The oath of pacification, or, A forme of religious accomodation humbly proposed both to King and Parliament : thereby, to set an end to the present miseries and broyles of this discomposed, almost ship-wrackt state.
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             The oath of pacification, or, A forme of religious accomodation humbly proposed both to King and Parliament : thereby, to set an end to the present miseries and broyles of this discomposed, almost ship-wrackt state.
             Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
             England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). His Maiesties declaration to all his loving subjects, after his victories over the Lord Fairfax and Sr. William Waller.
          
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           Waller, William, -- Sir, 1597?-1668.
           Fairfax, Ferdinando Fairfax, -- Baron, 1584-1648.
           England and Wales. -- Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I). -- His Maiesties declaration to all his loving subjects, after his victories over the Lord Fairfax and Sr. William Waller.
           Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1642-1649.
        
      
    
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           THE
           OATH
           OF
           PACIFICATION
           :
           OR
           A
           forme
           of
           Religious
           Accommodation
           :
           Humbly
           proposed
           both
           to
           KING
           and
           
             PARLIAMENT
             .
          
           THEREBY
           ,
           
             To
             set
             an
             end
             to
             the
             present
             Miseries
             and
             Broyles
             of
             this
             discomposed
             ,
             almost
             Ship-wrackt
             State
             .
          
        
         
           
             Claudite
             ,
             Pastores
             ,
             rivos
             ,
             sat
             prata
             biberunt
             .
          
           
             
               Shut
               ,
               shut
               the
               Sluces
               of
               this
               purple
               floud
               ,
            
             
               The
               Medowes
               have
               carous'd
               enough
               in
               bloud
               .
            
          
        
         
           
             LONDON
             ,
          
           Printed
           for
           ROBERT
           BOSTOCK
           ,
           at
           the
           Signe
           of
           the
           Kings
           head
           in
           
             Pauls
          
           Church-yard
           .
           1643.
           
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           The
           Oath
           of
           Pacification
           :
           OR
           A
           Religious
           forme
           of
           Accommodation
           :
           Humbly
           proposed
           Both
           to
           the
           KING
           and
           PARLIAMENT
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           THE
           Kings
           last
           Declaration
           of
           
             Iuly
          
           the
           thirtieth
           was
           published
           as
           an
           Act
           of
           great
           grace
           to
           the
           Subiect
           :
           and
           being
           issued
           immediately
           after
           his
           Maiesties
           good
           successe
           ,
           obtained
           against
           the
           Lord
           
             Fairfax
             ,
          
           Sir
           
             William
             Waller
             ,
          
           and
           Colonell
           
             Fines
             ,
          
           it
           emblematized
           the
           King
           (
           as
           some
           Courtiers
           fansied
           )
           with
           a
           victorious
           Palme
           in
           one
           hand
           ,
           and
           a
           peacefull
           Olive
           in
           the
           other
           .
           Neverthelesse
           ,
           it
           appeares
           by
           the
           close
           of
           that
           Declaration
           ,
           that
           the
           intent
           of
           it
           was
           ,
           to
           bring
           in
           Men
           ,
           Money
           ,
           Plate
           ,
           Horses
           and
           Armes
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           proclaime
           pardon
           ,
           for
           it
           
           proclaimed
           pardon
           to
           no
           other
           persons
           ,
           than
           such
           as
           should
           forthwith
           apply
           themselves
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           nor
           on
           no
           other
           Conditions
           than
           upon
           the
           bringing
           in
           of
           such
           like
           Ayds
           ,
           and
           supplies
           .
           The
           favour
           was
           not
           to
           bee
           extended
           to
           all
           ,
           nor
           was
           it
           cloathed
           in
           the
           habit
           of
           a
           Composition
           ,
           or
           peaceable
           Accommodation
           ,
           it
           onely
           set
           to
           sale
           a
           pardon
           ,
           and
           the
           price
           of
           that
           pardon
           was
           besides
           treacherous
           combination
           with
           the
           Papists
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           such
           Money
           ,
           such
           Plate
           ,
           such
           Horses
           ,
           &c.
           
           'T
           is
           true
           the
           rate
           of
           the
           purchase
           was
           left
           indefinite
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           well
           enough
           knowne
           that
           all
           such
           as
           have
           submitted
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           confessed
           a
           guilt
           of
           Treason
           in
           themselves
           ,
           and
           undertaken
           to
           redeem
           the
           same
           by
           new
           services
           have
           found
           their
           penances
           rigorous
           ,
           and
           their
           Ghostly
           Fathers
           very
           hard
           to
           be
           satisfied
           .
           The
           effect
           therefore
           which
           that
           Declaration
           had
           ,
           was
           no
           other
           ,
           as
           wee
           can
           perceive
           ,
           but
           to
           put
           more
           courage
           into
           the
           lovers
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           to
           quicken
           all
           good
           men
           the
           more
           in
           the
           raising
           of
           new
           Forces
           ,
           and
           imbarking
           in
           harder
           Adventures
           :
           And
           Gods
           Name
           be
           praised
           ,
           who
           did
           not
           onely
           then
           give
           us
           such
           pious
           and
           manly
           resolutions
           ,
           but
           hath
           also
           speeded
           &
           mercifully
           prospered
           our
           undertakings
           .
           The
           face
           of
           things
           is
           now
           changed
           :
           The
           Earle
           of
           
             Essex
          
           hath
           since
           that
           removed
           the
           Kings
           terrible
           Army
           from
           before
           
             Gloucester
             ,
          
           and
           after
           a
           bloudy
           day
           fought
           by
           
             Newbury
             ,
          
           is
           returned
           home
           victorious
           .
           Sir
           
             William
             Waller
             ,
          
           and
           the
           Earle
           of
           
             Manchester
          
           are
           great
           in
           new
           hopes
           ,
           and
           preparations
           ,
           and
           the
           Marquesse
           of
           
             Newcastle
          
           is
           as
           fearefull
           to
           receive
           annoyance
           from
           the
           
             Scots
             ,
          
           as
           hopefull
           to
           doe
           any
           to
           the
           Lord
           
             Fairefax
             :
          
           wherefore
           it
           seemes
           to
           me
           ,
           that
           if
           a
           faire
           way
           of
           Accommodation
           were
           now
           tendred
           by
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           it
           would
           bee
           held
           as
           honourable
           ,
           as
           seasonable
           :
           and
           it
           seems
           not
           impossible
           to
           propose
           such
           termes
           of
           Pacification
           as
           may
           well
           stand
           with
           the
           honour
           of
           God
           ,
           the
           safety
           of
           Religion
           ,
           the
           advantage
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           justice
           of
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           the
           wishes
           of
           the
           people
           .
        
         
         
           The
           King
           hath
           divers
           times
           (
           though
           not
           with
           any
           publike
           Ceremony
           or
           Solemnity
           )
           applyed
           himselfe
           to
           satisfie
           his
           Subjects
           by
           protesting
           innocence
           ,
           and
           appealing
           to
           the
           judgement
           of
           Almighty
           God
           ;
           but
           there
           hath
           been
           such
           generality
           in
           his
           expressions
           ,
           and
           defect
           in
           his
           formes
           hitherto
           ,
           that
           his
           Subjects
           remaine
           yet
           unsatisfied
           .
        
         
           That
           which
           I
           shall
           therefore
           now
           undertake
           ,
           with
           my
           utmost
           discretion
           and
           abilitie
           ,
           is
           to
           demonstrate
           wherein
           the
           Kings
           Oathes
           have
           beene
           hitherto
           short
           ,
           and
           of
           little
           securance
           ,
           and
           how
           they
           may
           yet
           bee
           compleated
           ,
           and
           made
           satisfying
           :
           I
           will
           in
           the
           first
           place
           set
           forth
           the
           forme
           of
           the
           Oath
           ,
           both
           as
           it
           is
           conceived
           in
           his
           Majesties
           owne
           Words
           ,
           and
           as
           it
           is
           altered
           with
           my
           additions
           and
           suplements
           ;
           and
           then
           I
           will
           next
           addresse
           my selfe
           by
           way
           of
           Reason
           ,
           to
           give
           some
           Account
           why
           it
           may
           bee
           admitted
           and
           entertained
           by
           either
           side
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Kings
           last
           Declaration
           of
           
             Iuly
          
           aforesaid
           ,
           I
           find
           the
           forme
           of
           the
           Kings
           Vowes
           ,
           and
           Protestations
           to
           run
           in
           these
           very
           words
           .
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   WHereas
                   Almighty
                   GOD
                   ,
                   to
                   whom
                   all
                   the
                   secrets
                   of
                   my
                   heart
                   are
                   open
                   ,
                   knowes
                   with
                   what
                   unwillingnesse
                   and
                   anguish
                   of
                   soule
                   ,
                   I
                   first
                   submitted
                   my selfe
                   to
                   the
                   necessitie
                   of
                   taking
                   up
                   defensive
                   Armes
                   .
                   I
                   having
                   before
                   with
                   Iustice
                   and
                   Bounty
                   to
                   repaire
                   my
                   Subjects
                   former
                   Pressures
                   ,
                   made
                   excellent
                   Lawes
                   for
                   the
                   preventing
                   of
                   the
                   like
                   ,
                   and
                   offered
                   further
                   to
                   adde
                   any
                   thing
                   else
                   for
                   the
                   establishment
                   of
                   the
                   Religion
                   ,
                   Lawes
                   and
                   Liberty
                   of
                   the
                   Kingdome
                   .
                   And
                   whereas
                   in
                   September
                   ,
                   1642.
                   in
                   the
                   head
                   of
                   my
                   Armie
                   ,
                   (
                   not
                   then
                   great
                   )
                   besides
                   at
                   other
                   times
                   I
                   made
                   voluntarily
                   a
                   Protestation
                   to
                   defend
                   and
                   maintaine
                   the
                   true
                   Protestant
                   Religion
                   ,
                   the
                   just
                   priviledges
                   ,
                   and
                   freedom
                   of
                   Parliaments
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   govern
                   by
                   the
                   
                   Lawes
                   of
                   the
                   Land
                   ,
                   for
                   whose
                   defence
                   onely
                   that
                   Armie
                   was
                   raised
                   ,
                   and
                   hath
                   beene
                   since
                   kept
                   :
                   And
                   whereas
                   there
                   cannot
                   bee
                   a
                   more
                   seasonable
                   time
                   ,
                   to
                   renew
                   that
                   Protestation
                   then
                   now
                   ,
                   when
                   God
                   hath
                   vouchsafed
                   mee
                   so
                   many
                   victories
                   .
                   I
                   doe
                   therefore
                   now
                   declare
                   to
                   all
                   the
                   World
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   presence
                   of
                   Almighty
                   God
                   ,
                   to
                   whom
                   I
                   must
                   give
                   a
                   strict
                   account
                   of
                   all
                   my
                   professions
                   ,
                   and
                   Protestations
                   ,
                   that
                   I
                   am
                   so
                   farre
                   from
                   intending
                   any
                   alteration
                   of
                   the
                   Religion
                   established
                   ,
                   or
                   from
                   the
                   least
                   thought
                   of
                   invading
                   the
                   Liberty
                   and
                   Property
                   of
                   the
                   Subject
                   ,
                   or
                   violating
                   the
                   least
                   Priviledges
                   of
                   
                     PARLIAMENT
                     .
                  
