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<P>A &s;uddaine ANSWER To a &s;uddaine MODERATOUR; VVho, directed by Rea&s;on and no more, expects &s;uddaine PEACE, or Certaine RUINE.</P>
<P>This a&s;&s;ures him from GODS Mouth, he &s;hall &s;ee nei|ther <HI>&s;uddaine Peace,</HI> nor <HI>Ruine,</HI> and yet <HI>certaine Peace</HI> (though never in his way) to them that love <HI>Truth</HI> in &s;incerity; and certaine <HI>Ruine</HI> to the Adver&s;aries thereof.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;Pacem Te po&s;&s;umus omnes.</L></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>JOB. 34, 29.</HI></BIBL>
<P>When He giveth quietne&s;&s;e, who then can make trouble? and when He hideth His face, who can behold Him? whether it be done again&s;t a Nation, or again&s;t a man onely.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL><HI>PROV. 16.7.</HI></BIBL>
<P>When a Mans wayes plea&s;e the Lord; He maketh his Enemies to be at peace with him.</P></Q>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed in the Yeare of <HI>Re&s;tauration,</HI> when the times alwayes have beene, are, and will be <HI>Troublous.</HI> 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>REASONS by way of APOLOGY, for this Suddaine ANSWERE.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is Suddaine indeed, and, may be, the Reader will &s;ay &s;o; the labour of a few houres, &s;tollen away in the Night from &s;leep: If I nodded over it (which is not my manner, yet) it is pardonable. The Rea&s;on it was &s;o Suddaine is be&s;ides the quickne&s;&s;e of the time, the &s;ame the Author gives of his MODERATION, <HI>le&s;t it prove like an Almanack, which a few dayes pa&s;&s;ed puts out of date.</HI> As he had a grave re&s;pect to the Times, and to his Reader, &s;o have I too, for I find his Booke (I never yet found his &s;econd) as the Ayre is, when &s;ome Epidemicall di&s;ea&s;e is raging, <HI>very catching;</HI> the very Rea&s;on this, why this An&s;wer is &s;uddaine. I prote&s;t to the Reader, for the&s;e Rea&s;ons, I could not &s;leep till I had done it. I mu&s;t give a Rea&s;on al&s;o why I give him any An&s;wer at all: Becau&s;e I find him neither an (empty) <HI>foole,</HI> nor a <HI>railer;</HI> if either of both, I knew my charge, <HI>An&s;wer him not,</HI> 2 <HI>King.</HI> 18.36.</P>
<P>I find him upon confe&s;&s;ion without <HI>&s;hrift,</HI> a <HI>Moderator,</HI> and in his own Character a <HI>medley.</HI> What is that? I cannot tell my &s;elfe, except &s;uch a thing as he makes <HI>Religion, Truth</HI> and <HI>Peace:</HI> neither the one nor the other; nor good, nor bad; but another third thing &amp; that is &s;tark nought; I know not what he is, but like a Meteor he is, he hangs in &s;u&s;pen&s;e, and, likely, will fall anon. A well poi&s;ed lump betwixt ayre and earth, and, becau&s;e of its predominancie, does fall flat <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">her; and there it would ex|pire, breath-out, and die quickly, but that it hath &s;ome of the quality we call <HI>heate,</HI> which keeps it from being <HI>key-cold:</HI> Hee might have forborne his <HI>Characters,</HI> for I knew before I came at them, as what him&s;elfe is; &s;o what he makes, <HI>Religion, Truth, Peace, Mi&s;&s;ellanies</HI> All: <Q>and &s;o has uncovered him&s;elfe in the eyes of all the godly, as one of the vain fellowes &s;hamefully uncovered him&s;elfe.</Q> The good <HI>Lord</HI> remem|ber not this again&s;t him, but remember him of that dreadfull threat, <HI>I will &s;hew, &amp;c.</HI> <Q>To comfort him now a very little, if he were &s;en&s;ible of his danger, I will tell him what his Readers &s;ay in his prayes, That he is &s;o brimfull of wit, as that he runs o|ver, and full of Rea&s;on al&s;o:</Q> but this is too &s;hort of his commendations: I will adde, now I have read and under&s;tood him; The Moderator is full of Rhetorick and Oratory too. And let him take all that, but little good that will doe him, till he &s;hall devote all that, in homage and due &s;ervice to the glory of the <HI>giver.</HI> For my part I like his Rhetorick very well; but three words of <HI>plaine Engli&s;h</HI> I like ten times better: &s;pecially at this time.</P>
<P>Nay, let me tell you I have read 1000. Papers and 1000. too and never met with any I liked better for the Compo&s;ure (though he Rambles, and &s;o he confe&s;&s;eth) and wor&s;e for the <HI>matter,</HI> Strange! you will &s;ay. I thought &s;o. I &s;hall have an heavy Cen&s;ure layed upon me before I begin. Good Reader hold a little, let me &s;peak fir&s;t, and that I may gaine upon thy Patience; I will a&s;&s;ure thee this, That though I have
<PB N="2" REF="3">a naughty, and an untoward heart, and mo&s;t Deceitfull; yet I &s;hall, in the name of all the true hearted in the world, cleare it to be, in this great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, neither <HI>double</HI> nor <HI>cloven,</HI> nor <HI>bia&s;ed</HI> any way but to the way of <HI>Peace, Truth,</HI> and <HI>Holine&s;se.</HI> And be|cau&s;e I can force my &s;elfe to beleeve, That the <HI>Moderator</HI> is, as he &s;eemes to be, a man, that loves his Country, and de&s;iers the Peace of it with all his heart; I &s;hall &s;o con|tend with him as a Man, that loves, and de&s;ires the &s;ame thing, and as heartily as he doth and &s;hall for beare all bitterne&s;&s;e, counting it an unrea&s;onable thing, that a man pur&s;uing Peace &s;hould pur&s;ue per&s;ons, make Warre with them, or make a lie.</P>
<P>It is true his characters are naught, and, in reading them my &s;pirit was &s;tirred on the &s;uddame not a little: The way al&s;o he goes in pur&s;uance of <HI>Peace,</HI> is cleane out of the way of heaven: But yet I beare him witne&s;&s;e he pur&s;ues <HI>Peace</HI> heartily: And the Characters he gives of him&s;elfe and <HI>Truth,</HI> are hearty al&s;o, as he feeles his own pul&s;e, and as he conceives of <HI>Truth.</HI> My An&s;were &s;hall not deale with him there, but it &s;hall keep with him in the maine. As for his Rhetorick and Oratory both, dila|ting upon the <HI>good</HI> of <HI>Peace,</HI> and evill of Warre, I think he might have &s;pared both, for we are fle&s;h and blood al&s;o, too &s;en&s;ible of puni&s;hment, and &s;en&s;ele&s;&s;e of &s;inne, we can feele as quick as we heare, or he can &s;peake.</P>
<P>I would now be&s;peake his heart towards me, before he reads onward of my An|&s;wer.</P>
<P>The Lord give him to look for Truth here on earth, and to find it, which he &s;ayes he looks not to find till he comes to heaven: And &s;uch a <HI>Peace</HI> now, which will &s;tand him in &s;tead, when he lies on his death bed: And in pur&s;uance of all this, a better guide, then now he followes, <HI>directed by rea&s;on.</HI></P>
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<P>HE that is his own guide has a foole to his Ma&s;ter; and he that is guided by Rea|&s;on has but a blind guide at the be&s;t; and yet he will be more blind and fool too, if he will put it out: though holding the <HI>clae</HI> of Rea&s;on in his hand, and opening both his eyes, he &s;hall not be able to &s;ee wherat to enter, or where to come out of the <HI>La|borinth</HI> of the&s;e times.</P>
