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<P>_I Know it is dangerous for any man in a point of &s;uch con&s;equence to take upon him to be a Coun|&s;ellor, much more a Teacher; he generally makes him&s;elfe but a Foole; which would &s;eem wi&s;er than the Times; a ripe Age likes not to bee di|rected, le&s;t it &s;hould be out-witted; true Prin|ciples will not be li&s;tened to again&s;t received Grounds; No per|&s;ons may &s;hew their de&s;ires, or reading, but the reward will be cen&s;ure, or ruine: Yet in a publike Danger it is hard to keep &s;i|lence, hee that bewrayeth not his affection to remedy generall Ruthes, may &s;eem to want a bre&s;t. Therefore when Church and Kingdom are in a Combu&s;tion, I will bring my dreeping bucket, though I be &s;corched in &s;eeking to quench the Flames. The cau&s;e &s;eemeth now to be a matter of Blood, for the whole Kingdome is upon the Challenge, and not only the Souldier playes his mor|tall prizes, but the Parliament is turned into a Coun&s;aile of War; Committees of Greevances are become Committees of Varian|ces, and in&s;tead of enacting of Statutes, we have executing of Martiall-Law; whil&s;t the oppre&s;&s;ions of the Common-wealth ought to be Reformed, the whole Kingdome is made an oppre&s;|&s;ion; and for Iu&s;tice again&s;t private Tyrants, we meet with a &s;pight again&s;t the King: Now Lords of Mannors torment their Tennants, or Iu&s;tices in&s;ult over the poore Countrymen, and a thou&s;and other crying injuryes are now no &s;ea&s;onable con&s;idera|tions, but al the bu&s;ie thoughts are intent about the Crown-quar|rell; as if they which ought to enjoy no Peace &s;hould re&s;t qui|et, and He which &s;hould be &s;ecure, mu&s;t onely be mole&s;ted. Oh how do all the true Malefactours triumph in villany, when He
<PB N="2" REF="2">&s;hould be free from any mortall barre, is the onely per&s;on arraig|ned I culpable per&s;ons feare not the Sword of the Iu&s;tice, when the &s;word of violence is drawn out again&s;t the King. Deere So|veraign, that your mi&s;eries mu&s;t priviledge all other mens law|le&s;&s;e demeanours, and that you mu&s;t weep to make them &s;ing! yet this is the whirle of the Times; not they, but You are hum|bled; not Vice, but Maje&s;ty is puni&s;hed; the Kingdome is combined to &s;uppre&s;&s;e, if not to de&s;troy their naturall Soveraign; Oh that your injuries could be as ea&s;ily redre&s;&s;ed, as they can be lamented, or that your &s;orrows could be as timely ended, as they are pa&s;&s;ionately felt; but it is <HI>Ae&s;culapius</HI> his finger that mu&s;t heale this Malady; for when the whole Common-wealth is turned into a Mutiny, and they which &s;hould be Your Peace|makers are turned the Patrones of the Di&s;content, it is a hard compromi&s;ing &s;uch a difference. Doubtle&s;&s;e our breach is like the Sea, and we may rather expect to &s;ee all under water, than to &s;ee the bankes repayred. Our &s;ufferings already have been incre|dible, but wee mu&s;t not think upon what we have endured, but on the extremities which are behind. We have yet &s;ome face of a Nation among&s;t us, but we may ere long &s;eek for <HI>England</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> and &s;ee our deer Kingdom le&s;t a Colony for Strangers; Oh how pretious is a Native like to be! how many will the &s;word leave to draw breath in their own ayre? We &s;hall fight, &s;o long for Priviledges, till we &s;hall &s;carce have Countrymen to enjoy them; and &s;tand &s;o eagerly for Rights of Parliament, till we have &s;carce a <HI>Senate-hou&s;e</HI> left. Have not many Nations thus un-Kingdomed them&s;elves? Hath not <HI>England</HI> formerly thus cut her own throat? If we be acquainted with Hi&s;toryes, let us take heed that we be not made a Hi&s;tory; there need not many yeeres to effect this, a &s;hort time may bring it forth. Oh&punc; that we could prevent mi&s;ery, rather than ha&s;ten it on, or chaine up the the wild Bea&s;t, before we be made a prey. Where are our Pi|lots, which were wont to direct the Ship in a &s;torme? Where are our Watchmen, which were wont to pre&s;erve the City, be|fore a City be made a heape? Can Ship-wrack, or Deva&s;tation be plea&s;ure, or honour to the Pilots, or Watchmen? Is there no|thing to calme this troubled aire? Nothing, if Fury blow like a Whirlewind, but &s;et a&s;ide Fury, and the gu&s;ts are downe, the the Tempe&s;ts gone; if Religion carry any incentive with it,