                   That
                   I
                   call
                   God
                   to
                   witnesse
                   ,
                   who
                   covered
                   my
                   Head
                   in
                   the
                   day
                   of
                   Battaile
                   ,
                   that
                   I
                   desire
                   from
                   my
                   Soule
                   ,
                   and
                   shall
                   alwayes
                   use
                   my
                   utmost
                   endevours
                   ,
                   to
                   advance
                   and
                   preserve
                   the
                   true
                   Protestant
                   Religion
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   the
                   preservation
                   of
                   the
                   Liberty
                   and
                   Property
                   of
                   the
                   Subject
                   in
                   due
                   observation
                   of
                   the
                   Lawes
                   of
                   the
                   Land
                   shall
                   bee
                   equally
                   my
                   care
                   ;
                   as
                   the
                   maintainance
                   of
                   my
                   owne
                   Rights
                   ,
                   I
                   being
                   desirous
                   to
                   governe
                   onely
                   by
                   those
                   good
                   Lawes
                   .
                   And
                   I
                   doe
                   acknowledge
                   the
                   just
                   priviledges
                   of
                   
                     PARLIAMENT
                     ,
                  
                   to
                   be
                   an
                   essentiall
                   part
                   of
                   those
                   Lawes
                   ,
                   and
                   will
                   therefore
                   most
                   solemnly
                   defend
                   and
                   observe
                   them
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
         
           (
           To
           adde
           to
           the
           perfection
           of
           this
           Oath
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           it
           satisfying
           ,
           I
           shall
           supply
           as
           followeth
           .
           )
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   And
                   forasmuch
                   as
                   generall
                   professions
                   of
                   maintaining
                   of
                   Law
                   ,
                   and
                   doing
                   justice
                   ,
                   cannot
                   end
                   the
                   present
                   differences
                   of
                   this
                   State
                   ,
                   or
                   secure
                   us
                   from
                   the
                   like
                   hereafter
                   ▪
                   but
                   particular
                   judgement
                   must
                   be
                   given
                   according
                   to
                   Law
                   and
                   Iustice
                   ,
                   in
                   the
                   maine
                   poynts
                   now
                   controverted
                   betwixt
                   us
                   :
                   and
                   that
                   Iudgement
                   which
                   shall
                   ever
                   rule
                   ,
                   and
                   conclude
                   both
                   sides
                   must
                   not
                   be
                   expected
                   from
                   my
                   breast
                   ,
                   or
                   any
                   inferiour
                   Councell
                   ,
                   but
                   from
                   the
                   supream
                   Iudicatory
                   of
                   the
                   Kingdome
                   :
                   by
                   the
                   Oath
                   already
                   taken
                   ,
                   I
                   further
                   oblige
                   my selfe
                   ,
                   that
                   I
                   
                   will
                   ingeniously
                   and
                   with
                   my
                   utmost
                   skill
                   make
                   strict
                   inquirie
                   what
                   the
                   supreame
                   Iudicatorie
                   is
                   ,
                   which
                   in
                   these
                   grand
                   disputes
                   is
                   to
                   dispence
                   Law
                   ,
                   and
                   to
                   arbitrate
                   betwixt
                   King
                   ,
                   and
                   Subject
                   :
                   and
                   the
                   same
                   being
                   made
                   knowne
                   to
                   mee
                   by
                   the
                   best
                   and
                   most
                   impartiall
                   advice
                   that
                   can
                   bee
                   gotten
                   ,
                   I
                   will
                   most
                   intirely
                   ,
                   and
                   freely
                   submit
                   all
                   my
                   claimes
                   and
                   pretences
                   to
                   it
                   ,
                   to
                   be
                   resolved
                   and
                   determined
                   by
                   it
                   .
                   I
                   will
                   not
                   onely
                   imploy
                   my
                   utmost
                   power
                   to
                   remove
                   all
                   obstructions
                   ,
                   and
                   impeachments
                   ,
                   which
                   may
                   obviate
                   its
                   proceedings
                   ,
                   but
                   I
                   will
                   vigorously
                   concurre
                   my selfe
                   in
                   all
                   good
                   expedients
                   for
                   speeding
                   ,
                   and
                   facilitating
                   its
                   finall
                   awards
                   .
                
                 
                   And
                   lastly
                   ,
                   since
                   the
                   safety
                   and
                   security
                   of
                   my
                   Subjects
                   depends
                   upon
                   my
                   good
                   administration
                   hereafter
                   ,
                   aswell
                   as
                   for
                   the
                   present
                   ▪
                   and
                   upon
                   the
                   comportment
                   of
                   my
                   Substitutes
                   and
                   Favourites
                   ,
                   aswell
                   as
                   upon
                   my
                   owne
                   ,
                   and
                   that
                   in
                   matters
                   Ecclesiasticall
                   ,
                   Civill
                   and
                   Millitarie
                   ,
                   aswell
                   as
                   Iudiciall
                   :
                   by
                   the
                   same
                   Oath
                   that
                   I
                   have
                   already
                   taken
                   ,
                   I
                   againe
                   ingage
                   my selfe
                   perpetually
                   to
                   tender
                   the
                   propagation
                   of
                   the
                   same
                   Protestant
                   Religion
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   Liberty
                   and
                   prosperity
                   of
                   the
                   
                     English
                  
                   Nation
                   ,
                   equally
                   with
                   my
                   owne
                   Rights
                   and
                   Royalties
                   .
                   And
                   that
                   the
                   Lives
                   ,
                   Liberties
                   ,
                   Consciences
                   ,
                   or
                   Estates
                   of
                   my
                   Subiects
                   may
                   not
                   be
                   entrusted
                   into
                   the
                   hands
                   of
                   such
                   as
                   are
                   ill
                   affected
                   to
                   them
                   ,
                   I
                   will
                   exclude
                   from
                   my
                   publike
                   Counsaile
                   ,
                   and
                   from
                   all
                   direct
                   ,
                   and
                   indirect
                   power
                   in
                   State
                   affaires
                   ,
                   (
                   especially
                   of
                   a
                   high
                   nature
                   )
                   all
                   that
                   are
                   not
                   of
                   the
                   Protestant
                   Religion
                   ,
                   of
                   the
                   British
                   Nation
                   ,
                   of
                   the
                   Masculine
                   sex
                   ,
                   all
                   that
                   are
                   not
                   generally
                   reputed
                   vertuous
                   ,
                   and
                   sworne
                   to
                   be
                   faithfull
                   servants
                   to
                   the
                   State
                   ,
                   aswell
                   as
                   to
                   the
                   Court
                   .
                   In
                   testimony
                   also
                   that
                   I
                   doe
                   without
                   all
                   guile
                   ,
                   equivocation
                   ,
                   or
                   mentall
                   reservation
                   ▪
                   sweare
                   and
                   vow
                   these
                   things
                   in
                   this
                   reverent
                   place
                   ,
                   now
                   that
                   I
                   am
                   to
                   receive
                   this
                   blessed
                   Sacrament
                   before
                   these
                   Lords
                   and
                   Gentlemen
                   here
                   present
                   ,
                   I
                   doe
                   beseech
                   Almighty
                   God
                   so
                   to
                   make
                   these
                   mysteries
                   profitable
                   to
                   my
                   soule
                   ,
                   and
                   this
                   Solemnity
                   
                   satisfying
                   to
                   my
                   people
                   ,
                   as
                   I
                   doe
                   now
                   cordially
                   and
                   sincerely
                   transact
                   this
                   for
                   an
                   assurance
                   ,
                   and
                   not
                   for
                   a
                   snare
                   to
                   them
                   ,
                   if
                   I
                   doe
                   not
                   in
                   my
                   soule
                   purpose
                   to
                   fulfill
                   the
                   tenor
                   of
                   this
                   Oath
                   to
                   my
                   lives
                   end
                   ▪
                   and
                   in
                   pursuance
                   thereof
                   ,
                   ever
                   to
                   oppose
                   the
                   introduction
                   of
                   Romish
                   superstition
                   into
                   this
                   Church
                   ,
                   and
                   the
                   French
                   arbitrary
                   Royalty
                   into
                   this
                   State
                   ,
                   let
                   this
                   venerable
                   flesh
                   and
                   bloud
                   prove
                   mortall
                   to
                   me
                   ,
                   let
                   this
                   imprecation
                   testifie
                   against
                   me
                   ;
                   let
                   God
                   blot
                   out
                   his
                   royall
                   Vnction
                   upon
                   me
                   ,
                   and
                   let
                   my
                   Subjects
                   justly
                   ,
                   and
                   by
                   this
                   my
                   owne
                   Dispensation
                   withdraw
                   obedience
                   from
                   me
                   .
                
              
            
          
        
         
           These
           two
           conditionall
           Clauses
           I
           humbly
           present
           ,
           as
           necessary
           either
           to
           explaine
           what
           the
           King
           had
           sworne
           before
           ,
           or
           to
           discover
           what
           the
           King
           intended
           before
           :
           for
           if
           this
           Oath
           (
           as
           it
           is
           now
           framed
           )
           bee
           accepted
           ,
           it
           will
           let
           us
           know
           how
           farre
           we
           were
           secured
           formerly
           :
           and
           if
           it
           be
           rejected
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           an
           advertisement
           to
           us
           ,
           what
           little
           security
           we
           are
           to
           expect
           hereafter
           .
        
         
           The
           solemne
           and
           sanctimonious
           manner
           of
           taking
           this
           Oath
           ,
           will
           next
           much
           conduce
           to
           the
           satisfying
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           for
           paper
           Oathes
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           mingled
           with
           other
           matters
           in
           Declarations
           are
           not
           so
           authenticall
           with
           the
           
             Phlebeians
             ,
          
           and
           we
           should
           seeme
           lesse
           Religious
           than
           our
           Ancestors
           were
           ,
           in
           times
           of
           more
           blindnesse
           ,
           if
           wee
           should
           not
           observe
           a
           great
           deale
           of
           holy
           state
           in
           a
           businesse
           of
           this
           transcendant
           ,
           and
           more
           than
           secular
           nature
           .
           The
           last
           cautionarie
           advertisement
           that
           I
           shall
           humbly
           tender
           withall
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           an
           Oath
           may
           be
           also
           administred
           to
           the
           Queen
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           suspected
           Papists
           ,
           Aliens
           ,
           &c.
           to
           the
           restraining
           of
           them
           from
           all
           intermedling
           in
           matters
           of
           our
           Church
           ,
           or
           State
           ,
           and
           from
           attempting
           any
           thing
           mediately
           ,
           or
           immediately
           ,
           directly
           ,
           or
           indirectly
           against
           the
           peace
           of
           this
           Kingdome
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           meanes
           ,
           with
           some
           more
           perfect
           alterations
           ▪
           
           or
           provisions
           ,
           under
           favour
           I
           conceive
           our
           greatest
           feares
           might
           be
           qualified
           ,
           and
           our
           most
           desperate
           maladies
           asswaged
           ,
           if
           not
           cured
           :
           But
           I
           know
           some
           Objections
           will
           be
           alledged
           on
           the
           Kings
           Part
           ,
           why
           hee
           ought
           not
           to
           make
           this
           Oath
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           Parliaments
           why
           they
           ought
           not
           to
           take
           it
           ?
           Let
           mee
           have
           a
           little
           Favour
           to
           say
           something
           herein
           .
        
