The general grievance of Great Brittain and Ireland, and may ſerve to give light to all Chriſtendom.

GOD governeth the world by the ſupream Councel of heaven, according unto righteouſneſs and true holineſs. A Parliament in England is called the ſu­pream Councel of England; I ask the baynes of Matrimony between Righteouſneſs and true Holineſs; if any man know any lawful reaſon why they may not be joyned to­gether, let them now ſpeak; becauſe in Parliament time is an appointment for that purpoſe, to be conformable to ſupream Councel: For Injuſtice or Unrighteouſneſs hath had a brazen4 face 536 years (long enough in conſcience) as appears by King James ſpeech to the Parliament 1609 publiſhed by authority, and in Parliament time, his tongue ſhould be cut out by the root or elſe we might wiſh his tongue might cleave to the roof of his mouth, that ſo his brazen face might fall and ſpeak no more; as it did in Oxford, ſaying, time is, time was, times paſt, and then it fell: Time is of correction, time was of injuſtice, times paſt we ſhal have no more, the Parliament have ſworn to repent of their ſins, and ſo the brazen face wil fall and ſpeak no more. Time was of making a brazen wall round about England, but Frier Bacon fel aſleep; time overſlipt, not taking time by the foretop, all the wealth of England went to Rome, into the Pope and Prieſts baggs. Time was of making a brazen wal within England, by planting a more righteous policy, if time be not paſt: becauſe Lawyers and their generations had the Major voyce in Parliament 16•9. and wearing buckram bags by their ſides, they were called buckram rogues: Rogues in buckram hindred it 1609 and ſo all the wealth went into buckram ba•s: as ſome ſay, the E. of Cork was a Lawyer, whoſe bag held 40000 l. per annum. Since the Parliament 1640 the report went that the Souldier would get all, or run over all. The L. General went ſo far Weſt, that he fell into the ſea at Plimouth and roſe again at Portſmouth: the whilſt, Sir Wil. Waller went up a hil as high as Worceſter, and then came down again: The Earl of Mancheſter came from York to Dunnington Caſtle with a great Army, and there ſtood ſtil. Sir Iohn Hotham was for the Par­liament, and after for the Privy Councel.

The Conciſtory of Rome hates that any ſhould know Reli­gion but Prieſts, becauſe 'tis their trade and occupation to gain, by keeping men blind in their whole Eccleſiaſtical or Spiritual Juriſdiction: The former Parliament of England did hate, that any ſhould know Law but Lawyers, becauſe it was their trade and occupation to gain, by keeping men blind in their whole temporal or politick juriſdiction: and ſo men are infected with falſe tradition and kept blind in the whole &c. Lycurgus the Lawyer was the Author of falſe tradition, which doth contami­nate the touchſtone; for purgation whereof the beſt reformed Churches do preſcribe a potion of Calvins white wine, the Law as plain as the Goſpel, which is according to their govern­ment. For Brittain hath been taken by violence of Ro­mans, Saxons, Danes, after whom came the Normans, who brought hither the French and Cavalier Law, making it lawful to plunder men as faſt as they grew rich, kill them as faſt as populous, except they would ſ•eak French to be called Normans; (as Hiſtorians write) 535 years after the Norman, entred the Scot of the line of Cadwallade•the laſt Brittain King, and proved it unlawful by the Law of Moſes, but Parliaments6 would ſtill maintain the Law; whereby it appeareth that the Roman, Saxon, Dane and Norman were the plunderers of all Brittain; and the laſt, the Norman, made it lawful: Since the Parliament 1643 it hapned that the Lord General was a Nor­man, Sir William Waller a Roman for the Parliament; The Earl of Newcaſtle a Saxon, and the Lord Haſtings a Dane, for the Privy Councel: Plunderers of Brittain by ancient genera­tion, and ſworn to kill one another by Law, which the Scots could not ſalva conſcientia come to maintain, ergo, the Parlia­ment ſwore to repent of their ſins, and govern according unto beſt reformed Churches; to be no longer plunderers or ambi­dexters by making Prerogative above Parliament to kill up the Country, and Parliament above Prerogative to kill up the City; no man knowing Law but Lawyers, and ſo were like unto the Kingdom of France, where they call themſelves the Kingdom of blindmen, becauſe they know neither Law nor Religion; for they ſpeak French, and their Law and Religion ſpeaks Latine. About 15 years paſt a book was printed at Paris, called Le Roya­alme des Aueugles, dedicate to Cardinal Richelieu, who had a ve­ry rich place according to his name: for, being Admiral of the Kingdom of blindmen of France, he ſet them together by the ears; taxed, plundered and made himſelf an admirable and won­derful rich Admiral, So in England men ſpeak Engliſh, but the Law ſpeaks French, and differ ſomewhat becauſe they know Religion; the Lord Rich Earl of Warwick, Admiral of the Kingdom of blindmen by Law, in time like to be admirable rich for the ſame reaſon; if the Scots hinder not. Moustrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui lumen ademptum, and ſo confront the Cyclops, calling for help when no man hurts them, but themſelves; wil ye confront the Cyclops ye Poliphemians? The••ory is in the 9 No-man of Homer the blind Poet, where Ʋliſſe, William the Norman is the Noman; or a baſtard who is an unlawful man; of the injuſtice in the law of France men may read Philip de Comiues, who was a privy Councellor unto Lewis the 11. Charls the 8. and Lewis XII. Kings of France; who writeth in his Hiſtory that moſt men in Italy live by facti­ons and civil Wars, and ſo infect Spain and France, and they the reſt of Europe, and that in France is ſuch tedious and vexa­tious prooefs of Law that it needeth reformation, but that Re­formation7 is of ſo dangerous conſequence, which men do hate to the loſs of life and ſenſe.

By what hath been written may be underſtood,

That Frier Bacon would have a brazen wall round about England, and K. James would have one within; both very ne­ceſſary according to the reformed, but to build after their man­ner, are yet to begin.

Corporis politici cum naturali comparatio; ſive modus purgandi corruptiones corporis utriuſque ſecundum purgationem corporis Eccleſiastici tempore Hen, 8 vino Rheni Lutheri ſive candido.