<P>But the man &s;peaks not &s;o many words (he thinks) as he does Rea&s;on, and yet we could almo&s;t wonder, what the man &s;tands rea&s;oning about, and expecting all the while, were it not that he tells us, he is <HI>directed by Rea&s;on,</HI> and does <HI>expect &s;uddaint Peace or certaine Ruine.</HI> I prote&s;t to him before Almighty <HI>God,</HI> nay from His mouth, he &s;hall &s;ee neither: not <HI>a &s;uddaine Peace;</HI> a man directed by Rea&s;on cannot expect &s;o: the <HI>motions</HI> are too violant (we take nothing from an All mighty hand, but He is ma|king inqui&s;ition for blood) to be hu&s;hed up and &s;till'd on a &s;uddaine. Nor <HI>certaine Ruine,</HI> except to the enemies of <HI>God,</HI> and His <HI>Peace;</HI> and your <HI>mialing</HI> per&s;ons, <HI>certaine Ruine</HI> to them al&s;o, and it will be <HI>&s;uddaine,</HI> when it comes: but, <HI>directed by rea&s;on</HI> we beleeve their <HI>ruine</HI> will not be &s;uddaine neither, not yet: But I make ha&s;t to my pro|mi&s;e, which is a &s;uddain An&s;were.</P>
<P>I omit his preamble, It &s;eems the mans eyes are open: and <HI>directed by rea&s;on,</HI> what &s;ayes hee?</P>
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<P> Moder.<HI>The cure is De&s;perate.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Quickly an&s;wered, The Di&s;ea&s;e is &s;o.</P>
<P>M. <HI>The Chyrurgions doe cut too farre.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Not &s;arre enough.</P>
<P>M. <HI>In letting-out putrifaction, they let out the very Vitalls.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> It mu&s;t be &s;o: never any man took a &s;trong purge but precious &s;pirits went out together with the execremen<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">s. There is &s;ome &s;pending of <HI>vitalls,</HI> And yet the Body mu&s;t be purged, el&s;e it dies: I am per&s;waded his Phy&s;itian will tell him &s;o, though <HI>directed but by rea&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>M. <HI>When the</HI> Militia, <HI>the Navy, the Ports were fir&s;t put into new confiding hands, I looked upon that action like to that cloud, which &s;eemed as a mans hand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A. Who bid</HI> him <HI>doe &s;o?</HI> His eyes mi&s;guide him, and his Rea&s;on too; was then the fir&s;t appearance of a cloud, and but &s;uch an appearance, as a mans hand then? The Lord knows, and his People al&s;o. That the cloud was up, as high as the Sun at noon and a thick cloud al&s;o, and it darkened the heaven long before. And there was no other way directed by Rea&s;on that could be taken to prevent a &s;hower of blood from falling (like the raine we call <HI>Spouts</HI>) [when the raine falls not broken into drops, we call it the [<HI>pouts.</HI> Sr. <HI>W. R. Hi&s;t. l.</HI> 1.7. <HI>Sect.</HI> 6.] upon the Church, truly &s;o cal|led but by putting the <HI>Militia</HI> into <HI>new</HI> (for the old were naught and rotten) <HI>confiding hands,</HI> for the others could not be tru&s;ted, they have declared them&s;elves the betrayers of <HI>God,</HI> His <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and their Country.</P>
<P>M. <HI>The more active of the Parliament are accu&s;ed of Trea&s;on.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A</HI> We grant that.</P>
<P>M. <HI>The Kings adver&s;aries are impeached by the Parliament for Traitors.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> That is true too, Traitors &s;ure enough, that will advi&s;e their King to betray his great Tru&s;t, <HI>Lawes, Liberties, Religion,</HI> and all into his enemies hands.</P>
<P>M. <HI>Thus the Scene begins to alter, and in&s;tead of Reforming, the Parliament is bu&s;ied, almo&s;t puzled in &s;aving (for &s;o they call it) a di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Church and State.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We call it &s;o indeed, and the Parliament are <HI>bu&s;ied,</HI> nay, as the man <HI>directed by rea&s;on</HI> &s;ayes, <HI>puzled</HI> too in <HI>&s;aving</HI> of it. <HI>I pray heaven</HI> (it is the Players phra&s;e, good, but abu&s;ed too often) ble&s;&s;e them in this <HI>puzling worke,</HI> the proper worke of a Parliament indeed, but of God to fini&s;h it: and becau&s;e it is &s;uch a puzling worke, The <HI>God</HI> of wi&s;dome lead them into all wi&s;dome to the execution of their charge, the <HI>cutting off</HI> that Viperous generation of men, tho&s;e <HI>troublers,</HI> who are eating out the bowels of their Mother: and let tho&s;e, that have ingaged them&s;elves upon this <HI>puzling worke,</HI> the &s;aving <HI>a di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Church and State</HI> know, they &s;hall not lo&s;e their <HI>labour of love,</HI> and <HI>worke of Faith,</HI> though <HI>I&s;rael</HI> be not <HI>&s;aved,</HI> which were but a little &s;hort of Bla&s;phemy to doubt.</P>
<P>M. <HI>Common Law called</HI> Salus Populi, <HI>and Statute Law, enacted by nature, called</HI> Lex Nece&s;&s;itatis, <HI>mu&s;t warrant all their undertaking, and ju&s;tifie all manner of &s;everity and vio|lence.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No but it &s;hall not, but the contrary, It &s;hall condemne all undertakings to di&s;tre&s;&s;e the Church and State; and eur&s;e from heaven all manner of violence upon the people: And it &s;hall warrant and ju&s;tifie all undertaking again&s;t tho&s;e <HI>mi&s;creants,</HI> who have &s;o wa&s;ted their owne Country, and eate out the heart of their own Mo|ther.</P>
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<P> M. <HI>The mo&s;t eminent di&s;covery of this warre was about the Town of</HI> Hull.</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Be it &s;o; but a Di&s;covery there was &s;ixe yeares agoe, when the <HI>Service-Booke</HI> was &s;ent into <HI>Scotland;</HI> and quickly after the Sword: Then (to look no farther back) there was a Di&s;covery plaine enough, and more then an appearance of a cloud and thick darkne&s;&s;e; it gathered towards the North, and what if we grant it was mo&s;t <HI>eminently</HI> &s;een before the Town of <HI>Hull?</HI> we grant it; and this withall mu&s;t be granted too for it is eminently di&s;covered al&s;o, <HI>That the ground of the quarrell is not whether the Town of</HI> Hull <HI>&s;hall be the Kings: but whether this Kingdome &s;hall be the</HI> Lords <HI>(i.e.) whether the</HI> Lord Chri&s;t <HI>&s;hall have this Kingdome for his Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion. I will venture my &s;oule upon it, and it is more to me then all the Kingdomes of the world.</HI> This is the ground of the Quar|rell, and <HI>eminently</HI> known &s;o to be. I look for a Viall of wrath now, and the Spouts of His Di&s;plea&s;ure to be powred down; yet I am &s;ecure about it, for the Kingdome is <HI>the Lords:</HI> Let the <HI>Lord Chri&s;t</HI> alone to Rule there, He will Reigne mo&s;t gloriou&s;ly amid&s;t His enemies: He is a <HI>&s;trong Redeemer,</HI> and they that will not &s;ubmit to His Golden Scepter, &s;hall be broken to pieces with His rod of Iron.</P>
<P>M. <HI>The King has caught the affections of his Subjects with Promi&s;es and Prote&s;tations, to defend the property and liberty of his Subjects, though Promi&s;es are but &s;hadowes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> They are &s;o indeed, and no tru&s;ting in &s;uch &s;hadows, but whether he hath caught the affections of his Subjects under the&s;e &s;hadows I think it is &s;car&s;e que&s;tioned.</P>