         
           Oathes
           have
           beene
           ever
           honourable
           ,
           and
           Sacramentall
           Obligations
           ,
           such
           as
           GOD
           himselfe
           hath
           not
           ▪
           disdained
           to
           use
           ▪
           for
           the
           taking
           away
           of
           doubt
           and
           distrust
           in
           man
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           hee
           hath
           prescribed
           to
           men
           for
           the
           composing
           of
           differences
           sometimes
           ,
           aswell
           betwixt
           publike
           as
           private
           persons
           .
           But
           in
           this
           Contestation
           betwixt
           the
           KING
           and
           PARLIAMENT
           ,
           though
           both
           sides
           have
           sundrie
           times
           had
           recourse
           to
           Oathes
           and
           Invocations
           of
           GODS
           Name
           ,
           and
           more
           especially
           the
           KING
           ,
           yet
           that
           Pacification
           and
           amicable
           Accommodation
           ,
           which
           might
           have
           beene
           hoped
           therefrom
           ,
           hath
           not
           been
           concluded
           and
           consummated
           .
           And
           I
           conceive
           there
           are
           two
           Reasons
           why
           the
           KINGS
           Protestations
           have
           not
           been
           so
           effectuall
           ,
           and
           available
           ,
           as
           was
           intended
           they
           should
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           because
           there
           is
           great
           uncertainty
           ,
           and
           dispute
           in
           that
           which
           the
           KINGS
           Oathes
           principally
           take
           for
           their
           subject
           or
           matter
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           because
           the
           KING
           seemes
           totally
           mistaken
           in
           the
           end
           of
           his
           Oathes
           ,
           or
           rather
           in
           those
           Feares
           and
           Iealousies
           of
           Ours
           ,
           which
           his
           Oathes
           endeavour
           to
           remove
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           the
           KING
           by
           his
           Imprications
           would
           assure
           us
           that
           hee
           intends
           no
           ill
           to
           Religion
           ,
           Law
           ,
           or
           Liberty
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           established
           in
           ENGLAND
           ;
           but
           our
           maine
           strife
           and
           controversie
           here
           is
           how
           Religion
           ,
           Law
           ,
           and
           Libertie
           
           are
           established
           in
           such
           and
           such
           poynts
           ,
           and
           who
           shall
           judge
           of
           that
           establishment
           :
           wherefore
           to
           decide
           that
           Controversie
           and
           attone
           this
           strife
           ,
           no
           generall
           Oath
           of
           the
           KING
           can
           bee
           held
           sufficient
           .
           In
           private
           suits
           betwixt
           Subject
           and
           Subject
           ,
           the
           Law
           permits
           nor
           the
           KING
           to
           judge
           ,
           much
           lesse
           does
           it
           stand
           to
           the
           KINGS
           judgement
           ,
           when
           the
           sute
           is
           betwixt
           a
           Subject
           and
           the
           KING
           himselfe
           ;
           and
           least
           of
           all
           does
           it
           rest
           upon
           the
           KINGS
           determination
           ,
           when
           the
           KING
           is
           a
           Partie
           of
           one
           side
           ,
           and
           the
           whole
           Kingdome
           on
           the
           other
           .
           Neverthelesse
           ,
           in
           this
           our
           present
           grand
           debate
           ,
           the
           KING
           sweares
           in
           generall
           to
           doe
           justice
           ,
           and
           yet
           what
           that
           Justice
           is
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           bee
           done
           ,
           hee
           himselfe
           is
           ignorant
           ;
           nay
           the
           greatest
           of
           our
           profest
           Lawyers
           adventure
           not
           to
           determine
           ,
           (
           they
           have
           great
           Divisions
           ,
           and
           Contesttions
           amongst
           themselves
           about
           it
           )
           although
           all
           unanimously
           affirme
           ,
           that
           the
           KING
           
             quatenus
          
           a
           partie
           ,
           and
           
             quatenus
          
           a
           Lay-man
           ,
           is
           of
           all
           men
           most
           incompetent
           for
           the
           determination
           thereof
           .
           When
           the
           Kingdome
           groaned
           heretofore
           under
           the
           oppression
           of
           the
           Shipscot
           ,
           and
           divers
           other
           Taxes
           utterly
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           Subjects
           Libertie
           ,
           the
           KING
           intended
           no
           violation
           of
           the
           Subjects
           Libertie
           .
           He
           had
           sworne
           ,
           or
           might
           have
           sworne
           then
           in
           generall
           termes
           the
           same
           thing
           ,
           with
           the
           same
           safetie
           as
           he
           sweares
           now
           .
           So
           if
           the
           like
           dispute
           arise
           hereafter
           ,
           of
           the
           like
           difficultie
           ,
           about
           some
           other
           branch
           of
           Prerogative
           (
           for
           Prerogative
           is
           not
           made
           now
           more
           knowne
           ,
           but
           more
           unknowne
           of
           late
           )
           there
           is
           no
           hindrance
           but
           the
           King
           may
           treat
           us
           as
           he
           did
           then
           indeeds
           ,
           yet
           protest
           as
           hee
           does
           now
           in
           words
           .
        
         
           The
           like
           may
           bee
           said
           of
           Religion
           ,
           the
           KING
           intends
           no
           alteration
           of
           Religion
           ,
           and
           expects
           that
           wee
           should
           
             acquiesce
          
           in
           that
           profession
           of
           his
           ,
           and
           yet
           wee
           
           feare
           he
           judges
           of
           alteration
           therein
           by
           his
           Bishops
           ,
           who
           ayme
           at
           nothing
           more
           than
           Innovations
           ,
           wherefore
           this
           can
           be
           no
           ground
           of
           confidence
           in
           us
           ,
           because
           ▪
           the
           KING
           in
           his
           owne
           understanding
           ,
           may
           both
           make
           and
           keep
           such
           an
           Oath
           ,
           yet
           Poperie
           shall
           still
           prevaile
           ,
           and
           Protestanisme
           decline
           ,
           as
           it
           hath
           done
           hitherto
           .
           'T
           is
           far
           then
           from
           being
           a
           security
           ,
           't
           is
           rather
           a
           danger
           to
           a
           state
           to
           depend
           on
           a
           Princes
           generall
           Oaths
           ,
           when
           these
           Oathes
           depend
           upon
           his
           meere
           understanding
           ,
           forasmuch
           as
           Law
           does
           not
           direct
           us
           to
           the
           Kings
           breast
           ,
           as
           our
           sole
           and
           supreame
           Tribunall
           ,
           but
           rather
           dehorts
           us
           from
           the
           same
           ,
           as
           most
           of
           all
           to
           be
           distrusted
           :
           This
           is
           a
           
             Dilemma
          
           not
           to
           be
           excepted
           against
           :
           either
           the
           KING
           relyes
           upon
           his
           owne
           Knowledge
           and
           Judgement
           ,
           concerning
           alterations
           in
           Law
           ,
           &c.
           when
           hee
           abjures
           them
           ;
           or
           not
           :
           if
           hee
           does
           undertake
           to
           know
           ,
           and
           judge
           of
           all
           alterations
           ,
           and
           of
           all
           differences
           raised
           thereupon
           in
           Church
           ,
           and
           State
           ,
           betwixt
           himselfe
           and
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           then
           is
           our
           Government
           meerely
           Arbitrarie
           ;
           more
           Arbitrarie
           than
           the
           
             French
             ;
          
           then
           are
           his
           Edicts
           and
           Acts
           of
           State
           our
           best
           arrests
           ,
           and
           Acts
           of
           Parliement
           ;
           then
           does
           our
           Law
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ,
           import
           no
           more
           to
           us
           ,
           than
           his
           meere
           pleasure
           .
           Let
           it
           but
           bee
           maintained
           ,
           that
           wee
           must
           expect
           satisfaction
           ,
           and
           decision
           from
           the
           KINGS
           breast
           ,
           where
           Poperie
           and
           Protestanisme
           ,
           where
           Prerogative
           and
           Libertie
           confine
           ,
           and
           border
           one
           upon
           the
           other
           ;
           and
           let
           the
           maine
           Secrets
           and
           Quaeries
           of
           Law
           bee
           subjected
           to
           the
           KINGS
           Cognizance
           ,
           and
           and
           for
           my
           part
           ,
           I
           shall
           ever
           conceive
           ,
           that
           enacted
           Law
           ,
           and
           publike
           Right
           ,
           are
           nothing
           else
           but
           Royall
           pleasure
           ,
           and
           one
           single
           mans
           fansie
           ,
           or
           humour
           ;
           but
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           if
           the
           KING
           doe
           presuppose
           himselfe
           an
           incompetent
           Judge
           ,
           and
           as
           lyable
           to
           grosse
           misakes
           ,
           and
           dangerous
           deviations
           in
           Law
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ,
           
           as
           hee
           hath
           beene
           formerly
           ,
           when
           wee
           were
           almost
           at
           an
           utter
           losse
           in
           both
           ;
           if
           hee
           will
           acknowledge
           that
           there
           may
           bee
           as
           intricate
           controversies
           ,
           and
           as
           undeterminable
           debates
           betwixt
           him
           and
           his
           Subjects
           hereafter
           ,
           as
           have
           beene
           formerly
           ,
           and
           as
           now
           are
           at
           this
           instant
           ,
           then
           all
           that
           wee
           can
           hope
           for
           from
           his
           Oathes
           ,
           is
           but
           this
           ,
           that
           wee
           shall
           bee
           as
           much
           distracted
           hereafter
           ,
           and
           as
           remedilessely
           torne
           and
           divided
           with
           dissentions
           ,
           as
           wee
           were
           formerly
           ,
           or
           are
           now
           :
           all
           our
           assurance
           is
           ,
           wee
           shall
           bee
           permitted
           to
           remaine
           and
           continue
           in
           the
           condition
           as
           we
           were
           ,
           and
           as
           wee
           (
           which
           makes
           his
           Oaths
           of
           no
           effect
           )
           now
           are
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           the
           next
           Reason
           why
           the
           KING
           renouncing
           by
           Oath
           all
           alterations
           in
           Law
           and
           Religion
           ,
           does
           not
           put
           us
           out
           of
           all
           our
           feares
           ,
           is
           ,
           because
           hee
           alwayes
           sweares
           for
           himselfe
           ,
           not
           his
           Favourites
           and
           Councellors
           ;
           and
           yet
           our
           feares
           have
           more
           respect
           to
           his
           Favourites
           than
           ▪
           to
           himselfe
           .
           And
           so
           notwithstanding
           the
           security
           which
           his
           Oathes
           gives
           against
           any
           ill
           intentions
           ,
           or
           Machichinations
           from
           himselfe
           ,
           wee
           still
           remaine
           exposed
           to
           ruine
           ,
           by
           the
           ill
           intentions
           ,
           and
           machinations
           of
           such
           as
           have
           a
           great
           sway
           in
           his
           Counsaile
           ,
           and
           affections
           ,
           he
           himselfe
           perhaps
           being
           neither
           privie
           nor
           confenting
           thereunto
           .
        
         
           The
           KING
           favours
           not
           the
           Irish
           Rebellion
           ,
           yet
           such
           as
           were
           the
           Favourers
           ,
           nay
           the
           Plotters
           ,
           and
           Actors
           in
           it
           find
           favour
           ,
           and
           receive
           power
           from
           the
           King
           :
           and
           what
           difference
           is
           it
           to
           us
           ,
           whether
           wee
           perish
           by
           the
           KINGS
           hand
           immediately
           ,
           or
           by
           his
           Favourites
           mediately
           ;
           by
           the
           Kings
           owne
           accord
           directly
           ,
           or
           by
           his
           onely
           permission
           indirectly
           ?
           
