of-nature.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Day-of-judgement.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>National-loyalty.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Liberty-of-Subject</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mr.</HI> PER SECUTION.</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Pri&s;oner.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Mr. Gods-Vengence.</HI></CELL>
<CELL><HI>Pro&s;ecutour.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Caffar</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Chri&s;tian</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Martyrs</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Liberty-of Con&s;cience.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST></CELL>
<CELL>Evidences.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Sir <HI>Symon Synod</HI> and <HI>Sir John Presbyter.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>Defendants.</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>A new Jury for Life and Death endeavoured by Sir <HI>Symon Synod.</HI></P>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Mr.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Satan</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Antichri&s;t.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Spani&s;h-inqui&s;ition.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Coun&s;ell-of-Trent.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Rude-multitude.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Sr. John Presbiter.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Scotch-government.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Fal&s;e-prophets.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM>Sir <HI>Sy|mons Jury men.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Eccle&s;.-Supremacy.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Pontificall-Revenue.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>High-commi&s;&s;ion.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>A&s;&s;embly-of-Divines.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<P><PB N="4" REF="5">
THus (Reader) the Court being compleat, for thy more &s;peedy progre&s;&s;ion through the matter intended, &s;uppo&s;e the tran&s;action of many pa&s;&s;ages in the&s;e <HI>A&s;&s;izes</HI> here in this <HI>Relation</HI> omitted, as needle&s;&s;e the repetion; the <HI>E&s;&s;entialls</HI> thereof being &s;o tedious (to the impatient Reader, yet not unne|ce&s;&s;ary and u&s;ele&s;&s;e (I hope) to the diligent peru&s;er) for wherein without pre|judice to our pre&s;ent matter, an omi&s;&s;ion may be, my &s;ilence for formality &s;ake gives place to a &s;uppo&s;ition thereof, otherwi&s;e I &s;hall tran&s;gre&s;&s;e upon the Readers Patience. Thus then the <HI>Grand Inque&s;t</HI> (the matter being thus far brought) fall into debate.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>1. Mr. <HI>Soveraignenity of Chri&s;t.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Gentlemen, our Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, who&s;e Image and expre&s;&s;e prerogative I am, hath by the price of his blood, con&s;tituted him&s;elfe &s;ole <HI>Head</HI> and <HI>King</HI> &s;o everover the <HI>Con&s;ciences</HI> of men and therefore he chargeth his Hou&s;holders, the <HI>Kings</HI> of the <HI>Earth,</HI> to let the <HI>Tares</HI> and the <HI>Wheat</HI> grow together in the <HI>Field</HI> of the <HI>World</HI> untill the <HI>Harve&s;t</HI> the <HI>Day of Judgement,</HI> therefore this Malefactour <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> in my Judgement, being in his <HI>Inclinations</HI> and <HI>Actions</HI> altogether aver&s;e there|to, is an <HI>Arch-traitour</HI> to the <HI>Preagative Royall</HI> of <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> over the Con|&s;ciences of men, and therefore Lawfully and Ju&s;tly charged with this <HI>Bill.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>2. Mr. <HI>Power of Parliaments.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My Verdict (Mr. <HI>Foreman)</HI> is, that <HI>Per&s;e|cution</HI> for Con&s;cience is Incon&s;i&s;tant with the <HI>Soveraignty</HI> of <HI>Kingdomes,</HI> for it divideth their <HI>Powers</HI> one again&s;t another, and in them&s;elves occa&s;ioneth murmurings, grutchings, and repinings, which in in time breake forth into Con&s;piracies, Rebellions, In&s;urrections, &amp;c. as well to the prejudice of Sove|raignity, as to the ruine of the Subject; and which is more, the tendency, operation, and end of Per&s;ecution, is to reduce the Power of Kingdomes and Parliaments from them&s;elves into the hands and di&s;po&s;all of the Pontificall Clergie, according to the diveli&s;h Decree of Pope <HI>Paul 4. con. Trent lib. 5. p.</HI> 409. So that there can be no &s;ecurity for the Power of Maje&s;tracy, where Eccle&s;ia&s;ticke v&s;urpation is predominant; for the greater their Power is, the the le&s;&s;e powerfull is Maje&s;tracy: wherefore I mu&s;t needs con&s;ent to the equi|ty of this <HI>Byll.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>3. <HI>Mr. Vnity-of-Kingdomes.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> &s;hould I relate how through the divili&s;h polecy and cruelty of this <HI>Per&s;ecution for con&s;cience</HI> I have been ba|ni&s;hed from betwixt Kingdomes, States, and Provinces to their utter de&s;tructi|on in one an others ruine, I &s;hould be unhappily too troble&s;ome: wherefore in &s;hort, my <HI>verdict</HI> is concurrant with yours.</P>
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<SPEAKER>4. Mr. <HI>Nationall-Strength.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> I conceive that you cannot be un&s;en&s;ible that the Nationall &s;trength of Kingdomes and People con&s;i&s;ts in the generall peace, as &s;everall members wi&s;ely compacted in the naturall skin of one politike body: wherefore, to fo&s;ter this <HI>Malefactor</HI> among&s;t a people, is to vender the &s;trength of a Kingdome to ruine, for he is a con&s;tant &s;ower of divi|&s;ion
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emulation, hatred, &amp;c. among&s;t them: So that my <HI>verdict</HI> is not any wayes di&s;&s;enting from your judgment.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>Setled-Peace.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> By rea&s;on of <HI>Per&s;ecution for con&s;cience,</HI> I can find no ab&s;olute acceptance in any Kingdome or Nation throughout, Chri&s;tendome For he &s;o poy&s;oneth all Nationall Pacifications, Leagues and Covenants, that their peace changeth with their Reigion; &s;o that their peace cannot be truly &s;etled whererefore my <HI>verdici</HI> is concurrant.</P>
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<SPEAKER>6. Mr. <HI>Humaine-Society.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr <HI>Foreman,</HI> My <HI>verdict</HI> is, what by experience you have all found, that he hath not only &s;et Kingdomes at variance, but even &s;at bee again&s;t &s;on, and &s;on again&s;t father, one friend again&s;t an other, and em|brewes them in one an others blood, to the de&s;truction of all humaine &s;ociety: wherefore, I conceive this Charge again&s;t him is according to equiry.</P>
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<SPEAKER>7. Mr. <HI>Blood-of-Princes.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> The blood of Kings, Rulers, and Governours; the Trea&s;ons, De&s;ignes, and Con&s;piracies again&s;t their per&s;ons, whereof Hi&s;tory is full, and whereto our Age is not wanting, occa&s;ioned by <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> enforces my <HI>verdict</HI> in approbation of the <HI>Byll</HI> again&s;t him.</P>
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<SPEAKER>7. Mr. <HI>Vnited-Provinces.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> Who&s;oever readeth the Hi&s;tory of the <HI>Vnnited Prvinces,</HI> and con&s;idereth their wonderfull pre&s;ervation, flouri&s;hing &s;tate and pro&s;perity they enjoy, notwith&s;tanding their with waging of continuall warre with a forraigne Enemie, may clearly perceive, the great mercy of God vpon a Nation and People, that in tender to the con&s;ciences one of an other, exclude, bani&s;h and extirpate <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> out of their Territories: wherofore I likewi&s;e con&s;ent to the equity of the <HI>Byll</HI> given in again&s;t him.</P>
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<SPEAKER>8. Mr. <HI>De&s;olate-Germany.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> Tho&s;e that doubt of the truth of this <HI>Byll,</HI> let them but looke upon the Germaine de&s;olations, depo|pulations, warre, famine, and pe&s;tilence occa&s;ioned through papall &s;uprema|cy over our con&s;ciences, and he may receive full &s;atisfaction of the equity of this <HI>Byll.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>9. Mr. <HI>Publique-good.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> that which is de&s;tructive to the publique good is <HI>Trea&s;onable,</HI> and not to be &s;uffered in a <HI>Common-wealth,</HI> be|cau&s;e it &s;triketh at the <HI>Root</HI> and <HI>Foundation</HI> of <HI>Magi&s;tracy,</HI> who&s;e proper end is, that all may lead a <HI>Quiet</HI> and <HI>Peaceable</HI> life under the publique <HI>Protection.</HI> But this Fellow, <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> diverteth the publique good from the <HI>Generality</HI> to this or that <HI>Sort,</HI> to this or that <HI>prevailing Faction:</HI> &s;o that where, or in what <HI>State</HI> &s;oever he is <HI>Predominate,</HI> there is an impo&s;&s;ibility of an equall en|joyment of the publique good, but even the better &s;ort, &s;uch as &s;tand for the good of others as well as their owne, and have hazarded their lives for the publique good again&s;t the common <HI>Enemy,</HI> as <HI>Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts &amp;c.</HI> are by him deprived of the publique <HI>Liberty</HI> and <HI>Freedome</HI> of the <HI>Subject,</HI> for which they have engaged <HI>E&s;tate</HI> and <HI>Life.</HI> Therefore Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> my <HI>Verdect</HI> upon the <HI>Bill</HI> is <HI>BILLA VERA.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>0. <HI>Nationall-wealth.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> that which is the Ruine of Nationall
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Wealth is de&s;tructive to the very <HI>Being</HI> and continuance of <HI>Nations, King|domes,</HI> and <HI>States:</HI> for it bringeth <HI>Deva&s;tation</HI> and <HI>Depopulation</HI> thereof, and &s;o not to be &s;uffered. But this <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> for Con&s;cience &s;tirreth up <HI>Warres</HI> and <HI>Blood&s;hed,</HI> in <HI>Nations, Kingdomes,</HI> and <HI>States,</HI> which con&s;umeth their <HI>Wealth,</HI> devoureth their <HI>Fruit,</HI> burneth and de&s;troyeth their <HI>Cities, Townes,</HI> and <HI>Villages,</HI> and throweth all into a <HI>Wilderne&s;&s;e.</HI> Therefore Mr. <HI>Foreman</HI> you have my con&s;ent to the verity of this <HI>Byll.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Foreman.</SPEAKER>
<P>Gentlemen, we have &s;pent much time, and our <HI>verdict</HI> is expected, if you (12.) Mr. <HI>Civill-Government.</HI> and Mr. (13.) <HI>Domesticke-Mi&s;eries,</HI> be agreed with us in your <HI>verdict,</HI> there remaineth nothing, but the en|dor&s;ment hereof with <HI>Billa-Vera.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Ambo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wee are agreed with you.</P>
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<P>This pa&s;t, the <HI>Grand Jury</HI> give in their verdict or <HI>Inditement</HI> endor&s;ed with <HI>Billa vera,</HI> whereby the Malefactor Per&s;ecution is made a lawfull pri&s;oner, to be brought forth to the Barre, and to be put upon the Jury of life and death.</P>
<P>Whereupon the <HI>Clarke</HI> (the month of the Court) commands the Goaler to &s;et forth <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> to the <HI>Barre.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The Goaler &s;ets forth</HI> Per&s;ecution <HI>to the Barre.</HI></P>
<P>The Indictment.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>Per&s;ecution, <HI>Hold up thy Hand, and heare thy</HI> Indictment. Per&s;e-&s;ecution, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;tande&s;t Indicted in this</HI> County <HI>of</HI> Ju&s;t-Judgment <HI>by the name of</HI> Per&s;ecution, <HI>late of the Towne of</HI> Tyranny, <HI>in the</HI> County <HI>of</HI> Martyrdome, <HI>by</HI> Gods-Vengance, <HI>of the Towne of</HI> Impartiallity, <HI>in the</HI> County <HI>of</HI> Ju&s;t-Judg|ment, <HI>That thou art an enemy to God and all goodne&s;&s;e, a Traytor to Kings and Princes, their per&s;ons, Crownes and Dignities divider of them one again&s;t an other, and of Kingomes and people in them&s;elves, and that thou art guilty of the warre and blood&s;hed at pre&s;ent in this Land, yea almo&s;t of all the blood of the whole earth from the blood of righteous</HI> Abell <HI>unto the blood of the&s;e pre&s;ent times, contrary to the peace of our Soveraigne Lord the King, his crowne and dignity: How <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> thou</HI> Per&s;ecution, <HI>art thou guilty of this Trea&s;on, Rebellion and blood&s;hed in manner and forme as thou &s;tande&s;t Indicted, or not guilty?</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pri&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Not guilty.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>By whom wil&s;t thou be tryed?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Pri&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>By God and my Countrey.</P>
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<P>Then an <HI>Impannell</HI> being returned, the Clarke &s;aith,</P>
<SP>
<P><HI>You good men that are</HI> Impanneled <HI>between our Soveraigne Lord the King, and the pri&s;oner at the</HI> Barre, <HI>an&s;wer to your names at the fir&s;t call upon paine and perill that may fall thereon.</HI></P>
</SP>
<P>They all an&s;wer to their names.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>Cryer, make Proclamation.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Cryer</SPEAKER>
<P>o&mdash;yes&mdash;If any man can informe my Lord the Kings Ju&s;tices, the Kings Sergeant, or the Kings
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Atturney before this Inque&s;t be taken, between our Soveraigne Lord the King, and the pri&s;oner at the Barre, let them come forth and they &s;halbe heard; for the pri&s;oner &s;tands at the Barreupon his deliverance.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>You the pri&s;oner that is called to the Bar, the&s;e men which you have heard called, and per&s;onally appeare, &s;hall pa&s;&s;e between our Soveraigne Lord the King and you, upon tryall of your life and death, if you will <HI>challenge</HI> them, or any of them, you mu&s;t &s;peake unto them or any of them as they come to the Booke to be &s;worne, before they be &s;worne.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Pri&s;oner.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, let me humbly crave liberty to <HI>Challenge</HI> this Jury, who though my Lord in all probability they be hone&s;t Gentlemen, yet my bree|ding, education, nature and cour&s;e of life is not &s;o well known unto them, as unto divers other Geentlemen (of worth and quality) here pre&s;ent, indiffe|rent men, of far more e&s;teem in the world, more able to di&s;cerne my cau&s;e, &amp; the evidence mine accu&s;ars &s;hall bring: Be&s;ides my Lord, the&s;e men of the <HI>Jury</HI> are men po&s;&s;e&s;t with an inveterate hatred and malice again&s;t me, and are parties in my <HI>Indictment;</HI> for together with the Grand Inque&s;t they con&s;pired toge|ther again&s;t me, and provoaked <HI>Gods-Vengance</HI> to pro&s;ecute again&s;t me: now for me to be tryed by mine accu&s;ars and mortall enemies I hope your Lord|&s;hip cannot conceive it equall or legall: wherefore my Lord, I be&s;eech you have mercy upon me, con&s;ider the blood of the innocent, lea&s;t it be a prey to the malice of envy, and let more indifferent men be cho&s;en.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge</SPEAKER>
<P>Per&s;ecution, I much wonder at thy impudence in excepting again&s;t &s;uch a <HI>Jury,</HI> yet &s;o far as in equity I may I am willing for ju&s;tice &s;ake, to grant the utmo&s;t the Law affords.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Pri&s;oner.</SPEAKER>
<P>I humbly thanke your Lord&s;hip, the Lord ble&s;&s;e your Honour, and I be&s;eech your Honour for the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of Sir <HI>Symon Synod.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Judg</SPEAKER>
<P>Well then let Sir <HI>Symon</HI> be cal'd into the Court.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Clarke</SPEAKER>
<P>Call Sir <HI>Symon Synod.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Crier</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Sir Symon Synod,</HI> come into the Court.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> if you can further his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice, in the propo|&s;all of others in the roome of tho&s;e Per&s;ecution doth except again&s;t to Mr. Sherriffe to be impanneled, you are commauded.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Sir <HI>Symon Synod</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, &s;ince it is your Lord&s;hids plea&s;ure with the con&s;ent of this Honourable Bench, that I &s;hall be &s;erviceable to him
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I &s;hall mo&s;t willingly propo&s;e to his con&s;ideracion per&s;ons of &s;ufficient worth and e&s;timation in the World, that are not prejudiciall to the Per&s;on of the Pri&s;oner, neither are parties in his accu&s;ation, indi&s;&s;erent men, acquainted with his life and conver&s;ation, able to di&s;cerne the evidence, that &s;hall be brought in again <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> him, men whom I &s;hall commend unto your Lord&s;hips acceptance for &s;oundne&s;&s;e of judgment, and &s;ingular Piety in the cau&s;e of the Cle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y, this being a matter which concernes them in an high nature: where|fore by your Lord&s;hips favour I &s;hall propo&s;e tho&s;e if (if no better can be procured) to wit, Mr. <HI>Satan,</HI> Mr, <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> Mr. <HI>Spani&s;h Inqui&s;ition,</HI> Mr. <HI>Councell-of-Trent,</HI> Mr. <HI>High-Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> Mr. <HI>A&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mbly-of-Divines,</HI> Mr. <HI>Rude-Multitude,</HI> Sr. <HI>John Presbyter,</HI> mine only &s;on, Mr. <HI>Scotch Government,</HI> Mr. <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">l&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">-Prophets,</HI> Mr. <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall-Supremacy,</HI> Mr. <HI>Pontificall-Revenue:</HI> The&s;e never &s;ailed the de&s;ignes of the <HI>Clergy,</HI> who in all Ages have <HI>endevoured</HI> the Advancement of the Church of God, the <HI>Tribe</HI> of <HI>Levi:</HI> wherefore this be|ing a Ca&s;e that concernes their Advancement, which above all things in the wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ld is to be endevoured, I am emboldned to propound them unto Mr. <HI>She|riffe,</HI> for the <HI>Tri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ll</HI> of this <HI>Pri&s;oner.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">. <HI>Simm,</HI> this is a &s;trange <HI>Jury</HI> you propo&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ju&s;tice <HI>Rea&s;on.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My <HI>Lord;</HI> it is according to the nature of the <HI>Clergy, can you expect</HI> Grapes <HI>of</HI> Thornes, <HI>or</HI> Figges <HI>of</HI> Thi&s;tles? if you &s;hall but according to Rea&s;on con&s;ider of their <HI>Wa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es</HI> and <HI>Pretences,</HI> which indeed beare a &s;pecious &s;hew, you &s;hall find them no better then ravening <HI>Woolves</HI> in <HI>Sheepes</HI> Cloa|thing.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ju&s;tice <HI>Humanity.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My <HI>Lord,</HI> it cannot &s;tand with Humanity, much le&s;&s;e wich <HI>L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Equity,</HI> that a Ca&s;e which concernes the generall good of man|kind &s;hould be refer'd to the <HI>Verdict</HI> of &s;uch anhumane <HI>Jury.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Kings <HI>Ser.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My <HI>Lord</HI> there be divers of them whom <HI>Royall Prerogative</HI> hath called in to his A&s;&s;i&s;tance, and at this day I conceive maketh u&s;e of them for the E&s;tabli&s;hing the Liberty of the Subject and the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> on,</HI> &s;o that for my part I cannot &s;ee how all of them can be condemned.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Kings <HI>Attorn.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My <HI>Lord,</HI> a great part of them are Props to the <HI>Prote&s;tant Religion.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ju&s;tice <HI>Rea&s;on.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My <HI>Lord,</HI> what though <HI>Royall Prerogative</HI> and the <HI>Prote|&s;tant Religion</HI> &s;hould be founded upon them? mu&s;t they therfore be conclu|ded Anthentick? <HI>non &s;equitur:</HI> and for the Liberty of the Subject, though they may be u&s;ed as a Glo&s;&s;e; yet Rea&s;on will tell you, that they are as direct|ly oppo&s;ite to it, as the <HI>Zenith</HI> is to the <HI>Antipodes.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Sr. Simon,</HI> I cannot in Equity permit &s;uch unworthy Per&s;ons to be on the <HI>Jury,</HI> only Mr. <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> of <HI>Divines,</HI> Sr. <HI>John Presbiter</HI> and Mr. <HI>Scotch-governement</HI> are commanded to attend the <HI>Court,</HI> for the &s;ervice of the <HI>King,</HI> if occa&s;ion be.</P>
