HAve you killed our King, and also taken possession of his Goods Lands and Kingdoms? O ye bloodthirsty and deceitfull men! Is this your Sion, that must be built with Royall blood, and your Jerusalem, that must be raised with such detestabl [...] iniquity? O ye painted Sepulchers, w [...]ll no bones serve to fill you, but those of your King?

You ravening Wolves, (whom God hath suffered to uncase your selves of your Sheeps Clothing) can nothing satiate your cruel Appetites [Page 2] and Hydropick thirst, but only the flesh and blood of our King? whom with mercilesse hands and hearts, in an impudent Triumph you have murthered before the face of God and his Subjects; whose Royall Posterities, and peoples Lives and Estates you now hope to devour without any opposition or gainsaying. (So cruelly heavy and barbarous is that Iron Scepter, with which you think to rule this Nation; not allowing any fair and legall plea for either Kings or p [...]o­ples Lives, Liberties, Estates or R [...]ligion: but beyond all Papall and Mahume [...]ane Tyranny you usurp over our Souls, no lesse than our bodies; and seek (now) by sla­vish fears, and sinfull agreements to make us all as much the Chil­dren of the Devill as your selves: whose Consciences (no doubt) like [...]ai [...]'s tell you, your desperate and [Page 3] damnable Estate: having sinned against the light of God, and his holy Spirit, (some of you) so impu­dently and maliciously, as justly excludes all hope of pity or pardon from God and Man: having first treacherously betrayed, then bar­barously murthered, both your and our King.

Goe on you Apollions, you Abad­dons, in the Spirit of Antichrist, to fill up the measure of your Abo­minations, till you are drunk with blood, and stumble and fall toge­ther: O you Locusts, the black [...]st smoak, and noysomest vapour that ever the breath of the bottomlesse pit exhaled or sent forth into the Christian worl [...], your Maiden faces, in your first seemingly modest and fair pretentions to the King and Kingdome, have now brought on the poysonous Scorpions of your Tails, after many cunning windings [Page 4] of flattery, perjury and hypocri­si [...].

B [...]hold the fruits of your Oaths, Prayers, Fastings, your Illumina­tions, Raptures, and the Sacred madnesses of your Prophets; are they not as the Gr [...]pes of Sodom, sowre and unsavoury, setting on edge the teeth of all men that have any tast or relish of true piety?

Are these the practises of Saints of spiritual and seraphick mindes; of men living in God and in Christ by the Spirit? We call Heav [...]n and E [...]r [...]h, and your selves (who are to us as Hell and Devills) to wit­nesse against you; What can the most carnall, loose and prophane A [...]ists do [...] more abominable, then you have done? What have the fal [...]est Jewes, the fierc [...]st Turks, the most brutish Heathens, the Re­negado Chr [...]stians, the s [...]bt [...]lest Je­suites, or the m [...]st Fanatick Anabaptists, [Page 5] and Sc [...]maticks, or any other, th [...]t are wholly without God in this world, ever done com­parable to your immense Villanies? Yea what could Devils do more, if they had t [...]eir w [...]lls, bu [...] by such Instruments as you are, extend their malice to the utmost latitude of their powe [...]?

Have you not by Treachery and Tyranny usurped upo [...] all just power, and exalted your selves (such despicable worms) above a [...]l that is cal [...]e [...] God? Neither King, nor Parliament, nor Lawes, nor your own Engagemen [...]s to all, nor your m [...]ny Proposals, Promises and D [...]clarations have any reve­r [...]nce with you, or we [...]ght upon you [...] but like riotou [...] and enrag [...]d Beasts, you have overborn and trampled under your feet all th [...]t is either Sacred or Civill; in the Laws of God, N [...]ture, Nation [...], or this [Page 6] Kingdome, of which you are Mem­bers, though the most ulcerous and pestilent that ever the Earth can bring forth, or bear.

Haply your stupid pride and bruit [...]sh insolency will not suffer you to consider how odious, abominable and accursed you now are to all men, but such as are Cockatrices of the same Egge and brood with your selves; that is, seared Saints, honest Hypocrites, and Enlightened Satans.

We assure you, you are now looked upon by all sober and ho­nest mindes, as the heaviest and filthyest Incubus's that ever op­pressed Church or State; as the Legions of unclean spirits, which by Diabolicall Arts and Magick of Hypocrisie, have got possession of this Church and Kingdome, (till Christ by his power cast you out of, and suffer you like the Demoniack [Page 7] swine, through the just judgment of God to be hurried headlong by your own terrors and despairs into the Lake that burns with fire and brimstone.

You are l [...]ke cursed Cams, not mockers only, but murtherers of the Father of your Countrey; im­pudent Ravishers both of Church and State, to satisfie your most a­bominable lusts of Tyranny, Cove­tousnesse, and all licentious pro­fanenesse.

Monsters of men, putid Apo­states, execrable Saints, shameless sinners, trayterous Tyrants, what have you to plead for, or palliate with, your late horrid outrages and unparallel'd villanies, by which you have obstructed the Fountain of Justice, altered the Channell, bro­ken the Cistern, turned the clear and wholsome waters of our Laws into blood, Wormwood, and deadly [Page 8] poyson; while you have with un­heard of tyranny and treachery, set up your p ivate wills, by that pub­l ke power (wherewith you were in­ [...]usted only for some limited uses) above the M [...]jesty and lives of our K ng and his Ch [...]ldren; above the Dignity of our Parliaments, the honour of our Lawes, the reverence of your C [...]untrey, and the regard due to your fellow Subj [...]cts, and Con [...]ederate Nations; and all this without the least colour of any call or Authority from God or Man; Reason or Religion, against all Obli­gations both Sacred and Civill, that might possibly lye on mens souls to God or man, against many your particular pretentions and former p [...]om [...]ses of such due observance as became you [...] both as Men, Subjects, Soldiers and Christians.

You who are not the thousand part of his M [...]jesties Subject, how [Page 9] durst you knowingly act as in the name of all, and yet indeed against the duty, desi [...]es and consciences of all, but such children of Belial as your selves.

You that are for the most part such sons of the Earth of so base extraction, of meaner education, strang [...]rs to all good Literature, Honour, or Civility; heirs of beg­gery and contempt; whom most of the Subj [...]cts in England might for your rudenesse and b [...]rbarity justly have disdain [...]d to have set with the Dogs of th [...]ir Flocks: How are you become the Creators of a new Heaven, and a new Earth, who are such sons of Tohu and Bohu, of Chaos, obscurity and confusion?

You that at best are but Gods Bu [...]chers, the unjust Ex [...]cutioners of his just vengeance; as the evill and destroying Angels sent among us for a time; (though your exorbita [...] [Page 10] malice and lusts disdain to be limited by your Military Com­mission, yet God, we hope, will restrain your fury who hath mani­fested your impious folly.) With what forehead could you thus lift up your hand against, and set your selves above all those who are con­fessed your betters, masters and superiors: As if in a Giantly im­puden [...] [...]d Cyclop [...]ck cruelty you could never be famous enough but by Infamy; nor fierce and wick [...] enough, unlesse you [...]ought against Heaven, against the expresse word of God, and his Vicegerents on earth. Thus heaping up mountains of lyes, perjuries, hypocrisies and cru [...]l [...]ies, upon those vast and enor­mous lusts of rapine, sacriledge, co­vetousness, rev [...]nge and tyranny in yo [...]r hea [...]s, which nothing hath [...]v [...]r equalled or can exceed.

[Page 11] You have indeed finished the Master-piece of your Father the Devill, whom as his first-born he hath filled with a double portion of malice, subtilty and cruelty beyond any, whose hearts like Elymas the Sorcerer, or Simon Magus he hath possessed. You have nothing left you but Impenitence and Hell, (which you neither believe nor fear) by which to make farther progress in your most flagitious and ever ac­cursed Villanies.

What step have you more to ad­vance to the blaspheming of the Ma­jesty of the most high God, both in himself and his Deputies, law­full Kings and Soveraign Magi­strates? what more can you do or invent to the scandall of the Gospel, to the exposing the Name of Christ to open shame, to the trampling his blood under feet, through the ha­t [...]ed and de [...]estation of all Nations, [Page 12] that are without the Church? How could you devise more to adorn the Triumphs of Pope and Pap [...]sts? to whose tayls you are tyed, though your fac [...]s seem contrary: and whose b [...]si [...]esse you have done, while you pretend to abhorre their Names, as much as D [...]vils do po­t [...]n [...] Ch [...]rms.

What Sea could ever wash away from the face of the Christian Re­formed Religion, the stain of that blood of our King, which you have (in a Page [...]nt o [...] Justice) most un­justly, inhumanely and barbarously [...]hed, to colour your malice, to sa­ [...]iate your revenge and to make way for your tyranny, if we the people of England should b [...] our silence adopt, and by our assistance nourish those prod [...]gies of Rebellion, Trea­son and Confusion, which your li­bidi [...]ous Mars, by the h [...]lp of your p osti [...]ute and officious Venus, your [Page 13] Unparliamentary Junto hath lately brought forth and astonished the world withall. Was it ever so done, since the Name of Christ was planted on the earth, save only by the spawn of those furies, from whom you are descended, who made such havock first in Afri­ca, after in other Western Churches, and lately in Germany? whose principles and practises you have as much surpassed, in Hypocrisic, Anarchy, cruelty, and blasphemy, as B [...]elzebub (your Prince) may be thought to exceed the lesser fry of damned Sp [...]rits.

Those impure Catharists exerci­sed (indeed) their Donat [...]sticall and Anabaptisticall frauds and furi [...]s, chiefly upon the vulgar, to the ruine of many thous [...]n [...]s of the Coun [...]rey people and Citizens; But you like so many Ravilliacks, are not content to have spoyled so [Page 14] many Noble and flourishing Fami­lies, to have exhausted so many plentifull Estates, to have made so many mourning Widows, and Fa­therlesse Children, to have destroy­ed the lives, and sucked the bloud of so many Christians, your fellow­Subjects, but you must in one day swallow up the two Houses of Par­liament, in another murther the King, in a third cut off the right and inheritance of the Crown from the Undoubted Heir, and all the Kings Children. At last you con­spire to tempt us all by your simple and foolish Paperfalsly called, The Agreement of the people, to joyn with you in the utter overthrowing of our Lawes, Liberties, and the whole frame of this ancient and re­nowned Kingdome, whose weight you will finde too heavy for such weak Atlasses as you will shortly appear, both in Counsell and in [Page 15] Power, who are only wise to doc wickedly, and strong to shed or drink the bloud of your King and Countrey-men. Your cruelty hath fulfilled the wish of Caligula, at one blow to cut off the head of three Kingdomes, and with him all M [...] ­narchy; to make way for your Lole­ [...]ocracy, a Military Tyranny, or Schis­matichal Anarchy.