             Ireland
          
           hath
           seene
           more
           than
           two
           hundred
           thousand
           Families
           of
           Brittish
           Protestants
           dispeopled
           and
           massacred
           by
           treacherous
           Papists
           ,
           
           (
           notwithstanning
           that
           all
           this
           Deluge
           of
           Bloud
           might
           have
           beene
           prevented
           by
           the
           KINGS
           timely
           foresight
           and
           care
           )
           and
           ENGLAND
           is
           now
           falling
           into
           the
           same
           desolation
           by
           the
           same
           faction
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           KING
           is
           so
           farre
           from
           withdrawing
           favour
           or
           power
           from
           Papists
           and
           their
           accomplices
           ,
           that
           hee
           puts
           more
           Armes
           into
           their
           hands
           here
           ,
           and
           holds
           further
           correspondence
           with
           them
           abroad
           :
           how
           can
           wee
           then
           but
           seeme
           as
           stocks
           ,
           or
           more
           stupid
           than
           beasts
           ,
           if
           we
           now
           expect
           no
           assurance
           but
           an
           Oath
           ,
           and
           include
           none
           in
           that
           Oath
           but
           the
           KING
           ?
        
         
           
             Eli
          
           was
           a
           good
           man
           ,
           but
           an
           ill
           Majestrate
           ,
           hee
           knew
           better
           how
           to
           moderate
           his
           owne
           affections
           ,
           than
           to
           bridle
           the
           insolencies
           of
           such
           as
           were
           subordinate
           to
           him
           ;
           insomuch
           ,
           that
           that
           good
           which
           hee
           did
           by
           himselfe
           was
           farre
           out-poized
           by
           that
           evill
           which
           hee
           permitted
           in
           others
           ,
           and
           his
           lenity
           to
           his
           Children
           became
           crueltie
           to
           the
           people
           .
        
         
           Some
           men
           are
           much
           mistaken
           ,
           if
           there
           bee
           not
           something
           of
           
             Eli
          
           in
           our
           KINGS
           disposition
           ,
           for
           though
           hee
           bee
           esteemed
           inflexible
           by
           such
           as
           hee
           hath
           once
           judged
           adverse
           to
           his
           ends
           ,
           yet
           hee
           is
           much
           too
           ductile
           by
           those
           who
           have
           once
           gotten
           prepossession
           in
           his
           good
           thoughts
           .
           Wherefore
           if
           his
           Majestie
           seriously
           desires
           to
           put
           us
           into
           a
           Condition
           of
           securitie
           ,
           (
           which
           is
           the
           onely
           remedy
           of
           our
           present
           distempers
           )
           hee
           must
           rather
           provide
           for
           our
           indemnitie
           by
           protesting
           against
           connivence
           at
           evill
           in
           his
           Substitutes
           ,
           than
           doing
           evill
           in
           his
           own
           person
           .
           For
           he
           himselfe
           may
           be
           as
           guiltlesse
           privately
           as
           
             Eli
          
           was
           ,
           and
           yet
           in
           publke
           wee
           his
           Subjects
           may
           live
           as
           miserably
           under
           his
           Popish
           Councellors
           ,
           as
           the
           Children
           of
           Israel
           did
           under
           
             Hophni
          
           and
           
             Phineas
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Law
           sayes
           the
           KING
           can
           doe
           no
           wrong
           ,
           and
           
           out
           of
           its
           Civilitie
           it
           imputes
           all
           miscatriages
           in
           Government
           to
           inferiour
           agents
           :
           but
           policy
           teaches
           us
           ,
           that
           though
           a
           Prince
           in
           Law
           bee
           not
           questionable
           for
           it
           ,
           yet
           in
           nature
           hee
           is
           strangely
           blameable
           ,
           and
           deeply
           chargeable
           ,
           when
           bee
           makes
           an
           ill
           choyce
           of
           inferiour
           Agents
           .
        
         
           In
           Law
           ,
           it
           was
           the
           blame
           of
           
             Rehoboam's
          
           young
           Councellors
           ,
           that
           so
           unpolitick
           ,
           and
           unworthy
           a
           disgust
           was
           given
           to
           the
           great
           and
           honourable
           State
           of
           
             Israel
             :
          
           and
           it
           was
           great
           pitty
           that
           they
           did
           not
           suffer
           for
           it
           :
           But
           it
           was
           
             Rehoboams
          
           blame
           in
           policie
           ,
           that
           hee
           would
           chuse
           young
           Conncellors
           ,
           and
           hee
           himselfe
           was
           the
           greatest
           loser
           by
           it
           .
           The
           wisedome
           of
           SOLOMON
           would
           direct
           him
           to
           make
           use
           of
           that
           Wisedome
           which
           is
           seldome
           to
           bee
           found
           but
           in
           hoarie
           heads
           ,
           but
           the
           more
           foolish
           
             Rehoboam
          
           is
           ,
           the
           more
           solicitous
           hee
           will
           bee
           to
           finde
           out
           vaine
           Consorts
           ,
           fit
           onely
           to
           comply
           with
           his
           owne
           folly
           .
           Had
           there
           been
           any
           particular
           good
           which
           
             Rehoboam
          
           might
           have
           attained
           too
           by
           the
           prejudice
           of
           his
           Subjects
           :
           the
           old
           Councellors
           in
           probabilitie
           would
           have
           advised
           him
           to
           it
           ▪
           for
           they
           seemed
           to
           take
           more
           care
           of
           the
           KING
           than
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           (
           as
           they
           had
           done
           in
           their
           old
           Masters
           dayes
           ,
           to
           the
           danger
           of
           the
           nex
           Successor
           )
           But
           such
           is
           the
           temeritie
           of
           these
           green
           headed
           Statists
           ,
           that
           they
           neyther
           ayme
           at
           the
           good
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           nor
           of
           the
           KING
           :
           They
           seemed
           to
           imagine
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           a
           sufficient
           recommendation
           of
           a
           thing
           to
           a
           Prince
           ,
           to
           represent
           it
           as
           disadvantagious
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           they
           ▪
           failed
           not
           to
           please
           their
           rash
           Lord
           ,
           who
           was
           so
           farre
           from
           giving
           satisfaction
           to
           the
           People
           ,
           as
           that
           hee
           thought
           it
           profitable
           to
           him
           to
           purchase
           their
           displeasure
           ,
           though
           with
           the
           imminent
           hazard
           of
           his
           owne
           Crowne
           ;
           wherefore
           it
           does
           not
           seeme
           so
           probable
           ,
           that
           
             Rehoboham
          
           
           did
           take
           preposterous
           courses
           ,
           because
           hee
           hapned
           upon
           preposterous
           Counsellors
           ,
           as
           that
           hee
           did
           chuse
           preposterous
           Councellors
           ,
           because
           he
           did
           affectedly
           addict
           himselfe
           to
           preposterous
           Courses
           .
           And
           when
           the
           main
           fault
           was
           in
           his
           will
           ,
           rather
           then
           his
           understanding
           ,
           't
           was
           easie
           for
           him
           to
           erre
           in
           the
           most
           fundamentall
           point
           of
           all
           politicks
           ,
           and
           to
           place
           his
           own
           peculiar
           good
           ,
           rather
           in
           the
           publike
           disprofit
           ,
           then
           in
           the
           benefit
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
           
             Machiavell
          
           had
           never
           past
           for
           a
           wise
           man
           ,
           had
           not
           all
           his
           subtill
           grounds
           tended
           to
           the
           pursuing
           of
           that
           advantage
           of
           KINGS
           ,
           which
           consists
           in
           the
           peoples
           disadvantage
           ;
           and
           yet
           nothing
           can
           be
           more
           contrary
           to
           wisdome
           ,
           or
           more
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Principles
           of
           solid
           Policie
           ,
           then
           this
           very
           doctrine
           ;
           and
           without
           doubt
           ,
           no
           wise
           man
           will
           seek
           to
           excuse
           him
           of
           sottish
           folly
           ,
           but
           by
           accusing
           him
           of
           pernitious
           flattery
           ;
           for
           if
           he
           did
           not
           wilfully
           betray
           PRINCES
           ,
           as
           perhaps
           
             Rehoboams
          
           Councellors
           did
           ,
           surely
           he
           did
           but
           publish
           to
           the
           world
           ,
           the
           sickly
           conceptions
           of
           his
           own
           narrow
           heart
           .
           The
           vast
           businesse
           of
           Government
           ,
           especially
           where
           the
           Nation
           is
           great
           ,
           or
           where
           many
           Nations
           are
           united
           ,
           is
           not
           to
           be
           trans-acted
           by
           any
           one
           man
           :
           where
           one
           man
           commands
           in
           chiefe
           ,
           the
           most
           sublime
           office
           of
           Government
           is
           attributed
           to
           him
           ,
           but
           the
           greatest
           burthen
           ,
           and
           most
           important
           charge
           must
           rest
           upon
           the
           shoulders
           of
           thousands
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           Monarchies
           ▪
           as
           in
           Democrasies
           ,
           or
           else
           great
           obstructions
           will
           follow
           .
        
         
           When
           the
           Jews
           were
           but
           few
           in
           number
           ,
           and
           mean
           of
           condition
           in
           the
           Wildernesse
           ,
           
             Moses
          
           found
           the
           rule
           of
           them
           insupportable
           without
           many
           assistants
           ,
           he
           was
           driven
           to
           follow
           
             Iethroes
          
           Counsell
           ,
           as
           well
           to
           preserve
           himselfe
           from
           being
           crush'd
           under
           too
           great
           a
           weight
           ,
           
           as
           to
           open
           the
           course
           of
           Iustice
           to
           the
           
             Israelites
             .
          
        
         
           That
           part
           of
           Government
           ,
           which
           is
           most
           extensive
           ,
           and
           laborious
           ,
           which
           requires
           not
           onely
           most
           activity
           ,
           but
           most
           skill
           in
           many
           severall
           Arts
           ,
           and
           Sciences
           must
           be
           undergone
           ,
           and
           managed
           by
           multitudes
           of
           Agents
           ,
           and
           in
           Monarchies
           ,
           these
           Agents
           are
           more
           subject
           to
           one
           mans
           will
           ,
           in
           Democracies
           lesse
           ;
           but
           that
           part
           of
           Government
           which
           is
           Supream
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           concentred
           in
           one
           man
           ,
           is
           more
           facile
           and
           narrow
           ,
           and
           many
           times
           't
           is
           best
           discharged
           ,
           when
           that
           one
           man
           leaves
           most
           to
           his
           Substitutes
           ,
           and
           assumes
           least
           to
           himself
           .
           
             Henry
          
           the
           third
           ruled
           better
           in
           his
           minority
           ,
           when
           the
           highest
           Acts
           of
           his
           royall
           superintending
           power
           were
           exercised
           by
           his
           servants
           ,
           then
           in
           his
           ▪
           maturity
           ,
           when
           hee
           would
           arbitrarily
           straine
           his
           superintending
           power
           ,
           to
           the
           over-ruling
           of
           his
           good
           Councellors
           ,
           and
           preferring
           of
           bad
           .
           The
           greatest
           honour
           of
           PRINCES
           ▪
           is
           to
           be
           wise
           ,
           and
           the
           greatest
           Wisedome
           of
           PRINCES
           is
           ,
           to
           chuse
           fit
           instruments
           ,
           and
           this
           choice
           cannot
           be
           without
           publike
           advice
           ,
           yet
           weake
           PRINCES
           relish
           no
           Honour
           in
           any
           thing
           ,
           but
           in
           enjoying
           their
           own
           wills
           ,
           and
           their
           wills
           they
           conceive
           then
           to
           be
           most
           gloriously
           fulfilled
           ,
           when
           they
           please
           themselves
           by
           displeasing
           their
           Subjects
           ,
           when
           in
           their
           elections
           of
           Counsellors
           and
           Favourites
           ,
           the
           State
           has
           no
           share
           at
           all
           ,
           but
           is
           rather
           crossed
           ,
           and
           opposed
           .
           Was
           
             Gaveston
          
           so
           deere
           to
           
             Edward
          
           the
           Second
           ,
           because
           he
           was
           a
           good
           Patriot
           ?
           No
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           been
           such
           ,
           it
           had
           been
           a
           vulgar
           thing
           in
           
             Edward
          
           to
           uphold
           him
           ,
           the
           power
           of
           a
           great
           PRINCE
           is
           more
           eminent
           in
           chusing
           instruments
           for
           his
           own
           wicked
           pleasure
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           uphold
           them
           ,
           when
           whole
           Nations
           seeke
           to
           teare
           them
           from
           their
           Masters
           bosoms
           .
        