<P>M. <HI>But if he has caught his Subjects under the&s;e &s;hadowes, how much more then will his Subjects be his when the&s;e promi&s;ed Ele&s;&s;ings &s;hall be theirs in earne&s;t?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> There needs no Que&s;tion: they will be all his, when he makes all good which he &s;ayes; when he &s;peaks that they may &s;ee him; good words realized by good acti|ons then they will be all his hand and tongue, and heart and all, the true&s;t Subjects to their King that are in the world, as long as he is the <HI>Lords,</HI> keeps to Him, his <HI>Ma|&s;ter in heaven,</HI> and will intru&s;t him&s;elfe, and his people under His &s;hadow, which is the <HI>&s;hadow of the Almighty.</HI></P>
<P>M <HI>What advantage have we had by any thing that has been acted by the Sword?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> We cannot boa&s;t of Advantages though we have I thinke as much advantage therby as we looked for from &s;uch an in&s;trument, an opre&s;&s;ing thing where ever it is: and yet I will &s;ay we have had and have a very great advantage by it. It hath kept the Sword of the adver&s;aries from &s;ome of our throats; and the Cau&s;e of <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> from be|ing trampled upon by the foot of Pride, like myre in the &s;treet: And though we are a wa&s;ted peeled people indeed, yet, <HI>ble&s;&s;ed be our God, not</HI> like <HI>Ireland;</HI> we are not yet deli|vered up as a <HI>prey</HI> to the adver&s;aries teeth; he cannot execute the fiercenes of his wrath upon us: and this Advantage we have by the Sword. In &s;hort, we have the very &s;ame advantage by the Sword now, which <HI>Nehemiah</HI> and the builders had in tho&s;e <HI>troub|lous</HI> times; if they had not had the Sword in the one hand, they could not have buil|ded with the other: I know I have but a hard pull of it, to draw advantage from the Sword: but yet this Advantage we have, as afore &s;aid: Therfore the <HI>Moderator</HI> does us a plau&s;ible wrong here, in telling us in his fooli&s;h pity, <HI>that we are abu&s;ed.</HI> No, we are not abu&s;ed in his &s;ence nor after his thoughts, though <HI>abu&s;ed</HI> we are, and mo&s;t notoriou&s;ly abu&s;ed: by whom? By tho&s;e from whom we can expect no right, &s;uch Sonnes of <HI>Belial</HI> they are: &s;o much to our <HI>abu&s;e,</HI> and the <HI>Moderators</HI> pity. At this &s;tanding we may gather &s;ome Flowers of Rhetorick, and ob&s;erve &s;ome &s;traines of Oratory be&s;towed upon that old Theame, <HI>The Tyranny of Warre:</HI> and in pa&s;&s;age he
<PB N="7" REF="4">be&s;towes pretty civill language upon the Parliament &s;omtimes, but that is his craft, that he may give them &s;ome by-blowes, pre&s;ently after undi&s;cerned, and truly his &s;miting is very &s;mart, and as palpable as a man <HI>bia&s;&s;ed,</HI> we know which way. Let him goe his way, he &s;ayes;</P>
<P>M. <HI>Though the times are &s;o catching, we can &s;carce call any thing our own, yet, I hope, they will let us enjoy the u&s;e of our rea&s;on &s;till which &s;hall alwayes lead my faith,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes, good rea&s;on; enjoy it, and u&s;e it, I pray you, and your faith too, but no rea|&s;on it &s;hould lead your faith, but rather follow: but take your cour&s;e, and goe on.</P>
<P>M. <HI>And expectation in &s;uch open affaires, as the&s;e: my Rea&s;on and faith both having &s;et|tled me, and made me ob&s;tinate in this opinion, that a peace warily concluded on by an accommo|dation mu&s;t be the happye&s;t i&s;&s;ue that can be given to the&s;e differences.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Look ye, the <HI>Moderatour</HI> is an ob&s;tinate Man, he cannot moderate well: but I will doe him the favour to pa&s;&s;e that by; we have all now, and can eye his full &s;cope. I &s;hall goe forward a little, and returne in good time: and he &s;hall goe on how with little interruption, for they be matters of great Difference, but not controverted be|twixt us: he tells us how he came to be &s;ettled in his opinion, <HI>viz.</HI> from the Aimes in this Warre (wherein we mu&s;t ob&s;erve his <HI>mode&s;ty</HI>) The grounds or cau&s;es of it, (where we mu&s;t di&s;cerne his <HI>charity,</HI>) That he will think Religion, Laws, Liberties, the moving cau&s;e therof, for that's confe&s;&s;ed, though <HI>not agreed upon.</HI> Then he falls into his Rhetorick againe, as if <HI>words</HI> could make us more &s;en&s;ible, what Warre is, then blowes. I a&s;&s;ure you, he is deceived, we need not his Rhetorick, nor Oratory neither, our <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> is quick enough at that point, <HI>God knowes.</HI> Then he a&s;&s;ureth when <HI>all is done, there will be no victory:</HI> yes, but there will, for when all is done, <HI>Truth</HI> will prevaile, and be more glorious the more it was darkened, da&s;hed upon and oppo&s;ed. I pa&s;&s;e-by his by-blowes, rather his rude da&s;hing upon the Parliament: then up againe, wipes his mouth and away. But I cannot for beare the mentioning of this, touching his Religion (for it is not ours I hope.) <HI>It is many times but a &s;ervant to other de&s;ignes, and &s;o it &s;hall be followed,</HI> and this is his allowance. Truly, if I would &s;peake here in &s;o cleare a ca&s;e, I would &s;peak cleane contrary that all De&s;ignes &s;hould be &s;ervants to <HI>Religion,</HI> &s;hould &s;erve to u&s;her-in that: would we have our Laws better exerci&s;ed, our liberties more enlarged, and &s;ecured? yes indeed would we, What, by the do|mineering Sword? O no, the thought of it makes our hearts to bleed: but yet this is the de&s;igne to bring in Religion, to &s;ettle, en&s;ure, and &s;ecure that, as in <HI>Nehemiah</HI>'s dayes.</P>
<P>He goes on, I cannot ob&s;erve his method, for I &s;ee none: he deales truly with us in this, for he tells us he <HI>rambled,</HI> he does indeed, let him ramble-on; if he goes &s;o be|fore, I mu&s;t <HI>ramble</HI>-after: but he falls in his way upon the <HI>Remon&s;trance of the Kingdome,</HI> and cen&s;ures it at his plea&s;ure. He would not have had the vile Coun&s;ellors di&s;co|vered; nor the Malignant generation, when it was boldly affirmed there were none &s;uch in the land; nor any in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;ay we as truly.</P>
<P>Then he gives a &s;hrewd blow at the Parliament, againe telling us, what keeps it from <HI>&s;taggering;</HI> but there he is quite out, for that, which he mentions, will make them fall, when right Aimes, the glory of their God, and the good of this people, &s;hall make them &s;tand firme and &s;teddy, upheld by an Allmighty Arme. Then he falls upon Arguments of <HI>advantage</HI> and <HI>di&s;advantage.</HI> The Advantage the King hath (for that &s;yllable has as much advantage as another Army;) The advantage the Scots
<PB N="6" REF="5">had in their yeare; and the di&s;advantage-ground we &s;tand upon; and here he &s;peaks not rea&s;onably as a man directed by Rea&s;on; yet truly the Advantages on the one &s;ide are &s;o con&s;iderable; the di&s;advantage on the other &s;ide &s;o great, that &s;urely the man, who is <HI>directed by rea&s;on,</HI> and has no other guide, will be &s;tark mad with Rea&s;on. But let me put in a word to make him &s;ober, there be great advantages on their &s;ide, great di&s;advantages on this &s;ide; Trea&s;ure &s;pent, and &s;pirits &s;pent, and all &s;pent: &s;ee now and &s;py out, on who&s;e &s;ide Truth is. It is but a &s;yllable neither but more con|&s;iderable then many Armies: on who&s;e &s;ide is truth? on the &s;tronger &s;ide (you will &s;ay as a Moderator) that hath all advantages in &s;ight. Nay, I doe not beleeve it, but leave it not to my conceit, for I &s;hall not declare my mind now at that point, but &s;py it out on who&s;e &s;ide Truth is, there is the advantage.</P>