Thus have you been profound to deceive, skilfull to destroy; our souls [...]aint within us, because of such treacherous dealers, such hideous Murtherers, into whose snares the breath of our nostrils is fallen, and in whose deep dissembling pits the Anoynted of the Lord, our meek patient and most Christian King is swallowed up; under the shadow of whose just Authority, Princely wisdome, and judicious piety w [...] hoped to have been safe.

[Page 16] How doth this sometime famous and flourishing Kingdome, now sit as a Widow, oppressed, desolate, [...]espised; full of unexpressible la­mentations [...] The bitternesse and gall of your cruel Hypocrisie hath entred into, filled and overwhelmed our souls.

How is she that was the joy, Crown and Queen of all Nations, the Envy or Emulation of all Chri­stian Churches, now become the horror and astonishment of her Neighbours round about, the pity and calamity of all her friends, the [...]corn, reproach, hissing and triumph of all her Enemies? Nor is there any helper, comforter, or Deliverer left, till God take the matter into his own hands, and pl [...]ad the cause of the King and Kingdome against these proud Goliahs, whose uncir­cumcised hearts and lips, out of a [...]iot and supe [...]fluity of wickednesse, [Page 17] have blasphemed our God, de­stroyed our King, layd waste and exhausted the Ki [...]gdome, and tur­ned this Church into a Den of Thieves.

O Lord arise, O Lord consider, O Lord hear the v [...]yce of our sig [...]s, tears and prayers; let the cry of the blood of [...]ur King and our people come up to Heaven; have mercy on us for we are brought very low.

Our gracious King, the Husband of the Kingdome, the Father of his Subj [...]cts, the preserver of our Laws, the Patron of Religion, the Pro­tector of the Church, you have treacherously and barbarously mur­thered; the two Houses of Parlia­ment, (whose weaknesse, pervers­nesse, unevennesse, inconstancy and cowardise God hath seen, disliked, judged, and punished) you have forcibly invaded, scattered and op­pressed; notwithstanding all your [Page 18] speciall Engagements to them both of duty and promise, commission and trust. The [...]oyalty and love of the people, you every where either with terror and cruelty seek to suppresse and smother, so that they shall not dare to petition for redresse, or complain of those end­lesse calamities which they suffer un­der your tyranny; or [...]lse making lyes your hope and refuge, with forged semblances of complyant Petitions, and counterfeit Gratula­tions, you falsly and impudently pretend the concurrent Votes of the Countreys, and the Communities [...]pprobation to your most abomi­nated practises: When God knows and even your selves in your bloudy di [...]imulation cannot be ignorant, that the generality of all men in all places, of all degrees, do from their souls utterly abhorre, depre­cate and detest, your execrable [Page 19] counsels, and accursed actions, which have thus brought upon us the abomination of desolation, through the damnable deceiveable­nesse of your unrighteousnesse: Nor do we believe that your pride and tyrannous hypocrisie either findes any comfort in them, or much con [...]iders those papers, which seem to own you or applaud your wic­ked deeds, further then they may carry on your strong delusions with the vulgar, whom you know to be neither very wary of evill, nor very steady in what is good. If you had the generall consent of the Vulgar (which you know you have in no sort) yet neither is their judgment any good rule to measure the mo­rality of your actions; nor their inconstant pleasure any test of ho­nour, vertue or piety: But indeed you (as well as we) are sadly con­scious, that all those clamorous [Page 20] Petitions for Justice, by which you would seem (as by Oracles of your own inspiring to be fatally di­rected and divinely incouraged in your Cruelties and Treasons) were nothing else but the strokes of the Lyons own tayl, the more to enrage himself; the very froth and scum, which arose only from the zealous activity and boylings of your own bloudy Faction; who restlesse as Devils, continually go about seeking whom they may deceive and de­stroy, we are well assured that your Schismaticall crew of Regicides are no more to be compared to the peo­ple of England, then the Gleanings may be to the Harvest; or Canters, Thi [...]ves, Beggars and Juglers to the sober and setled Dwellers in this Kingdome.

No, every honest man, who hath any sense of piety, loyalty, modesty, pity or humanity left in his soul, [Page 21] (as you have none) takes up Jacobs words against you, Cursed be your wrath for it is fierce and your anger for it is cruel: into the secrets of these men let not our souls enter; Lord lay not the guilt of the sins of these men to the Charge of the people of this Kingdome.

No, let the blood of our pious, patient and most Christian King be upon you and your Abettors for ever; who, as without any sense of loyalty, pity or charity, so without any shadow as well as substance of Justice, having neither Law, Rule, nor any due Authority, first by fraud and unheard of Insolency seized upon his Majesties person, afterward by flatteries, lyes, and terrors sought to deceive him; At last by meer force and b [...]stl [...]ke cruelty have massacred and as so many horrid Assa [...]sinates utterly destroyed him.

[Page 22] And all this after many fawnings, and shewes of loyall and tender re­gard toward his Majesty and his Royall Family, as both your first Proposals, and your after Agitati­ons, (honestly and very providenti­ally discovered by Major Hunting­ton) do declare; In which all men now plainly see, that you did but make way by the Fox, to let in the Wolf, and by your Dalilah to bring the Philistims upon our Sampson: Yea, after his Majesty was not only entred into and advanced in a Trea­ty with the two Houses, agreeable to their Votes, and the generall de­sires of all his Subjects; under the most solemn Nationall security and Publick Faith, which could be given or passe between a King and his Subjects, or indeed any honest men: But even when his Majesties great wisdome and goodnesse had [Page 23] so farre brought all things to a fair closure and happy Agreement, that the two Houses were satisfied and resolved to proceed upon his Maje­styes Conce [...]ions, as a firm ground of Peace to the Kingdome.

Yet after all these publique, civil and Sacred Obligations, which lay upon the two Houses and the King­dome, on your selves as well as any and all of us; for you to seize again upon his Majesties person, without any pretended Authority, and with your Iron hands, and Ada­mantine hearts to ravish and pull him out of the arms and embraces of his Subjects, violently to hale and tear him from the reviving love and loyalty of the two Houses and his people; thence to hurry and tosse him to and fro, to what inhospitable places, and desolate Prisons you listed, there to deprive him, not only of all things proportionable [Page 24] to his quality as a King, but even of those civill accommo­dations, which ought to be allowed to any Gentleman, though an [...]ne­my and a Captive of War; which the King never was, not being ta­ken by force, but rendring himself to the professed love and sworn loyalty of his Subjects. After this, with a sacrilegious mo [...]kery of Justice, in the highest affronting of God, the King, the Parliament, and the three Kingdomes, by an unheard of and most horrid Out­rage, and riotous force to oppresse and utterly destroy the remaining honour, freedome and power of the two Houses; and in despite of them to erect a new Court of Justice (as you most unjustly tearm it) for which you have no colour of Law from God or Man, no precedent in this or any other Christian King­dome, no ground or pretense of [Page 25] Parliamentary consent or Autho [...]i­ty, of either Houses (whose M [...]m­bers, three parts of [...]our at least, you forcibly detayned and deterred from sitting in the House of Com­mons, the Lords being unanimously against you; by all which methods of cunning and violence you seek like Absalo [...] (the co [...]tradiction be [...]tween whose name and actions, very well fits your affected but un­deserved title of Saints) to intrude your selves into a Judicative as well as a Military power, (as if Hangmen and Executioners should u [...]urp t [...]e seats of Judges, who are not fit to be of a Jury; since their in­terest and advantage (like yours) lying in the destruction of others, will [...]asily tempt them to condemn any man.)

At length you make a shift to pack, not a high Court of Justice, as you shamelessely style it, but the [Page 26] basest Conventic [...]e of Injustice that ever was in the world; In which all Cards of honour being shuffled out, you turn up such Knaves only for Trumps as will best play your game: A very Medly and R [...]psody of the most ignorant, shallow, cow­ardly, cruel, weak, debaucht and insolent fools or Athiests; Hypo­crites, Traytors and Tyrants, that ever usurped power over any honest and innocent man: Your President Bradshaw and your Clark Cook are commonly known and branded to be men of as corrupt souls as any lived in their profession; their most trayterous and covetous villanies not allowing the least pretense of ignorance in the Laws, which are in no case more clearly, expressely, and se [...]verely contrary, then in this, of taking away the Kings life, wherein they, against all law, du [...]y and conscience, were as Judas [...]s [...]hiefly imployed.

[Page 27] At last upon the wicked, most unjust, and cruel sentence of these mercenary, unauthorised [...] and Ty­rannous Sycophants, and Huck­sters of Justice, (who must needs have their Comm [...]ssion from him that is the Father of lyes, the false Accuser, the Old Murtherer, the de­ceiving Serpent, the R [...]aring Lion, the Red Dragon, the Dead Sea of cruelty and the sink of all Confu­sion, the Damned and Damning Divel, and not from God (the Fountain of Justice, the Father of Mercy, the Institutor of Order, the Author of Peace, and the Comman­der of [...]bjection to Law [...]ull Kings) in any [...]tion imaginable; further then the Divell may have Com­mission from God, permitting and limiting the activity but not ap­proving the activity but not ap­proving the iniquity of his rage and malice,) to compell such a King, [Page 28] so Great a Monarch of three King­domes, their Undoubted Sove­raign Lord, to submit to the [...]r Arraignment, Accusations [...], and Sentence (who were most of them his declared and desperate Enemies) without allowing him the l [...]be [...]ty of prot [...]sting against their confessed Usurpation and Non-authority, or of pleading for his own both Inno­cency, and well known Priviledge, Soveraignty, and unquestionable Immunity, according to the Laws of God and of this Kingdome; which are expr [...]ssely against their trayterous and tyrannous proceed­ings, as well as the nullity of their Authority.

After this, without an [...] remorse or pity to their and our King, to force a person of so excellent worth, wisdome, vertue, honour, and Ma­jesty to bow down at the feet of so vile persons, and then to Chop off [Page 29] h [...]s Head which was Sacred, Crown­ed and Anoynted, as rightfull King over them and all his Subjects in his Dominions. (A Butchery so barbarous, that the common Heads­man abhorred to do it; nor may we think those bloudy Zealots were willing he should d [...]prive them of the pleasure of cutting the throat of such a Sacrifice, to inaugurate them in their Royall Priesthood; by which their Schismaticall fury p [...]etends a title against, or above all Lawfull Kings and Gover­nours.