         
         
           t'
           is
           not
           so
           Kingly
           to
           be
           regulated
           by
           wisdome
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           as
           to
           doe
           acts
           of
           meere
           will
           ;
           nor
           to
           concurre
           with
           the
           publicke
           suffrages
           of
           a
           State
           ,
           in
           the
           promoting
           of
           good
           men
           ,
           as
           to
           reject
           the
           prayers
           ,
           &
           teares
           and
           cryes
           of
           Communities
           in
           the
           defending
           of
           incendiaries
           ,
           nor
           to
           aime
           at
           the
           safetie
           ,
           and
           prosperity
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           as
           to
           compasse
           private
           designes
           utterly
           opposite
           thereunto
           .
           That
           Royalty
           which
           proposes
           to
           it self
           the
           flourishing
           condition
           of
           the
           Subject
           as
           it
           's
           best
           establishment
           :
           has
           more
           regard
           to
           the
           deputation
           of
           worthy
           Officers
           in
           State
           ,
           then
           to
           any
           other
           perticular
           interest
           :
           but
           since
           flatterers
           have
           found
           out
           an
           other
           Royalty
           which
           proposes
           to
           it self
           common
           servility
           for
           the
           truest
           basis
           of
           it
           's
           grand
           our
           ;
           He
           which
           can
           invent
           any
           thing
           for
           the
           Subject
           below
           woodden
           shooes
           ,
           and
           canvas
           breeches
           is
           a
           rare
           Polititian
           ,
           to
           be
           valued
           equally
           with
           a
           Princes
           life
           ,
           honour
           and
           prosperity
           .
           Why
           was
           the
           price
           of
           
             Strafford
          
           of
           greater
           esteeme
           then
           the
           peace
           of
           three
           Kingdoms
           ?
           because
           he
           was
           a
           Minister
           better
           affected
           to
           this
           new
           Royalty
           then
           the
           severall
           States
           of
           the
           three
           severall
           Nations
           :
           because
           he
           was
           devoted
           not
           only
           to
           serve
           the
           King
           more
           then
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           but
           even
           against
           the
           Kingdome
           :
           because
           if
           he
           could
           not
           add
           to
           the
           Kings
           publicke
           puissance
           by
           adding
           to
           the
           
           States
           wealth
           and
           honour
           ,
           yet
           he
           could
           adde
           to
           the
           Kings
           private
           splendor
           ,
           by
           depressing
           the
           States
           wealth
           ,
           and
           honour
           .
           If
           the
           King
           did
           professe
           that
           he
           ought
           to
           look
           upon
           the
           Community
           as
           having
           ends
           contrary
           to
           his
           true
           Soveraignty
           ,
           and
           the
           happinesse
           thereof
           ,
           as
           inconsistent
           with
           his
           Legall
           Prerogative
           ,
           then
           it
           were
           just
           and
           reasonable
           that
           he
           did
           imbrace
           no
           Ministers
           ,
           but
           such
           as
           were
           odious
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           nor
           pursue
           no
           ends
           but
           such
           as
           were
           distructive
           to
           common
           Liberty
           .
           But
           since
           his
           professions
           and
           oathes
           look
           an
           other
           way
           ,
           t'
           is
           most
           wonderfull
           that
           in
           delegating
           of
           Officers
           
             Military
          
           Iudiciall
           ,
           &c.
           
           He
           should
           so
           far
           abhor
           Parliamentary
           advice
           ,
           and
           approbation
           ,
           and
           prefer
           all
           the
           miseries
           of
           this
           bloudy
           warre
           before
           it
           :
           fot
           it
           were
           better
           for
           us
           that
           Parliamentary
           advice
           ,
           and
           approbation
           were
           rejected
           in
           all
           other
           things
           ,
           then
           in
           the
           placeing
           of
           publicke
           Ministers
           ,
           upon
           whose
           rule
           the
           welfare
           of
           the
           State
           more
           depends
           then
           upon
           any
           other
           Act
           of
           Royalty
           it self
           ▪
           if
           we
           are
           not
           utterly
           mistaken
           in
           point
           of
           Law
           ,
           the
           great
           Officers
           of
           the
           Chancery
           ,
           Admiralty
           ,
           Treasury
           and
           others
           ,
           that
           are
           more
           properly
           the
           Kingdomes
           ,
           then
           the
           Kings
           Ministers
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           chosen
           in
           Parliament
           :
           and
           if
           the
           Law
           in
           speciall
           terms
           were
           not
           such
           ,
           yet
           by
           generall
           intendment
           of
           law
           all
           arduous
           affaires
           of
           
           generall
           and
           great
           importance
           are
           to
           be
           transacted
           by
           the
           Common
           Counsell
           of
           the
           Land
           .
           Now
           wee
           well
           know
           ,
           that
           the
           chusing
           of
           publick
           Officers
           under
           good
           Kings
           ,
           which
           will
           not
           chuse
           a
           misse
           ,
           is
           not
           of
           so
           generall
           ,
           and
           great
           importance
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           under
           perverted
           
             Princes
             ,
          
           who
           will
           chuse
           none
           but
           such
           as
           shall
           imploy
           all
           their
           abilities
           and
           endowments
           against
           the
           State
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           disservice
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           Lawyers
           and
           Devines
           seldome
           distinguish
           rightly
           betwixt
           that
           power
           of
           the
           King
           which
           is
           invested
           in
           him
           by
           absolute
           donation
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           meerely
           fiduciary
           .
           Neither
           doe
           they
           distinguish
           betwixt
           that
           power
           which
           is
           originally
           intrusted
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           by
           the
           fundamentall
           constitution
           of
           this
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           occasionally
           by
           intermission
           or
           non-user
           left
           to
           the
           King
           at
           such
           or
           such
           times
           upon
           speciall
           confidence
           of
           his
           goodnesse
           .
           But
           policy
           must
           needs
           teach
           us
           ,
           that
           no
           State
           can
           be
           long
           safe
           where
           all
           Kings
           are
           equally
           trusted
           ,
           and
           enabled
           ,
           where
           the
           same
           King
           shall
           injoy
           that
           for
           ever
           as
           apperteyning
           to
           his
           undoubted
           Prerogative
           ,
           which
           at
           any
           one
           time
           he
           has
           gayned
           ,
           or
           wrested
           from
           the
           people
           by
           his
           owne
           fraud
           ,
           or
           force
           ;
           or
           perhaps
           by
           the
           peoples
           negligence
           ,
           or
           indulgence
           to
           his
           wise
           predecessors
           .
           Without
           all
           question
           ,
           many
           smaller
           matters
           are
           
           intrusted
           to
           the
           Kings
           meere
           discretion
           ,
           but
           yet
           
             quateus
          
           smaller
           matters
           onely
           .
           Whereas
           if
           the
           same
           things
           become
           greater
           matters
           ,
           as
           they
           may
           ,
           then
           the
           peoples
           right
           is
           not
           to
           be
           prejudged
           ,
           because
           the
           Law
           of
           publicke
           safety
           is
           above
           all
           Lawes
           of
           Prerogative
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           laws
           whatsoever
           .
           For
           example
           ,
           if
           
             J.
             S.
          
           be
           to
           cutt
           of
           the
           intayle
           of
           his
           Land
           in
           Parliament
           ;
           the
           King
           by
           his
           negative
           voice
           may
           oppose
           him
           at
           his
           pleasure
           :
           but
           if
           judgement
           be
           to
           be
           given
           against
           such
           a
           notorious
           traitour
           t'
           is
           otherwise
           ;
           and
           yet
           even
           such
           a
           iudgment
           too
           is
           not
           alwayes
           alike
           :
           for
           in
           times
           of
           great
           distresse
           it
           cannot
           be
           retarded
           ,
           interrupted
           ,
           or
           denied
           ;
           because
           of
           the
           extreāc
           hazard
           to
           the
           State
           ,
           &
           in
           such
           case
           the
           King
           has
           lesse
           colour
           to
           pretend
           to
           a
           negative
           voice
           then
           at
           other
           times
           of
           more
           security
           :
           for
           as
           that
           which
           is
           of
           greater
           concernment
           ,
           is
           not
           so
           much
           within
           the
           Kings
           power
           as
           that
           which
           is
           of
           lesser
           ,
           so
           that
           which
           is
           of
           lesser
           concernment
           at
           one
           time
           in
           one
           respect
           ,
           is
           of
           greater
           at
           an
           other
           time
           in
           an
           other
           respect
           .
           And
           if
           Lawyers
           find
           not
           these
           distinctions
           in
           their
           reports
           ,
           and
           yeare
           books
           ,
           or
           if
           Devines
           find
           them
           not
           in
           the
           old
           Fathers
           ,
           or
           in
           their
           Cannons
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           they
           must
           not
           forbid
           other
           men
           that
           studie
           the
           intrinsecall
           Rules
           of
           State
           ,
           to
           make
           use
           of
           more
           generall
           
           knowledge
           ,
           then
           that
           which
           their
           bookes
           afford
           .
           The
           
             Bishop
             of
             Armach
          
           has
           declared
           himself
           in
           point
           of
           iudgement
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           I
           shall
           onely
           demand
           of
           him
           whether
           he
           thinks
           himselfe
           wiser
           then
           the
           Lawes
           of
           England
           ,
           or
           whether
           he
           thinks
           himselfe
           wiser
           in
           the
           Lawes
           of
           
             England
          
           then
           the
           maior
           part
           of
           both
           Houses
           in
           Parliament
           .
           One
           of
           these
           he
           must
           affirme
           .
           Master
           
             Holborne
          
           his
           iudgement
           does
           not
           concurre
           with
           the
           Parliaments
           in
           such
           a
           point
           of
           Law
           .
           I
           should
           demand
           of
           him
           ,
           whether
           Law
           must
           needs
           observe
           one
           rule
           in
           all
           cases
           of
           publicke
           and
           of
           private
           moments
           or
           whether
           we
           are
           restrained
           from
           all
           equitable
           distinctions
           ,
           and
           interpretations
           except
           such
           as
           we
           find
           in
           Fitz
           
             Herbert
             ,
             Cooke
          
           and
           
             Plowden
             ?
          
           or
           whether
           his
           or
           the
           Parliaments
           resolution
           herein
           be
           more
           authenticall
           ?
           surely
           t'
           were
           in
           vaine
           to
           trouble
           all
           our
           Counties
           ,
           Cities
           ,
           and
           Burroughs
           with
           such
           Ludibrious
           elections
           ,
           if
           some
           one
           
