The contra-replicant, his complaint to His Maiestie
         Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
      
       
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             The contra-replicant, his complaint to His Maiestie
             Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.
          
           31 p.
           
             s.n.,
             [London :
             1643]
          
           
             Caption-title.
             In answer to "The reply of the petitioners" by William Chillingworth, which was published with "The petition of the most svbstantiall inhabitants of the citie of London ... to the Lords and Commons for peace" and "The answer to same." Cf. BM and Madan 1165.
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           Chillingworth, William, 1602-1644. -- Reply of the London petitioners to the late answer to their petition for peace.
           Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649.
        
      
    
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           THE
           Contra-Replicant
           ,
           HIS
           COMPLAINT
           To
           His
           Maiestie
           .
        
         
           A
           Petition
           for
           Peace
           is
           presented
           to
           the
           Parliament
           by
           some
           thousands
           of
           Citizens
           ;
           the
           Petition
           findes
           a
           peaceable
           answer
           ;
           and
           that
           Answer
           (
           as
           I
           shall
           now
           set
           forth
           )
           is
           opposed
           by
           an
           unpeaceable
           Reply
           ,
           but
           that
           time
           may
           be
           the
           better
           husbanded
           ,
           and
           indifferent
           Readers
           the
           better
           satisfied
           ,
           before
           I
           undertake
           the
           Replication
           it selfe
           ,
           I
           desire
           all
           men
           to
           be
           preadvertised
           of
           some
           few
           things
           .
        
         
           Schollars
           have
           been
           very
           active
           in
           this
           unnaturall
           warre
           ,
           both
           in
           raysing
           and
           fomenting
           it
           ;
           the
           tongue
           hath
           made
           some
           wounds
           as
           well
           as
           the
           hand
           ;
           and
           the
           sword
           had
           never
           been
           so
           keene
           ,
           had
           it
           not
           been
           whetted
           by
           the
           Pen
           :
           but
           Schollars
           are
           not
           active
           on
           both
           sides
           alike
           ,
           (
           to
           shew
           their
           partiality
           ,
           and
           interest
           in
           this
           cause
           )
           't
           is
           only
           on
           the
           Kings
           side
           ,
           where
           the
           Pen
           and
           the
           Launce
           are
           both
           brandisht
           in
           the
           same
           hand
           .
           And
           it
           is
           wisely
           ordered
           ,
           for
           the
           Kings
           Interest
           will
           be
           the
           more
           hopefully
           pursu'd
           when
           Schollars
           second
           it
           with
           their
           Arts
           ,
           and
           the
           Schollars
           Interests
           will
           be
           the
           easier
           gained
           ,
           when
           the
           King
           seconds
           them
           with
           his
           Armes
           .
           But
           of
           all
           kindes
           of
           Learning
           Oratory
           is
           most
           relyed
           on
           :
           and
           of
           all
           kindes
           of
           Oratory
           ,
           that
           is
           most
           made
           use
           of
           ,
           which
           is
           most
           wantonly
           painted
           and
           dressed
           ,
           and
           borrowes
           most
           from
           ostentatious
           Art
           ,
           and
           is
           therefore
           most
           unfit
           for
           businesse
           ,
           either
           of
           Law
           or
           State
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           most
           fit
           to
           inveagle
           ,
           and
           deceive
           with
           its
           false
           graces
           and
           flourishes
           .
           The
           tongue
           of
           
             Cyneas
          
           was
           very
           advantageous
           to
           
             Pyrrhus
          
           in
           subduing
           Townes
           and
           Cities
           ,
           but
           't
           is
           likely
           more
           of
           manly
           Logick
           then
           of
           effeminate
           
           Rhetorick
           flow'd
           from
           that
           tongue
           of
           his
           ,
           or
           else
           Townes
           and
           Cities
           in
           those
           dayes
           were
           governed
           by
           very
           illitera●e
           men
           .
           None
           but
           the
           duller
           sort
           of
           people
           are
           to
           be
           catcht
           by
           pure
           Oratory
           ,
           the
           wiser
           sort
           are
           well
           enough
           instructed
           ,
           that
           when
           the
           Fowlers
           pipe
           playes
           most
           melodiously
           ,
           the
           snare
           is
           coucht
           most
           pernitiously
           .
           That
           man
           is
           very
           unworthy
           to
           judge
           of
           Papers
           that
           cannot
           distinguish
           betweene
           foundations
           and
           superstructions
           ,
           reasons
           and
           Assumptions
           ;
           that
           cannot
           discerne
           betweene
           prooving
           of
           premises
           ,
           and
           pursuing
           of
           conclusions
           :
           and
           yet
           the
           chiefest
           fraud
           of
           the
           Orator
           is
           to
           passe
           over
           that
           part
           of
           the
           businesse
           which
           requires
           most
           proofe
           ,
           without
           proofe
           at
           all
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           most
           darke
           without
           light
           at
           all
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           is
           most
           important
           without
           mention
           at
           all
           .
           'T
           is
           enough
           for
           the
           Orator
           to
           blazon
           the
           bloudy
           shield
           of
           warre
           in
           generall
           ,
           when
           't
           is
           his
           sole
           charge
           to
           dispute
           who
           are
           the
           guilty
           causers
           and
           promoters
           of
           this
           particular
           warre
           :
           'T
           is
           enough
           for
           him
           to
           take
           it
           for
           granted
           ,
           or
           at
           most
           upon
           his
           owne
           credit
           to
           affirme
           it
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Kings
             party
             of
             Papists
             and
             Arminian
             Clergy
             men
             and
             delinquents
             were
             first
             assayled
             by
             this
             Parliament
             ,
             without
             cause
             or
             danger
             ;
          
           and
           so
           
             per
             saltum
          
           to
           proceed
           to
           venemous
           invectives
           ,
           and
           cursed
           censures
           against
           the
           Parliament
           :
           when
           his
           maine
           taske
           is
           to
           proove
           either
           that
           a
           Parliament
           may
           in
           no
           case
           whatsoever
           defend
           it selfe
           ,
           or
           that
           this
           warre
           in
           the
           Parliament
           is
           not
           defensive
           .
           If
           wee
           peruse
           all
           the
           papers
           which
           have
           come
           out
           in
           the
           Kings
           behalfe
           ,
           under
           his
           name
           ,
           or
           otherwise
           ;
           we
           shall
           find
           nothing
           proper
           to
           be
           insisted
           on
           ,
           but
           these
           two
           points
           ,
           