What Words, what Tera [...], what Sihgs, what oppressive Thoughts, what secret and unutterable Re­flect [...]ons of most stupifi [...]d and asto­n [...]hed Sou [...]s, are sufficient to mea­sure the Immensity, to weigh the burden, to expresse or conceive the h [...]rror of this outrag [...]ous sin, and most flagitious villany.

[Page 30] Poor Prince, after so many de­lusions, so many lying Addresses, made by the chief Engines and movers of the Army; after so much patience, so great demonstra­tions of excellent wisdome, meek­n [...]sse, calmnesse and Christian gen­tlenesse to his very Enemies and Jaylours; under infinite reproaches, injuries and indignities, even to the very spitting in his face; after all those gracious condescendings, by which he had reduced himself al­most to the v [...]ry shadow and bare name of a King (saving that he had gained the highest and most abso­lute Empire in the renewed love and loyalty of the most and best of his Subjects) that he might please all, secure and satis [...]ie all, purchase Peace for all at any rate but the price of his Conscience: Yet after all these infinite demonstrations of [Page 31] goodnesse, capable to have softned even Devils themselves, to be thus butcher [...]d by a Soldie [...]y and Schis­maticall cruelty, to be brought to publique execution without any help or redemption from Parliament or people (who generally abominated so horrid, inhumane, unseen, and unheard of a Spectacle; whose Publique Faith, besides their Per­sonall Al [...]egiance was engaged for his Majest [...]es honour and safety,) what [...]art can be large enough to equall the sorrow, what [...]yes can be Fountains sufficient to d [...]plore so unmerited a Fate, befalling so ex­cellent a Prince, by the malice, ambition, cruelty and treason of so base and execrable villanies.

And all this Tragedy of Trage­dies c [...]rried on to such bloody con­clusions, under colour of Safety and Reformation at first; afterward of satisfaction and Indemp [...]ity to the [Page 32] Army; in both which the Good King deny [...]d nothing, that m [...]n of an [...] mod [...]st [...], worth or ingenuity, could exp [...]ct or would d [...]sire. Yet a [...]t [...]r [...]fi [...]ite delusions, and muti­nous Insolencies committed against King, Pa [...]l [...]am [...]nt and People, some impotent and amb [...]t [...]ous Tyrants, (who have the marks of Blood and Cruelty in their faces and on their Foreheads, in the Army and Com­mons House bethink themselves of a Scene of Justice, which must speedily be acted by them [...] least the closure of a Peace with the King and the two Houses should render their imployment uselesse, as it hath long been burdensome; and force­ing their Buffe Grandees and proud Officers to return to their Needles, their Hammers, their Lasts, their Sl [...]ngs, their Carts and their Flails, should qui [...]e defeat those designs of power, estate and all licentious [Page 33] profaneness both in Opinions and Practises; which their Chief Offi­cers and Levelling sticklers have all this while designed for themselves and their false, giddy, cruel, cove­tous and unreasonable Faction; through that power and influence, which by their lyes, forceries and hypocrisies, they with the help of that mungrel Minister, that Military Priest, that modern Simon Magus, th [...]t disguised Executioner, that bloody Butcher of the King H—P—they have gained upon the Common Souldiery. Upon whose simpl [...]city and val [...]ur they have pre­sumed tyrannously and trayterou [...]y to advance the meer will and plea­sure of some Officers in the Army, and those rotten and ever infamous Members of the Commons, over all the Lawes and Liberties, the Lives, Estates and Inheritances both of King, Prince and People.

[Page 34] Yet after all these Scenes of va­rious Villanies, they have the impu­dence to glory, as if they had done God good service, and so extream­ly pleased God and the People, that they expect all should agree to their Pla [...]dite, as if might and right were well met in the Army.

O you most seared Consci [...]nces, you most R [...]bellious Souls against God, the King, and your own light; you most accursed Doers [...] you deaf Adders, whether you will hear or w [...]ther you will forbear, know this, That we the Christ [...]an people and l [...]yall Subjects of England, do in the bittern sse of our Souls declare ( [...]s in the [...]ight of God, to whose just Tribunall we appeal, and summon your stupid and cruel hypocrisie) to all the world, our to all detestation, and utter ab [...]orring [Page 35] of your Counsels, Actions and future Designs. You glory, as if you were now Masters of our Estates, Liberties and Lives: But we shall by Gods grace keep our Souls unspotted from those great Offences and presumptuous wicked­nesse, wherewith you are infected beyond all cure or recovery.

No we would have your impeni­ [...]ent hardnesse, as well as the softer world to know, That we look back wi [...]h extream sorrow, shame and repentance, upon our former De­lusions and forwardnesse to this Un­happy Warre; wherein though they were most to blame who were the Deceive [...]s and Instigators of us; yet we cannot excuse our selves fur­ther then thus, That we did it out of credulo [...] inconsideratenesse, and not out of malicious wickednesse [...] The God of Heaven, whose mer [...]ie [...] [Page 36] exceed our sins and your cruel ies, forgive the Errors and [...]reat sins of this Nation in this Unnatura [...]l Warre; which have deservedly as from the Divine vengeance, though most perfidi­ously, as from your multiplyed Tre [...]sons and wilfull R [...]bellions, b ought upon these Kin [...]doms such a sore plague and intolerable op­p ession as you are.

Whose detected hypocrisie hath now made it clearly appear, That both King, Parliament and People [...]ere meerly cheated and abused, by the Fra [...]d first, after by the Force of those Factiouss, Schis­maticall, bloody and implacable spirits, your chief Genius's; who de [...]paired to carry on their wicked D [...]signs of Ambition and Tyran­ny, but by the means of Anarchy, P [...]ofanen [...]sse, Disloyalty, and publike [Page 37] ruine of Church and State.

All which Rottennesse and Villa­ny must be masked awhile under the Names of Reformation, Laws and Liberties, King and Parliament, which we see too evidently (though too late) after infinite miseries, Op­pressions, Blood-shed, and Delusi­ons, amount to no more but a sla­vish Submission to the will and Arbi­trary Tyranny of a few sanguinary Schismaticks, cruel Hypocrites, and desperate usurpers over all; who, like deep Ditches, and open Sepul­chers, having swallowed up, our King, our Parliament, our Estates, our Liberties, and many of our Brethrens Lives, now like impudent Strumpets, in the wantonnesse and security, to which successe have hardened their hearts and Fore­heads, wipe their mouths as if they had done no evil; and now lying [Page 38] in wait for our pretious Souls, dress their whorish Faces with the Har­lotry and temptation of a New fashioned Representative, and that both silly and ridiculous Bable called the Agre [...]ment of the People.

Then which never any poyson was presented in a sordider and lesse suspected Cup; nor foolish Devil never used lesse inviting baits for his snares: Their grosse and brutish unp [...]liticknesse offering no­thing in that Beggars dish to the miserably abused, and justly dis­contented Kingdome, but only such generall dull and confused notions, as might become the soberer sort of [...]icts or Highlanders, or the lesse savage Ind [...]ans, when from their Acorns, nakednesse, and barbari­ty they began to form some con­ceptions of casting themselves into [Page 39] more orderly and civil Societies, for their better Government and Com­mon welfare; so vastly short their m [...]tly Agreement comes of those most tryed, wise, noble, rationall, just, and indeed Divine Principles and Foundations of True Govern­ment, Order and Polity, on which this famous Monarchy hath for many hundred of years been raised to so stately a Fabrick; having flou­rished to so perfect a beauty, to so ancient and venerable a glory, as became the Wisdom [...], Piety and Gravity of our former Kings, Par­liaments and Ancestors; men of Renown for true Wisdome and Heroick Greatnesse; to whom these late Ov [...]rturners and Innovators of all Government would scarce have served for their Dwarfs, Zanies, and Bussoons.

[Page 40] But least these Cursed M [...]vers of the Ancient Boundaries and Land­marks should lose both themselves and us in the Wood and Wildernesse of their poor, rude, barbarous and novell projections they bring forth their Ignes Fatui, lights of private Inspirations, Fan [...]tick Delusions, False and Falsifyed Interpretations of wrested and corrupted Scriptures, to make some shew to their seduced Pr [...]selytes (whom they would re­baptize in the blood of the King with themselves) as if they were the little stone cut without hands which must become a great Moun­tain, &c. They the Saints which must bind Kings in Chains, and Nobles in Links of Iron, &c. They the people of the most High, to which the Kingdoms of the Earth must be given, &c. Whereas true Saints, which had the power, not shew only of godlinesse, would not [Page 41] take all the Kingdoms of the world upon such D [...]v [...]l [...]sh Co [...]d [...]tions, and by such d [...]mnable practis [...]s, as yours are, most apparent, and by your selves confessed to be unjustifi [...]ble. Such Scripture paintings upon the f [...]ce of your Jezeb [...]ll would have served the turn of John of Leyden, Knipp [...]rdoling, Muncer, and those other Impostors your infamous pre­d [...]cessors, as well as you and indeed they were by them no lesse preten­ded; but with how bless'd successe you are loth to own or remember, as presaging your like destinyes in Gods due time.

It is a strange and unwonted way of any sound and true Christians, apparently to violate and wholly decline from the obedience of clear morall precepts of justice and other both Religious and Civil Duties to God and man, under a pretense of [Page 40] [...] [Page 41] [...] [Page 42] Zeal and a Call to fulfill prophetick Obscurities; which darkly foretell what shall be done but do not pre­cisely command us to do this or that; In which eve [...]s even the wickedest men and Antichrists (such as these are) may, as the Vials of the wrath of God, poure out themselves, and have a great part to act, and yet receive no com­fort or reward, other then that of Hypocrites; who may (as Joseph's Brethren, and N [...]buchadnezzar did) then most serve Gods P [...]ophetick and Providentiall disposings, when they act most contrary to h [...]s Re­vealed will, and only seek to se [...]ve their own envy, covetousnesse and unsatiable Tyranny, however they may as the Devil bait their Tempta­tions with Scripture Allegations.

