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<P> <HI>_OBviaverunt,</HI> They that meet may &s;eem to be a&s;under, and although they contend at the fir&s;t, they ki&s;&s;e before they depart. <HI>Meeting,</HI> if it be not ho&s;tile, be it never &s;o meane, is a mutuall &s;ocietie, <HI>Prov.</HI> 22, 2. <HI>I&s;a.</HI> 34. 14. the wilde&s;t creatures want not their loving meetings. <HI>Truth</HI> meets <HI>Mercy</HI> in <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> and in Him all Promi&s;es are fullfilled, <HI>Luke</HI> 1. 68, 69 <HI>Acts</HI> 13. 32. 33. It is <HI>mercy</HI> that returned the <HI>captivity of Iacob,</HI> and <HI>Babylon</HI> was the type of our <HI>bondage,</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> our <HI>deliverer. Mercy</HI> would have man to be &s;aved, <HI>Truth</HI> mu&s;t di&s;pute the way; and finding man in errour, cannot helpe him without a <HI>birth,</HI> which mu&s;t budde out of the Earth, as Flowers doe that &s;pring of them&s;elves without mans &s;owing or planting; and &s;o <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> and the Chri&s;tian are born: <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> of mans &s;eed without him, out of the earth or wombe of a Virgin, and a Maide and a Mother are the great wonder of the Word, which the world mu&s;t beleeve, or el&s;e no <HI>truth</HI> will meet <HI>mercy;</HI> and the Apo&s;tle tells us &s;o much, <HI>Gal.</HI> 6. 16. that the fir&s;t and the la&s;t meet in <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI> as the meanes, and with him buddes forth the birth of the new crea|ture not from the earth, but from heaven, <HI>Gods</HI> righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e having looked down to ju&s;tifie him, and the Holy Spirit to &s;anctifie him. Of the glory of <HI>God</HI> all men are de&s;ti|tute by &s;inne. <HI>Rom.</HI> 3. 23. and he dwells with them in the communication of it in his Son, <HI>Rev.</HI> 21. 3. 11. <HI>I&s;a</HI> 60. 1. and changeth them into the image of it from <HI>glory to glory,</HI> 2 <HI>Cor.</HI> 3. 18. And indeed <HI>Chri&s;t</HI> is this glory when he dwelt in our Land, and was made <HI>fle&s;h, and we &s;aw the glory therof, as the on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ly begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, Ioh.</HI> 1. 14. When <HI>God</HI> &s;hewed <HI>Mo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> his glory, he put him into the clift of this Rock, and covered him with the hand of his Mercy that he might not die at the &s;ight of his face, and that his goodne&s;&s;e pa&s;&s;ing by, might be &s;een, and he live by the &s;ame hand, di&s;covering the way to know God, <HI>Exod</HI> 33. 13. 23.</P>
<P>For application, <HI>Obviaverunt,</HI> as many things meet in the Kings Oath at his Coronation, <HI>mercy</HI> and <HI>truth, ju&s;tice</HI> and <HI>Peace</HI> are the Sacrament He takes, and to teach Him perjury when they have mo&s;t need to <HI>meet,</HI> is to take glory from our Land, and lay us wa&s;t in the mi&s;erable de&s;olations of Gods goodnes, the Lands increa&s;e, the execution of <HI>ju&s;tice</HI> and the foot&s;teps of former times. We de&s;ire not to accu&s;e but to an&s;wer acu&s;ations again&s;t the <HI>ob|viaverunt</HI> of our dayes. We &s;ay the conjunction of the great lights in heaven the enterview of great States on Earth ever bodes &s;ome great matter. Much is made of a conjunction of cele&s;tiall bodies this en&s;uing yeare, and we &s;hould not need to feare the Starres, if our 3. E&s;tates, were rightly e&s;tabli&s;hed in our Parliament, according to the Office and Oath of Him that hath called them to &s;uch a <HI>meeting.</HI> I am &s;ure the 4. Attributes I have named, are as great States as any in the Court of heaven, and by a &s;acred Oath they meet upon Earth; and what can His Maje&s;ty do more, then call this <HI>meeting</HI> continue it, and &s;ee that <HI>mercy</HI> and <HI>truth</HI> may <HI>meet,</HI> not in pitched a Field but with <HI>Iu&s;titia &amp; pax o&s;culatae &s;u<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">?</HI> They &s;hould not runne one at another as Enemies, but ki&s;&s;e as loving Friends. It were no wonder for <HI>mercy</HI> and <HI>peace</HI> to meet, our mi&s;eries make way for both. <HI>Peace</HI> cryes out of a Civill Warre, and <HI>mercy</HI> of Nationall Cruelties and the poore People know nothing of <HI>truth</HI> and <HI>ju&s;tice,</HI> and the encounters made again&s;t them. The conclu&s;ion of <HI>peace</HI> would be as ea&s;ie as the motion of <HI>mercy,</HI> if <HI>truth</HI> and <HI>righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI> were not oppo&s;ite. <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e</HI>