<PB N="3" REF="2">or Scripture had not lo&s;t its wonted reverence, our Di&s;tractions were growing to an end, yea we had felt the la&s;t of mi&s;ery: For can a King can be re&s;i&s;ted? What one &s;yllable of Scripture wit|ne&s;&s;es it by full, and cleare authority? No, precepts are wanting, onely pre&s;idents are in&s;i&s;ted upon, as if God would have his evident Laws overthrown with particular examples; God may di&s;pence with the whole Bible, but it is not for us to remit the vigour of one Law, without a &s;peciall toleration from Gods one mouth. It is in vaine then for to &s;helter them&s;elves under the in|&s;tances of <HI>David, Ieroboam, Iehu, &amp;c.</HI> except we can plead their warrant, a&s;well as their example; but the&s;e examples excepted, what ground or rule is there in the whole Scripture to counte|nance the re&s;i&s;tance? <HI>Calvin,</HI> that condemns the attempt of pri|vate per&s;ons in a&s;&s;aulting Superiours, what one te&s;timony of Scripture doth he bring to authorize the oppo&s;ition by the &s;tates of a Kingdom? No, we mu&s;t tru&s;t his own opinion, for not one &s;ound proofe doth he alledge out of the whole Bible to ju&s;tifie the act; <HI>Hugo Grotius</HI> which di&s;alloweth the re&s;i&s;tance both of private per&s;ons and inferiour Magi&s;trates (and hath nothing but the point of nece&s;&s;ity to &s;upport the langui&s;hing cau&s;e) yet can he not bring one in&s;tance of Scripture for this particular cau&s;e to colour this proceeding, be&s;ides tho&s;e helple&s;&s;e examples which I told you of before. And if nece&s;&s;ity might be admitted as a lawful excu&s;e for the violating of the fift Coma~ndement, why upon the &s;uppo&s;ition of the like nece&s;&s;ity, might not men make a breach of all the other Commandements, as having more Gods, or wor|&s;hipping of Idols, or committing uncleanne&s;s when the remedy is wanting, or bearing fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e when a mans e&s;tate, or life is endangered? Nece&s;&s;ity therefore is but our greater triall, not a de&s;pen&s;ation for di&s;obedience. The &s;trong proofs then that tho&s;e learned Writers bring for Obedience in general are enough to confirme &s;ubjection, and the weake Arguments that they u&s;e to erect re&s;i&s;tance with are enough to &s;ettle Con&s;cience, that the De&s;igne is un&s;etled; yea I was never made a &s;tronger &s;ubject, nor a weaker Rebell, then by con&s;idering how they are not able (which hold the contrary opinion) to pull downe that, which them&s;elves have built up.</P>
<P><HI>Re&s;i&s;tance</HI> then is no religious Act, becau&s;e the maintainers of
<PB N="4" REF="3">it &s;ayle in that, which &s;hould give the greate&s;t &s;trength to the Cau&s;e, the approbation of Scripture. But if a King can be re&s;i&s;ted, yet can &s;uch a King? No, they which are mo&s;t tenacious of the point, yet let goe their <HI>Hold-fa&s;t, if the King be not &s;oyled with the height of wickedne&s;&s;e to make him the fit object of Re&s;istance;</HI> but what malicious eye can &s;py out &s;uch &s;teynes in the intemerate brow of our pure Prince? No, he is the lu tre of the Throne, the Triumph of Monarchy; His Royall Blood hath no contagion of vulgar errours, but is the true Soveraigne of Innocency; When was the &s;cepter borne with &s;uch an undefiled hand? or the Crown worne with &s;o many bright gemmes &s;hining in it? No, he hath honoured the Throne with more con&s;picuous graces, and emi|nent Vertues, then any Prince hath done for the&s;e may yeares; he being the pride of <HI>Humility,</HI> the &s;ober palate of <HI>Temperance,</HI> the pure loynes of <HI>Cha&s;tity,</HI> the &s;oft bowells of <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Clemency,</HI> the warded knee of <HI>Devotion,</HI> a &s;worne <HI>Prote&s;tant,</HI> a vowed <HI>Pro|tectour</HI> of the <HI>Liberties</HI> of his Subjects, ambitious of <HI>Peace,</HI> and one that would &s;trike the weapons out of his enemies hands with an <HI>Act of Oblivion.</HI> Oh that &s;uch a Prince &s;hould be af|fronted, much more a&s;&s;aulted! No, methinks the Soldier &s;hould rather di&s;arme him&s;elf, crampe a March, &s;uffer violent death, then maligne &s;uch a Soveraigne; for if any King upon earth can be re|&s;i&s;ted, yet can &s;uch a King?</P>