But know O ye hard- [...]earted Bels [...]azzars (whom no [...]and-writing [Page 43] out of Gods Words, clearly setting forth your sin, curse, wo and damna­tion can yet scan or deterr from your frolick villanies) That, if you were Angels from Heaven, as you are Luciferan brats from Hell, (transforming your selves at first in­to Angels of light: but now fully uncased; so that now your fiery eyes, your black and wide mouths, your blasting and sulphurious breath, your proud horns, and your cloven feet appear to all but your own besotted [...]mps and familiars [...] if (we say) you yet appeared as An­gels, yet you should give us leave to believe the expresse will and Word of God, rather then your jugling fancies, to which that is diametrically contrary, both in the Precept and all practises of Christ and his true Saints. H [...]ar how the voyce of God disagrees with your apparent folly and madnesse. [Page 44] He bids honour and obey the King and our lawful Governours; you cry cr [...]cifie, destroy, and scatter them. Christ commands to give unto Caesars that which is Caesars, no lesse then to God what is Gods: But you take away as from God and his Church what is his; so from our Caesar, his Empire, Liber­ty, life, posterity and all.

The voyce of God bids us se [...]k peace and ensue it, branding with the reprobate marks of Hypocrites, those that as Traytors, heady, high­minded, and fierce despisers of what is good, break all Truce or Treaties, which you have done, beyond what ever the falsest miscreants ever did.

The Word of God is a clear con­stant, uniform light as to the rules of an holy life in Piety, Equity and [Page 45] Charity; [...]ut your opinions, pra­ctises and pious pretentions, Cen­taure-like are various and deformed Changlings, many-shapen and mis­shapen Monsters, shifting Proteusses, slippery and virtiginou [...] Serpents, folded and hidden in the winding la­barinths and intr [...]cate circulations of your many subtil, [...]ly, and perplexed designes.

The truth is, there is as wide a difference between your clamors, h [...]wlings, and hideous yellings (which sound nothing but war, bloud, Rebellion, Famine, Death, Desolation and Damnation) and that soft [...] sweet gracious and most glorious v [...]yce of God in the holy Scriptures, (which you use for a Net not a Gar­ment) as there is between the most bright beautiful Soul savi [...]g-Truths, and most black deformed Soul­damning-lies. Your selves cannot [Page 46] think us uncharitable, if we do be­lieve and tell you, That you have more blasphemed the Spirit, Name, Grace, Word, Saints, and Servants of God, by intitling these as Inspirers, Authors, and Approvers of your most gracelesse and devilish practises; then ever those hard-hearted and impudent Hypocrites the Pharisees did, by imputing the saving miracles of our Lord Jesus Christ to your Beelzebub the Prince of Devils; whose servants you are, whose work you do, and whose wages you must exspect.

Nor do we doubt but all the curses written in the Book of God (which like that of Meroz, have been causlesly, factiously and falsly by some of you [...] double [...]faced Janus's formerly imprecated upon the King and his loya [...]st Subjects) will cer­tainly overtake and fall upon both you and your viperous generation.

[Page 47] We hope God will in his infinite goodn [...]sse not suffer this dying Church and desolated Nation, to be further partakers of your Babylonish sins and open Sorceries least we be partakers of your plagues and tor­ments; which are laid up in the trea­sures of the wrath both of God and all good men against you and your desperate faction.

We tell you, we are so far from counting you Saints and Saviours, that we look up [...]n you as the To­phet which God hath indeed prepa­red for the King and these King­doms, to try and torment them a while; but we doubt not, but God will at last cast you (who are our sin, our death, and our Hell) into the lake that burns with fire and brimstone for ever.

[Page 48] Unlesse you repent; so many of you Officers and Souldiers as are capable of Repentance, not being so deeply and maliciously ingaged in the desperate sins of those men your chief leaders and seducers, who be­ing past feeling, of a most r [...]probate sense, greedy and unreas [...]nable sin­ners, make no conscience to damn your souls, for the perf [...]cting their ambitious and covetous designs, for which they have hitherto made use of the hands of so many valiant men worthy of a better work and a nobler war, whereby to destroy your and our King, subvert our Par­liaments, Laws, Government, and Religion; and all this, against all your and our Protestations, Vows, Oathes, Promises and Covenants to God and man.

[Page 49] O you that have followed these Theudasses, as the seduced people sometime did Absalom in the simpli­city of your hearts, not aware of their devillish stratagems, devises, and designes; you that have any touch of Gods Spirit, or his grace in your hearts; any fear of God or dread of sin left in you; you that have any sense of your souls eternal welfare (which those either qu [...] ­stion or deny) any terrour of the wrath of God, or hope of his love and mercy; you that are afraid to degenerate into unreasonable Beasts, or incarnate Devils, (That you may enjoy the benefit of the Kings last charitable Prayers for your pardon and repentance) make hast to depart from the tents of these A chans, these Korahs, these sinners who know themselves accursed of God and men. Come out of their [Page 50] Babylon, which is become the habi­tation of Devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, a cage of every unclean and hateful Bird, by a peni­t [...]nt and pious withdrawing from such filthy Harpies, such cunning, yet cruel Hyena's, such weeping yet devouring Crocodiles; such Ban­ners as bear not the Kings Arms, but his head cut from his body; such Banners as are dyed in the bloud of their King, murthered by them, while they pretended to fight for him, and preserve him.

O drink no more of the wine of the wrath of their Fornications, which they hold forth in that poy­sonous and filthy cup of their Agreement of the P [...]ople; with which they hope to make drunk this whole Nation; that as Lots incestuous Daughters; their lusts may be fully impregnated b [...] the conjunction of the strength, riches and counsel of [Page 51] these Kingdoms: Know you for cer­tain (O you Souldiers) that no place of Repentance can be found among those Esaus and Judas's who have been the chief and mal [...]cious actors and contrivers of these wick­ed and cruel confusions; whose names as we well know; so we are sure the hand of God will find them out; making them (who have been the terror and torture of men of all degrees,) to become as Pashur, Magorncissabis; terror round about, as a wheel, in past revolutions from prosperous wickednesse to miserable punishments; as chaffe tossed to and fro by the breath of Gods displea­sure, and the execration or abhor­rence of all people in all Nations, Christian and Heathen; where ever they are driven to be Vagab [...]nds and Runnagates: carrying with them in their fester'd conscienc [...]s the forked arrow, of their deceiving [Page 52] and then cruelly destroying both their King, and their Country.

And this, till they are cast into the chains of utter da [...]kness, who have quenched the light of Israel; and to everlasting flames, whose wrath kindled with the fire of Hell, hath burned to the very foundations of so happy a Nation.

No person of worth, Honor or Piety, but will ever loath to eat, dri [...]k, or converse with them, look­ing upon them as unlucky prodi­gies: much more will every inge­nuous man or woman abhorr ever to marry or make any affinity with them, or their families polluted with the bloud of their King; but mo [...]t of all abominated will they be as to any Communion with them in Prayer or other religious duties; who having turned the grace of God [Page 53] into wantonnesse; cannot but already hear Judasses si ent clamors, deep despairings and self-condemnings; like Julian the Apostate, they can­not but feel the secret and sma [...]t strokes of God in their consciences, for betraying, persecuting and de­stroying the innocent bloud of our King. O E [...]rth cover it not, O Tim [...] forget it not, O Heaven fail not to reveng [...] their prodigal a [...]d cruel wast of so royal and precio [...]s bloud! Sur [...]ly without any unchari­tab [...]e ra [...]n [...]sse, they may be suspe­cted to be past all grace and reco­very by any Prayers. There re­maining for such sinners of the sin to death, such relapsing Swine and reso [...]bing Dogs, who pre [...]ending to have escaped the poll tions of the world, are returned to their mire and vomit; feigning to be illumi­nated Saints; yet have wrought such works of thick darknesse, nothing [Page 54] but a fearful expectation of vengeance, a [...]d fiery indignation to consume them.

They have impudently and trai­terously judged, condemned, and murthered the King upon the pre­tence of his raising Warr against the Parliament; of which fact them­selves are doubly and most unque­stionably guilty before all the world, twice menacing, invading, and for­cibly assaulting their Masters in the two Houses of Parliament. Nor if their charge had been true against the King (which upon his death he both denyed, and most evid [...]ntly p [...]oved by the legal right he had to the Militia, and the date of their Commissions for raising war, before his Majesties were out) yet were not these Usurpers any competent Judges by God or man appointed; nor was indeed that calumny [Page 55] the reall motive of their sudden, bloudy, and resumed cruelty; but only that extream fear, hatred and terror their hypocrisie and vil­lany had conceived against the Kings excellent wisdome, constant piety, and immovable goodnesse; which they had so often, and so unmeasurably abused; and which they saw was the chiefest obstacle in the way of their Sacrilegious Am­bition.

And now like desperate Empy­ricks upon whose c [...]uel tamperings we have sp [...]nt our Blood, our Estates, our Lives; the honour of our Nation [...] and the credit of our Reformed Religion: You (now) pr [...]end to stop that bloody Issue (which by tumult and treason you have made) by destroying the whole Royall Family, and le [...]ting out all the ancient blood of our [Page 56] Kings out of the veins of these Kingdoms; to ext rpate Kings, Peers, and Parliaments; and by [...]dle fi [...]tions of your weak and c [...]n [...]used brains to obtrude the fri [...] ­p [...]ry and gull [...]ry of [...]our Agreeme [...]t of the People.

As if all rules of Justice, all true Policy and Reason of State, and good grounds of Government (no lesse then all wickednesse, cruelty, hypocrisie and treason) only dwelt in your shallow brains and narrow [...]earts: Who for the most part are not guilty of any Learning or Civil Improvements; are open and de­clared Authors of Ignorance, Con­ [...]usion and Tyranny; Enemies to all sober manners and good Order, both in Church and State.

Nor do those great things (as you call them) which you have hitherto [Page 57] with most inf [...]mous treachery and cruelty peracted and attained, any way render you considerable with sober, godly and truly wi [...]e men: For what may not Frontlesse Hypo [...]rites do, who have forsaken God, and given themselves over to the Devils Captivity, when im­powered with Arms and might, they resolve barbarously to break through, and cast off, all bonds of right, trust, duty, credit and con­science to God and Man, as you h [...]ve done.

But O you hardened and infatu­ated Regicides, c [...]n you in good earnest flatter your selves, that this foolish Toy, this shamelesse Imposture, your Bastard Brat, your headl [...]sse Chymera, your many-headed Hydra, call [...]d The Agreement of the people, (but by as [...]ull an Antiphrasis, as the Fiends and [...]uries of Hell were [Page 58] called Eumenides) will be a salve sufficient to heal, or Plaister to cover the wide deep and festered wounds, which your treacherous cruelty hath made upon this King­dome in all Estates, both joyntly, as in Parliament, and severally, as in t [...]e interests of the Crown, the Nobility, the Clergy and the Com­m [...]ns.