             Bishop
          
           or
           one
           
             Barrister
          
           could
           declare
           Law
           better
           then
           those
           which
           enacted
           it
           ,
           or
           enact
           Law
           better
           then
           those
           for
           whom
           all
           Law
           was
           ordayned
           .
           The
           Kingdome
           it self
           taken
           in
           it
           's
           diffusive
           body
           cannot
           convene
           in
           any
           one
           place
           ,
           nor
           fix
           upon
           any
           
           one
           certane
           resolution
           ,
           otherwise
           in
           all
           extraordinary
           cases
           ,
           and
           iudgements
           ,
           the
           finall
           decision
           ought
           to
           proceed
           from
           thence
           ,
           therefore
           it
           must
           be
           formed
           into
           such
           an
           Artificiall
           body
           as
           is
           fitt
           to
           convene
           ,
           and
           to
           deliberate
           .
           And
           being
           so
           formed
           ,
           it
           has
           in
           it
           all
           the
           persection
           ,
           and
           excellence
           of
           the
           defusive
           body
           .
           T
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           King
           may
           be
           held
           a
           representative
           of
           the
           people
           in
           ordinary
           cases
           ,
           for
           avoiding
           of
           a
           more
           troublesome
           convention
           ,
           but
           in
           extraordinary
           cases
           when
           such
           a
           convention
           is
           necessary
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           is
           the
           onely
           true
           representative
           ,
           and
           congregated
           to
           the
           King
           for
           more
           perfection
           sake
           ,
           or
           else
           it
           were
           vainly
           congregated
           .
           And
           because
           the
           people
           cannot
           be
           congregated
           at
           all
           ,
           much
           lesse
           in
           any
           more
           perfect
           forme
           then
           in
           a
           Parliament
           ,
           therefore
           the
           peoples
           utmost
           perfection
           is
           truly
           residing
           in
           the
           Parliament
           .
           Let
           not
           then
           any
           private
           man
           ,
           Let
           not
           the
           King
           himselfe
           undertake
           to
           define
           how
           far
           Regall
           power
           shall
           extend
           in
           iudiciall
           or
           Military
           affaires
           (
           as
           such
           a
           perticular
           position
           of
           things
           may
           happen
           ,
           and
           according
           to
           all
           emergences
           )
           better
           then
           the
           representative
           body
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           which
           in
           no
           respect
           ought
           to
           be
           held
           any
           other
           thing
           then
           the
           
           whole
           Kingdome
           it self
           :
           much
           lesse
           let
           it
           be
           held
           against
           Law
           ,
           or
           disparagable
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           to
           hearken
           to
           his
           Parliament
           ,
           in
           the
           choice
           of
           State
           Officers
           ,
           when
           so
           great
           a
           flux
           of
           Protestant
           English
           bloud
           is
           to
           be
           stanched
           thereby
           .
           If
           the
           King
           would
           exempt
           us
           from
           fear
           ,
           and
           therefore
           swears
           that
           he
           may
           exempt
           us
           ,
           and
           yet
           will
           neither
           suffer
           us
           to
           chuse
           Confidents
           for
           him
           ,
           nor
           swear
           for
           such
           as
           he
           himself
           shall
           chuse
           ,
           when
           our
           fears
           are
           chiefly
           grounded
           upon
           them
           ,
           either
           his
           intentions
           will
           seeme
           fraudulent
           ,
           or
           his
           oathes
           nugatory
           ;
           besides
           our
           fears
           now
           cause
           us
           to
           look
           upon
           our
           Enemies
           not
           meerely
           as
           men
           that
           have
           a
           power
           in
           the
           Kings
           ▪
           affections
           ,
           but
           as
           men
           that
           are
           likely
           to
           have
           a
           power
           over
           the
           Kings
           Armes
           ,
           and
           when
           the
           King
           perhaps
           may
           want
           protection
           for
           himself
           (
           if
           some
           timely
           prevention
           be
           not
           used
           ,
           )
           how
           will
           he
           be
           able
           to
           protect
           us
           ?
           T'
           is
           possible
           for
           an
           Army
           composed
           of
           
             Papists
             ,
          
           strangers
           and
           those
           of
           the
           mercenary
           trade
           of
           war
           ,
           not
           onely
           to
           awe
           us
           ,
           but
           such
           also
           as
           first
           raysed
           them
           against
           us
           .
           Absolute
           Empire
           ends
           not
           (
           as
           is
           expected
           )
           in
           the
           freedome
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           servitude
           of
           him
           ,
           which
           sores
           to
           the
           highest
           pich
           of
           it
           .
           If
           the
           Pretorian
           Legions
           set
           
             Caesars
          
           foot
           
           upon
           the
           Senates
           neck
           ,
           they
           will
           so
           far
           set
           their
           owne
           feet
           upon
           
             Caesars
          
           neck
           ,
           as
           to
           sell
           the
           
             Empire
          
           when
           they
           please
           ,
           and
           to
           whom
           they
           please
           ;
           A
           hundred
           Nations
           remaine
           in
           bondage
           to
           one
           Grand
           signior
           by
           meanes
           of
           the
           
             Janizaries
             ,
          
           and
           yet
           those
           
             Janizaries
          
           retaine
           to
           themselves
           a
           Supream
           controll
           over
           the
           Grand
           signior
           himself
           .
           The
           
             French
          
           King
           inioyes
           an
           arbitrary
           Prerogative
           more
           intirely
           ,
           and
           more
           cheape
           then
           any
           
             Prince
          
           that
           I
           have
           read
           of
           ,
           because
           he
           neither
           relyes
           meerely
           upon
           an
           Army
           ,
           nor
           meerely
           upon
           the
           Noblesse
           of
           that
           State
           whereby
           to
           oppresse
           the
           Pesantry
           ,
           but
           very
           subtilly
           he
           so
           makes
           use
           of
           both
           ,
           as
           that
           he
           is
           totally
           ingaged
           to
           neither
           .
           But
           that
           Crowne
           has
           not
           of
           late
           suffered
           any
           violent
           shock
           ,
           or
           concussion
           ,
           if
           ever
           it
           does
           ,
           that
           frame
           of
           Government
           will
           soone
           be
           shattered
           ,
           and
           the
           great
           body
           of
           the
           Community
           will
           gaine
           a
           party
           either
           amongst
           the
           Noblesse
           or
           the
           Souldiary
           .
           When
           
             Marquesse
             Hartford
          
           first
           strained
           himself
           ,
           to
           bring
           in
           Forces
           for
           
             Prince
             Rupert
          
           he
           did
           not
           perhaps
           intend
           to
           make
           
             Prince
             Rupert
          
           so
           imperious
           over
           himself
           ,
           &
           over
           all
           our
           
             English
          
           Nobility
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           now
           growne
           .
           Neither
           did
           Sir
           
             Ralph
          
           
           
             Hopton
          
           thinke
           by
           all
           his
           meritorious
           services
           to
           gaine
           such
           a
           Rivall
           to
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           to
           all
           the
           Gentry
           of
           
             England
             ,
          
           as
           Captaine
           
             Leg.
             
          
           But
           now
           I
           feare
           they
           are
           subject
           to
           more
           unlimitable
           Lords
           in
           the
           Campe
           ,
           then
           ever
           they
           stomached
           in
           the
           Parliament
           .
           I
           pray
           God
           the
           King
           himselfe
           do
           not
           finde
           the
           like
           .
           His
           Majestie
           needs
           no
           forraine
           discovery
           by
           Sir
           
             William
             Boswells
          
           Letters
           ,
           to
           advertise
           him
           of
           dangers
           ,
           and
           conspiracies
           against
           his
           sacred
           Person
           ,
           the
           designes
           of
           the
           Jesuites
           (
           if
           they
           prosper
           ,
           as
           by
           favour
           at
           Court
           they
           are
           likely
           )
           can
           never
           end
           but
           in
           the
           ruine
           of
           himselfe
           ,
           or
           of
           the
           Religion
           which
           he
           professes
           ,
           there
           need
           to
           be
           no
           strange
           Intelligencer
           to
           informe
           his
           Majestie
           of
           this
           .
           We
           may
           then
           knit
           up
           this
           point
           in
           a
           more
           short
           discourse
           :
           Somtimes
           Princes
           are
           voluntarily
           in
           bondage
           to
           their
           owne
           Creatures
           ,
           as
           
             Themistocles
          
           was
           ,
           who
           whilest
           he
           over-ruled
           all
           
             Athens
             ,
          
           and
           
             Athens
          
           over-ruled
           all
           
             Greece
             ,
          
           yet
           he
           was
           himselfe
           over-ruled
           by
           his
           wife
           ,
           and
           his
           wife
           was
           over-ruled
           by
           her
           son
           :
           but
           this
           kinde
           of
           bondage
           is
           commonly
           more
           Comicall
           .
           At
           other
           times
           ,
           Princes
           stand
           ingaged
           to
           the
           factions
           and
           forces
           by
           which
           their
           Dominions
           were
           atchieved
           ,
           and
           must
           be
           supported
           ,
           and
           this
           kinde
           of
           engagement
           uses
           to
           be
           often
           very
           Tragicall
           ;
           as
           the
           old
           Stories
           of
           the
           Romane
           Emperours
           ,
           and
           the
           moderne
           Stories
           of
           the
           Turkish
           Sultans
           ,
           and
           of
           sundry
           other
           insolent
           usurpers
           in
           other
           nations
           do
           sufficiently
           testifie
           .
           It
           behooves
           Princes
           therefore
           ,
           as
           well
           for
           their
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           their
           owne
           sakes
           ,
           to
           avoid
           either
           of
           these
           servile
           Conditions
           :
           let
           them
           not
           impose
           too
           heavie
           a
           yoke
           upon
           their
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           they
           shall
           neither
           have
           cause
           ,
           nor
           disposition
           to
           receive
           any
           other
           yoke
           upon
           themselves
           .
           But
           though
           these
           additionall
           causes
           are
           free
           from
           exception
           in
           themselves
           ,
           yet
           as
           the
           case
           now
           stands
           ,
           and
           as
           the
           Kings
           successe
           of
           late
           hath
           been
           ,
           some
           men
           may
           cavill
           perhaps
           ,
           and
           oppose
           the
           taking
           of
           this
           Oath
           at
           this
           time
           .
           I
           shall
           reply
           little
           herein
           ▪
           for
           it
           appears
           ,
           as
           I
           conceive
           ,
           that
           this
           Oath
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           now
           formed
           ,
           does
           but
           open
           and
           explain
           the
           same
           intention
           