<P><HI>But the King can worke like a King, and be&s;tow Honours like a King,</HI> &amp;c. He can &s;o, and he is more bound to God that hath &s;o enabled him but God (one &s;yllable al&s;o and no more, yet of more Advantage than all the Armes in the Heaven, Earth, or Sea) can doe more, hee can worke like a <HI>God;</HI> give like a <HI>God;</HI> &s;u&s;taine like a <HI>God,</HI> all like a <HI>God,</HI> where <HI>God</HI> is there is the advantage, &s;pie it out, it is di&s;cernable, where <HI>Truth</HI> is there is <HI>God,</HI> and where He is there is there is the advantage; <HI>&amp;c.</HI> he will goe on merrily for all the trouble, that is directed <HI>by Faith:</HI> he not &s;o, that <HI>is di|rected by Rea&s;on:</HI> vet we will go on.</P>
<P>The next &s;tep he falls upon <HI>Charactars,</HI> gives us a cleare-one of him&s;elfe, of <HI>Truth</HI> al&s;o, and &s;o he hath di&s;honoured him&s;elfe, and thru&s;t back Peace: <HI>God</HI> give him to &s;ee it, and pardon the iniquitie of His Servant: Above all, The <HI>Lord</HI> unvaile his eyes at this high point that he may &s;eek for <HI>truth</HI> here find it, and &s;tand up for it, re&s;i&s;t the oppo&s;ers of it even unto Death (if the ca&s;e &s;o require) for &s;o he mu&s;t doe on earth, el&s;e he &s;hall never find heaven as he expects, and <HI>truth</HI> there.</P>
<P>Now we are at the end, we will returne, and according to his de&s;ire, <HI>owne Rea&s;on on which &s;ide &s;oever we &s;hall finde it.</HI> and &s;eeing it leads us to an <HI>accommodation,</HI> thereby to finde peac, thither we will returne, for there is all the matter, and kirnell of the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>That a Peace warily coucluded on by accommodation mu&s;t be the happie&s;t i&s;&s;ue that can be gi|ven to the&s;e Differences.</HI> Here the <HI>Moderatour</HI> hath a great advantage of mee, though what I &s;peake, &s;hall be directed by Rea&s;on and by &s;omething like it, but much bet|ter; yet I &s;ay, he hath a great advantage, for &s;peaking for a <HI>State-Peace</HI> as he doth for a State-Religion, and Truth (all which I abominate as much as he allowes) hee is more to the <HI>Genius</HI> of the State and more in &s;hew for the Peace of his Country than I can b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">; and yet I will not &s;toope an inch to him at tho&s;e high points, my love to Religion, to Peace, to Truth to my King to his Kingdome: why then mu&s;t wee heare &s;o ill in undertakings of this kind that we are &s;onnes of <HI>Mars,</HI> wee call for a &s;word, we delight in bloud &s;peake to us of Peace we are for Warre, are content to &s;ee our Country rent a&s;under with her owne hands? A heavie cen&s;ure this; were there any of that wee call <HI>Truth</HI> in it as the &s;earcher of all hearts knowes, there is none, we appeale to him in it (I &s;peake in the name of all the true hearted in the World) He knowes we &s;eeke Peace and pur&s;ue it, as heartily as King <HI>Heze|kiah</HI> did, when a proud adver&s;arie was before his wall: &s;o heartily, and yet the doubt may be, whether not too eagerly, and therefore it flies from us: but I &s;ay, we pur&s;ue it, our con&s;ciences b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">are us witne&s;&s;e, our <HI>God</HI> al&s;o, wee w&s;&s;h for peace as
<PB N="7" REF="5">earne&s;tly, as the husband-man does, who&s;e Hor&s;e is taken from him, hee cannot plough his heart too, he is carele&s;&s;e to &s;ow, becau&s;e he knowes not who &s;hall reape: &s;o the <HI>Moderatour,</HI> we tell him; we de&s;ire Peace as the husband-man does; if he will beleeve it, and why &s;hould he not? If the husband-man plouges not, hee cannot &s;ow, if he &s;ow not he cannot reape; then we mu&s;t want bread &amp; feele the want &s;oo|ner then hee: I am willing to in&s;i&s;t a little upon this fir&s;t, to cleare us of this dirt ca&s;t into our faces, that we doe not wi&s;h our Countries peace; I tell him againe, for I would &s;peake very feelingly, we will bid as much to purcha&s;e Peace, as the Countries will doe, which have been hurried and &s;poiled; we will give as much as they for <HI>Peace,</HI> if we may except one thing, but it is more con&s;iderable then an Army, what is that? A thing not much enquired after, but we call it <HI>Truth;</HI> wee thanke <HI>God</HI> he hath given us &s;o much di&s;cerning of it, that wee can put an e&s;teeme upon it, that we can count of it though but a mono&s;yllable, more con&s;iderable then Armies, which the Country-men for the mo&s;t part, cannot doe, &s;o much to blame are their Teachers, we &s;peake this with hearts griefe, and in the deare&s;t affe|ction to our Country mens &s;oules, and &s;ay, except but that we call <HI>Truth,</HI> and we call <HI>God</HI> to record upon our &s;oules, we will give as much as all the Countries give: nay, &amp; yet I will &s;peak no proud word we will give as much for Peace as this mode|rate man will do, &s;o he will not give <HI>Truth</HI> for it, which we may &s;u&s;pect by his Cha|racter, he will rather part with then his money. At this one <HI>&s;yllable</HI> only, but &s;o con&s;i|derable, we &s;hall differ with him if different in mind from us, and turne our backes upon him &amp; yet &s;hall &s;hew our &s;elvs as &s;en&s;ible of the ble&s;&s;ings of <HI>Peace,</HI> and the mi&s;e|ry of warre as the <HI>Moderatour</HI> can be, and need not his flowers of Rhetorick to expre&s;&s;e our <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> that way our feeling, I meane which is the quicke&s;t <HI>&s;en&s;e</HI> we have, and I have expre&s;&s;ed it already as <HI>feelingly</HI> as I can when we approve our &s;elves at that point, as tender as is the husband-man.</P>
<P><HI>Why then hearken</HI> &s;ayes he <HI>to rea&s;on, to an Accommodation.</HI> What is that? <HI>To A|commodate this difference by &s;ome middle way, wherin either party &s;hall remit &s;omewhat of the rigour of tho&s;e termes in which they now &s;tand.</HI> This is an <HI>Acommodation</HI> and the <HI>way</HI> un|to it, and the <HI>Moderatour</HI> is &s;o <HI>ob&s;tinately</HI> re&s;olved upon it, that he thinks he hath &s;poken all, and is in the right way to <HI>Peace,</HI> and that there is no other way, when as the very Truth is which will appeare pre&s;ently, <HI>Toto Caelo errat,</HI> The man is quite out of the way, and if I might expre&s;&s;e it &s;o, as one doth he is <HI>heavenly wide,</HI> for fir&s;t, hee takes it for granted, that there are but two parties offended, the King, and his friends; the <HI>Parliament</HI> and their friends: That is a great mi&s;take, for all the <HI>Powers</HI> in Heaven and Hell are parties here, and offended greatly: <HI>Michaell,</HI> and his Angells, <HI>Belze|bub,</HI> and his Angells, nor the&s;e onely, there is a <HI>principall Verbe,</HI> (whom hee hath l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ft out) one &s;yllable indeed but infinitely concerned and engaged in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e and of more advantage then are all the World: And there is a <HI>&s;econd Per&s;on,</HI> equally concerned too whom for honours &s;ake I will name, <HI>Ephe&s;ians</HI> 1.12. far above all <HI>Prin|cipality, and power, and might, and Dominion, and every name, that is named, not onely in this world,</HI> but al&s;o in <HI>that which is to come:</HI> all the&s;e he hath left out of the Treaty, the <HI>Fa|ther</HI> and <HI>the Sonne.</HI> The&s;e two the <HI>Moderatour</HI> hath (whether willingly, or ignorantly I judge not, ignorantly I thinke) left out of the Treaty, acknowledging but two par|ties offended; And &s;o though he bee all for <HI>a middle way,</HI> yet hee hath mi&s;taken his way utterly. And now he is more than halfe per&s;waded, that no man will under|take