No, your selves know, that very Ti [...]le, which you shameles [...]y im­pose upon your mad and deformed Modell is nothing but a Lye and F [...]lsity; b [...]ing in no sense The A [...]r [...]ement of the people, nor we hope ever like to be. Neither in their Representatives the Commons, whom you have disbanded and cashiered in the Majority; leaving [...]nly som [...] few Members left [...] whose A [...]inine p [...]tience and stupidity suffers th Bala [...]ms of the Army, as mad and [Page 59] false Prophets to ride upon them for the price of bloud, and wages of Iniquity: To which Vassallage, we hope no Gentlemen of any Honour or Conscience, will ever betray themselves or their Coun­trey by returning to that House a­gain, or sitting and voting there, while it is under such insolent Ty­rants.

Nor will you finde it more agree­able to the generality of the people throughout the Kingdome both Mi­nisters and others, who in their souls disagree as much from what you have done and by that further design, [...]s li [...]ht doth from dark­nesse, liberty from Oppression, and G [...]d from your Dictator the De­vil.

No, the People of England, will o [...]e day (if God please to cast his [Page 60] Net upon you, and put his hook into the all d [...]vouring jawes of your Leviathan) make you and your Dawbers with the untempered mor­tar of a mouldred and dissolved Par­liament, to unde [...]stand; that they abominate [...]ou and your deeds, as much as Hell it self; for your monstrous sins are their own Hell and Horror, more to be detested then all the sinl [...]sse sufferings of He [...]l.

The ancient and most Honourable H [...]se of Peers, whom sometimes you flattered into a Fools Paradise, (while the poor shreds and remnants of that Court might serve your [...]urn to face yo [...]r affairs by any s [...]w of their Authority) as if you had designed nothing to their di­m [...]tion: Yet you have wholly layd t [...]em aside, as uselesse and dangerous Idols of honour, fit to [Page 61] be cast out to the Bats and Moles, to be levelled unto or abased be­neath, the meanest Animals, and vilest beasts of the People; for though they should, any of them, so dishonour themselves as to des­cend into the Hell of your infected walls; yet c [...]uld [...]hey never there ascend to any degree of publique in­fluence either for Counsell or Acti­on, be [...]ng sure to be alwayes over­lay [...]d, smothered and oppressed by your over voting crew of Mecha­nick Idols; who saving that they have mouths to speak a Treasonable Y [...]a or Noe; in other points, have Eyes and see not, Noses but smell not, Hearts but consider not, the blood, cruor, carkases, skulls and dead bo [...]es of their King and their Bre­thren of all degrees, with which they have inhuman [...]ly filled that Charn [...]ll-house, that Golgotha of that quondam H [...]use of Comm [...]ns.

[Page 62] Sure the numerous, and once both famous and flourishing No­bility of England, besides those of Ireland and Scotland, cannot but infinitely abhorre and detest your arrogant despising of them, and trampling upon them; if they have but any drops of their Ancestors noble blood running in their veins, or any sparks of true Honour left in their Breasts: It will at length kindle such a fire of just indigna­tion and revenge in those Cedars as shall consume such base shrubs, such offensive thistles, and such domi­neering Bryars: But if their ignoble despondency have so debased them to Luxury and Cowardise, that they dare not vindicate the Honour of their Nation, Name and Order, together with the rights of the Crown, the Fountain of their Ho­nour, but are content to be either [Page 63] bowed, or hewed down, or over­dripped, or exsuccated by such Aspiring Ivyes as you are; our Counsell is, that the ancient Ba­rons of England, sometimes Peers and chief Counsellors in Parlia­ment, would solemnly Degrade themselves, lay aside their vain and ridiculous Titles, reverse their Esco­cheons, sell their Scarlet Robes to the Brokers in Long-lane, rather then keep them, either to feed Moths, or to be Monuments to all Posterity, What Capons, Poul­troons and degenerous Buzzards they are, descended from such Eagl [...]s, as many of their Ancestors were.

But if the Nobility should so far betray and desert themselves, their Posterity, their King and their Countrey (who though their num­ber be not great, yet their interest is; [Page 64] and so might their influence on the Publique yet be, both great and good, if their spirits and gallantry were such, yet, how can you the greater buggs of the Army; or you the lesser Vermine and Maggots of the Commons (who survive and crawl after the dissolution of your Parlia­ment; bred of, and feeding upon, the putrefaction of that House) How can you think, that the Peo­ple of England, who are generally and highly concerned in the Honor, Credit and Religion of the Nati­on, can ever with a good Con [...]ci­ence, or any face of common ho­nesty agree to your Jugling and Sophistry; as if you or your We­stern Mahomet and new Antichrist (Hugh Peters) had any Pap [...]l power to absolve their souls from those Protestations, Covenants, O [...]ths of Allegiance and Supremacy, by all which they were and are both lawfully [Page 65] and [...]eligiously bound, under the greatest curses of God both to the Kingdom in general, and spe­cially to the Parliaments Privi­ledges, and the Rights of the King and his lawful Successors: of which grosse and manifold perju­ries they must make themselves guilty, only to make way to the Dictatorship and Empire of some of yo [...]r greater Brambl [...]s; That (for­sooth) the People of England might enjoy that Liberty, Peace and Plen­ty under your unavoidable Tyran­ny, unsatiable Rapine, and cruel Oppression; o [...] such Beggars as most of you are, and were, which formerly they c [...]uld never have un­der the gracious Kings wi [...]e and Loyal Parliaments, the ingenuous Laws, and excellent Government of this sometime flourishing King­dom.

[Page 66] Sure you are not yet so much beasts as to think, that the Community of this great people can all govern themselves, or mutually one ano­ther: Government must necessarily be setled a [...]d centred somewhere: Nor is it likely, that your Leaders and Bashaes, whose hands are em­brued in the bloud of their King, will ever be so modest, as to lay themselves aside; and denying their own most ambitious and cov [...]tous de­sires, to let any others but them­selves and their creatures reap the fruit of their projects and labours; for which they have pawned their souls to the Devil, and sold them­selvs as Ahab to do wickedly.

But, if you dare venture it upon so ingenuous a Trial, let the people of England without your terror, cunning, injurious restraints and exceptions [Page 67] be their own Umpires, and Choosers, whether they will bear the light and easie yoke of the [...]aws, and the gentle as well as just cha­stisements of their penalties under a lawful King, or the iron-yoke of your Tyranny, and the Scorpions of your wills, being so many Eve­ning Wolves, bloudy Traitors, and unlimitted Tyrants, (whose little fin­gers in these last three years have been infinitely heavyer then the loyns of all the Kings, that ever were in this Kingdom) let the peo­ple have free suffrages, you will soon find, That the true Agreement of the People (a hundred voyces to one) is this, to shake off your cruel Tyranny, to bring to condign pu­nishment such unheard of Traitors; and to invest in his Throne our law­ful King Charles the Second; the Eldest Son of that good King you lately murthered. But how can the [Page 68] people of England ever hope to have any other Civil Agreement of theirs bin [...]ing to you and your pragma­t [...]ck faction; further then your own fancies, lusts, and pleasures think fit; since they finde you to have so lately broken through all Laws of God and Man; all Ancient and Fundamental Agreemen's in this Nation, on which the Honour and Safety of our Kings, the Pri­viledges of our Pa [...]liaments, the Liberties of the People, the Order and Purity of our Church, and the happiness of our Nation were set­led? What Cautions can you give that you will hereafter submit to any Publick Agreement; who are such sh [...]fters, juglers and dissem­blers, that no Laws, Leagues, Co­venants, Protestations or Promises you freely make can binde [...]ou; No faith to King, Parliament, Peo­ple, neighbour Nations, or God [Page 69] A [...]mighty can hold you; but like the man possessed with the unclean spirit, you break all ties and bonds, casting Church and State into fire or water, as the rash motions of your Frantick humors carry you, &c.

Conscience you can have none; since your lights are so Lunatick, and your principles vary every moneth.

Credit you have none, who have made bankrupt of the Publiq [...]e Faith, and forfeited so many solemn and Sacred Obligations to God and Man.

Sense of Honour or Duty you can have none, since you have neither fear of God, nor reverence of man.

[Page 70] Estates you have little or none to hazard or loose upon any forfeiture of your Faith or Agreement: And for your Heads and Lives they are now so vile and cheap, that although you are not fit to live, yet they are scarse worth the taking.

Sure you cannot but appear to your selves as well as to all men, the most outlawed, notorious and Stigma­tized Re [...]els, the most perfidious Traytors that ever any King, or Se­nate, State or People imployed or trusted: Having utterly blotted out all your former promeritings and good service so much boasted of; Since the Event proclaims you served not King, Parliament, or Co [...]ntrey, but your own lusts and villanous designs, which by the ad­vantages of mutinous power you now seek to accomplish under the now [Page 71] void and forfeited Commission of that stupid Saint, that stain of Ho­nour, that dumb shew of your si­lent, extatick and seduced General the poor and Unexcellent Lord

So that the darkning of your most wicked designs by this title of The Agreement of the People, amounts to no more in the true and last sense of it, but this, That you would have the People of England, and the other two united Kingdoms, willingly to bow down to your Hoddy dody; your all Breech-Idol, as your own Prophet so variously and falsely inspired, justly calls your unlickt and monstrous projects, not of Government, but of Anarchy and Tyranny.

You would have us all to pledge you in that horrible draught of the Kings bloud, which you have gree­dily drank; to approve and ab [...] [Page 72] your execrable villanies; and to sub­mit for ever to the intolerable Ty­ranny of such Goths, Vandals, and Saracens as you are.

Who are but the Devils Leiute­nants; Factors for the God of this impure world; signal Antichrists, ac­curate fulfillers of all the characters foretold, and brands set upon you in the last and perilous times; in which true glass you and all men may clearly see the ugly lineaments of your most deformed faces and man­ners.

It is hoped, that God hath yet so much mercy left in store for these sinful (and by you most mise­rable) Kingdomes; as he gives us grace utterly to abhorr your despe­rate sins [...] So that we trust he will never suffer us by a Devillish Apo­stasie to fall from all Vows, Oaths, [Page 73] and Covenants to God and man, by which we and our posterity are bound to God, the Crown, and our Coun­trie [...]; only to have yours and the D [...]vils absolution, to m [...]ke a Cove­ [...]nt and Agreement with Hell and Death; with your most irreligious [...]nd damnable designs and pra­ctises.

