For the former, I know not what States-men, Noblemen or Barons, your Lordsh: meanes; for naming none, I know not to whom I shall take my selfe; nor doe I know what violence and threatnings you mean. If you meane his Majesties Commissioners appointed by the King, they requiring his subjects to subscribe the old Confession and Covenant, by his authoritie now renewed, and remonstrating unto them the danger they incurre by law in not obeying his Majesties commandement, I hope that cannot be called violence, but duty, the omission whereof must needs be a violation of, and violence offered to his Majesties sacred authoritie: If other violences and threatnings they have used, as your Lordsh: seemeth to intimate (for their obedience to his Majesties just authority, I am sure your Lordsh: will not call violence) they must answer for it, and shall whensoever your Lordsh: shall make known the delinquents. But alas, my Lords, Tell me now in good earnest, whether you have heard they have used such violence in perswading this Covenant, as hath beene used by your adherents in inforcing of yours? Hath the bloud of Gods seruants, his holy Ministers, beene shed, which bloud I am afraid keepeth the vengeance of God still hanging over this Land? Have men beene beaten, turned out of their livings and maintenance, reviled and excommunicated in the Pulpits, and a thousand more outrages acted upon them for not subscribing this Covenant? Have none who have subscribed your Covenant, done it with blind and doubting minds? If they have, I beseech your Lordsh: not to call his Majesties Councellours legall proceedings irreligious and unjust, untill you have proved the pietie and justice of the proceedings of your owne adherents.