<PB REF="2"> beares the Sword not in vain, and the truth will be &s;evere again&s;t errour; and we mu&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> expect <HI>mercy</HI> and <HI>peace</HI> without them: and our mi&s;erie is, that the King, Lords and Com|mons have met without an <HI>O&s;culati &s;unt;</HI> and why is that true <HI>praevaricati &s;unt?</HI> If they had not written we &s;hould never have known the &s;ecrets of State.</P>
<P>It is one of the greate&s;t treacheries of State to divulge the &s;ecrets of either Hou&s;e with|out common con&s;ent. What hath cau&s;ed &s;o much <HI>heart-burning</HI> as the revelation of mat|ters in delibera<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ion, before any determination? His Maje&s;tie may conceive the wrong done to His Councell, that He hath under&s;tood the meaning of it in the fir&s;t motion, re|ported as <HI>David</HI> &s;aies of <HI>Doeg,</HI> 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 22. 22. to doe mi&s;chief. If His Maje&s;ty had never <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> with &s;uch men, but all as one man had declared their mind to the King, there would never have bin any divi&s;ion; nor could it have bin known in Votes who pa&s;&s;ed the Bill, and who were again&s;t it. We know all or the mo&s;t make a generall Vote, and &s;o His Maje&s;tie ought to receive it, and not &s;o much as to know who were again&s;t it. His Ma|je&s;tie receives a Declaration at <HI>New-market,</HI> and knowes to one man in the Lords Hou&s;e and to a few in the Hou&s;e of Commons, who were for it and who again&s;t it, and con|cludes the Declaration was made again&s;t Him, becau&s;e &s;o many were for Him in both Hou&s;es, and the lawfull Vote again&s;t him. Who &s;hall be able to &s;peak in either Hou&s;e, if &s;uch divi&s;ions be made? Is it not upon good rea&s;on when the King &s;peaks in either Hou&s;e, that no one Lord nor Commoner an&s;wer Him till all have con&s;ented; and &s;hall any tell the King what the Hou&s;es meane, before he heare it from them all? I am de|ceived, if this have not deeply wounded many in both Hou&s;es, as <HI>Doeg</HI> did <HI>Abimelech,</HI> to his de&s;truction, with above 80, <HI>per&s;ons wearing a linnen Ephod.</HI> Members are nominated for Traitors, and may not know their Accu&s;ers, and the Lords and Commons judge it an injury to have them accu&s;ed, and not know by whom. <HI>Ip&s;a ratio dictat,</HI> common rea&s;on doth teach, that no accu&s;er &s;hould be any mans Judge; and Kings call not for offenders to puni&s;h them, but in a legall way, and Coun&s;ellers to be called for (by them that are bound to receive ju&s;t information) upon treacherie, is intolerable injury. Many things are penned and Printed in papers under a Royall name, that are in this kind mo&s;t un|righteous, and have cau&s;ed fir&s;t divi&s;ion in the Parliament, and then the de&s;ertion of that Societie.</P>
<P>I have read many Books of Remon&s;trances and Declarations from the Lords and Commons in both Hou&s;es, by no private pens, but publique con&s;ent, and confe&s;&s;e my &s;elfe convinced of their mo&s;t ju&s;t proceedings, and con&s;tant re&s;olutions: but in the other fearefull contradictions, &s;hamefull reproaches, and mo&s;t uncharitable con&s;tructions of all things. To give &s;ome in&s;tances. Rebellion is laid upon the in&s;truments of the Parli|ament, and the Parliament freed, the actors judged, and the authors ju&s;tified. The Par|liament is de&s;erted and accu&s;ed of Faction, as if Faction were not in the de&s;ertours, but the de&s;erted; as if the great Councell of the Kingdome were to beare the di&s;grace of Of|fenders. It is a Councell called by the King, continued by an Act of all the Members, and yet by departure of per&s;ons may be deprived of power<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s if it were a Court in being and might admini&s;ter no Ju&s;tice. It's called to con&s;ider of Que&s;tions <HI>&s;uper dubiis,</HI> upon doubts in Laws; and <HI>de Queremoniis &s;uper injuriis,</HI> and of complaints of injuries, and yet mu&s;t &s;uffer doubts not to be re&s;olved, and injuries (as the Apo&s;tle &s;peakes) not to be revenged, <HI>Rom.</HI> 13. 4. Be&s;ides the&s;e, imminent dangers mu&s;t not be provided for, but neglected by de&s;ertion. The twentyeth part of mens e&s;tates to be taken from them to &s;ave the Kingdome from actuall inva&s;ion, when nothing is to be &s;pared that may be a &s;peedy remedie of all