No, the sin and horrour of your wayes are now like Absaloms ince­stuous and noon-day Rapes, disco­vered in the sight of the Sun and all the world; Nor will the s [...]btilty of your soft and fained voyces like Syrens any more charm, and en­chant the honest people of England, into such Beasts and Monsters, [...]s your selves are; to whose hell [...]sh deformities you would have a [...]l others to conform: They have seen and felt too much already of your [Page 74] cruel Hypocr [...]sies; your devillish and strong delusions.

Have not your words been al­wayes Soloecisms to your purposes and your practises contradictions to your pretenses?

Have you not as much as lies in your power and mal [...]ce cast us into the dead Sea of disloyalty, perjury, cruelty, barbarity, irreligion, and confusion, that is possible for any Nation suddenly to relapse and fall into, after so many Sacred and So­lemn Professions of Loyalty, and Reformation to God and the world, whom we called to w [...]tness upon our souls?

Agreeable to all which, and to fill up the measure of our sins, as if our Rebellion against God and [Page 75] the King were hitherto but a light and small matter, by which we have most unhappily occasioned his death, by the hands of cruel Edo­mites and cursed Amal [...]kites as you are; which most deplorable cala­mity to us and this Na [...]ion we pe­nitently look upon as the severest temporal st [...]oke which the wrath of God, gone out against us, can infl [...]ct upon us. Yet your impudent Hy­pocrisie now seeks to obtrude up­on us your wretched and abhorred Agreement; The sum of which is to leave the Kingdom without a King; Government without Au­thority; Magistrates without Pow­er; a People without Laws; a bo­dy without an head; Sheep without a Shepherd; Christians without Christ; Churches without Mini­sters; Ministers without Mainte­nance; a Nation without Fai [...]h: In a word, you would have us live as [Page 76] men without souls, without God; wilfully degenerating to beasts, with­out sense of vertue or vice, shame or honour; without fear of Hell, hopes of Heaven, or thoughts of Eternity; and all this to maintain a few Tyrannous Hypocrites, and Sodomitick Saints, the cry of whose sins like Sodom is gone up to Hea­ven, and are a burden too heavy for the Earth to bear; Have you not already made the Name of these Pretestant and Reform [...]d Chur­ches to stinck among [...]ll Na [...]ions both Christian and Heathen, through the dead flies, and [...]ot en [...]ss of your principles and ma [...]rs.

Have you not [...]urp [...] the cun­ning and c [...]uelt [...] o [...] t [...] most [...]su [...] ­tick h [...]a [...]s a [...]d [...] [...]s [...]ch as you [...] o [...] [...] an [...] [...] to ad­v [...]ce [...] above [Page 77] that of Kings: But you upon baser principles seek to subject the Regal Soveraignty to that of the People, as you call it; nor that you mean so in good earnest, further then to delude the people, and to raise the heads of your desperate Faction above all, both King, Prince, Peers and People.

We appeal to all sober Christians, whether your Treasons have not far surpassed the Powder Conspiracy; Inasmuch, as they plotted secretly, but you have peracted openly, the murther of the King, the ruine of all the Royal Issue; the overthrow of all our Laws; the blowing up of all Par­liaments; the subverting of the whole State and Government; the devastation of your Countrey; the abolition of all true Religion; the extirpation of all Liberty, Peace, Order, and Humanity.

[Page 78] Your Elder Brother Faux him­self might seem a Saint compared to you: whose New Light, and Dark Lanthorn you have so long made use of to hide and disguise your desperate intentions: Nor were the rest of those Powder Tray [...]ors so criminal as you, if they had effect­ed what they designed; since they neither pr [...]tended to that Saintsh [...]p, or that smooth precisen [...]sse which you have done; nor had they upon them such signal ties of Publique and special Trust (besides your many voluntary Obligations) The total violation of all which, renders your sins out of measure sinful, and your Treasons incomparably traite­rous: beyond what any Ca [...]elines but your selves, ever had the de­sperate boldnesse to have conceived or committed.

[Page 79] Had you been our Open Ene­mies, or self-raising Rebels in a de­clared r [...]valry and enmity against King, Parliament and Countrey, we could either have prevented and opposed you; or have born with lesse shame and disdain your inso­lent and prevayling Cruelties a­gainst them all.

But when we consider what ostentation and shew you made of exact obedience and plenary a [...]qui­escence in their Votes, Results, and Orders, from whom you had your unhappy Commission; also of loyall regard to his Majesties safety, Rights, Honour and Poste­rity, (to whom some of your chief Commanders (as they well know) engaged their souls, as much as was possible for any mortall men to doe, devoting themselves to all the [Page 80] Curses of God, t [...]mporall and e­tern [...]ll upon the breach and failer of their words to his Ma [...]esty.

Adde to these the fair gloseings you made at your first meeting, of speedy and impartiall endeavou [...]s to settle all things in Peace, Justice, due L [...]berty and Piety; which how faithfully you have effected, the present Deplored state of this Church and State may witnesse; whose face is now miserably squal­led and hideously besmeared with the blood of the King, and those most indelible Reproaches where­with you have blasphemed our God, our King, and our Religion.

We the people of England, of all sorts, Lords, Gentry, Clergy and Commons, do again and again de­clare to God and all the world, the present Age and Posterity so long [Page 81] as the world shall endure, our in­finite abhorrence, utter detestation, and to [...]all d [...]sagre [...]ment from what you the Officers of the Army; and your most slavish, ever infamous and Unparliamentary Juncto have already done, or shall further doe, (through Gods vengeance upon this Nation) in prosecution of your never sufficiently abominated Vil­lanies.

Nor do we desire any thing more of the just and Alm [...]ghty God, (not in order to the sati [...]faction of our private ma [...]ce, or desire of re­venge on any of you (though our par [...]icular injuries hav [...] been many from you) but o [...]y in order to the publiqu [...] Vindication of Go [...]s glory, the Ho [...]our of the Reform [...]d Re­ligion, the Loyalty, Faith and Credit of this Nat [...]on, the wiping away those foul sins of Tr [...]s [...]n, [Page 82] Perjury, Truce-breaking and Regall Parricide, (in all which Villanies your execrable Faction, wallowing in the blood of your King and fellow­Subjects now seek impenitently and irreparably to implunge this whole Nation;) That we m [...]ght (as some solace under our immense sorrows, and tyrannizing miseri [...]s infl [...]cted by you) but live to see Gods tem­porall judgements so farre upon you, as may pull down your Lu­cif [...]rian pride, and make your ob­stinate mindes to see the horror of your Villanies; That like Cain, you may be afraid of all men; like Judas, accursed to all Posterity; given over to Sa [...]an, and excom­municated by all good Chris [...]ans, as Murtherers of your Father, Killers of your King; That you may ever be ha [...]ted with the r [...]full Ghost, and hideous Phantasme of the King, whom you have trayterousl [...] [Page 83] butchered: That the exem­plary vengeance of God may be upon you and your Adherents so rema [...]kably, and in such a propor­tion to your Villanies, that if there be any place left for Repentance, you may finde it; and yet all the world may see, your destruction is the Lords doing, and say, Doubt­lesse, there is a God that judgeth the Earth.

Nor do we despair, but God will upon our true Repentance for our great sins and sup [...]ne folly (which gave you advantages to fulfill your most odious Villanies) so farre re­member his mercies to this most deplorable Kingdom, and by you (as so many wilde Bores) desolated Churches, as to stirre up some powerfull Avenger of the Kings blood; and all that other innocent blood, which the depths and dece [...]ts [Page 84] at first, the force and violence afterward, o [...] your bloody Faction hath occasioned and caused to be shed; by your tumultuating the people; your instigating the spirits of the two Houses with false and pannick fears; your calumniating the King, and perverting his gra­cious purposes; your enflaming the enmities, and heightning the Animosities on both sides; your fraudulently voting, No Addres­ses, and publishing that lying and most infamous Libell for your pretended grounds; your widening the differences, and hindering all fair equable closings, both former­ly, and in that last memorable Treaty at Newport; of which you were the most rude, savage and per­fidious Violators, that ever History recorded.

[Page 85] We know, that you can now only trust in your Arm of Flesh, in the Devils aid and Councell, ha­ving in your works denyed the Living God; instead of whom, your Belly and the present World, are become your God and your glory: for the satisfaction of which, and the attaining places of profit and power (agreeable to your lusts, which are enlarged like Hell) you have dared to advance thus far to the destroying of King, Parlia­ment and Lawes; which were the only boundaries and conservers of our Peace, Properti [...]s, Liv [...]s and Liberties; yet after all this, you inscribe on your Bloody Banners, and impudent foreheads, The Agree­ment of the People; and the Resto­rers of our Liberties.

[Page 86] Which Plots, although you think them your Master-pieces for arti­fice, jugling and policy (that so you might by fair words and flat­tering lyes, allure the many and meaner People to maintain those Monsters which you have brought forth) yet you must know, That the People of Engl [...]nds eyes are not so bloodshotten, nor their Con­sciences so seared, nor their Hearts so disloyall, nor their senses so bewitched by your Magick and Charms, as not to see through, and fully both discover and detest your devilish designs of Tyranny, Anarchy and Profanen [...]sse, where­to you drive, through all these cloudings of immethodicall Non­sense, and indigested scriblings; which like your late damnable Re­monstrance and your other illiterate and irrationall Papers discover; that where there is so much want [Page 87] of grace and common honesty as in you, it is impossible not to want [...]ven those shews of common sense and vulgar Reason, which are n [...] ­cessary (not to justifie (which no tongue, pen or wit of Divels can doe) but so far as to palliate your filth, and cover your nakednesse [...] or to render your wicked projects but tole [...]bly plausible to those, that have the grossest perception of things.