<P>If this continue, what will be the i&s;&s;ue, ye may judge by the pre&s;ent condition. The Tenant is not onely ready to &s;urrender up his Lea&s;e, nor the Merchant to turne Bankrupt, nor the Chur|ches to &s;tand empty without an Incumbent, the Country is not only con&s;umed with monthly Contributions, Exci&s;es, free Loans, free Benevolences, free Quarters, the Gentry are not onely aba|&s;ed, by having underlings take the command of the Country out of their hands, by taking their Hor&s;es, Armor, every thing that delights the eye from them, or by taking away their Per&s;ons, and muring them up in Pri&s;ons, the Poor are not onely ready to murmur, and rage, and &s;tarve, but the whole Nation is ready to draw upon it &s;elfe, and to give it &s;elf the bloody &s;tab.</P>
<P>The oppo&s;ing of Princes hath in former times been fatall to this Nation, yea the Kingdome hath &s;carce &s;uffered &s;o much by all the mi&s;eries that hath lighted upon it, as it hath done by civil
<PB N="5" REF="3">Wars. In the Reign of <HI>William</HI> the <HI>Conqueror,</HI> when the Engli&s;h men that had &s;ubmitted to his Government Rebelled again&s;t him,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rog. Wendov. Poli. Chron. Hen Huntingd. Ypod. Neystr. Mat. We&s;t. <HI>2.</HI> Mat. Pari&s;. Will. Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">m&s;b. Polydor. Virg.</NOTE> it did not only change his courteou<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> u&s;age of them into ex+treame &s;everity, in e&s;cheating their Lands, abhorring their per|&s;ons (&s;o that he would not &s;uffer any <HI>Engli&s;h Scholler</HI> to come to promotion) driving &s;ome into exile, forcing others to live in woods like Outlaws, cutting off the hands of &s;ome, and the heads of others, but the Kingdome was brought to that mi&s;erable de|&s;olation, that the Highwayes lay un-occupyed through frequent robberies co~mitted, and all was wa&s;ted from <HI>Wales</HI> to the mouth of <HI>Wye,</HI> and the Land from <HI>Durham</HI> to <HI>York</HI> lay nine years un|tilled, &s;o that for the want of ordinary &s;u&s;tenance, the <HI>Northern</HI> people were enforced to eat the fle&s;h of men.<NOTE PLACE="marg">H<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">venden. Ypod. Ney&s;tr. Huntington. l. <HI>8.</HI> Malm&s;b. Nov. l. <HI>2.</HI> p. <HI>105.</HI> Gerva&s;. D<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ro|bornen&s;is.</NOTE> In the R igne of King <HI>Stephen,</HI> when the great Ones fell to their accu&s;ations (as no Rebellion was ever without pretence of Rea&s;on, and iu&s;tice) they charging him with the violating of his Oath touching For|re&s;ts, and other Immunities of the Church, and yet indeed (as the <HI>Hi&s;tory</HI> &s;aith) the pleading of Church and Common-wealth, were but publique colours for private grudges, their onely quar|rell being a &s;ecret &s;pight, that becau&s;e they had &s;et him up, hee would deny them any thing, as the command of certaine Lord|&s;hip<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, and Ca&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es which they expected, what outrages were com|mitted in the Nation? Every year heaped on new calamities, to the ruine of the Nation, thou&s;and Families were decayed, whole Counties depopulated, and &s;o many mens E&s;tates confi&s;cated to the Crown, that they generally went by the name of the Di&s;in|herited; yea as the height of mi&s;ery (by the calling in of the <HI>Scots</HI>) the wombs of women were ripped up, infants to&s;&s;ed up|on the pikes of Speares, the Prie&s;ts &s;lain at the Altar, and the &s;lain (in a mo&s;t inhumane manner) di&s;membred. In the Reign of K. <HI>Iohn,</HI> we find the e&s;tate of the Land mo&s;t deplorable,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Lib. S. Alb. in vit. Guliel. Abbat.</NOTE> not only by a&s;&s;aylings, &s;urpri&s;ings, burnings, &s;poylings, di&s;inheritings which were exerci&s;ed by Fathers &s;etting again&s;t their Sons, Brothers again&s;t Brothers, kin&s;men and allies again&s;t their neere&s;t friends, but e&s;pecially by c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">lling in the <HI>French Dolphin Lewis,</HI> who after he had gotten a little command in the Land, de&s;pi&s;ed the <HI>Engli&s;h|men,</HI> be&s;towing all their Townes and places of Command upon his own Cavallery;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rog de. W. S.</NOTE> for when <HI>Fitz-Walter</HI> demanded but <HI>Hert|ford