           which
           the
           King
           had
           ,
           or
           ought
           to
           have
           had
           in
           the
           other
           :
           and
           therefore
           without
           great
           imputation
           ,
           and
           suspicion
           this
           forme
           cannot
           be
           refused
           .
           I
           shall
           onely
           supplicate
           his
           Majestie
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           please
           yet
           more
           solicitously
           ,
           and
           intentively
           ,
           to
           review
           and
           research
           the
           true
           state
           of
           this
           transcendent
           Case
           ,
           and
           to
           come
           to
           a
           more
           equall
           impartiall
           debate
           about
           it
           ,
           as
           well
           with
           other
           men
           ,
           as
           with
           his
           own
           conscience
           :
           Let
           it
           be
           his
           Majesties
           care
           to
           hear
           whatsoever
           can
           be
           inforced
           by
           reason
           from
           any
           person
           whatsoever
           ,
           let
           him
           put
           the
           Case
           all
           maner
           of
           ways
           ,
           &
           take
           a
           just
           consideration
           ,
           in
           what
           condition
           he
           remains
           ,
           if
           his
           Cause
           be
           just
           ,
           or
           if
           it
           be
           unjust
           ,
           or
           if
           it
           be
           dubious
           ,
           or
           partly
           just
           ,
           and
           partly
           unjust
           ;
           if
           he
           does
           not
           cast
           thus
           about
           in
           spight
           of
           all
           prejudice
           ,
           and
           take
           in
           all
           suppositions
           from
           all
           sides
           ,
           as
           the
           fatality
           of
           this
           controversie
           now
           stands
           ,
           no
           excuse
           will
           be
           large
           enough
           to
           cover
           him
           from
           the
           condemnation
           of
           God
           or
           man
           .
           We
           will
           first
           suppose
           his
           Majesties
           Cause
           to
           be
           just
           ▪
           that
           he
           has
           onely
           the
           defensive
           part
           ,
           and
           is
           necessitated
           to
           fight
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Parliament
           as
           yet
           hath
           offered
           no
           terms
           of
           Accommodation
           to
           him
           ,
           but
           such
           as
           are
           more
           unjust
           ,
           then
           all
           the
           plagues
           of
           this
           calamitous
           war
           .
           This
           ,
           so
           being
           supposed
           ,
           makes
           him
           innocent
           ,
           but
           yet
           most
           unfortunate
           ,
           it
           makes
           him
           the
           first
           man
           that
           ever
           Fortune
           pickt
           out
           to
           ingage
           in
           such
           a
           wretched
           destruction
           of
           men
           and
           treasure
           without
           blame
           .
           Amongst
           all
           his
           Ancestors
           there
           will
           not
           appear
           ,
           upon
           search
           ,
           one
           of
           them
           who
           was
           just
           ,
           and
           maintained
           a
           just
           cause
           ▪
           and
           yet
           met
           with
           such
           generall
           opposition
           from
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           much
           lesse
           from
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           assembled
           in
           Parliament
           :
           How
           triviall
           soever
           the
           Kings
           side
           account
           this
           ,
           there
           was
           not
           ever
           a
           worse
           prodigie
           in
           the
           world
           to
           amaze
           any
           State
           ,
           then
           this
           is
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           true
           that
           the
           orderly
           presentative
           Body
           of
           this
           Nation
           ,
           has
           ,
           causlesly
           ,
           and
           unnaturally
           ,
           risen
           up
           against
           their
           righteous
           king
           to
           pursue
           him
           so
           far
           ,
           as
           ours
           now
           is
           .
           It
           is
           not
           to
           be
           denied
           ,
           but
           that
           some
           Parliaments
           have
           done
           some
           unjust
           things
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           been
           wrought
           upon
           by
           the
           force
           or
           fraud
           of
           Princes
           ;
           but
           no
           example
           can
           be
           shewed
           ,
           that
           ever
           any
           
           Parliament
           did
           such
           an
           unjust
           thing
           as
           this
           ,
           contrary
           to
           all
           motives
           and
           influences
           of
           a
           gracious
           and
           religious
           Prince
           .
           Some
           of
           the
           kings
           party
           have
           argued
           thus
           ▪
           if
           Parliaments
           may
           erre
           when
           they
           are
           perfect
           ,
           having
           the
           concurrence
           of
           the
           Royall
           State
           with
           them
           ,
           much
           more
           may
           they
           erre
           when
           the
           Royall
           State
           recedes
           from
           them
           ,
           &c.
           
           But
           this
           I
           hold
           a
           grand
           mistake
           ,
           for
           if
           I
           have
           any
           reason
           to
           make
           a
           right
           use
           of
           Story
           ,
           Parliaments
           are
           represented
           to
           me
           never
           lesse
           liable
           to
           error
           ,
           then
           when
           they
           receive
           least
           impressions
           from
           the
           king
           .
           With
           what
           regret
           then
           ought
           the
           king
           to
           look
           upon
           this
           unprecedented
           dysaster
           ?
           Certainly
           ,
           if
           he
           look
           upon
           us
           with
           a
           naturall
           eye
           ,
           under
           such
           unparalleled
           sufferings
           ,
           or
           upon
           himselfe
           with
           a
           pious
           eye
           ,
           under
           such
           an
           unequalled
           affliction
           ,
           it
           cannot
           but
           administer
           thoughts
           of
           horrour
           to
           him
           .
           
             Bonus
             Pastor
             ponit
             vitam
             pro
             ovibus
             ,
          
           so
           said
           that
           Prince
           of
           Peace
           ,
           in
           whom
           onely
           there
           was
           no
           sin
           ,
           and
           in
           whose
           flock
           ,
           joyntly
           ,
           and
           severally
           taken
           ,
           there
           was
           nothing
           else
           but
           ●in
           ,
           and
           yet
           his
           death
           sealed
           as
           much
           as
           his
           mouth
           affirmed
           .
           
             Moses
          
           seemed
           to
           preferre
           the
           well-fare
           of
           the
           obstinate
           Jews
           ,
           not
           onely
           before
           all
           his
           temporall
           interests
           ,
           but
           also
           before
           his
           eternall
           diadem
           in
           heaven
           ;
           and
           Saint
           
             Paul
          
           seemed
           to
           be
           rapt
           up
           with
           a
           species
           of
           the
           same
           zeale
           .
           The
           passions
           of
           some
           heathen
           and
           hereticall
           Princes
           towards
           their
           liege
           Subjects
           ,
           have
           been
           almost
           above
           the
           pitch
           of
           humanity
           :
           with
           what
           a
           strange
           kinde
           of
           hypochondriacall
           frenzie
           did
           
             Augustus
             Caesar
          
           cry
           out
           ,
           
             Redde
             mihi
             Legiones
             Vare
             ?
          
           If
           the
           bloud
           of
           his
           Subjects
           had
           been
           drawn
           forcibly
           out
           of
           his
           own
           dearest
           veins
           ,
           it
           could
           not
           have
           parted
           from
           him
           with
           a
           stronger
           resentment
           .
           How
           did
           our
           Queen
           
             Mary
             ▪
          
           even
           to
           the
           death
           ,
           deplore
           the
           losse
           of
           one
           Town
           in
           
             Picardie
             ?
          
           With
           what
           strange
           instruments
           did
           griefe
           make
           incision
           in
           her
           heart
           ,
           whilest
           it
           would
           in
           grave
           the
           name
           of
           
             Callice
          
           there
           ?
           The
           losse
           of
           all
           kings
           in
           all
           wars
           uses
           to
           be
           very
           dolorous
           ,
           but
           native
           kings
           in
           civil
           wars
           ,
           when
           they
           look
           upon
           such
           vast
           desolation
           ,
           as
           is
           now
           to
           be
           seen
           in
           
             England
          
           and
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           must
           needs
           think
           that
           their
           own
           interest
           ,
           their
           own
           honour
           ,
           
           their
           own
           saftie
           is
           of
           lesse
           consequence
           .
           We
           will
           now
           suppose
           the
           kings
           Cause
           to
           be
           unjust
           ,
           that
           the
           Parliament
           has
           had
           none
           but
           loyall
           intentions
           towards
           him
           ,
           and
           his
           Royall
           Dignity
           ,
           nor
           has
           attempted
           any
           thing
           but
           to
           defend
           Religion
           against
           the
           Papists
           ,
           the
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           against
           Delinquents
           ,
           and
           the
           Priviledges
           of
           both
           Houses
           against
           Malignants
           :
           and
           on
           the
           contrary
           we
           will
           suppose
           that
           that
           private
           Councell
           which
           the
           king
           has
           followed
           rather
           then
           his
           publike
           one
           ,
           has
           aimed
           at
           the
           Arbitrary
           rule
           of
           
             France
             ,
          
           and
           to
           effect
           the
           same
           has
           countenanced
           Popery
           ,
           and
           but
           pretended
           danger
           onely
           from
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           from
           the
           City
           of
           
             London
             ,
          
           and
           from
           the
           best
           affected
           of
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           .
           
             Qui
             supponit
             ,
             non
             ponit
             :
          
           We
           will
           not
           assume
           ,
           but
           presume
           onely
           that
           the
           great
           Councell
           of
           the
           Land
           is
           in
           the
           right
           rather
           then
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           clandestine
           Councell
           ;
           but
           see
           what
           will
           follow
           upon
           this
           supposition
           ,
           if
           it
           prove
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           neither
           impossible
           ,
           nor
           improbable
           ;
           if
           this
           be
           true
           ,
           what
           a
           formidable
           day
           is
           that
           to
           be
           ,
           wherein
           the
           king
           shall
           render
           a
           strict
           account
           for
           all
           the
           English
           Protestant
           blood
           which
           ha's
           been
           issued
           out
           ,
           and
           is
           to
           be
           yet
           issued
           out
           in
           this
           wicked
           unnaturall
           quarrell
           ?
           
             Manasseh
          
           which
           filled
           Jerusalem
           with
           blood
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           kennells
           thereof
           flow
           with
           the
           precious
           blood
           of
           Saints
           ,
           could
           not
           contract
           so
           black
           a
           guilt
           ,
           as
           he
           that
           imbrues
           two
           large
           kingdomes
           with
           blood
           ,
           and
           that
           with
           the
           blood
           of
           the
           best
           reformed
           Professors
           of
           our
           Saviours
           Gospell
           .
           That
           blood
           of
           Protestants
           which
           has
           been
           shed
           by
           Papists
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           Parisian
           massacre
           ;
           that
           blood
           of
           Christians
           which
           has
           been
           shed
           by
           Infidells
           ,
           as
           in
           Turkie
           ;
           that
           blood
           of
           Saints
           which
           ha's
           been
           shed
           by
           Hereticks
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           Arian
           Emperors
           dayes
           ;
           that
           blood
           of
           strangers
           which
           ha's
           been
           shed
           by
           Conquering
           Usurpers
           ,
           as
           in
           
             Peru
          
           of
           late
           ,
           may
           admit
           of
           some
           colour
           ,
           or
           excuse
           as
           to
           some
           degree
           of
           hainousnesse
           ,
           and
           may
           plead
           for
           some
           kinde
           of
           expiation
           ,
           but
           this
           is
           beyond
           all
           thought
           or
           expression
           :
           The
           goodly
           kingdom
           of
           
             Ireland
          
           is
           almost
           converted
           into
           a
           
             Golgotha
             ,
          
           and
           the
           more
           goodly
           kingdom
           of
           
             England
          
           
           is
           hasting
           to
           a
           worse
           point
           of
           desolation
           :
           It
           must
           needs
           be
           therefore
           ,
           that
           he
           to
           whose
           cruelty
           and
           injustice
           so
           much
           confusion
           shal
           be
           imputed
           ,
           must
           be
           perpetually
           abominated
           as
           a
           plague
           of
           humane
           kinde
           more
           monstrous
           ,
           and
           portentuous
           then
           any
           age
           formerly
           had
           the
           strength
           to
           produce
           .
           The
           ripping
           up
           of
           a
           mothers
           womb
           ,
           the
           firing
           of
           such
           a
           Metropolis
           as
           