<PB N="8" REF="6">to an&s;wer him: why? Becau&s;e the An&s;wer he thinkes, will run point blanck a|gain&s;t <HI>Peace,</HI> that Mother-Ble&s;&s;ing, &s;o comprehen&s;ive, that it containes all things which make a Nation honourable, and the head of Kingdomes: And hee will cla&s;h again&s;t &s;acred Maje&s;ty too, for he will not abate an inch from the height of that <HI>Im|perious</HI> Reformation, which the Parliament Intend, and carry all levell unto.</P>
<P>I &s;hall by <HI>Gods</HI> good hand upon me walke &s;traight on &amp; unbya&s;&s;ed in a <HI>middle way,</HI> indeed, not gazing upon or prying into, what the King and Parliament do; <HI>The Lord ble&s;&s;e King and Parl</HI> &s;ay I and make them of one mind &amp; one heart, &amp; &s;o direct them in all their wayes that in all they do they may have the an&s;wer of a good con&s;cience from wichin, how ever things &s;tand or fall without. But I &s;ay I will not meddle with the&s;e State-affaires, my foote &s;hall not enter into this <HI>maze:</HI> Something the <HI>Modera|tour</HI> will force from me anon, which will reflect upon &s;acred Maje&s;ty, but it &s;hall be &s;poken with the cleare&s;t evidence of Truth and love to his Peace and Crowne that is conceiveable.</P>
<P>Therefore to undeceive the <HI>Moderatours</HI> over-ha&s;ty expectation, I will tell him now the way I will goe &amp; then goe on in it; I will apply my &s;elf to that third party <HI>God</HI> for three per&s;ons are but one <HI>God</HI> whom the <HI>Moderatour</HI> hath left out of the treaty for <HI>Peace;</HI> and &s;hall make it cleare in a few words to all that will &s;ee; that hee is a <HI>Syllable</HI> of &s;uch concernment in this bu&s;ines, that till he be put into the Treatie, till he be treated with and in his own way there will be no way made for <HI>Peace</HI> &amp; I mu&s;t tell him this al&s;o by the way, that this <HI>third party</HI> is, in a treatie of this Nature a hard Ma&s;ter, and will hold us with &s;ome rigour to his Termes, and <HI>Imperious</HI> demands and cannot en|dure a <HI>middle way;</HI> which, notwit&s;tanding, a World of men doe now beat upon, and with all their might bend unto but if it be the right way then <HI>God</HI> hath decei|ved mee; and if it be <HI>Gods Peace</HI> they &s;eek after; then this is not facred Scripture which I &s;hall now propo&s;e to your eye; <HI>It is a day of trouble and of treading downe, and of per|plexity, by the Lord God of Ho&s;ts; and thou did&s;t looke in that day to the Armour of the hou&s;e of the forre&s;t.</HI> I ob&s;erve hence, that <HI>Iudah</HI> was greatly di&s;tre&s;&s;ed at this time: Peace &s;eem|ed to be quite taken from them; and faine they would recover it again but they were quite out of the way; a great blame lies upon them, what was it for? not becau&s;e they looked to the Armour of the hou&s;e of the forre&s;t, which hou&s;e of <HI>Armory S<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">|m<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> built for his whole Kingdome 1 <HI>King.</HI> 7.2. nor are they blamed for &s;pying out <HI>the breaches of the City of</HI> David <HI>which were many,</HI> and looking to all meanes to &s;top the &s;ame, and to fortifie them&s;elves they were not blamed for this, for all this was wi&s;e|ly done and the better, had it been don &s;ooner. But for this they are blamed; <HI>Thou did&s;t looke to the Armour &amp;c. but yee have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had re&s;pect unto him, &amp;c. v.</HI> 11. They looked not unto God in all this; they had no re&s;pect unto him, and yet they would have Peace, and would be &s;afe, well fortified again&s;t their Enemy; not con&s;idering that <HI>God</HI> was their Adver&s;ary; <HI>He powred upon them through that Viall the fury of his Anger and the &s;trength of battell.</HI> E&s;ay 42.25. and he mu&s;t be <HI>looked unto,</HI> a re&s;pect mu&s;t be had unto him, before ever they &s;hall have peace on the Earth: and it mu&s;t bee obtained by <HI>weeping and mourning, E&s;ay</HI> 22.12, whereunto the <HI>Lord</HI> called them by tho&s;e evills He inflicted upon them. But we read there how unto|ward the people were, and it is ju&s;t our ca&s;e now; we comply with the <HI>Moderatour,</HI> here we are of his judgement for we looke to every thing and b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">nd our &s;elves every way, but we <HI>looke not unto the Lord God,</HI> we have not a re&s;pect unto him.</P>
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<P> And this I thought fit to premi&s;e in more words, that I may be the &s;horter after|wards; but e&s;pecially, that the people may know, wee wi&s;h their Peace: as hear|tily as them&s;elves can do, onely they mu&s;t know al&s;o unto whom they mu&s;t <HI>looke,</HI> and have a <HI>re&s;pect</HI> unto, if they looke to have their expectation an&s;wered; for the <HI>Lord</HI> gives <HI>Peace,</HI> it comes from His <HI>hand;</HI> as the inward Peace which cannot bee <HI>plundered;</HI> &s;o the outward al&s;o: the <HI>Lord, God</HI> of Peace give his People both through the <HI>Lord Je|&s;us Chri&s;t</HI> our Peace-maker, and is called the <HI>Repairer of the breach.</HI></P>
<P>And &s;o I returne into our way againe in the pur&s;uit of Peace, by way of <HI>Accom|modation,</HI> and here;</P>
<P>We prote&s;t againe in the pre&s;ence of GOD, That our eares are open unto it, and our eyes &s;pying out a way whereat to enter in and come fairely out with an Olive branch in our hands, for it &s;eemes a Labyrinth: And yet wee could have an ea&s;ie pa&s;&s;age, if the Peace &s;ought for were a mans Peace, in his hands to give; or the &s;word, we would have &s;heathed, mans &s;word; we could then make up the difference by an <HI>Accommodation.</HI> But the Peace is GODS <HI>Peace,</HI> whom the Moderator, the Inqui&s;itor al&s;o (likely one and the &s;ame) hath left out of the Treaty, GODS <HI>Peace</HI> I &s;ay in his hands to give when he plea&s;eth, and we mu&s;t wait his time the <HI>Sword</HI> is in mans hand indeed, as the <HI>Axe</HI> is and the <HI>Rod</HI> is; but it is Gods Sword wherewith he is avenging the quarrell of his Covenant, Mans the Viall, God powres it out; we beg, and intreat and pray, &s;aying, <HI>Re&s;t and be &s;till; Ier.</HI> 47.6. The An&s;wer is &s;till, <HI>It cannot re&s;t:</HI> The Lord knowes the Father of our Spirits, the God of all fle&s;h; He knowes we would have Peace; but we know no way in the world how to accommodate it, but by making Peace with God (who is offended) removing what is grievous to his Eyes and by breaking downe that which breaks <HI>His heart; zach.</HI> 6.9. And we are confident, till this be done, <HI>valiant ones &s;hall cry out,</HI> and <HI>Emba&s;&s;adors</HI> of Peace &s;hall weep bitterly <HI>I&s;.</HI> 33 7. as once they did; for ask from one end of the heaven to the other; but it will &s;uffice toaske from the beginning of Gods book to the end of the &s;ame. The An&s;wer will be <HI>No Peace</HI> till <HI>God</HI> be at peace; till we have made His <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> our <HI>Friend:</HI> And this cannot be, till we have done as afore&s;aid, removed that which makes Him our <HI>Enemy;</HI> and our <HI>weapons turne back wherewith we fight even again&s;t Babilon.</HI></P>
