A plea for defensive armes, or, A copy of a letter written by Mr. Stephen Marshall to a friend of his in the city, for the necessary vindication of himself and his ministerie, against that altogether groundlesse, most unjust and ungodly aspersion cast upon him by certain malignants in the city, and lately printed at Oxford, in their Mendacium aulicum, otherwise called, Mercurius Aulicus, and sent abroad into other nations to his perpetual infamie in which letter the accusation is fully answered, and together with that, the lawfulnesse of the Parliaments taking up defensive arms is briefly and learnedly asserted and demonstrated, texts of Scripture cleared, all objections to the contrary answered, to the full satisfaction of all those that desire to have their consciences informed in this great controversie.
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             A plea for defensive armes, or, A copy of a letter written by Mr. Stephen Marshall to a friend of his in the city, for the necessary vindication of himself and his ministerie, against that altogether groundlesse, most unjust and ungodly aspersion cast upon him by certain malignants in the city, and lately printed at Oxford, in their Mendacium aulicum, otherwise called, Mercurius Aulicus, and sent abroad into other nations to his perpetual infamie in which letter the accusation is fully answered, and together with that, the lawfulnesse of the Parliaments taking up defensive arms is briefly and learnedly asserted and demonstrated, texts of Scripture cleared, all objections to the contrary answered, to the full satisfaction of all those that desire to have their consciences informed in this great controversie.
             Plea for defensive armes
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           A
           PLEA
           FOR
           DEFENSIVE
           ARMES
           :
           
             OR
             ,
          
           A
           Copy
           of
           a
           Letter
           written
           by
           Mr
           STEPHEN
           MARSHALL
           To
           a
           friend
           of
           his
           in
           the
           City
           ,
           for
           the
           necessary
           vindication
           of
           himself
           and
           his
           Ministerie
           ,
           against
           that
           altogether
           groundlesse
           ,
           most
           unjust
           ,
           and
           ungodly
           aspersion
           cast
           upon
           him
           by
           certain
           Malignants
           in
           the
           City
           ,
           and
           lately
           printed
           at
           
             Oxford
             ,
          
           in
           their
           
             Mendacium
             Aulicum
             ,
          
           otherwise
           called
           ,
           
             Mercurius
             Aulicus
             ,
          
           and
           sent
           abroad
           into
           other
           Nations
           to
           his
           perpetual
           infamie
           .
        
         
           In
           which
           Letter
           the
           accusation
           is
           fully
           answered
           .
        
         
           And
           together
           with
           that
           ,
           the
           lawfulnesse
           of
           the
           Parliaments
           taking
           up
           Defensive
           Arms
           is
           briefly
           and
           learnedly
           asserted
           and
           demonstrated
           ,
           Texts
           of
           Scripture
           cleared
           ,
           all
           Objections
           to
           the
           contrary
           answered
           ,
           to
           the
           full
           satisfaction
           of
           all
           those
           that
           desire
           to
           have
           their
           consciences
           informed
           in
           this
           great
           Controversie
           .
        
         
           
             HOSEA
             4.
             1
             ,
             2
             ,
             3.
             
          
           
             1.
             
             
               Hear
               the
               word
               of
               the
               Lord
               ,
               ye
               Children
               of
               Israel
               ,
               for
               the
               Lord
               hath
               a
               controversie
               with
               the
               inhabitants
               of
               the
               Land
               ,
               because
               there
               is
               no
               truth
               ,
               nor
               mercy
               ,
               nor
               knowledge
               of
               God
               in
               the
               Land
               .
            
          
           
             2.
             
             By
             swearing
             ,
             and
             
               lying
               ,
            
             and
             killing
             ,
             and
             stealing
             ,
             and
             whoring
             ,
             they
             break
             out
             ,
             and
             bloud
             toucheth
             bloud
             .
          
           
             3.
             
             Therefore
             shall
             the
             Land
             mourn
             ,
             &c.
             
          
        
         
           
             LONDON
             ,
          
           Printed
           for
           
             Samuel
             Gellibrand
             ,
          
           at
           the
           Brazen
           Serpent
           in
           Pauls
           Church-yard
           .
           1643.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           YOur
           Letters
           brought
           not
           the
           first
           tidings
           of
           the
           continuance
           and
           encrease
           of
           those
           strange
           reports
           concerning
           me
           ,
           they
           filled
           the
           City
           even
           while
           I
           was
           there
           ,
           and
           I
           perceive
           ,
           pursue
           mee
           into
           the
           Countrey
           :
           it
           is
           a
           lying
           spirit
           which
           God
           hath
           permitted
           to
           haunt
           me
           for
           my
           triall
           ,
           as
           it
           hath
           done
           others
           of
           his
           servants
           before
           me
           .
           You
           know
           what
           a
           book
           
             Bolsec
          
           wrote
           of
           the
           life
           and
           death
           of
           M.
           
             Calvin
             :
             Beza
          
           lived
           to
           write
           a
           confutation
           of
           a
           book
           written
           of
           his
           renouncing
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           turning
           Papist
           .
           And
           concerning
           
             Luther
             ,
          
           the
           Priests
           had
           long
           reported
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           his
           call
           from
           the
           Devill
           ;
           and
           to
           confirm
           it
           ,
           filled
           Italy
           with
           a
           rumour
           of
           his
           death
           ,
           and
           that
           at
           his
           death
           he
           was
           carried
           away
           by
           the
           Devill
           soul
           and
           body
           :
           which
           they
           (
           good
           soules
           )
           divulged
           not
           to
           discredite
           the
           man
           ,
           but
           
             in
             gloriam
             Iesu
             Christi
             ,
          
           to
           the
           glory
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           comfort
           of
           the
           godly
           .
           The
           like
           usage
           my self
           have
           lately
           met
           with
           in
           some
           degree
           :
           for
           being
           afflicted
           with
           a
           deep
           cold
           and
           distillation
           from
           my
           head
           upon
           my
           lungs
           ,
           and
           some
           feverish
           distempers
           ,
           my
           learned
           ,
           loving
           ,
           and
           carefull
           Physitian
           ,
           finding
           that
           the
           too
           importune
           visits
           of
           my
           many
           loving
           friends
           ,
           occasioned
           too
           much
           speech
           ,
           and
           thereby
           too
           much
           expence
           of
           spirits
           ,
           advised
           me
           to
           remove
           to
           the
           house
           of
           my
           Noble
           Lord
           of
           Warwick
           ,
           where
           I
           should
           have
           more
           ayre
           ,
           and
           lesse
           company
           :
           hereupon
           a
           report
           was
           immediatly
           spread
           about
           the
           City
           ,
           that
           I
           was
           distracted
           ,
           and
           in
           my
           rage
           constantly
           cried
           out
           ,
           I
           was
           damned
           for
           appearing
           in
           ,
           and
           adhering
           to
           the
           Parliament
           and
           Kingdome
           in
           this
           defensive
           Warre
           :
           which
           when
           I
           first
           heard
           ,
           I
           looked
           upon
           as
           a
           calumnie
           invented
           by
           some
           simple
           adversary
           (
           though
           malicious
           enough
           to
           my
           person
           and
           ministery
           )
           who
           finding
           it
           the
           readiest
           way
           to
           reproach
           me
           ,
           betook
           himself
           to
           this
           .
           But
           afterwards
           observing
           how
           studiously
           it
           was
           maintained
           ,
           how
           laboriously
           propagated
           ,
           how
           banded
           from
           Court
           to
           City
           ,
           from
           City
           to
           Countrey
           ,
           from
           England
           to
           forraign
           parts
           ,
           
             Mercurius
             Aulicus
          
           printed
           it
           ,
           and
           a
           great
           Officer
           of
           State
           having
           sent
           it
           into
           other
           Kingdomes
           with
           his
           Letters
           ,
           assuring
           the
           truth
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           nine
           dayes
           ,
           no
           not
           a
           month
           
           did
           allay
           it
           ,
           I
           then
           perceived
           the
           plot
           was
           not
           so
           much
           to
           disgrace
           me
           ,
           (
           for
           alas
           who
           am
           I
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           trouble
           themselves
           so
           much
           about
           me
           )
           but
           through
           me
           to
           wound
           the
           Cause
           ,
           in
           which
           my
           poore
           labours
           have
           been
           engaged
           .
           This
           rumour
           it
           seemes
           yet
           lives
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           your
           letter
           confirmes
           )
           encreases
           ;
           from
           my
           going
           down
           into
           the
           Countrey
           they
           have
           taken
           occasion
           not
           only
           to
           report
           me
           distracted
           ,
           but
           dead
           ;
           yea
           that
           I
           died
           crying
           out
           of
           my
           appearing
           in
           this
           Cause
           ;
           and
           this
           is
           so
           confidently
           reported
           by
           some
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           almost
           as
           confidently
           beleeved
           by
           others
           ;
           even
           thousands
           ,
           you
           say
           ,
           which
           makes
           you
           earnestly
           to
           presse
           me
           to
           write
           unto
           you
           ,
           whether
           I
           have
           not
           (
           at
           least
           )
           changed
           my
           former
           judgement
           about
           our
           defensive
           armes
           ,
           and
           this
           not
           (
           as
           you
           professed
           )
           to
           satisfie
           your self
           ,
           but
           that
           you
           might
           have
           something
           under
           my
           own
           hand
           to
           shew
           for
           the
           satisfaction
           of
           others
           .
           Sir
           ,
           your
           ancient
           love
           to
           me
           ,
           and
           present
           desires
           to
           vindicate
           me
           from
           these
           aspersions
           ,
           but
           especially
           your
           care
           that
           the
           publick
           Cause
           might
           not
           suffer
           ,
           do
           all
           command
           me
           to
           be
           your
           servant
           in
           this
           thing
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           it
           will
           satisfie
           you
           ,
           that
           I
           solemnly
           protest
           unto
           you
           ,
           that
           in
           all
           these
           fourteen
           weeks
           keeping
           in
           ,
           I
           never
           had
           an
           houres
           sicknesse
           ,
           nor
           lost
           a
           nights
           sleep
           ,
           nor
           had
           any
           distemper
           in
           my
           head
           ,
           nor
           saw
           any
           cause
           of
           sorrow
           for
           my
           adhering
           to
           the
           Parliaments
           cause
           ,
           but
           esteem
           it
           a
           great
           honour
           and
           mercy
           from
           God
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           move
           his
           Excellency
           my
           Lord
           ,
           to
           require
           my
           service
           in
           this
           great
           expedition
           ;
           and
           that
           I
           have
           even
           therefore
           exactly
           followed
           the
           Doctors
           prescriptions
           ,
           out
           of
           an
           earnest
           desire
           to
           be
           fitted
           for
           my
           work
           ,
           that
           I
           might
           returne
           to
           my
           most
           honoured
           Lord
           ,
           being
           fully
           resolved
           ,
           if
           God
           say
           Amen
           to
           it
           ,
           never
           to
           give
           it
           over
           ,
           untill
           either
           there
           be
           an
           end
           of
           that
           work
           ,
           or
           an
           end
           of
           my
           dayes
           .
           This
           I
           think
           will
           satisfie
           you
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           possibly
           as
           much
           as
           you
           desire
           for
           the
           satisfaction
           of
           others
           ,
           to
           have
           this
           under
           my
           hand
           .
           Take
           this
           concerning
           the
           cause
           ,
           and
           concerning
           the
           report
           spread
           of
           me
           ,
           what
           
             Luther
          
           said
           (
           of
           those
           above
           mentioned
           )
           concerning
           himselfe
           ;
           
             fateor
             &
             testor
             hâc
             meâ
             manu
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           I
           professe
           and
           testifie
           under
           my
           hand
           ,
           that
           I
           entertained
           this
           fiction
           of
           my
           distraction
           and
           death
           ,
           
             laetaque
             mente
             &
             hilari
             vultu
             ,
          
           very
           chearfully
           .
        
         
           But
           since
           your
           love
           hath
           compelled
           me
           to
           put
           pen
           to
           paper
           ,
           I
           shall
           compell
           you
           to
           read
           the
           largest
           letter
           that
           ever
           I
           wrote
           ,
           being
           resolved
           to
           give
           you
           a
           full
           account
           both
           of
           my
           ground
           and
           warrant
           of
           entring
           
           upon
           my
           office
           ,
           and
           how
           far
           I
           am
           from
           changing
           my
           judgement
           upon
           the
           present
           view
           of
           things
           .
        
         
           When
           his
           Excellency
           vouchsafed
           to
           require
           my
           service
           (
           for
           ,
           God
           knows
           ,
           I
           offered
           not
           my self
           in
           this
           great
           work
           )
           there
           were
           but
           two
           questions
           (
           besides
           my
           care
           to
           walk
           aright
           in
           my
           Ministry
           )
           for
           my
           conscience
           to
           be
           resolved
           in
           .
           First
           ,
           whether
           upon
           supposall
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           Parliament
           votes
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           That
           his
           Majestie
           seduced
           by
           wicked
           Councell
           ,
           did
           levie
           warre
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           the
           Scripture
           did
           warrant
           them
           to
           take
           up
           defensive
           Arms
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Parliament
           was
           not
           mis-informed
           about
           such
           his
           Majesties
           purpose
           ,
           and
           practice
           .
           The
           first
           is
           a
           meere
           question
           in
           Divinity
           .
           
             viz.
             Whether
             a
             people
             ,
             especially
             the
             representative
             body
             of
             a
             State
             ,
             may
             (
             after
             all
             humble
             Remonstrances
             )
             defend
             themselves
             against
             the
             unlawfull
             violence
             of
             the
             Supream
             Magistrate
             ,
             or
             his
             Instruments
             ,
             Endeavouring
             (
             and
             that
             in
             matters
             of
             great
             moment
             )
             to
             deprive
             them
             of
             their
             lawfull
             Liberties
             .
          