             That
             defensive
             warre
             is
             unlawfull
             in
             Parliaments
             ,
             or
             that
             this
             warre
             in
             the
             Parliament
             is
             not
             defensive
             ;
          
           and
           yet
           nothing
           lesse
           hath
           been
           insisted
           on
           ;
           nay
           though
           the
           Fabricke
           bee
           vast
           that
           is
           built
           and
           raised
           thereupon
           ,
           ye●
           that
           which
           ought
           to
           support
           all
           the
           fabrick
           is
           utterly
           neglected
           ;
           so
           in
           this
           reply
           (
           now
           to
           be
           examined
           )
           if
           much
           be
           affirmed
           ,
           yet
           little
           is
           prooved
           ,
           and
           if
           any
           proofe
           be
           made
           't
           is
           of
           sequels
           ,
           not
           of
           premisses
           ;
           't
           is
           of
           assumptions
           deduced
           ,
           not
           of
           
             Theses
          
           deducing
           :
           and
           't
           is
           plaine
           and
           obvious
           to
           all
           that
           the
           
             Replicant
          
           here
           pleads
           not
           as
           if
           he
           stood
           at
           the
           barre
           ,
           but
           pronounces
           sentence
           ,
           as
           if
           he
           sate
           on
           the
           Bench
           :
           We
           may
           justly
           therefore
           suspect
           that
           he
           aymes
           not
           at
           the
           satisfying
           of
           wise
           men
           ,
           but
           the
           dazelling
           of
           simple
           men
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           would
           not
           daube
           with
           his
           sucusses
           every
           line
           ,
           and
           embellish
           with
           his
           Caressing
           Phrases
           every
           sentence
           ,
           if
           he
           did
           not
           affect
           the
           pompe
           of
           Mr
           
             Rhombus
          
           the
           Pedant
           ,
           rather
           then
           the
           graviti●
           of
           a
           Statist
           .
           The
           next
           Art
           of
           our
           
             Replicant
          
           is
           to
           impose
           those
           his
           nude
           averments
           ,
           which
           are
           most
           false
           and
           improbable
           ,
           with
           most
           boldnesse
           and
           assurance
           ,
           assailing
           as
           it
           were
           thereby
           the
           beliefe
           of
           other
           men
           with
           armed
           violence
           ▪
           That
           it
           may
           passe
           for
           currant
           that
           
             Farnham
             Castle
             was
             surprized
             contrary
             to
             the
             faith
             ,
             and
             Treaty
             of
             Sir
             William
             Waller
          
           (
           with
           whom
           no
           Treaty
           was
           ever
           entertained
           ,
           nor
           spoken
           of
           ,
           )
           it
           must
           be
           further
           averred
           ,
           
             That
             our
             side
             was
             false
             at
             Winchester
             ,
             false
             in
             Yorkshire
             ,
             false
             every where
             ;
          
           but
           these
           things
           
           
             ●adem
             facilitate
             negantur
             ,
             quâ
             affirmantur
             .
          
           Another
           advantage
           of
           the
           Kings
           party
           is
           by
           multitude
           of
           writings
           ,
           invective
           and
           Satyricall
           :
           both
           the
           Universities
           are
           become
           mints
           of
           defamatory
           disgracefull
           papers
           ,
           the
           Regiments
           of
           the
           Kings
           Pen-and-Inkhorne
           men
           ,
           are
           more
           and
           fuller
           then
           of
           his
           sword-men
           ;
           and
           though
           too
           many
           papers
           are
           scattered
           of
           both
           sides
           ,
           yet
           those
           of
           the
           Kings
           are
           most
           of
           them
           serious
           ▪
           and
           done
           by
           able
           men
           ,
           whereas
           those
           of
           the
           Parliaments
           side
           for
           the
           most
           part
           are
           ridiculous
           done
           by
           Sots
           ,
           or
           prevaricators
           to
           the
           disadvantage
           of
           the
           partie
           .
           After
           these
           premonitions
           I
           come
           to
           the
           Replication
           it selfe
           .
           The
           substance
           of
           the
           Petition
           was
           
             That
             the
             Parliament
             would
             tender
             such
             Propositions
             for
             Accommodation
             ,
             as
             might
             be
             accepted
             with
             honour
             to
             his
             Maiesty
             ,
             and
             safety
             to
             the
             Kingdome
             .
          
           The
           substance
           of
           the
           Answer
           was
           that
           the
           Parliament
           was
           truly
           and
           heartily
           desirous
           of
           a
           safe
           and
           honourable
           Accommodation
           ,
           and
           for
           an
           instance
           of
           that
           their
           desire
           would
           seeke
           nothing
           from
           the
           King
           ,
           but
           to
           enjoy
           the
           due
           essentiall
           Priviledges
           of
           his
           highest
           Court
           of
           Law
           and
           policie
           ,
           which
           priviledge
           must
           needs
           qualifie
           and
           fit
           them
           rather
           to
           judge
           ,
           then
           to
           be
           judged
           by
           any
           other
           inferiour
           partie
           .
           That
           a
           totall
           submission
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           he
           being
           so
           farre
           addicted
           to
           a
           faction
           of
           
             Papists
          
           and
           haters
           of
           
             Parliaments
             ,
          
           could
           neither
           be
           safe
           nor
           honourable
           .
           That
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           Kings
           party
           were
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           foes
           of
           Religion
           and
           Libertie
           :
           foes
           irreconcileable
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           ever
           had
           been
           dangerous
           ,
           and
           were
           now
           made
           more
           furious
           by
           bloud
           against
           the
           Parliament
           .
           That
           if
           the
           Petitioners
           being
           but
           a
           part
           of
           