<P>I prote&s;t before the living <HI>God</HI> (indeed I am earne&s;t, and is there not a cau&s;e? I am pleading for <HI>God,</HI> He needs me not, not &s;uch a poore worme, but it would make a dumb man &s;peake, heareing that he who &s;tands for all, &s;tands now as a <HI>Cipher,</HI> nay le&s;&s;e then that, He gaines not a place, he is not &s;o much as once named in this <HI>Treaty,</HI> nor is the removing of tho&s;e things &s;o much as mentioned, which make Him our Ad|ver&s;arie; I am pleading for <HI>God,</HI> for his Cau&s;e, his Truth, his Peace, his King, his Kingdome; in a dearer affection my deceitfull heart tells me to my Country, then is expre&s;&s;able.) I prote&s;t then before the <HI>living God,</HI> that if &s;o be wee &s;hould &s;tand and aske every day from the moneth of <HI>March</HI> to the next the next year; <HI>Is it peace?</HI> the An&s;wer will be as often repeated, <HI>No,</HI> no peace, no <HI>Accommodation.</HI> nor never will be, till you are come up to <HI>God,</HI> to his Termes, to <HI>make Peace with him,</HI> through that <HI>middle was, God, Man, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t:</HI> I pray you hearken to it and con&s;ider on it.</P>
<P>M. <HI>There is a State Religion, which may be a</HI> Servant to other de&s;ignes, <HI>and &s;uch a Truth too, and &s;uch a</HI> Peace <HI>al&s;o.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A</HI> The Moderatour &s;aves &s;o and gives us Characters of all the&s;e (as of him&s;elf too) but &s;ome thing like <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> will not give me leave to thinke, that &s;uch a Religion is
<PB N="10" REF="7">any better then no Religion: or that &s;uch a <HI>Peace</HI> is not more de&s;tructive than war. our Peace with that, where with we &s;hould have warre; and warring again&s;t <HI>God</HI> of whom we &s;hould &s;eek <HI>Peace,</HI> hath cau&s;ed all our troubles, it cannot le&s;&s;en them.</P>
<P><HI>But the Peace is not the wor&s;e comming through the Princes hand.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> No, but much the better, &s;o he &s;eek it too as we mu&s;t at <HI>Gods hand,</HI> and by that <HI>middle way</HI> which <HI>God</HI> found out, thereby to declare the un&s;earchable riches of his <HI>Wi&s;edome, Mercy, Grace.</HI> It is &s;uppo&s;ed now that in &s;eeking Peace at the right doore, the <HI>extra</HI> or <HI>intra pro<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">ens,</HI> that which will hinder the obtaining our &s;uite mu&s;t be removed, even what ever provocations there are before Gods eyes.</P>
<P>M. <HI>And he is a gracious Prince.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I will pray, <HI>God &s;ave the King,</HI> and ble&s;&s;e him, with the ble&s;&s;ings of His right, and His left hand, and having given &s;ome grace, <HI>dd more,</HI></P>
<P>M. <HI>Remember we not the Declarations he hath made? no Prince ever gave &s;uch engagements.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Yes we Remember very well And that others have &s;aid almo&s;t as much, and have done almo&s;t as little, But let the <HI>Moderatour</HI> goe on: though he hath lo&s;t his guide and is quite out of the way.</P>
<P>M. <HI>He is an envious man that would not make a bone&s;ire for every Declaration he hath &s;ent.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> I dare not &s;ay &s;o, that he is an envious man, that will not make a <HI>bonefire:</HI> I think he may be a good man and yet think a bonefire an unworthy expre&s;&s;ion of true Joy. I would forbear farther An&s;wer here, but I cannot &amp; faine I would &s;peak <HI>ab&s;tractly,</HI> and in the generall (though there is deceit) but I mu&s;t &s;peak as the ca&s;e requires, in truth of heart A Rulers Declaration of his Grace, Tru&s;t, and Service is to no purpo&s;e except to make a Bonefire, if it be not followed, with Truth and Action: The higher the per&s;on is the more he &s;tands charged from the mouth of <HI>God,</HI> and his ex|ample &s;o to practice, that he may be &s;eene to &s;peake, <HI>He hath &s;poken with his mouth, and fulfilled with his hand, is</HI> foure times repeated [1 <HI>King.</HI> 8 15. 2 <HI>Chro.</HI> 6] To the pray&s;e of <HI>God</HI> Him&s;elfe, <HI>King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, Higgaion Selah,</HI> al&s;o words &s;eri|ou&s;ly to be con&s;idered on, I will adde this; good words are good <HI>Remon&s;trances of</HI> of a good mind; when Actions are not <HI>Contra-Remon&s;trances.</HI></P>
<P>M. <HI>We could not &s;ee our &s;ea&s;on, we might have clo&s;ed with the King, when hee &s;eemed to open his Armes.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A.</HI> Truly if I could forbear now (but my words are as fire within me) I would an|&s;wer nothing; becau&s;e I have two affections, which are almo&s;t become pa&s;&s;ions, &s;o &s;tirring they are within mee at this very time, <HI>Anger</HI> and <HI>feare;</HI> I am angry with the <HI>Moderatour,</HI> and for very ju&s;t Rea&s;on, I could be &s;hrew his fingers for opening the Kings Armes &s;o wide; and I could wi&s;h he had bit his tongue, when he told us, they <HI>&s;eemed to open</HI> and no more; &s;o &s;ome <HI>Per&s;ons</HI> have done, and an <HI>Engine</HI> al&s;o, they &s;eemed to open their Armes to embrace, and killed in embraceing [<HI>Philetae amplexu &s;trangalant: Sen:</HI> Hi&s;t: of the world, <HI>Page</HI> 532. I have overcome my <HI>Anger,</HI> I will by <HI>Gods</HI> help overcome my feare too, why &s;hould I be afraid to &s;peake, &s;peaking from <HI>Gods</HI> mouth, and in a zeale for my King and Country, guided by knowledge? I am con&s;trained; the <HI>Lord</HI> knowes I am, for I will appeale to Him, beholding with open face, the Sword lifted up like <HI>Abrahams</HI> hand, over <HI>I&s;aack,</HI> to kill him and his Mother too (that is the purpo&s;e) a dumb man &s;pake then &amp; why not I now? I will open my mouth and &s;peake; <HI>It &s;hall not be told to Po&s;terity</HI> (It is the <HI>Moderatours</HI> Rea&s;on) why he &s;pake, and I love my King &amp; Country as well as he, <HI>Peace</HI> too &amp; Truth al&s;o)
<PB N="11" REF="7"><HI>That we doe all wilfully blind the eyes of our Rea&s;on, and will not &s;ee that which is palpable be|fore us; I mu&s;t &s;peake that our Children may not tell their children that their Parents were a poore naked People, blind too, and dumb al&s;o;</HI> In an&s;wer then to the&s;e <HI>open Armes;</HI> This I &s;ay fir&s;t That next to the open Armes of <HI>God</HI> the <HI>Eather</HI> of our <HI>Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and in him &s;o wide opened towards us; next to tho&s;e <HI>Almighty Armes</HI> would his poore People, &s;lie for refuge into the Armes of his Maje&s;tie; and they will <HI>force</HI> them&s;elves to believe they are open to defend them his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed People: but if they &s;hould come, they cannot force them&s;elves to believe, that tho&s;e at his elbow, will not clo&s;e his Armes upon them, even when he is opening to receive them and &s;o &s;trangle them out-right, which is quickly done, for they are more than halfe dead already; becau&s;e his Armes and heart are &s;o &s;hut again&s;t his good people. What have they done? Hee that &s;earcheth the heart and trieth the Reines knoweth, they know not them&s;elves guilty of any thing again&s;t his &s;acred Maje&s;tie, wherefore his Armes &s;hould bee clo&s;ed again&s;t them: and opened towards his, and their Enemies. They have loo|ked narrowly into their hearts, what they have done or &s;poken, which might clo&s;e his Maje&s;ties armes again&s;t them, and they finde nothing that they have done, or &s;poken, but <HI>good</HI> for him before the <HI>Lord,</HI> and therein they have not beene &s;ilent night nor day, and that is their comfort.</P>