        
         
           The
           second
           is
           a
           question
           meerly
           of
           matter
           of
           fact
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           first
           ,
           Before
           the
           beginning
           of
           these
           unhappy
           differences
           ,
           I
           had
           both
           learned
           ,
           and
           taught
           to
           this
           purpose
           .
           First
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           agreeable
           to
           Gods
           will
           ,
           that
           in
           all
           Countreys
           (
           especially
           when
           and
           where
           the
           people
           are
           numerous
           )
           Magistracie
           be
           set
           up
           ,
           with
           a
           sufficiencie
           of
           power
           and
           authoritie
           to
           rule
           for
           the
           publick
           good
           ;
           and
           that
           ,
           even
           among
           them
           who
           are
           under
           the
           scepter
           of
           Christ
           ,
           against
           the
           Anabaptists
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           That
           among
           the
           divers
           kinds
           of
           lawfull
           governments
           ,
           Monarchy
           ,
           Aristocracy
           ,
           and
           Democracy
           ,
           no
           one
           of
           them
           is
           so
           appointed
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           to
           exclude
           the
           other
           from
           being
           a
           lawfull
           government
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           That
           the
           bounds
           and
           limits
           of
           the
           Magistrates
           lawfull
           power
           of
           commanding
           ,
           and
           the
           subjects
           necessary
           obeying
           ,
           must
           be
           found
           ,
           and
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           severall
           Laws
           ,
           Customes
           ,
           and
           Constitutions
           of
           those
           severall
           States
           ,
           and
           Commonwealths
           :
           There
           are
           scarce
           two
           formes
           (
           especially
           of
           Regall
           government
           ,
           in
           the
           world
           )
           but
           they
           differ
           one
           from
           the
           other
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           matters
           of
           moment
           .
           Now
           I
           say
           ,
           what
           the
           power
           of
           Magistrates
           in
           one
           Countrey
           differs
           from
           the
           power
           of
           Magistrates
           in
           another
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           how
           the
           duty
           of
           Subjects
           differs
           in
           each
           ,
           must
           be
           found
           only
           in
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           respective
           places
           :
           that
           no
           mans
           right
           must
           be
           detained
           from
           him
           ,
           that
           
             Caesar
          
           should
           have
           rendred
           to
           him
           the
           things
           that
           are
           
             Caesars
             ,
          
           and
           all
           people
           
           the
           things
           that
           are
           their
           own
           ,
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           Laws
           of
           all
           nations
           doe
           determine
           .
           But
           whether
           (
           for
           instance
           in
           England
           )
           Ship-money
           be
           the
           Kings
           right
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           be
           yeelded
           ,
           or
           denyed
           ;
           whether
           this
           house
           or
           inheritance
           be
           this
           or
           the
           other
           pretenders
           to
           it
           ,
           must
           not
           be
           determined
           by
           any
           Law
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           England
           ;
           go
           therefore
           to
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           learned
           Lawyers
           ,
           and
           from
           them
           alone
           you
           shall
           learn
           what
           is
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           both
           the
           Duty
           ,
           and
           Liberty
           of
           the
           Subject
           .
           But
           then
           fourthly
           comes
           in
           Religion
           ,
           or
           the
           command
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           binds
           the
           consciences
           of
           Magistrates
           to
           rule
           ,
           and
           of
           Subjects
           to
           obey
           ,
           according
           to
           those
           Lawes
           .
           And
           fifthly
           (
           in
           particular
           )
           of
           Subjects
           it
           requires
           these
           four
           things
           .
           First
           ,
           to
           render
           to
           their
           Governours
           ,
           next
           under
           God
           ,
           the
           greatest
           fear
           ,
           and
           honour
           ,
           as
           being
           Gods
           vicegerents
           ,
           as
           having
           the
           greatest
           beams
           of
           his
           authority
           put
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           therefore
           called
           Gods
           ,
           and
           all
           of
           them
           the
           children
           of
           the
           most
           High
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           Loyaltie
           to
           their
           persons
           ,
           and
           office
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           obedience
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           and
           patient
           subjection
           ,
           when
           we
           cannot
           actively
           obey
           ,
           willingly
           for
           conscience
           sake
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           penalty
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           when
           for
           conscience
           sake
           we
           cannot
           observe
           the
           Laws
           themselves
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           maintenance
           with
           payment
           of
           all
           lawfull
           Customs
           ,
           Tributes
           ,
           and
           impositions
           .
           Fourthly
           ,
           all
           manner
           of
           supplications
           ,
           prayers
           ,
           intercessions
           ,
           and
           giving
           of
           thanks
           ,
           their
           usefulnesse
           being
           great
           ,
           their
           temptations
           many
           ,
           their
           fall
           (
           like
           that
           of
           great
           Cedars
           )
           the
           crushing
           of
           many
           ,
           and
           the
           shaking
           of
           the
           earth
           round
           about
           them
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           we
           owe
           ,
           nor
           onely
           to
           the
           King
           as
           Supream
           ,
           but
           in
           proportion
           to
           all
           
             inferiour
             Governours
             ,
             who
             are
             sent
             by
             God
             also
             for
             the
             punishment
             of
             evill
             doers
             ,
             and
             for
             the
             praise
             of
             them
             that
             do
             well
             ,
             they
             being
             all
             the
             ministers
             of
             God
             for
             our
             good
             ;
             and
             this
             is
             the
             first
             Commandment
             with
             promise
             .
          
           But
           sixthly
           ,
           if
           our
           Governours
           (
           whether
           supream
           ,
           or
           inferiour
           )
           leave
           to
           rule
           according
           to
           Law
           ;
           and
           set
           up
           their
           own
           will
           contrary
           to
           Law
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           word
           of
           God
           acquitting
           them
           from
           sin
           in
           Gods
           sight
           ,
           but
           severely
           threatning
           them
           for
           abusing
           his
           name
           ,
           which
           they
           bear
           ;
           nor
           any
           word
           binding
           the
           consciences
           of
           their
           subjects
           therein
           to
           yeeld
           them
           any
           active
           obedience
           .
           Thus
           farre
           we
           have
           all
           sides
           agreeing
           in
           all
           the
           particulars
           ,
           except
           only
           a
           few
           Court
           flatterers
           ,
           who
           (
           and
           that
           especially
           of
           late
           )
           have
           endeavoured
           to
           cry
           up
           Monarchy
           ,
           as
           the
           only
           ordinance
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           the
           Government
           of
           States
           ;
           as
           if
           the
           other
           
           forms
           of
           Aristocracy
           ,
           and
           Democracy
           were
           not
           approved
           by
           him
           :
           Yea
           ,
           and
           have
           cryed
           up
           the
           power
           and
           authority
           of
           princes
           to
           be
           such
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           are
           absolved
           from
           all
           laws
           ;
           and
           that
           whatsoever
           the
           Subjects
           enjoy
           under
           them
           ,
           is
           only
           by
           the
           princes
           favour
           ,
           which
           if
           they
           please
           to
           recall
           ,
           how
           justly
           or
           unjustly
           soever
           ,
           the
           subjects
           are
           bound
           to
           yeeld
           all
           unto
           them
           ,
           and
           have
           no
           plea
           against
           their
           Prince
           ,
           only
           in
           the
           Court
           of
           heaven
           ;
           no
           law
           ,
           no
           judge
           ,
           no
           Court
           here
           below
           ,
           having
           any
           authority
           to
           say
           unto
           him
           ,
           What
           dost
           thou
           :
           This
           Divinity
           hath
           of
           late
           been
           preached
           ;
           and
           ,
           as
           sweet
           enchanting
           musicke
           ,
           often
           chanted
           in
           the
           ears
           of
           our
           Princes
           :
           and
           no
           doubt
           was
           one
           great
           occasion
           of
           these
           heavie
           yokes
           we
           have
           of
           late
           groaned
           under
           .
           But
           these
           absurdities
           need
           no
           refutation
           .
           Egyptian
           Pharaoh
           claimed
           not
           the
           wealth
           of
           his
           people
           ,
           till
           he
           had
           bought
           it
           .
           And
           Ahab
           himselfe
           ,
           who
           durst
           not
           lay
           claime
           to
           Naboths
           vineyard
           ,
           without
           purchase
           ,
           or
           colour
           of
           confiscation
           ,
           proclaims
           their
           ignorance
           sufficiently
           to
           the
           world
           .
           And
           among
           our selves
           ,
           the
           constant
           proceedings
           of
           our
           princes
           ,
           even
           in
           their
           most
           heavie
           illegall
           exactions
           ,
           borrowing
           alwayes
           a
           colour
           of
           law
           ,
           and
           the
           known
           laws
           of
           the
           land
           ,
           enabling
           the
           meanest
           subject
           to
           maintain
           his
           Propriety
           ,
           even
           in
           a
           two-penny
           matter
           ,
           against
           his
           Soveraigne
           ;
           And
           the
           innumerable
           verdicts
           ,
           in
           all
           Courts
           ,
           passing
           for
           the
           Subject
           ,
           against
           the
           King
           ;
           assure
           me
           ,
           that
           unlesse
           God
           for
           our
           sins
           should
           give
           up
           our
           Parliament
           and
           State
           to
           the
           vassallage
           which
           this
           Popish
           Army
           would
           bring
           it
           to
           ,
           we
           shall
           hear
           no
           more
           of
           this
           Divinity
           .
        
         
           The
           only
           Question
           now
           is
           about
           passive
           obedience
           ;
           they
           who
           cry
           down
           our
           defensive
           Arms
           ,
           confesse
           that
           the
           Magistrate
           cannot
           require
           any
           thing
           but
           by
           law
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           subject
           need
           not
           yeeld
           up
           his
           right
           but
           by
           Law
           ,
           no
           tie
           lies
           upon
           the
           conscience
           of
           Naboth
           to
           let
           Ahab
           have
           his
           vineyard
           :
           but
           if
           a
           Saul
           will
           by
           force
           take
           away
           
             our
             sonnes
             to
             care
             his
             ground
             ,
             and
             our
             daughters
             to
             be
             his
             Confectioners
             ,
             Cookes
             ,
             and
             Bakers
             ;
             if
             he
             will
             by
             force
             take
             our
             fields
             ,
             even
             the
             best
             of
             them
             ,
             and
             give
             them
             their
             servants
             ,
          
           we
           have
           no
           help
           in
           that
           day
           ,
           but
           
             preces
             &
             lachryma
             ,
          
           to
           cry
           unto
           our
           God
           :
           but
           no
           liberty
           to
           defend
           our selves
           by
           Armes
           against
           such
           tyrannie
           ;
           if
           we
           do
           (
           say
           they
           )
           we
           resist
           the
           ordinance
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           must
           receive
           to
           our selves
           damnation
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           this
           opinion
           be
           weighed
           in
           the
           ballance
           of
           Reason
           ,
           how
           much
           lighter
           than
           vanity
           will
           it
           be
           found
           ?
           ;
           how
           absurd
           a
           thing
           is
           it
           ,
           that
           these
           
           men
           wil
           allow
           me
           ,
           if
           the
           king
           pretend
           Law
           in
           any
           thing
           I
           may
           try
           it
           out
           with
           him
           ,
           and
           not
           when
           he
           or
           his
           Instruments
           come
           with
           open
           violence
           :
           If
           the
           king
           will
           sue
           me
           ,
           and
           by
           pretence
           of
           Law
           seek
           to
           take
           away
           my
           coat
           ,
           my
           house
           ,
           my
           land
           ,
           I
           may
           defend
           these
           from
           him
           with
           all
           the
           strength
           of
           Law
           I
           can
           ;
           but
           if
           he
           come
           with
           armed
           violence
           to
           take
           away
           my
           liberty
           ,
           life
           ,
           religion
           ,
           I
           must
           yeeld
           up
           these
           without
           making
           any
           resistance
           :
           I
           may
           secure
           that
           ,
           which
           I
           have
           nothing
           but
           
             lexterrae
          
           to
           plead
           my
           propriety
           in
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           my
           money
           ,
           which
           I
           may
           give
           away
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           my
           liberty
           ,
           life
           ,
           religion
           ,
           which
           are
           mine
           by
           the
           laws
           of
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           I
           may
           not
           secure
           with
           a
           good
           conscience
           .
           True
           it
           is
           ,
           if
           in
           case
           it
           do
           (
           upon
           circumstances
           duely
           weighed
           )
           appear
           that
           our
           receding
           from
           our
           right
           ,
           and
           not
           resisting
           wrong
           ,
           will
           tend
           to
           the
           promoving
           of
           a
           greater
           and
           a
           more
           generall
           good
           ,
           or
           the
           preventing
           of
           a
           greater
           and
           a
           more
           generall
           evill
           ,
           it
           is
           agreeable
           to
           right
           reason
           ,
           and
           our
           Saviours
           rule
           ,
           
             Mat.
          
           5.
           39.
           that
           we
           should
           both
           remit
           of
           our
           right
           ,
           and
           submit
           to
           wrong
           ,
           whether
           sued
           or
           ensued
           ,
           whether
           to
           superiours
           or
           inferiours
           ,
           or
           equals
           .
           But
           that
           men
           should
           give
           a
           liberty
           of
           defence
           in
           Law
           ,
           and
           yet
           absolutely
           condemne
           defence
           against
           unlawfull
           violence
           ,
           is
           such
           an
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           such
           an
           absurdity
           ,
           as
           you
           shall
           seldome
           meet
           with
           .
        
         
           But
           give
           me
           leave
           to
           weigh
           it
           a
           little
           further
           ;
           if
           the
           Subjects
           defending
           themselves
           by
           Armes
           against
           the
           violence
           of
           oppressing
           Governours
           and
           their
           instruments
           ,
           be
           unlawfull
           ,
           either
           it
           must
           be
           because
           their
           Prince
           hath
           by
           conquest
           spoiled
           them
           of
           that
           liberty
           ,
           which
           God
           and
           nature
           gave
           them
           at
           the
           first
           .
           Or
           secondly
           ,
           because
           they
           or
           their
           Ancestors
           having
           submitted
           by
           Covenant
           and
           Consent
           to
           him
           to
           bee
           their
           supream
           Ruler
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           they
           must
           therefore
           be
           interpreted
           to
           have
           yeelded
           up
           all
           their
           Liberty
           so
           far
           as
           to
           be
           now
           unable
           with
           a
           good
           Conscience
           to
           defend
           themselves
           against
           his
           violence
           ,
           though
           contrary
           to
           Law
           .
           Or
           thirdly
           ,
           because
           God
           hath
           lifted
           up
           Princes
           so
           far
           above
           all
           mortall
           men
           ,
           that
           all
           hands
           are
           by
           him
           bound
           from
           daring
           to
           resist
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           I
           finde
           not
           many
           pleading
           ,
           that
           peoples
           being
           conquered
           ,
           makes
           it
           unlawfull
           for
           them
           to
           defend
           themselves
           against
           the
           unjust
           violences
           of
           their
           Conquerours
           or
           his
           Successours
           :
           Most
           of
           them
           grant
           ,
           that
           the
           peoples
           right
           is
           to
           designe
           the
           person
           of
           their
           Prince
           .
           And
           indeed
           it
           is
           the
           most
           absurd
           reasoning
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           that
           because
           a
           strong
           
           robber
           hath
           over-powerd
           me
           in
           my
           house
           ,
           in
           conscience
           I
           am
           tyed
           to
           be
           his
           servant
           or
           slave
           for
           ever
           .
           Because
           
             Eglon
          
           hath
           mightily
           oppressed
           
             Israel
          
           for
           eighteen
           years
           ,
           it
           is
           unlawfull
           for
           them
           to
           shake
           of●
           his
           yoke
           when
           they
           are
           able
           to
           resist
           him
           :
           Certainly
           ,
           whatever
           of
           mine
           another
           takes
           by
           violence
           from
           me
           ,
           let
           him
           keep
           it
           never
           so
           long
           ,
           it
           is
           but
           
             Continuata
             injuria
             ,
          
           a
           continued
           wrong
           ,
           till
           I
           consent
           to
           his
           holding
           it
           ;
           And
           all
           reason
           allowes
           me
           to
           recover
           it
           again
           as
           soon
           as
           I
           can
           .
           And
           I
           fear
           not
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           had
           
             William
             ,
          
           sirnamed
           the
           conquerour
           ,
           taken
           and
           held
           this
           Crown
           only
           by
           his
           sword
           ,
           and
           ruled
           over
           the
           Nation
           only
           by
           force
           ,
           and
           all
           his
           successors
           to
           this
           day
           had
           no
           other
           claim
           to
           it
           ,
           all
           the
           reason
           in
           the
           world
           would
           allow
           us
           to
           redeem
           our selves
           from
           that
           yoke
           ,
           if
           we
           were
           able
           .
        