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<HI>Then the former Jury being &s;worne, &amp;c. the Goaler is co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">anded to &s;et fortb</HI> PERSECUTION <HI>to the Barre</HI></P>
<P><HI>Clar.</HI> PERSECUTION, hold up thy hand: Looke upon him Ma&s;ters of the Jury, hearken to his cau&s;e, You &s;hall under&s;tand, that he &s;tands indicted in this County of <HI>Ju&s;t-judgment,</HI> by the name of PERSE|CUTION, &amp;c. Upon this Indictment he hath beene Arraigned, and thereto hath pleaded <HI>not guilty,</HI> and for his tryall hath put him&s;elfe upon God and the Countrey, which Countrey are you: your <HI>Charge</HI> is to enquire whether he be guilty of this Trea&s;on, murder, &amp;c. in manner and forme as he &s;tands Indicted, or not guilty: And heare your Evidence.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Crier.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>If any man can give Evidence, or can &s;ay any thing again&s;t the Pri&s;oner let him come forth, for the Pri&s;oner &s;tands upon his deliverance.</HI>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Clar. call</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Gods-Vengance.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaffar <HI>Chri&s;tian.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaffar <HI>Martyrs.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaffar <HI>Lib. Con&s;.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></ITEM>
</LIST>
<LIST>
<ITEM><LABEL>Crier.</LABEL>
<LIST>
<ITEM><HI>Gods-Vengance.</HI> here.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaffar <HI>Chri&s;tian.</HI> here.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaffar <HI>Martyrs.</HI> here.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Gaffar <HI>Lib. Con&s; come forth &amp; pro&s;ecute, or you forfeite your Recogni&s;ance</HI>
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<ITEM>I cannot get in my Lord Sir <HI>Symon</HI> keeps me out. O! murder, murther, my Lord.</ITEM>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is the matter?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Lib. Con&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, Sir <HI>Symon Synod</HI> is like to pull out my throate with the revenous Clawes of an <HI>A&s;&s;embly,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Scotch-Government</HI> was fit to &s;tab me with his <HI>Scotch dagger,</HI> and the <HI>John</HI> of all Sr. <HI>Johns,</HI> Sr. <HI>John Presbyter</HI> with his <HI>Cla&s;&s;icall Club</HI> would beat out my braines: For my Lord, they are affraid I &s;hould come into your Honours pre&s;ence, lea&s;t I &s;hould find entertainment in this Kingdome, and &s;o Mr. <HI>Pontificall-Revenue</HI> turne Seperate from the Church of <HI>England.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Crier.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Peace there, every man keep &s;ilence upon paine of impri&s;onment: make way there for</HI> Liberty-of-Con&s;cience; Jemmy, <HI>put up thy dagger;</HI> Sir Symon <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oe paire your nalles;</HI> Sir John, <HI>away with your Club, that</HI> Liberty-of-Con|&s;cience <HI>may come into the</HI> Court.</P>
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<P>The Witne&s;&s;es being come in, they are &s;worne every one according to their knowledge to give in a true Evidence for the King again&s;t the Pri&s;oner at the Barre.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Gods-Vengance, &s;tand up, what can you &s;ay for the King again&s;t the Pri&s;oner at the Bar?</HI></P>
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<HEAD>GODS-VENGANCE</HEAD>
<P>My Lord, I have from the beginning dilligently ob&s;erved the <HI>Na|ture</HI> and <HI>inclinations</HI> of this <HI>Pri&s;oner,</HI> eve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to have been &s;o aver&s;e to God and all goodne&s;&s;e, that his Actions in all <HI>Nations Kingdomes</HI> and <HI>St<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">s,</HI>
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among&s;t <HI>Societyes</HI> and people, have been in direct Enmity to the end of Chri&s;ts comming: for <HI>he came not to de&s;troy mens Lives, but to &s;ave them Luk. 9. 56. Joh.</HI> 3. 17. But this fellow <HI>PERSECVTION,</HI> de&s;troyeth both Life Temporall and Spirituall: he wa&s;teth mens <HI>E&s;tates,</HI> the more Godly and upright they are, the more <HI>cruell, raging</HI> and <HI>hatefull</HI> he is again&s;t them, he bringeth <HI>Mi&s;ery, Poverty</HI> and <HI>Beggery</HI> on their Wives and Children: yea my Lord, this <HI>Savage Blood-thir&s;ty</HI> Wretch <HI>Hangeth, Burneth, Stoneth, Tortu|reth, Saweth a &s;under, Ca&s;teth into the &s;iery</HI> Fornace, <HI>into the Lions Denne, Teareth in peeces with</HI> Wild Hor&s;es, <HI>Plucketh out the eyes, Roa&s;tet quicke, Bu|reth alive, Plucketh out the</HI> Tongues, <HI>Impri&s;oneth, Scourgeth, Revileth, Cur|&s;eth, yea, with</HI> Bell Booke <HI>and</HI> Candle, <HI>Belyeth, Cutteth the</HI> Eares, <HI>Slitteth the</HI> No&s;e, <HI>Manacles the Hands, G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">th the</HI> Mouthes, <HI>Whippeth Pil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oreth, Ban &s;heth into remote I&s;lands, makes them fly by wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">le <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> falls into</HI> W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ld De|&s;arts, <HI>Stigmatizeth &s;ome, and &s;ometimes maketh &s;uch (&s;o Stigmatized) when the wind turnes, to Stigmatize their freinds with</HI> Reproaches, Calumnies, Op|pre&s;&s;ion <HI>of</HI> Con&s;cience <HI>&amp;c. Deprives</HI> them of the Communication of their Freinds, of all <HI>Releife,</HI> of <HI>Pen, Inke and Paper,</HI> Sep<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Man and Wife, De|prives Parents of their Children and Children of their Parents, <HI>Impri&s;eneth</HI> men only <HI>for the di&s;charge of a good Con&s;cience, Stoppeth Pre&s;&s;es,</HI> whereby men cannot make their ju&s;t defence, Suffers nothing to be <HI>Licen&s;ed, Printed, Preached,</HI> or otherwi&s;e publi&s;hed, but what him&s;elfe alloweth, and having thus bound the hands and &s;topt the mouthes of all good men, then he comes forth in <HI>Print</HI> again&s;t them like an Armed man, and furiou&s;ly a&s;&s;alts them, Exults and Exalts him&s;elfe over them, <HI>Feigneth</HI> Arguments for them and then like a Valiant Champion gives them a conquering An&s;were, and thus puts them to f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ight, and p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;nes them with Revilings, Scanda<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, For|geries, and Opprob<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ions Nick-names, as <HI>Antinomians, Anabapti&s;ts, Brow|ni&s;ts, Independants, Sci&s;matiques, Heretiques &amp;c.</HI> Thus he dealeth with the Godly party: Yea, he forceth Millions to make <HI>Shipwracke of a good Con|science,</HI> who for feare of &s;uch inhumanity <HI>deny the Lord that bought them,</HI> to their finall condemnation. Oh! therefore (my Lord) if there be any Bow|ells of Mercy, any tender Compa&s;&s;ion in you<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> pitty the de&s;titute, the Affli|cted, the tormted, who wander about in Sheepskinnes and in Goateskinnes in de&s;arts and in mountaines, in Dens and in Caves of the Earth, of whom the World is not worthy.</P>
<P>Secondly, my Lord, he maketh a Nation guilty of all the righteous blood &s;pilt upon the Earth; from the blood of <HI>Abel</HI> to the blood of <HI>Zacharias,</HI> and of all that are &s;layon upon the Earth; for it is all innocent blood that is &s;hed in that ca&s;e, purcha&s;ed by the blood of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who <HI>came not to de&s;troy, but to &s;ave mens lives;</HI> and therefore would have all taught in all Nations, that all might be per&s;waded to the obedience of the truth, that
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all might be &s;aved: Therefore to kill the unbeleivor, as, <HI>Turke, Pagan, Jew, &amp;c.</HI> is to &s;lay &s;uch as <HI>Chri&s;t would have to live to repent,</HI> which mu&s;t needs be <HI>Murder</HI> in the highe&s;t <HI>Nature: And cur&s;ed is he that &s;hall &s;tay an Innocent P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">er|&s;on and all the people &s;hall &s;ay</HI> Amen, <HI>Deut. 29. 25. The Land that &s;heddeth In|nocent Blood, Innocent blood &s;hall be upon it. Deut.</HI> 19: 10: and <HI>Innocent Blood the</HI> Lord <HI>will not pardon. 2 King:</HI> 24. 4.</P>
<P>Thirdly, my Lord, he occa&s;ioneth Trea&s;ons, Con&s;pica&s;ies, Reballions, Warres, Forreigne and Dome&s;ticke, in all <HI>Nations</HI> and <HI>Kingdomes</HI> in the Earth, <HI>He</HI> divideth <HI>Prince</HI> again&s;t <HI>Prince,</HI> Kingdome again&s;t Kingdome, &amp; Kingdomes in them&s;elves, Breedeth and b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">get<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eth a Nationall hatred be|twixt <HI>Prince</HI> and <HI>People,</HI> and among&s;t them&s;elves: he &s;etteth Neighbour a|gain&s;t Neighbour, Yea Father again&s;t Sonne and Sonne again&s;t Father, he breaketh the bonds of Peace and Freind&s;hip Nationall and Dome&s;ticke, In|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">geth and Filleth the wholl Earth with blood and Violence: for what at this day is the Rea&s;on the Prote&s;tants <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> the Blood of the Papi&s;ts? but becau&s;e the Papi&s;ts &s;eeke theirs? they hate &amp; per&s;ecute the Papi&s;ts, becau&s;e the Papi&s;ts hate and per&s;ecute them: they would extirpate and roote out the Papi&s;ts becau&s;e the Papi&s;ts would doe the like to them. And on the o|ther &s;ide, the Papi&s;ts plot and con&s;pire again&s;t the Prote&s;tants, becau&s;e the Prote&s;tants will not &s;uffer them to live among&s;t them, but <HI>Bani&s;h, Impri&s;on, Hang, Draw, Quarter, and &s;et up the L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">mbs of &s;ome of them</HI> (in open defiance to the God of heaven &amp; earth) <HI>upon the Gates of the City,</HI> who though unhap|pily they be found <HI>Traitors</HI> to the <HI>Publique Pease and Politiqus Government,</HI> yet Nature might teach them to bury their Limbe, <HI>An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth, Blood for Blood,</HI> &s;aith God: but now Blood cannot &s;atisfie Inhu|mane cruelty: If this be <HI>Canonicall,</HI> Let me have old <HI>Tobits Apochripha,</HI> who hazarded his life to bury the dead.</P>
<P>Where two &s;tand at Enmity, there mu&s;t needs be Ma&s;tery, or el&s;e no &s;afe|ty: When one knoweth tho other is his mortall Enemy, he will u&s;e all the Means, Strenght and Pollicy that he can to &s;ubdue him. This enrageth to all manner of Tyranny and blood&s;hed, &s;etteth one Kingdome again&s;t a|nother, becau&s;e each knoweth and taketh each other for his deadly Enemy: Their faith being built upon this <HI>rotten &amp; devouring</HI> principle of <HI>forcing the con|sciences one of another.</HI> But if the Papi&s;t knew the Prote&s;tant, the Prote&s;tant the papi&s;t to love another: &amp; would no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> mole&s;t or in the lea&s;t injure o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> an|other for their <HI>Con&s;cience,</HI> but live peaceably &amp; quietly one by another; bea|ring one with another, and &s;o of all Religions: What man would lift up his hand again&s;t his Neighbour? This could not but cond<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> to a generall true &s;etled Peace, to the wholl World. And in a &s;hort time, the Enmity of Heart betweene the Papi&s;t &amp; Prote&s;tant &amp;c. would be quite worne ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Why &s;hould we hate and de&s;troy one another? are we no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> all the Creatures
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of one God? redeemed by one Lord <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t?</HI> this &s;hould provoke us to Love and peace one towards another. If God have revealed more Light of the Go&s;pell to one then to another, &s;hall the more knowing trample the ignorant under his feet? we &s;hould carry our &s;elves loving and meeke one to|wards another, with <HI>Patience per&s;wading and exhorting the contrary minded proving if at any time God will turne their hearts,</HI> by this meanes the great <HI>Incendiary</HI> of the World, <HI>an inforced enraged Con&s;cience,</HI> would be at re&s;t. What is more neere and deere then our <HI>Con&s;ciences?</HI> if that be enraged who can appea&s;e it? if that be &s;atisfied, what Content Joy or Peace like unto it? or what more mild, more Gentle or Loving? Therefore how tender ought we to be in Cafes of Con&s;cience? it is a <HI>Lion</HI> if enraged, a <HI>Lamb</HI> if appea&s;ed: it is all <HI>Honey</HI> or all <HI>Gall,</HI> enraged it is like the <HI>Wild Bore of</HI> the <HI>Forre&s;t,</HI> plea|&s;ed, it is like the <HI>Dove from the Arke:</HI> no greater Freind, no greater Foe.</P>
<P>It is better therefore for Kingdomes to &s;et the <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> free as in <HI>Hol|land, Polonta, Tran&s;ylvania &amp;c.</HI> and be at Peace in them&s;elves, then to bind and enforce it and be Rent in them&s;elves with <HI>Emulations, Heart-burnings, Con&s;piracies, Rabellions &amp;c.</HI> If this <HI>Fiery Spirit</HI> were allaied, <HI>This ignorant Zeall of forcing all to beleive as we beleive, extinct: Nationall Feares, Jelou&s;ies, and Hatred</HI> would cea&s;e betwixt <HI>Nation and Nation, people and people:</HI> for as <HI>this violent Implacable Spirit</HI> &s;ugge&s;teth <HI>Feares</HI> and <HI>Jelou&s;ies</HI> betwixt one <HI>Con|&s;cience-forcing</HI> King and an other: <HI>Kingdome &amp; Kingdome: Nation &amp; Nation:</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">oit forceth them to draw their &s;words, and &s;tandin continuall <HI>Defiance &amp; Defence</HI> for feare of <HI>mutuall Inva&s;ion.</HI> Yea under a fal&s;e <HI>Opinion of ad|vancing Gods glory:</HI> by forcing others to their faith, they <HI>invade, a&s;&s;ult and murther</HI> one an other, and yet both (deluded by this Seducer) thinke they doe God good &s;ervice, when alas it is all innocent blood that is &s;hed: What was the maine cau&s;e &s;o many Nations have been rent and divided in them|&s;elves, and one again&s;t an other, and in their divi&s;ions devoured one an o|ther of late dayes? What occa&s;ioned the <HI>revolt</HI> of the <HI>Germaine Princes,</HI> from the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Au&s;trea,</HI> of the <HI>Neitherlandess</HI> from the King of <HI>Spaine,</HI> the <HI>bloody Ma&s;kery</HI> in <HI>France?</HI> And among&s;t our &s;elves, what occa&s;ioned the <HI>ri&s;ing</HI> of the <HI>Scots,</HI> the <HI>Rebellion</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and tho&s;e <HI>bloody divi&s;ions</HI> in <HI>England</HI> but this diveli&s;h Spirit of binding the con&s;cience? One would compell the other to their faith, and force them from their owne, and that will not be borne, they had rather dye, then deny their faith; and therefore is it, that a con|&s;iderable party rebelleth, and in that Rebellion wallow in one an others blood, bume and de&s;troy all before them, and yet both (as they &s;uppo&s;e) <HI>&s;ight the Lords battell,</HI> while indeed the <HI>Divell</HI> beareth the greate&s;t &s;hare, who&s;e &s;ervants they are in that Quarrell owe as well as the other. Doth not the Holy Gho&s;t make it it a &s;peaciall Marke of Antichri&s;t to force <HI>all both great and &s;mall,</HI> &amp;c. and is it not the cau&s;e of the <HI>Womans flight</HI> inter the <HI>Wil|dernes
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from the pre&s;ence of the Dragon;</HI> the &s;cattering of the Church into De|&s;arts and &s;ecret places; the Death of the <HI>two Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> and <HI>wearing out of the Saints of the mo&s;t High?</HI> How cometh the <HI>Woman</HI> on the <HI>&s;carlet coloured Bea&s;t drunke with the blood of the Saints, and with the blood of the Martyes of Je&s;us, and all the blood of the Earth to be found in her,</HI> but by this diveli&s;h Spi|rit, even the <HI>Spirit of Divels. which goeth forth unto the Kings of the Earth, and of the whole world to provoake them to warre again&s;t the Saints;</HI> I meane, this <HI>binding of con&s;cience,</HI> and forceing con&s;ormity, though never &s;o much again&s;t knowledge and per&s;wat<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> of heart, which at this day is &s;o hotly endeavoured, preached, and pleaded for by the <HI>proud, Prelaticall Presbytrie</HI> of this Land, who by their &s;ubtile in&s;innations, and &s;ecret delu&s;ions endeavour the infu&s;ion thereof into the hearts of their Rulers, and to beget it as a principle of faith in the multitude: Should they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e a Par|liament and Kingdome with this Spirit, that Parliament and Kingdom can|not expect peace and &s;afety to continue; the fire may be &s;moohered for a time, but it wili breake out at la&s;t, as this Kingdome hath already fonnd by woefull experience, the blood of its Nobles and Commons, &amp;c. whereof <HI>my Lord,</HI> this <HI>infernall Feind</HI> (here araigned before your <HI>Honor,</HI> a Trator to his Maje&s;ties Crown and Dignity, the Priviledges of Parliament, Rights, &amp; Lib: of the Subject, is the cau&s;e: Yea <HI>my Lord,</HI> he is <HI>Jakes on both &s;ides,</HI> in was he that occa&s;ioned the feares and jealou&s;ies betwixt his Maje&s;ty and the two Hou&s;es of Parliament, and unhappily drew them into the Feild of Blood, neither party would be oppre&s;&s;ed in Con&s;cience, or deprived of their Reli|gion; this was one halfe of the Quarrell, and publikely profe&s;&s;ed the main, though it may be <HI>Monarchie</HI> was the other halfe; and <HI>my Lord,</HI> he &s;educed the King into the <HI>North,</HI> and provoaked your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> unto <HI>Armes,</HI> and hath continued to this day firmely on both &s;ides, &s;o that fall which &s;ide it will, he concludes to be <HI>Conquerer,</HI> and be e&s;tabli&s;hed ab&s;olute <HI>Monarke,</HI> for he &s;o deports him&s;elfe betwixt you both, that both may per&s;ecute, and hitherto he hath too much prevailed with your <HI>Lord&s;hip:</HI> Therefore <HI>my Lord,</HI> if this <HI>vile Incendiary</HI> (here happily detected and <HI>araigned)</HI> be not cut off from be|twikt you, there is no hopes of peace, till the &s;word (and it may be &s;amine, and pe&s;tilence too) wre&s;tle it out to a <HI>Conque&s;t</HI> on one &s;ide; and when all is done, yet peace will not, nor can po&s;&s;ibly long endure; for where <HI>Per&s;ecuti|on</HI> is, there wil be <HI>heart burnings, envyings, emnlations,</HI> and <HI>murmurings,</HI> which at length will breake out into <HI>Commotions, Con&s;piracies, In&s;urrections</HI> and <HI>Re|bellions.</HI> And thus <HI>my Lord,</HI> I give place to what &s;hall be further evidenced by the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>GAFFAR <HI>CHRISTIAN &s;tand up, what can you &s;ay for the</HI> King <HI>again&s;t the</HI> Pri&s;oner <HI>at the</HI> Barre.</P>
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<HEAD>CHRISTIAN.</HEAD>
<P>My Lord, I have knowne this man by woefull Experience, well high 1644 yeares: and my brethren of old, the <HI>Prophets,</HI> bare witne&s;&s;e again&s;t him unto the day of my <HI>Nativity,</HI> that he was in their times the mo&s;t <HI>Pe&s;ti|lent</HI> Enemy to <HI>Mankind</HI> to <HI>God and all Goodne&s;&s;e,</HI> that ever was borne in to the World: and my Lord, I am able to prove his continuance in that cur|&s;ed <HI>Condicion</HI> oven unto this day: &s;o that he hath lived and &s;caped the hands of Ju&s;tice above 5660 yeares, and all his dayes hath been a <HI>Murderer and Butcher</HI> of good men, yea &s;carce any con&s;ider it.</P>
<P>Secondly, my Lord, this <HI>Pri&s;oner,</HI> PERSECUTION for <HI>Con&s;cience, ma|keth the Go&s;pell of none effect,</HI> in &s;tead of <HI>Sincerity</HI> he &s;etteth up <HI>Hyprocricy,</HI> in|&s;tead of the <HI>Feare of God,</HI> he &s;etteth up <HI>the Torrour of men:</HI> in&s;tead of the <HI>Sim|plicity of the Word,</HI> he &s;etteth up the <HI>V&s;urpation of the Sword</HI> for my Lord, the compelling of men again&s;t their <HI>Con&s;ciences,</HI> enforceth &s;uch <HI>Inconveni|ences</HI> and <HI>Impieties</HI> inevitably: Yea my Lord, of &s;uch a Diveli&s;h Spirit is this <HI>Enemy</HI> of, as he exalteth him&s;elfe again&s;t the <HI>Mercy of</HI> God <HI>in</HI> Chri&s;t <HI>toward the Sonnes of men,</HI> to the very prevention thereof to Multitudes, and the tum|bling of them head long without remor&s;e to the Divell: for they that are blind, they that are <HI>Tares,</HI> who knowes but they may &s;ee, may become Wheate heereafter: but if they be cut off, (as this mercile&s;&s;e <HI>Inhumane Mi&s;creant u&s;eth)</HI> for their blindne&s;&s;e, how &s;hall they &s;ee? for <HI>(I&s;a.</HI> 38. 19.) <HI>The Grave cannot prai&s;e thee, they that goe down into the Pit cannot hope for thy Truth. Bla&s;phe|mers</HI> may hereafter become faithfull <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> of Chri&s;t, <HI>Act.</HI> 3. 3. <HI>&amp;</HI> 9. 5. 6. <HI>Idolaters,</HI> true <HI>Wor&s;hippers,</HI> no people of God, the people of God, as the <HI>Co|rinthians,</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 6. 9. <HI>&amp; &s;ome come at the fir&s;t, third, &s;ixt, &amp; &s;ome not till the e|leventh <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Mat.</HI> 20. 6. but &s;hould tho&s;e that are in their &s;ins till the II. houre be cut off becau&s;e <HI>they came no &s;ooner: they &s;hould have been prevented</HI> from <HI>conver&s;ion,</HI> or <HI>coming</HI> at all, as godly King <HI>Edward</HI> moved by his <HI>bloo|dy Bi&s;hops,</HI> to the burning of a godly <HI>Woman</HI> called <HI>John Butcher (Fox Act. Mon. p. 1784)</HI> an&s;wered, <HI>Will you have me &s;end her quicke to the Divell in her errours.</HI> This is the &s;ervice this <HI>PERSECUTION</HI> doth, in&s;tead of building he de&s;troyed, in&s;tead of &s;aving he danneth, under the colours of Chri&s;t he figliteth for the Divell his Ma&s;ter.</P>
<P>Thirdly <HI>my Lord,</HI> his nature is at direct emnity again&s;t the very command Chri&s;t gave unto the Apo&s;tles in the <HI>Generall Commi&s;&s;ion: Goe teach all Nati|ons,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Mat.</HI> 28. 19. where <HI>teaching,</HI> not <HI>violent compul&s;ion</HI> is <HI>con&s;tituted,</HI> and <HI>once for ever ordained</HI> she meanes and only way for <HI>conver&s;ion</HI> to the <HI>faith of Je&s;us</HI> in <HI>all Nations:</HI> Now <HI>compul&s;ion</HI> and <HI>per&s;wation</HI> all know are directly oppo&s;ite, as much as to <HI>will</HI> and to <HI>nill;</HI> So that the command of the one by the Authority of the <HI>Father, the Son, and the Spirit,</HI> is a flat denyall of the
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other by the &s;ame Authority: For here <HI>(vec.</HI> 1920.) by full power of that Authority, <HI>Teaching</HI> is commanded; as, <HI>teach all Nations,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>teaching them to ob&s;erve all things, what ever I have commanded,</HI> &amp;c. Therefore, <HI>all violence,</HI> as by <HI>monaces, threates, impri&s;onments, bodily puni&s;hments, &s;payling of goods,</HI> and &s;uch like <HI>cruelties</HI> of <HI>this tyrant,</HI> is condemned in all <HI>Nations</HI> as a <HI>meanes for no Nation</HI> in the Admini&s;tration of the Go&s;pell.</P>
<P>Fourthly, my Lord, this <HI>Adver&s;aries</HI> practice and the Di&s;cipline of this <HI>old, envi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us, malignant wretch</HI> here ju&s;tly <HI>arigned</HI> before your <HI>Honour,</HI> is quite contrary to the Apo&s;tles in their Admini&s;tration of the Go&s;pell; for they did r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ugge&s;t, or &s;tirre up any Prince, or Maje&s;trate (in who&s;e hand is the <HI>compul&s;ive civill power,)</HI> to force &s;uch by violence of pepall I awes, Edicts, Ordinances, Impri&s;onments, or &s;he like, as would not &s;uject unto their Go&s;|pell: but on the contrary, gave up them&s;elves to &s;eorgings, impri&s;onments, &s;th|ning, &amp;c. which this <HI>Enemie</HI> occa&s;ioned again&s;t them, for the promulgat on thereof. And the wor&s;t that they did, or were commanded to doe, to &s;uch as would not receive the Go&s;pell, was but to <HI>&s;hake</HI> off the du&s;t from their feete, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> Luke 10. 11. <HI>Acts</HI> 13. 51 which was nothing &s;o ill, as this <HI>Beind's</HI> fire and faggot; burning, hanging, froning, &s;torging, impri&s;oning, &amp;c. who&s;e nature hath ever been &amp; is alwayes ver&s;ant in &s;uch crueltios; and yet my Lord, this &s;pawne of Satin, this malitious Hyprocise, doth all under the vizour. of Religion, his wool fei&s;h nature is never &s;een abroad but in <HI>&s;heeps clothing, in nomine Domini,</HI> he perpatrates, all his villany: So that <HI>my Lord,</HI> he is a mo&s;t dangerous invererate <HI>Antichri&s;t</HI>'s and Archetraytour to his Maje&s;ty (the <HI>King of Kings)</HI> his royall Crowne and Dignity, and in invadour and de|&s;troyer of the ju&s;t Liberies, the lives and, fortunes of his Maje&s;ties leige people.</P>
<P>Fiftly, <HI>my Lord,</HI> it is again&s;t the Law of Charity, <HI>not to do <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">as we would be done unto:</HI> He that hangs a <HI>Jew,</HI> becau&s;e he will not be a <HI>Chri&s;tian,</HI> would be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ath<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a <HI>Jew</HI> &s;hould reward him in the &s;ame kind, becau&s;e he will not be a <HI>Jew,</HI> though in equity he de&s;erve it. for <HI>innocent blood</HI> requireth <HI>blood.</HI> Yea <HI>my Lord,</HI> to forcemen and women again&s;t their con&s;ciences is world then to ra|vi&s;h the bodies of womena and Maides again&s;t their wills: Yea, it is beyond the <HI>Turkish</HI> cruelty, for though the Turkes force the bodies of Chri&s;tians and Strangers to &s;lavery, yet they let their con&s;cience goe free: But our late Idol blood-&s;ucking Bi&s;hops, and after them our ravenous <HI>Presbiters,</HI> as towardly <HI>younge Cubbes</HI> for beare not to force the con&s;ciences of their freinds and neigh|bours; and impri&s;on them for walking after the light God hath given them: And <HI>my Lord,</HI> it is this <HI>Malefactaur</HI> which rendereth them &s;o guilty: Yea <HI>my Lord,</HI> this <HI>Foule Spirit</HI> breathed into them at their <HI>Con&s;acration</HI> is not yet ca&s;t out of them, <HI>which like a roaring Lion &s;eeketh whome it may devoure:</HI> So that if your <HI>Lord&s;hips</HI> ju&s;tice doe not &s;poedely interpo&s;e the <HI>bloody re&s;olves</HI> and
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<HI>villanous intents</HI> of our new up&s;tart <HI>frisking Presbyters,</HI> we &s;hall be all devou|red by tho&s;e greedy <HI>Synodian Cor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rants,</HI> which if you &s;uffer, <HI>Wee</HI> then to your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> in the <HI>latter Day,</HI> for be a&s;&s;ured, that all the mi&s;eries, tortures, and torments they inflict upon us, will not only ri&s;e up in judgment again&s;t them, but even again&s;t your <HI>Lord&s;hip.</HI></P>
<P>Sixtly <HI>my Lord,</HI> he u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">peth that to him&s;elfe, which Chri&s;t hath referred to the <HI>La&s;t Day,</HI> to wit, to judge them that reject him, for <HI>John 12. 47. 48. If any man hear my words and beleive not, I judge him not, for I came not to judge the World, but to &s;ave the World: he that rejecteth me and receivetb not my words, hath one that judgeth him, the word that I have &s;poken, the &s;ame &s;hall judge him at the la&s;t day. &amp; 1. Cor. 4. 5. Judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come and Mat. 7. 1. 2. Judge not lea&s;t yee be judged, for with what judgement yee judge, yee &s;hall be judged</HI> &amp;c. and to the&s;e adde <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 11. 4. Therefore no man upon paine of judgement, mu&s;t pre&s;ume to judge any in re&s;pect of Chri&s;t or his words, but mu&s;t referre it to the la&s;t day, who&s;e word &s;hall judge him, and not <HI>Fire and Faggot, Hanging and Quartering, Impri&s;oning</HI> &amp;c. &s;uch are incompetent Judges, for to this end Chri&s;t both died and revi|ved, that he might be Lord both of the dead and the living. <HI>Let us not therfore judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a &s;tumbling Blocke as an occa&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">on of fall in his brothers way: for, Who art thou that judge&s;t another mans &s;ervant? to his owne ma&s;ter he &s;tandeth or falleth. Rom.</HI> 14.</P>
<P>4. We are not equall Judges one over another in matters of Faith, <HI>Who is it that &s;hall condemne? it is Chri&s;t that dyed:</HI> What is he that &s;hall dare to execute Vengence for unbeleefe? <HI>He that is innocent let him throw the fir&s;t &s;tone.</HI> The A&s;&s;embly (&s;urely) will not plead Innocence, and if not, why are they &s;o ha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y to throw? <HI>Surely, Great is Diana of the Ephe&s;ians.</HI> Yet Mr. <HI>Calamy</HI> a man but newly <HI>Metamorpho&s;ed</HI> by a figure which we Rhetoricians call METONOMIA BENEFICII from <HI>Epi&s;copallity</HI> to <HI>Pre&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ytery:</HI> upon de|mand what they would doe with Anabapti&s;ts, Antinomians &amp;c. tells us, <HI>That they will not m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ddle with their</HI> Con&s;ciences, <HI>but with their</HI> Bodyes <HI>and</HI> E&s;tates. Truly if this be the drift, they are even <HI>leapt out of the Frying <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> into the Fire.</HI> If they be fallen, this is not to re&s;tore them with the Spi|rit of meeknes. But <HI>my Lord,</HI> Ju&s;tice upon this Malefactour would cure the Synodians of that Di&s;ea&s;e, for <HI>Patience per force is a Medicine for a madde Dogge.</HI> And thus <HI>my Lord,</HI> your Honour hath my Te&s;timony of this Ma|lefactour.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>GAFFAR MARTYRS, What can you &s;ay for the King again&s;t the <HI>Pri&s;oner</HI> at the Barre?</P>
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<HEAD>MARTYRS.</HEAD>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> Had not my <HI>life been hid in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, who is God of the living,
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and not of the dead,</HI> for though dead in the grave, yet I live unto him, to be rai&s;ed and revived at the <HI>la&s;t day;</HI> or could the arme of fle&s;h &s;uppre&s;&s;e the <HI>cry of blood,</HI> my witne&s;&s;e would have been di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">abled: for this Malefacteur PERSECUTION per&s;ecuted me even to the death; &s;o that my voyce is no other then the <HI>cry of blood,</HI> even of the Prophets and Martyrs of Je&s;us, that you heare; for <HI>my Lord,</HI> &s;uch hath been his cruelty to me to &s;uppre&s;&s;e my Te&s;timony again&s;t him while I was living, that all the tortures and tormen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> wit and malice could invent, he with his <HI>blood-thir&s;ty Clergy</HI> devi&s;ed again&s;t, and executed upon me, whereby I was mo&s;t baberou&s;ly murthered; &s;o that <HI>my Lord,</HI> I have no other voyce left me, then that of <HI>blood, &s;plit for the Word of God and the te&s;timony of Je&s;us, crying with a loud voyce, how long O Lord ho|ly and true do&s;t thou not avenge our blood?</HI> I could enlarge my &s;elfe into a Sea of blood again&s;t him, di&s;cover him drunken with the blood of the Saints and Martyres of Je&s;us: yea <HI>my Lord,</HI> Articles of all manner of impiety a|gain&s;t God, and all goodne&s;&s;e, Trea&s;ons, Rebellions, &amp;c. I could exhibite a|gain&s;t him, but my faithfull brother, that pore de&s;pi&s;ed CHRISTIAN, hath mo&s;t ju&s;tly witne&s;&s;ed abundantly again&s;t him: And there is yet an other faith|full Witne&s;&s;e to give in his <HI>Evidence,</HI> Gaffar <HI>LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE,</HI> who I know, is thoroughly furni&s;hed with matters of highe&s;t concernement again&s;t him, to who&s;e ju&s;t <HI>Evidence</HI> I &s;hall give place.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>Gaffar <HI>LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE, what can you &s;ay for the King again&s;t the Pri&s;oner at the Barre?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Pri&s;oner.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> before he proceed, be plea&s;ed to heare the ju&s;t excep|tions, Sir <HI>Symon Synod</HI> and Sir <HI>John Presbyter</HI> after their &s;o long and &s;erious <HI>con&s;ultation</HI> have devi&s;ed and contrived, why his Te&s;timony &s;hould not be heard, as an un&s;it Witne&s;&s;e in &s;uch a ca&s;e as this.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ju&s;tice Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My Lord, if Baal be God, let him plead for him&s;elfe.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>And rea&s;on good: For the judgment of this Court is not to be &s;wayed by favour, affection, humour of multitudes, or the like, but by Rea|&s;on and equity it &s;elfe: Wherefore for the more free and ju&s;t proceding here|in this Court <HI>Ordaineth</HI> and <HI>Proclameth</HI> freedome for both &s;ides, one as well as the other, whether <HI>Presbyterian Tormentoi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s</HI> or <HI>Independant Sufferers</HI> to give in their grounds and rea&s;ons to the <HI>Sentence</HI> of this Court, whether LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE be tollerable, and his Evidence to be re|ceived. Wherefore Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> if you have any thing why this mans <HI>witne&s;&s;e</HI> may be di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nabled, you have liberty to &s;peake.</P>
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<HEAD>Sir SYMON SYNOD.</HEAD>
<P>My Lord, <HI>this fellow</HI> LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> a Free-willer, a loo&s;e Libectine, one that opens a gate to all manner of prophanes, in what</HI> Coun|trey
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<HI>or</HI> State <HI>&s;oever he gets intertainement, a man of all Religions and of no Re|ligion, a compound of all here&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es, &s;ci&s;me, and faction; a pre&s;telent enemie to Na|tionall Conformity, our late</HI> Solemne League and Covenant, <HI>a Tratour to your late</HI> &s;acred and ble&s;&s;ed Ordinance for Tythes, a worke of Superarrogation&punc; <HI>a</HI> Confuter <HI>of our mighty Champions Mr.</HI> Priune, Edwards, <HI>&amp;c. He is for no</HI> Reformation, <HI>but &s;trives to fru&s;trate all my endeavours, and the pious ends of the re&s;t of my holy brethren of the</HI> Tribe of Lev<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, <HI>for the advancement of the Church God,</HI> the Clergie of the Land, <HI>with eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Revennue, and power coercive to curbe oppo&s;ition, and force</HI> Reformation to Presbyterian Governement: <HI>yea</HI> my Lord, <HI>this is he that would reduce the Nationall Reformation of this Kingdome, &s;o much endeavoured by your</HI> Lord&s;hip, <HI>even to open loo&s;en&s;&s;e, every man to be of what Religion he li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, every mecannioke illiterate fellow to turne</HI> Preacher, <HI>and be as good as their</HI> Mini&s;ter, <HI>no di&s;tinction made betwixt the</HI> Clergie <HI>and the</HI> Laity, <HI>our</HI> Canonicall Coates, Girdles, long Cloakes <HI>and</HI> Blacke Gowno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>made a diri&s;ion, a taunt, and a cur&s;e, as ominous as Lawne &s;leeves and as hatefull as a Miter, our</HI> holy Tythes, <HI>as of</HI> Lambe, Pigge, Goo&s;e, <HI>&amp;c. be turned into</HI> voluntary Contribution, <HI>oh in&s;ufferable &s;acraledge!</HI> from the good will of the people good Lord pre&s;erve us: <HI>yea</HI> my Lord, <HI>the</HI> upper hand <HI>in publike places,</HI> (the Clergies delight) <HI>as, in</HI> &s;treets, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> fea&s;ts, &amp;c. be deny'd us, <HI>the reverent e&s;timation of our</HI> Coate <HI>be pa&s;t either</HI> Cap, Congue, or Curt&s;ey, <HI>no difference betwixt the</HI> Black Ca&s;&s;ocke <HI>and the</HI> L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">thr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n Jacket, <HI>and all our good|lyfat</HI> Benefices <HI>turnd to the labour of our hands,</HI> (alas my Lord, we were never brought up to labour, we cannot digge, and to begge we are a&s;ham'd) <HI>our</HI> delu&s;ions, fal&s;e Glo&s;&s;es, Sophi&s;tications, <HI>and</HI> godly pretonces <HI>be detected, and divulged, and &s;o all things that are dainty and goodly to depart from us:</HI> alas, alas my Lord! <HI>this will undoe the</HI> Clergie <HI>quite, we may leave our</HI> Callings, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd learne new</HI> Trades, <HI>if we turne</HI> Coblers, Tinkers, <HI>and</HI> Weavers <HI>we may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hance get con&s;tant worke, if not, now and then a</HI> job of preaching <HI>among&s;t the people;</HI> Con&s;ider my Lord, <HI>it will put out the</HI> two eyes of the Kingdome: <HI>Much more I could &s;ay, but I &s;hall give way to my Son</HI> Sir John, <HI>who by your Lord&s;hips favour &s;hall further informe this</HI> Court <HI>in the defence of this</HI> Pri&s;oner.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well Sir Symon, this being a bu&s;ines of high concernment, either what you or your <HI>Sir John,</HI> or what any man el&s;e can &s;ay in the behalfe of his Maje&s;ty concerning the Pri&s;oner, this Court freely permitteth, yea com|mandeth Information thereof.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Clar.</SPEAKER>
<P>Call Sir John Prosbyter, &s;onne to Sir Symon.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Rea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.</SPEAKER>
<P>Magus.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Crier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir John Presbyter &s;onne to Sir Symon come into the Court.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir John your Father hath informed us, that you have matter of exception again&s;t LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE, if you have the mercy of the Court permiteeth the Pri&s;oner the benefit thereof.</P>
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<HEAD>Sir <HI>JOHN PRESBYTER</HI></HEAD>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> My Rea&s;ons again&s;t LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE, why both him&s;elfe and his <HI>Evidence</HI> is to be rejected, are the&s;e.</P>
<P N="1">1. Becau&s;e I &s;uppo&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> mu&s;t needs be granted, that the Maje&s;trate is <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Edwards Antipol. p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">g.</HI> 280.</NOTE> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;tos a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> vindex vtriu&s;&abque; Tabulae,</HI> (as is confe&s;&s;ed by all Orthodox Divines) that the care of Religion belongs to him: And becau&s;e <HI>Au&s;tin</HI> and other Divines on <HI>P&s;al</HI> 2. 10. 11. and on <HI>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">t.</HI> 17. 19. give unto Mage&s;trates that power. Ergo,</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>States-men mu&s;t weare Bells about their neckes, becau&s;e antient Divines &s;ay Kings are but Packe-hor&s;es to the Clergie.]</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Becau&s;e in this Kingdome the Reformation in Wor&s;hip, Government, &amp;c. which &s;halbe &s;etled and e&s;tabli&s;hed by your Lord&s;hip is judged and taken <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 281.</NOTE> for granted by you to be according to the mind of Chri&s;t; el&s;e why hath your Lord&s;hip called &s;o many able, godly, and learned Divines (of us) to con&s;ult with for that purpo&s;e? and why el&s;e will you e&s;tabli&s;h it, if there be any other more agreable to the Word? Ergo.</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>The Synod is guided by the Holy Gho&s;t &s;ent in a Cloake-bag from Scotland, as of old from Rome to the Councell of Trent,</HI> Goncil. Trent l. 6 p. 497.]</P>
<P N="3">3. Becau&s;e it is again&s;t the &s;olemne League and Covenant for Reforma|tion, taken by the Parliament and Kingdome of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag. 282. &amp;</HI> 283.</NOTE> &s;o cannot be conde&s;cended to in <HI>England</HI> without the breach of that Oath and Covenant: So that all <HI>Apollogie</HI> and motion for Toleration comes too late, the dore is &s;hut again&s;t it, the Kingdomes hands are bound, &s;o that if a Toleration were not in it &s;elfe unlawfull, and again&s;t the duty of the Ma|je&s;trate, yet now becau&s;e of the Oath and Covenant 'tis unlawfull; &s;o that what&s;oever might have been granted before, cannot be now, lea&s;t the King|dome &s;hould be guilty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">efore God of Covenant breaking. Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Becau&s;e the</HI> A&s;&s;embly <HI>bath &s;adled the Parliament, it is unlawfull for the</HI> Presbyters <HI>to goe a foote.</HI> Ergo, <HI>Per&s;ecution was unlawfull when the Prei&s;ts were per&s;ecuted, but now it is lawfull they per&s;ecute.</HI> Ergo, <HI>Toleration was lawfull, and the duty of the Maje&s;trate when the power was in the hands of the Bi&s;hops, but now the Presbyters are crowding into S.</HI> Peters Chaire, <HI>the Parliament is bound to compell all men to the Decrees of the A&s;&s;embly, as that im|pudent, and de&s;perate Incendiary</HI> Mr. Edwards <HI>boldly and openly affirmeth, an A&s;&s;ertion able to divide the Kingdome in twenty peeces.]</HI></P>
<P N="4">4. Becau&s;e it is again&s;t the greate&s;t lights in the Church both antient and <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 281.</NOTE> moderne, as <HI>Agu&s;tine, Ambro&s;e, Calvine, Phillip Melancton, Zanchius, Mu&s;|culus, Bullinger,</HI> likewi&s;e the judgement of the Divines of <HI>New England</HI> are
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again&s;t the Toleration of any Church Governement and way but one, they will not &s;uffer <HI>Browni&s;ts, Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. Mr. <HI>Cotton</HI> the greate&s;t Divine in <HI>New England,</HI> and a precious man, is again&s;t Toleration, and holds that men may be puni&s;hed for their Con&s;ciences, as will appeare by his Letter to Mr. <HI>Williams.</HI> Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Presbyterian Governement is unlawfull, becau&s;e Mr.</HI> Cotton <HI>con|demnes it in his Booke intituled,</HI> The Keyes of the Kingdome of Heaven.]</P>
<P N="5">5. Becau&s;e at this time for want of &s;etled Governement, people being left to &s;o great liberty, multitudes are fallen, and doe daily to <HI>Antinomiani&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e,</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 289.</NOTE> <HI>Anabapti&s;me, Independancy,</HI> yea to deny the <HI>Immortality of the &s;oule:</HI> Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>One</HI> Anabapti&s;t, Independant, <HI>or the like, that can render a Rea|&s;on for what he holds, is better then &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ven</HI> Presbyters <HI>that conclude from &s;uch bald Premi&s;es, Pro.</HI> 26. 16.] [Here the Authour of that Booke, intituled, <HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ns Mortality,</HI> de&s;ires Mr. <HI>Edwards</HI> with tho&s;e that are &s;o invective again&s;t it in their Pulpits that they would cea&s;e their railing at it there, and come forth in Print again&s;t it; for the thing being &s;o rare, &s;o litle que&s;tioned, and the contrary &s;o generally concluded as a principle of faith, any <HI>bumba&s;t-&s;tuffe</HI> will pa&s;&s;e there for authentike with the people without tryall, but if it be put forth to publike vew, it mu&s;t expect an encounter by one or other, and therein the Authour of that Booke ob&s;erveth the policie of his Presbyterian Adver|&s;aries to maintaine their repute with the people, in being &s;o ha&s;ty in the Pul|pit and &s;o &s;low to the Pre&s;&s;e.]</P>
<P N="6">6. <HI>Independants,</HI> and all kind of <HI>Sectaries</HI> as long as they have their liber|ty, <NOTE PLACE="marg">pag. ibid.</NOTE> &s;nuffe up the wind, and will not hearken to any way whereby they may receive &s;atisfaction; but if once the Maje&s;trate declares, and by Lawes con|cludes one way of Church Wor&s;hip, it may be they will heare rea&s;on. Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>It &s;eemes the Presbyters till then can render them none, for the rea|&s;on and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orce of that Argument li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s in</HI> take him Goaler. Ergo, <HI>If once the Ma|je&s;trate declares, and by Lawes concludes all the fat Benefices of the Kingdome upon</HI> Independancie, <HI>then it may be the</HI> Presbyters <HI>will beare rea&s;on, and turne</HI> Independants.]</P>
<P N="7">7. <HI>Independancie</HI> hath ever been from the fir&s;t to the la&s;t, a Fountaine of evill, roote of bitternes, divi&s;ions, &amp;c. as the Hi&s;tories of the Anabapti&s;ts (the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 394.</NOTE> highe&s;t forme of <HI>Independancy,</HI> and Church way) declare, in re&s;pect of the evils they fell into, and the mi&s;cheifes they brought upon <HI>Germany,</HI> and how God cur&s;ed and &s;cattered them. Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>If the King conquer, the Parliament wilbe Traytours to po&s;terity by Cr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nicle; for who writ the Hi&s;tories of the Anabapti&s;ts but their Enemies?]</HI></P>
<P N="8">8. <HI>My Lord,</HI> becau&s;ethe Presbyterian way hath been countenanced from <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 29<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</NOTE> Heaven, and ble&s;&s;ed from &s;orts of &s;ects, &amp;c. and that for almo&s;t an hundered yeares: Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Both Papall and Epi&s;copall is better then Presbyterian, for they are, and have been more vniforme, and have continued many hundred yeares lon|ger then Presbyterian, and were long before Presbytrie was thought on: for alas, it was but a &s;hift at a pinch the Divell made, when neither of the other would &s;erve his turne; and &s;o came up Presbytrie, but what good the Divell will have on't I know not; for</HI> who knowes the lucke of a Iou&s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Curre, he may prove a good Dog?]</P>
<P N="9">9. <HI>My Lord,</HI> If Toleration of Government though not of Doctrine <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 301.</NOTE> &s;hould be granted, then the &s;imple Anabapti&s;ts, and that &s;imple &s;ort called <HI>Dippers</HI> will come in too, &s;aying, that Bapti&s;me at &s;uch an age, and Bapti|zing in Rivers by <HI>Dipping</HI> are but matters of order and time: Ergo,</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>He that de&s;embleth hatred with lying lips, and he that inventeth &s;lander is a foole, Pro.</HI> 10. 18.]</P>
<P>Wherefore I humbly be&s;eech your <HI>Lord&s;hip,</HI> &s;eriou&s;ly to con&s;ider the depth <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 303.</NOTE> of Satan in this De&s;igne, of Toleration, how this is now his la&s;t Plot and De&s;igne, and by it would undermine and fru&s;trate the whole worke of Re|formation, tis his Ma&s;ter peece for <HI>England.</HI> I am confident if the Divell <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>pag.</HI> 304.</NOTE> had his choyce. whether the Hierarchie, Ceremonies, and Liturgie &s;hould be e&s;tabli&s;hed in this Kingdome, or a Toleration granted, he would chu&s;e and preferre a Toleration before them.</P>
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<SPEAKER>[J. Human.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>That is of Presbyterian Compul&s;ion, becau&s;e Epi&s;copall in</HI> Eng|land <HI>is worne out of Date:</HI> Mr. Edwards <HI>knowes the Divell is not &s;o &s;imple, to chu&s;e Hierarchie, Ceremonies, &amp;c. where their deceit is detected, hated, and re|jected, it &s;eemes be's better acquainted with him then &s;o, the next time he writes, we &s;hall have more of the Divels mind, but it is likely he'll have fini&s;hed his De|&s;igne fir&s;t, and then it may be,</HI> Mr. Edwrads <HI>will tell us, that the Divell is better per&s;waded of Presbytrie (his la&s;t &s;hift) then ever he was of Epi&s;copacie, he will be &s;o &s;erviceable to him therein, for if</HI> Mr. Edwards <HI>and the Divell be not decei|ved, he intends with it to devoure, breake in peeces, and &s;tampe the re&s;idue the Hierarchie hath left under his feete, &s;o to weare out the Saints of the mo&s;t High.]</HI></P>
<P>And thus <HI>my Lord,</HI> you have, my Rea&s;ons, why this fellow <HI>LIBERTY-OF CONSCIENCE,</HI> is not to have admittance within the verge of this Kingdom, much le&s;&s;e to enter thus into the bowels of this Court to give in Evidence to be proceeded on upon the life and death of this holy man, Mr. <HI>PERSECU|TION.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Lib. Con&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, <HI>Sir John<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s</HI> a pritty forward child, that can pratle thus before he have his teeth; thy &s;ay he hath been breeding of teeth ever &s;ince the the <HI>A&s;&s;embly</HI> were in con&s;ultation; &s;urely they'll be huge, long, boari&s;h tuskes when they come <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ut; &s;hould your Lord&s;hip but cau&s;e his mouth to be opened, you might &s;ee <HI>great iron teeth</HI> lie in his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">, ready to <HI>cut,</HI> he wants nothing but a <HI>Parliament Corrall</HI> to whet them with all:
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but <HI>my Lord,</HI> were he mine, I would knock out his braines with an <HI>Indepen|dent Hammer,</HI> to prevent the groweth of &s;uch teeth, for <HI>Daniell</HI> tels us the nature of <HI>great iron teeth.</HI> Now whereas <HI>my Lord,</HI> he excepteth again&s;t my witne&s;&s;e, I humbly conceive, the equity of this Cou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> cannot receive his ex|ception again&s;t me in the ju&s;tification of this Butcher and murtherer of good men, &s;eeing him&s;elfe is a mercile&s;&s;e inhumane Butcher, the &s;on of a Butcher, yea <HI>my Lord,</HI> his Grand-father and Great-Grand-father were Butchers; for whereas <HI>my Lord,</HI> he hath acquired the name of <HI>Sir John Presbyter,</HI> in truth he is a Prei&s;t, the &s;on of a Bi&s;hop, Grand-child to the Pope, and the Divell is his Great-Grand-father, all murtherers and Butchers of Gods people. Therefore <HI>good my Lord</HI> le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> not mine <HI>Evidence</HI> be thus unju&s;tly di&s;inabled.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE, you are &s;worne for the King, to give in your <HI>Evidence</HI> in his Maje&s;ties behalfe again&s;t the Pri&s;oner at the Bar; and the <HI>challenge</HI> again&s;t you being &s;uch as may be dispenc'd with, you are to proceed in your <HI>Evidence.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE.</HEAD>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> To what the former <HI>Evidence</HI> have te&s;tified I &s;hall with brevity adde, that this Malefactour PERSECUTION de&s;troyeth the Inno|cent with the wicked, contrary to the comma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d of Chri&s;t, <HI>Mat. 13. 30. let the tares and the wheat grow together untill the harve&s;t,</HI> from which <HI>Parable</HI> appeareth, that the <HI>Kingdome of heaven</HI> or <HI>Chri&s;ts</HI> Government over the whole world doth &s;trictly charge his <HI>&s;ervants,</HI> the Kings and Rulers of the Earth (for <HI>by him Kings raigne)</HI> to &s;uffer <HI>tares;</HI> Turkes, Jewes, Pagans, and Infidels, as well as Chri&s;tians to <HI>grow</HI> or live <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ogether in the <HI>Feild</HI> of the <HI>World,</HI> their Dominions untill the <HI>Day of harve&s;t,</HI> or de&s;olution of all things, and not plucke them up, becau&s;e they are <HI>Tares, Turkes, Jewes, Pagans, &amp;c.</HI> lea&s;t they plucke up &s;uch as may become as the <HI>Pillars of Solomon</HI> in the Hou&s;e of God, even glorious witne&s;&s;es of Je&s;us Chri&s;t: What greater Rebellion therefore can there be by tho&s;e <HI>Servants</HI> to the <HI>Hou&s;holder,</HI> then to <HI>plucke up the tares from the wheat?</HI> As their Office brings all under their Dominions, &s;o it is to pre&s;erve all in their Dominions, that <HI>tares</HI> and <HI>wheate,</HI> Infidell and Beleiver may <HI>grow</HI> and live peaceably together in civill cohabitation, com|merce, &amp;c. in their Dominions untill the <HI>Harve&s;t,</HI> or end of all things, when the <HI>Lord of the Harve&s;t</HI> &s;hall <HI>&s;eperate the tares from the wheat,</HI> with <HI>come ye<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> ble&s;&s;ed, goe yee cur&s;ed, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Secondly <HI>my Lord,</HI> he depriveth the <HI>Jewes</HI> (as much as in him lieth) of their geliverance according to the Covenant God made with their Fathers from this their Captivity, notwith&s;tanding the wrath of the Lord threatned again&s;t them, that &s;hall evill entreat them th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rein, <HI>Zach. 2. 8. E&s;a.</HI> 54. 15. 17.
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<HI>cap.</HI> 51. 22. 23. for <HI>my Lord,</HI> he hath made the name of a <HI>Jew</HI> as hatefull as <HI>Ju|das;</HI> yea, his nature is not to leave a man of them to pi&s;&s;e again&s;t the wall. Now <HI>my Lord,</HI> though the <HI>Jewes</HI> are led captive by the <HI>Gentiles</HI> under the time of the <HI>Go&s;pell,</HI> and though the <HI>naturall branches are broaken off,</HI> and the Heathen <HI>grafted in,</HI> yet &s;till <HI>they are beloved for their Fathers &s;akes, Rom.</HI> 11. 28. and are not to be per&s;ecuted for their infidelity, for <HI>he that toucheth them, toucheth the apple of Gods eye:</HI> What though they are <HI>&s;tumbled? &s;hall we boa&s;t our &s;elves a|gain&s;t them?</HI> God forbid; for <HI>if wee that are wild by nature, be grafed contra|ry to nature into the good Olive Tree, how much more &s;hall they which are naturall branches be grafted into their owne Olive Tree againe?</HI> Therefore the Apo&s;tle <HI>would not have us ignorant of this My&s;tery, that blindne&s;&s;e in part is hapned to I&s;rael untill the fulne&s;&s;e of the Gentiles be come in, and all I&s;rael &s;halbe &s;aved, Rom.</HI> 11. 25. 26. compared to <HI>I&s;a. 49. 22. 23. Deut. 30. 1. 2. 4. 5. Amos</HI> 9. 14. 15. Now what hindereth their &s;alvation and deliverance &s;o much as per&s;ecution, for they are even led captive by PERSECUTION, and made &s;laves to him even to this day? And how &s;hall they beleive, if they &s;hall have no time given them to beleive? this <HI>diveli&s;h Spirit</HI> gives them not a minute, he will not &s;uffer a Jew to live among&s;t the Chri&s;tians, or come neare him: what hopes then is there the Jewes &s;hould be converted, where this Tyrant is in force? Shall we that have received <HI>vantage</HI> by their <HI>rejection,</HI> thus recompence them with ty|ranny? our <HI>Lord</HI> whome they &s;lew, would not have them &s;laven, but they are beloved of him, and him&s;elfe will be their Deliveror, <HI>Rom.</HI> 11. 26. 27. 28. yes this Incendiary hath cau&s;ed our Kings, and our Rulers, our Bi&s;hops and our prei&s;ts not to &s;uffer a Jew by authority to live among&s;t them; how then can we complaine of the vengance that is at this time upon us &amp; our children, that have been &s;o cruell, &s;o hatefull, &s;o bloody minded to them and their children? we have given them the <HI>cup of trembling,</HI> &s;urely we mu&s;t <HI>ta&s;t of the dregges:</HI> Hearken therefore no longer to tho&s;e which teach this bloody doctrine of per&s;ecution, for neither they, their <HI>preachings, fa&s;tings, weepings long prayres,</HI> &amp;c. can deliver in the day of <HI>di&s;tre&s;&s;e,</HI> as long as ye per&s;ecute: <HI>Behold, yee fa&s;t for &s;trife and debate, and to &s;mite with the</HI> Presbyterian <HI>fi&s;t of wickedne&s;&s;e; but this is the Fa&s;t which the Lord hath cho&s;en, to undoe the heavy burthen, and to let the oppre&s;&s;ed goe free, and that yee breake every yoake.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly <HI>my Lord,</HI> He is a murtherer of Kings and Princes, &amp;c. for the mur|thering of <HI>heriticke Princes</HI> is the naturall brat of this diveli&s;h Spirit; for from this ground, <HI>that the contrary minded are to be forced,</HI> the Papi&s;ts ju&s;tifie the murthering of <HI>Herticks,</HI> making all <HI>Heretickes</HI> which &s;eperate from them; for that Religion that is bottomed on this <HI>principle,</HI> that <HI>all mu&s;t be forced, will they, nill they,</HI> where it cannot <HI>force,</HI> mu&s;t murther: &s;o cometh it to pa&s;&s;e, &s;o many Kings have been <HI>murthered,</HI> by the Papi&s;ts, becau&s;e ca&s;ting of the <HI>Ro|mi&s;h yoake,</HI> they free them&s;elves from their power of forcing, therefore the
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Papi&s;ts to make good their coercive principle, betake them&s;elves <HI>privately to murther &s;uch Princes,</HI> to prevent a countermanding power, and keep all in their <HI>catholicke &s;ubjection;</HI> &s;o that &s;uch as would have <HI>all forced,</HI> where they connot <HI>force,</HI> is to be feared, will <HI>privately murther:</HI> Therefore it is dangerous for a King <HI>to tru&s;t his per&s;on with &s;uch men,</HI> for if the King &s;hould <HI>change his Religion,</HI> to one oppo&s;ite to theirs, who knowes, tho&s;e men will not doe as their principle leads them, even <HI>murther their Prince;</HI> but on the contrary, that <HI>Religion</HI> that is grounded on the principle of <HI>meekene&s;&s;e patience, and long &s;ufferance, in&s;tructing the contrary minded,</HI> and utterly conte&s;ting again&s;t all <HI>compul&s;ion,</HI> cannot in the lea&s;t mea&s;ure admini&s;ter any feare or danger unto <HI>Princes of their per&s;ons,</HI> be of what <HI>Religion they will,</HI> for be they of any <HI>Reli|gion</HI> or of no <HI>Religion,</HI> for <HI>matter of violence</HI> it is <HI>all one</HI> to the Spirit of meeke|ne&s;&s;e, for its nature is only to per&s;wade, not to compell; if by faire meanes it cannot prevai'e, it hath done, committing the i&s;&s;ue to God.</P>
<P>Fourthly <HI>my Lord,</HI> He is an utter enemy to all &s;pirituall knowledge, a hin|derer of its encrea&s;e and groweth; for no man knoweth but in part, and what wee know, we receive it by degrees, now a litle, and them a litle; he that knowes the mo&s;t, was once as ignorant as he that knowes the lea&s;t; nay, is it not frequent among&s;t us, that the thing that we judged here&s;ie we now beleive is orthodox; now can &s;uch thinke them&s;elves were worthy to beene per&s;ecuted in, and for that their ignorance? they cannot &s;ure be of that mind; &s;uch therefore cannot condemne, impri&s;on, or hang the ignorant, or &s;uch as di&s;cover or oppo&s;e their ignorance, but in that they condemne them&s;elves, &s;inne again&s;t nature and their own knowledge: The <HI>twelve at Ephe&s;us</HI> that had not &s;o much as heard <HI>whether there were a Holy Gho&s;t or no,</HI> if they had been &s;o evilly u&s;ed by <HI>Paul</HI> when he heard it, how &s;hould they &s;pake with tongues, and propho&s;ied? yet we &s;ee how common a thing it is, if we know not, nor beleive &s;o much as the multitude knoweth or beleiveth, or the Do|ctrine of the <HI>Presbycrean Church</HI> requireth, we mu&s;t be per&s;ecuted; and if our knowledge goe beyond them, that we prote&s;t again&s;t their errours, and la|bour to informe them better, wee mu&s;t ta&s;t of the &s;ame &s;auee too, &s;o that wee mu&s;t know nor beleive neither more nor le&s;&s;e then they, but mu&s;t beleive ju&s;t as they beleive, or el&s;e be per&s;ecuted; as if a Statute &s;hould be enacted, that an <HI>Image</HI> &s;hould be made, and all that were higher or lower then the <HI>Image</HI> &s;hould be hanged: By this we may &s;ee, what an unrea&s;onable thing it is evil|ly to entroat &s;uch as we judge ignorant and erroneous, or all to be erronious and hereticall that we under&s;tand not our &s;elves: What &s;hall we &s;ay then of &s;uch <HI>Mini&s;ters,</HI> that of rationall creatures would teach us to be thus nnrea|&s;onable? <HI>their end is de&s;tinction, their belly, them God, they &s;erve the</HI> Parlia|ment <HI>but for their owne bellyes, and by good words and faire &s;peeches deceive the &s;imple:</HI> The&s;e uphold the accur&s;ed Doctrine of <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> lea&s;t liberty of
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<HI>printing, writing, teaching,</HI> &s;hould di&s;cover their deceipts, and they be di&s;in|herited of their <HI>Fathers Inheritance;</HI> their intents are plaine to him that hath but halfe an eye to &s;ee, they'l not doe much, only change the title, be|fore it was <HI>Epi&s;copal Prelacy,</HI> it &s;hall be now but <HI>Prei&s;tly</HI> or <HI>Presbyterian Prelay,</HI> &s;o that, he that lives but a &s;mall time &s;hall &s;urely &s;ee a <HI>Presbyter</HI> as fat as ever was a <HI>Bi&s;hop;</HI> tho&s;e are enemies to all knowledge, that is either too &s;hort or be|yond their bellyes, therefore is it, that all heads mu&s;t be made even with the <HI>Presbyters,</HI> none <HI>higher</HI> nor none <HI>lower,</HI> ju&s;t as <HI>tall,</HI> and no <HI>taller, he that is too &s;hort mu&s;t be &s;tretched out, and he that is too long mu&s;t be pared even,</HI> lea&s;t they &s;hould mi&s;&s;e of their Prayers, <HI>give us this day our dayly tythes,</HI> that the <HI>Gor|maine proverbe</HI> might be fulfilled, <HI>phophen geizegkeite, Gattes barmchartzegkite, were his in ebekeite,</HI> the coveteou&s;ne&s;&s;e of the Preints and the mercy of God en|dure for ever; I would exhort them to be otherwi&s;e minded, but that I know, <HI>venter non habet aures,</HI> the belly hath no eares.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Pri&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, <HI>I be&s;eech you heare me after this tedious Accu&s;ation, it is fal&s;e and malitious, as by &s;ound rea&s;on, and Per&s;onages of Honour</HI> I <HI>&s;hall clearly evidence: Fir&s;t</HI> my Lord, <HI>as for</HI> GODS VENGANCE <HI>my</HI> Pro&s;ecutour, <HI>both the</HI> Juries, <HI>with divers others, together with the witne&s;&s;es, enforced him to pro&s;ecute me, and I know not by what pretence they procured</HI> GODS VENGANCE <HI>again&s;t me; for</HI> my Lord, <HI>I am innocent, and ever have been from my Cradle from &s;uch and &s;o hai|nous accu&s;ation, as is laid to my charge: And for that fellow, that pretends he hath knowne me &s;ince the comeing of Chri&s;t, he is a man of no reputation, without habitation, a beggerly fellow, arunagate, a loo&s;e fellow, he &s;tayes in no place, keeps no hospitallity, bla&s;pheameth that mo&s;t divine, Leviticall, ever to adored</HI> Ordinance for Tythes, <HI>and counteth it as an unholy thing, paies none where he lives, but &s;harkes here and there, where he can &s;kufle in his head, runnes from hou&s;e to hou&s;e, to delude &s;imple women, who are ever learning, and never learned, and whereas he &s;aith, his name is CHRISTIAN, his name is not CHRISTIAN, neither is he of the generation of Chri&s;tianity, but a mo&s;t factious di&s;&s;embling Anabapti&s;t, a Tub|preacher, and no chri&s;tian, as</HI> Sir Symon, Sir John, <HI>and divers other reverend, and honourable</HI> per&s;ons <HI>here pre&s;ent can</HI> witne&s;&s;e: <HI>As for</HI> Gaffar Martyrs, <HI>he is</HI> as a &s;ounding bra&s;&s;e and tinckling Cymball, who though he giveth up his body to be burnt, him&s;elfe is but a ca&s;taway, <HI>and this I am able to make good unto your</HI> Honour, <HI>by the mo&s;t grave, and &s;olid judgment of all the reverend Divines,</HI> the Clergie of Chri&s;tendome: <HI>Therefore my Lord, it much mattereth not, what his Evidence is, it being but the malice of an Hereticke: And as for LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE,</HI> Sir Symon, <HI>and that ble&s;&s;ed babe, his Sonne</HI> Sir John, <HI>(Sancti|fied from his mothers wombe, the</HI> Synodian Whore of Bibylon,) <HI>hath informed your</HI> Honour <HI>of the unworthyne&s;&s;e of his witne&s;&s;e.</HI> My Lord, <HI>I de&s;ire</HI> Sir Sy|mon <HI>may &s;peake in my defence.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Sir <HI>Symon.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, this Gentleman here arraigned, is altogether inno|cent
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from this accu&s;ation, I have had antient familiarity with him, a dayly &s;ociety hath pa&s;t betwixt us, and I never could find any &s;uch thing in him, and my Lord, here is Mr. <HI>Pontificall Revennue,</HI> Mr. <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Supremacy,</HI> Mr. Na|<HI>tionall Conformity,</HI> Mr. <HI>Rude Multitude,</HI> Mr. <HI>Scotch Government,</HI> and mine on|ly Sonne, <HI>Sir John Presbyter,</HI> all to witnes his innocency from this Accu&s;ation: And if your <HI>Lord&s;hip</HI> make any &s;cruple hereof, that learned Gentleman, <HI>Ju&s;t|as Conformity, of Lincolns Inne E&s;q.</HI> can thorughly re&s;olve you, <HI>both by Scrip|ture Texts, Pre&s;idents of all &s;orts, and the con&s;iant interrupted practi&s;es, examples, of the mo&s;t eminent Emperours, Princes, Councels, Parliaments,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Lib. Con&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, the <HI>Defendant</HI> &s;mels of a <HI>fat Benefice;</HI> &s;ee, &s;ee, his pockets are full of <HI>Presbyterian Steeples,</HI> the <HI>Spires</HI> &s;ticke under his <HI>Girdle: ha, ha, hah;</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>Weather-cocks,</HI> every <HI>Spire</HI> hath got a <HI>Blacke</HI> Boxe upon it. and in it the pure and immaculate <HI>Ordinance for Tythes, Oblations,</HI> &amp;c. Sure &s;hortly, in&s;tead of <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ron,</HI> and the <HI>Two Tables,</HI> we &s;hall have Sir <HI>Sy|mon,</HI> and Sir <HI>John</HI> holding the <HI>late &s;olemne League and Covenant,</HI> and that demure, &s;potle&s;&s;e, pritty, lovely, &s;acred, divine, devout, and holy <HI>Ordinance for Tythes</HI> (the <HI>Two Tables</HI> of our new <HI>Presbyterian Go&s;pell)</HI> painted upon all the Churches in <HI>England.</HI> Oh brave Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> the <HI>Bels</HI> in your pocket chime <HI>all-in</HI> while ours chime <HI>all-out:</HI> I pray you give us a <HI>Funerall Homile</HI> for your friend here before he <HI>depart,</HI> here's <HI>twenty &s;hillings</HI> for your paines, you know 'tis &s;a|craledg to bring downe the price, <HI>As it was in the beginning, is now, and e|ver &s;hall be, world without end. Amen.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Crier.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Make way there for the Jurie.</HI></P>
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<P><HI>The Jurie withdraw, and thus fall into debate about their verdict.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Creation.</SPEAKER>
<P>Gentlemen, from the <HI>Evidence</HI> of the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> again&s;t PER|SECUTION, I clearely perceive, that he is of &s;o diveli&s;h and unnaturall di&s;po&s;ition, as is not computible with the workes of the Creation, all creaturs of a kind a&s;&s;ociate, feed, and conver&s;e together, there is a publicke freedome of all kinds among&s;t them&s;elves, the <HI>Oxe,</HI> the <HI>A&s;&s;e,</HI> the <HI>Sheep,</HI> and all &s;orts of <HI>Cattell;</HI> the <HI>Dove,</HI> the <HI>Sparrow,</HI> and all kinds of <HI>Birds</HI> have a State harmony, a publike Toleration, generall Concord and unity among them&s;elves in their &s;everall kinds: but this <HI>Malefactour</HI> as from the <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> is evident, unnatu|rallizes <HI>man-kind</HI> above all kinds of Creatures, that where he rules, no peace publike, or private; no freedome, rights, or liberty either civil or &s;pirituall; no &s;ociety, cohabitation, or concord Nationall nor Dome&s;ticke can po&s;&s;ibly be among&s;t men, but <HI>envying, hatred, emulation, bani&s;hment,</HI> &amp;c. Wherefore, from the con&s;ideration hereof, and of what the Witne&s;&s;es have given in, to me he appeareth <HI>guilty,</HI> what &s;ay you Mr. <HI>Go&s;pell?</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Go&s;p.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> Whereas it is by Sir <HI>John</HI> and &s;uch like urged, that the Kings of the <HI>Gentiles</HI> have equall power with the Kings of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> of old: un|der&s;tand, that their &s;upremacy was but for a time, <HI>untill Shiloh came,</HI> and no
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longer, <HI>to whome then the gathering of the people &s;hould be; he came to take away the Fir&s;t, that he might e&s;tabli&s;h the Second, being made Mediatour of a better Co|venant, e&s;tabli&s;hed on better promi&s;es,</HI> the forgivene&s;&s;e of &s;innes, and the guift of eternall life: <HI>But he that de&s;pi&s;ed Mo&s;es Laws, dyed without mercy under two or three witne&s;&s;es.</HI> The old Covenant was over the <HI>Old man,</HI> and its Condem|nation or puni&s;hment was over the <HI>Old man,</HI> to wit, this corruptable fallen State of Mortallity, and therefore they executed death upon the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors thereof. The <HI>New Covenant</HI> is over the <HI>New man,</HI> to wit, the <HI>Spirit</HI> that &s;hall be rai&s;ed out of this corruptable at the <HI>Re&s;urrection;</HI> therefore hath it the pro|mi&s;e of <HI>forgivene&s;&s;e of &s;ins,</HI> and <HI>eternall life;</HI> the penalty of that, temporall death, the death of the <HI>Old</HI> or <HI>earthly man</HI> in this life; the penalty of this, <HI>ever|la&s;ting death,</HI> the death of the <HI>New</HI> or <HI>&s;pirituall man</HI> in the life to come; wee are <HI>New Creatures</HI> or <HI>New men</HI> now but by faith, not actuall till the Refur|rection, we are to live as if we were rai&s;ed againe, for the condition of the <HI>Go&s;pell</HI> is not to us, as the Condition of <HI>Innocency</HI> was to <HI>Adam,</HI> a Condi|tion in this pre&s;ent State of this pre&s;ent State, as his was to him, to wit, the Condition of immortallty in immortallity; but ours a condition in pre&s;ent mortallity of future immortallity: &s;o is it, that <HI>mortallity being &s;wallowed up of life,</HI> we are pre&s;ently under the end of its Condition, <HI>Salvation,</HI> or <HI>Condem|nation.</HI> Therefore as the Re&s;urrection cannot po&s;&s;ibly be but by Chri&s;t, &s;o the penalty cannot po&s;&s;ibly be by other; it is out of the Sphear of this world, therefore one of the power of the Princes of this world, as they cannot be <HI>Me|diatours of the New Te&s;tament,</HI> &s;o they cannot be <HI>puni&s;hers</HI> therein; Therefore to puni&s;h the Offenders therein, is to attempt the <HI>Throne</HI> of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and a&s;urpe (as much as in them lieth) his <HI>Mediatour&s;hip:</HI> Therefore hath he referred the contemners of his Go&s;pell untill the <HI>Judgment</HI> of the <HI>La&s;t Day.</HI> And for that in <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 49. 23. <HI>And Kings &s;hall be thy nur&s;ing Fathers, and Queens the nur&s;ing Mothers:</HI> it is a Prophe&s;ie of the deliverance of the <HI>Jewes</HI> from their <HI>Captivity,</HI> to whom <HI>Kings</HI> and <HI>Queens</HI> &s;hall be a&s;&s;i&s;tance in their returne to the <HI>Land</HI> of their <HI>Forefathers,</HI> as <HI>ver.</HI> 19. 22. 23. 26. &amp;c. witne&s;&s;e.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Politicke Power.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. Foreman, <HI>Salus populi,</HI> the &s;afety of the people, is the <HI>Soveraigne Law,</HI> or fundamentall con&s;titution of Civill Government; there|fore though Maje&s;tracy hath been corrupted and abu&s;ed, (as appeareth by our <HI>Evidence)</HI> to the terrour of the mo&s;t virteous, con&s;cientious, well minded men, and the maintenance and protection of the wicked; &s;o that it hath been perverted from the geneall good if all <HI>&s;orts, &s;ects, and &s;ocieties</HI> of people, unto this or that <HI>&s;ort</HI> or <HI>&s;ect;</HI> yet this evill in Maje&s;tracy is to be cut off, <HI>ne pars &s;incera trabatur.</HI> And Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> it appears by our <HI>Evidence,</HI> that PERSECUTION is the originall of the di&s;ea&s;e, therefore to be cut off, lea&s;t the whole <HI>politiqus body</HI> peri&s;h: For where <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> is, what <HI>di&s;&s;enuions, mutintes, tumults, in&s;urrections, aproares,</HI> and <HI>divi&s;ions;</HI> what what con|&s;piracies,
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<HI>Trea&s;ons</HI> and <HI>Rebellions;</HI> what <HI>blood&s;hed, cruelty, and inhumanity</HI> hath been by our <HI>Evidence</HI> declared, the which by our owne experience we find ve|refied in divers <HI>Kingdomes, States,</HI> and <HI>Provinces:</HI> for doe we not &s;ee, betwixt the <HI>Catholicke Cau&s;e</HI> and the <HI>True Prote&s;tant Religion</HI> (&s;o cal'd) the <HI>Chri&s;tian world is embrewed with blood,</HI> de&s;troying and devouring one an other: the da&s;hing of tho&s;e two imperious, ambitious, in&s;olent Religions, the <HI>Papall</HI> and <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> together be&s;ides what it hath done to the <HI>Hou&s;e</HI> of <HI>Au&s;trea,</HI> &amp;c. hath &s;plit the <HI>Dominons</HI> of this <HI>politique body</HI> a&s;under, that they wallow in one an others vitall blood, <HI>burning, de&s;troying,</HI> and <HI>ruinating</HI> all before them; how many <HI>Townes, Villages,</HI> and <HI>&s;umptenus buildings</HI> have been burne? what <HI>Til|lage</HI> and <HI>Meddowes</HI> laid wa&s;t, and how many <HI>thou&s;ands of innocent &s;oules</HI> have been <HI>&s;layen</HI> in <HI>Ireland</HI> contrary to the end and foundation of <HI>poltique Govern|ment?</HI> and doth not <HI>England</HI> ta&s;t <HI>even the dregges of this Cup, yea &s;wallow it downe with greedynes, that we are even drunke with one an others blood, enraged with madne&s;&s;e, crueltics,</HI> &amp;c. without all hopes of peace till one of the&s;e <HI>per&s;e|cuting Religions</HI> have devoured the other.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>State-Policie.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> though from <HI>Rome,</HI> the &s;pirit of <HI>Per&s;ocuti|on</HI> is conveyed into mo&s;t &s;ects of <HI>Religion,</HI> and is dayly found to the &s;hame of <HI>Religion</HI> among &s;uch as are or would be counted <HI>religious,</HI> and mo&s;t <HI>States,</HI> and <HI>Kingdomes</HI> being rent with &s;uch <HI>per&s;ecuting Religions,</HI> therefore the <HI>Kingdoms of Chri&s;tendome</HI> have judged the Toleration of divers <HI>Sects</HI> incon&s;i&s;tent with <HI>State policy;</HI> yet <HI>Politians</HI> would they con&s;ider, need not in curing one mi&s;|cheife run upon a greater; for &s;uch good and whole&s;ome meanes might be pro|vided, as in a &s;mall time this <HI>violent &s;pirit</HI> might be worne out, the next <HI>gene|ration</HI> be of a better temper, and at length <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> to be as rare as now common, and a more placable peaceable &s;pirit con&s;iliated among the generali|ty of men: And &s;eeing this impatient, violent, ambitious &s;pirit is &s;o dange|rous to Civill Societies their friend&s;hip &amp; unity, &s;o de&s;tructive to publike peace and &s;afety: It is therefore nece&s;&s;ary, that Kings and all Governours, who&s;e Office is; <HI>that all may lead a peaceable and quite life under them,</HI> &s;hould in policy to the generall good, &s;ee to the &s;ecuring of their <HI>Dominions</HI> from this factious &s;pirit, by &s;uch whole&s;ome &s;trict Lawes as may be&s;t conduce to the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion thereof, as of <HI>Trea&s;on, Rebellion,</HI> or the like; for allare <HI>Traytours and Rebels</HI> in their hearts to the publike peace, and generall good of humaine &s;ocieties, <HI>&s;alus populi, the peoples &s;afety,</HI> (which our State counteth the <HI>&s;uprame Law)</HI> which are of a per&s;euting &s;pirit; for it is in direct oppo&s;ition to that Law; And who more guilty then the <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> and the <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> when one is too mighty for the other, the <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> &s;tronger then the <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> &s;tronger then the <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> the &s;tronger is &s;o ambitious and fiery zealous for his owne cau&s;e, e&s;pecially the <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> that one place is too hot for them both, and the <HI>Prote&s;tant</HI> as he is a per&s;ecutour of the <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> &s;o as well as the Papi&s;t, is he a
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Per&s;ecutour of <HI>Anbapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, Antinomians, Independants,</HI> &amp;c. but they per&s;ecute none, but &s;eeke the generall good, peace, and &s;afety of all <HI>Sorts, Sects,</HI> and <HI>Societies</HI> of people, yea even of their Enemies; &s;o that as Papi&s;ts are Enemies and Traytours to the &s;afety of all <HI>Sorts, Sects,</HI> and <HI>Societies,</HI> &s;o are the Prote&s;tants, con&s;idered in this per&s;ecuting ca|pacity, both per&s;ecuting; therefore in this &s;en&s;e their <HI>Religions</HI> are both <HI>trayterous, de&s;perate,</HI> and <HI>dangerous</HI> to the <HI>Publicke Good:</HI> Therefore it ought to be the care of tho&s;e Kingdomes and States where tho&s;e per&s;ecuting Religions are, to purge tho&s;e Religions of this <HI>Malignant per&s;ecuting &s;pi|rit,</HI> this <HI>trayterous di&s;po&s;ition,</HI> for Relegions may be ab&s;olute, yea the Pro|te&s;tant more truley Prote&s;tant, if cured of this <HI>Pe&s;tilentiall di&s;ea&s;e of per&s;ecu|tion,</HI> for indeed <HI>per&s;ecution is no part of Religion,</HI> but a meer &s;pirit of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> in&s;en&s;ibly in&s;inuated, and di&s;till'd into Religions by <HI>Popes, Bi&s;hops and Prei&s;ts;</HI> &s;o that ignorantly the members of tho&s;e Religions are made <HI>Traytours</HI> to their <HI>owne Rights and Liberties,</HI> and &s;o en&s;laved to the <HI>trayterous de&s;ignes of the Clergie,</HI> the very roote of Trea&s;on; for indeed the Teachers of <HI>Per&s;ecu|tion</HI> are the <HI>Arche&s;t Je&s;uiticall Traytours of all,</HI> whether <HI>Papi&s;t, Prote&s;tant</HI> &amp;c. &s;uch as Mr. <HI>Edwards,</HI> who mo&s;t impudently and trayterou&s;ly &s;aith in his <HI>Antipologie, that the Parliament is bound in duty, to compell all men to the Decrees of the A&s;&s;embly.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. Polit-Power.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>State-Policy, I commend your policy herein, for in|deed</HI> Mr. Edwards <HI>in &s;o &s;aying, is a Traytour to politique power: But I pray you proceed.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. State-Policie.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Well then, as all are borne &s;ubjects to their Kings, &s;o are Kings to &s;ee, that all may have their Birthright, Liberty, and Priviledge of Subjects, that all may be kept in the</HI> generall Bond of peace, <HI>of what &s;ort or &s;ect &s;oever, for as</HI> Lucius Lavinius <HI>&s;aid to King</HI> James, all the different members being wrapt up in the skine of one con&s;titution, need no &s;tronger obligement, to uphold the whole then their owne intere&s;t: <HI>Therefore, were the devouring principle of per&s;ecution weeded out from betwixt all Religions, they might all enjoy their publike &s;afety to the generall enlargement and &s;trength|ning of politike power, for the &s;trength of the King lies in the multitude of people, &s;o that it is mo&s;t con&s;onant to State policy to include all, rather then deprive any of publike protection.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>M. <HI>Nationall-Loyalty.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P><HI>Mr. Foreman,</HI> this is <HI>a matter of great weight,</HI> that we have in hand, therefore <HI>not &s;leightly, but &s;eriou&s;ly to be weighed, and delibe|rately examined</HI> both from our owne knowledge and experience, as from the ju&s;t Evidence given in by the Witne&s;&s;es, (for I conceive, this pri|&s;oner is antiently knowne to us all) that wee may be better enabled
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to give in our <HI>verdict,</HI> wherefore having &s;omething to &s;ay of antient experi|ence, I &s;hall fir&s;t de&s;ire Mr. <HI>State-Policie,</HI> &s;ince he hath given us an hint of whole&s;ome meanes that might be u&s;ed, to prevent and &s;uppre&s;&s;e this turbu|lent rebellious Spirit of <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> that he would declare what further he hath in his thoughts thereon.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>State-Polic.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>That which in it &s;elfe is wicked, neither honourable to God, allowed by him, nor profitable to man, but dangerous and de&s;tructive to common &s;afety and peace, falleth under the <HI>Sword</HI> of the Maje&s;tracy, and the Maje&s;trate may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> u&s;e &s;uch meanes as &s;hall be&s;t &s;ecute the publike peace from the evill their of: Now &s;ince the generality of the people are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with this <HI>Evill Spirit,</HI> infu&s;ed, nouri&s;hed, and pre&s;erved in their hearts by <HI>Popes, Bi&s;hops, Prei&s;ts,</HI> and (at pre&s;ent in the Land) by the <HI>trayterous Synod,</HI> called the <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Divines,</HI> who labour with might and maine to e&s;tabli&s;h and &s;ede this trayterous <HI>&s;pirit</HI> in the Land; and further, &s;ince all by compul|&s;ion are to be forced to the Civill peace and publike vnity, and all are to be de&s;ended and pre&s;erved under the publike freedome, one as well as an other; therefore to this end the Maje&s;trate ought to bind all Religions, that no Re|ligion have power over other, that all in the Generall have Toleration, and none in particular be offen&s;ive; for the <HI>Papi&s;t</HI> may be a <HI>Papi&s;t,</HI> the <HI>Prote&s;tant a Prote&s;tant</HI> without the power of Compul&s;ion, the deprivation thereof is no wayes injurious to their Religion; as a man that hath a wen, or a bunch that growes upon any member, may be a perfect man, and that a perfect member without it: Therefore to this end a Nationall Covenant would not be incon&s;i|derable, to engage all in this publike freedome, that as all &s;hould be &s;harers in it, &s;o all &s;hould be de&s;enders of it. That no <HI>Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ter</HI> or other &s;hould teach privately or publikely, either by <HI>preaching, writing,</HI> or <HI>conference</HI> any thing contradictory or di&s;tructive thereto. That no man upbraid, reproach, &s;coffe, deride, threaten, or doe any violence to any for his Religion, <HI>and &s;uch like:</HI> And that this be continued from <HI>Generation</HI> to <HI>Generation</HI> under &s;uch and &s;uch penalties as the State &s;hall thinke fit; &s;o that in a &s;mall time, if the Governours would hearken to the feare of the Lord, this oppre&s;&s;ion of con|&s;cience, which is now made <HI>State Policie</HI> (condemned by the God of mercy and all mercifull men) would waxe out of date, and be ca&s;t out as abomi|nable to God, and de&s;tructive to mankind: Then their feares and jealou&s;ies one of an other, which puts them in a continuall po&s;ture of war both offen|five and defen&s;ive would be at an end; their Controver&s;ies would be of an o|ther kind, fal&s;e and equall Di&s;putes, and it is better and farre cheaper to pro|vide words for Argumentation, then in&s;truments of war for blowes and blood&s;hed and would conduce I am &s;ure more to the common good and &s;ate|ty the one doth encrea&s;e knowledge the other nothing but rage and revenge: by rea&s;oning tho&s;e that are ignorant would &s;hortly &s;ee, how they and their
