34- The LI FE of the L I B. I. Aud indeed, this unhappy Complication of the Intereft of Prelacie, and Pro- phanenefs, and Oppofition of the Intereft of Prelacie to theTemper of thegene, rality of the Religious Party, was the vifibleCaufe of the overthrow of the King in the Eye of all the underftanding World, that ever was capable of obfer- ving it. § co. And whereasthe Kings Party ufually fay, that it was the feditious Preach- ers that Rimed up the People, and were the Caufeof all this, 1 anlwer, I. It is partly true, and partly not : It is not true that they ffirred them up to War (except an inconuderable Number of them, oneperhaps in a County, if fo much.) Bur it is true that they difcovered theirdiflike ofthe Book of Sports, and bowing to Altars, and diminifhing Preaching, and filencing Minifters, and fach like ; and were glad that theParliament attempteda Reformation of them. 2. But then it is as true, that ulmoft all thefe were conformable Minifters, the Laws and Bithops having cart out the Nonconformifts long enough before ; info- much, that I knownot of two Nonconformifts in a County. But thofe that made up the Affembly at WeJtminJter, and that through theLand, were the Honour of the Parliaments Party, were almoft all [uch as had till then conformed, and took thofe things to be lawful in cafe of neceHcy, but longed to have that necefity re- moved. § rI. When the War was beginning, the Parties fet Names of Contempt upon each other, and alto took filch Titles to themfelvesand their own Caufe, as might be the fitteft means for that which they defigned : The old Namesof Puritans and FormaliJts were not now broad enough, nor of fufficient force. The King's Party, as their ferioue Word, called the Parliaments Party Rebels, and as their common lu- dicrous Name, The Ronnd.beads (the original of which is not certainly known: Some fay, it was becaufe the Puritans then commonly wore fhort Hair, and the King's Party long Hair : Some fay, it was becaufe the Queen, at Strafford's Tryal, asked who that Roundbeaded Man was, meaning Mr. Pym, becaufe he fpake fo ftrongly.) The Parliaments Party called the other fide commonly by the Name of Malig- nants, as fuppofing that the generality of the Enemies of ferions Godlinefs went that way, in a delire to deffroy the Religious out of the Land. (And the Parlia- ment put that Name into their Mouths) and the Souldiers they calledCavaliers, be- caufe t hey took that Name to themfelves ; and afterwards they called them Dam- me's [becaufe God Damn me] was become a common Corte, and as a By-word among them. The King profeffed to fight for the Subjects Liberties, the Laws of theLand, and the Proteftant Religion. The Parliament profeft the fame, and all their Com- miffions were granted as [ for King and Parliament] for the Parliament profeffed, that the Separation of the King from the Parliament, could not be without a De- ltruttlon ofthe Government, and that the Dividers were the Deftroyers and Ene- mies to the State, and if the Soldiers askt each other at any Surprize or Meeting [ vho are yon for? ] thofe on the King's fide faid, [for the King] and the others faid, [for King and Parliament] the King difowned their Service, as a Scorn, that they íhould fay they fought or King and Parliament, when their Armies were ready to chargehint in the Field. They raid to this, t. That they fought to redeem him from them that tookhim a voluntary Cap- tive, and would feparate him from his Parliament. z. That they fought againft his Will only, but not againft his Perron, which they defired to refcue and preferve, nor againft his Authoritywhichwas for them. ;. That as alltheCourts ofJufticedoexecute their Sentences in the King's Name, and this by his oma Law, and thereforeby his Authority, fo much more might his Parliament do. § p. But pow we come to the main matter; What fatisfied fo many of the in- telligent part of the Countrey to fide with the Parliament when the War be- gan ? What inclined their Affedfions I have before (hewed ; and it is not to be doubted but their Approbation of the Parliament in the caufe of Reformation made them the eafilier believe the lawfalnefs of their War : But yet there were tome Diffen- ters which put the matter to debates among themfelves. InWarvcickfhire, Sir Fran- Ms Netberfole, a religious Knight, was againft the Parliaments Warand Covenant, (though not for theJuftnefs ofthe Waragainft them.) IaGleceferflrire, Mr. Gerce, an old eminent Nonconformift, and Mr. Cayel, a learned Minifter (who put out himfelf to prevent being put out for the Book of Recreations) and forceothers with them
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