             London
             ,
          
           and
           that
           but
           a
           part
           of
           
             England
             ,
          
           should
           in
           stead
           of
           an
           honourable
           safe
           Accommodation
           presse
           the
           Parliament
           to
           a
           dishonourable
           unsafe
           submission
           to
           the
           Kings
           party
           ,
           it
           were
           a
           breach
           of
           publike
           trust
           in
           the
           Parliament
           to
           yeeld
           therein
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           being
           trusted
           by
           the
           whole
           Kingdome
           ,
           that
           if
           a
           just
           fit
           Accommodation
           be
           intended
           the
           King
           ought
           to
           trust
           the
           Parliament
           in
           part
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Parliament
           ought
           in
           part
           to
           trust
           the
           King
           .
           That
           both
           parties
           being
           equally
           disarmed
           ,
           the
           Protestants
           being
           lesse
           countenanced
           by
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           more
           obliged
           in
           Conscience
           by
           oathes
           and
           agreements
           ,
           would
           be
           more
           obnoxious
           to
           disadvantages
           ,
           then
           that
           party
           wherein
           so
           many
           Papists
           are
           predominant
           .
           That
           though
           the
           Parliament
           might
           submit
           ,
           yet
           a
           faire
           Accommodation
           it
           could
           not
           obtaine
           ,
           except
           the
           King
           would
           equally
           condescend
           thereunto
           .
           That
           if
           the
           Petitioners
           had
           found
           out
           a
           more
           safe
           and
           honourable
           Accommodation
           then
           the
           Parliament
           had
           yet
           discovered
           ;
           (
           for
           that
           was
           possible
           )
           the
           Parliament
           would
           embrace
           it
           ;
           That
           if
           none
           such
           could
           be
           found
           out
           ,
           the
           affections
           and
           Judgements
           of
           the
           Parliament
           ought
           not
           to
           becensur'd
           or
           distrusted
           .
           That
           it
           behooved
           the
           Petitioners
           to
           addresse
           themselves
           by
           the
           like
           petition
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           if
           no
           want
           of
           affection
           to
           peace
           were
           apparent
           in
           the
           
             Parliament
             ,
          
           as
           certainly
           none
           was
           .
        
         
           In
           contradiction
           and
           opposition
           to
           all
           the
           severall
           poynts
           in
           this
           A●alysis
           ,
           
           what
           the
           
             Replicant
          
           hath
           set
           forth
           ,
           wee
           shall
           now
           see
           in
           the
           same
           order
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           
             great
             contrivers
             of
             our
             sad
             divisions
             ,
             which
             abuse
             the
             weake
             reason
             of
             the
             people
             ,
             to
             keepe
             up
             an
             unfortunate
             misunderstanding
             between
             King
             and
             Subject
          
           are
           not
           named
           by
           the
           
             Replicant
             ;
          
           but
           they
           are
           clearely
           pointed
           out
           
             to
             be
             the
             Chiefe
             Lords
             and
             Commons
             in
             Parliament
             :
          
           for
           he
           saith
           ,
           
             Every
             new
             Vote
             of
             late
             hath
             been
             a
             new
             affliction
             :
          
           and
           
             he
             makes
             Pennington
             and
             the
             Citty
             Lecturers
             to
             be
             but
             Iourney-men
             Rebels
             under
             them
             :
          
           and
           even
           this
           Hellish
           slander
           he
           venteth
           
             under
             the
             name
             of
             the
             Petitioners
             ,
             whom
             he
             stiles
             the
             most
             considerable
             persons
             of
             the
             Citty
             :
          
           and
           at
           the
           same
           time
           affirmeth
           ,
           
             that
             the
             people
             generally
             are
             of
             honest
             affections
             .
             And
             the
             Answer
             to
             the
             Petition
             in
             which
             ,
             the
             words
          
           (
           he
           saies
           )
           
             are
             softer
             then
             oyle
             ,
             though
             the
             matter
             of
             it
             be
             poison
             of
             Aspes
             ,
             he
             attributes
             only
             to
             some
             Chiefe
             Engineers
             of
             mischiefe
             in
             the
             House
             ,
             though
             it
             carry
             in
             it
             the
             Authority
             of
             the
             whole
             House
             .
          
           Here
           is
           a
           wonder
           beyond
           all
           wonders
           .
           A
           few
           factious
           persons
           in
           Parliament
           over-awe
           the
           major
           ,
           better
           and
           wiser
           part
           in
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           by
           a
           few
           factious
           Instruments
           in
           Citty
           and
           Countrey
           abuse
           the
           major
           ,
           better
           and
           wiser
           part
           there
           also
           into
           the
           most
           miserable
           distempers
           and
           calamities
           that
           ever
           were
           ;
           and
           though
           the
           honest
           generality
           begin
           to
           grow
           wiser
           and
           are
           instructed
           by
           the
           sence
           of
           their
           miseries
           ,
           and
           by
           other
           advertisements
           from
           loyall
           Papists
           and
           Prelates
           ,
           and
           other
           pious
           Courtiers
           and
           souldiers
           to
           shake
           off
           their
           few
           Tormentors
           :
           Nay
           ,
           and
           though
           the
           King
           himself
           has
           not
           onely
           publisht
           the
           most
           eloquent
           and
           subtill
           Declarations
           to
           disabuse
           the
           people
           ,
           that
           ever
           were
           (
           himselfe
           being
           the
           most
           beloved
           and
           honoured
           Prince
           that
           ever
           was
           for
           his
           indulgence
           to
           Liberty
           and
           Religion
           )
           but
           ha●h
           also
           advanced
           a
           most
           puissant
           and
           victorious
           Army
           to
           releeve
           these
           undeceived
           wretches
           ;
           yet
           the
           incantation
           holds
           ,
           no
           humane
           force
           either
           of
           Arm●s
           ▪
           or
           Art●
           can
           dissolve
           it
           .
           The
           miracles
           of
           
             Moses
          
           had
           an
           impression
           of
           divine
           vertue
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           did
           therefore
           triumph
           overall
           the
           Egyptians
           spels
           :
           bu●
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           Mr
           
             Pym
             ,
          
           with
           I
           know
           not
           what
           infernall
           engines
           distorts
           and
           wrests
           all
           the
           Orbes
           of
           a
           Kingdome
           from
           their
           naturall
           motions
           ;
           and
           yet
           no
           divine
           Art
           can
           resist
           him
           .
           'T
           was
           never
           beleev'd
           before
           that
           any
           but
           God
           could
           work
           contrary
           to
           nature
           ,
           but
           now
           it
           must
           be
           beleeved
           .
           But
           is
           it
           so
           apparent
           that
           the
           Parliament
           is
           averse
           from
           peace
           ?
           yet
           saies
           the
           
             Replicant
             ,
             For
             withdraw
             the
             fuell
             ,
             and
             the
             fire
             is
             soon
             extinguisht
             :
             Let
             the
             Parliament
             not
             foment
             the
             ill
             humour
             (
             by
             supplyes
             of
             men
             ,
             Armes
             and
             Ammunition
             )
             and
             the
             wound
             will
             heale
             of
             it selfe
             .
          
           In
           the
           petition
           ,
           nothing
           but
           an
           Accommodation
           ,
           safe
           and
           honourable
           was
           pretended
           ,
           but
           now
           we
           see
           a
           meere
           submission
           is
           intended
           in
           this
           replication
           .
        
         
           T
           is
           not
           prooved
           :
           That
           the
           Armes
           of
           the
           Parliament
           are
           unjust
           ;
           't
           is
           not
           prooved
           ,
           that
           it
           may
           be
           safe
           for
           the
           Kingdome
           to
           prostrate
           ,
           and
           subject
           Parliamen●s
           to
           the
           discretion
           of
           that
           faction
           which
           now
           has
           bereav'd
           us
           of
           the
           Kings
           presence
           and
           favour
           ;
           yet
           because
           the
           Replicant
           will
           take
           upon
           him
           to
           condemne
           Parliaments
           ;
           we
           must
           also
           allow
           of
           his
           Judgement
           .
        
         
         
           But
           '
           its
           further
           say'd
           by
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           
             that
             even
             Accommodation
             it selfe
             is
             not
             pleasing
             in
             Parliament
             ▪
             witnesse
             that
             sp●ech
             of
             one
             ,
             I
             like
             not
             daubing
             :
          
           and
           that
           of
           another
           ,
           
             I
             hat●●●●
             name
             of
             Accommodation
             .
          
           Hee
           which
           hates
           the
           name
           of
           an
           Accommodation
           as
           it
           has
           bee●
           used
           of
           late
           to
           signifie
           a
           totall
           submission
           ,
           may
           love
           a
           true
           Accommodation
           in
           it selfe
           :
           and
           he
           that
           likes
           not
           the
           daubing
           of
           those
           which
           under
           the
           colour
           of
           Accommodation
           ayme
           at
           nothing
           but
           division
           and
           dissention
           amongst
           the
           people
           ,
           may
           more
           heartily
           affect
           a
           safe
           ▪
           and
           honourable
           agreement
           ,
           then
           the
           Replicant
           himselfe
           .
        
         
           Can
           the
           Parliament
           expresse
           zeale
           to
           peace
           better
           then
           by
           contracting
           all
           its
           rights
           and
           priviledges
           into
           one
           compendious
           proposition
           ,
           for
           the
           setling
           of
           union
           ?
           To
           purchase
           true
           peace
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           desires
           nothing
           but
           to
           retain
           the
           meere
           being
           of
           a
           Parliament
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           to
           be
           the
           supreme
           Court
           of
           King
           and
           Kingdome
           .
           And
           if
           it
           can
           stand
           with
           the
           essence
           of
           such
           a
           Court
           to
           be
           arraign'd
           ,
           tryed
           and
           sentenced
           by
           a
           faction
           of
           Papists
           ,
           Prelates
           ,
           Delinquents
           ,
           and
           Souldiers
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           will
           submit
           to
           that
           Condition
           also
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           When
           we
           expresse
           our
           feares
           of
           the
           Kings
           party
           ,
           and
           therefore
           deny
           submission
           thereunto
           as
           dangerous
           and
           dishonourable
           ,
           the
           
             Replicant
          
           tels
           us
           further
           ,
           
             we
             are
             required
             not
             to
             submit
             to
             our
             fellow
             subiects
             ,
             but
             to
             the
             King
             only
             :
          
           and
           he
           tels
           us
           further
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Lawes
             are
             the
             best
             security
             ,
             and
             those
             we
             shall
             enioy
             ,
             and
             to
             claime
             any
             higher
             securitie
             is
             to
             assume
             the
             power
             of
             Kings
             .
          
           How
           farre
           the
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Land
           have
           been
           sufficient
           to
           preserve
           to
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           the
           be●ter
           part
           of
           loyall
           Protestant
           subjects
           their
           rightfull
           portion
           and
           interest
           in
           the
           Kings
           favour
           ,
           for
           these
           17.
           yeares
           last
           past
           ,
           is
           knowne
           to
           all
           ;
           The
           Lawes
           of
           
             Scotland
          
           could
           not
           secure
           the
           better
           and
           greater
           part
           there
           ;
           The
           Lawes
           of
           
             Ireland
          
           have
           not
           saved
           the
           Brittaines
           and
           Protestants
           from
           Massacres
           there
           :
           and
           yet
           certainly
           both
           those
           Kingdomes
           are
           intitled
           to
           Lawes
           of
           as
           ample
           benefit
           ,
           and
           vigour
           as
           ours
           now
           is
           .
           But
           what
           speake
           we
           of
           Common
           Lawes
           ,
           when
           even
           at
           this
           instant
           such
           a
           free
           subjects
           house
           is
           burnt
           and
           plundered
           by
           the
           Kings
           party
           ,
           in
           derision
           and
           despight
           of
           the
           Kings
           owne
           Proclamation
           and
           particular
           
             Placard
          
           granted
           for
           the
           safegard
           of
           himselfe
           and
           his
           family
           ?
           As
           our
           Judges
           preyed
           upon
           us
           heretofore
           in
           matters
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           Divines
           oppressed
           us
           in
           matters
           of
           Religion
           :
           so
           our
           Martialists
           now
           have
           a
           power
           of
           spoyling
           above
           the
           generall
           Law
           ,
           or
           any
           particular
           protection
           .
           If
           the
           King
           thinke
           fit
           to
           grant
           safety
           to
           such
           a
           person
           ,
           or
           such
           a
           Towne
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           provided
           alwayes
           that
           such
           a
           Dutch
           or
           Scotch
           Commander
           ,
           who
           conceives
           himselfe
           more
           skilfull
           in
           war
           then
           the
           King
           give
           his
           approbation
           withall
           ;
           for
           my
           part
           I
           conceive
           it
           more
           honourable
           for
           the
           King
           to
           say
           that
           he
           cannot
           ,
           then
           that
           he
           would
           not
           save
           his
           people
           from
           all
           those
           cursed
           indignities
           and
           cruelties
           which
           have
           been
           multiplyed
           upon
           us
           during
           this
           warre
           ,
           and
           before
           ,
           by
           his
           adherents
           .
           As
           for
           Lawes
           therefore
           we
           must
           take
           notice
           that
           they
           may
           be
           imployed
           either
           to
           the
           benefit
           or
           prejudice
           
           of
           any
           Nation
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           themselvss
           do
           require
           to
           be
           regulated
           by
           further
           Lawes
           .
           No
           Nation
           can
           be
           free
           without
           a
           three-fold
           priviledge
           :
           The
           first
           is
           in
           the
           framing
           and
           passing
           of
           Lawes
           .
           The
           second
           is
           in
           declaring
           and
           interpreting
           Lawes
           .
           And
           the
           third
           is
           in
           executing
           and
           preserving
           Lawes
           in
           force
           .
           Where
           the
           King
           is
           sole
           Law-maker
           all
           things
           are
           subject
           to
           his
           meer
           discretion
           ,
           and
           a
           greater
           bondage
           then
           this
           never
           was
           nor
           can
           be
           ;
           the
           
             English
          
           lie
           not
           under
           such
           base
           servitude
           ,
           their
           King
           claimes
           but
           a
           part
           in
           the
           Leg●slative
           power
           :
           and
           yet
           neverthelesse
           of
           late
           by
           discontinuing
           of
           Writs
           for
           the
           summoning
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           right
           of
           a
           Negative
           voyce
           in
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           an
           untimely
           dissolving
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           the
           peoples
           interest
           in
           this
           Legislative
           power
           has
           been
           much
           abridged
           and
           suspended
           .
           In
           the
           like
           manner
           also
           if
           the
           sole
           power
           of
           declaring
           Lawes
           were
           so
           in
           the
           King
           as
           that
           he
           might
           himselfe
           give
           Judgement
           ,
           or
           create
           Judges
           at
           his
           pleasure
           without
           imposing
           Oathes
           of
           trust
           on
           them
           in
           behalfe
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           or
           should
           deny
           redresses
           upon
           Appeales
           from
           them
           ,
           our
           Legislative
           power
           would
           be
           vaine
           and
           uneffectuall
           to
           us
           .
           For
           my
           part
           I
           hold
           it
           an
           equall
           thing
           ,
           whither
           just
           men
           make
           Lawes
           and
           unjust
           interpret
           them
           ,
           or
           unjust
           men
           make
           Lawes
           and
           just
           interpret
           them
           .
           When
           it
           was
           just
           in
           the
           King
           of
           late
           to
           impose
           what
           taxes
           hee
           pleased
           ,
           and
           as
           often
           as
           he
           pleased
           upon
           us
           for
           the
           preparing
           of
           
             Armadoes
          
           all
           over
           
             England
             .
          
           Our
           Nation
           was
           fallen
           into
           a
           most
           desperate
           thraldome
           ,
           yet
           the
           fault
           was
           not
           then
           in
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           Judges
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           had
           a
           power
           over
           the
           Judges
           ,
           Lawes
           as
           they
           are
           deafe
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           strict
           inflexibility
           more
           righteous
           then
           living
           Judges
           ,
           so
           they
           are
           dumb
           also
           ,
           and
           by
           their
           want
           of
           Language
           more
           imperfect
           then
           the
           brests
           of
           men
           .
           And
           indeed
           since
           the
           Lawes
           of
           God
           and
           Nature
           ,
           though
           knowne
           to
           all
           ,
           yet
           do
           not
           utter
           to
           all
           the
           same
           sense
           ,
           but
           remaine
           in
           many
           plaine
           points
           strangely
           controverted
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           intent
           and
           meaning
           ;
           how
           can
           we
           hope
           that
           any
           humane
           Lawes
           should
           satisfie
           all
           mens
           understanding
           in
           abstruse
           points
           ,
           without
           some
           living
           Key
           to
           open
           them
           ?
           the
           vast
           Pandects
           and
           digests
           of
           the
           Law
           sufficiently
           testifie
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           clearest
           Law
           ,
           which
           mankind
           could
           ever
           yet
           discover
           there
           are
           dark
           and
           endlesse
           Labyrinths
           ,
           wherein
           the
           weaker
           sort
           of
           lay
           men
           are
           presently
           lost
           ,
           &
           the
           learnedst
           advocates
           are
           tediously
           perplext
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           last
           place
           also
           if
           the
           sole
           power
           of
           inforcing
           and
           executing
           Lawes
           were
           so
           vested
           in
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           that
           he
           might
           use
           it
           to
           the
           cessation
           or
           perversion
           of
           all
           justice
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           were
           in
           such
           case
           remedilesse
           ,
           the
           interest
           in
           making
           and
           declaring
           of
           Law
           were
           invalid
           ,
           and
           frustrate
           in
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           might
           still
           inslave
           or
           destroy
           them
           at
           his
           pleasure
           .
           The
           
             Replicant
          
           sayes
           ,
           
             That
             under
             a
             Monarchy
             much
             must
             be
             trusted
             to
             the
             King
             ,
             or
             else
             it
             will
             be
             debased
             into
             Democracie
             .
          
           T
           is
           confessed
           much
           must
           ,
           but
           all
           must
           not
           be
           trusted
           :
           the
           question
           then
           is
           ,
           how
           farre
           this
           
             much
          
           extends
           in
           a
           Monarchy
           of
           such
           a
           mixt
           nature
           as
           ours
           is
           ,
           in
           such
           times
           as
           ours
           now
           are
           ?
        
         
         
           In
           absolute
           Monarchies
           all
           is
           trusted
           to
           the
           King
           :
           in
           absolute
           Democracies
           all
           is
           vested
           in
           the
           people
           :
           in
           a
           mixt
           Monarchy
           more
           is
           trusted
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           then
           is
           reserved
           to
           the
           people
           ;
           and
           in
           a
           mixt
           Democracie
           more
           is
           reserved
           to
           the
           people
           ,
           then
           is
           derived
           to
           the
           Prince
           .
           In
           all
           formes
           of
           Government
           the
           people
           passes
           by
           way
           of
           trust
           ,
           all
           that
           power
           which
           it
           retaines
           not
           ,
           and
           the
           difference
           of
           formes
           is
           only
           in
           degree
           ,
           and
           the
           degrees
           are
           almost
           as
           various
           as
           the
           severall
           states
           of
           the
           world
           are
           ,
           nay
           the
           same
           state
           admits
           of
           often
           changes
           many
           times
           ,
           sometimes
           the
           people
           gaines
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           looses
           ,
           sometimes
           to
           its
           prejudice
           ,
           sometimes
           not
           ;
           and
           sometimes
           injuriously
           ,
           sometimes
           not
           ;
           but
           the
           degrees
           of
           ordinary
           power
           consist
           in
           the
           making
           ,
           declaring
           and
           inforcing
           Law
           ,
           except
           when
           forraigne
           warre
           is
           ,
           and
           then
           it
           is
           expedient
           that
           a
           greater
           and
           more
           extraordinary
           trust
           be
           reposed
           in
           one
           ,
           and
           this
           we
           see
           in
           
             Holland
             ,
          
           the
           most
           exact
           Republicke
           ,
           and
           in
           
             England
          
           the
           most
           exact
           Monarchy
           in
           the
           world
           .
           But
           it
           is
           a
           leud
           conceit
           of
           our
           Royalists
           now-adayes
           to
           attribute
           to
           our
           King
           an
           absolute
           power
           over
           the
           
             Militia
          
           of
           this
           Land
           at
           all
           times
           alike
           ,
           not
           distinguishing
           between
           Civill
           warres
           ,
           wherein
           he
           may
           be
           a
           party
           ,
           and
           suspected
           ;
           and
           between
           a
           forraigne
           warre
           ,
           where
           he
           is
           neither
           a
           party
           nor
           suspected
           :
           for
           if
           our
           Kings
           will
           plead
           such
           a
           trust
           to
           our
           disadvantage
           ,
           't
           is
           just
           that
           they
           produce
           some
           proofe
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           relye
           not
           upon
           meere
           Common
           use
           ,
           't
           is
           true
           in
           case
           of
           Forraigne
           invasion
           ,
           't
           is
           expedient
           that
           the
           King
           be
           farre
           trusted
           ,
           and
           yet
           even
           so
           ,
           if
           the
           King
           should
           conspire
           with
           forraigne
           forces
           ,
           or
           neglect
           to
           protect
           us
           against
           them
           ,
           contrary
           to
           the
           intent
           of
           his
           trust
           ,
           we
           might
           resume
           the
           common
           native
           
             Posse
             ,
          
           or
           
             Militia
          
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           for
           our
           owne
           defence
           without
           his
           consent
           .
           And
           much
           more
           reasonable
           is
           it
           in
           time
           of
           Peace
           ,
           or
           Civill
           warre
           ,
           if
           the
           King
           will
           deny
           his
           influences
           ,
           or
           withdraw
           his
           presence
           ,
           to
           obstruct
           Law
           ,
           or
           will
           by
           his
           Negative
           voyce
           ,
           or
           by
           force
           seeke
           to
           disable
           his
           highest
           Courts
           and
           Councels
           ,
           and
           reduce
           all
           to
           arbitrary
           government
           :
           more
           reasonable
           is
           it
           ,
           that
           the
           people
           secure
           to
           themselves
           the
           Law
           ,
           their
           chiefest
           portion
           and
           best
           patrimony
           .
           For
           as
           the
           King
           cannot
           by
           Law
           deny
           to
           the
           people
           their
           undoubted
           interest
           in
           passing
           of
           Lawes
           ;
           so
           neither
           can
           he
           defeat
           the
           same
           interest
           ,
           or
           destroy
           the
           benefit
           thereof
           by
           misinterpretations
           ,
           or
           by
           mis-executions
           of
           the
           same
           Lawes
           .
           No
           Nation
           can
           injoy
           any
           freedome
           but
           by
           the
           right
           and
           share
           which
           it
           has
           in
           the
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           if
           that
           right
           and
           share
           doe
           not
           extend
           to
           the
           preservation
           of
           Lawes
           in
           their
           true
           vigour
           and
           meaning
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           the
           Creation
           of
           them
           ,
           't
           is
           emptie
           and
           defeasible
           at
           the
           Kings
           meere
           pleasure
           ,
           
             Much
             is
             to
             be
             trusted
             to
             the
             King
             :
          
           true
           ,
           but
           all
           is
           not
           (
           we
           see
           )
           ●rusted
           ,
           some
           power
           we
           see
           is
           of
           Necessity
           to
           be
           reserved
           in
           free
           Nations
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           King
           allowes
           us
           to
           be
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           a
           difference
           also
           in
           the
           word
           
             Trust
             :
          
           for
           there
           is
           an
           arbitrary
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           a
           necessary
           
             Trust
             ,
          
           and
           the
           one
           may
           be
           resumed
           ;
           the
           other
           not
           upon
           meere
           pleasure
           .
           Without
           all
           question
           ,
           the
           wiser
           and
           juster
           
           Princes
           are
           esteemed
           ,
           the
           more
           the
           people
           ever
           trust
           them
           ,
           but
           this
           makes
           no
           difference
           in
           the
           Legall
           and
           fundamentall
           
             Trust
          
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           nor
           can
           infirme
           credulous
           ,
           and
           easie
           Princes
           pretend
           alwayes
           to
           the
           same
           degree
           of
           power
           as
           their
           Ancestors
           have
           held
           ,
           unlesse
           they
           can
           prescribe
           to
           their
           vertues
           also
           .
           Queene
           
             Elizabeth
          
           might
           with
           safety
           and
           expedience
           be
           trusted
           further
           then
           King
           
             Iames
             ,
          
           even
           in
           those
           things
           where
           the
           Law
           did
           not
           trust
           her
           :
           but
           this
           is
           the
           misery
           of
           subjects
           ,
           all
           goes
           from
           them
           ,
           but
           nothing
           must
           returne
           :
           The
           Court
           of
           a
           Prince
           is
           like
           the
           Lions
           den
           in
           the
           Fable
           ,
           all
           the
           beasts
           leave
           prints
           and
           steps
           
             advorsum
          
           but
           none
           
             retrorsum
             .
          