<PB REF="2"> mens Rights. Is it again&s;t Law to &s;ave the whole City from fire io plucke down &s;ome mens hou&s;es? to drown mens Lands to prevent a greater danger? to build Bulwarks up|on any mans ground to &s;ave the whole? either the King mu&s;t doe it, or the Parliament&punc; for it was never denyed Him in the not being of a Parliament, in ca&s;e of nece&s;&s;itie to u&s;e all meanes of &s;afety for his people, by an arbitrary Government: but in time of Parlia|ment that power is committed to it, and no man may refu&s;e to doe that for his &s;afety that all men are bound to doe, and wherein the Parliament, be&s;ides the paines are deepe&s;t in their owne per&s;ons and pur&s;es.</P>
<P>The Kings of <HI>England</HI> have no meere but mixt Empire, that is a <HI>Royall</HI> power mixt with one that is <HI>Politique,</HI> and therfore as a King he may not doe what he will, but what is Law; and in time of Parliament, he may not proceed in any arbitrary way without It: and as He hath no righteous judgement out of all inferiour Courts, &s;o when a Parliament is called and continued, He may not de&s;ert it, to doe any thing out of his own judgement: and what&s;oever he doth is extra-judiciall, arbitrary, and obligatory to no body. His <HI>Re|gall power</HI> contrary to the which is <HI>Politique,</HI> is alwaies unrighteous, and to be ruled by any is Rebellion in them, and to be re&s;i&s;ted by all Loyall Subjects, without all feare of dam|nation, what&s;oever Divines may &s;ay to the contrary: for they doe but cro&s;&s;e the Apo&s;tle, who enjoynes not obedience to <HI>per&s;ons</HI> but <HI>powers;</HI> and Royall power in <HI>Peter</HI> is u&s;urped, being applyed to Emperours (&s;uch as <HI>Nero)</HI> who ruled not by Lawes, but their own wills, but &s;uch are not the Kings of <HI>England,</HI> nor of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> further then they made them&s;elves &s;laves, 1. <HI>Sam.</HI> 8. refu&s;ing <HI>Gods</HI> Government for Tyranny, for he provided, <HI>Deut.</HI> 17. that the <HI>Politique power</HI> &s;hould goe before the <HI>Regall,</HI> and make it <HI>righteous,</HI> which is called not the judgement of the Kings, but of the Kingdome, 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 10. 25.</P>
<P><HI>Mercy</HI> &s;hould move the King to give <HI>Truth</HI> a meeting, and not de&s;ert it, to &s;ee his Sub|jects in mi&s;erie and errour. <HI>Truth</HI> would teach the whole Kingdome that they are in an error that defend the Regall power again&s;t the Righteous power in Parliament. They are abu&s;ed by Divines in the <HI>mixt Monarchie,</HI> as if it were ab&s;olute, and had the power of Imperiall and Civill Laws, when ours are common by cu&s;tome, cho&s;en by the people, and Statutes of their election in Parliament, which no Royall power can contradict. <HI>Mercy</HI> and <HI>Peace</HI> as <HI>bed-fellowes</HI> &s;leep together, but not &s;ecurely without <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Iu&s;tice.</HI> They are <HI>Collectaneae,</HI> as <HI>Bernard</HI> &s;peakes, and &s;ucke one milke, one bre&s;t, but the nouri&s;h|ment may be poy&s;ed by ca&s;es of Con&s;ciences alleadged without <HI>Truth</HI> and <HI>Iu&s;tice:</HI> as to teach men to follow per&s;onall commands again&s;t Politicall, the de&s;erting of Parliaments, again&s;t well de&s;erving Members, pre&s;&s;ing Precepts to Emperours, to bring men into errors to Kings, as if all were to be obeyed alike, when &s;ome are to be obeyed above their Lawes, becau&s;e their will makes them, when others are to be obeyed according to their Laws, to the which them&s;elvs are Subjects, <HI>Vbi enim mi&s;eriocordia e&s;&s;et. &s;i cum mi&s;ero non e&s;&s;et?</HI> where &s;hould mercy be, if with mi&s;ery &s;he &s;hould not be? &s;uch is the condition of our Kingdome, and &s;uch &s;hould our great meeting be.</P>