The better to temper this your Cup of deadly poyson, to please the vulgar relish (which you think is grosse and undecerning) you tempt them with the name of Li­berty; first in Civill things; which all men see is but a meer Cheat, while they are l [...]ke to be held under your Iron hands, and squeezed un­der your tyrannous wills, and in­t [...]lerable Exactions; instead of in [...]o [...]ing [Page 88] the benefit of our ancient and famous Lawes (the best that any subjects in the world enjoyed, the ju [...]t and only bo [...]ds of our Liberti [...]s, and Conserver [...] of our both Pe [...]ce and P [...]osperities; to which all [...]n [...]st men (who have no jo [...]n [...] stock with you in k [...]ve­ry, Pov [...]rty and basenesse) desire most humbly and [...]arnestly [...]o re­turn; D [...]pairing (an [...] w [...]t [...] good cause [...] that [...]v [...]r their L [...]b [...]rties and P [...]ope [...]ties can be either a [...]vanced or def [...]ded b [...] y [...]u, who have been so insol [...]nt u [...]u [...]pe [...]s over King, Parliament, and all our la [...]s and li­berties; wh [...]ch o [...]r fore-fa [...]hers in­deed [...]njoyed m [...]ny years, through God [...] [...]l [...]ssing and [...]h [...] Fatherly care of their P [...]nc [...]s, to a g [...]ea [...]e [...] mea­sure of peace, plen [...]y and Pie [...]y, [...]hen ever can be hoped for under such bloudy L [...]eches, such n [...]merous and unsatiable Caterpillars, as we have [Page 89] felt you to be: N [...]y, we tell you, we so far disdain, your Hypocrisie, Treachery and Tyranny, that we had rather be under the Tyranny of our rightfull King (of whose justice and clemency we nothing doubt) then owe our Liberty, as you call it, to such vile Mushrooms and detested Traitors as you are; who boast of Liberty, yet are in­deed slaves to your damned and desperate lusts; studying nothing but how to delude the people with the name and fancy of Liberty; as if you would perswade us rather to be the Devils Free-men, as you are, (led Captaive by his will) then to be Loyal Subjects to our lawful and most hopeful King; or hum­ [...]le servants to God, whose sacred ties are many w [...]yes upon our souls, binding us to fear God, and to honour the King; and no less to abhorre you; and have no fellowship [Page 90] with such as are given to seditious or perjurious changes: forbidding us to use our Liberty, as men and Christians, for a cloak off maliciousnesse, perjury, tyranny, hypocrisie, and all licentious villa­nies, as you have done.

The next pretence wherewith you bait the Mousetrap, and temper the Ratsbane of your Agreement, is that of Liber [...]y in Religion; your meaning is; That men may be free to professe no Religion; or any which they call such, so it be not the true one; which you know is most opposite to your seditious, traiterous, mercilesse, uncharitable and bloudy Superstitions: The ve­ry truth is; you aim at such an Intolerable toleration in Religion, as you think is most agreeable to the profane hearts, and licentious manners of the most debauched lives and Atheistical Spirits, with which [Page 91] you have already pestered this Eng­lish world.

In order to this Truth-darkning, and Soul-damning design, we know you follow your Leader the Devil, and his Lieutenant General, to the utter dissolving of all Government, Order, and Discipline in the Church, to discourage all learned, godly and painful Ministers; to rob and spoil them of all setled maintenance; to reduce them and the work of the Ministry to that contempt, which in the pride and luxury of these times follows poverty and beggery; That they depending on the peo­ples good will and charity, (which in many you have made bad and cold enough toward the best and ablest preachers) or upon your in­solent and niggardly stipends, they and their families may either eat their own dung, and drink their own [Page 92] piss; or be forced by necessities of life to desert their Function and places; so as to leave their Congre­gations destitute of all holy pub­lique duties; or expose them to those Military Wolves and Mecha­nick Foxes, which you have in great store provided for the supply of all places, in Church as well as State.

Thus doth your rage reach as high as Heaven, and as low as Hell: But we hope the God of Heaven will look down upon us, and our children in mercy, and by some speedy rebuke of such Satans not suffer your folly and fury to proceed any further, it being ma­nifest to all moral and sober men, that you are Factors not only for your selves, to devour our Estates, Houses, Lands, Liberties, Peace, and Lives; but like the great Dragon, [Page 93] you pour forth a Sea off bloud and poyson, ignorance, and pro­faneness, such as may for ever drown both our and our childrens souls in Heathenish Barbarism, Su­perstition, Atheism, and Eternal destruction.

But know O you neither Mil­stones, you poysonous Aspes, you King-killing-Basilisks, you desperate deceivers and damnably deceived: That although you have against all Faith of Turks, Jewes, or any Heathens, by fraud and force usur­ped upon our secular and civil li­berties; so that at present we have not any formed power to oppose you, and call your Ring-leaders to a sev [...]re accou [...]t for your un­heard of crimes and injuries against our King and our Coun [...]rey. Yet sh [...]ll our constancy in, and our suf­fe [...]ing for our Rel [...]gion, and our [Page 94] incouragement of godly, learned and faithful Mi [...]isters, to our best abilities, make the world to see, that there is no Agreement be­tween Christ in us, and Belial in you; our God, and your Mam­mon.

We hope the Triumphing of such Hypocrites as you are, is but short; nor shall you long insult over the dead and divided Corps of our late Lord and Soveraign King; whose Wisdom, Piety, Faith, and Patience God (we doubt not) hath crowned with Glory and Immortality; having perfected those many Princely gifts and Divine graces in him (as God often doth in his dearest Saints and Martyrs, after the example of his crucified Son Jesus Christ) by his sufferings and your cruelties; whose Memory and Posterity will [Page 95] be ever dear, pretious, and honored, to us and our succeeding generati­ons as a King; who now appears, beyond the Errors and Jealousies of former surmi [...]es [...]chiefly raised and fomented by your false and en­vious Faction) to have been the most constant Pil [...]ar, the Noblest Patron, the resolutest Protector, and he most patient Martyr for our Laws, Liberties, Lives, and Reli­gion: yea and of our Parliaments true Priviledges; which his M [...] ­jesty best saw, and fullest declare [...] at first to have been shamefully invaded and out-raged by your Tumults, after by your Armies, next by your new modellings, at last by actual mutinings, impude [...]t menaces, violent and warlike im­pressions upon their safety, liberty, faith, loyalty and honour, with which purposes you sometime false­ly aspersed, and afterward accused [Page 96] the King: and for which calum­nies you most unjustly condemned and trayterously murthered him; your selves being most truly and notoriously guilty of that, for which you wickedly, cruelly and injustly destroyed your and our King. Shall you escape the righte­ous judgement of God? Will not God visit you for these things? shall he not be avenged of such [...] Hypocrites?

[...]or is it without a special Pro­vidence, that you should be left wholly naked and d [...]stitute of all pretended du [...] Authority in the fulfilling your ex [...]crable vill [...]nies, to which you would now fain in­vite the people of England, not having any sh [...]w or colour of any Parliamentary Votes, Authority, [...]r Commands to countenance [...]our mischiefs, murthe [...]s, and tyran [...]s, [Page 97] not any concurrence of either Lords or Commons; whom now under force, and without all freedome (becoming either Gentlemen or Christians) we must tell you, we look upon as no House; and their enfor­ced or enslaved Votes as null; their after sittings and com­plyings with you, being no­thing but infamous and base prostitutings of the Honour of that House, and Vassallatings of the Dignity and Liberty both of the Parliament and People of England, to the Ty­ranny of a few Mutinous Cut­throats, Trayterous Rebells, and [Page 98] bloody Schismaticks; who are in no sense to be counted the People of England; any more then Scabs, or Plague-sores, or Leprosie, or putid Ulcers, and noysome Excrements are to be [...]puted any part of the Body, whose grief, burthen and annoyance they are.

So that unlesse you can flatter your selves to have done well and worthily in all you have cru [...]lly, inso­lently and traiterou [...]ly acted against King, Lo [...]ds, Com­mons, Gentry, Clergy and all honest men.

[Page 99] Unlesse you can propound something to recompense the inestimable Injuries you have done to all Estates in these three Kingdomes, as in other acts of your Tyranny and Treason, so chiefly in that unparallel'd Villany of Mur­thering such a King, and de­priving us of so Incomparable a Prince, for Wisdom, Piety, Gravity, Patience, Magnani­mity, Courage, Constancy, Charity, and all other Ver­tues most adorning a Man a King and a Christia [...] (the losse of whom all [...] [Page 100] lives of you and your Ap­provers cannot countervayl or expiate, being but as so ma­ny Dogs heads to such a Boon.)

Unlesse you can stop the Mouths of all men, or cut their Throats, or sea [...] their Consciences, or perswade them to damn their Souls, for your sakes to gratifie a few C [...]uterised Consciences, bloody and ambitious spirits among you.

[Page 101] You cannot but hear the sound of much Vengeance coming upon you, to which your own black Souls summon you, and which your own Consciences will in the first place silently, but yet severely execute upon you.

Nor will your Seeming Smiles, and forced confidences, nor yet the Applauses of your sordid Flatterers, and despe­rate Confederates, nor yet the assistance of your numerous and deluded Soldiers, be able to exempt you from that storm [Page 102] of fire and Brimstone, that pit, s [...]are, Curse and Hell, which pursues you, and is ready to overtake you.

How can such Zimri's, who have so trayterously slain such a King, their Lord and Master, ever hope to have peace or impunity in this or the other World? Since the Justice of Divine Providence (in a Case where his Name was not blasphemed, and so his glory not so concerned as in this, (of your murthering so lawfull and so Christian a King) suffered not any of the [Page 103] Murtherers of Julius Caesar, who was but an Usurper, to die other then a violent and immature death. Nor will (we hope) our Salomon by Gods blessing and his Subjects assistance, suffer the Hairy Scalps of those who were the chief Counsellors and Actors in destroying his dear Father, and our Dread Soveraign, to goe down to the Grave in peace, or to dye a drye death; who have shed the blood of Warre, in a time when all Differences were by a Treaty drawn to a Peace and Uni­on.

[Page 104] We can never think, that a Babell of so confused a fashion, of such a headlong height, as yours is; such a Toads-stool suddenly grown out of the Earth of Beggery and Igno­rance, by Fraud and Cruelty, lately watered with the blood of the King and his Subjects, can long thrive or stand; having no foundation in the world, or any shew of rea­son, equity, honour, peace, liberty or piety to support it. Not any seeming Authority (for due and legall you could have none upon Earth.) [Page 105] Not any generall desire, de­light, consent or Agreement, in what you have done, or propound further to doe; but rather a generall detestation, an utter abhorrence, and a per­fect hatred of you and your deeds; which honest men will then agree to, and sub­scribe, when they can be con­tent to love Death and Hell, or to hate God and their own Souls.

Nor doubt we, but many of those Soldiers, whose va­lour and simplicity you have thus farre grossely abused by [Page 106] ingaging them in such despe­rate assistances (whose profit will redound to but few or none of them,) when their Christian, penitent and smite­ing hearts shall come to see (as no doub [...] many of them already doe, who are not throughly poysoned with your desperate Principles) to what horrid Villanies they are made Gossips and accessary by your Fraud and Hypocrisie, they will speedily return from you, dead Dogs, desperate Sheba's, and cursing Shimei's; whose mouths and hearts are full of the gall of bitternesse, whose [Page 107] hands and feet are swift to shed blood, who know not the way of Peace, nor have any fear of God before your eyes; whose Curse is to boast your selves in your iniquity; to fall from one wickednesse to another, till e­ternall vengeance seize upon you.