           But
           the
           
             Replicant
          
           further
           assures
           us
           ,
           
             That
             t
             is
             very
             easie
             to
             assigne
             the
             bounds
             of
             these
             severall
             trusts
             :
             for
             the
             Lawes
             and
             Customes
             of
             the
             Land
             determine
             both
             :
             nor
             will
             his
             Maiestie
          
           (
           he
           saies
           )
           
             require
             any
             new
             trust
             to
             himselfe
             ,
             or
             deny
             any
             old
             trust
             to
             us
             .
          
           Our
           great
           D●vines
           were
           to
           bee
           admi●ed
           for
           their
           profound
           knowledge
           in
           the
           mysteries
           of
           Law
           were
           they
           not
           Courtiers
           :
           but
           now
           the
           King
           is
           presum'd
           to
           comprehend
           
             omnia
             jura
             in
             scrinio
             Pectoris
             :
          
           and
           so
           they
           by
           their
           residence
           at
           Court
           discerne
           all
           the
           secrets
           of
           Law
           and
           State
           
             in
             speculo
             Imperii
             ,
          
           just
           as
           our
           heavenly
           Saints
           doe
           read
           all
           things
           else
           
             in
             speculo
             Trinitatis
             .
          
           Our
           gravest
           Sages
           of
           the
           Law
           are
           much
           divided
           in
           points
           of
           lesse
           moment
           and
           intricacie
           ,
           and
           as
           for
           the
           precise
           metes
           and
           bounds
           ,
           where
           Soveraignty
           and
           Liberty
           are
           sever'd
           ,
           and
           the
           direct
           degrees
           of
           publike
           trust
           in
           all
           cases
           ,
           and
           at
           all
           times
           ,
           they
           looke
           upon
           them
           as
           grand
           difficulties
           ,
           scarce
           fit
           to
           be
           debated
           but
           in
           the
           sacred
           Court
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           yet
           Clergie-men
           think
           them
           but
           the
           first
           rudiments
           of
           all
           knowledge
           ,
           obvious
           to
           very
           A. B. C-Darians
           C-Darians
           .
           
           They
           alwayes
           boast
           of
           the
           knowne
           Lawes
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           in
           all
           disputes
           they
           referre
           us
           to
           the
           knowne
           Lawes
           and
           Customes
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           as
           if
           Judges
           were
           things
           utterly
           needlesse
           ,
           and
           the
           study
           of
           Law
           meerely
           superfluous
           .
           The
           Tresha●lt
           Court
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           of
           whose
           determination
           our
           learnedst
           Judges
           will
           not
           thinke
           dishonourably
           ,
           cannot
           pierce
           into
           these
           known
           obvious
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           yet
           every
           Sophister
           can
           :
           the
           Fountaines
           of
           Justice
           are
           now
           exhausted
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           Cisternes
           remaine
           full
           .
           But
           saies
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           
             If
             you
             seeke
             further
             security
             then
             the
             knowne
             Lawes
             ,
             the
             people
             will
             see
             ,
             that
             under
             the
             name
             of
             free
             subiects
             ,
             you
             take
             upon
             you
             the
             power
             of
             Kings
             .
          
           Sir
           ,
           we
           desire
           to
           have
           our
           Lawes
           themselves
           secured
           to
           us
           ,
           which
           you
           may
           turne
           like
           our
           owne
           Canons
           against
           our selves
           ,
           if
           righteous
           and
           prudent
           Iudges
           be
           not
           granted
           us
           ,
           and
           all
           over-awing
           violence
           so
           prevented
           ,
           as
           that
           the
           fruit
           of
           their
           Iudgements
           be
           clearely
           and
           intirely
           conveyed
           to
           us
           .
           And
           such
           securance
           is
           not
           incompatible
           with
           Monarchy
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           no
           more
           impeachment
           to
           Monarchy
           ,
           that
           the
           people
           should
           injoy
           th●n
           make
           lawes
           ;
           that
           they
           should
           be
           sharers
           in
           the
           power
           of
           declaring
           and
           executing
           ,
           then
           in
           the
           power
           of
           passing
           &
           framing
           lawes
           :
           but
           it
           is
           on
           the
           contrary
           an
           evident
           impeachment
           
           to
           liberty
           ,
           if
           an
           equality
           of
           these
           three
           Priviledges
           be
           not
           at
           least
           shared
           with
           the
           people
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           As
           for
           the
           diametricall
           opposition
           in
           Religion
           and
           State
           betwixt
           us
           and
           our
           irreconciliable
           enemies
           of
           the
           Kings
           party
           .
           The
           Replicant
           maintaines
           divers
           things
           :
           and
           of
           the
           Papists
           and
           Delinquents
           he
           sayes
           ,
           
             That
             we
             have
             nothing
             against
             them
             ,
             but
             State
             Calumnies
             :
             That
             the
             same
             justice
             may
             governe
             both
             ,
             if
             wee
             will
             submit
             to
             Law
             .
             He
             beseeches
             us
             to
             tell
             what
             Religion
             we
             would
             have
             :
             if
             that
             which
             the
             Martyrs
             sealed
             with
             their
             blood
             ,
             our
             Adversaries
             practise
             it
             ,
             and
             desire
             severe
             punishment
             upon
             all
             such
             as
             transgresse
             it
             :
             he
             imputes
             to
             us
             a
             new
             Creed
             :
             he
             sayes
             the
             King
             is
             to
             look
             upon
             friends
             or
             enemies
             in
             a
             Law
             notion
             only
             ,
             that
             Subjects
             must
             not
             give
             Lawes
             to
             Princes
             courtesies
             :
             That
             our
             enemies
             ,
             if
             they
             be
             Traytors
             ,
             are
             to
             be
             tried
             at
             the
             Kings
             Bench
             ,
             the
             house
             of
             Commons
             having
             no
             right
             of
             Judicature
             .
          
