Parliament begun Anno 16 Caroli Primi. By Theodorus Verax. London. Printed for R. Royston," &c. as before, pp. 262.

The Third Part is entitled "The High Court of Justice, or Cromwel's New Slaughter-house in England, with the authority that constituted and ordained it, arrained, convicted, and condemned, for usurpation, treason, tyranny, theft, and murder. Being the Third Part of the History of Independency, written by the same author. London," &c. as before, pp. 58.

The Fourth Part is entitled "The History of Independency. The fourth and lust part. Continued from the death of his late Majesty King Charls the first of happy memory, till the deathe of the chief of that Juncto. By T. M. Esquire, a lover of his King and Country. London. Printed for H. Brome at the Gun in Ivie Lane; and H. Marsh at the Prince's Arms in Chancery Lane. 166c.” pp. 124.

Before the Second Part is the following address to the Reader.

"Reader, having spoken to thee in the First Part, I might have forborn thee in this Second, did I not fear to seem guilty of the sullenness and malignity of these times. The subject matter of my book is a combination or Faction of Pseudo-Politicians, and PseudoTheologicians, Hereticks, and Schismatics, both in divinity and policy, who having sacrificed to their fancies, lusts, ambitions, and avarice, both their God and religion, their king and country, our laws, liberties, and properties,

properties, all duties, divine and human, are grown so far in love with their prosperous sins, as to entitle God himself to be the father and author of them; from whose written word and revealed will, held forth to us in the scriptures as the only north-pole and cynosure of our actions, where they find no warrant for their doing, they appeal to the secret will and providence of God, to which they most Turkishly and Heathenishly ascribe all their enormities, only because they succeed: and from that abyss of God's providence draw secondary principles of necessity and honest intentions, to build the Babel of their confused designs and actions upon; not considering that wicked men perform the secret will of God to their damnation; as good men do the known will of their Father to their salvation.

"If a man be sick to death, and his son wish him dead, this is sin in the son, although his desire concur with the secret will of God; because the son ought to desire the preservation of his father's life, whereto the will of God revealed in his word obligeth him: & vivendum secundum præcepta, non secundum decreta Dei. The secret will and providence of God can be no rule and law of our actions, because we know it not; nor can search into it without presumption: we must not therefore altum sapere; think ourselves too wise, and well gifted to tie ourselves to the scriptures of God; and lust after revelations and inspirations, expecting God should rain bread from heaven for us: (Manna, Exod. xvi. 4.) but be wise unto sobriety. But prosperum scelus, virtus vocatur. Thus casting off the written word of God, unless where by an inforced interpretation they can squeeze atheism

and blasphemy out of it, as they do sometimes rack treason, murder, and nonsense out of our laws, and parliament-priviledges, conducible to their ends, they insensibly cast off God himself, and make themselves the supreme cause and finall end, the Alpha and Omega, of all their doings, whilst they use the hidden and unsearchable providence of God but as a disguise and visard to mask under, like Coelius the atheist in Martial. Prosperity is become a snare to them, and a topick place, out of which they draw arguments to satisfy themselves there is no God, no religion, but a prudential one to fool the people with.

Nullos esse Deos, inane Cœlum,

Affirmat Cœlius, probatque,

Quod se videt, dum negat hæc, beatum.

"But O wretched, unholied men! What are they that thus commit burglary in the Sanctum Sanctorum of God's providence? That presume, not only to pry into, but to thrust their hands polluted with blood and rapine into God's mysterious ark?

"Thus much for the subject matter. For the manner of my writing, I confess, as to its style it is not æquabile scribendi genus, all of one weaving and contexture: it is a history writ with a satirick style and

vein:

nam quis iniqui

Tam patiens orbis, tam ferreus ut teneat se?

It is a virtue to hate and prosecute vice. The Scripture tells us there is a perfect hatred, a holy anger. And our Chaucer tells us, 'The words must be of kynn unto the deeds;' otherwise how can they be expressive

pressive enough? I detest vitia pulcherrime mangonizata;' vice tricked up in virtue's raiment; and prostituted under her modest dress to stir up adulterers.

Quicquid agunt homines, nostri est farrago libelli.

A huge galimaufry, an oglio of all villainies I here set before thee: it cannot be all of one dressing and seasoning, it must be a mixture, a hogo of all relishes; like manna in the wilderness, it must be applicable to all palates.

"Wherefore according to the variety of every subject-matter, vel ridenti rideo, vel flenti fleo; I become all things to all men; I assimilate my affections and humors to every man's humor as well as to the present theam; that I may take every man by the right hand and lead him out of this UR of the Chaldeans, this land of Egypt, this house of bondage in judgment and conscience, though not in person and estate: which must only be the mighty handy work of that God, who is able to divide the Red Sea, and give us a safe march through it upon dry land.

"Which that he would vouchsafe to do, let us all join our hearty prayers: and that we may instrumentally serve him in it, let us all join our heads, hearts and hands together, since God neglects faint-hearted and cowardly prayers: let us not lie in the ditch, and cry, "God help us;" but let us help God to help us; and keep cor unum, viam unam, in the doing of it!"

ART. IX. Memoires of the reign of King Charles I. Containing the most remarkable occurrences of that reign, and setting many secret passages thereof

in a clear light. With impartial characters of many great persons on both sides, who chiefly governed the counsels and actions of that scene of affairs. Together with a continuation to the happy Restauration of King Charles II. By Sir Philip Warwick, Knight. Published from the originat Manuscript with an Alphabetical Table. The Third Edition. London. Printed for Ri. Chiswell, and sold by John Pero, at the White Swan in Little Brittain. 1703. 8vo. pp. 437.

ART. X. Memoirs of the two last years of the reign of that unparallelled prince, of ever blessed memory, King Charles I. By Sir Thomas Herbert, Major Huntington, Col. Edward Coke, und Mr. Henry Firebrace, With the character of that blessed Martyr. By the Reverend Mr. John Diodati, Mr. Alexander Henderson, and the author of the Princely Pelican. To which is added, the deathbed Repentance of Mr. Lenthal, Speaker of the Long Parliament; extracted out of a letter written from Oxford, Sept. 1663. London. Printed for Robt. Clavell, at the Peacock at the west end of St. Paul's. 1702. 8vo. pp. 303.

Sir Philip Warwick, whose portrait by R. White is prefixed to these Memoirs, was son of Thomas Warwick, organist of St. Peter's Westminster; and was educated at Eton school, and afterwards at Geneva, under the celebrated Diodati. He was afterwards Secretary to the Earl of Southampton in the office of the Treasury he died 15 Jan. 1682. His Memoirs being

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