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<P>THE PARLIAMENTS Love and Loyalty TO THE KINGS Mo&s;t Excellent Maje&s;tie.</P>
<P>Wherein is proved, that the Par|liaments difcontent, and the Kings di&s;affection to|wards them, is the effect of Evill Councellors, that &s;eeke the ruine and de&s;truction of the Kingdom.</P>
<P>With &s;ome Additionall Rea&s;ons, Declaring what hath cau&s;ed This Seperation of the Kings Maje&s;tie from <HI>London,</HI> And to rai&s;e Arms at <HI>York.</HI></P>
<P>WITH The occa&s;ion of the&s;e di&s;tracted Times, &s;ome &s;tanding for the King, and &s;ome for the Parlia|ment, as if they de&s;ired Civill Wars as the Malig|nant party doth.</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Cook,</HI> August 30. 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>The Parliaments LOVE and LOYALTY TO THE KINGS MAJESTIE.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Kings Maje&s;tie hath been plea|&s;ed to imagine and conceive by the in&s;ti|gation of evill effected men, that the Par|liament endeavours to impaire and give narrower limmits to the Kings Maje&s;ties Fame and Honour, and to derogate any thing from the true and Legall Prerogative inherent and e&s;&s;enti|all in the Kings Per&s;on. It may be evidently ob&s;erved in the many Loving and Loyall Declarations &s;et forth by the Parliament, that they de&s;ire nothing more earne&s;tly then to the utmo&s;t of their Lives and For|tunes, to promote the magnificent Honour and Glo|ry
<PB N="4" REF="3"> of His Maje&s;tie, to pre&s;erve the Prote&s;tant Religi|on, and to &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> it in &s;uch a true and upr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> po&s;ture of reformation, that the King may &s;till merit as He doth inherit the title of <HI>veri Defen&s;or fidei,</HI> the Defendor of the true fa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters">h, and His Maje&s;tie doth herein <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> and comply with His Honourable Parliament, that He will maintaine and defend the true Prote&s;tant Religion.</P>
<P>Whereas the Parliament knowes there can be no good Religion in &s;uch as rai&s;e Arms, and di&s;quier the State of their native Soveraigne, contradicting their oath, bond, and obligation of their faith, whereunto they are &s;worne by their Allegiance, if &s;uch Arms and For|ces be rai&s;ed again&s;t the Kings Maje&s;tie, who&s;e Per|&s;on they ought to defend again&s;t all dangers, both For|raine and Dome&s;tick, yet there may be &s;ome additio|nall rea&s;ons whereby in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;ity, when rumors and feares of invading from the Kings party are feared and &s;pread abroad, when there is an opo&s;ition, or an Antiparliament, e&s;tabli&s;hed to contradict the pro|cedings of the other, when the Libertie and Priviled|ges of Parliaments, which ought to be pre&s;erved en|tire, are took away, or &s;lighted, not by di&s;tinctions, but ab&s;olute negations of their fundamentall being, where divers Members of the Hou&s;e of Parliament do ab|&s;ent them&s;elves, and not return again upon Summons, nor fine impo&s;ed on them for their co~tempt and breach of Parliamentary Power, and when they Kings Maje|&s;tie &s;educed by evill councellors of the malignant par|ty, is in&s;tigated to rai&s;e copious and informidable for|ces upon groundle&s;&s;e feares and jealou&s;ies, the Parlia|ment con&s;idering tho&s;e and other pretended rea&s;ons,
<PB N="5" REF="3"> and being &s;trong te&s;timoniall witne&s;&s;es in their con&s;ci|ences of their clear intents and loyall affections to His Maje&s;tie cannot chu&s;e but be admoni&s;hed by the Kings Maje&s;ties great preparations, to imagine that when their neighbours hou&s;e is on fire, their own is in great perill and danger, e&s;pecially His maje&s;tie having of late through the advice of &s;ome Incendaries and tho&s;e that would laugh to &s;ee the Cittie of <HI>London</HI> on fire, as they have them&s;elves reported, &s;trongly be&s;ieged and environed the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">own of <HI>Hull,</HI> entending to take it by &s;tarving them out, blocking up the pa&s;&s;ages for &s;up|plying them wlth any relief or &s;u&s;tenance. The Par|liament therefore and the Citie of <HI>London</HI> concurring in mutuall affection, fore&s;eeing the &s;torms that threat|ens them, hanging in the Northorn Clouds, do intend to rai&s;e forces to deffend the Kings Honour, and the &s;afety of the Parliament which de&s;ires no War, but the Peace and happine&s;&s;e of the Kingdom, the pre&s;er|vation of the Laws in their power and authority, the maintaining of Religion free from &s;uper&s;titious In|novations, and that no errors of Popery and Ariani&s;me may be impo&s;ed upon us, as the Doctrine of the Church; The con&s;ervation of the Rights and Liber|ties of the Subject, &s;o that all true-hearted Subjects cannot chu&s;e but have a &s;en&s;ible feeling of the wrongs, indignities, and affronts, offered by the malignant par|unto the Parliament; And &s;ince they are <HI>Patres Pa|triae,</HI> the fathers of their Country, the Subjects of <HI>En|gland</HI> ought like obedient children to maintain their Rights, and be &s;ubiect to all their ju&s;t and legall com|mands; how unju&s;tly therefore doth that &s;candalous Declaration and Re&s;olution of the County of <HI>Here|ford</HI>