Penitently smiting their breasts, as those that came from crucifying Christ Jesus, (a work proportionate to the malice and cruelty of you our Kings Murtherers, our Barab­basses) whose barbarity hath at once deprived the King of [Page 108] what is wont to be dearest to men, his Life and his King­domes; robbing his Subjects, the Christian World, and all Mankinde, of the greatest glo­ry, and most Illustrious exam­ple of Vertue and Piety that ever sate upon a Christian Throne; the most unspotted person, the wisest [...]rince, the most Charitable Christian, the most imitable pattern for mo­deration in Prosperity, for patience in Adversity, for de­vout humility toward God, f [...]r judicious zeal to true Re­ligion, for constant love to the Church, for winning Majesty [Page 109] upon all men, that ever sway­ed the Scepter of this or any other Kingdome; Accessible in his brightest splendor, Mag­nanimous in his greatest Dimi­nutions; of a thriving and victorious vertue under the heavyest pressures and Crosses; w [...]ose excellent skill was ne­ver so much discovered as in the late storms; whose dark­nings rendred him not lesse formidable to his Enemies, or less venerable to his Friends [...] nor was he ever more terrible to those, that are perfect haters of God, of Him, and of all Goodnesse than when they [Page 110] saw, that the eminency of his Vertues was not to be smo­thered by their Calumnious Expressions; but the beams and lustre of Divine Majesty in him dayly conquered all Eclipsings that either his own misfortunes or your malice cast upon him.

This was the Man, this the Christian, this the King, this the Saint, this the Martyr, whom these Judas's have be­trayed, these [...]ewes destroyed, these Canniballs devoured.

[Page 111] A sin questionlesse exceed­ing in many respects that of Christs Crucifiers, (not as to the dignity of the person, wherein Christ infinitely sur­passed the Majesty as well as merit of all Earthly Kings) but as to that eminency of Civil Dignity and Soveraign­ty, wherewith the King from God was invested; which Christ Jesus never assumed, contenting himself with the form of a servant, and sub­jecting h [...]mself to Civil Ma­gistracy. Also in regard of that malice, hypocrisie and [Page 112] pretenslesse Cruelty, which these Monsters shewed against the King, destitue of any shew of Due Authority; which the Crucifiers of our Saviour wanted not; urging also a Law they had, by which they said, (though falsely) he ought to dye: What Law the Kings Mur­therers either produced or pre­tended to justifie their Au­thority, their Accusations, or their Sentence against, and Execution upon the King, we and they are yet to learn; nor is it possible they ever should; since all [...] our Lawes [Page 113] do most fully and cleary de­clare the person of the King, as Supream, Sacred, Unac­countable, Inviolable by any Person, Processe, Judgment or Punishment on Earth.

When the Soldiery by Sea and Land shall once seriously reflect upon and consider the infinite odious aggravations, wherewith this horrid Mur­ther of such a Man, such a Prince, and their lawfull King, is laden (to which Villany, their Valour was abused, to be only as Blood-hounds, Butchers, and Hang-men) [Page 114] no doubt they will conceive so just and generous a disdain, that no mens hands will be more ready to avenge their own dishonour, the shame of their Profession, the wound and stayn of their Conscien­ces, the Blood of their King, the Dignity of Parliaments, and the Loyalty of their Nation, (never so branded in any fo [...]mer age) than those Souldiers, whose Valour you the Achitophels, Jeroboams, Hamans and Ma [...]hiavels of our times have basely abused, only to serve you in accom­plishing your Execrable Villanies, [Page 115] and to preserve you from just and speedy Venge­ance; which (as Severus said to those Villanes and Traytors, who had murthered their Em­perour Pertinax) can neither be invented for you, nor exe­cuted upon you, proportion­able to the many and Out­ragious Villanies committed by you.

We the People of Engla [...]d, cannot but appeal to God, your own Consciences, (such as they are, cauteri­sed and polluted with the Blood of our King) also to [Page 116] the judgment of all men, that have but common sober sense, Whether any Age, any Monuments of former times, any History of humane Af­fairs, have ever recorded any excesse of Riot, any super­fluity of Wickednesse to have ever flowed from the hearts of any men, or have been f [...]lfilled parallel to yours? Whether any Combination of desperate men, filled with the Quintessence of all wick­ednesse, fraught with flat­tery, cruelty, hypocrisie, ty­ranny, and all degrees of malicious Villany, incident to [Page 117] humane nature, have since the world began, and Man­kinde hath been planted upon the Earth, ever committed the like Villanies (which exceed all names of Vice and Infamy) or ever more de­served to be made a publick Curse, and universall Exe­cration to all Mankinde, to have their persons cut off from the face of the Earth, and buried with the buriall of an Asse; to have their Posterity, as a pes [...]ilent Pro­geny spewed out of the Land, (unlesse they fully declare their unfeigned and utter [Page 118] abhorrence of their Fathers Villanies, who have defiled the Land with the blood of the King;) That their Houses [...]which are neither great nor many) may be rased; that their memories may be blot­ted out from under Heaven, or only remembred with per­petual scorn, cursing and in­famy.

Since they have besides many other preparatory mis­chiefs, by murthering the King, disinheriting his Poste­rity, and dissolving this ancient and flourishing Monarchy, [Page 119] (as farre as lyes in their power and malice) put us upon this miserable choyce; Either cowardly, basely and shamefully to submit to their detestable and unsatiable Ty­ranny; or to be ever oppres­sed with a Warre in our own bowels; in which we must either expose our Lives and Fortunes to these mens cove­tous Cruelty, or help to en­slave and destroy our selves by assisting these Usurpers; or compell the Rightfull Heir of these Kingdoms, our hope­full King CHARLES the Second, to plead and assert [Page 120] his Right by a Forain Sword; being denyed that just assistance, which as his Subjects we ought to afford him against the Murtherers of his and our Countreys Father; his own Enemies, and indeed of all Kingly Ma­jesty, and Mankinde; the Dis­solvers of our [...]arliaments, the Oppressors of our Liber­ties, the Exhausters of our Estates, the Suckers of our Blood, the Blasphemers of our Religion, the Damners of our Souls (unlesse God preserve us,) the Crucifiers afresh of the Lord of Glory, [Page 121] and putting him to open shame.

The Crie of the blood of our King, the Voyce of the Genius of this Nation, and the Alarm of Gods Justice, call aloud to all honest men of Forraign Nations round about; to all loyall Subjects in these three Kingdomes, to all men of any common ho­nesty or sober profession of Religion in all the world; summoning them to san [...]ifie themselves, and lustrate and expiate not only this English Nation and these three Kingdomes, [Page 122] but all Mankinde, and Civil Societies, by taking speedy vengeance, and execu­ting Gods and Mans severest Justice on these per [...]idious Truce-breakers, proud Usur­pers, cruel Hypocrites, trayte­rous Apostates, and barbarous King-killers.

We cannot but send the divided parts of our dead but endeared King, now a glo­rious Saint, (whom these men have with subtilty and cruelty lately murthered) to all the Tribes of this our Israel, to desire the advice [Page 123] of all good men, to see and consider, whether this hideous Villany were committed with their consent, or deserve to be patronized with their A­greement; whether it was e­ver thus done in any Chri­stian Nation or Kingdome, by any Army of pretending Saints, or any men, we say not of Common Honesty, but of the most exquisite and studied Villany: Whether any thing can be produced out of Common Principles of sound Reason, out of the Lawes of God, out of Christs Holy Precepts, out of the Actions [Page 124] and Examples of any holy and good men; or lastly, out of any letter, sense or meaning of our Lawes, whereby in the least degree to countenance, cover or ex­cuse the Actions of these men; or to satisfie any mans Con­science, that doth not utterly abhorre and seriously endea­vour to expiate the sin and guilt of such Detestable Vil­lanies.

According to the heaped and overrunning measure of their open sins, and abomi­nable Villanies, so let every [Page 125] good man, that fears God, knowes the Memory and Vertues of so good a King, loves his Countrey, will keep a good Conscience, and desires to save his own Soul, not only withdraw all voluntary assi­stance from them, least they seem approvers of their wic­ked Deeds, and be partakers of their Guilt and Judge­ments; but heartily pray, and constantly endeavour the Restoring of the Crowns and Kingdomes to the only Law­full Heir, the late Kings Eldest Son, upon whom are [Page 126] many happy Presages, and great Expectations of Glo­rious Atchievements; whom God hath in Mercy, we hope, to these Churches and Kingdomes, preserved out of the hands of these bloody Villains, who Declared in their Devilish Remonstrance, their purpose to destroy him, with his Brother the Duke of York, and mingle their tender blouds with that of their Father; whom speciall Providence hath prepared for great and excellent Designs, by the maturity of his years, [Page 227] by the procerity of his person, by the gallantry of his Spirit, by the excellency of his Under­standing, by the gravity of his Manners, and severity of his Example, farre beyond what is wonted or expected in young Men, or young Princes in point of Piety and Vertue.

[Page 128] This is that Person, this that Prince, worthy of his high Descent, worthy of such a Father, whose worth alrea­dy promises to exceed all you can desire or hope for from a Good and Gracious King; upon him God, and our Laws, and our Oathes, commands all Loyall and Religious Sub­jects to fix their Eyes, to unite their Hearts and Hands to the Love and Assistance of him, to expiate the sinne and shame of their former Errors and Defaults, which [Page 129] have produced such sad and abhorred Effects; to break the Strength, to extirpate the Persons, to oppose the Designs, [...]nd to revenge the Villanies, which have been with an high hand com­mitted against God, the King, the Parliament, the Lawes, and the Kingdomes, by these Miscreants, men alwayes of Desperate Fortunes, but now of so Desperate Mindes and Manners, that all their paths lead to the Chambers of Death, and their steps are descending to the pit of Hell.

[Page 130] From which the Lord in Mercy deliver the people of this Nation, by prospering our Rightfull [...] and by his Valour and Vertues, r [...] ­deeming us speedily from the sinnes, sufferings and ty­rannies of these blood-thirsty and deceitfull men; with whom no Agreement can be made by any man, who doth not desperately resolve to sinne against the Holy Ghost, and eternally damn his own Soul.

[Page 131] Rom. 16. 17. Now we be­seech you, Brethren, mark them which cause Divisions and Offenses contrary to the Doctrine you have learned, and avoyd them.

18. For they that are such, serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own Bellies, and by good Words and fair Speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.