             Rome
          
           was
           ,
           were
           but
           straines
           of
           vulgar
           ,
           narrow-hearted
           cruelty
           ;
           Antichrist
           himself
           may
           own
           the
           depopulation
           ,
           and
           vastation
           of
           our
           Brittish
           Ilands
           ,
           as
           acts
           worthy
           of
           his
           dying
           fury
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           remaines
           now
           in
           the
           last
           place
           that
           we
           suppose
           some
           doubt
           to
           be
           in
           the
           case
           ,
           or
           some
           mixture
           of
           injustice
           in
           some
           circumstances
           :
           as
           that
           ,
           though
           the
           King
           incline
           not
           at
           all
           to
           Popery
           himselfe
           ,
           yet
           he
           has
           favoured
           ▪
           and
           enabled
           Papists
           too
           farre
           to
           do
           mischiefe
           ;
           and
           though
           he
           cannot
           with
           safety
           cast
           himselfe
           wholly
           upon
           the
           fidelity
           of
           the
           Parliament
           :
           yet
           he
           has
           no
           cause
           utterly
           to
           reject
           their
           consent
           ,
           and
           approbation
           in
           the
           filling
           up
           of
           all
           places
           of
           publike
           power
           and
           trust
           as
           the
           emergent
           necessity
           of
           the
           times
           now
           is
           ,
           nor
           to
           persist
           in
           this
           all-consuming
           war
           ,
           rather
           then
           to
           condescend
           to
           an
           Accommodation
           of
           that
           nature
           ;
           if
           we
           lay
           down
           but
           this
           for
           supposed
           ,
           we
           must
           needs
           conclude
           that
           the
           King
           ha's
           not
           punctually
           and
           duly
           discharged
           his
           Office
           ,
           so
           as
           that
           he
           can
           clearly
           acquit
           ,
           and
           absolve
           himselfe
           before
           God
           of
           this
           lamentable
           effusion
           of
           Christian
           blood
           :
           For
           there
           must
           not
           onely
           be
           a
           perspicuous
           justice
           in
           the
           Cause
           ,
           but
           an
           absolute
           necessity
           of
           the
           war
           ,
           when
           kings
           take
           up
           the
           sword
           against
           such
           a
           considerable
           number
           of
           their
           Subjects
           as
           our
           King
           now
           fights
           against
           .
           Though
           the
           cause
           may
           be
           just
           ,
           yet
           the
           war
           is
           not
           lawfull
           where
           the
           miserable
           consequences
           of
           it
           do
           too
           far
           out-ballance
           the
           iniquity
           of
           the
           conditions
           offered
           ,
           and
           proposed
           by
           the
           assailed
           partie
           ;
           wherefore
           if
           the
           meere
           and
           cleere
           justice
           of
           a
           cause
           cannot
           alwayes
           wipe
           off
           guilt
           ,
           how
           shall
           he
           be
           purged
           from
           offence
           ,
           whose
           cause
           is
           not
           totally
           just
           ,
           nor
           undeniably
           evident
           in
           a
           war
           of
           this
           nature
           ?
           If
           the
           King
           does
           
           not
           apparently
           fight
           for
           Antichrist
           ,
           yet
           t
           is
           most
           apparent
           that
           Antichrist
           does
           fight
           for
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           whole
           Hierarchy
           ha's
           declared
           their
           ingagement
           by
           publishing
           Bulls
           ,
           &
           by
           sending
           supplies
           into
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           &
           
             England
          
           out
           of
           severall
           Popish
           Countries
           :
           On
           the
           other
           side
           if
           the
           Earl
           of
           
             Essex
          
           does
           not
           apparently
           fight
           for
           Christ
           ,
           yet
           it
           seems
           very
           probable
           that
           Christ
           fights
           for
           him
           ,
           for
           our
           great
           Armies
           within
           the
           circle
           of
           this
           last
           year
           have
           four
           times
           met
           ,
           and
           stil
           the
           Kings
           side
           hath
           gone
           off
           with
           losse
           and
           disadvantage
           .
           
             Redding
          
           being
           begirt
           with
           his
           Excellencies
           forces
           ,
           all
           his
           Majesties
           power
           could
           not
           relieve
           it
           ,
           yet
           
             Glocester
          
           being
           begirt
           by
           his
           Majesties
           forces
           ,
           his
           Excellency
           found
           meanes
           to
           relieve
           it
           .
           And
           as
           for
           
             Edge-hill
          
           and
           
             Newbery
             ,
          
           though
           neither
           side
           was
           totally
           routed
           ,
           yet
           the
           mastery
           of
           the
           field
           was
           left
           to
           his
           Excellency
           ,
           and
           had
           not
           fraud
           done
           better
           service
           to
           the
           King
           then
           force
           ,
           scarce
           any
           other
           encounters
           in
           other
           parts
           had
           been
           prosperous
           to
           his
           Popish
           Armies
           .
           These
           things
           seem
           to
           make
           the
           kings
           Cause
           at
           least
           dubious
           ,
           for
           it
           were
           strange
           if
           in
           these
           latter
           dayes
           Christ
           and
           Antichrist
           should
           be
           so
           far
           reconciled
           in
           any
           one
           cause
           as
           to
           unite
           their
           battailes
           in
           the
           same
           expedition
           ,
           or
           to
           pitch
           their
           tents
           in
           the
           same
           field
           ;
           and
           grant
           any
           doubt
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           and
           the
           king
           can
           never
           be
           capable
           of
           justification
           in
           prosecuting
           it
           so
           far
           with
           fire
           and
           sword
           ;
           for
           the
           king
           has
           already
           sworne
           to
           uphold
           and
           preserve
           in
           their
           intire
           vigor
           the
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           and
           the
           Priviledges
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           we
           cannot
           deny
           but
           even
           this
           doubt
           might
           be
           decided
           by
           the
           Lawes
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           or
           by
           some
           other
           Judicatory
           out
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           if
           the
           king
           would
           referre
           it
           to
           such
           a
           decision
           ;
           if
           the
           king
           will
           admit
           of
           no
           Judicatory
           to
           determine
           this
           matter
           ,
           what
           are
           all
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           Priviledges
           worth
           ?
           If
           he
           will
           admit
           of
           one
           ,
           but
           doubts
           what
           it
           is
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           be
           resolved
           by
           his
           Parliament
           in
           that
           doubt
           ,
           what
           will
           all
           his
           oathes
           profit
           us
           ,
           what
           will
           all
           his
           deep
           professions
           of
           favour
           to
           our
           Laws
           and
           Priviledges
           stand
           us
           in
           stead
           ?
           All
           those
           suppositions
           severally
           or
           joyntly
           make
           it
           manifest
           ,
           that
           this
           war
           ,
           if
           it
           can
           be
           ended
           by
           a
           just
           oath
           on
           
           the
           kings
           side
           ,
           not
           at
           all
           departing
           from
           the
           sense
           ,
           and
           intent
           of
           his
           former
           Oaths
           ,
           or
           from
           the
           nature
           of
           his
           kingly
           office
           ,
           will
           charge
           all
           these
           inexpiable
           mischiefes
           upon
           him
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           refused
           :
           Nay
           ,
           when
           the
           king
           is
           not
           certaine
           of
           Victory
           ,
           and
           yet
           hath
           by
           so
           many
           dreadfull
           oathes
           debarred
           himself
           from
           all
           advantages
           by
           victory
           ,
           if
           this
           devouring
           war
           (
           wherein
           so
           much
           losse
           is
           ,
           and
           no
           gaine
           at
           all
           to
           countervaile
           it
           )
           be
           still
           protracted
           ,
           and
           preferred
           before
           a
           composition
           of
           this
           nature
           ,
           future
           ages
           must
           needs
           suspect
           ,
           that
           love
           of
           ruine
           ,
           and
           distraction
           ,
           and
           a
           perfect
           hatred
           to
           the
           very
           nature
           ,
           and
           being
           of
           man
           was
           the
           execrable
           cause
           of
           it
           :
           To
           recommend
           this
           Methode
           of
           Pacification
           to
           the
           king
           ,
           I
           shall
           say
           no
           more
           ,
           and
           to
           recommend
           it
           now
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           very
           little
           will
           be
           fit
           to
           be
           said
           ,
           in
           regard
           that
           kings
           are
           more
           devoyd
           of
           Counsaile
           ,
           then
           Parliaments
           ;
           I
           shall
           thus
           onely
           contract
           my selfe
           .
        
         
           If
           we
           have
           respect
           to
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           an
           appeale
           to
           him
           by
           Oath
           ,
           is
           not
           lesse
           beseeming
           Christianity
           then
           an
           appeale
           by
           sword
           ;
           for
           ought
           I
           can
           understand
           ,
           this
           is
           rather
           a
           way
           of
           ingaging
           divine
           Justice
           ,
           then
           of
           disingaging
           it
           ,
           if
           we
           may
           be
           permitted
           to
           use
           such
           a
           word
           .
           If
           we
           have
           respect
           to
           the
           king
           ,
           no
           course
           can
           better
           save
           his
           honour
           or
           oblige
           his
           justice
           then
           this
           .
        
         
           If
           we
           have
           respect
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           no
           other
           argument
           can
           more
           clearly
           vindicate
           their
           innocency
           and
           loyalty
           then
           this
           .
        
         
           If
           we
           have
           respect
           to
           Precedents
           ,
           this
           is
           a
           transaction
           of
           State
           exceeding
           ancient
           .
        
         
           If
           we
           have
           respect
           to
           the
           present
           occasion
           ,
           our
           affaires
           are
           now
           in
           a
           condition
           so
           good
           ,
           that
           fear
           cannot
           be
           upbraided
           to
           us
           ,
           and
           the
           Summer
           is
           so
           far
           spent
           ,
           and
           our
           successe
           hath
           hitherto
           been
           so
           equilibrious
           ,
           that
           we
           have
           no
           reason
           to
           presume
           .
        
         
           If
           we
           have
           respect
           to
           the
           future
           ,
           as
           the
           Armies
           may
           disband
           without
           turmoile
           ,
           so
           we
           may
           all
           meet
           and
           incorporate
           again
           by
           this
           meanes
           upon
           more
           equall
           and
           friendly
           termes
           
           then
           by
           any
           other
           .
           The
           old
           word
           of
           Command
           (
           
             As
             you
             were
          
           )
           will
           reduce
           us
           to
           that
           Posture
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           beginning
           of
           this
           Parliament
           found
           us
           ;
           and
           then
           if
           the
           King
           observe
           this
           oath
           ,
           he
           will
           incline
           to
           favour
           a
           due
           reformation
           ,
           and
           consequently
           decline
           those
           rocks
           upon
           which
           he
           ha's
           of
           late
           unpolitickly
           both
           cast
           himself
           ,
           and
           the
           State
           ;
           if
           he
           observe
           it
           not
           ,
           no
           new
           advantage
           will
           accrue
           to
           him
           by
           this
           disbanding
           of
           both
           Armies
           ,
           but
           perhaps
           disadvantages
           ,
           rather
           ;
           and
           certainly
           he
           will
           neither
           ingratiate
           himselfe
           with
           God
           nor
           man
           by
           temerating
           such
           a
           Sacred
           Paction
           .
        
         
           The
           cause
           of
           all
           our
           miseries
           is
           meer
           obstruction
           of
           justice
           ,
           and
           such
           obstruction
           as
           nothing
           could
           worke
           but
           the
           utmost
           power
           of
           a
           king
           :
           Now
           for
           the
           opening
           of
           obstructions
           ,
           this
           oath
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           kept
           unviolated
           ,
           is
           as
           effectuall
           as
           any
           other
           expedient
           whatsoever
           ;
           and
           we
           may
           hope
           that
           it
           will
           be
           kept
           .
        
         
           But
           soft
           ,
           I
           crave
           pardon
           for
           saying
           so
           much
           ,
           or
           insisting
           upon
           any
           inducements
           at
           all
           ,
           for
           I
           know
           both
           Scots
           and
           English
           are
           now
           interessed
           herein
           ,
           and
           I
           represent
           these
           things
           to
           the
           supreame
           wisdom
           of
           two
           the
           most
           religious
           Kingdomes
           in
           the
           world
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .