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<P>A Looking Gla&s;se FOR THE OXFORD JVNCTO, And all others that have advi&s;ed to, or are promoters and fomenters of our pre|&s;ent, unnaturall, bloody, and de&s;tructive di&s;&s;entions.</P>
<P>Being a mo&s;t &s;erious and &s;ea&s;onable Exhortation both to the KING and Subjects, yet at la&s;t to imbrace and pre&s;erve Peace, and abandon Civill Wars, after &s;o much wofull experi|ence of the mi&s;erable effects thereof: With other matters worthie of Con&s;ideration.</P>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PROV. 12.20.</HI></BIBL>
<P>To the Councellours of Peace is Joy.</P>
<BIBL><HI>MAT. 6.9.</HI></BIBL>
<P>Ble&s;&s;ed are the Peace-makers, for they &s;hall be called the Chil|dren of God.</P></Q>
<P>LONDON; Printed by <HI>E. P.</HI> for <HI>Thomas Vere,</HI> and are to be &s;old at his Shop at the upper end of the Old-Bayley. <HI>Novemb.</HI> 3. 1645.</P>
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<HEAD>A Looking Gla&s;&s;e for the OXFORD JUNCTO.</HEAD>
<P>_THe pre&s;ent deplorable condition of our bleeding and almo&s;t expiring Kingdome, contriving its owne unevitable Ruine, by a Cruell, De&s;tructive, unnaturall Civill Warre, intended (as the Par|liament informes us) by the King (&s;educed by wicked and pernitious Councellours) again&s;t the Parliament and Kingdome: (Of the truth whereof, wee have now the&s;e three yeares pa&s;t, had to too wofull experience) hath in a manner con&s;trained me, (after much griefe of heart, to &s;ee three poore Kingdomes wallowing in their owne blood) to attempt the &s;peedie redre&s;&s;e of this tran&s;cendent Calamity, by propounding, (to avoid long circum&s;tances) this one mo&s;t &s;erious and &s;ea&s;onable Propo&s;ition, both to the King and Kingdome, namely;</P>
<P><HI>That it is the bounden dutie of every good Chri&s;tian, King, and Subject, to the uttermo&s;t of their powers, to pre&s;erve and main|taine the Peace and pro&s;peritie of the Kingdomes wherein they live, and to prevent all Civill Warres and Di&s;sentions in them.</HI></P>
<P>The truth of this mo&s;t Pious, Profitable, and Excellent Con&s;ideration, appeares plainly:</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, By the&s;e generall Precepts given by God, both to King and people: <HI>Seeke Peace and pur&s;ue it,</HI> P&s;al. 34.14.
<PB N="2" REF="3"> 1 Pet. 3.11. <HI>Follow Peace with all men.</HI> Heb. 12.14. <HI>As much as in you lyeth, live peaceably with all men.</HI> Rom. 12.18. <HI>Live in Peace, be at Peace among your &s;elves.</HI> 2 Cor. 13.11. <HI>Have Peace one with another,</HI> Mar. 9.50.</P>
<P>Secondly, More particularly by 1 <HI>Tim.</HI> 1.2. <HI>I exhort therefore, that first of all, Prayers, Interce&s;&s;ions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men, for Kings, and for all that are in Au|thoritie, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godli|ne&s;&s;e and hone&s;tie:</HI> Compared with <HI>Ier.</HI> 29.7. <HI>And &s;eeke the Peace of the Citie, whether I have cau&s;ed you to be carried away Captives, and pray unto the Lord for it, for in the Peace thereof, &s;hall ye have Peace.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, By that Injunction of King <HI>David</HI> him&s;elfe, gi|ven to all his people by Divine command, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 122, 6, 7, 8. <HI>Pray for the Peace of Ieru&s;alem, they &s;hall pro&s;per that love thee: Peace be within thy walls, and pro&s;peritie within thy pallaces. For my Brethren and Companions &s;ake, I will now &s;ay, Peace be within thee.</HI></P>
<P>Fourthly, By that &s;peech of good <HI>Hezechia,</HI> I&s;ay 39.8. <HI>Good is the word of the Lord which thou ha&s;t &s;poken, for there &s;hall be Peace and Truth in my dayes.</HI></P>
<P>Fifthly, By the Titles given to God and Chri&s;t in Scrip|ture, where God is oft &s;tiled <HI>the God of Peace,</HI> Rom. 15.33. <HI>And Chri&s;t the prince and King of Peace,</HI> I&s;ay 9.6. Read but that excellent exhortation of the Apo&s;tle to the <HI>Corinthians;</HI> Fi|nally my Brethren (&s;aith he) making this the conclu&s;ion of all other his fore-going precepts; <HI>Be ye perfect, be of good com|fort, be of one mind: Live in Peace, and the God of Love and Peace &s;hall be with you,</HI> 2 Cor. 13.11. Adde hereunto the &s;eve<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">all pro|mi&s;es of God in Scripture, <HI>To give his people Peace in their Land, to ble&s;se his people with Peace, to ordaine Peace for them, to keepe them in perfect Peace, &amp;c.</HI> Levit. 26.6. P&s;al. 29.11. I&s;ay. 26.3. Ezek. 34.25. This was our Saviour Chri&s;ts owne Legacy, <HI>Who bequeathed his Peace unto his people,</HI> Jo. 14.27. Now if God be a God of Peace, and Chri&s;t the Prince and King of
<PB N="3" REF="3"> Peace, and both of them give and promi&s;e nothing but Peace unto their people, then Kings, who are Gods Vice ge|rents, and ought to imitate his example, mu&s;t endeavour to be Kings of Peace, and &s;tudy to the uttermo&s;t to pre&s;erve their Kingdomes, and Subjects in perfect peace and pro&s;pe|rity, and not to make war again&s;t them, but feede, guide, and &s;eeke their welfare in the integrety of their hearts.</P>
<P>And if it be thus, how then will tho&s;e de&s;perate Malignant &s;pirits be branded with &s;hame and infamy unto all po&s;terity, who fir&s;t councelled and &s;till advice His Maje&s;ty to main|taine a cau&s;ele&s;&s;e civill Warre again&s;t his Parliament and people? Surely he that &s;peaks be&s;t of them, can record them for no better then mo&s;t unnaturall vipers, and Traytors to their Country, de&s;perate Rebels again&s;t God, and mo&s;t ex|ecrable wicked per&s;ons, for &s;o God him&s;elfe hath proclai|med them to all the World, <HI>E&s;ay,</HI> 39, 5.10. <HI>They hatch Cock|atrice egs, and weave the Spiders Web, he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is cru&s;hed breaketh out into a Viper, their workes are morkes, of iniquity, and the Act of violence is in their hands, their feet run to evill, and they ha&s;te to &s;hed innocent blood, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ir thoughts, are thoughts of iniquity, wa&s;ting and de&s;truction is in their paths, the way of peace they know not, and there is no judge|ment in their goings, they have made them crooked pathes, who&s;oever goeth therein &s;hall not know Peace&punc;</HI> and <HI>Rom.</HI> 3.13.19. <HI>Their throat is an open Sepulcher, with their tongues they have u&s;ed deceit, the poy&s;on of A&s;pes is under their Lips, their Mouth is full of Cur&s;ing and Bitterne&s;se, their feet are &s;wift to &s;hed blood, De&s;tructi|on and Mi&s;ery are in their wayes, awd the way of Peace they have not knowne, there is no feare of God before their Eyes.</HI> Oh mi&s;e|rable vnhappy Princes, who are advi&s;ed and &s;educed by &s;uch pernitious Councellours! O ra&s;h incon&s;iderate wretched people, who are be&s;otted by them, &s;o farre as to take up Armes again&s;t their Native Countrey to become their owne, their Brethrens, the Parliaments, and Kingdoms
<PB N="4" REF="4"> Executioners, and thereby mo&s;t Horrid and Dete&s;table Traytors.</P>
<P>Doe but con&s;ider how quickly this Bloody Tyrant War hath put a period to all our former Ioyes and Happine&s;&s;e, Man, created after Gods owne Image, de&s;troying the Image of his Creator; Chri&s;tian, mo&s;t unchri&s;tianly &s;laughtering his Brother in Chri&s;t; nay, Prote&s;tants linckt by a neerer tye of Religion, oftentimes Ma&s;&s;acring tho&s;e of their owne Religion, the Father mo&s;t unnaturally ripping up the bow|els of his &s;on, and the Son of the Father, a Brother beating out his Brothers braines, Kin&s;man again&s;t Kin&s;man, Friend again&s;t Friend, mo&s;t Barbarou&s;ly and Unhumanely butche|ring one another, here a Bullet, there a Speare or Poleaxe, &s;eperating the Soule and Body in the very act of Wrath and Malice, the devouring Cannon heaping the mangled Carca&s;&s;es of Hor&s;e and Man together. What gha&s;tly looks? What hideous &s;hrickes, and di&s;mall grones? What gri&s;ly gaping Wounds of dying men, be&s;meared with Blood, and Dirt, doe even affright and terrify the hearers and &s;pecta|tors, though their Enemies? What Out-cries, Teares, and Sighes, by new-made Widdowes for their Husbands deaths? What Mournings by aged Parents for their &s;laughtered Sonnes? Wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t Lamentation by poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Children made Fatherle&s;&s;e by War? What Pillaging, Plundrings, Rapines, Murders, Ma&s;&s;acres, by the Cruell, Barbarous and Bloody Souldier? No liberty left us of Ploughing, Sowing, Trafficking, or Trading one with another.</P>
<P>That which the Indu&s;trious, and painfull Trade&s;man or Husbandman, hath with much labour and paines gathered together, to be the Staffe and Comfort of their Age, and a Portion and Provi&s;ion for their Children, in an in&s;tant be|comes the Prey and Spoyle of a few Mercile&s;&s;e men; And all the&s;e Mi&s;eries u&s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lly &s;econded by Pe&s;tilence and Famine: And God Almightie knowes how &s;oone it may be our
<PB N="5" REF="4"> turnes to &s;uffer by either or both of the la&s;t Judgements, unle&s;&s;e we endeavour to prevent the fir&s;t by applying all our Diligence, Indu&s;try, and Affections towatds the procuring of a &s;peedie and happy Peace; I appeale therefore to His Maje&s;tie, to every Engli&s;h mans, or other Subjects Con&s;ci|ence, and advi&s;e them all in the pre&s;ence of God (as they will an&s;wer the contrary at the great approaching day of Judgement) &s;eriou&s;ly to Con&s;ider the premi&s;es, and no longer pre&s;ume to continue in Armes again&s;t their owne deare Native Country that bred them, again&s;t the Parlia|ment, who &s;it night and day, and &s;pend both their Fortunes, Time, and Spirits, to prevent our iminent Dangers, and &s;ettle the great and glorious worke of a ble&s;&s;ed Reformati|on in this our Land and Nation, again&s;t our deare loving Brethren, Kindred, Friends and Countrymen, who never did us the le&s;t Injury, again&s;t our &s;elves, our Children, and Fa|milies, which a civill War may quickly ruine. Nor yet to Countenance, Iu&s;tifie, or &s;ide with tho&s;e unnaturall Vipers, and unrea&s;onable &s;otti&s;h Bruits, who either maliciou&s;ly, or incon&s;iderately, foment and promote &s;uch an unnaturall, im|pious, fatall, Civill War; but let us all put forth our ut|mo&s;t be&s;t endeavours, and poure out our fervent prayers to God, to prevent and cea&s;e the&s;e civill Combu&s;tions, to ayde and pre&s;erve our dear Native Country, Kingdome, Religion, the Parliament, our &s;elves, and our po&s;teritie, again&s;t the&s;e malignant Incendiaries, who &s;eeke their utter de&s;truction. Oh let no true Engli&s;hman or Chri&s;tian bee &s;o degenerous and bruti&s;h, as to doe &s;uch di&s;&s;ervice to his Countrie in a few dayes or houres, which he &s;hall with brini&s;h teares re|pent for ever. And I &s;hall likewi&s;e humbly pre&s;ume, to be|&s;eech his Maje&s;tie, upon the bended knees of my &s;oul, piou&s;ly to con&s;ider the lamentable condition of his poore di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Subjects, by rea&s;on of the&s;e di&s;tractions, &amp; de&s;tructive di&s;&s;en|tions: and that then he would be mo&s;t graciou&s;ly plea&s;ed, ac|cording
<PB N="6" REF="5"> to his Oath, his Royall dutie, and many repeated Prote|&s;tations, to pre&s;erve his people and Kingdom in a &s;weet Peace and ble&s;&s;ed Vnity, to di&s;band his pre&s;ent forces and tumul|tuous Cavaliers, di&s;car'd all bloody Councellours who ad|vi&s;ed him to this mo&s;t unnaturall, un&s;ea&s;onable, dangerous, civill War, to returne with &s;peed to <HI>London,</HI> and clo&s;e with his great and be&s;t Councell, the Parliament, for the pre&s;er|vation and pre&s;ent aid of bleeding <HI>Ireland,</HI> the &s;etling and compo&s;ing of his peoples pre&s;ent feares and de&s;tractions, the effecting of a perfect through Reformation and Union in Church and State, the redre&s;&s;e of all remaining grievances, the advancement of Truth, of the flouri&s;hing e&s;tate of his three Kingdomes, and his owne Royall Honour, Revenues, and Greatne&s;&s;e, which will eternally gaine his Maje&s;ty the fervent prayers, hearts, affections, pur&s;es, and ready &s;ervice of all his Kingdomes and Subjects, together with immortall ho|nour: whereas if he &s;hall &s;till proceed in pro&s;ecution of this de&s;perate civill war again&s;t his People, Kingdome, and Parliament, the guilt of al his Subjects innocent blood, which &s;hall be &s;hed in this unnaturall cau&s;ele&s;&s;e war, will light heavy upon his con&s;cience, be required at his hands: and in conclu|&s;ion, both Him&s;elfe, his Kingdoms, and loyall people, will be brought to the very extremity of mi&s;ery, if not to utter ru|ine, after &s;uch a long enjoyed flouri&s;hing Peace both under his owne and his predece&s;&s;ors peaceable Raignes; which mo&s;t gracious Lord God, wee humbly be&s;eech thee, by thy un&s;peakeable goodne&s;&s;e to prevent, and let there be no end of our peace with thy heavenly Maje&s;tie, with our owne con&s;ci|ences, and one with another (King with Parliament, Kingdom and People, and they with King) till Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Prince of peace, his &s;econd comming, who &s;hall give all his ever|la&s;ting peace, and bli&s;&s;e in his Cele&s;tiall Kingdome <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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