         
           But
           though
           the
           sword
           begin
           the
           Conquest
           ,
           yet
           many
           times
           the
           Consent
           of
           the
           people
           comes
           in
           ,
           and
           makes
           their
           Conquerour
           their
           lawfull
           King
           ;
           and
           then
           so
           far
           as
           by
           Covenant
           or
           Laws
           ,
           they
           agree
           to
           be
           under
           him
           for
           the
           publike
           safety
           and
           good
           ,
           they
           are
           bound
           up
           from
           any
           resistance
           .
           But
           that
           their
           parting
           with
           some
           of
           their
           liberty
           for
           the
           publike
           good
           should
           (
           upon
           the
           usurpation
           of
           him
           whom
           they
           have
           trusted
           )
           deprive
           them
           of
           that
           liberty
           which
           they
           never
           parted
           with
           ,
           is
           most
           abhorring
           to
           reason
           .
           Suppose
           a
           free
           man
           indents
           with
           another
           to
           be
           his
           servant
           in
           some
           ingenious
           employment
           ,
           as
           ,
           suppose
           to
           attend
           upon
           his
           person
           ;
           and
           expresly
           indents
           that
           his
           master
           shall
           not
           have
           power
           to
           command
           him
           to
           rub
           his
           horse
           heels
           ,
           or
           fill
           his
           dung
           cart
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           ;
           If
           now
           this
           master
           shall
           usurp
           ,
           and
           command
           him
           to
           such
           sordid
           employment
           ,
           and
           by
           force
           seek
           to
           compell
           him
           to
           them
           ,
           some
           shew
           of
           reason
           (
           at
           least
           )
           there
           would
           be
           for
           the
           servant
           to
           plead
           that
           his
           master
           had
           forfeited
           all
           his
           power
           over
           him
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           was
           free
           from
           his
           service
           ,
           and
           might
           go
           seek
           another
           master
           ;
           but
           no
           colour
           of
           reason
           that
           the
           servant
           hath
           now
           forfeited
           that
           immunitie
           from
           sordid
           and
           drudgery
           works
           that
           he
           first
           covenanted
           ,
           and
           must
           thenceforth
           lie
           at
           his
           masters
           feet
           ,
           as
           wholly
           prostitute
           to
           all
           his
           Imperious
           humours
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           can
           it
           be
           imagined
           ,
           by
           reason
           that
           a
           people
           submitting
           to
           a
           lawfull
           government
           ,
           should
           thereby
           be
           necessitated
           to
           that
           which
           may
           overthrow
           the
           end
           of
           all
           government
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           inability
           to
           provide
           for
           their
           common
           safety
           .
           That
           whereas
           when
           they
           were
           free
           and
           under
           no
           government
           at
           all
           ,
           they
           might
           by
           the
           law
           of
           nature
           defend
           themselves
           
           against
           injury
           :
           now
           having
           submitted
           ,
           though
           upon
           good
           conditions
           ,
           they
           are
           utterly
           disabled
           to
           defend
           themselves
           ,
           if
           he
           that
           should
           be
           their
           Protectour
           ,
           would
           prove
           their
           Murtherer
           :
           If
           he
           who
           both
           in
           himselfe
           and
           instruments
           should
           be
           onely
           for
           the
           punishment
           of
           evill
           ,
           and
           the
           praise
           of
           them
           that
           doe
           well
           ,
           will
           goe
           ,
           or
           send
           ,
           or
           suffer
           a
           company
           of
           theeves
           or
           murtherers
           to
           goe
           in
           his
           name
           ,
           and
           spoile
           and
           destroy
           them
           that
           do
           well
           :
           can
           their
           being
           subjects
           (
           in
           reason
           )
           deprive
           them
           of
           their
           defence
           allowed
           them
           by
           the
           law
           of
           nature
           ?
           yea
           ,
           were
           they
           not
           guilty
           of
           self-murther
           in
           suffering
           such
           a
           thing
           ?
           For
           instance
           ,
           some
           of
           our
           Historians
           relate
           of
           King
           
             John
             ,
          
           that
           hee
           was
           transported
           with
           so
           deep
           a
           hatred
           against
           his
           Nobles
           and
           Commons
           ,
           that
           he
           sent
           an
           Ambassadour
           to
           
             Miramumalin
             ,
          
           entituled
           the
           great
           King
           of
           Africa
           ,
           Morocco
           ,
           and
           Spain
           ,
           wherein
           he
           offered
           to
           render
           unto
           him
           his
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           to
           hold
           the
           same
           from
           him
           by
           tribute
           as
           his
           Soveraigne
           Lord
           ,
           to
           forgoe
           the
           Christian
           faith
           (
           which
           he
           held
           vaine
           )
           and
           receive
           that
           of
           
             Mahomet
             ;
          
           like
           enough
           some
           Court
           Chaplain
           (
           may
           be
           the
           Clerk
           that
           went
           on
           the
           errand
           )
           might
           warrantize
           the
           Kings
           conscience
           ,
           and
           tell
           him
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           the
           more
           shame
           for
           them
           who
           profest
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           to
           compell
           him
           to
           it
           .
           But
           whether
           the
           King
           did
           lawfully
           or
           not
           ,
           is
           not
           our
           question
           ;
           but
           whether
           the
           subjects
           might
           lawfully
           have
           resisted
           that
           attempt
           of
           his
           ,
           and
           have
           stood
           for
           their
           Religion
           ,
           Lives
           ,
           and
           Liberty
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           is
           it
           not
           quite
           contrary
           to
           reason
           ,
           that
           whereas
           Kings
           and
           Rulers
           ,
           nothing
           differing
           by
           nature
           from
           their
           meanest
           subjects
           ,
           were
           at
           first
           constituted
           ,
           and
           are
           still
           continued
           for
           the
           protection
           ,
           welfare
           ,
           benefit
           ,
           yea
           and
           service
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           and
           who
           therefore
           should
           value
           their
           prerogatives
           ,
           scepters
           ,
           and
           lives
           ,
           no
           further
           then
           they
           may
           advance
           the
           publick
           good
           ;
           yet
           if
           they
           degenerate
           ,
           and
           will
           be
           destroyers
           ,
           the
           people
           should
           suffer
           all
           to
           be
           spoiled
           ,
           as
           if
           Kingdomes
           and
           people
           had
           been
           created
           by
           God
           for
           the
           will
           ,
           pleasure
           ,
           profit
           ,
           yea
           and
           lusts
           of
           Princes
           .
           As
           if
           a
           Pilot
           purposely
           appointed
           for
           the
           safe
           wafting
           over
           of
           passengers
           ,
           who
           in
           stead
           thereof
           will
           dash
           the
           ship
           against
           the
           rocks
           :
           Or
           a
           Generall
           purposely
           chosen
           (
           and
           to
           whom
           the
           Souldiers
           have
           therefore
           sworne
           )
           for
           the
           safetie
           of
           the
           whole
           Army
           ,
           should
           yet
           turn
           the
           Cannon
           mouth
           upon
           his
           own
           Souldiers
           ,
           or
           deliver
           them
           all
           up
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           enemy
           :
           the
           passengers
           and
           souldiers
           ,
           yea
           ,
           the
           officers
           in
           
           the
           ship
           ,
           and
           councell
           of
           war
           in
           the
           Army
           ,
           should
           be
           morally
           disabled
           from
           doing
           any
           thing
           to
           prevent
           their
           own
           apparent
           destruction
           .
           By
           this
           reason
           the
           Bishop
           of
           
             Burgen
          
           in
           the
           Councel
           of
           
             Basil
          
           proved
           the
           Councel
           to
           be
           above
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           a
           kingdome
           above
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           said
           they
           were
           but
           flatterers
           who
           taught
           otherwise
           .
        
         
           And
           fourthly
           ,
           doth
           not
           right
           reason
           as
           much
           abhor
           this
           ,
           that
           whereas
           Princes
           are
           the
           publick
           fathers
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           owe
           them
           the
           duty
           of
           children
           ,
           that
           these
           children
           should
           be
           prohibited
           from
           keeping
           their
           publick
           fathers
           from
           the
           greatest
           evils
           :
           If
           our
           naturall
           father
           through
           ignorance
           or
           distemper
           should
           go
           into
           a
           pest-house
           ,
           his
           children
           might
           by
           force
           fetch
           him
           out
           ;
           or
           if
           in
           a
           raging
           passion
           go
           about
           to
           kill
           himself
           ,
           wife
           ,
           children
           ,
           or
           any
           others
           ,
           their
           children
           may
           disarm
           them
           ,
           yea
           we
           are
           tied
           not
           to
           suffer
           friend
           or
           foe
           to
           incurre
           the
           guilt
           of
           rapine
           or
           blood
           ,
           if
           it
           lie
           in
           our
           power
           to
           hinder
           it
           ;
           and
           (
           speak
           to
           my
           reason
           )
           what
           evil
           have
           Princes
           deserved
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           go
           about
           to
           murder
           themselves
           ,
           subjects
           and
           children
           ,
           not
           any
           of
           their
           people
           ,
           no
           not
           the
           whole
           body
           politick
           should
           have
           power
           to
           restrain
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           if
           reason
           will
           allow
           this
           liberty
           of
           resistance
           to
           private
           persons
           (
           as
           even
           
             Barclay
          
           and
           
             Grotius
          
           the
           two
           great
           propugners
           of
           the
           sacred
           and
           inviolable
           power
           of
           Kings
           ,
           grant
           )
           how
           much
           more
           clear
           ,
           honourable
           ,
           and
           safe
           must
           such
           a
           defence
           needs
           be
           ,
           when
           done
           by
           the
           representative
           body
           of
           a
           state
           ,
           who
           are
           Gods
           ordinance
           as
           well
           as
           kings
           ,
           the
           ministers
           of
           God
           sent
           by
           him
           to
           be
           a
           terrour
           to
           evill
           ,
           and
           a
           praise
           to
           them
           that
           do
           well
           .
           And
           in
           England
           are
           the
           highest
           Court
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           and
           in
           whom
           his
           Majesty
           confesses
           there
           is
           legally
           placed
           sufficient
           power
           to
           prevent
           Tyranny
           .
        
         
           Upon
           such
           reasons
           as
           these
           ,
           not
           only
           Heathens
           have
           resisted
           their
           Princes
           ,
           when
           bent
           to
           subvert
           their
           laws
           and
           liberties
           ;
           but
           even
           most
           of
           the
           States
           of
           Christendome
           ,
           Papists
           and
           Protestants
           when
           they
           have
           been
           put
           to
           it
           ,
           have
           borne
           defensive
           Armes
           against
           the
           unlawfull
           violences
           of
           their
           mis-led
           Princes
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           if
           notwithstanding
           all
           this
           faire
           shew
           of
           reason
           Gods
           word
           hath
           determined
           the
           contrary
           ,
           we
           must
           lay
           our
           hands
           upon
           our
           mouths
           ,
           and
           shall
           no
           longer
           deserve
           to
           be
           accounted
           the
           servants
           and
           subjects
           of
           Christ
           ,
           then
           while
           we
           turne
           our
           reason
           (
           how
           specious
           soever
           )
           out
           of
           doores
           ,
           when
           once
           it
           offers
           to
           oppose
           the
           least
           
             Iota
          
           of
           his
           revealed
           
           will
           .
           But
           where
           is
           this
           Scripture
           to
           be
           found
           ?
           Certainly
           the
           good
           Subjects
           in
           the
           Old
           Testament
           knew
           it
           not
           .
           
             Sauls
          
           Subjects
           who
           swore
           that
           
             Saul
          
           should
           not
           kill
           
             Jonathan
             ,
          
           nor
           pluck
           an
           haire
           from
           his
           head
           ,
           though
           
             Saul
          
           had
           sworn
           by
           God
           he
           should
           die
           ,
           knew
           no
           such
           Scripture
           :
           and
           I
           beleeve
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           same
           men
           had
           bin
           about
           him
           when
           he
           protested
           the
           Priests
           of
           the
           Lord
           should
           die
           ,
           they
           would
           not
           only
           have
           with-held
           their
           own
           ,
           but
           
             Doegs
          
           hands
           from
           doing
           execution
           .
           
             David
          
           knew
           no
           such
           Scripture
           ;
           nor
           the
           600
           men
           with
           him
           ,
           that
           would
           have
           fortified
           
             Keilah
          
           against
           
             Saul
             .
          
           Nor
           those
           many
           choice
           men
           of
           the
           severall
           Tribes
           of
           Israel
           ,
           among
           whom
           were
           some
           of
           
             Sauls
          
           brethren
           and
           kindred
           and
           chief
           officers
           ,
           that
           fell
           to
           
             David
          
           (
           though
           
             Saul
          
           had
           proclaimed
           him
           Traitor
           )
           from
           day
           to
           day
           to
           help
           him
           ,
           till
           it
           was
           a
           great
           host
           like
           the
           host
           of
           God
           :
           And
           all
           this
           while
           
             David
          
           was
           (
           though
           an
           innocent
           ,
           yet
           )
           but
           a
           private
           man
           .
           And
           I
           think
           if
           
             Elias
          
           had
           took
           himself
           bound
           in
           conscience
           to
           render
           himself
           prisoner
           to
           the
           Captains
           which
           
             Ahaziah
          
           sent
           for
           him
           ,
           he
           would
           not
           have
           killed
           them
           with
           fire
           from
           heaven
           :
           Neither
           would
           
             Elisha
          
           have
           taken
           such
           a
           rough
           course
           with
           the
           messengers
           sent
           to
           take
           his
           head
           .
           Nor
           would
           the
           eighty
           valiant
           Priests
           have
           thrust
           
             Uzziah
          
           by
           force
           out
           of
           the
           Temple
           ,
           who
           was
           a
           King
           still
           ,
           though
           a
           Leper
           .
           Neither
           can
           these
           examples
           be
           eluded
           with
           saying
           these
           were
           extraordinary
           persons
           ;
           for
           first
           they
           were
           not
           all
           so
           ,
           not
           the
           people
           that
           resisted
           
             Saul
             ,
          
           nor
           the
           people
           that
           fell
           to
           
             David
             ,
          
           nor
           the
           eighty
           Priests
           ,
           unlesse
           in
           the
           extraordinarinesse
           and
           valiancy
           of
           their
           spirits
           :
           And
           for
           the
           extraordinary
           persons
           themselves
           ,
           I
           know
           nothing
           why
           their
           examples
           may
           not
           be
           pleaded
           ,
           for
           our
           Defensive
           Armes
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           
             Davids
          
           eating
           the
           shewbread
           was
           pleaded
           by
           our
           Saviour
           for
           his
           Disciples
           rubbing
           the
           ears
           of
           corn
           ,
           unlesse
           they
           can
           first
           shew
           ,
           that
           their
           practice
           was
           against
           a
           known
           law
           ,
           I
           mean
           ,
           unlesse
           there
           were
           some
           known
           law
           that
           Innocents
           might
           not
           defend
           themselves
           ,
           and
           one
           another
           against
           the
           unjust
           violence
           of
           their
           princes
           .
           Indeed
           we
           often
           read
           in
           the
           Old
           Testament
           of
           fearing
           the
           King
           ,
           honouring
           the
           King
           ,
           obeying
           the
           King
           ,
           which
           their
           practice
           shews
           they
           understood
           to
           binde
           them
           to
           yeeld
           Honour
           ,
           Loyaltie
           ,
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           Subjection
           to
           their
           Magistrates
           according
           to
           law
           ;
           but
           not
           that
           they
           were
           bound
           to
           let
           them
           doe
           what
           mischief
           they
           pleased
        
         
         
           Neither
           is
           there
           any
           more
           in
           the
           new
           Testament
           ;
           there
           indeed
           are
           full
           and
           frequent
           exhortations
           to
           submit
           our selves
           to
           Magistrates
           ,
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           higher
           Powers
           which
           are
           ordained
           of
           God
           ,
           &
           not
           to
           resist
           the
           Ordinance
           of
           God
           ;
           but
           not
           one
           word
           that
           we
           may
           not
           resist
           the
           Tyrannie
           of
           men
           ,
           no
           colour
           for
           it
           ,
           unlesse
           any
           wil
           say
           that
           Tyranny
           is
           Gods
           Ordinance
           ,
           that
           Tyrants
           bear
           the
           sword
           for
           the
           punishment
           of
           evil
           doers
           ,
           are
           the
           Ministers
           of
           God
           ,
           &c.
           full
           proof
           there
           is
           that
           we
           must
           be
           under
           the
           authority
           of
           Rulers
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           under
           their
           Legall
           Commands
           ;
           not
           one
           word
           of
           being
           at
           the
           dispose
           of
           their
           illegall
           wills
           :
           The
           word
           used
           there
           is
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           derived
           
             ab
          
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           
             licet
             ,
          
           to
           shew
           ,
           as
           one
           observes
           ,
           that
           the
           Text
           bindes
           subjects
           to
           obey
           Superiours
           not
           
             ad
             libitum
             ,
          
           but
           
             ad
             licitum
             ,
          
           not
           to
           obey
           their
           lawlesse
           lusts
           &
           wils
           ,
           but
           their
           lawfull
           authority
           ,
           without
           resisting
           .
           And
           surely
           it
           were
           strange
           ,
           that
           if
           God
           had
           laid
           this
           yoke
           of
           subjection
           to
           the
           illegall
           will
           of
           Rulers
           ,
           that
           neither
           the
           Jews
           under
           their
           Kings
           ,
           nor
           under
           
