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SO many excellent Treatises as have been sent abroad to unblind the hoodwinkt world, and all clearing this truth (That the Parliament is and ought to be supreme Judge) might make this seem needlesse, but as for a sturdy sore, many plai∣sters are but sufficient; so will it not be mis-spent time by the clear demonstrations of truth and right reason to beat down that wall of the too-much-loved-ignorance which hitherto hath kept rhe divine light of the truth from entring into the dark (& therfore miserable) souls of those deluded ones who with so much earnestnesse lay out their estates, expose their families to a thousand miseries, nay spend even their dearest bloud to inslave themselves and posterity. Love and duty to religion and my countrey, now flaming with the fire these men have kindled, & yet give fuell to, yea even pitie to these men hath inforc'd a pen ever before still to expose it selfe to publike censure, and if by this poor labour of mine any of these ignorantly erring men may be reduced, I have my end; as for those who inraged with malice willingly oppose the truth, God hath provided her another champion, even the sword, to vindicate her selfe from the violence of those men on whom the power of reason hath no effect.
To attain this our end, what readier way have we then 1. To discover the falsity of those pretences by which those men are deluded, the miseries they bring themselves and po∣sterity into if they yet persist: 2. To discover the way to re∣gain our now almost lost liberty and religion: 3. To free us from the pretended fears of the invasion of our liberty by the Parliament, or of our religion by Brownists, Anabaptists, and the like. And here so many of these men who hitherto through ignorance, passion and mistake have been enemies to the Parliament, and in them to their religion, countrey, and themselves, I say so many of these as by Gods providence this little Treatise shal com unto, are wished out of due care & love to the Protestant Religion so desperately undermined by Jesuiti∣call plots, out of love to their poor countrey, laws and liberty, now at