The
Round-head
uncovered
.
THe
soul
of
man
being
so
excellent
piece
of
workmanship
of
the
Almighty
Creator
,
and
then
so
dearely
ransomed
by
his
onely
Son
;
she
must
needs
be
more
tenderly
loved
,
cherished
and
preserved
by
al
the
friends
of
God
,
then
the
rest
of
the
Creatures
;
and
consequently
more
hated
,
envyed
and
chased
by
his
enemies
.
Hence
it
is
that
the
Devill
and
his
Angels
,
(
her
old
professed
enemies
)
Ambit
quasi
Leo
rugens
.
Goes
about
her
like
a
roaring
Lion
,
traceth
her
steps
,
and
by
a
long
practice
in
temptation
and
a
deadly
rancour
,
by
so
much
the
more
cruell
,
by
how
much
it
grows
inveterate
,
doth
continually
lay
traps
and
ambushes
for
her
destruction
;
takes
all
occasions
and
inclinations
to
worke
upon
;
and
together
with
her
other
confederate
foes
make
continuall
warre
against
her
.
Now
this
warre
being
onely
visible
to
the
intellectuall
sence
,
or
inward
eyes
of
the
soule
,
and
those
eyes
bleared
and
dimmed
with
mortality
,
bodily
corruption
and
frailty
;
Shee
is
often
beguiled
,
misled
with
illusions
and
false
lights
in
her
earthly
pilgrimage
:
And
the
Devill
being
all
Spirit
,
and
(
as
our
Saviour
faith
)
transforming
himselfe
(
by
permission
as
hee
had
to
tempt
Iob
)
into
the
shape
of
an
Angell
of
light
to
deceive
us
;
our
poore
Soules
are
thus
apt
to
bee
induced
into
manifold
errors
and
schismes
.
By
which
meanes
doubtlesse
it
cometh
to
passe
that
in
this
long
liberty
wee
have
enjoyed
of
the
Gospell
(
when
most
reformed
Christians
take
leave
to
make
their
owne
way
,
in
point
of
exposition
of
Scripture
,
aswell
as
in
other
points
of
Christian
duety
)
there
are
sprung
up
so
many
strange
heresies
and
opinons
.
For
as
in
the
Primitive
Church
when
the
Laiety
&
unlearned
sort
were
contented
with
the
plaine
rule
of
faith
set
downe
in
the
Apostles
Creed
without
further
peeping
into
mysteries
,
or
comparing
partes
of
Scripture
,
to
trye
or
question
the
truth
of
other
parties
;
the
lives
and
conversations
of
humble
and
devout
Christians
,
and
especially
of
their
Pastors
;
were
the
bright
lamps
that
lighted
them
in
their
way
to
God
:
So
in
these
later
times
,
through
an
unconfined
liberty
of
expounding
,
and
over
publike
and
unseasonable
reasoning
and
disputing
upon
that
subject
;
every
one
presuming
of
his
own
Talent
either
of
wit
or
grace
;
the
sacred
Text
is
so
abused
and
mangled
with
variety
of
Opinions
that
it
is
become
the
common
subject
of
discourse
,
aswell
in
tavernes
and
upon
Alehouse
benches
,
as
,
in
private
houses
and
out
walkings
.
No
marvaile
then
that
there
are
now
well-nigh
as
many
Sects
and
different
opinions
sprung
as
there
be
professors
.