             Antiochus
             ,
          
           nor
           the
           Churches
           of
           Christ
           ,
           nor
           the
           primitive
           Churches
           after
           once
           their
           Religion
           and
           Liberties
           were
           established
           by
           Laws
           ,
           nor
           any
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Churches
           have
           took
           themselves
           concluded
           under
           it
           :
           which
           of
           all
           the
           Reformed
           Churches
           have
           not
           by
           their
           practice
           manifested
           ,
           that
           Religion
           bindes
           them
           not
           to
           give
           their
           throats
           to
           be
           cut
           ,
           or
           their
           liberties
           and
           states
           to
           be
           spoiled
           at
           the
           meer
           will
           of
           their
           Princes
           and
           their
           Instruments
           ,
           contrary
           to
           their
           own
           Laws
           and
           Edicts
           ?
           Were
           not
           the
           Lutheran
           Churches
           put
           to
           it
           ,
           and
           defended
           themselves
           against
           the
           Emperour
           
             Charles
          
           the
           fifth
           ,
           when
           the
           Smalchaldian
           confederacie
           was
           entring
           ?
           Did
           not
           both
           the
           Divines
           and
           Lawyers
           being
           consulted
           with
           ,
           agree
           ,
           that
           the
           inferiour
           Magistrates
           might
           at
           some
           time
           resist
           the
           Superiour
           ?
           Have
           not
           the
           States
           and
           Churches
           of
           the
           Netherlands
           done
           the
           like
           constantly
           against
           the
           King
           of
           Spain
           ?
           the
           Protestants
           in
           France
           against
           their
           Kings
           ?
           How
           often
           ,
           and
           how
           lately
           have
           our
           Brethren
           in
           Scotland
           done
           the
           same
           ?
           And
           although
           since
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           England
           was
           never
           put
           to
           it
           ,
           untill
           these
           unhappie
           differences
           ,
           yet
           how
           constantly
           have
           our
           most
           learned
           Divines
           ,
           Bishops
           as
           well
           as
           others
           ,
           defended
           by
           their
           Pens
           ,
           and
           our
           Princes
           and
           States
           by
           their
           aides
           of
           men
           and
           money
           ,
           their
           distressed
           and
           oppressed
           Brethren
           and
           Neighbours
           in
           the
           like
           case
           ?
           and
           now
           in
           our
           own
           sight
           both
           the
           King
           and
           States
           have
           acquitted
           the
           Scots
           ,
           as
           having
           done
           nothing
           in
           their
           late
           defence
           ,
           but
           what
           became
           good
           subjects
           .
           And
           what
           
           the
           judgment
           of
           this
           Nation
           was
           in
           the
           time
           of
           popery
           is
           plain
           enough
           by
           their
           practice
           ,
           in
           their
           usuall
           taking
           of
           Armes
           ,
           and
           not
           leaving
           till
           they
           had
           compelled
           their
           Princes
           to
           ratifie
           their
           Priviledges
           and
           Charters
           ,
           which
           through
           ill
           Counsellors
           they
           had
           infringed
           .
           And
           observeable
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           because
           the
           Bishops
           and
           Clergie
           of
           those
           times
           saw
           the
           Princes
           go
           about
           to
           take
           down
           their
           pride
           ,
           they
           were
           ever
           the
           most
           forward
           to
           justifie
           the
           proceeding
           of
           the
           State
           ;
           and
           I
           suspect
           ,
           in
           case
           the
           Tables
           were
           turned
           ,
           and
           we
           had
           a
           King
           endeavouring
           to
           take
           down
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           to
           take
           away
           Pluralites
           ,
           Non-residents
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           a
           Parliament
           seeking
           to
           maintain
           them
           ,
           the
           world
           would
           hear
           another
           Divinitie
           from
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           who
           now
           cry
           out
           ,
           that
           all
           our
           defence
           is
           damnable
           .
        
         
           But
           lest
           I
           might
           be
           thought
           not
           to
           have
           vveighed
           the
           Scripture
           and
           reasons
           of
           both
           sides
           equally
           ,
           I
           vvill
           give
           you
           a
           further
           account
           vvhat
           my
           thoughts
           vvere
           ,
           and
           are
           concerning
           the
           Scriptures
           usually
           pleaded
           against
           this
           resistance
           ,
           and
           the
           reasons
           deduced
           from
           them
           .
           The
           strongest
           hold
           they
           pretend
           to
           ,
           is
           built
           upon
           
             Romans
          
           13.
           1.
           &c.
           1.
           
           
             Peter
          
           2.
           13
           ,
           14.
           vvhere
           vve
           are
           enjoyned
           subjection
           to
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           ,
           especially
           to
           the
           King
           as
           Supreme
           ,
           and
           all
           know
           that
           
             Nero
          
           the
           then
           supreme
           Governour
           ,
           was
           no
           better
           then
           a
           Tyrant
           .
           
             Answ.
          
           First
           ,
           it
           is
           observable
           that
           this
           objection
           ,
           and
           almost
           all
           the
           rest
           taken
           out
           of
           the
           Scripture
           ,
           make
           the
           case
           of
           all
           Subjects
           in
           all
           Kingdomes
           to
           be
           alike
           ;
           that
           although
           (
           as
           I
           touched
           before
           )
           there
           are
           hardly
           two
           Kingdomes
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           but
           do
           differ
           in
           Lavves
           ,
           Customes
           ,
           and
           Constitutions
           ,
           bounding
           the
           Kings
           authority
           ,
           and
           the
           Subjects
           obedience
           ,
           yet
           if
           any
           of
           these
           would
           change
           the
           bounds
           of
           his
           authoritie
           (
           for
           instance
           ,
           If
           the
           King
           of
           
             Denmarke
             ,
          
           or
           
             Sweden
             ,
          
           or
           
             Polonia
             ,
          
           vvould
           invade
           the
           libertie
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           make
           himselfe
           as
           absolute
           ,
           (
           not
           onely
           as
           the
           King
           of
           
             England
             ,
          
           but
           )
           as
           the
           King
           of
           
             France
             ,
          
           or
           
             Spaine
             ,
          
           or
           the
           great
           
             Turke
             )
          
           this
           argument
           tyes
           all
           their
           Subjects
           from
           resisting
           ;
           let
           any
           man
           shew
           an
           out-gate
           for
           the
           Subjects
           of
           the
           one
           ,
           vvhich
           vvill
           not
           let
           out
           others
           ,
           and
           for
           my
           part
           I
           vvill
           yeeld
           the
           cause
           :
           If
           they
           say
           these
           Kings
           took
           their
           Crowns
           upon
           those
           termes
           ,
           and
           the
           Subjects
           indented
           to
           have
           liberty
           of
           resistance
           in
           such
           cases
           ,
           then
           they
           grant
           that
           vvhere
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           allovv
           a
           liberty
           of
           resistance
           ,
           resistance
           may
           be
           used
           notvvithstanding
           these
           texts
           ,
           which
           is
           as
           much
           as
           vve
           plead
           for
           :
           If
           any
           people
           have
           covenanted
           in
           no
           case
           
           to
           resist
           ,
           let
           them
           seek
           another
           answer
           ,
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           these
           Texts
           tie
           not
           those
           from
           resisting
           (
           by
           their
           own
           answer
           )
           who
           have
           not
           tyed
           themselves
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           I
           appeal
           to
           their
           own
           judgements
           ,
           whether
           these
           Texts
           forbid
           all
           forcible
           resistance
           ;
           Suppose
           a
           Prince
           in
           his
           rage
           should
           go
           about
           to
           kill
           himself
           ,
           or
           run
           some
           innocent
           man
           thorow
           with
           his
           sword
           ,
           might
           no
           man
           take
           the
           sword
           out
           of
           his
           hand
           ?
           and
           if
           it
           be
           lawfull
           for
           a
           private
           man
           to
           dis-arme
           him
           of
           the
           weapons
           wherewith
           he
           would
           kill
           one
           ,
           may
           not
           the
           State
           take
           such
           weapons
           out
           of
           his
           or
           the
           hands
           of
           his
           Instruments
           ,
           wherewith
           they
           go
           about
           to
           destroy
           all
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           both
           Texts
           lay
           the
           same
           charge
           for
           subjection
           to
           inferiour
           Magistrates
           ,
           who
           likewise
           have
           their
           authoritie
           from
           God
           ,
           though
           under
           the
           Superiour
           :
           As
           our
           Saviour
           said
           to
           
             Pilate
             ,
          
           who
           was
           buta
           Deputy
           ,
           thou
           couldst
           have
           no
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           no
           power
           at
           all
           against
           me
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           not
           given
           thee
           from
           above
           .
           And
           may
           no
           resistance
           be
           made
           against
           the
           unjust
           violence
           of
           inferiour
           Officers
           ;
           if
           there
           may
           ,
           it
           is
           sufficient
           ;
           sure
           I
           am
           ,
           the
           Texts
           have
           not
           one
           word
           to
           allow
           the
           one
           ,
           and
           prohibite
           the
           other
           .
           Fourthly
           ,
           what
           one
           syllable
           in
           either
           of
           these
           Texts
           so
           much
           as
           looks
           towards
           the
           forbidding
           of
           a
           people
           to
           resist
           Tyrannie
           ,
           but
           onely
           that
           we
           resist
           not
           the
           Magistrates
           in
           the
           rightfull
           exercise
           of
           their
           authority
           given
           them
           by
           God
           :
           the
           Texts
           speak
           not
           of
           their
           persons
           ,
           but
           of
           their
           power
           ;
           not
           of
           their
           dictates
           ,
           but
           of
           their
           legall
           commands
           ;
           no
           more
           of
           Kings
           than
           of
           an
           higher
           power
           in
           an
           Aristocracie
           ,
           or
           Democracie
           ,
           binding
           all
           persons
           to
           subject
           themselves
           to
           that
           Power
           and
           Authoritie
           which
           in
           the
           severall
           places
           vvhere
           they
           live
           is
           the
           highest
           or
           supreme
           power
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           But
           
             Nero
          
           was
           a
           Tyrant
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           Not
           in
           his
           five
           first
           years
           ;
           nor
           secondly
           ,
           vvas
           he
           a
           Tyrant
           in
           all
           things
           ;
           he
           had
           authoritie
           to
           rule
           according
           to
           Law
           ,
           that
           was
           not
           his
           Tyrannie
           ;
           his
           Tyrannie
           was
           ,
           what
           he
           usurped
           contrary
           to
           the
           Law
           :
           nor
           thirdly
           ,
           vvere
           all
           his
           under-officers
           Tyrants
           ,
           many
           of
           them
           could
           say
           with
           
             Festus
             ,
             Acts
             25.
             
             It
             is
             not
             the
             manner
             of
             the
             Romanes
             to
             deliver
             any
             man
             to
             die
             ,
             before
             that
             hee
             which
             is
             accused
             ,
             have
             the
             accusers
             face
             to
             face
             ,
             and
             have
             leave
             to
             answer
             for
             himself
             ;
          
           and
           vvould
           accordingly
           dismisse
           them
           ,
           if
           they
           
             had
             done
             nothing
             worthie
             of
             death
             ,
             or
             of
             bonds
             .
          
        
         
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           2.
           
           But
           doth
           not
           the
           thirteenth
           Chapter
           of
           the
           Romanes
           plainly
           binde
           up
           mens
           hands
           from
           resisting
           the
           supreme
           Power
           ?
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           By
           the
           Supreme
           power
           must
           be
           meant
           ,
           that
           power
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           originall
           and
           fundamentall
           Constitution
           of
           any
           people
           and
           Nation
           ,
           hath
           authoritie
           to
           make
           Laws
           which
           shall
           binde
           the
           whole
           Nation
           ,
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           estates
           and
           lives
           of
           any
           person
           or
           persons
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           to
           judge
           every
           person
           and
           persons
           in
           the
           Nation
           determinatively
           and
           conclusively
           ,
           so
           as
           from
           that
           judgement
           there
           is
           no
           appealing
           ,
           that
           power
           it self
           being
           subject
           to
           the
           judgement
           and
           authoritie
           of
           none
           but
           God
           :
           and
           
             Aristotle
          
           makes
           three
           distinct
           Branches
           of
           this
           power
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           power
           of
           making
           and
           repealing
           Lawes
           ,
           a
           Legislative
           power
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           The
           power
           of
           making
           War
           and
           Peace
           ,
           of
           imposing
           Customes
           and
           Tributes
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           The
           power
           of
           judging
           Causes
           and
           Crimes
           ultimately
           and
           decisively
           :
           where
           these
           three
           meet
           ,
           and
           make
           their
           residence
           ,
           whether
           in
           one
           person
           ,
           as
           in
           absolute
           Monarchs
           ;
           or
           in
           many
           ,
           as
           in
           mixed
           Monarchies
           or
           Aristocracies
           ;
           or
           in
           the
           body
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           ancient
           Romane
           government
           ,
           there
           is
           the
           highest
           power
           which
           every
           soul
           is
           forbidden
           to
           resist
           :
           But
           now
           what
           ever
           be
           the
           higher
           power
           in
           England
           ,
           most
           certain
           it
           is
           ,
           that
           the
           Kings
           absolute
           or
           illegall
           will
           ,
           is
           not
           the
           highest
           power
           ,
           that
           hath
           neither
           power
           to
           make
           Laws
           ,
           nor
           repeale
           Laws
           ;
           that
           hath
           not
           power
           to
           acquit
           or
           condemne
           ;
           nor
           may
           men
           appeal
           from
           the
           Kings
           lawfull
           judgement
           Seat
           to
           the
           Kings
           absolute
           will
           ;
           but
           his
           legall
           will
           in
           the
           highest
           Court
           ,
           or
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           may
           make
           Lawes
           or
           repeal
           Lawes
           ,
           may
           engage
           the
           whole
           Nation
           in
           a
           War
           ,
           and
           command
           both
           the
           Bodies
           and
           Purses
           of
           men
           unto
           the
           service
           ,
           is
           the
           highest
           Court
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           to
           which
           all
           my
           appeal
           ,
           and
           from
           which
           none
           may
           appeal
           ,
           and
           consequently
           against
           which
           there
           is
           no
           resistance
           .
           So
           that
           if
           men
           would
           read
           this
           Text
           of
           the
           thirteenth
           to
           the
           Romans
           ,
           in
           plain
           English
           it
           amounts
           directly
           to
           thus
           much
           ,
           Let
           every
           soul
           in
           England
           be
           subject
           to
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           the
           higher
           powers
           ordained
           unto
           you
           of
           God
           ,
           whosoever
           therefore
           resisteth
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ,
           resisteth
           the
           Ordinance
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           they
           that
           resist
           shal
           receive
           to
           themselves
           damnation
           .
           I
           would
           desire
           no
           other
           Text
           but
           this
           to
           confound
           the
           great
           Chaplains
           and
           Champions
           of
           the
           Antiparliamentary
           
           cause
           ,
           or
           to
           strike
           terrour
           into
           their
           Loynes
           ,
           if
           their
           long
           conversing
           with
           
             God-dammee's
             ,
          
           hath
           not
           drawn
           such
           a
           Kawl
           over
           their
           hearts
           ,
           that
           to
           them
           damnation
           is
           ridiculous
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           3.
           
           But
           doth
           not
           Saint
           
             Peter
          
           say
           expresly
           ,
           the
           King
           is
           Supreme
           ,
           1
           
             Pet.
          
           2.
           12.
           
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           1.
           
           It
           may
           as
           well
           be
           translated
           Superiour
           ,
           as
           Supreme
           ,
           the
           same
           word
           in
           the
           13
           of
           the
           
             Romans
          
           is
           translated
           Superiour
           ,
           higher
           ,
           not
           highest
           .
           2.
           