<PB N="6" REF="4"> charge them with in&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uating fal&s;e - hoods, and doth feare to intimate that the Body politick of this Kingdom, hath been rather wrong'd in the health thereof, then any way purg'd by the State Phy&s;itians of Parliament, being them&s;elves corrupted with &s;ini|&s;ter re&s;pects as the fore&s;aid Declaration fal&s;ly mentions.</P>
<P>But yet it may be objected what may be the rea&s;ons that move the King to keep &s;uch a di&s;tance from His Loving and Loyall Parliament, and to confide more in Evill Councellors at <HI>York,</HI> then in His great Coun|cell of Parliament at <HI>London;</HI> for a generall &s;atisfacti|the&s;e rea&s;ons may be alledged.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, His Maje&s;ties oppo&s;ition again&s;t the Parlia|ment, and by a &s;trong hand &s;upporting and protecting Delinquents, &s;o that orders of Parliament are not o|beyed but &s;lighted and &s;corn'd, &s;o that it is made but <HI>Imago Parliamenti,</HI> a meer &s;haddow; and this is one cau&s;e why the Kings Maje&s;ty and the Parliament have &s;o long di&s;&s;ented and di&s;agreed.</P>
<P>The &s;econd rea&s;on may be drawn from the feare and con&s;cientious guiltine&s;&s;e of &s;ome great Per&s;ons, who being doubtfull and timerous lea&s;t the Parliament &s;hould di&s;cover their Machivilian intentions again&s;t the peace of the Kingdom, and &s;ecretly adhering to Pa|pi&s;ts, do therefore &s;trive to incen&s;e the King again&s;t the Parliament, and &s;et the Kings Name and Preroga|tive in the Front of the Battell to defend their own bad cau&s;es, and keep them from that puni&s;hment which they have incurr'd by their demerits.</P>
<P>A third rea&s;on is becau&s;e there is not that mutuall relation and confidence, which ought to be between them, for the <HI>medium</HI> or meane conjunctive being ta|ken
<PB N="7" REF="4"> away, or frequently broken, or to &s;peak plainly, when the King doth not love and re&s;pect His Parlia|ment, but is by Evill Councell wrought to oppo&s;e them, and to &s;uffer them to be maligned with bitter In|vectives under his name in the forme of Doctors, it mu&s;t needs con&s;equently di&s;animate the Parliament, to &s;ee their love and loyalty rewarded with nothing but contempt and di&s;like; what &s;on can &s;hew any <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iliall</HI> duty if the father will not endure his fight but rejects him? what &s;ouldier can perform any remarkable &s;ervice if their Captain do not e&s;teem them as his friends, and confide in them as <HI>fidelious</HI> and true to their colours<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and how can the Parliament produce tho&s;e good ef|fects which are expected, and accompli&s;h tho&s;e &s;eri|ous &s;ervices and bu&s;ine&s;&s;es, wherewith their country had entru&s;ted them, if &s;o be that the King give no en|couragement to their con&s;ultations, but hath gathered force at <HI>York,</HI> under the pretence of a Guard to oppo&s;e the Parliament, and be&s;iege <HI>Hull;</HI> &s;o that while His Maje&s;ties love is alienated and withdrawn from His Parliament, and His actions &s;peak contrary to His words, there mu&s;t needs be jealou&s;ies and di&s;agreement betwixt them.</P>
<P>A fourth Rea&s;on may be the con&s;tant and long con|tinued habit of di&s;affection; which being like unhappy &s;eeds &s;ow'd abroad among the common people, hath brought a mutinous faction in their di&s;tracted minde, &s;ome dividing their opinions for the King, and others for the Parliament; &s;o that they have di&s;cours'd them|&s;elves into a &s;uppo&s;ition and expectance of War, not as the Malignant party hopes to be reconciled; and this is a great rea&s;on why the Devil has brought in this
<PB N="8" REF="5"> Sophi&s;try, to disjoyn the King and Parliament, to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ubver&s;ion of this Kingdom, an effect of the evill Coun|cells now prevailing and rending to the di&s;&s;olution of this Parliament, and the di&s;turbance of the Kingdom, This Parliament the hope and pre&s;erver of the Prote|&s;tant Religion, and of the good and welfare of three Kingdoms&punc; The blows of friends are unkind, and therefore let us pray that God in the&s;e di&s;tracted times would change the Kings mind, in who&s;e hands the hearts of Princes are as conformable as wax, and that he would give the Parliament his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, who&s;e offence can be no other in the opinion of all true Subjects, but their Love and Loyallty to the Kings Maje&s;tie: For,</P>
<Q>Regis ad examplum totis componitur vrbis.</Q>
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<L>If that the King be plea&s;'d Wars to make,</L>
<L>Subjects by His example Arms mu&s;t take.</L>
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