But
this
redounds
to
the
great
disparagement
of
the
reformed
Church
in
generall
;
especially
to
ours
,
which
hath
so
long
flourished
and
shined
in
the
worlds
view
in
an
Orthodox
and
setled
discipline
,
without
any
materiall
interruption
,
and
still
would
flourish
,
but
for
a
crew
of
Hypocrites
and
Round-Heads
,
who
taking
the
advantage
of
these
late
unlucky
differences
betwixt
the
King
and
his
great
Councell
,
have
partly
by
their
lowd
whispers
,
and
libellous
Pamphlets
,
and
partely
by
their
mutinous
assemblies
,
not
onely
sent
his
Highnesse
a
dangerous
voyage
into
the
North
;
and
thereby
deprived
the
whole
Kingdome
of
that
happie
union
betwixt
him
and
his
Parliament
,
which
might
otherwise
have
beene
expected
:
But
by
poysoning
the
hearts
of
many
a
thousand
good
Protestants
,
have
new
made
a
wide
overture
amongst
many
of
the
illiterate
People
(
of
London
especially
)
to
let
in
Innovations
,
both
of
doctrine
and
discipline
into
our
Church
:
which
cannot
chuse
but
produce
some
sad
effect
of
a
civill
dissention
amongst
us
:
forasmuch
as
there
is
nothing
that
so
much
urgeth
mans
patience
,
as
to
be
thrust
out
of
a
long
continued
possession
upon
new-found
pretences
,
and
principally
of
a
setled
form
of
Divine
worship
;
which
commonly
forerunnes
a
change
of
Religion
it selfe
.
But
because
wee
are
not
yet
(
thankes
be
to
God
)
come
to
that
;
I
will
breake
off
from
this
tender
point
,
to
fall
into
the
description
both
of
that
Zealous
sort
of
Christians
,
which
the
Papists
have
long
distinguished
from
the
colder
,
and
more
remisse
sorte
of
Protestants
,
by
the
name
of
Puritans
:
And
of
that
other
sorte
who
for
their
hypocrisie
may
be
termed
Anti-Puritans
,
or
Round-Heads
.
For
the
first
,
as
it
was
given
them
by
that
common
Adversary
the
Papists
,
but
by
way
of
mockery
for
their
zeal
in
Gods
cause
against
them
,
so
in
regard
the
word
Puritan
carries
no
sence
of
disgrace
,
I
could
wish
them
to
accept
of
it
,
&
by
making
good
the
Title
(
as
our
late
Protestant
Princes
have
done
that
of
Defendor
of
the
Faith
contrary
to
the
Popes
intention
)
to
confront
and
beat
downe
their
specious
Title
of
Universality
and
Superstition
,
with
Christian
purity
and
plainnesse
,
and
the
onely
way
to
be
pure
indeed
.
But
here
let
me
pause
a
little
,
to
give
some
of
the
unlearned
sorte
of
them
,
also
this
Christian
Caveat
;
That
whilst
they
condemne
the
Papists
for
replying
too
much
on
their
own
merits
,
they
give
them
not
as
just
occasion
to
condemn
them
for
as
great
a
presumption
;
which
is
to
trust
to
their
own
sence
in
the
exposition
of
mysterious
points
of
Scripture
:
But
rather
to
reade
and
practice
those
other
parties
that
conduce
to
a
good
and
vertuous
life
,
without
expence
of
their
feable
faculties
,
or
perplexing
their
mindes
with
things
above
their
reach
,
as
if
they
studied
the
Philosophers-stone
.
For
though
it
be
graunted
that
Gods
grace
is
never
wanting
to
a
devout
soule
,
yet
is
it
a
question
whether
every
mans
selfe
seeming
devotion
bee
guided
by
a
right
spirit
.
Therefore
it
is
that
St.
Paul
bids
us
worke
our
Salvation
with
feare
and
trembling
.
For
Satan
is
a
cunning
Cheater
,
and
like
a
Hocus
Pocus
,
spies
now
and
then
occasions
to
throw
in
his
false
flashes
into
the
soul
,
upon
the
sudden
extinguishment
of
those
true
lights
of
grace
,
which
sometimes
are
as
soon
put
out
as
kindled
,
by
the
stinking
dampe
of
some
odious
,
unrepented
sin
,
which
passing
for
currant
,
and
imbraced
by
presumption
,
for
want
of
a
right
examen
and
triall
of
the
heart
,
the
minde
is
led
awrie
with
an
ignis
fatuus
,
or
a
Will
with
the
wispe
towards
some
dangerous
precepice
.