           It
           is
           plain
           ,
           the
           Apostle
           is
           not
           there
           constituting
           Governments
           ,
           but
           giving
           direction
           to
           people
           to
           obey
           the
           Government
           they
           lived
           under
           ;
           and
           the
           Text
           hath
           as
           much
           strength
           to
           enforce
           subjection
           to
           Aristocracy
           ,
           as
           to
           Monarchy
           :
           If
           the
           people
           of
           
             Pontus
             ,
             Asia
             ,
             Cappadocia
             ,
             Bithynia
             ,
          
           were
           under
           an
           absolute
           Monarchy
           ,
           as
           sometimes
           they
           were
           ,
           being
           petty
           Kingdoms
           crumbled
           out
           of
           the
           great
           Monarchy
           of
           
             Alexander
             ;
          
           and
           it
           may
           be
           did
           retain
           yet
           the
           same
           forme
           of
           Government
           ,
           if
           not
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           yet
           as
           lately
           received
           from
           the
           Romans
           ;
           all
           that
           can
           be
           enforced
           from
           thence
           is
           ,
           That
           the
           Apostle
           names
           the
           Kings
           of
           those
           particular
           Countries
           to
           be
           such
           as
           they
           were
           ,
           and
           commands
           subjection
           to
           them
           ,
           but
           no
           wayes
           tyes
           other
           kingdoms
           to
           be
           like
           unto
           them
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           4.
           
           But
           we
           in
           England
           by
           our
           oaths
           ,
           do
           acknowledge
           the
           King
           to
           be
           Supreme
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           1.
           
           We
           willingly
           grant
           Him
           to
           be
           Supreme
           ,
           to
           judge
           all
           persons
           in
           all
           causes
           according
           to
           His
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           the
           established
           Orders
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           not
           at
           ,
           or
           by
           His
           absolute
           will
           or
           pleasure
           .
           2.
           
           Whoever
           considers
           the
           title
           ,
           scope
           ,
           and
           words
           ,
           both
           of
           the
           Oath
           and
           the
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           that
           enjoynes
           it
           ,
           will
           easily
           see
           that
           both
           the
           Act
           and
           Oath
           were
           intended
           in
           opposition
           to
           that
           Supremacie
           which
           the
           Pope
           sometimes
           challenged
           and
           usurped
           in
           this
           Kingdome
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           no
           more
           :
           And
           this
           to
           be
           the
           true
           intent
           and
           meaning
           of
           it
           ,
           appears
           more
           fully
           by
           that
           explication
           or
           limitation
           of
           the
           Oath
           ,
           made
           the
           next
           Parliament
           ,
           5.
           
             Eliz.
          
           Wherein
           it
           is
           declared
           ,
           That
           that
           Oath
           made
           ,
           1.
           
             Eliz.
          
           shall
           be
           taken
           and
           expounded
           in
           such
           form
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           set
           forth
           in
           an
           admonition
           added
           to
           the
           Queens
           Injunctions
           published
           ,
           
             Anno
          
           1.
           of
           Her
           Raign
           ,
           viz.
           To
           confesse
           or
           acknowledge
           in
           Her
           ,
           Her
           Heirs
           and
           Successors
           ,
           no
           other
           Authority
           then
           that
           which
           was
           challenged
           and
           
           lately
           used
           by
           King
           
             Henry
          
           the
           eighth
           ,
           and
           
             Edward
          
           the
           sixth
           .
           And
           by
           this
           time
           you
           may
           see
           how
           little
           offensive
           these
           two
           (
           so
           much
           boasted
           )
           Texts
           are
           to
           our
           defensive
           Arms
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           Other
           places
           of
           Scriptures
           the
           adversaries
           seeme
           not
           much
           to
           confide
           in
           ,
           therefore
           I
           will
           passe
           them
           over
           the
           more
           briefly
           ;
           yet
           let
           us
           a
           little
           consider
           of
           them
           ,
           
             Matth.
          
           26.
           52.
           
           
             They
             that
             take
             the
             sword
             shall
             perish
             with
             the
             sword
             .
          
           Where
           Christ
           seems
           to
           rebuke
           
             Peter
          
           for
           using
           defensive
           arms
           against
           the
           officers
           that
           came
           with
           a
           pretext
           of
           authority
           to
           apprehend
           Christ
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           1.
           
           This
           is
           not
           a
           reproof
           of
           the
           sword
           taken
           for
           just
           defence
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           sword
           taken
           for
           unjust
           oppression
           ,
           and
           a
           comfort
           to
           those
           that
           are
           oppressed
           by
           it
           ;
           for
           
             Origen
             ,
             Theophylact
             ,
             Titus
             ,
             Euthimius
             ,
          
           interpret
           the
           meaning
           to
           be
           ,
           That
           Christ
           doth
           not
           rebuke
           
             Peter
          
           for
           using
           defensive
           Arms
           ,
           but
           to
           let
           
             Peter
          
           know
           that
           he
           need
           not
           snatch
           Gods
           Work
           out
           of
           his
           hand
           ;
           for
           God
           would
           in
           due
           time
           punish
           those
           with
           the
           sword
           ,
           that
           came
           thus
           with
           the
           sword
           against
           him
           ;
           and
           that
           these
           words
           are
           a
           Prophesie
           of
           the
           punishment
           which
           the
           Roman
           sword
           should
           enact
           of
           the
           bloudy
           Jewish
           Nation
           ;
           according
           with
           the
           like
           expression
           ,
           
             Revel.
          
           13.
           10.
           
           
             He
             that
             kills
             with
             the
             sword
             ,
             must
             be
             killed
             with
             the
             sword
             ,
             here
             is
             the
             patience
             ,
             and
             faith
             of
             the
             Saints
             ,
          
           that
           is
           ,
           This
           may
           comfort
           the
           Saints
           in
           their
           persecutions
           ,
           that
           God
           will
           take
           vengeance
           for
           them
           .
           But
           secondly
           ,
           Suppose
           it
           was
           a
           reproof
           of
           
             Peters
          
           using
           the
           sword
           ;
           then
           the
           plain
           meaning
           is
           to
           condemn
           
             Peters
          
           rashnesse
           ,
           who
           drew
           his
           sword
           ,
           and
           never
           staid
           to
           know
           his
           Masters
           minde
           ,
           whether
           he
           should
           strike
           or
           not
           ;
           and
           so
           reproves
           those
           who
           rashly
           ,
           unlawfully
           ,
           or
           doubtingly
           use
           the
           sword
           :
           Adde
           this
           ,
           That
           now
           was
           the
           hour
           come
           of
           Christs
           suffering
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           his
           Apostles
           fighting
           ,
           wherein
           Christ
           would
           not
           be
           rescued
           ,
           no
           ,
           not
           by
           twelve
           Legions
           of
           Angels
           ,
           much
           lesse
           then
           by
           the
           sword
           of
           man
           ;
           Therefore
           he
           saith
           to
           
             Peter
             ,
          
           Put
           up
           thy
           sword
           ,
           &c.
           
           But
           intended
           not
           that
           it
           should
           alwayes
           be
           unlawfull
           for
           his
           people
           to
           use
           the
           sword
           in
           their
           just
           defence
           ,
           against
           unjust
           violence
           ;
           for
           then
           he
           would
           never
           have
           commanded
           them
           ,
           but
           a
           little
           before
           ,
           that
           
             he
             that
             hath
             two
             Coats
             ,
             let
             him
             sell
             one
             and
             buy
             a
             sword
             .
          
        
         
           
             Object
             .
             Eccles.
          
           8.
           2.
           
           &c.
           
             I
             counsell
             thee
             to
             keep
             the
             Kings
             Commandment
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           
             He
             doth
             whatever
             he
             pleaseth
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           
             Where
             the
             word
             of
             a
             King
             is
             ,
             there
             is
             power
             ,
             and
             who
             may
             say
             to
             him
             ,
             What
             dost
             thou
             ?
          
        
         
         
           
             Answ.
          
           1.
           
           No
           man
           can
           understand
           it
           literally
           in
           all
           things
           ,
           as
           if
           every
           commandment
           of
           the
           King
           must
           be
           kept
           ,
           as
           if
           no
           actions
           of
           the
           King
           might
           be
           scanned
           ,
           nor
           reproved
           by
           any
           man
           ,
           as
           the
           Canonists
           say
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           That
           if
           he
           lead
           thousands
           to
           hel
           ,
           none
           may
           say
           ,
           Why
           dost
           thou
           so
           ?
           Surely
           ,
           if
           
             Saul
          
           command
           to
           murder
           the
           Lords
           Priests
           ,
           that
           commandment
           need
           not
           be
           kept
           ?
           If
           
             David
          
           lie
           with
           his
           neighbours
           wife
           ,
           
             Nathan
          
           may
           say
           ,
           Why
           dost
           thou
           so
           ?
           If
           
             Ahab
          
           murder
           
             Naboth
             ,
          
           and
           swallow
           his
           inheritance
           ,
           worship
           
             Baal
             ,
          
           persecute
           and
           kill
           the
           Prophets
           of
           the
           Lord
           ,
           
             Elijah
          
           may
           reprove
           him
           ,
           notwithstanding
           this
           Text
           ,
           
             Who
             can
             say
             unto
             him
             what
             dost
             thou
             ?
          
           Secondly
           ,
           The
           Text
           plainly
           enough
           interprets
           it self
           ,
           Keep
           the
           Kings
           commandment
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           oath
           of
           God
           ,
           stand
           not
           in
           an
           evil
           thing
           against
           him
           ,
           he
           hath
           power
           to
           do
           whatever
           he
           will
           .
           
             Si
             scelus
             patraveris
             ,
             effugere
             non
             poteris
             ,
          
           If
           you
           commit
           evil
           ,
           you
           cannot
           escape
           punishment
           :
           where
           the
           word
           of
           a
           King
           is
           ,
           there
           is
           power
           ,
           
             viz.
          
           to
           punish
           them
           that
           do
           evil
           ,
           and
           none
           to
           call
           him
           to
           account
           for
           doing
           it
           ,
           and
           who
           can
           say
           unto
           him
           ,
           What
           dost
           thou
           ?
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           Another
           text
           is
           ,
           
             Proverb
             .
          
           8.
           15.
           
           
             By
             me
             Kings
             reigne
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           Whence
           they
           plead
           ,
           that
           because
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           receive
           their
           authority
           only
           from
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           at
           the
           utmost
           only
           designe
           the
           Person
           ,
           but
           give
           him
           none
           of
           his
           power
           ;
           therefore
           they
           may
           in
           no
           case
           take
           away
           his
           power
           from
           him
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           1.
           
           It
           saith
           no
           more
           of
           Kings
           ,
           then
           of
           Nobles
           ,
           Senators
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Judges
           of
           the
           earth
           :
           for
           it
           follows
           ,
           
             By
             me
             Princes
             rule
             ,
             and
             Nobles
             ,
             even
             all
             the
             Judges
             of
             the
             Earth
             .
          
           Secondly
           ,
           Although
           no
           such
           thing
           is
           in
           the
           Text
           ,
           that
           the
           people
           give
           no
           power
           to
           the
           Magistrate
           ,
           yet
           we
           will
           suppose
           it
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           what
           then
           will
           follow
           more
           then
           this
           ?
           That
           although
           they
           may
           not
           take
           from
           the
           Magistrate
           that
           power
           which
           God
           hath
           given
           him
           ;
           yet
           they
           may
           defend
           themselves
           against
           such
           unjust
           violences
           ,
           as
           God
           never
           gave
           the
           Magistrate
           power
           to
           commit
           .
           A
           woman
           hath
           power
           to
           designe
           the
           person
           of
           her
           husband
           to
           her self
           ,
           but
           the
           authoritie
           of
           a
           husband
           is
           from
           God
           ;
           now
           though
           the
           wife
           may
           not
           take
           away
           the
           husbands
           just
           authority
           ,
           she
           may
           defend
           her self
           against
           oppression
           and
           injury
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           Some
           alledge
           Gods
           judgement
           upon
           the
           two
           hundred
           and
           fifty
           Princes
           ,
           
             Numb.
          
           16.
           
        
         
         
           
             Answ.
          
           They
           were
           Rebels
           against
           their
           lawfull
           Governours
           ,
           ruling
           exactly
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           expresse
           will
           of
           God
           .
           And
           may
           all
           those
           perish
           with
           them
           who
           will
           plead
           for
           such
           as
           they
           are
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           Others
           alledge
           ,
           1
           
             Sam.
          
           8.
           11.
           where
           the
           people
           are
           let
           to
           understand
           how
           they
           shal
           be
           oppressed
           by
           their
           Kings
           ;
           yet
           for
           all
           that
           ,
           have
           no
           just
           cause
           of
           resistance
           ;
           for
           they
           shall
           have
           no
           other
           remedy
           left
           them
           ,
           but
           
             preces
             &
             lachrimae
             ,
          
           crying
           to
           the
           Lord
           ,
           Vers.
           8.
           
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           But
           saith
           the
           Text
           so
           ?
           Let
           us
           read
           the
           words
           a
           little
           ,
           and
           you
           shall
           cry
           out
           in
           that
           day
           ,
           
             Because
             of
             the
             King
             ,
             which
             you
             have
             chosen
             ,
             and
             the
             Lord
             shall
             not
             hear
             in
             that
             day
             .
          
           Is
           this
           to
           say
           ,
           they
           have
           no
           just
           cause
           of
           resistance
           ,
           nor
           no
           remedy
           left
           ,
           but
           complaining
           ?
           Indeed
           if
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           had
           said
           ,
           You
           shal
           not
           resist
           ,
           nor
           fight
           for
           your
           liberties
           ,
           &c.
           there
           had
           been
           some
           shew
           of
           reason
           for
           such
           a
           deduction
           ,
           as
           some
           would
           extort
           from
           them
           ;
           but
           yet
           ,
           even
           then
           ,
           Why
           might
           not
           the
           words
           have
           been
           a
           prediction
           of
           the
           curse
           of
           God
           upon
           the
           people
           ,
           giving
           them
           up
           to
           such
           a
           base
           degenerate
           ignoble
           spirit
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           have
           no
           heart
           to
           stand
           up
           in
           the
           defence
           of
           their
           liberties
           and
           lives
           ,
           rather
           then
           a
           prohibition
           of
           such
           resistance
           ?
           The
           Lord
           foretels
           the
           people
           ,
           
             Ezek.
          
           24.
           21.
           of
           calamitous
           times
           ,
           in
           which
           he
           tels
           them
           ,
           Verse
           .
           24.
           
           That
           they
           should
           not
           mourn
           or
           weep
           ;
           Will
           any
           man
           interpret
           this
           ,
           as
           if
           God
           made
           it
           unlawful
           for
           them
           to
           mourn
           ,
           or
           to
           weep
           ,
           or
           was
           it
           not
           rather
           a
           prediction
           of
           their
           stupidity
           of
           spirit
           ,
           when
           they
           should
           pine
           away
           under
           these
           calamities
           ?
           so
           
             Jere.
          
           27.
           