<P>The meeting of great friends, was our &s;econd Note, and St. <HI>Aug. in P&s;a.</HI> upon the <HI>ver.</HI> meets with carnall men, <HI>tu forte unam habere vis, et alteram non vis,</HI> many would meet with mercy, that mind not the truth, would lay hold of the one, and let goe the other: <HI>mi&s;eri|cors et verax,</HI> God is not more mercifull then true, nor mercifull at all to them that love not his truth. He is abundant in goodne&s;&s;e and truth, re&s;erving mercy for thou&s;ands and yet will not cleere the guilty of his willfull errors: peace is in every mans Petition, and rather then mi&s;&s;e it, they will &s;pare righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e: <HI>fac ju&s;titiam et habebi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> pacem,</HI> doe well
<PB REF="3"> and fare well, <HI>depart from evill and doe good, &s;eeke peace and pur&s;ue it; &s;i amicam pacis <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> veris, non amabit te pax,</HI> if thou love not the friend of peace, peace will not love thee: I can|not but collate this <HI>Quaternion</HI> in the P&s;alme with our Parliament, mercy makes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="2 letters"> truth for a compamon, truth to ju&s;tice, and Ju&s;tice to peace. <HI>Servabis pacem,</HI> is the fir&s;t part of the oath, the la&s;t part of my text. <HI>Factes fieri ju&s;titiam in mi&s;ericordia et veritate,</HI> is the &s;econd part, and &s;uch a <HI>Quaternion</HI> is all we can de&s;ire in the office and oath of a <HI>King;</HI> and more then Kings promi&s;e that are at liberty, and few performe that are borne to their Crownes, and yet they are be&s;t when they doe it. <HI>Elegerit</HI> would never have need &s;o ma|ny Critici&s;mes if election had been qualified with <HI>ju&s;t</HI> and <HI>rea&s;onable;</HI> who would have limited it to laws made, if the making of new ones had urged no more? and more is not contained in the peoples election, and to &s;ticke to the old when the new are &s;o good, is meerely to maintaine <HI>Monarchy</HI> to be bound to no laws at all for that power that is Roy|all to make what lawes it will, is at liberty to breake as many as it li&s;t. Our mi&s;ery is, that our friendly meeting of <HI>King, Lords</HI> and <HI>Commons</HI> is ho&s;tile, and who &s;hall be able to judge of the quarrell, if the Parliament be &s;hut out? The members that remaine have the be&s;t in the di&s;pute, and if we find three E&s;tates, wee &s;hall have the powers to judge, the per&s;ons that may be judged. The King cals the councell, and cannot recall it, and who can deny the power to be, where it cannot be recalled? The people &s;end the Commons, and can they be excu&s;ed that are departed? Or can hee call them from the Parliament that hath called them unto it, <HI>ce&s;sante quacunque excu&s;atione,</HI> &amp;c. To be driven away is but a dry excu&s;e, and mercy to them&s;elves, will not excu&s;e ju&s;tice to others, nor in truth free them from the ju&s;t cen&s;ure thereof. Wee have either the friendly meeting in Parlia|ment, or all the attributes in my text are lo&s;t, no mercy without this meeting, no truth to di&s;cover errors. righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e will not raigne, or Peace bee procured to ki&s;&s;e without deceit.</P>
<P>The birth of truth &s;hould end all controver&s;ies, and the originall of it is to be noted for the place, every thing hath it's appropriate being from the birth, and earth buds forth truth <HI>naturally,</HI> as in the Creation, <HI>Ge.</HI> 1. 11. <HI>Dixit et fuit,</HI> truth pronounceth as the thing is, and the thing is as God pronounceth it to be, and &s;o many expound the words, <HI>faithfulnes &s;pringeth;</HI> that is, the Land bringeth forth faithfull increa&s;e an&s;werable to Gods ble&s;&s;ing upon it. The Land is a figure of mens minds, <HI>Heb.</HI> 6. 6, 7, 8. and <HI>mora&s;ly</HI> is taken for the Councells of men, and &s;o every man conceives truth as he is able, and many minds in a friendly meeting bud forth, and bolt out the truth better then divided per&s;ons, and wee are bound to the Parliament for truth above all other councells and as Courts the judg|ment of truth can be received from no other, as the la&s;t re&s;olution. <HI>David</HI> corrected one Councell by another, 1 <HI>Cbron.</HI> 13 2. &amp; 15. 2, 3. Hee gave the Councell that di&s;co|vered the error, but would act nothing without a generall Councell and for my part I &s;hall never expect a friendly meeting till the Parliament budde for that truth that may be accompanied with mercy, draw Ju&s;tice from Heaven with Peace to bee pre&s;ent at this meeting. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="3 letters">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">naturally</HI> truth is borne of a Uirgin, <HI>Iob.</HI> 1. 14. <HI>the word was made fle&s;h,</HI> and tabernacled in us, and the con&s;equent is <HI>fullne&s;&s;e of grace and truth,</HI> and wee were happy this birth would bring &s;ome fruit to us Chri&s;tians, not to &s;hed that bloud, for which our Saviour &s;hed his, that we might not peri&s;h; and peri&s;h wee will to defend Papi&s;ts in this waire, which is their la&s;t, and ends the te&s;timony of the two witne&s;&s;es, <HI>Rev.</HI> 11. 7. Who i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>Doctrine, Death, Re&s;urrection</HI> and <HI>A&s;&s;en&s;ion</HI> re&s;emble their Saviour. Hee for the &s;pace of three yeares and an halfe taught mo&s;t heavenly Doctrine, died to &s;eale the truth of it tri|umphed
<PB REF="3"> over death by a glorious re&s;urrection, and by his a&s;cen&s;ion led captivity captive &s;o conceive of this my&s;tery of the two witne&s;&s;es, they prophecy as many dayes, as the moneths of the Bea&s;t containes, and when they &s;hall fini&s;h them, the Bea&s;t &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 word"> harde&s;t, and the witne&s;&s;es &s;hall be helped by the di&s;&s;en&s;ion of all Nations from the grave; and whil&s;t they burie one another, &s;hall ri&s;e, a&s;cend and <HI>Rome</HI> &s;alf, and therefore leo not the godly feare the pre&s;ent mi&s;eries, not the arming of Papi&s;ts, for by them the bea&s;t b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eth, and the God of truth reveale to all his righteous judgments and &s;peed that peace to, his Churches that is promi&s;ed to them and tho&s;e that &s;hall looke out <HI>fre&s;h as the morning faire as the Moone, cleare as the Same and terrible as an drmy with banners,</HI> Can. 6. 10.</P>
<P>The end of the birth of truth is the reconciliation of God and man. <HI>Ortus veritatis,</HI> brings with it <HI>occur&s;us mi&s;ericordiae,</HI> and <HI>pro&s;pecius ju&s;titiae o&s;culum pacis.</HI> Every one gives a ble&s;&s;ing in the clo&s;e. Mercy meets at the birth, and brings glory to God, and free grace to Men, Truth of promi&s;e, as well as of threats enters the Stage, and &s;tands out for mercy to bee made good in promi&s;es, which are all performed at the birth of it upon earth: Then fol|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">owes the gracious a&s;pect of ju&s;tice, which breakes open a doore in Heaven, and opens <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">t to all believers, with pardon of &s;inne, and power to &s;ubdue it, and peace of con&s;cience, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd courage for it, make a Chri&s;tian feare no dangers to appeare in the behalf of truth&punc; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd my heart gives me that all that fight again&s;t the <HI>Parliament</HI> rai&s;e a wicked warre, and, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">romi&s;e protection without mercy, for it comforts not without truth, and to fight for <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rrors may (as <HI>Daniel</HI> &s;aies) <HI>make men ob&s;tinate to under&s;tand nothing, Dan.</HI> 12. 10. and want of true wi&s;edome will leave every man in di&s;tre&s;&s;e, <HI>and they that delight in unrighteou&s;ne&s;&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">or&s;ake their owne peace,</HI> and mi&s;erable is that fallacy that &s;eeds many with vaine per&s;wa&s;i|on they are for the King, when they are mo&s;t again&s;t him, not knowing they may rebell <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">gain&s;t his authority, when they obey his per&s;onall commands, and either his per&s;on may <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">e ab&s;ent from his power, or he hath one power to bee &s;ollowed in Parliament, and a|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">other out of it, and &s;o no man &s;hall know what to obey, and whether he &s;hall be dam|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ed to obey him in his Court, or in his Campe again&s;t it, and if <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> will fight again&s;t <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> who &s;hall be <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> &s;ubject? It's mo&s;t true all Appeales are from <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> to <HI>Cae&s;ar;</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> alone may rever&s;e the judgement of <HI>Cae&s;ar:</HI> but it mu&s;t be in a right order, as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">rom <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> in one Court to another, and when we come to the highe&s;t, there to re&s;t: and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">et <HI>Cae&s;ar</HI> may repeale the judgement of one <HI>Parliament</HI> by another: But his proceeding out of his Courts is too <HI>Cae&s;ar-like,</HI> &amp; will &s;tand good neither in true Divinity, nor hone&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">umanity.</P>
