Englands satisfaction in eight queries;: concerning the true place, office, and power of a king, according to Gods word.

8. Quest. But if a King shall deny to consent, assent, and signe the Parliaments determinations, although honourable to the Lord, and good and beneficiall to the Common-wealth; then what is the Kings offence, benefit, or danger; and their power, as they are Parliament-men, and so the body representative of the Land.

Answ. If a King shall deny to assent unto that which is lawfull before God and man, and contend against it; and in stead of consenting unto them, to dissent from them; and in stead of sign∣ing their determinations, to seperate himselfe from them, and make warre against and upon them; he doth thereby breake the peace, which as he sits in the Lords throne of Majestie, he ought to keepe, maintaine, and preserve; and also thereby he breakes and wilfully violates his Oath, and Nationall Covenant, by which he enjoyes the Crowne; and so is an offender both against God and man, by both, for both, he is entrusted betwixt both. Adam did not transgresse untill he was advised by Eve; Gen 3. 6. And the wo∣man

said, ver. 13. The Serpent beguiled me: because a King doth nothing without advise, therefore he cannot trans∣gresse, but by the evill advice of evill Counsellors, who with Eve are beguiled by that old Serpent the Devill: and such Counsellors was 1 King. 12. 13, 14. Rehoboams young Cavaliers, and such evill Counsellors was Chap. 22. 6. A∣habs foure hundred; Balls Prophets, who were beguiled by the Devill, who said ver. 22. I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets: and also such advisers had Pharoah, Gen. 7. 11, 12. Jannes and Jambres, who had the Devils helpe, and by him did that they did in their withstanding of Moses: and so such are all they that doe advise the King a∣gainst the good advice of his grave and wise Elders the Par∣liament. Long agoe these Counsellors were branded out and foretold by the Apostle Paul, 2 Tim. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. In the last dayes, perillous times shall come, men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, unholy, without naturall affection, truce breakers, false accusers, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traytors, headdy, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God, having a forme of godlinesse (in their mouths) but denying the power thereof (in their hearts) ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth; who as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so doe these also resist the truth; Men of corrupt minds, reprobates concerning the faith; but they shall proceed no farther; for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as Jannes and Jambres. By which warre, if the King get the better, these wofull advisers will advise him, that then he need not submit to the legall power, according to his Covenant and Oath, but may rule by that unwarranted unlawfull, forbidden, and often punished regall power of his owne will, both in Church, State, and Common-wealth, and so have all his Subjects to be his slaves; as all tyrannicall

Kings have that so doe: as in prevention, in a foretelling way of such an evill in these latter dayes, wise propheticall Solo∣mon, as a remedy against such an evill, and to make knowne the lawfulnesse of a violent power against such, sayes in a high and commanding language, Pro. 25. 5. Take away such wicked (Counsellors) from before the King, and his throne (by new and stronger Covenants, and better Counsellors) shall be established in righteousnesse: vers. the 4. take away these drossie hearts from the Kings silver godly heart, and there shall come forth a vessell for the finer, who is the Lord, to make thereof a vessell of honour for his own glo∣ry, to doe his owne worke: which is Revel. 17. 5. And upon her forehead was written a name, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots, and abominations of the earth: this my∣stery is ver. 8. The beast which thou sawest was to ascend out of the bottomlesse pit, and is not, because shee shall goe into perdition, ver. 9. here is the minde that hath wisedome (or the minde of Gods intentions, who is the God of wisdome) the seven heads are seven mountaines, on which the woman or whore or Antichrist sitteth: ver. 12. and the ten hornes which thou sawest, are ten Kings, or Kingdomes: ver. 17. whom God hath stirred up or put in their hearts, and as one man to agree; ver. 13. and have one minde; ver. 16. to hate the whore, the Pope of Rome, and Antichrist of the earth, and shall make her desolate and naked to shew her filthinesse, and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire, even the fire of Gods wrath, that shee may never take roote, to appeare againe, or any more. Chap. 13. 18. Here is wisdome from heaven, let him that hath (spirituall) understanding count the number of the Beast, or the time of her desolation, which shall be ful∣filled in the yeare of Christ 1666. (in Christ Col. 2. 3. are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge) and therefore are revealed to none but such as are in Christ, and so a my∣stery

to others; for it is the number of a man by computa∣tion of mans nature, which is 66. or a Prince, or the prime Prince of the ten Kingdomes, his age shall agree with 1666. and make up that number, being added to 1600; for 1600. having 66. added unto it, makes up 1666. Charles the first, now King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, his age doth agree to make up and to fulfill this prophesie, who is the King of Englands Lyon, the King of Beasts; of Scotlands Unicorne, the chiefe soveraigne expeller of all poyson of Popery: and of Irelands Dragon, the chiefe of all poysoning fierce Serpents: and now have cause to be the most fierce in this worke, because the whore Antichrist hath sucked out Irelands bloud in abundance: these three Kingdomes, are three of the ten Kingdomes, and his Maje∣stie a treble, or three comprised lawfull King, is to be the Lord Christs chiefest instrument to the destruction of the great whore or Antichrist the Pope, who unjustly usurping∣ly, and unlawfully weares the treble Crowne: Now this worke of the Lord to destroy Antichrist, must be done by the members of Jesus Christ, which formerly have been of Antichrist; of whom Peter saith in his first Epistle Chap. 2. ver. 10. In time past were not a people, and without mercie (be∣cause yee were of Antichrist) but now are the people of God, and have obtained mercie (because yee have forsaken Anti∣christ, and are now the members of Jesus Christ▪ therefore as now all things stand, the Parliament or representative bo∣dy of the Land, as by the Lords providence are lawfully called by the Kings Writs, thereby laying aside his regall power, and the Commons voyces, wholly committing all things unto them, have power lawfully, according to Solo∣mons tenent, by (if need require) a violent force, even from before, or out of the Kings presence, Pro. 25. 5. To take a∣way these forenamed evill Counsellors from the King, that

his throne in righteousnesse may be established unto him: and then as in the 4. ver. the Lords refining worke of sepe∣ration by a thorow reformation, in taking the Atheisticall and Papisticall drosse from the silver members of Iesus Christ, quite out of these Dominions: but as Paul saith, 2 Thes. 2. 3. 7, 8, 9, 10. Let no man deceive you by any meanes, for the mystery of iniquitie doth alreadie worke, onely he who now letteth will let untill he be taken out of the way (who are the Kings evill Counsellors, Papists, Atheists, traytors, and all such, as is before mentioned, therefore away with them) and then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, even him (the Pope Anti∣christ) whose comming is after the working of Sathan, devillish, with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse in them that perish, for want of the knowledge and love of the truth in Christ, that they might be saved; and when such wicked ones are taken from his Majestie, then as Jethro, Exod. 18. 21, 22. Counselled Moses, so doe yee his Majestie, to provide out of all the people, able men, such as feare God, men of truth, hating covetousnesse, making such Rulers and Iudges and State Counsellors, as it is Deut. 16. 18, 19. that thereby both King and people may all as one man, goe on amaine in the Lords refining worke of Reformation in these three Kingdomes, by turning out of them all Antichristian drosse, that nothing of it may remaine ever any more to defile the silver truths, doctrines, or members of Iesus Christ, who must be first reformed from errors, and then be informed in the truths of Iesus Christ (for without a true knowledge there can be no good obedient practice) and then the Lords second worke of actuall destruction, will goe on the better against that Beast Antichrist, to the glory of God in their destruction, the Iewes conversion, and Gentiles further in∣formation and confirmation.