           God
           said
           they
           should
           put
           their
           necks
           under
           the
           yoke
           of
           the
           Kings
           of
           Babylon
           ;
           Will
           any
           man
           thence
           gather
           ,
           That
           other
           People
           are
           bound
           to
           put
           their
           necks
           under
           the
           yoke
           of
           a
           forraign
           enemy
           invading
           them
           ?
           In
           one
           vvord
           ,
           the
           plain
           meaning
           is
           ,
           That
           this
           People
           should
           dearly
           rue
           it
           for
           casting
           off
           the
           form
           of
           Government
           which
           God
           had
           chosen
           for
           them
           ;
           and
           vvhen
           they
           should
           mourn
           under
           their
           ovvn
           choice
           ,
           God
           vvould
           not
           take
           the
           yoke
           from
           off
           their
           necks
           ;
           and
           so
           it
           is
           a
           threatning
           of
           a
           judgement
           ,
           not
           an
           imposition
           of
           a
           duty
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           But
           
             David
          
           durst
           not
           lift
           up
           his
           hand
           against
           the
           Lords
           Anointed
           ,
           though
           he
           did
           tyrannically
           persecute
           him
           ;
           yea
           ,
           though
           it
           vvere
           sometimes
           in
           his
           povver
           to
           have
           killed
           him
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           No
           man
           pleads
           that
           any
           
             David
          
           should
           kill
           the
           Lords
           Anointed
           ;
           
           yet
           he
           may
           defend
           himself
           against
           his
           unjust
           violence
           ,
           as
           
             David
          
           here
           did
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           But
           if
           they
           may
           not
           kill
           him
           ,
           vvho
           can
           be
           secured
           ?
           That
           in
           a
           battell
           (
           as
           at
           
             Keynton
          
           field
           )
           his
           bullet
           may
           not
           hit
           the
           Lords
           Anointed
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           Is
           this
           their
           fault
           ,
           vvho
           have
           so
           often
           petitioned
           his
           Majestie
           to
           vvithdraw
           himself
           from
           such
           dangerous
           vvayes
           ,
           as
           both
           the
           Parliament
           and
           his
           Excellencie
           hath
           done
           ;
           if
           their
           petitions
           vvould
           have
           been
           received
           ?
           or
           rather
           theirs
           ,
           who
           (
           the
           vvorse
           Subjects
           they
           ,
           and
           the
           more
           accursed
           they
           )
           have
           led
           Him
           into
           these
           unnaturall
           Warres
           ,
           and
           do
           in
           a
           manner
           inforce
           His
           presence
           in
           them
           ?
           Did
           they
           bear
           that
           affection
           to
           His
           Majestie
           as
           they
           pretend
           ,
           They
           vvould
           vvith
           
             Davids
          
           men
           ,
           
             Swear
             ,
             Thou
             shalt
             no
             more
             go
             out
             with
             us
             to
             battell
             ,
             lest
             thou
             quench
             the
             light
             of
             Israel
             ,
             2.
             Sam.
          
           21.
           17.
           
           We
           have
           heard
           much
           of
           the
           Cavaliers
           svvearing
           ,
           but
           I
           never
           yet
           heard
           that
           one
           of
           them
           had
           the
           honestie
           to
           swear
           this
           ;
           Nay
           they
           are
           vvronged
           in
           reports
           ,
           if
           some
           of
           them
           have
           not
           sworn
           the
           contrarie
           .
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           But
           
             David
          
           vvould
           not
           fight
           against
           him
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           Indeed
           he
           never
           did
           fight
           against
           him
           ,
           because
           his
           numbers
           never
           vvere
           considerable
           till
           tovvards
           the
           last
           ,
           but
           he
           vvould
           have
           fortified
           the
           Citie
           of
           
             Keilah
          
           against
           him
           ;
           And
           it
           had
           been
           a
           strange
           madnesse
           to
           have
           had
           600.
           men
           vvith
           him
           ,
           if
           his
           conscience
           would
           have
           suffered
           him
           to
           have
           done
           nothing
           but
           flee
           :
           sure
           one
           might
           more
           easily
           be
           hid
           then
           600.
           
           But
           there
           is
           a
           plain
           text
           assuring
           us
           that
           
             David
          
           and
           his
           men
           vvoud
           have
           done
           more
           then
           run
           up
           and
           dovvn
           ,
           if
           occasion
           had
           served
           ,
           1
           
             Chron.
          
           12.
           16.
           and
           so
           forvvard
           .
           When
           divers
           of
           the
           children
           of
           
             Judah
          
           and
           
             Benjamin
          
           came
           to
           joyne
           with
           him
           ,
           
             David
          
           vvent
           out
           to
           meet
           them
           ,
           and
           said
           ,
           
             If
             ye
             be
             come
             to
             help
             me
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           But
           if
           ye
           come
           to
           betray
           me
           to
           my
           enemies
           ,
           I
           being
           innocent
           ,
           the
           God
           of
           our
           fathers
           look
           upon
           it
           ,
           and
           rebuke
           it
           .
           Now
           mark
           their
           answer
           ,
           the
           spirit
           came
           upon
           
             Amasa
          
           the
           chief
           Captain
           ,
           and
           he
           said
           ,
           
             Thine
             are
             we
          
           David
           ,
           
             and
             of
             thy
             side
             ,
             peace
             be
             to
             thee
             ,
             and
             peace
             to
             thy
             helpers
             :
          
           then
           
             David
          
           received
           them
           ,
           and
           made
           them
           
             Captains
             of
             the
             band
             :
          
           Can
           any
           man
           imagine
           their
           meaning
           vvas
           to
           run
           up
           and
           dovvn
           the
           Countries
           vvith
           him
           ,
           if
           they
           vvere
           able
           to
           cope
           vvith
           any
           number
           that
           
             Saul
          
           should
           bring
           ,
           or
           send
           against
           them
           especially
           adding
           this
           to
           it
           ,
           That
           they
           fell
           to
           him
           from
           the
           severall
           Tribes
           
           day
           by
           day
           ,
           till
           his
           host
           was
           like
           an
           host
           of
           God
           .
           Now
           by
           these
           mens
           argument
           ,
           if
           
             Davids
          
           host
           had
           been
           fourtie
           thousand
           ,
           and
           
             Saul
          
           come
           against
           him
           but
           with
           five
           or
           six
           hundred
           ,
           they
           must
           all
           have
           fled
           from
           him
           ,
           and
           not
           have
           put
           it
           to
           a
           battell
           .
           
             Credat
             Judaeus
             Appella
             ,
             non
             ego
             .
          
        
         
           
             Object
             .
          
           But
           the
           Fathers
           of
           the
           Primitive
           times
           knew
           no
           defence
           but
           
             preces
             &
             lachrymae
          
           in
           all
           their
           unjust
           sufferings
           .
        
         
           
             Answ.
          
           1.
           
           It
           follows
           not
           ,
           because
           they
           knew
           it
           not
           ,
           therefore
           we
           cannot
           know
           it
           :
           there
           might
           be
           speciall
           reasons
           of
           Gods
           dispensations
           towards
           them
           .
           2.
           
           Their
           Liberties
           and
           Religion
           were
           not
           established
           by
           Law
           ;
           and
           this
           was
           the
           cause
           ,
           saith
           
             Abbot
          
           Bishop
           of
           Salisbury
           ,
           why
           the
           Christians
           in
           the
           Primitive
           times
           ,
           before
           their
           Religion
           was
           established
           by
           Law
           ,
           
             caedebantur
             non
             caedebant
             ,
          
           would
           rather
           be
           killed
           then
           kill
           :
           But
           after
           the
           times
           of
           
             Constantine
             ,
          
           when
           Religion
           was
           established
           ,
           they
           shook
           off
           the
           yoke
           of
           persecution
           from
           the
           Church
           ,
           
             &
             caedebant
             non
             caedebantur
             ,
          
           they
           did
           kill
           rather
           then
           be
           killed
           .
           3.
           
           Where
           did
           any
           of
           the
           Fathers
           ever
           oppose
           this
           opinion
           ,
           and
           condemn
           this
           practice
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           declaring
           it
           unlawfull
           ,
           especially
           for
           a
           representative
           body
           to
           defend
           themselves
           against
           the
           unjust
           violence
           of
           their
           mis-led
           Princes
           ?
           I
           beleeve
           if
           any
           such
           testimonies
           were
           to
           be
           found
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           should
           have
           heard
           of
           them
           before
           this
           time
           .
           4.
           
           We
           want
           not
           examples
           of
           such
           defence
           in
           the
           Primitive
           times
           ,
           when
           once
           Religion
           was
           establisht
           by
           Edict
           of
           the
           Romane
           Empire
           ,
           and
           
             Licinius
          
           the
           Emperour
           of
           the
           East
           
             (
             legum
             violator
             maximus
             ,
          
           contrary
           to
           Law
           and
           his
           Covenant
           )
           would
           persecute
           the
           Christians
           ,
           they
           defended
           themselves
           by
           Arms
           ,
           and
           
             Constantine
          
           the
           great
           joyned
           with
           them
           ;
           And
           as
           
             Eusebius
          
           saith
           ,
           held
           it
           his
           dutie
           ,
           
             infinitum
             hominum
             genus
             ,
             paucis
             nefariis
             hominibus
             ,
             tanquam
             quibusdam
             corruptelis
             ,
             ê
             medio
             sublatis
             ,
             incolumes
             servare
             :
          
           To
           deliver
           an
           infinite
           multitude
           of
           men
           ,
           by
           cutting
           off
           a
           fevv
           vvicked
           ones
           ,
           as
           the
           pests
           and
           plagues
           of
           the
           time
           .
           The
           Christians
           living
           under
           the
           Persian
           King
           ,
           and
           vvronged
           by
           him
           ,
           sought
           for
           help
           from
           the
           Romane
           Emperour
           
             Theodosius
             ,
          
           and
           vvere
           assisted
           by
           him
           ;
           and
           vvhen
           the
           King
           of
           Persia
           complained
           that
           
             Theodosius
          
           should
           meddle
           in
           affairs
           of
           his
           Kingdome
           ,
           
             Theodosius
          
           ansvvered
           ,
           that
           he
           did
           not
           only
           protect
           them
           because
           they
           were
           suppliants
           ,
           but
           was
           ready
           to
           defend
           them
           ,
           and
           no
           way
           to
           see
           them
           suffer
           for
           Religion
           ,
           it
           being
           the
           same
           with
           
           their
           own
           .
           It
           seems
           they
           thought
           it
           as
           lawfull
           to
           help
           an
           innocent
           people
           against
           the
           oppressions
           of
           their
           own
           Prince
           ,
           as
           for
           one
           neighbour
           to
           succour
           another
           against
           theeves
           and
           robbers
           .
           The
           Macedonians
           obtained
           of
           the
           Emperour
           
             Constantius
             ,
          
           four
           thousand
           armed
           men
           to
           help
           them
           drive
           out
           the
           Novatians
           from
           Paphlagonia
           ,
           the
           Orthodox
           assisted
           the
           Novatians
           against
           the
           unjust
           violence
           ,
           and
           were
           armed
           
             falcibus
             clavis
             ,
             &
             securibus
             ,
          
           with
           sithes
           ,
           clubs
           and
           hatchets
           ,
           and
           cut
           off
           almost
           all
           the
           Souldiers
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           the
           Paphlagonians
           .
           At
           Constantinople
           the
           Orthodox
           defended
           
             Paulus
          
           his
           Election
           against
           
             Macedonius
          
           and
           his
           abettors
           ,
           though
           assisted
           with
           the
           Militarie
           Forces
           ,
           and
           the
           Historian
           blames
           them
           onely
           for
           killing
           the
           Commander
           
             Hermogenes
             .
             Justina
             Valentinianus
          
           mother
           ,
           infected
           with
           Arianisme
           ,
           commanded
           to
           banish
           
             Ambrose
             ,
          
           but
           the
           people
           resisted
           ,
           and
           for
           a
           while
           defeated
           the
           plot
           of
           them
           who
           would
           have
           sent
           
             Ambrose
          
           into
           banishment
           .
           The
           inhabitants
           of
           Armenia
           the
           greater
           ,
           professing
           the
           Christian
           Faith
           ,
           were
           abused
           by
           the
           Persians
           (
           among
           whom
           they
           lived
           )
           especially
           for
           their
           Religion
           ,
           they
           entred
           into
           a
           league
           with
           the
           Romanes
           for
           their
           safetie
           .
           You
           see
           here
           are
           some
           examples
           where
           the
           ancient
           Christians
           used
           defensive
           Arms
           ,
           and
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           such
           as
           are
           well
           read
           in
           the
           stories
           of
           those
           times
           might
           produce
           many
           more
           .
        
         
           
             Ob.
          
           But
           there
           is
           one
           Doctour
           who
           goes
           about
           to
           prove
           by
           reason
           ,
           that
           oppressed
           Subjects
           should
           not
           defend
           themselves
           against
           their
           Princes
           ,
           though
           bent
           to
           subvert
           Religion
           ,
           Laws
           ,
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           because
           (
           forsooth
           )
           such
           resistance
           tends
           to
           the
           dissolution
           of
           Order
           and
           Government
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           disable
           Princes
           from
           subverting
           Religion
           ,
           Law
           ,
           and
           Liberty
           (
           which
           is
           the
           very
           dissolution
           of
           all
           Order
           and
           Government
           )
           tends
           to
           the
           dissolution
           of
           all
           Order
           and
           Government
           ;
           as
           if
           hindring
           a
           man
           from
           pulling
           down
           his
           house
           ,
           were
           the
           pulling
           down
           the
           house
           :
           As
           if
           the
           hindring
           the
           Pilot
           from
           dashing
           the
           Ship
           against
           the
           rock
           ,
           tended
           to
           dash
           the
           Ship
           against
           the
           rock
           ;
           If
           any
           man
           else
           see
           any
           colour
           of
           reason
           in
           this
           reason
           ,
           I
           desire
           them
           to
           make
           it
           appear
           ,
           for
           ,
           for
           my
           part
           I
           can
           see
           none
           .
        
         
           And
           indeed
           the
           case
           is
           so
           clear
           ,
           that
           most
           of
           them
           who
           cry
           down
           defensive
           Arms
           ,
           though
           they
           use
           such
           Scriptures
           and
           Arguments
           to
           work
           upon
           the
           consciences
           of
           people
           ,
           yet
           when
           they
           come
           to
           dispute
           
           it
           ,
           will
           hardly
           endure
           to
           have
           the
           Question
           rightly
           stated
           ,
           (
           as
           being
           unwilling
           to
           dash
           against
           the
           rock
           of
           most
           learned
           Divines
           ,
           whether
           Protestants
           or
           Papists
           ,
           and
           ,
           I
           think
           ,
           of
           almost
           all
           Politicians
           )
           but
           fall
           to
           discusse
           matters
           of
           fact
           ,
           charging
           the
           Parliament
           with
           invading
           the
           Kings
           just
           Prerogative
           ,
           usurping
           an
           exorbitant
           power
           and
           authority
           ,
           &c.
           yea
           ,
           His
           Majestie
           in
           all
           his
           Declarations
           insists
           onely
           upon
           this
           ,
           never
           suggesting
           that
           in
           Conscience
           they
           are
           prohibited
           to
           defend
           themselves
           ,
           in
           case
           he
           should
           violently
           invade
           their
           Liberties
           ,
           yea
           ,
           expresly
           grants
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           power
           sufficient
           legally
           placed
           in
           the
           Parliament
           to
           prevent
           Tyrannie
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           now
           I
           leave
           the
           case
           of
           Divinitie
           ,
           and
           shall
           more
           briefly
           give
           you
           an
           account
           what
           satisfied
           me
           in
           the
           second
           ,
           I
           mean
           matter
           of
           fact
           ,
           that
           His
           Majestie
           being
           seduced
           by
           wicked
           counsell
           did
           levie
           war
           against
           the
           Parliament
           :
           My
           great
           evidence
           was
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           judged
           so
           ;
           the
           judgement
           of
           a
           Parliament
           of
           England
           was
           never
           questioned
           till
           now
           by
           a
           people
           of
           England
           :
           all
           Patents
           ,
           Charters
           ,
           Commissions
           ,
           Grants
           ,
           Proclamations
           ,
           and
           Writs
           of
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           ,
           receive
           their
           judgement
           ,
           and
           are
           often
           repealed
           and
           made
           null
           by
           a
           Parliament
           :
           all
           controversies
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           Subject
           receive
           their
           finall
           determination
           in
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           the
           judgements
           of
           all
           other
           Courts
           are
           ratified
           or
           nullified
           by
           a
           Parliament
           .
           I
           have
           heard
           some
           wise
           men
           say
           ,
           That
           a
           Parliament
           in
           England
           (
           like
           Pauls
           spirituall
           man
           )
           judgeth
           all
           ,
           and
           it self
           is
           judged
           of
           none
           ;
           and
           therefore
           if
           I
           should
           give
           you
           no
           other
           account
           of
           my
           entring
           upon
           my
           Office
           in
           the
           Armie
           (
           which
           was
           not
           to
           fight
           ,
           nor
           meddle
           in
           the
           Councell
           of
           War
           ,
           but
           onely
           to
           teach
           them
           how
           to
           behave
           themselves
           according
           to
           the
           Word
           ,
           that
           God
           might
           be
           with
           them
           )
           should
           I
           (
           I
           say
           )
           give
           no
           other
           account
           but
           the
           determination
           of
           that
           wise
           assembly
           ,
           I
           should
           be
           acquitted
           by
           indifferent
           men
           .
           But
           although
           I
           had
           learned
           ,
           that
           no
           dishonourable
           thing
           should
           be
           imagined
           of
           that
           Honourable
           Assembly
           ,
           yet
           I
           held
           it
           my
           dutie
           not
           to
           yeeld
           blinde
           obedience
           ,
           or
           go
           by
           an
           implicite
           Faith
           ,
           but
           search
           whether
           the
           things
           were
           so
           ;
           and
           the
           rather
           ,
           because
           both
           sides
           have
           appealed
           to
           heaven
           ,
           to
           that
           God
           ,
           who
           no
           doubt
           in
           due
           time
           will
           clear
           the
           righteous
           cause
           :
           And
           upon
           my
           search
           these
           things
           were
           quickly
           apparent
           .
        