<PB N="6" REF="4">Ca&s;tle,</HI> as his ancient right, an An&s;wer was given him by <HI>Lewis</HI> according to the advice of all his <HI>French Nobility,</HI> that <HI>Engli&s;hmen</HI> were not worthy to have &s;uch places intru&s;ted to their charges, who were the betrayers of their naturall Lord; yea <HI>Milun</HI> upon his death-bed confe&s;&s;ed, that if ever Prince <HI>Lewis</HI> had the Crown of <HI>England</HI> &s;et on his head,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Ypod. Ney<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">tr.</NOTE> he would condemne into perpetuall Exile all them that then (as Traitors again&s;t their Soveraign) adhered to him again&s;t King <HI>Iohn,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. Pari&s;. hist. maj.</NOTE> and that he would extirpate all their Kindred. By one and another the di&s;tre&s;&s;es of the times were &s;o grievous, that the Kingdom (as one &s;aith) was like a generall &s;hambles, or place of infernall torture. In the Reigne of <HI>Henry</HI> 3. To &s;oon as the Kingdome grew di&s;contented, every man dared what&s;oever his own audaciou&s;ne&s;&s;e did &s;ugge&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. Westmin&s;t.</NOTE> or others connivency permitted, in&s;omuch that <HI>Foulke de Brent,</HI> and other Nobles plucked from the K. mo&s;t of his Crown-Land, without any other right than that which the equity of Tumults gave them; yea though the Land had been &s;ufficiently plagued with forraign Power, yet an ordinary Citizen,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Fabian.</NOTE> even <HI>Con&s;tantine Fitz. Arnulph</HI> (who&s;e Sedition infected all, to whom War was beneficiall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pari&s;.</NOTE> and Peace banefull) would have &s;et up a <HI>Lewis</HI> againe in <HI>London,</HI> crying in the open &s;treets, <HI>Mountjoy, Mountjoy, God for us, and our Lord Lewis:</HI> Yea &s;uch was the thraldom of tho&s;e times, through the &s;pight of the Barons again&s;t <HI>Hubert de Burgo,</HI> that afterwards Iudgements were committed to the unju&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Pari&s;. Wendover.</NOTE> Lawes to Out-laws, Peace to Wranglers, and Iu&s;tice to Wrong|doers. And in conclu&s;ion, through the bloody Battels that were fought, all was made a booty, and put to fire, and &s;word, from the Marches of <HI>Wales</HI> to <HI>Shrewsbury,</HI> in&s;omuch that &s;uch a greevous Famine happened,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Wendover. Pari&s;ien&s;.</NOTE> that per&s;ons were enforced to pluck the eares of Corne whil&s;t they were greene in the field. In the Reigne of <HI>Edward</HI> 2. when the Earles of <HI>Arundell, War|wick, Lancaster,</HI> and <HI>Warren</HI> made a wofull rent with the King, and would not a&s;&s;i&s;t him in his Warres again&s;t the <HI>Scots,</HI> not on|ly they which were left to keep the Marches, in&s;tead of valliant Champions proved petty Chapmen; but &s;uch grievous depopu|lations were committed for foure yeares together, that there was &s;carce bread enough to bee found for the Kings table, and the common people in generall eat hor&s;es, and dogs, yea men, and