And
it
is
upon
the
most
spiritual
and
inaccessi●●●
〈◇〉
that
the
black
Enginier
practiseth
most
〈…〉
wi●d-fires
or
illusions
,
such
as
make
con
〈◇〉
their
wayes
,
and
are
impregnable
by
the
shot
of
Worldly
and
Fleshly
provocations
.
Is
it
not
therefore
pity
that
the
weed
of
false
zeal
should
be
so
firtile
in
these
our
times
,
and
so
prevalent
,
as
to
overrun
the
wholsome
herbe
of
Integritie
?
Is
it
not
indeed
a
lamentable
case
that
by
meanes
of
this
Gallimaufry
of
strange
new
Sects
(
united
onely
in
unitie
of
mischief
)
our
Book
of
Common
Prayer
(
being
every
word
Scripture
)
penned
doubtlesse
by
the
finger
of
God
,
and
our
decent
and
our
orderly
discipline
in
the
House
of
God
,
should
be
thus
shamelesly
questioned
and
controverted
,
not
onely
by
a
few
of
our
over
singular
Divines
,
but
by
the
Rable
of
the
illiterate
Laietie
:
who
under
the
specious
pretext
of
opposing
Popery
,
and
apprehensions
of
dangers
to
the
Religion
and
State
of
England
,
doe
hazard
by
these
uncontrol'd
disorders
the
ruine
of
them
both
?
Is
it
not
pitie
(
I
say
)
that
our
eminent
English
Church
after
this
long
prosperitie
,
should
(
like
a
faire
ship
at
Sea
)
be
overwhelmed
by
a
shole
of
Herrings
:
a
swarme
of
buzzing
Round-heads
;
a
flock
of
stragled
sheep
,
who
misled
by
some
scared
Bell-weathers
,
do
thus
leap
&
friske
all
after
each
other
,
over
their
lawfull
bounds
into
unknown
dangers
.
For
admitting
the
State
or
Religion
were
in
perill
,
would
it
stand
with
honour
of
either
of
them
to
accept
of
their
preservation
from
an
unmershalled
and
disorderly
Rout
of
Round-heads
?
such
who
for
the
most
part
,
for
their
unconformity
in
Religion
,
are
as
maligne
and
dangerous
as
the
common
Enemy
?
God
forbid
.
There
be
regular
men
enough
,
and
true-hearted
to
the
State
and
Religion
here
established
,
to
be
intrusted
with
the
defence
and
conservation
of
the
publike
liberty
and
Priviledge
of
Parliament
without
them
.
It
is
a
wonder
to
me
how
these
Round-heads
(
unlesse
perhaps
there
be
many
of
them
Turners
or
Wheelers
)
have
thus
with
their
whimsies
&
devices
turned
the
head
of
many
a
good
Protestant
as
round
as
their
own
.
And
though
I
believe
the
name
of
Roundhead
was
invented
by
some
maligner
of
Parliamentary
Priviledges
.
Yet
is
it
evident
,
by
the
time
of
its
first
raising
,
that
it
was
upon
occasion
of
their
mutinous
clamours
and
assemblies
to
the
no
small
disturbance
of
the
King
and
Parliament
.
But
this
terme
is
grown
too
general
,
for
though
all
Citizens
and
many
other
civill
persons
that
wear
no
lockes
are
by
most
of
the
Cavaliers
and
Souldiers
of
this
time
(
for
antipathy
sake
)
comprised
in
the
number
of
Roundheads
,
yet
am
I
of
opinion
,
that
in
judgement
of
few
wise
and
impartiall
men
they
will
be
so
esteemed
.
For
conclusion
,
I
will
onely
admonish
my
Reader
(
who
ever
he
be
)
to
refrain
siding
,
or
to
blow
the
already
too
much
glowing
coal
of
Sedition
on
either
side
,
and
with
Christian
humility
to
resigne
all
to
Gods
Providence
,
and
to
the
mannaging
of
the
superior
Powers
.
For
that
can
be
no
right
spirit
(
without
doubt
)
which
delights
in
aggravation
of
offences
,
especially
in
this
weighty
cause
betwixt
our
Soveraigne
and
his
highest
Councill
the
Parliament
.