         
         
           It
           was
           very
           cleare
           ,
           that
           the
           persons
           too
           much
           prevailing
           with
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           had
           long
           before
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           a
           designe
           for
           over-throwing
           our
           Laws
           ,
           enslaving
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           altering
           our
           Religion
           ;
           and
           it
           had
           so
           far
           prevailed
           ,
           that
           we
           were
           
             tantùm
             non
          
           swallowed
           up
           ;
           and
           when
           through
           the
           good
           providence
           of
           God
           ,
           this
           Parliament
           was
           called
           ,
           and
           many
           hopes
           conceived
           ,
           that
           now
           his
           Majesty
           seeing
           the
           mischief
           of
           adhering
           to
           such
           ill
           counsellours
           ,
           would
           for
           the
           time
           to
           come
           be
           wholly
           guided
           by
           the
           great
           Councell
           of
           his
           Kingdome
           :
           alas
           it
           soon
           appeared
           that
           the
           same
           kinde
           of
           Counsellours
           were
           still
           most
           prevailing
           ,
           insomuch
           that
           (
           soon
           after
           the
           pacification
           with
           Scotland
           )
           the
           Northern
           Army
           should
           have
           been
           brought
           up
           to
           London
           ,
           as
           appeares
           by
           the
           very
           oathes
           of
           some
           who
           should
           have
           acted
           it
           ,
           a
           thing
           thou
           thought
           so
           pernicious
           ,
           that
           not
           only
           the
           chief
           Actors
           fled
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           but
           many
           reall
           Courtiers
           earnestly
           solicited
           their
           friends
           in
           both
           Houses
           ,
           that
           this
           their
           inexcusable
           errour
           might
           be
           passed
           over
           ,
           and
           now
           to
           begin
           upon
           a
           new
           score
           .
           But
           that
           which
           made
           me
           the
           more
           suspect
           their
           prevailing
           with
           his
           Majesty
           was
           ,
           that
           ,
           the
           horrid
           Rebellion
           broken
           out
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           the
           Rebels
           pretending
           his
           Majesties
           and
           the
           Queenes
           Commission
           for
           their
           warrant
           ,
           it
           was
           at
           least
           three
           moneths
           after
           ,
           before
           they
           were
           proclaimed
           Traytours
           ,
           and
           when
           it
           was
           done
           ,
           no
           Copies
           of
           the
           Proclamations
           to
           be
           got
           for
           love
           or
           money
           ;
           whereas
           when
           the
           Scots
           were
           proclaimed
           Rebels
           and
           Traytours
           ,
           it
           must
           speedily
           be
           published
           in
           all
           the
           Churches
           of
           England
           .
           I
           must
           acknowledge
           ,
           this
           made
           me
           to
           think
           ,
           that
           the
           Parliament
           had
           just
           cause
           to
           be
           jealous
           of
           great
           danger
           .
           But
           when
           His
           Majesty
           returned
           from
           Scotland
           ,
           discharged
           the
           guard
           which
           the
           Parliament
           had
           set
           for
           their
           own
           safety
           ,
           and
           an
           other
           denied
           ,
           except
           under
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           Queens
           Chamberlain
           ,
           and
           His
           Majesty
           himself
           entertained
           divers
           Captaines
           as
           a
           super-numerary
           guard
           at
           Whitehall
           ,
           went
           to
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           after
           that
           manner
           ,
           to
           demand
           the
           five
           members
           to
           be
           delivered
           unto
           Him
           ;
           The
           Earle
           of
           Newcastle
           (
           now
           General
           of
           the
           Armie
           of
           Papists
           in
           the
           North
           )
           sent
           to
           Hull
           ,
           attempting
           to
           seize
           it
           and
           the
           Magazine
           there
           ,
           his
           Majestie
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Lord
           
             Digbies
          
           letters
           ,
           retiring
           from
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           to
           a
           place
           of
           strength
           ;
           and
           the
           Queen
           going
           beyond
           Sea
           to
           raise
           a
           partie
           there
           ;
           I
           must
           have
           shut
           my
           eyes
           ,
           if
           I
           had
           not
           seen
           danger
           ,
           and
           thousands
           of
           thousands
           would
           have
           thought
           the
           Parliament
           altogether
           senslesse
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           not
           importuned
           his
           
           Majesty
           (
           as
           they
           did
           )
           to
           settle
           the
           Militia
           ,
           all
           former
           settlings
           of
           it
           by
           Commissions
           of
           Lievtenancy
           being
           confessedly
           void
           :
           His
           Majestie
           refusing
           this
           in
           that
           manner
           as
           they
           thought
           necessary
           for
           security
           ,
           they
           voted
           the
           putting
           of
           it
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           persons
           whom
           they
           thought
           the
           State
           might
           confide
           in
           (
           though
           alas
           many
           of
           them
           since
           have
           discovered
           to
           us
           how
           vaine
           is
           our
           hope
           in
           man
           )
           And
           secured
           the
           Town
           of
           Hull
           ,
           and
           the
           Magazine
           there
           :
           soon
           after
           this
           his
           Majesty
           in
           the
           north
           seised
           New-Castle
           ,
           and
           under
           the
           name
           of
           a
           guard
           begun
           to
           raise
           an
           army
           ;
           all
           this
           was
           done
           before
           the
           Parliament
           voted
           that
           his
           Majesty
           seduced
           by
           wicked
           councell
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           when
           his
           Majesties
           Army
           was
           more
           encreased
           ,
           he
           then
           declared
           that
           he
           was
           resolved
           by
           strength
           to
           recover
           Hull
           and
           the
           Magazine
           ,
           and
           to
           suppresse
           the
           Militia
           :
           After
           this
           indeed
           the
           Parliament
           began
           to
           make
           vigorous
           preparations
           by
           their
           propositions
           for
           Plate
           ,
           Money
           ,
           Horse
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           This
           being
           the
           true
           progresse
           and
           state
           of
           the
           businesse
           ,
           I
           saw
           clearly
           all
           along
           ,
           the
           Kingdome
           and
           Parliament
           were
           in
           danger
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           therefore
           necessary
           to
           have
           the
           Militia
           and
           Navie
           in
           safe
           hands
           ,
           which
           His
           Majesty
           also
           acknowledged
           ;
           That
           he
           refused
           to
           settle
           it
           for
           a
           time
           in
           the
           way
           they
           conceived
           necessary
           ,
           and
           that
           by
           the
           judgement
           of
           both
           Houses
           when
           they
           were
           full
           ,
           they
           had
           power
           by
           the
           fundamentall
           Laws
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           to
           settle
           it
           ,
           especially
           for
           a
           time
           ,
           upon
           His
           Majesties
           refusall
           ;
           That
           His
           Majesty
           raised
           force
           ,
           and
           declared
           it
           was
           to
           suppresse
           the
           Militia
           ,
           and
           recover
           Hull
           and
           the
           Magazine
           ,
           is
           as
           clear
           ,
           and
           made
           pregnant
           preparations
           both
           at
           home
           and
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           :
           And
           the
           civill
           Lawyers
           say
           ,
           that
           pregnant
           preparations
           are
           the
           beginning
           of
           a
           War
           .
           The
           onely
           Question
           remaining
           was
           ,
           whether
           the
           Parliament
           did
           justly
           in
           ordering
           the
           Militia
           ,
           and
           securing
           the
           Magazine
           and
           Navy
           ,
           in
           a
           confessed
           time
           of
           danger
           upon
           such
           his
           Majesties
           refusall
           .
        
         
           What
           the
           Kings
           power
           and
           perogative
           ,
           and
           what
           the
           Parliaments
           power
           was
           for
           securing
           the
           Militia
           in
           time
           of
           danger
           according
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           England
           ,
           was
           out
           of
           my
           profession
           ,
           and
           in
           great
           part
           above
           my
           skill
           ;
           But
           certainly
           unlesse
           I
           vvas
           bound
           rather
           to
           beleeve
           the
           Votes
           of
           the
           Papists
           ,
           and
           other
           Delinquents
           about
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           vvho
           hitherto
           had
           prevailed
           to
           bring
           upon
           us
           all
           the
           miseries
           that
           vve
           have
           laine
           under
           ,
           then
           the
           Votes
           and
           Judgements
           of
           the
           highest
           Court
           of
           Judicature
           in
           
           England
           ,
           (
           which
           so
           far
           as
           I
           have
           heard
           ,
           was
           never
           by
           Common
           Law
           or
           Statute
           Law
           presumed
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           ,
           or
           charged
           with
           the
           overthrow
           of
           the
           Kings
           prerogative
           ,
           or
           the
           Lawes
           and
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subjects
           untill
           now
           ,
           and
           who
           have
           given
           us
           so
           much
           evidence
           of
           their
           wisdome
           ,
           watchfulnesse
           and
           faithfulnesse
           )
           I
           vvas
           bound
           to
           be
           concluded
           under
           their
           Testimony
           ,
           and
           so
           consequently
           that
           His
           Majesty
           was
           seduced
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           surely
           ,
           if
           men
           vvho
           serve
           upon
           Justice
           betvveen
           Prince
           and
           People
           ,
           party
           and
           party
           ,
           in
           matters
           of
           Life
           or
           State
           ,
           may
           rest
           in
           the
           resolution
           of
           the
           learned
           Judges
           ,
           that
           this
           ,
           or
           that
           is
           law
           ,
           vvhen
           themselves
           knovv
           it
           not
           ;
           vvell
           might
           I
           rest
           in
           the
           judgement
           and
           resolution
           of
           that
           Court
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Judge
           of
           all
           the
           Judicatures
           in
           the
           Land
           .
           And
           in
           case
           I
           were
           unsatisfied
           ,
           to
           whom
           should
           I
           appeale
           ,
           in
           whose
           judgement
           I
           might
           more
           safely
           rest
           ,
           especially
           when
           I
           savv
           their
           Vote
           agreeable
           to
           that
           which
           is
           the
           supreme
           Law
           of
           all
           Nations
           ;
           namely
           ,
           that
           publick
           safety
           is
           the
           highest
           and
           deepest
           Law
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           is
           requisite
           that
           every
           State
           have
           a
           povver
           in
           time
           of
           danger
           to
           preserve
           it self
           from
           ruine
           ?
           and
           no
           Lavv
           of
           England
           more
           knovvne
           ,
           then
           that
           the
           Parliament
           is
           the
           highest
           Court
           ,
           from
           vvhence
           there
           is
           no
           appeal
           .
           This
           satisfaction
           I
           had
           then
           ,
           and
           since
           by
           the
           Declarations
           and
           Remonstrances
           of
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           concerning
           these
           Military
           matters
           ,
           and
           by
           other
           Books
           lately
           published
           ,
           it
           is
           most
           apparent
           that
           they
           have
           not
           usurped
           upon
           His
           Majesties
           prerogative
           ,
           but
           what
           they
           have
           done
           is
           agreeable
           to
           the
           practice
           of
           former
           Parliaments
           ,
           In
           putting
           the
           
             Militia
             ,
          
           Forts
           ,
           and
           Navy
           into
           safe
           hands
           in
           these
           times
           of
           danger
           :
           And
           that
           it
           vvas
           therefore
           lavvfull
           for
           them
           ,
           yea
           ,
           necessary
           to
           take
           up
           these
           Defensive
           Armes
           ,
           and
           consequently
           to
           call
           in
           for
           supply
           from
           all
           such
           vvho
           should
           share
           with
           them
           in
           the
           benefit
           of
           preservation
           ,
           and
           to
           disable
           such
           from
           hurting
           them
           ,
           who
           were
           contrary
           minded
           .
           I
           spend
           no
           time
           to
           answer
           the
           Objections
           that
           some
           make
           ,
           that
           His
           Majesty
           could
           not
           tarry
           at
           London
           with
           safety
           of
           His
           Person
           ,
           that
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           that
           are
           vvith
           Him
           ,
           were
           driven
           away
           by
           popular
           Tumults
           ,
           and
           could
           not
           enjoy
           freedome
           of
           their
           Votes
           ,
           &c.
           
           Because
           I
           thinke
           these
           things
           are
           now
           beleeved
           by
           none
           ,
           but
           such
           as
           would
           beleeve
           no
           good
           of
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           though
           one
           should
           rise
           from
           the
           dead
           again
           .
        
         
           Thus
           Sir
           ,
           you
           have
           a
           just
           account
           of
           the
           grounds
           that
           first
           induced
           
           me
           to
           owne
           this
           Cause
           ;
           you
           desire
           to
           know
           whether
           I
           see
           not
           yet
           reason
           to
           repent
           of
           what
           I
           have
           done
           :
           I
           confesse
           I
           never
           undertooke
           any
           thing
           but
           I
           saw
           cause
           to
           repent
           of
           my
           miscarriage
           through
           the
           corruption
           which
           cleaves
           to
           me
           ,
           and
           great
           cause
           I
           have
           to
           bewaile
           my
           many
           failings
           in
           this
           great
           Worke
           :
           but
           for
           the
           Worke
           it self
           ,
           I
           as
           solemnely
           professe
           ,
           I
           never
           saw
           cause
           to
           repent
           of
           my
           appearing
           in
           it
           ;
           the
           Cause
           is
           a
           right
           cause
           ,
           the
           Cause
           of
           God
           ;
           my
           call
           to
           it
           ,
           a
           cleare
           call
           ,
           and
           though
           the
           Work
           prove
           harder
           and
           longer
           then
           at
           first
           it
           was
           thought
           ,
           yet
           the
           Cause
           is
           far
           clearer
           then
           at
           the
           first
           .
        
         
           The
           work
           indeed
           is
           harder
           then
           I
           expected
           ,
           for
           whoever
           could
           have
           beleeved
           he
           should
           have
           seen
           in
           England
           so
           many
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           even
           after
           their
           solemne
           Protestation
           ,
           to
           defend
           the
           Priviledge
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           their
           owne
           Vote
           ;
           that
           His
           Majesty
           seduced
           by
           wicked
           councell
           ,
           intended
           War
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           so
           shamefully
           to
           betray
           the
           trust
           committed
           to
           them
           ?
           so
           many
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Profession
           joyning
           with
           an
           army
           of
           Papists
           (
           under
           pretence
           of
           maintaining
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           against
           a
           Protestant
           Parliament
           )
           to
           fight
           themselves
           into
           Popery
           ?
           so
           many
           unworthy
           Gentlemen
           fight
           to
           destroy
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           thereby
           fight
           themselves
           and
           posterity
           into
           slavery
           ?
           so
           many
           Papists
           in
           Armes
           contrary
           to
           so
           many
           knowne
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           armed
           with
           Commission
           ,
           to
           disarme
           Protestants
           contrary
           to
           their
           knowne
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           the
           Protestants
           who
           exceed
           their
           number
           an
           hundred
           fold
           not
           to
           rise
           as
           one
           man
           to
           subdue
           them
           ?
           And
           who
           would
           have
           believed
           that
           he
           should
           have
           seen
           after
           all
           this
           an
           Army
           raised
           by
           the
           Parliament
           in
           such
           an
           extremity
           ,
           for
           such
           an
           end
           ,
           (
           having
           hazzarded
           their
           lives
           ,
           undergone
           all
           these
           hardships
           ,
           performed
           all
           these
           services
           ,
           and
           whose
           untimely
           disbanding
           may
           prove
           our
           irrecoverable
           ruine
           )
           straitned
           for
           want
           of
           pay
           while
           England
           is
           worth
           a
           groate
           .
           Behold
           ,
           regard
           ,
           and
           wonder
           marvellously
           ,
           I
           relate
           a
           thing
           which
           many
           will
           not
           believe
           though
           it
           be
           told
           unto
           them
           .
           