<P>M <HI>His Maje&s;ties Armes &s;eeme open to receive them, why doe they not come?</HI></P>
<P><HI>A</HI> His good People, tho&s;e that are his indeed, cannot tru&s;t <HI>&s;hewes,</HI> and <HI>&s;eemings;</HI> When his armes are wide open to tho&s;e about him, his and their Enemies, his Armes cannot &s;o much as <HI>&s;eeme</HI> to open towards his poore people I will give him, who is not willingly Ignorant good Rea&s;on for this, when I have told him what befell my &s;elfe once, which will in&s;truct the ignorant more then <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> can &s;mall things will illu&s;trate great. I came once to my friends hou&s;e, who&s;e heart I knew could clo&s;e with me as mine with him; and entring his Out-Court, out flies a Ma|&s;tive Dog to my face, by a <HI>Providence</HI> I with&s;tood his fir&s;t on&s;et, and pre&s;ently help came in; for I was at my friends hou&s;e, who&s;e Armes were open to receive me, hee &s;aw well what a greeting I had, therefore he greeted me the more heartily and I him: but I told him Sir, the Proverb holds not, <HI>love me love my Dog,</HI> you mu&s;t <HI>tru&s;&s;e-up</HI> your Dog, el&s;e you know who will never come at you, though you could open your Armes as wide as the two <HI>Poles</HI> are di&s;tant; <HI>North</HI> and <HI>South:</HI> he beleeved me, el&s;e he had not &s;hewed him&s;elfe a wi&s;e man, or a friend.</P>
<P>He that will open his Armes to receive his friend, will take care, to remove all Jealou&s;ies his friend may &s;o much as conceit to the contrary; much more will hee take care; that his Dogs mouth may be muzzled-up, if not tru&s;&s;ed up by the neck.</P>
<P>To &s;peake out, for &s;o I am re&s;olved from the mouth of <HI>God;</HI> his &s;acred Maje&s;ty cannot open his Armes to receive his Subjects into favour and grace: he cannot &s;o much as <HI>&s;eeme</HI> &s;o to doe, &s;o I &s;ay directed by Rea&s;ons. more &s;trongly bottomed then are the <HI>everla&s;ting hills,</HI> and perpetuall Mountaines.</P>
<P N="1">1. He cannot open his Armes to his poore Subjects, till he hath opened his heart to <HI>God</HI> in confe&s;&s;ion, that <HI>God</HI> made him King in <HI>his &s;tead,</HI> &s;et him upon <HI>His Throne,</HI> [<HI>Gods Throne;</HI>] put the Te&s;timony into his hand, his <HI>Law-Booke</HI> before his eyes, comman|ding him to doe thereafter, to be a <HI>Father</HI> to his Country, <HI>Lord Protector</HI> there, to doe his People all right, to &s;uffer no wrong to be done unto them, for therefore <HI>God</HI> made him King, and &s;et him upon <HI>His Throne;</HI> till the King hath opened his heart to <HI>God</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="8">in confe&s;&s;ion of his owne &s;innes, the &s;innes of his people al&s;o; their Idolatrous wayes and Cour&s;es, which brings a &s;word to lay his Land wa&s;te: till he hath &s;o don, he can|not truly open his Armes to his poore People.</P>
<P>Whether the King hath done this or no he is to be accountable to <HI>God</HI> alone. Be it &s;o, though that is nothing to our purpo&s;e; but till he hath made this confe&s;&s;ion in &s;inceritie and Truth, he cannot &s;o much as <HI>&s;eeme</HI> to open his Armes towards his Subjects indeed and in Truth: And when he &s;hall make this his confe&s;&s;ion betwixt <HI>God,</HI> and his owne &s;oule, then will the con&s;equence there from be as di&s;cernable to his poore Subjects, and as operative towards them for good, as <HI>light</HI> is, and <HI>life</HI> is, both which will manife&s;t them&s;elves where ever they are: till this be done he can|not open his Armes towards his poore Subjects.</P>
<P N="2">2. Nor till hee &s;hut his eares, and his heart to <HI>vile Councellours,</HI> I &s;ay vile Councellours, who make the King ru&s;h upon the drawne &s;word, and practice a|gain&s;t the Law of Heaven, and the Law of the Land, and are them&s;elves as the <HI>Ra|vening Wolves;</HI> he cannot open his Armes to his di&s;tre&s;&s;ed people, nor his eare to their crye, till he hath clo&s;ed his care, and his heart fa&s;t up again&s;t tho&s;e vile men, nay not till he hath <HI>cut</HI> them &s;hort by the &s;houlders, or tru&s;&s;ed them up by the neck.</P>
<P N="3">3. Nor till he has barred up his heart again&s;t the <HI>Councells</HI> of her, that hath laine in his bo&s;ome, for &s;he drives the trade of the World, and is a Chiefe, and principall A|gent therein: To dethrone the <HI>Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;t,</HI> and to advance <HI>Antichri&s;t,</HI> (it will never be, but it is the great de&s;igne, Trade and project the World is now driving on: And &s;he an active in&s;trument, for carrying on that De&s;igne with all her might.) The King cannot open his Armes truly, and heartily to receive in his poore di&s;tre&s;|&s;ed people, till he hath barred up his heart again&s;t the Councell of her that hath layn in his bo&s;ome, nor which was fir&s;t, and it &s;hall be la&s;t.</P>
<P N="4">4. Till he walkes contrary to him&s;elfe, as contrary as were the &s;treames in the <HI>South,</HI> when they were turned backe: as contrary as <HI>Mana&s;&s;eh</HI> was to him&s;elfe, after he was brought into the Thornes, and was humbled: till his heart bee turned backe, till he walke contrary to him&s;elfe; till he &s;hall confe&s;&s;e his imquity, and the iniquity of his people with their tre&s;pa&s;&s;e, which they tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed again&s;t the <HI>Lord,</HI> and <HI>that</HI> al&s;o they have walked contrary unto the Lord and that the <HI>Lord</HI> hath al&s;o walk|ed contrary unto him, till he &s;hall confe&s;&s;e this, and thus open his heart before the <HI>Lord,</HI> he cannot open his Armes toward his good people. And according to the Te|nure of the&s;e words, his good people have done for them&s;elves, and doe, and do &s;peak for their King al&s;o thereafter night and day before the <HI>Lord;</HI> and what they &s;peak before the <HI>Lord</HI> I will not &s;hame to &s;peake before men. I will adde, who&s;oever he is, that is to make an&s;wer to &s;uch a pa&s;&s;age as this, and does not &s;peak according to the Tenure and purpo&s;e of the&s;e words, the truth is not in him, he holds it <HI>in unrigh|teou&s;nes Rom.</HI> 1.18. and he is an Enemy to his King and Kingdom; to the Soule of his Soule, and the life of our lives; the <HI>life</HI> of <HI>Truth,</HI> and the <HI>Faith of the Go&s;pell.</HI> I have &s;poken according to my charge the <HI>Oracle</HI> of <HI>God:</HI> But yet if in the judgement of any, as one of the fooles in <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> It is for <HI>I&s;raels</HI> &s;ake, that they may have <HI>Peace,</HI> if as as a man be&s;ides him&s;elfe, it is for <HI>I&s;raels</HI> &s;ake too, in abundance of affection to <HI>I&s;rael</HI> that <HI>I&s;rael</HI> may have Peace, Peace with <HI>God</HI> and then peace from <HI>God,</HI> even from His Hand, which cannot be till our <HI>uncir cumci&s;ed hearts</HI> are humbled for our <HI>whori&s;h waves,</HI> therein warring again&s;t the <HI>God</HI> of our Peace: No Peace I &s;ay againe to Prince or people, till there be a <HI>giraing with &s;ackcloth and a wallowing in du&s;t</HI> [<HI>Jer.</HI> 6.26.