<P>Mercy is the fir&s;t in every good motion for man, the <HI>P&s;alme</HI> is full of the remembran|ces of it, <HI>Lord thou ha&s;t bin favourable unto thy Land; thou ha&s;t brought back the captivity of Iacob. Thou ha&s;t forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou ha&s;t covered all their &s;in, &amp;c.</HI> After remembran|ces follow <HI>Prrayres</HI> of conver&s;ion, contrition, expo&s;tulations with him who&s;e anger cannot be endle&s;&s;e; he will revive and rejoyce the <HI>bones he hath broken,</HI> mercy mu&s;t bee &s;hewed to mourners and &s;alvation granted to the di&s;tre&s;&s;ed: Prayers are attended with patience to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eare what God will &s;ay: Patience wants not experience of peace, and hope holds the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">eart from fainting. And Faith makes &s;alvation at hand to them that feare him, and all <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">his that glory may dwell in our Land.</HI> Such is the power of mercy to make way for truth, which is able to di&s;pute with all errors, and ju&s;tice gives the argument of each mans <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">ight, and when all are &s;atisfied therewith the conclu&s;ion will ever be peaceable. Such would be the proceedings of Parliament, where there mu&s;t needs bee the greate&s;t com|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="left margin cropped or obscured" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1+ letters">a&s;&s;ions, as having the common cau&s;e in hand, which concernes as much them&s;elves
<PB REF="4"> as any others, and it were unnaturall for any man to wrong him&s;elfe, and as in a body<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="right margin cropped or obscured" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <HI>one member &s;uffer, all the members &s;uffer with it.</HI> So in the e&s;tate, the members that truely re|main members feele mo&s;t of the common calamities and move mo&s;t for their cure what care they have of the Kingdome that are departed from the Parliament, is plaine by their &s;elfe-love, for they remaine not members of the body they belong unto, but as per&s;ons part from it, every one &s;eeking his owne things and not the things of another. As for truth to di&s;pute all errors, it is the mo&s;t faithfull Councell in the Kingdome, and for ju&s;|tice the fitte&s;t Court to give every man his right, and to expect peace without it, is nei|ther probable nor po&s;&s;ible. That the Parliament &s;hould &s;eeke for peace to the King is as nece&s;&s;ary as to Petition for any good law, and warre is by all meanes to be avoyded, and herein the Parliament hath v&s;ed all patience &amp; does pa&s;&s;e by infinite injuries. Notan ac|cu&s;ation but forced upon fal&s;e grounds. Trea&s;on is coyned cunningly by di&s;tingui&s;hing per&s;ons from the <HI>Parliament,</HI> &amp; the <HI>Parliament</HI> from the powers that make it. His Maje&s;tie i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> taught to condemn per&s;ons for Traytors &amp; the <HI>Parliament</HI> is aimed at in them, for defend|ing them, which is ju&s;t, as far as they do the <HI>work</HI> appointed by &s;uch a <HI>councell</HI> &amp; to deceive the people they part the King from being in it by his power, becau&s;e his per&s;on is ab&s;ent&punc; and &s;o he may be from any Court, and yet remaine in it for his judgement, and I know nothing nece&s;&s;ary for a per&s;onall Act, but his Vote to make a law perfect and permanent as for the declaring of law they want not the power of a Court, &amp; in imminent dangers, to ordaine for the pre&s;ent what &s;hould be done in the per&s;onall ab&s;ence of the King.</P>
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