             Hab.
          
           1.
           5.
           
        
         
           But
           though
           the
           Worke
           be
           harder
           ,
           the
           case
           is
           still
           clearer
           ,
           both
           in
           regard
           of
           the
           intentions
           of
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           also
           of
           their
           adversaries
           .
           For
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           multitudes
           would
           not
           believe
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           had
           further
           aimes
           then
           their
           own
           and
           the
           publique
           safety
           ,
           that
           they
           intended
           if
           not
           to
           depose
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           yet
           by
           force
           of
           Armes
           to
           compell
           
           him
           to
           that
           which
           is
           not
           fit
           for
           a
           King
           to
           yeeld
           to
           ;
           But
           now
           by
           their
           frequent
           petitioning
           of
           his
           Majestie
           ,
           especially
           by
           the
           reasonablenesse
           of
           their
           late
           Propositions
           and
           Instructions
           ,
           wherein
           they
           desire
           a
           present
           disbanding
           of
           all
           Arms
           ,
           even
           before
           any
           other
           bills
           were
           past
           ,
           and
           were
           willing
           to
           have
           the
           Ports
           ,
           Forts
           ,
           and
           Ships
           ,
           &c.
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           resigned
           up
           into
           his
           Majesties
           hands
           ,
           provided
           onely
           that
           in
           these
           times
           of
           dangers
           they
           might
           ,
           
             pro
             hac
             vice
             ,
          
           be
           put
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           such
           as
           the
           State
           might
           confide
           in
           ;
           The
           sincerity
           of
           their
           intentions
           are
           now
           so
           plain
           ,
           that
           I
           think
           Malignity
           it self
           cannot
           but
           be
           convinced
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           intentions
           of
           the
           contrary
           councels
           are
           as
           plain
           ,
           their
           mask
           now
           falling
           off
           ,
           and
           their
           designe
           more
           then
           ever
           discovered
           to
           be
           the
           overthrow
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           Liberty
           ,
           Laws
           and
           Religion
           .
           For
           at
           first
           we
           had
           Declarations
           to
           preserve
           all
           the
           just
           priviledges
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           but
           now
           we
           see
           men
           proclaimed
           Traytors
           for
           executing
           the
           Commands
           of
           the
           two
           Houses
           ,
           and
           the
           two
           Houses
           themselves
           ,
           if
           not
           in
           direct
           ,
           yet
           in
           equivalent
           termes
           proclaimed
           Traytors
           ,
           yea
           ,
           denyed
           to
           be
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           because
           his
           Majestie
           withdraws
           himself
           ,
           and
           after
           multitudes
           of
           Petitions
           refuses
           to
           returne
           ,
           and
           because
           many
           of
           their
           Members
           have
           deserted
           them
           ,
           and
           are
           protected
           by
           his
           Majestie
           from
           the
           Houses
           who
           have
           sent
           for
           them
           .
           Yea
           ,
           they
           are
           required
           to
           recall
           their
           Votes
           as
           illegall
           ,
           and
           that
           such
           as
           they
           have
           fined
           and
           imprisoned
           may
           bring
           their
           
             Habeas
             Corpus
          
           to
           be
           tried
           in
           an
           inferiour
           Court
           .
           Yea
           ,
           people
           provoked
           to
           scorn
           them
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           multitudes
           not
           fearing
           to
           trample
           upon
           ,
           and
           cast
           as
           vile
           scorn
           and
           contempt
           unjustly
           upon
           that
           thrice-honorable
           Court
           ,
           as
           ever
           was
           cast
           justly
           upon
           the
           Commissaries
           Courts
           .
        
         
           We
           have
           heretefore
           been
           assured
           that
           the
           knowne
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           should
           be
           the
           only
           rule
           of
           government
           :
           but
           (
           to
           name
           no
           other
           instances
           )
           now
           we
           see
           the
           Commission
           of
           Array
           to
           be
           justified
           to
           be
           Law
           ,
           which
           the
           Parliament
           hath
           not
           only
           declared
           ,
           but
           demonstrated
           ,
           and
           the
           Countries
           (
           where
           ever
           it
           hath
           prevailed
           )
           found
           to
           be
           the
           utter
           destruction
           of
           all
           the
           Lawes
           made
           for
           the
           Subjects
           liberty
           .
        
         
           Heretofore
           Proclamations
           were
           put
           out
           that
           no
           Papists
           should
           be
           entertained
           into
           his
           Majesties
           Army
           ,
           because
           the
           resolution
           was
           
           to
           maintaine
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ;
           But
           now
           we
           see
           them
           armed
           ,
           and
           armed
           with
           Commission
           ,
           and
           Protestant
           Doctors
           in
           their
           writings
           justifying
           it
           ;
           and
           being
           armed
           dare
           professe
           their
           Religion
           publickly
           ,
           set
           up
           their
           masse
           in
           the
           second
           City
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           cutting
           in
           pieces
           ,
           and
           burning
           Bibles
           ,
           and
           as
           multitudes
           of
           reports
           come
           from
           beyond
           the
           Seas
           ,
           (
           and
           the
           supplies
           that
           come
           from
           thence
           confirme
           it
           )
           all
           the
           Papists
           in
           Christendome
           contributing
           to
           this
           War
           as
           to
           the
           Catholicke
           cause
           .
           Heretofore
           the
           Libertie
           of
           the
           Subject
           seemed
           to
           be
           stood
           for
           ,
           yea
           defended
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           (
           as
           if
           it
           were
           possible
           the
           representative
           body
           should
           enslave
           it self
           )
           and
           in
           the
           meane
           time
           while
           these
           things
           are
           promised
           ,
           hundreds
           ,
           yea
           thousands
           of
           his
           Majesties
           Subjects
           plundred
           ,
           with
           His
           Majesties
           Proclamations
           against
           plundering
           ,
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           diverse
           of
           the
           plunderers
           ,
           And
           their
           persons
           led
           away
           in
           Ropes
           and
           Chaines
           like
           Turkish
           Gally-slaves
           ,
           and
           many
           cast
           into
           Prisons
           and
           Dungeons
           ,
           only
           for
           defending
           themselves
           against
           robbers
           and
           murderers
           abusing
           His
           Majesties
           Name
           :
           where
           their
           Jaylours
           use
           them
           worse
           then
           the
           Turkes
           doe
           their
           Christian
           slaves
           ,
           or
           one
           that
           hath
           any
           thing
           of
           man
           in
           him
           could
           use
           a
           dog
           .
        
         
           And
           vvhen
           all
           these
           things
           are
           now
           done
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           not
           only
           sitting
           ,
           but
           having
           so
           much
           strength
           in
           the
           Field
           ,
           what
           can
           vve
           expect
           when
           these
           men
           have
           prevailed
           ,
           vvhen
           at
           the
           putting
           on
           of
           their
           harnesse
           their
           usuall
           language
           is
           nothing
           but
           blasphemy
           against
           God
           ,
           (
           not
           to
           be
           mentioned
           )
           and
           against
           His
           people
           ,
           calling
           all
           that
           adhere
           to
           his
           and
           the
           Kingdomes
           Cause
           ,
           Parliament
           dogs
           ,
           and
           Parliament
           rogues
           ?
           what
           language
           will
           you
           expect
           to
           heare
           if
           once
           they
           come
           triumphantly
           to
           put
           it
           off
           ?
           If
           while
           the
           event
           is
           uncertaine
           they
           cut
           us
           out
           such
           kinde
           of
           Lavves
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Parliament
           priviledges
           as
           these
           are
           ,
           if
           GOD
           for
           our
           sinnes
           sell
           us
           into
           their
           hands
           ,
           thinke
           if
           you
           can
           ,
           vvhat
           Lavves
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Parliament-priviledges
           our
           posteritie
           shall
           finde
           recorded
           in
           our
           bloud
           :
           for
           our selves
           ,
           alas
           ,
           
             who
             shall
             live
             when
             God
             doth
             this
             ?
          
           Nay
           ,
           
             who
             would
             desire
             to
             live
             ?
          
           I
           vvould
           rather
           vvith
           holy
           
             Austin
          
           make
           it
           my
           humble
           suite
           to
           that
           GOD
           vvhose
           are
           the
           issues
           of
           life
           and
           death
           ,
           that
           Hee
           vvould
           rather
           take
           mee
           from
           the
           Earth
           ,
           then
           let
           mee
           live
           to
           see
           His
           deare
           Church
           ,
           and
           my
           native
           Countrey
           ,
           delivered
           
           into
           the
           〈◊〉
           of
           such
           blasphemous
           and
           barbarous
           men
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           in
           stead
           of
           repenting
           and
           withdrawing
           from
           the
           work
           ,
           I
           could
           wish
           that
           my
           voice
           were
           able
           to
           reach
           into
           every
           corner
           of
           the
           kingdome
           ,
           and
           that
           I
           could
           awaken
           all
           people
           to
           see
           the
           danger
           and
           misery
           that
           is
           flowing
           in
           upon
           them
           .
           That
           every
           soul
           might
           be
           quickened
           up
           to
           make
           his
           owne
           ,
           and
           help
           to
           make
           Englands
           ,
           bleeding
           ,
           dying
           Englands
           peace
           with
           God
           ,
           and
           every
           one
           who
           hath
           any
           interest
           in
           Heaven
           to
           cry
           mightily
           unto
           that
           God
           in
           whose
           hand
           the
           hearts
           of
           Kings
           are
           ,
           and
           who
           rules
           in
           the
           Kingdomes
           of
           men
           ,
           that
           the
           power
           of
           our
           God
           might
           be
           great
           towards
           us
           ,
           in
           turning
           away
           these
           imminent
           calamities
           ,
           and
           turning
           the
           heart
           of
           our
           King
           towards
           His
           great
           and
           faithfull
           Councell
           ,
           and
           rescuing
           Him
           out
           of
           the
           hands
           of
           this
           Generation
           of
           men
           who
           delight
           in
           bllood
           .
           Our
           God
           hath
           not
           yet
           said
           ,
           Pray
           not
           for
           this
           people
           :
           but
           if
           the
           Lord
           say
           he
           hath
           no
           delight
           in
           us
           ,
           Righteous
           art
           thou
           O
           Lord
           ,
           and
           just
           are
           all
           thy
           judgements
           :
           onely
           let
           us
           not
           be
           accessary
           to
           our
           own
           destruction
           ,
           and
           the
           destruction
           of
           so
           flourishing
           a
           Kingdome
           ;
           let
           us
           not
           through
           our
           covetousnesse
           or
           cowardize
           ,
           selfe-love
           or
           sloth
           ,
           betray
           our
           Lawes
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           Lives
           ,
           Religion
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           men
           ,
           from
           whose
           hands
           we
           befoole
           our selves
           if
           we
           expect
           more
           mercy
           ,
           or
           lesse
           misery
           ,
           then
           the
           poore
           Christians
           of
           Constantinople
           found
           with
           the
           Turkes
           ,
           when
           thankes
           to
           their
           owne
           niggardlinesse
           (
           O
           let
           it
           never
           be
           so
           with
           England
           )
           they
           fell
           into
           their
           hands
           .
           Oh
           let
           us
           labour
           to
           prevent
           their
           Swords
           thrusting
           into
           our
           bodies
           ,
           and
           their
           Swords
           into
           our
           Soules
           ,
           let
           our
           God
           doe
           with
           us
           what
           he
           vvill
           ,
           let
           us
           doe
           vvhat
           vve
           should
           ,
           and
           vvhile
           vve
           have
           any
           money
           in
           our
           purses
           ,
           any
           blood
           in
           our
           veins
           ,
           or
           any
           spirits
           in
           us
           ,
           devote
           all
           to
           the
           maintenance
           of
           this
           rightfull
           cause
           :
           and
           if
           vve
           perish
           ,
           vve
           perish
           .
        
         
           Nor
           doe
           I
           feare
           to
           be
           for
           this
           condemned
           by
           any
           right
           discerning
           man
           as
           an
           incendiary
           to
           a
           Civill
           War
           ,
           I
           knovv
           the
           miseries
           of
           a
           Civill
           War
           :
           Warre
           is
           the
           severest
           of
           all
           Gods
           judgements
           ,
           and
           Civill
           Warre
           the
           cruellest
           of
           all
           Warres
           :
           vvhere
           is
           the
           greatest
           hatred
           ,
           the
           deepest
           treachery
           ,
           the
           most
           unnaturall
           butcheries
           ,
           where
           the
           father
           murders
           the
           sonne
           ,
           the
           sonne
           the
           Father
           ,
           the
           brother
           embrues
           his
           hands
           in
           his
           brothers
           blood
           ,
           and
           vvhoever
           gaines
           ,
           all
           are
           
           loosers
           :
           
             〈…〉
             Cives
             ,
             quae
             tanta
             licentia
             belli
             ?
          
           Oh
           the
           〈◊〉
           of
           our
           age
           and
           Countrey
           ?
           If
           England
           have
           such
           a
           lust
           to
           War
           ,
           〈◊〉
           we
           find
           no
           forraigne
           Enemies
           ,
           but
           we
           must
           Warre
           against
           our selves
           ,
           and
           at
           this
           time
           too
           ,
           
             Cumque
             superba
             for●t
             Babylon
             Spolianda
             〈◊〉
             .
          
           When
           the
           proud
           Turrets
           of
           the
           whore
           of
           Babylon
           are
           to
           be
           levelled
           with
           the
           Earth
           :
           when
           Germany
           ,
           when
           Ireland
           are
           to
           be
           rescued
           out
           of
           her
           bloudy
           pawes
           ?
           Can
           vve
           finde
           no
           fitter
           Object
           for
           the
           fury
           of
           the
           Cannon
           ,
           then
           our
           Townes
           ,
           Houses
           ,
           Bodies
           ?
           But
           alas
           !
           The
           Generation
           vvith
           vvhom
           vve
           have
           to
           deal
           ,
           had
           rather
           a
           thousand
           times
           see
           the
           glory
           of
           England
           in
           the
           dust
           ,
           then
           the
           pride
           of
           Rome
           :
           And
           though
           a
           evil
           War
           be
           miserable
           ,
           yet
           no
           such
           misery
           as
           the
           peace
           vvhich
           they
           vvould
           beteeme
           us
           ;
           a
           
             Sicilian
             vespers
             ,
          
           or
           a
           
             Parisian
             massacre
             ,
          
           from
           vvhich
           good
           Lord
           deliver
           us
           :
           Save
           ,
           Lord
           ,
           let
           the
           King
           hear
           us
           vvhen
           vve
           call
           .
        
         
           Thus
           Sir
           ,
           you
           have
           my
           thoughts
           at
           large
           ,
           you
           may
           either
           lay
           this
           Letter
           by
           you
           ,
           or
           communicate
           it
           for
           the
           satisfaction
           of
           others
           at
           your
           ovvn
           pleasure
           :
           I
           blesse
           God
           I
           am
           gathering
           strength
           ,
           and
           hope
           ere
           long
           by
           my
           return
           to
           my
           Lord
           and
           the
           Army
           (
           if
           God
           please
           not
           to
           smile
           upon
           us
           vvith
           a
           safe
           Accommodation
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           )
           to
           give
           a
           reall
           proofe
           that
           my
           judgement
           is
           the
           same
           that
           formerly
           it
           hath
           been
           ,
           and
           I
           hope
           you
           believe
           my
           affection
           is
           the
           same
           still
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           therefore
           vvithout
           further
           trouble
           ,
           I
           subscribe
           my selfe
           .
        
         
           
             Your
             loving
             friend
             ,
             
               Stephen
               Marshall