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<HI>Forefathers</HI> have been cheated of the <HI>Tenth</HI> of their encrea&s;e, fool'd, and nur&s;'d up in blinne&s;&s;e by <HI>Bi&s;hops, Prei&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. meerly to uphold their greatno&s;&s;e, &s;tuffe and cram their ungodly guts, that it is become a Proverbe, <HI>as fat as a Bi&s;hop,</HI> and how &s;oone, if PERSECUTION be acquited, it may be verified on the the <HI>Presbyters,</HI> I leave that to the i&s;&s;ue, only I wi&s;h the people to try things them&s;elves, and not tru&s;t too much to their <HI>L'ppes,</HI> for their <HI>Lippes</HI> are <HI>Cozen Germaine</HI> to their <HI>Teeth,</HI> and this is mo&s;t certain, they all <HI>&s;peake through the Teeth.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>Nation. Loyal.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> according to the <HI>Evidence</HI> we have recei|ved, and re&s;ult of our con&s;ultation hitherto, he is guilty <HI>ip&s;o facto</HI> of what is laid to his charge; and for mine owne part, I know that <HI>Toleration</HI> is not a|gain&s;t <HI>Nationall Loyalty,</HI> but may well &s;tand with <HI>Nationall peace,</HI> as by divers antient and moderne Examples I can make it appeare, <HI>Abraham</HI> lived among the <HI>Cannanites</HI> and <HI>Perizzites, Gen.</HI> 13. 7. &amp; 16. 3. againe he &s;ojourned in <HI>E|gypt, Gen.</HI> 12. 10. after in <HI>Gerar,</HI> where King <HI>Abimelech</HI> bid him dwell where it plea&s;ed him, <HI>cap.</HI> 20. &amp; 21. 23. 24. afterwards among the <HI>Hittites, cap.</HI> 23. <HI>Lot</HI> lived in <HI>Sodom, I&s;eack</HI> al&s;o dwelt in <HI>Gerar,</HI> yet contrary to the King and his Subjects <HI>cap.</HI> 20 <HI>Jacob</HI> lived 20. yeares with his Vncle <HI>Laban</HI> in one hou&s;e, yet different in Religion, <HI>Gen.</HI> 31. 30. 33. the Children of <HI>I&s;raell</HI> lived 430. yeares in <HI>Egypt, Exod.</HI> 12. 40. afterwards were caried away to <HI>Babylon,</HI> where they remained 70. yeares, all which times they differed in Religion, yet no danger to the State: <HI>Samp&s;on</HI> lived among the <HI>Phili&s;times, Lot</HI> in the Land of <HI>Vz,</HI> yet their Religion though different was not di&s;turbant to the State: And in the time of Chri&s;t, when <HI>I&s;raell</HI> was captive to the <HI>Romans,</HI> lived divers <HI>Sects</HI> of Reli|gions, <HI>Herodians, Scribes,</HI> and <HI>Phari&s;es, Sadduces</HI> and <HI>Libertines</HI> &s;uch as denyed the Re&s;urrection, and <HI>Samaritanes</HI> the common Religion of the <HI>Jewes,</HI> the <HI>Chri&s;tian</HI> and <HI>Apo&s;tolick</HI> Religion, all which deffered from the common Re|ligion of the State; which in all probability was the <HI>wor&s;hip of Dima, whome all the world almo&s;t then wor&s;hipped, Act.</HI> 19. 20. yet all the&s;e lived under the Go|vernment of <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> not any wayes injurious to his Crowne and Dignity, or di&s;turbant to the peace of his Government: but when <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> aro&s;e, then the State was troubled by <HI>tumults, uproares,</HI> &amp;c. And how doth <HI>Toleration</HI> in|jure the State of <HI>Holland, Poland, Tra&s;ilvmia,</HI> &amp;c. their <HI>Weales, States,</HI> and <HI>Cit|ties</HI> are well and peaceably governed, divers Religions are in their Provinces, yet all have one harmony in matters of State, all united and engaged in the generall &s;afety, peace, and tranqillity of their &s;everall Kingdoms, States, and Provinces, wherein they &s;o freely enjoy their &s;overall &s;afeties, protection and freedomes.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>Liberty-of-Subject.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman</HI> be&s;ides what I have received form the Witne&s;&s;es, of my own experience I know, that if PERSECVTION be not executed, the <HI>Liberty of the Subject</HI> (now in controver&s;ie) cannot be &s;etled in this Land; for the <HI>Anbapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, Independants,</HI> &amp;c. true and faithfull
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Subjects to the State, that &s;tood to the <HI>publike cau&s;e,</HI> when the <HI>Prei&s;ts</HI> &amp; &s;uch like <HI>&s;currel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s vermine,</HI> dur&s;t &s;carce be &s;een in it, but <HI>Je&s;uitically</HI> caried them&s;elves in an equall ballance betwixt both, that though the King had conquered, yet mo&s;t of them would have kept their <HI>Benefices, a wi&s;e generation!</HI> I &s;ay, the&s;e more <HI>noble &s;pirited men,</HI> that freely &s;pend their lives, fortunes, and e&s;tates for the <HI>Li|berty of the Subject,</HI> and that from the mo&s;t noble and rationall princ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ple, <HI>the Common Good</HI> and not for <HI>&s;elfe re&s;pect,</HI> neither tho&s;e of them which &s;uruive, nor the &s;ucceders in their faith &s;hall enjoy this <HI>Liberty,</HI> their ju&s;t <HI>Birth-right,</HI> but be wholy deprived thereof, and the purcha&s;e of their <HI>Blood</HI> be cea&s;'d and devour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d by tho&s;e <HI>Presbyterian Hor&s;e-leeches,</HI> and confined to &s;uch <HI>blood-thir&s;ty Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">tle,</HI> which is directly oppo&s;ite to the <HI>ju&s;t Liberty of the Subject.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>C<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">mpa&s;. S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">m.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. Foreman, <HI>I have beheld the i~nnocency of their intenti|ons, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ty of their lives,</HI> (to wit of Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, &amp;c) <HI>their affecti|ons to the Common-wealth, their forwardnes of a&s;&s;i&s;tance in pur&s;e and per&s;on, kow|ing their Meetings to be &s;o innocent, &s;o far from confederacy or counterplots</HI> (pag. 3.) <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d yet their per&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ns &s;o hated, contemned, and belyed, &s;uch wounds made up|on their con&s;ciences, that my heart aboundeth with greife, that their mi&s;erie &s;hould be thus pa&s;&s;ed by, their wounds &s;o wide and deepe, and no oyle of mercy powred in: &s;o that me thinkes, everie man is bound in con&s;cience, to &s;peake and doe what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e can in the behalfe of &s;uch an harmeles people as the&s;e.</HI> (pap. 4.) Therefore, Mr. <HI>Fore|man,</HI> being privy to the truth of the Evidence again&s;t PERSECVTION, the &s;ole cau&s;er of their wounds and mi&s;erie, I conclude him, <HI>an enemie again&s;t God and all goodne&s;&s;e, &amp;c.</HI> and that he is guilty of the <HI>Indictment.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>Truth-&amp;-Peace.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> much I could &s;ay again&s;t the Pri&s;oner, to witne&s;&s;e the verity of the <HI>Indictment,</HI> but for brevity &s;ake I &s;hall referre you to the di&s;covery I have made of his <HI>Impiety, Trea&s;on, Blood-&s;hed,</HI> &amp;c. in that Booke intituled, <HI>The Bloody Tenent,</HI> and I commend unto you, and to the ne|ce&s;&s;ary peru&s;all of the <HI>COMMONNS</HI> and <HI>nobles</HI> of <HI>England,</HI> that mo&s;t famous peece, called, <HI>The Compa&s;&s;ionate Samaritane,</HI> as a mo&s;t exact modell of ratio|na<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>Light-of-Nature.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Mr. <HI>Foreman,</HI> whereas Sir <HI>Symon</HI> in the defence of PERSECVTION &s;aith, that LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE <HI>opens a gate to all manner of prophane&s;&s;e, loo&s;ene&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e,</HI> &amp;c. the <HI>Light of Nature</HI> might teach him, that Toleration is no Approbation, or rhe &s;uffering of Religions a warrant to be of no Religion, much le&s;&s;e to publike prophane&s;&s;e; for this comes with|in the nompa&s;&s;e of that which Nature teaches the mo&s;t ignorant, therefore within the reach of publike re&s;train<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, according to the Lawes of common mo|de<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y and civility, which Nature hath written in the hearts of all men natural|ly: Such publike Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions that are uncivill, unnaturall, and unbecome|ing humaine &s;ociety, is <HI>open prophane&s;&s;e</HI> and <HI>lo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ene&s;&s;e</HI> fall under the re&s;traint, and correction of the Mage&s;trate, who&s;e power is over the things of Nature, tho&s;e
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being offences of that kind: As the Maje&s;trate is to maintaine the publicke peace, and all civill &s;ocieties therein, &s;o is it pre&s;erve publike mode&s;ty, com|lines, and civillity, that there may be a generall comely demeanour as rationall creatures, &s;o their carriage and publicke demeouours are to be rationall regu|lar, and comely, and not openly licentious, prophane, and bla&s;phenious, con|trary to common &s;en&s;e, rea&s;on, and humanity.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Mr. <HI>Creation.</HI></SPEAKER>
<P>Gentlemen, we have &s;pent much time, and our <HI>Uerdict</HI> is ex|pected, and the ca&s;e is &s;o evident and plaine, that I thinke what is done may &s;uffice, if you Mr. <HI>Orphan,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Day-of-Judgement</HI> be agreed with us in your <HI>Verdict,</HI> let us give it in: what &s;ay you?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Ambo.</SPEAKER>
<P>We are agreed; <HI>guilty, guilty.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Crier.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>A</HI> Verdict: <HI>Make way there for the Juri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>PERSECUTION, hold up thy hand&punc; Ma&s;ters of the Jurie, looke upon the Pri&s;oner, is he guilty of this <HI>Trea&s;on, Rebellion, Blood&s;hed,</HI> &amp;c. in man|ner and forme as he &s;tands <HI>indicted,</HI> or not guilty.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Foreman.</SPEAKER>
<P>GUILTY <HI>my Lord.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>PERSECUTION, thou ha&s;t heard the hainous Accu&s;ation; that hath been proved again&s;t thee, and the <HI>verdict</HI> the <HI>Jurie</HI> have given in up|on thee, what can&s;t thou &s;ay for thy &s;elfe, to <HI>award</HI> the &s;encence of death <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> pa&s;&s;ing again&s;t thee?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My Lord,</HI> the Jurie have not dealt hone&s;tly in their <HI>verdict,</HI> wherefore I appeale from them to the <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Divines,</HI> for a tryall of their hone&s;ty in this <HI>verdict.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>PERSECUTION, indeed thou&s;tand'&s;t need of a <HI>Long Clo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">k to cover thy kn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">verie;</HI> but there is no <HI>appeale</HI> from this Court, they are no <HI>Sanctuary of refuge</HI> in this ca&s;e, neither can I conceive &s;uch worthy Gentlemen &s;hould perjure them&s;elves, yet if thou ha&s;t any thing el&s;e to &s;ay, to award the <HI>Sentence of death,</HI> &s;peake for thy &s;elfe.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thanke your Honour, the Lord ble&s;&s;e your Honour: My Lord, I am &s;o terrified in my &s;elfe at the apprehen&s;ion of death that I am not in ca&s;e to &s;peake for my &s;elfe: I be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip, that Sir <HI>Symon</HI> may &s;peake in my behalfe.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Sir Sym.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My Lord, The enemies of our peace in this matter have dealt very &s;ubtilly, and mo&s;t traytorou&s;ly again&s;t the</HI> reverend A&s;&s;embly of the faithfull, <HI>the</HI> Clergie, <HI>to divide them from your Lord&s;hips protection, to de&s;troy and hinder the worke of Reformation, &amp;c. for</HI> my Lord, <HI>this man here indicted by the name of</HI> PERSECUTION, <HI>is none of the man; for here is Mr.</HI> Nationall Conformity, <HI>Mr.</HI> Pontificall Revenue, <HI>Mr.</HI> Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Supremacy, <HI>Per&s;onages of Honour, and eminencie through out whole Christendome, to te&s;tifie with me, that this Pri|&s;oner hath ever endeavoured to purge the Church of God, from Here&s;ie, Soi&s;m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, and all manner of irregular exorbitant cour&s;es, and laboured for the peace of the Church,
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that we may lead,</HI> a lazie and an ea&s;ie life without God, and the people in the feare of the Clergie. <HI>Indeed my Lord, he was once of the</HI> Church of Rome, <HI>and thereupon generally branded by the name of</HI> PERSECUTION; <HI>but my Lord, for this hundred yeares and upward he hath been of the</HI> true Prote&s;tant Religion, <HI>even from the time of</HI> Luthar, <HI>and at this pre&s;ent</HI> en-<HI>devoureth with us the the good of the</HI> Church <HI>in its re&s;titution to</HI> Prelaticall Presbytrie: <HI>And upon his</HI> &s;eperati|on <HI>from</HI> Rome <HI>with</HI> Luthar, <HI>he utterly reno<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">nced the</HI> nicke-name <HI>of</HI> PERSE|CUTION, <HI>and though unhappily through</HI> Je&s;uiticall &s;ugge&s;tions <HI>and</HI> de|lu&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s <HI>he was too frequent in the</HI> Spani&s;h Inq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ui&s;ition, <HI>and of la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e by</HI> Epi&s;copall &s;ophi&s;tications <HI>inti&s;ed to offi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">iate</HI> in the High Commi&s;&s;ion; <HI>yet my Lord, he was ever in him&s;elfe an</HI> hone&s;t Reformer, <HI>and indeed his true name is</HI> Pre&s;ent Refor|mation, <HI>he was borne not long after the</HI> Primative times, <HI>but</HI> his nature <HI>and</HI> in|clinations by evil In&s;truments have been &s;o much abu&s;d, that he had even lo&s;t his name, <HI>and being</HI> nicke-named <HI>when he was yongue, and through long continuance of</HI> time, <HI>forgot his name, that indeed he an&s;wered a long time to the name of</HI> PERSECUTION, <HI>but</HI> his true <HI>and</HI> proper name <HI>is</HI> Pre&s;ent Refor|mation, <HI>which by Interpretation, is,</HI> Presbyterian Government: <HI>Wherefore my Lord, I be&s;eech you,</HI> con&s;ider the &s;ubtilty of this malignant hereticall facti|on, who have procured the apprehen&s;ion and indictment of this <HI>Pre&s;ent Refor|formation</HI> under the odious name of PERSECUTION, thereby at once to make your Honor both ruine your &s;elfe, and the Presbytrie of the Kingdom: there|fore my Lord, whether the Jurie have dealt hone&s;tly in their Verdict, your Honour by this may e&s;ily di&s;cerne.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>PERSECUTION, what &s;aye&s;t thou to this? Is thy name <HI>Pre&s;en<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Reformation?</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes <HI>my Lord,</HI> and my name is according to my naturall di&s;po&s;ition.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Who gave you that name?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, his God-fathers and God-mothers in his Bapti&s;me, wherein he was made a member of the A&s;&s;embly, and an Inheritor of the Kingdome of <HI>Antichri&s;t.</HI></P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>His God-fathers, and God-mothers? who are your God-fathers, and your God-mothers?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, Mr. <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall-Supremacy,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Scot<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">-Government</HI> are any God-fathers, Mrs. <HI>State-Ambition,</HI> and Mrs. <HI>Church-Revennue</HI> are my God-mothers, and I was &s;prinkled into the <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Divines</HI> at the take|ing of the late <HI>&s;olemne League and Covenant.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER>J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, he is at this time <HI>Primate</HI> and <HI>Metr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">pol<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">tan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> over all the <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;t. Courts</HI> of Tyranny in the world, the <HI>Spani&s;h Inqui&s;ition,</HI> the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> and now our Divince have <HI>&s;prinkled</HI> his <HI>federall Holyne&s;&s;e</HI> into their A&s;&s;embly, and hereupon chang'd his name from PERSECUTION, and <HI>A|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> him <HI>Pre&s;ent Reformation.</HI></P>
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<SPEAKER><PB N="34" REF="20">
Judg</SPEAKER>
<P>'Tis &s;trange, that at the makeing of the late &s;olemne League and Co|venant boodthir&s;ty PERSECUTION &s;hould be Anabaptized Pre&s;ent Refor|mation; then here's a De&s;igne of blood in the Covenant, if under the name of Reformation the Clergie have infu&s;ed the trayterous bloodthir&s;ty &s;pirit of Per&s;ecution into it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Human.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>My Lord, there was never any Nationall or Provinciall Synod, but &s;trengthned the hands of PERSECUTION, and that under the vizor of Religion:</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>I. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>And my Lor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn's</HI> agitation for PERSECU|TION, is on purpo&s;e, to &s;ave this <HI>villaine,</HI> to cut their throats, that hazard, and &s;pend their lives and fortunes for Vs, and for the State of the Kingdome, &s;uch as have <HI>been faithfull in the publike Service, never tainted with Trea&s;on, or double dealing,</HI> though the <HI>Kings negotiation</HI> with large promi&s;es have attemp|ted it, even &s;uch cheifly, as they brand with the names of <HI>Anaapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts,</HI> &amp;c. tho&s;e notwith&s;tanding, they would have depriv'd of the <HI>liberty of the &s;ubject,</HI> yea of <HI>the liberty of their lives;</HI> and the &s;ole cau&s;e hereof is, <HI>becau&s;e they labour to informe your</HI> L. <HI>with rationall principles, and are zealous inquirers into the Go&s;pel, from thence di&s;covering the iniquity of the pontificall Clergie, and (labouring for the</HI> common good) <HI>communicate their under&s;tandings to the benefit of others,</HI> which proveing prejuditiall to the <HI>wicked ends of the Clergy,</HI> they labour with oppro|brions names, lyes &amp; &s;landers to make &s;uch odious, the better accompli&s;h their ends, and in this <HI>De&s;igne</HI> they <HI>have plaid their parts,</HI> for &s;hould PERSECU|TION be <HI>put to death,</HI> the <HI>whole Clergy</HI> feare to be <HI>undone,</HI> as their <HI>exceptions</HI> again&s;t LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE did manife&s;t; they are afraid of the <HI>mercy of the people,</HI> they cannot endure <HI>to &s;erve only for Con&s;cience,</HI> their <HI>tongues are even with their bellyes, pin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ts, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">oyle the Prei&s;ts, &s;hut your hand; and there's a generall &s;ilence,</HI> you may be <HI>Anabapti&s;t, Browni&s;t,</HI> or what you <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">, if the matter be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rought to that pa&s;&s;e: This is that they feare my Lord, Therefore, would they have their hands &s;trengthned with <HI>PERSECUTION,</HI> to prevent it, let who will peri&s;h, if they &s;tand. Moreover, my Lord, tho&s;e very men which plead for PERSECUTION, are the &s;ame, even this man, Sir <HI>Iohn,</HI> is the very man, that in the dayes of the Bi&s;hops complained; and conte&s;ted again&s;t PERSECUTION, u&s;ed all po&s;&s;ible meanes to be delivered out of his <HI>Epi&s;eopall Pawes,</HI> endevoured to ca&s;t him out of the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion;</HI> but as &s;oone as tho&s;e <HI>underling Divines</HI> are from under their <HI>Epi&s;copall Task-ma&s;ters,</HI> and beginning to encroach upon your Lord&s;hips power, pre&s;ently take this notorious bloody Traitour, PERSECUTION, &s;tript by your Lord&s;hip of his <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> habit, and out of their zeale dre&s;&s;e him in a divine <HI>Synedicall garbe,</HI> and chang his name from PERSECUTION, and <HI>cri&s;ten</HI> him <HI>Reformation;</HI> &s;o to engage your Lord&s;hip, and the Kingdomes of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> in blood, to &s;ettle and e&s;tabli&s;h bloody <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> by <HI>Covenant</HI> over the <HI>Con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">iences</HI> of