<PB N="7" REF="4">children were &s;tollen for food, and Theeves newly brought to Goales were torn in peices and devoured hall alive, by &s;uch as had continued longer there; and the bloody-flux,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Tho. dela More. Tho. Wal&s;ingh.</NOTE> and other di|&s;ea&s;es that aro&s;e from unwhol&s;ome dyet, de&s;troyed &s;o many, that the living were &s;carce able to bury the dead. And in the reigne of <HI>Richard</HI> 2. how lamentable were the effects that were brought forth by that potent in&s;urrection in <HI>Kent, E&s;&s;ex, Surrey, Suf|folk. Norfolke, Cambridge&s;hire,</HI> and <HI>Huntington&s;hire</HI> for Manu|mi&s;&s;ion? Hi&s;toryes report, that in&s;tead of reforming the Com|mon-wealth, havock was made of the Common-wealth; the Laws were &s;o neer to be overthrown, that that Idoll of Clowns,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Stow. Holling&s;head.</NOTE><HI>Wat. Tyler,</HI> threatned that hee would have all the Lawes of the Kingdome come out of his own mouth; great men were in &s;o little &s;ecurity, that bloody hands were layd upon the mo&s;t emi|nent per&s;ons in the Kingdome, and their heads cut off and fixed upon poles, being &s;o placed that they might ki&s;&s;e,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Speed. Stow. Holling&s;head.</NOTE> and whi&s;per in one anothers eare, and a generall intention to kill all per&s;ons of quality, and to &s;et up petty Tyrannies in the Nation; the Kings per&s;on was damnably con&s;pired again&s;t, and the Kings Mother un&s;ufferably abu&s;ed, the &s;tately Priory of Saint <HI>Iohns</HI> without <HI>Smithfield</HI> was burnt to a&s;hes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Sir Walter Lee in his &s;peech to St. Albans men.</NOTE> and the goodly Pallace of the <HI>Sa|voy</HI> with all the riches therein con&s;umed, writings, rowles, and records defaced, and &s;uch a generall ruin brought upon the King|dome before this War was cea&s;rd, that there was neither Gra&s;&s;e nor Corn, old nor new, within five miles &s;pace of <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P>Yee &s;ee I have layd before you the mi&s;eries of former times, would it not grieve you to behold againe &s;uch Tragedyes? Take ye plea&s;ures in di&s;a&s;ters? Can the ruin of your Nation affect you? Thinke of the&s;e things betimes, le&s;t after thoughts be like reco|vering phy&s;ick to a dead creature. We are not far from de&s;tructi|on, the want of Trading, the un&s;ea&s;onable Harve&s;t, the Kingdom drayned of Meanes, be&s;ides a thou&s;and other calamities afflicting the Age by the&s;e la&s;t Wars, fore&s;peaks approaching mi&s;ery. What hou&s;e is not full of angui&s;h? What corner of the Land is not re|pleni&s;hed with groans and fight? How few are there that are not weary of the&s;e un&s;upportable burthens? How few that doe not de&s;ire Peace? Will yee not heare the complaints of your Countrymen? de&s;pi&s;e ye the &s;obbes of your fellow-Profe&s;&s;ours? Will it be honour to you to leave a people de&s;olate? Will it bee
<PB N="8" REF="5">comfort to you to conclude in a wa&s;te? Think what cur&s;es will follow you, if ye continue the&s;e &s;orrowes, lay to heart the trou|bled &s;oules ye will have upon your death-beds it ye be authors of un-Chri&s;tian de&s;ignes. When there are &s;ome hopes then of <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">n+happy agreement, do not ye &s;lake the hopes, or di&s;turbe the agree|ment. Do you yeeld, for the King conde&s;cends; doe ye neglect your own de&s;ires, for he &s;tands not too much upon his own he nor; expre&s;&s;e you a true &s;elf-denyal, for he hath re&s;igned up his own will; he &s;peaketh for Peace, doe you eccho after him, and &s;ay, we will have Peace. I be&s;eech you therefore by all the Eng|li&s;h blood which runs in your veines, by all the prickles of Con|&s;cience left in your Prote&s;tant &s;oules, by all the reliques of pitty which ye feele towards a peri&s;hing Nation, that ye take downe the Standards, that yee frill up the Colours, that yee ca&s;t out of your hands the Pi&s;tols, and Pole-axes. Oh &s;hed no more blood, but &s;taunch the dropping veines; braine not the &s;lender num|bers which are left, but pre&s;erve the remnant; thinke when yee have murthered enough, tremble to be the Head&s;man of the Na|tion. Let all rage and rancour, &s;pight and &s;poyle be layd a&s;ide, and eye one another like freinds, embrace like Chri&s;tians, bring Vnity againe into a divided Nation: ble&s;&s;e the Age, and crown the Land with Peace.</P>
<CLOSER>Da Pacem Domine.</CLOSER>
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