<PB N="13" REF="8">for our &s;hedding of blood, &amp; provoking the <HI>Lord</HI> with <HI>Images &amp; &s;trange vanities.</HI> And this I have de&s;ired to &s;peak to my own &amp; every mans heart in as expre&s;&s;e terms as <HI>I&s;aac</HI> the munk &s;pake to <HI>Valence</HI> the <HI>Emperor</HI> who told him that things wen: very cro&s;&s;e No marvail &s;aid <HI>I&s;aac,</HI> for you walk cro&s;&s;e to <HI>God,</HI> You &s;hall have no Peace while you warre with Him. You have hurried the faithfull Pa&s;tors from their flockes, Re|&s;tore them againe and cea&s;e thou to rebell again&s;t <HI>God,</HI> and <HI>God</HI> will cea&s;e to fight again&s;t thee [<HI>Tripart. Hi&s;t. lib:</HI> 9. <HI>Cap.</HI> 13] Thus plainely I have &s;poken that we may have Peace, Peace now, when warre is at the gate, peace then when pangs are upon us a peace that cannot be plundered. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>I look for peace, when I looke to &s;ee fire like another <HI>deluge</HI> round about me, when others &s;hall be at their wits end for expectation: I re&s;olved therefore to &s;peake out, and plainely for the Peace of my King, and Coontry, that he and his people might be &s;hewne the <HI>excellent way</HI> to accommodate the &s;ame. Againe, I live if I doe live, by Truth in my heart; I would dye when I mu&s;t dye with Truth in my mouth; then I looke to goe to Heaven, and finde <HI>Truth</HI> there, and live with Truth for ever. The&s;e thoughts made me <HI>ob&s;tinately</HI> &s;etled, that I would &s;peak out the Truth, and for <HI>Truth</HI> &s;o <HI>helpe me God Amen.</HI> I have two words more; I have bent my an&s;wer to the maine &s;cope the Moderator has in his eyes the <HI>Peace</HI> of the King and Kingdome, we both make way after the &s;ame thing, and goe both cro&s;&s;e; He would have <HI>Peace</HI> [by an Accommodation while we &s;tand in defiance with Heaven: I would have <HI>peace</HI> made with <HI>God</HI> fir&s;t; the whole matter is committed to Him, Who is the <HI>Way</HI> the <HI>Truth</HI> and the <HI>Life;</HI> for He is judge him&s;elfe. Other things may &s;eeme to require an&s;wer but truely I tooke care onely to finde out his &s;cope, and thereunto to bend my an&s;wer; he glanceth at this &amp; at that; &amp; cla&s;heth here and there, and takes a libertie of conceit, yet will make us beleeve He conceits the be&s;t; and will not cen&s;ure, in|deede that is a point of wi&s;dome. And yet we have warrant to beleeve that the Aymes of the <HI>Lords</HI> &s;ervants have beene &s;trait and levell to His glory and His peoples good el&s;e His Hand had not beene &s;o with them hitherto. If I have any di&s;cerning or can make any di&s;covery upon the wayes of men, and finde them off and on I pray <HI>God,</HI> as well as I can, to &s;ettle them: If I finde them con&s;tant to them&s;elves to <HI>God</HI> and <HI>his Cau&s;e,</HI> I &s;ay and I am &s;ure of what I &s;ay, <HI>after they have &s;ufferod a while, the Lord will make them and their worke perfect</HI> [1. <HI>Pet.</HI> 5.10.] For there &s;hall be no worke done for the <HI>Lord</HI> which he will not fini&s;h and recompence tho&s;e that have laboured in it. There are di&s;advantages now but <HI>one God</HI> is &s;ufficient to make all up, a &s;cattering now; there will be a time of <HI>gathering,</HI> A Cro&s;&s;e wayes and wills now; <HI>God</HI> is ma|king a <HI>Method</HI> of them. That he is not plucking downe his hou&s;e, he a&s;&s;ures you in the word of a <HI>God,</HI> who tenders his hou&s;e and hon&s;hold, better then any father on earth can do. And now that my thoughts are upon <HI>Gods</HI> Hou&s;e I thinke of an <HI>Epi|th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> The Moderator is plea&s;ed to give: The <HI>Reformation</HI> now intended, and upon De&s;igne; he calls it an <HI>Imperious</HI> Reformation. It is well if it be &s;o, for if there &s;hould be a daubing in &s;uch a worke as that is &s;o nearly concerning <HI>God</HI> and his <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> we &s;hould &s;ay of it as <HI>Ioab</HI> &s;aid in Davids works; <HI>It is abominable.</HI> We wi&s;h heartily, that Reformation may &s;o <HI>imperiou&s;ly</HI> command, that it will abate nothing of <HI>Gods</HI> Right, nor &s;uffer any thing to &s;tand that greives his Spirit; and is offen&s;ive to his eye. Cer|tainly &s;o it &s;hould be, and &s;o it mu&s;t be. <HI>The hou&s;e that is to be bailded mu&s;t be exceeding Magnificall, of &s;ame, and of glory through all Countries.</HI> [1. <HI>Chron.</HI> 22.22.5. Why &s;o
<PB N="14" REF="9">magnificall &amp; wonderfull great? <HI>For great is our God above all Gods</HI> [2 <HI>Chron.</HI> 2.5.] It is ea&s;ily applyed, the <HI>Lord</HI> hold the hands of his Servants to the worke, their eyes to the Rule, their hearts to him; That is the way to have <HI>Peace</HI> againe, which the &s;hedding of bloud and abominable Idolatries have taken from the Earth. The <HI>Lord</HI> fill his Ser|vants with his <HI>Spirit,</HI> make them compleat for this great bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, It is for their <HI>God,</HI> and his <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> a <HI>great God</HI> above all <HI>Gods;</HI> ble&s;&s;ed for ever, <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
<P>I have one word more to &s;ay to my owne heart and to the <HI>Moderatour:</HI> Let us cea&s;e from our owne wi&s;edome, from &s;eeming wi&s;er than our Teachers, and giving Rules to our betters: nor let us be too bold with our <HI>fellow Subjects</HI> neither; they may bee directed by Rea&s;on too, and happily by a better guide; Let us looke to our &s;elves, and into our owne hearts, pry narrowly there, what wee have done to make the breach wider, and to let in wrath upon our brethren: upon true &s;earch we &s;hall lay hands upon our mouthes, &s;mite upon our thighes, and be humbled even unto du&s;t: and all our worke will be to make our Peace with our <HI>God;</HI> In his name who can repaire, and make up the Breach though wide as the Sea: when every one &s;hall doe &s;o in his owne particular, <HI>God</HI> will give us Peace; It &s;hall come in as a River, and righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e as the waves of the Sea. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<Q><P><HI>Let him</HI> take hold of my &s;trength <HI>that</HI> he may make Peace with Me: and he &s;hall make Peace with Me.</P>
<BIBL><HI>I&s;ay.</HI> 27.5.</BIBL></Q>
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<Q><P>Scias. Eum pe&s;sim&egrave; dicere qui optim&egrave; placeat malis, cum optim&egrave; dicere qui maxim, placeat bonis.</P>
<BIBL><HI>Plin. Ep.</HI></BIBL></Q>
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<P>IN this Treaty of peace, we &s;hould looke upon the Kings Maje&s;ty as the principall, but being not Him&s;elfe, but ingaged to a Partie, who pretend Loyalty yet drive their owne ends to the the ruine of their King and his Kingdoms: We looke upon them, even the Athei&s;ts in three Kingdomes, the Papi&s;ts all the world over; And doe affirme from Sacred te&s;timonie, That we can accommodate a peace with them upon no better termes, then we can make peace with the Devill.</P>
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