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hone&s;t and faithfull men unto the State, under the &s;pecious and godly pre|tence of <HI>Reformation,</HI> as Mr. <HI>Edwards</HI> one of their Champions manife&s;ts, who is &s;o impudent, as to a&s;&s;ert, <HI>that your Lord&s;hip is bound to compell all men to the Decrees of the Synod,</HI> (a&s;cribing to them, as the Papi&s;ts to the Pope,) <HI>an infal|lible unerring &s;pirit,</HI> and openly proclaimes, that Toleration of &s;uch hone&s;t faithfull Subjects, as <HI>Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, Independants, Antinomians,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>to be in direct oppo&s;ition to the Covenant, and though before they might have beene law|fully tole are yet now they cannot under breach of the Covenant:</HI> Con&s;ider <HI>My Lord,</HI> is not this Je&s;uiticall &s;ubtilty, mo&s;t de&s;perate and &s;ecret delu&s;ion, that by this Covenant they would engage your Lord&s;hip, either to be a Covenant break|er, or el&s;e intringe the Liberty of the Subject entru&s;ted by the <HI>Common people</HI> in your hands, one of the&s;e is inavoydable, and yet all under the coulour of <HI>Reformation, the true Prote&s;tant Religion, the cau&s;e of God,</HI> and I know not what; <HI>in nomine Domini perpetrant onine malum;</HI> &s;o that it is mo&s;t certaine, that this fellow, who&s;e name Sir <HI>Symon</HI> feigneth to be <HI>Reformation,</HI> is ab&s;olute <HI>PER|SECUTION,</HI> &s;o that had the&s;e Reformers but as much power as <HI>Queen Maryes</HI> Clergie, their Reformation would conclude in fire and faggot.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>oh in&s;ufferable A&s;&s;embly! I &s;ee 'tis dangerous for a State to pin their faith upon the &s;leive of the Clergie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Further <HI>my Lord,</HI> whereas others are impoveri&s;hed, &s;pend their e&s;tates, engage and loo&s;e their lives in this Quarrell, they are enriched, and advanced by it, &s;ave their pur&s;es and per&s;ons, cram and fill their greedy guts too filthy to be caried to a <HI>Beare,</HI> heape up wealth to them&s;elues, and give not a penny, while others (again&s;t whom they exclaime) venture and expend all, yea my Lord, this great go belly'd Idoll, called the <HI>A&s;&s;embly of Divines,</HI> is not a&s;hamed in this time of State nece&s;&s;ity, to guzle up and devoure dayly more at an ordinary meale, then would make a Fea&s;t for <HI>Bell and the Dragon,</HI> for be|&s;ides all their <HI>fat Benefices,</HI> for&s;ooth they mu&s;t have their foure &s;hillings a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ceco by the day, for litting in con&s;tollidation; and poore men when they had fil'd all <HI>Benefices</HI> with good Trencher men of their owne Presbyterean Tribe, they move your Lord&s;hip, that all Mini&s;ters may be wholy freed from all manner of Taxations, that now the Trade of a Presbyter is the be&s;t Trade in <HI>England,</HI> all are taxed, and it goes free; poore men that have not bread to &s;till the cry of their children, mu&s;t either pay or goe in per&s;on to the wars, while tho&s;e devouring Church-lubbers live at ca&s;e, feed on dainties neither pay nor goe them&s;elves but preach out our very hearts, they make it a ca&s;e of con&s;cience to give all, but wi&s;e men the'l give hope: let the &s;icke, the lame and maimed Souldiers, and tho&s;e that that have lo&s;t their limbs, and begin the &s;treets, let women that have lo&s;t their husbands, let parents that have lo&s;t their children, let children that have lo&s;t their parents, and let all that have or &s;uffer oppre&s;&s;i|on and mi&s;ery, in and for the publike cau&s;e con&s;ider this, and be no longer
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riden and jayded by Clergy Ma&s;ters; but to give the Divell his due, one thing to their commendations I have ob&s;erved, that they are &s;o zealou&s;&s;y affected with the honour of their cloth, that 'twere pitty to diiroable them of their Ca&s;loke garbe to be led in a &s;tring from We&s;tmini&s;ter to Allgate in Leatherne Jackets, and Mattokes on their &s;houlders; and my Lord, though &s;ome thinke they would do the State more good in Leatheren Jackets &amp; Mattokes then in long Cloakes and Ca&s;&s;ockes, yet me thinks, they would doe the State better &s;ervice with their Canonical Girdles, were the knot ty'd in the right place.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir <HI>Simon,</HI> we convocated the A&s;&s;embly to con&s;ult with about mat|ters of Religion, not arrogating to our &s;elves, or a&s;cribing to them a Spirit of infallability, con&s;idering that we are but Parliament men, not Gods, there|fore we made tryall of their advice, but for them hereupon to arogate Supre|macy over the State and people, lay claime to an unerring &s;pirit and per&s;wade us, <HI>(as Edwards in his Autipol. &s;aith)</HI> that we take it for granted, that the con|clu&s;ions of their Debates, Controver&s;ies, and Con&s;ulations are according to the mind <HI>of</HI> Chri&s;t, becau&s;e We cal'd them together, and hereupon to com|pell all men to their Decrees, is mo&s;t impudent pre&s;umption, and popi&s;h arro|gance; We did not &s;uppre&s;&s;e the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> to &s;ubject Our Selves to an <HI>A&s;&s;embly,</HI> race out <HI>Epi&s;copall</HI> to &s;et up <HI>Presbyterian Prelacy,</HI> for what more <HI>Prelaticall,</HI> what more <HI>exorbitant</HI> then &s;uch pre&s;umption, tis a meere <HI>Monopole of the Spirit</HI> Sir <HI>Symon:</HI> you have &s;o plaid the <HI>Je&s;uites,</HI> as it &s;eemes, We have only put downe the <HI>men,</HI> not the <HI>Function;</HI> caught the &s;haddow, and let goe the &s;ub&s;tance: while We were &s;uppro&s;&s;ing <HI>Primates, Metrapolitanes, Arch-Bi|&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Eccle&s;ia&s;icall Courts, Canons, Injunctions, Decrees,</HI> &amp;c. you have &s;o &s;ubtilly carried the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, as it &s;eemes, <HI>Primacy, Metrapolitani&s;me, Prcla|cy,</HI> &amp;c. &s;hrunke into the <HI>Presbytry,</HI> and our <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> turn'd into an <HI>A&s;|&s;embly of Divines;</HI> We out of Our good intentions <HI>ca&s;t out this Evill Spirit</HI> thence, and it entered it &s;eemes, into the&s;e <HI>Swine,</HI> who thus headlong run up|on their own de&s;truction, <HI>(the Divellbath brough his hogges to a faire Market)</HI> arrogating an <HI>infallability,</HI> and a <HI>&s;upremacy</HI> over Us, and the people, condem|ning PERSECUTION, when they were per&s;ecuted, but commending and approving it, if they may pe&s;ecute: Truly Sir <HI>Synton,</HI> you have out run the Con&s;table, your ambition is a little too &s;wift for your policie: What breath out threatnings, menaces, and per&s;ecutions openly, before you have power to per&s;ecuted &s;ure you were not in your wits; when they were vented.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Human.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, they have <HI>&s;et</HI> even till they'r run mad, you might do well to adjorne them to <HI>Bedlam;</HI> for my Lord, they are raging mad; to have the innocent blood of the Anabapti&s;ts, Browni<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s, Independants, &amp;c.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, they have over &s;tuddied them&s;elves, and crack'd their wits in finding out a Religion for us; poore men they have been mightily puz|led about it, it hath co&s;t them the con&s;umption of many fat <HI>Pigge, Chicken,
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capon,</HI> &amp;c. the <HI>infu&s;ion</HI> of many <HI>a cup of &s;acke,</HI> to bring it to birth, and after &s;uch <HI>dalerous pangs,</HI> and <HI>bitter throwes</HI> for almo&s;t the&s;e two yeares, who would have though, they &s;hould be delivered of &s;uch a <HI>ridiculous vermine,</HI> called, a <HI>Presbyter; parturiunt montes, na&s;citur ridiculus mus:</HI> And now my Lord, af|ter this <HI>mountanous delivery,</HI> they are at their wits end, what dre&s;&s;ing to put it out in, all the Taylours in the Kingdome are not able to content them, what to doe they know not, and now the matters wor&s;e then ever it was, they had thought to have &s;hewne the world it in the godly &s;hape of <HI>Reformation,</HI> but upon examination, 'tis found to be <HI>PERSECUTION,</HI> a &s;ad event! there is no way now, but <HI>Bedlam</HI> for our Doctours, it may chance to cha&s;tize them into their wits againe, and then upon their &s;econd thoughts, it may be, they'l be|thinke them&s;elves, to put a <HI>Blew Bonnet</HI> upon't, and then 'twill pa&s;&s;e from <HI>Eng|land</HI> to <HI>Scotland,</HI> and from <HI>Scotland</HI> to <HI>England</HI> againe without Que&s;tion or controule.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Indge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> Weble&s;&s;e God, that hath put it into the hearts of tho&s;e hone&s;t godly people, (though publikely de&s;pi&s;ed and hated) tho&s;e faithfull friends and lovers of the <HI>Parliament</HI> and <HI>Kingdome,</HI> whome you <HI>nicke-name Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, Independants,</HI> &amp;c. to di&s;cover and detect unto us the <HI>Ie|&s;uiticall</HI> and <HI>Trayterous De&s;ignes</HI> of the <HI>Synod</HI> with the hazard of their Liberties and for ought they know of their lives and fortunes; for &s;hould they not ventured them&s;elves in the di&s;covery of &s;uch a &s;ubtile generation, We &s;hould have been kept ignorant through their zealous pretences and had there been a mountaine more of their villany, it &s;eemes they would have covered it with a <HI>vaile of teares, Fa&s;tings, affected prayers,</HI> and the like, from Our di&s;cerning.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI></SPEAKER>
<P><HI>It is an approved truth, that &s;uch as are called</HI> Anabapti&s;ts, Brow|ni&s;ts &amp;c. <HI>have in all Ages ventured, yea given up their lives, to enforme Kings, Kingdomes, Parliaments,</HI> and <HI>States</HI> in things that concerne their peace, and the glory of God, <HI>which ubough condemned at fir&s;t, afterwards have proved no other; yea &s;uch as your Lord&s;hips Predece&s;&s;ours have condemned by peuall Lawes, Statutes, &amp;c. which now your Lord&s;hip through the mercy of God find otherwi&s;e, and it is we that reape the benefit of their blood in the &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of Epi&s;copall In|risdiction, High Commi&s;&s;ion, &amp;c. not they; for their &s;ufferings, and their te&s;timo|ny have detected and informed us of their unlawfulne&s;&s;e, it being their cu&s;tome my Lord, to weare out the</HI> My&s;teric of Iniquity <HI>with their blood: And now my Lord, we that have received vantage by their bitter &s;ufferings, &s;hall we boa&s;t our &s;elves a|gain&s;t them? it were ungrtitude to God, and inhumanity to them.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iudge.</SPEAKER>
<P>True: We find by dayly experience, that the <HI>Seperates</HI> are not &s;uch as ground their Religion on &s;elfe ends, for like <HI>Salamanders in the fire,</HI> they live in the heate of <HI>Per&s;ecution,</HI> they &s;pare not their lives, to witne&s;&s;e the innocende of their Cau&s;e, the fire of <HI>Per&s;ecution</HI> cannot con&s;ume, but endames them to|wards their God and the Truth; the menacing of Kings and Governours,
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and cruelties of their greate&s;t Adver&s;aries hinders not their te&s;timony; this we find, when euer they are convented before Vs, even to our a&s;tone&s;hment; and we further find, it is not their owne good alone that they aime at, but the generall good of all men, that all (one as well as an other) may lead an ho|ne&s;t and a quiet life under Our Protection, and We have to our benefit) found the ble&s;&s;ing of God upon their endeavours, as the hopefull and glorious &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e in the Conque&s;t of <HI>Yorke,</HI> which envie and malice it &s;elfe cannot deny, was in&s;trumentally atcheived by their valour and &s;idelity: Wherefore in ju&s;tice to their uprightne&s;&s;e, and faithfulnes to that tru&s;t repo&s;ed in Vs for the publike Good; the Liberty and property of the Subject, We may not deny them the benefit of Subjects, but as they are faithfull parties in the generall venture, &s;o to be heriditatory to the generall purcha&s;e, having as ju&s;t a Right thereto by the price of their blood as Our Selves, for that which is purcha&s;ed by blood, all the purcha&s;ers have an equall right to the thing purcha&s;ed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, but our <HI>De&s;&s;embly Doctours</HI> teach otherwi&s;e, yet I think if your Lord&s;hip &s;hould &s;ettle <HI>Anabapti&s;trie</HI> or the like, even that which they now per&s;ecuts and threaten, preach and pray again&s;t, and forewarne the people off, as hereticall and damnable, provided you &s;hould endow it with <HI>goodly fat Benefices,</HI> and <HI>&s;anctifie</HI> it with the <HI>hallowed Ordinance for Tythes, Offerings, Ob|lations,</HI> &amp;c. que&s;tionle&s;&s;e the generallity of tho&s;e Per&s;ecutiones of <HI>Anabapti&s;ts</HI> would have the wit to turne <HI>Anabapti&s;ts,</HI> for their Religion is moved upon the Wheele of the State; when the State was for <HI>Bi&s;hops,</HI> then they were for <HI>Bi&s;hops,</HI> and were very <HI>Canonicall Surpli&s;&s;e men, Altar bowers,</HI> and the like, and the preci&s;e&s;t &s;ort tho&s;e that are now our mo&s;t zealous <HI>Presbyters)</HI> did then &s;o comply &amp; conforme to <HI>Epi&s;copall &s;uper&s;tition,</HI> as they kept their <HI>Benefices,</HI> (ex|cept here and there one of the hono&s;ter &s;ort,) while the <HI>hone&s;t Seperate</HI> (coun|ting nothing too deare for his God) did openly re&s;i&s;t and witne&s;&s;e again&s;t it, even to impri&s;onments, deprivation of goods, &amp;c. But our temporizing Doct|ours, our <HI>State Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ters</HI> are not &s;o &s;imple to &s;wime again&s;t the &s;treame, they are <HI>wi&s;er in their generation,</HI> for they know mo&s;t wealth goes that way, as long as your <HI>Ordnance is laden</HI> with <HI>Tythes, Offerings</HI> and <HI>Oblati|ons,</HI> they'l be &s;ure to <HI>give fire;</HI> but &s;hould the State deprive their Religion of all <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Revenue,</HI> of <HI>Par&s;onages, Tythes,</HI> &amp;c. yea, &s;hould it be this very <HI>Presbyterid</HI> they &s;o aime at, that they &s;hould &s;o impoveri&s;h, certainly we &s;hould have <HI>more Pari&s;hes</HI> then <HI>Presbyters,</HI> more <HI>Steeples</HI> then <HI>Doctours;</HI> then they would no be &s;o hot for <HI>Presbytry,</HI> &s;o zealous to per&s;ecute its oppo&s;ers, I would your Lord&s;hip would make tryall, call in but your <HI>Ordinance for Tythes,</HI> and turne them to <HI>the good will of people,</HI> and then&mdash;<HI>a tyth Pigge wil be &s;old for a penny.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Well notwith&s;tanding the Doctrine and &s;ubtilty our Divines we can|not deale &s;o unworthely with tho&s;e hone&s;t men, but mu&s;t by the <HI>grace of God</HI> being by them better informed, proceed to <HI>Sentence</HI> again&s;t this <HI>Malefacture</HI> according to the ju&s;t <HI>Verdict</HI> of the <HI>Jurie.</HI></P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="testimony">
<PB N="93" REF="23">
<HEAD>PERSECUTION <HI>fals upon his knees.</HI></HEAD>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Good my Lord, have mercy upon me, I be&s;eech your Houour even for the <HI>Clergies &s;ake,</HI> have mercy upon me; con&s;ider my Lord, that in my death is their ruine, it will be the greate&s;t in road upon the Divines of Chri&s;t|endome, that ever was made. Oh!</P>
<P><HI>I be&s;eech you</HI> my Lord, <HI>by the My&s;terie of their holy Convocation, by their agony, and bloody &s;weate, by their Cro&s;&s;e and Pa&s;&s;ion at my &s;hamefull approaching death and buriall,</HI> Good Lord deliver me.</P>
<P><HI>By their glorious Re&s;urrection, and A&s;cention from the Pulpit above the State: By the coming of the Holy Gho&s;t to them in Cloake Bagge from Scotland,</HI> Good Lord deliver me.</P>
<P><HI>By the late &s;olemne League and Covenant: By the 400. and 50. l. for the Copy of their Directory: By all the fat Benefices, and goodly Revenues of the Clergie,</HI> Good Lord deliver me.</P>
<P><HI>By the Apocripha writings and non-&s;en&s;e Arguments of Mr.</HI> Edwards: <HI>By the di&s;tracted thoughts and &s;ubitaine apprehen&s;ions of Mr.</HI> Prinne: <HI>By the De&s;ignes of the Clergie: By their fained teares: By their hypocri&s;ie: By their fal&s;e Glo&s;&s;es, Interpretations, and Sophi&s;tications,</HI> Good Lord deliver me.</P>
<P><HI>By the Advance of the</HI> mickle Armie <HI>into the South: By the late innocent and undefiled Ordinance for Tythes: By all that is neare and deare unto the Clergie, the pompe and glorie of this world,</HI> Good Lord deliver me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>PERSECUTION, what would'&s;t thou have? here's no place of mercy for thee, the Vengance of God cannot be di&s;pen&s;'d with, thou art not in the <HI>High Commi&s;&s;ion,</HI> nor before the <HI>A&s;&s;embly,</HI> this is a Court where ju&s;tice mu&s;t take place.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh my Lord, I be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip for the mercy of this honou|rable Bench: My Lord, I am a Clergie man, and be&s;eech your Honour for the benefit of my Clergie: I have been of all the Vniver&s;ities of Chri&s;tendom, have taken all their Degrees, proceeded through all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Orders and Functions, and my Lord, at pre&s;ent am under the Holy Order of Presbytrie, and I hope a Presbyter &s;hall find favovr in your eyes: Wherefore I be&s;eeth you my Lord, that I may have the benefit of Degration.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>PERSECUTION, be contented, you &s;hall be &s;ent to the place of Degradation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh Good my Lord, let not a Presbyter come to &s;o &s;hamefull an end, I be&s;eech this Honourable Bench, that I may be repreeved but as long as the Synod and Presbytrie endure.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>No PERSECUTION, &s;uch is thy Trea&s;on, Rebllion, &amp;c. as cannot be di&s;pen&s;d with.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Per&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>Oh my Lord, a p&s;alme of mercy, I be&s;oech your Honour, a p&s;alme of mercy.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
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<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>No PERSECUTION, no; prepare to heare thy Sentence.</P>
<P><HI>Hereupon this en&s;uinge Letter was privately conveyed to</HI> Ju&s;tice Conformity.</P>
</SP>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="letter">
