Look then into the Churches, and manners of the people, even amongst your own _Saints_, and tell me, if since _Simon Magus_ was upon the earth, there were ever heard of so many _Schismes_, and _Heresies_, of _Jewes_ and _Socinians_, _Quakers_, _Fifth-monarchy-men_, _Arians_, _Anabaptists_, _Independents_, and a thousand severall forts of _Blasphemies_ and professed _Atheists_, all of them spawned under your government; and then tell me what a Reformation of Religion you have effected? Was there ever in the whole Earth (not to mention Christendom alone) a perjury so prodigious, and yet so avowed as that by which you have taken away the estate of my L. _Craven_, at which the very _Infidels_ would blush, a _Turke_ or _Sythian_ stand amaz'd? Under the Sun was it never heard, that a man should be condemned for transgressing no law, but that which was made after the fact, and abrogated after execution; that the Posterities to come might not be witnesses of your horrid injustice: Yet thus you proceeded against my _L. Stafford_. How many are those gallant persons whom after articles of war, you have butchered in cold-blood, violating your promises against the Lawes of all Nations, civill or barbarous; and yet thus you dealt in the case of my L. _Capel_, Sr. _J. Stawel_ and others. Is not the whole nation become sullen and proud, ignorant and suspicious, incharitable, curst, and in fine, the most depraved and perfidious under heaven? And whence does all this proceed, but from the effects of your own examples, and the impunity of evill doers? I need not tell you how long Justice has been sold by the _Committees_, and the Chair-men, the Sequestrators and Simoniacall Tryers, not to mention the late Courtiers, and a swarm of _Publicans_ who _have eaten up the People as if they would eat bread_.