<HEAD>To the right wor&s;hipfull <HI>Iu&s;tice Conformity,</HI> all ble&s;&s;ing and benedicti|tion from his <HI>Holyne&s;&s;e</HI> Sir <HI>SYMON,</HI> and his Son Sir <HI>IOHN.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Right wor&s;hipfull,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Te&s;e are to adjure you, as you will An&s;wer it before</HI> VS, <HI>at the great and dreadfull</HI> DAY <HI>of</HI> OUR <HI>Cla&s;&s;icall exaltation above all per&s;ons in the Kingdome, that you forthwith &s;ollicite my Lord, to &s;u&s;pend his</HI> Sentence <HI>but till the</HI> advance of the mickle Armie into the South, <HI>for then we feare not the procurement of his plena|ry pardon; and for your encouragement herein la&s;t night my Son</HI> Jacke <HI>and I went into our</HI> Presbyterian ware-hou&s;e, <HI>and have taken a li&s;t of all the In&s;truments of torture and torment already prepared for our De&s;igne: to wit,</HI> triple knotty cor|ded whips, Gagges, Pillories, Stockes, Sharpe Knifes, Pincers, hot burning Irons, Halters, Gallowes, Gybbets, Rackes, Spits, Fine-forkes, Gridirons, Axes, Sawes Fle&s;hhookes, firery Furnaces, hot Ovens, boyling Caldrons, Fire and Faggot clo&s;e Pri&s;ons, darke and noy&s;ome Dungeons, Fetters, Manaeles, <HI>all in abun|dance,</HI> mo&s;t bloody and cruell Executioners, terrible and Divili&s;h Tormentours <HI>as,</HI> Presbyterian Hangmen, Goalers, <HI>&amp;c. be&s;ides multitudes of</HI> Synodean Ty|ranies <HI>newly invented, not yet di&s;covered to the people, &s;uch as never either by</HI> Pope, Bi&s;hop, <HI>on their adherents were devi&s;ed: and though we have prepared tho&s;e Divel|i&s;h In&s;truments, yet we &s;hall not be &s;o indi&s;creet, to ru&s;h them in all on a &s;uddaine; no, we &s;hall ob&s;erve the temper of the people, the cour&s;e of times, make a graduall progre&s;&s;ion, now a little, and then a little, and alwayes a mo&s;t godly and holy pre|tence to u&s;her in a damnable and wicked de&s;ignes if in the pay&s;ing a bu&s;ine&s;&s;e wee find it &s;o he avy, that neither</HI> Synod, Divell, <HI>nor</HI> Presbyter <HI>can lift, we'll &s;u&s;pend the matter, and in&s;en&s;ibly prepare the people for the entertainment thereof, which by our vaine-glorious fa&s;ting, hypocriticall teares, prayres, and &s;uphi&s;ticall Serimans we &s;hall ea&s;ily doe: And for your further encouragement under&s;tand; there are of certaine, from a late</HI> Con&s;i&s;torie <HI>of</HI> Divels <HI>di&s;patched</HI> &s;eaven foule Spirits a pecce <HI>for every</HI> Presbyter <HI>throughout</HI> England, <HI>to attend them in their</HI> Parochiall Ju|risdiction; <HI>&s;o that a</HI> Presbyter <HI>&s;hall be</HI> &s;eaven times <HI>wor&s;e then a</HI> Bi&s;hop, <HI>for it is intended, he &s;hall be</HI> more fearce and cruell then his followes, <HI>therefore</HI> Woe, Woe <HI>unto tho&s;e</HI> Anabapti&s;ts, Browni&s;ts, <HI>&amp;c. tho&s;e cur&s;ed Heretickes, for tho&s;e</HI> pre&s;|byterian Feinds <HI>expect but the</HI> word of commaund, <HI>to dovoure them up: But</HI> Mr William, <HI>all this will come to nothing, if this Pri&s;oner be put to death, you &s;ee tho&s;e Sectaries have had &s;uch freedome of &s;peech that my Son</HI> Jacke <HI>and I can doe no good; now, there being not &s;uch a con&s;iderable per&s;on in this County as your &s;elf to prevaile,</HI> WEE <HI>therefore charge you, as your hope to be a</HI> Judge, <HI>faile not at this dead lift</HI> for your Eares; <HI>indeed he's in your debt, but he vowes by your</HI> fiat ju&s;titia, <HI>that if you prevaile, he'll provide you a</HI> paire <HI>of</HI> better <HI>and</HI> longer, <HI>then ever you had:
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Hereof faile not, and we &s;hall not be backward to an&s;wer your de&s;erts, when,</HI> WE and the parliament, <HI>&s;hall be Commenced by.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your intire Freinds, Sir SYMON SY|NOD, and Sir JOHN PRESBYTER.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="testimony">
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Conformity.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, were your Lord&s;hip but rightly informed con|cerning this Pri&s;oner under the name of Mr. PERSECUTION, what he is, and from whence he came, your Honour would le&s;&s;e wonder at his &s;eve|rall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ations and dilatory pleaes, to award the Sentence of death, for were he guilty, what would not a man doe for his life? <HI>skin for skin, and all that a i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> will be give for his life,</HI> but &s;uch is his innocency, that the procee|dings again&s;t him have been altogether upon fal&s;e grounds; for whereas by the <HI>Evidence</HI> he is a&s;&s;erted to be born &s;oon after the <HI>time of Innocency,</HI> and by them <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">andeth charged with all the Innocent blood &s;pilt upon the whole earth: I &s;hall by your Lord&s;hips favour upon good grounds make it appeare, to be o|therwi&s;e, for my Lord, this pri&s;oner is not yet above an 100. yeares of age, be|ing borne in <HI>Geneva,</HI> of very good <HI>Lutheran</HI> and <HI>Calveni&s;h</HI> parentage, about the yeare 1544. where he was very well educated and in&s;tructed both in the Tongues and Liberall Sciences; and upon a certaine time going to Sea, he was by a great wind rai&s;ed by <HI>Belg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bub</HI> the Prince of Divels blowne into <HI>Scot|land:</HI> And being &s;o neare us, forth of his zeale and pious affection to reforme the Church of the <HI>Ei&s;copall Prelacy</HI> to <HI>Presbyterian,</HI> he occa&s;ioned the <HI>ri&s;ing of the Scots</HI> as <HI>one man</HI> to oppo&s;e that power, again&s;t which ever &s;ince he hath conte&s;ted, and he lately advanced with their <HI>mickle Armie</HI> to the Leagure be|fore <HI>Yorke,</HI> and for all this, he received many an affront by <HI>Gronewels</HI> &s;ci&s;ma|ticall <HI>Brigade,</HI> and from thence taking his joyrney through <HI>Derby, Stafford, Coventry,</HI> and <HI>Cambridge,</HI> where performing much good &s;ervice he came to <HI>London,</HI> &s;ince who&s;e coming, old Grand Mr. PERSECUTION char|ged in the Indict<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ent and convicted by the Jurie, was happily and timely ex|ecuted uppon <HI>Tower Hill,</HI> by all which it appeareah, that the Witne&s;&s;es that have given in Te&s;timony again&s;t this pri&s;oner, the Gentleman at the Bu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, have greatly abu&s;ed him, your Lord&s;hip, and the Jurie, he not being the per&s;on charged, and con&s;equently innocent of the crimes laid to his charge, he being Indeed as reall an adver&s;ary to Old Mr. <HI>PERSECUTION,</HI> as any Gentleman of this whole County; hereof if your Lord&s;hip make any doubt, I be&s;eech you; that a <HI>Farrier may</HI> be called into the Court, who may make a perfect di&s;cove|ry to your Lord&s;hip of his age, by opening his mouth and vewing his Teeth, who&s;e <HI>yongue, &s;mall, Presbyterean Pegges</HI> have no proportion betwixt the <HI>Great Twangs,</HI> and <HI>Boari&s;h Tuskes</HI> of Old Mr. <HI>PERSECUTION:</HI> And be&s;ides this my Lord, to te&s;ti&s;ie what I have &s;aid, to be anthenticke, there are hand reds <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> the <HI>mickle Armie,</HI> who&s;e ab&s;ence have occa&s;ioned this his inability to ju&s;tifie
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and cleare him&s;elfe, but if your Lord&s;hip plea&s;e but to adjcu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e the bu&s;ines but till their <HI>mickle Advance</HI> into the South, the matter &s;hall be made cleare unto your Honour, for then we make no que&s;tion to awe and cru&s;h tho&s;e He|reticall fal&s;e witne&s;&s;es, and advance Presbytry to its &s;uper Prelaticall Throne of <HI>CLASSICALL SUPREMACY,</HI> and though at fir&s;t it be but <HI>jure H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">|no,</HI> a little five and faggot will quickly Commence it <HI>jure divino.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>J. Rea&s;s.</SPEAKER>
<P>My Lord, I am much affraid of a Con&s;piracy betwixt Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> and Sir <HI>Iohn Presbyter</HI> with Ju&s;tice <HI>Confomity,</HI> whome like an Ignora<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us they have per&s;waded into their Combination, how to delude your Lord&s;hip, there|by to deliver <HI>PERSECUTION</HI> from the ju&s;tice of this Court; You may ea&s;ily perceave, how they would pinch your Lord&s;hips No&s;e with a paire of <HI>Scotch-Spectacles,</HI> and fixe a paire of <HI>long Synodian Eares</HI> unto your Lord&s;hips head, that your Lord&s;hip might &s;ee nothing but <HI>Blew Caps,</HI> heare nothing but <HI>Sy|nodian Thunder;</HI> but I hope your Honour is thoroughly &s;en&s;ible hereof; yet lea&s;t your Lord&s;hips Innocency, and hone&s;t endeavoures for the generall and equall Rights and Liberties of the Common People, &s;hould be circumvented and perverted by their policie, I &s;hall (hoping my plaine dealing meerly (I call God to witne&s;&s;e) out of unfeigned love unto your Honour, and the com|mon Good of all the Common People &s;hall not be recompen&s;ed with your High Di&s;plea&s;ure) pre&s;ent the cunning in&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">uations and &s;ubtile fictions of Ju&s;t|as <HI>Conformity</HI> in their true &s;hape; for whereas he &s;aith, that this pre&s;ont Pri|&s;oner is not the per&s;on indicted, and convicted of Trea&s;on, Rebellion, &amp;c this being but a yong<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e man, the other very old, I can a&s;&s;ure your Lord&s;hip, that he is herein meerly delu&s;ive, for the man is the very &s;ame, only through the advi&s;e of Sir JOHN he hath made u&s;e of a Presbyterian Barber, who hath &s;haven from his head, his old deformed Tre&s;&s;es, cropt of his haire above the eares after the halfe moon fa&s;hion, taught him the Presbyterian po&s;ture of his eyes, plai&s;tered up the wrinkles of his bended brow with <HI>Scotch morter,</HI> where|by he hath acquired a more &s;mooth Synodian countenance, but in a &s;mall time if he be let alone, he'l be as terrible and frightfull as ever; for his pritty &s;mall Pegges that he &s;peakes off, your L. is therein mi&s;informed; for the <HI>Far|rier</HI> that rearched his mouth, was a <HI>Presbytere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Hor&s;e Doctour,</HI> prepared on purpo&s;e by yongue Sir JOHN for that very end, who di&s;covered to your <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> only the upper part of his fore teeth, whereas were his mouth but &s;earched by an <HI>Independant Farrier,</HI> he would di&s;cover be&s;ides tho&s;e in the hinder part of his Cla&s;&s;icall Jawes, his Great Iron Fangs, as great and terrible as tho&s;e &s;poaken of by <HI>Daniell, cap.</HI> 7. 7. And as for the good &s;ervice Ju&s;tice <HI>Confor|mity</HI> mentioned, that be performed in his Roade from <HI>Scatland</HI> to <HI>London,</HI> It was &s;o good, that the Pri&s;oners there care for no more of his goodne&s;&s;e
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for if he <HI>mumble</HI> us thus with his <HI>yongue &s;mall Presbyterian Pegges,</HI> what bloody ma&s;&s;acrie, what cruell cru&s;hing of bones, rending, tearing and devouring of fle&s;h, mu&s;t we expect, if your Lord&s;hip permit him the u&s;e of his dreadfull devouring <HI>Tuskes,</HI> his huge mon&s;terous <HI>iron Fangs,</HI> but I hope your Lord&s;hip will fir&s;t grant him the favour of an <HI>Independant Tooth-drawer,</HI> and then wee &s;hall not greatly feare his <HI>Gun<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">es:</HI> And concerning the <HI>Mickle Armie,</HI> my Lord, you may perceive how they would bind your hands from the execution of ju&s;tice by the force of Armes, as though the wi&s;edome of this Court were to be in&s;laved to &s;uch &s;ini&s;ter re&s;pects; my Lord, it is highly dere<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">atory to your Honour, and here are &s;ufficient <HI>Engli&s;h Evidence,</HI> to prove this old &s;educer, to be PERSECUTION him&s;elfe, as hath been manife&s;t before your Honour; let not the people be thus depriv'd of ju&s;tice, they did not in chu&s;ing your Lord&s;hip to this place, wherein you are, intend the makeing of them&s;elves &s;laves in any the lea&s;t kind, to <HI>Synods, Sir Johns, force of armes,</HI> or the like, or to put them&s;elves at &s;o va&s;t a di&s;tance, as to make their addre&s;&s;es to you, as to &s;ome <HI>Dietie,</HI> but in their chu&s;ing of you, authori&s;ed and entru&s;ted you, to vin|dicate and pre&s;erve their native and ju&s;t Liberties in generall, yea, and com|mon to them with your &s;elfe: therefore you cannot without betraying this Tru&s;t, by any <HI>coer&s;ive power</HI> &s;ubject any of their con&s;ciences, per&s;ons, or e&s;tates to any <HI>Ecole&s;ia&s;ticall Jurisdiction</HI> what&s;oever: And now &s;eeing this <HI>vile per|&s;on</HI> at the <HI>Barre</HI> hath been legally <HI>indicted, araigned,</HI> and <HI>convicted,</HI> and there|by found an Arch enemio and Traytour to the peoples common Liberty and Safety, <HI>Judgement</HI> and <HI>Execution</HI> ought forthwith to pa&s;&s;e upon him accor|dingly, that this <HI>Hypocritical Phari&s;ie,</HI> this <HI>blood-thir&s;ty Catiffe,</HI> this <HI>Long Gown'd M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">ntebanke</HI> with his &s;pirituall delu&s;ions may no longer cheate the world, as he hath done.</P>
</SP>
<P><HI>Hereupon the Court proceedeth to Judgment.</HI></P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iudge.</SPEAKER>
<P>Make Proclamation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Crier.</SPEAKER>
<P><HI>O&mdash;yes, every man keep &s;ilence &amp;c.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>With much patience this Coure hath heard the &s;everall, pleaes be|twixt PERSECUTION, and LIBERTY-OF-CONSCIENCE u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">sd on both &s;ides; having &s;eriou&s;ly weighed the &s;ame in the Ballance of equity, hath found PERSECUTION and his Abettours with all their <HI>Pleas</HI> too light, even meere &s;ubtile, alrie, and empty delu&s;ions: It is therefore the Sentence of this Court concerning Sir <HI>Symon,</HI> and Sir <HI>John Presbyter,</HI> who have thus <HI>Ie&s;uitically</HI> endeavoured to pervert the ju&s;tice of this <HI>Court</HI> by their fal&s;e, their &s;ubtile, and <HI>Trayterous</HI> &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;tions in the behalf of this notorious bloo|dy <HI>Malefactour</HI> PERSECUTION, that Sir <HI>SIMON</HI> be committed <HI>clo&s;e Pri&s;o|ner</HI> to <HI>King Henry the eigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s Chappell,</HI> there to be kept in <HI>Parliamentory &s;afe
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cu&s;tody,</HI> till the <HI>GREAT ASSISES,</HI> held in the fir&s;t yeare of the <HI>RAIGNE</HI> of our <HI>Soveraigne Lord CHRIST, (when the Kingdom, and the greatnes of the Kingdome under the whole Heaven &s;halbe given to the Saints of the mo&s;t High)</HI> there, and then to be <HI>Araigned</HI> with the re&s;t of his <HI>Holy Tribe,</HI> whether <HI>Vni|ver&s;all, Nationall, Provinciall,</HI> or <HI>Con&s;i&s;toriall Coun&s;els,</HI> or <HI>Synods</HI> what&s;oever, before his <HI>Highne&s;&s;e</HI> the <HI>KING OF KINGS,</HI> and <HI>LORD OF LORDS.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>I. Rea&s;.</SPEAKER>
<P>And my Lord, in the meane time to keep his <HI>Holine&s;&s;e</HI> in action, I be&s;eech, your Honour, that he may <HI>Synodicate</HI> a full Re&s;olution to the&s;e en|fuing <HI>Queries.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. Whether it doth not as much conduce to the <HI>Subjects Liberty</HI> &s;till to be &s;ubjected to <HI>Epi&s;copall u&s;urpation,</HI> as to be given over to <HI>Presbyterian cruelty?</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. Whether it would not been more profitable for the Kingdome of <HI>Eng|land,</HI> to have forthwith hired a <HI>Coach and twelve Hor&s;es</HI> to have &s;et a <HI>Directory</HI> from <HI>Scotland,</HI> then to have &s;pent the <HI>learned con&s;ultations, pi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">us debates,</HI> and <HI>&s;acred conclu&s;ions</HI> of &s;uch an <HI>holy,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>reverend,</HI> &s;uch an <HI>heavenly,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>godly,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>learned,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>pious,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>grave,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>wi&s;e,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>&s;ollid,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>di&s;creete,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>&s;pirituall,</HI> &s;uch an <HI>evangellicall,</HI> &s;uch an <HI>infallible,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>vene|rable,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>&s;uper-cele&s;tiall Quire of Angels,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>&s;uperlative A&s;&s;embly of Di|vines</HI> for almo&s;t the&s;e two yeares &s;pace, after the pro&s;u&s;e and va&s;t expence of above <HI>fourty thou&s;and pounds,</HI> be&s;ides their <HI>goodly fat Benefices,</HI> upon their de|vouring <HI>Guts,</HI> for an <HI>Engli&s;h DIRECTORY</HI> of wor&s;hip equivolent to the <HI>Scotch DIRECTORY?</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. Whether this Directory &s;tanding in &s;o many thou&s;ands to fumble it to|gether, and the Copy &s;ould at 400. &amp; 50. <HI>l.</HI> be not of more value then the Writings of the Prophets and Apo&s;tles?</P>
<P N="4">4 Whether St. <HI>Peters Chaire</HI> doth not becomme a <HI>Presbyter,</HI> as well as a <HI>Bi&s;hop?</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. Whether the late divine Ordinance for Tythes, Offerings, Oblations, and Conventions be not better Go&s;pell, and in all <HI>Presbyterian wi&s;edome</HI> to be preferred and provided before the <HI>Directory for the wor&s;hip of God?</HI></P>
<Q><L><HI>O Cives, Cives, quaerenda pecunia primum,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Virtus po&s;t nummos.</HI></L></Q>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Judge.</SPEAKER>
<P>And as for Sir <HI>JOHN PRESBYTER,</HI> this Court hath <HI>Voted</HI> him to the uncleane, filthy, impious, unholy, darke, and wordly <HI>Dungeon,</HI> called, <HI>JURE HUMANO,</HI> there with <HI>Arch-Bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops,</HI> &amp;c. the <HI>Grand-Presbyters,</HI> his <HI>Fore-fathers,</HI> to be fa&s;t bound with the <HI>Maje&s;teriall Chaines</HI> of humaine <HI>Lawes, Ordinances, Edicts,</HI> &amp;c. and in them to be kept in &s;afe cu&s;to|dy till the afore&s;aid great <HI>A&s;&s;i&s;es;</HI> in the <HI>Raigne</HI> of our <HI>Soveraigne Lord</HI> Chri&s;t, there, and then to be brought forth to the Tryall of that <HI>Great and terrible DAY. Now to the Pri&s;oner.</HI></P>
<P>PERSECUTION, hould up thy hand: Thou ha&s;t been Indicted,
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and Araigned of emnity again&s;t God and all goodnes, of Trea&s;ons, Rebel|lion, Blood&s;hed, &amp;c. and for thy tryall ha&s;t put thy &s;elfe upon thy Countrey, which Countrey have found thee guilty, and to award the Sentence of death, from pa&s;&s;ing upon thee, thou ha&s;t had the liberty this Court in ju&s;tice could permit, to make thy defence: we have heard thine allegations, eva&s;ions, the the Rea&s;ons and Pleaes of thy Defendants, to whom was given all freedome of Defence could be de&s;ired, al&s;o We have heard the di&s;tracted jubitaine me|diation of J. <HI>Conformity</HI> in thy behalfe, yet notwith&s;tanding all that can be made for thee, thy guilt is &s;o palpably apparant and gro&s;&s;e, that all the &s;ub|tilety, craft, and policy thou and thy Confederates can devi&s;e, cannot ob&s;cure thee from the eye of ju&s;tice: for this Court upon thy tryall, hath found out thy villany, Trea&s;on, and Blood&s;hed, and how thou art guilty of all that is laid to thy charge: Therefore the Sentence of this Court is, that thou &s;halt returne to the place from whence thou came&s;t, to wit, the noy&s;ome, and filthy CAGE <HI>of every uncleane and hatefull Bird,</HI> the GLERGIE of Chri&s;tendome, there to be fa&s;t bound with <HI>Inqui&s;ition, Synaddicall, Cla&s;&s;icall, Prei&s;t-bitter-all Chaines</HI> untill the Appearing of that Great and terrible Judge of the whole Earth, who &s;hall take thee alive, with Sir SYMON, and his Son Sir JOHN, and ea&s;t thee with them and their Confederates into the LAKE of fire and brim&s;tone, where the Bea&s;t and the Fal&s;e Prophet are, there to be cormented day and night for ever, and ever.</P>
<P><HI>Rev. 19. 1. 2. 3. And after the&s;e things I heard a great voyce of much people in Hea|ven, &s;aying, Allelujah: &s;alvation and glory, honour and power, unto the Lord our God:</HI></P>
<P><HI>For true and righteous are his judgments, for he hath judged the Great Where, which did corrupt <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Earth with her Fornication, and avenged the blood of his &s;er|vants at her band. Again they &s;aid, Allelujah: And her &s;moak ro&s;e up for ever &amp; ever.</HI></P>
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<P>Lea&s;t the hone&s;t innocent intentions of Yong<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e MARTIN &s;hould receive &s;ome Synod|dicall mi&s;con&s;truction, he de&s;ires to be his owne Interpreter concerning &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages, and for the re&s;t he leaves so the fate of the publicke cen&s;ure. Now whereas his Licence may &s;eem to be an immitation of an Order of Parliament, it is only to &s;hew the e&s;tentati|on, pride, and vaine glory of the boa&s;ting Presbyters. And whereas he a&s;cribeth many Epithites, as, divine, holy &amp;c. to the Ordinance for Tythes, they are not intended in de|ri&s;ion to the Parliament, or to any of their Lawes, Statutes, or Ordinances what&s;oever, but are u&s;ed in the fence of Presbyterian acceptation, and of the reverend e&s;timation they would per&s;wade us of that above any other what&s;oever. And the u&s;e of the late League and Covenant, is likewi&s;e only in the Presbyterian &s;ence, &s;imply re&s;pecting that Tribe, according to Edwards Inerpretation thereof. Hone&s;t MARTIN would not be mi&s;ta|ken, he is no enemie to the vnity of the two Kingdomes in Civill League and peace, but it is his hearts de&s;ire and prayres, that not only they, but that all the Nations of the Earth were &s;o in them&s;elues and one with another. And for the Advance of the Scots, that is u&s;ed, only to &s;hew, how tho&s;e Presbyterian Je&s;uites would make that, which the two Kingdomes intend for the common good, to be perveted only to the Advance of their per&s;ecuting Faction: And this MARTIN proclaimes to be his own genuine meaning.</P>
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