        
         
           The
           major
           part
           of
           our
           enemies
           are
           certainly
           either
           Papists
           ,
           or
           else
           such
           as
           are
           either
           over-awed
           or
           outwitted
           by
           Papists
           .
           T
           is
           true
           ,
           some
           part
           of
           our
           enemies
           knowes
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           desperate
           antipathy
           of
           Papistry
           ;
           yet
           having
           in
           them
           the
           true
           power
           of
           no
           Religion
           ,
           but
           serving
           Mammon
           only
           ,
           for
           their
           worldly
           interests
           sake
           ,
           (
           with
           which
           severity
           of
           Parliaments
           will
           not
           square
           )
           they
           adhere
           to
           Papists
           ,
           little
           regarding
           what
           Religion
           stands
           ,
           or
           what
           falls
           ▪
           Another
           part
           out
           of
           meere
           ignorance
           is
           carried
           away
           with
           the
           name
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           Professions
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           not
           at
           all
           looking
           into
           reason
           of
           State
           ,
           nor
           being
           able
           to
           judge
           of
           the
           same
           :
           but
           the
           last
           sort
           of
           men
           are
           not
           so
           considerable
           ,
           either
           for
           their
           number
           ,
           or
           power
           ,
           or
           malice
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           shall
           not
           insist
           upon
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           maine
           Engineers
           in
           this
           Civill
           Warre
           are
           Papists
           ,
           the
           most
           poysonous
           ,
           serpentine
           ,
           Iesuited
           Papists
           of
           the
           world
           .
           All
           the
           Papists
           in
           
             Europe
          
           either
           pray
           for
           the
           prosperity
           of
           this
           designe
           ,
           or
           have
           contributed
           some
           other
           influence
           and
           assistance
           to
           it
           .
           This
           warre
           was
           not
           the
           production
           of
           these
           two
           last
           yeares
           ,
           nor
           was
           
             England
          
           alone
           the
           field
           wherein
           the
           Dragons
           teeth
           were
           sowd
           .
           
             Scotland
          
           was
           first
           attempted
           ,
           but
           the
           Protestant
           party
           there
           was
           too
           strong
           for
           the
           Papists
           ,
           and
           such
           of
           the
           English
           as
           joyned
           with
           them
           .
           The
           conspiracies
           next
           broke
           out
           in
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           where
           the
           Popish
           party
           being
           too
           strong
           for
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           the
           Tragedy
           has
           been
           beseeming
           Papists
           ,
           it
           has
           proved
           beyond
           all
           paralell
           bloody
           ;
           and
           if
           shipping
           were
           not
           wanting
           ,
           they
           might
           spare
           some
           aids
           for
           their
           fellow
           Conspirators
           here
           in
           
             England
             .
          
        
         
           
             England
          
           is
           now
           in
           its
           agony
           ,
           bleeding
           and
           sweating
           under
           the
           sad
           conflict
           of
           two
           parties
           ,
           equally
           almost
           poized
           in
           force
           and
           courage
           .
           
           The
           Papists
           themselves
           in
           
             England
          
           amount
           not
           to
           the
           twentieth
           arithmeticall
           part
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           yet
           one
           papist
           in
           geometricall
           proportion
           may
           stand
           against
           twenty
           Protestants
           ,
           considering
           the
           papists
           with
           together
           with
           their
           adherents
           ,
           and
           considering
           also
           what
           they
           are
           that
           act
           over
           them
           ,
           and
           who
           they
           are
           that
           act
           under
           them
           .
           What
           power
           the
           Romish
           Vice-god
           has
           in
           the
           Queen
           is
           known
           ,
           &
           what
           power
           the
           Queen
           has
           in
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           what
           power
           the
           King
           and
           Queen
           have
           in
           the
           prelaticall
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           the
           Clergy
           in
           them
           reciprocally
           ,
           and
           what
           power
           the
           King
           ,
           Queen
           and
           Clergy
           have
           on
           a
           great
           number
           of
           irreligious
           or
           luke-warm
           protestants
           (
           now
           made
           Delinquents
           and
           so
           further
           engaged
           )
           as
           also
           upon
           all
           papists
           ,
           &
           how
           all
           these
           have
           interests
           divided
           &
           intwined
           &
           how
           restlesly
           active
           they
           al
           are
           in
           pursuing
           their
           interests
           is
           not
           unkown
           .
        
         
           Besides
           
             Ireland
          
           is
           a
           weakness
           ,
           &
           
             Scotland
          
           is
           no
           strength
           to
           us
           :
           all
           popish
           countries
           
             France
             ,
             &
             Spain
          
           &c.
           are
           likely
           to
           annoy
           us
           ,
           and
           the
           protestants
           in
           
             Denmark
             ,
             Holland
          
           &c.
           have
           not
           power
           to
           restrain
           their
           Princes
           from
           combining
           further
           against
           us
           .
           In
           this
           deplorable
           condition
           we
           have
           no
           friends
           to
           complain
           to
           ,
           and
           yet
           this
           Replicant
           tels
           us
           ,
           
             we
             have
             no
             enemies
             to
             complain
             of
             ;
          
           our
           very
           condoling
           against
           papists
           and
           delinquents
           ,
           he
           tearms
           
             State
             calumnies
             ,
             and
             slanders
             that
             have
             lost
             their
             credit
             by
             time
             ,
             and
             are
             confuted
             by
             experience
             .
          
           O
           thou
           black
           mouth
           ,
           more
           black
           then
           thy
           coat
           ,
           hast
           thou
           no
           more
           remorse
           for
           all
           that
           pretestant
           blood
           ,
           which
           delinquents
           have
           enabled
           papists
           to
           shed
           in
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           and
           for
           all
           that
           protestant
           blood
           which
           armies
           of
           papists
           and
           delinquents
           are
           now
           ready
           to
           shed
           in
           
             England
             ?
          
           if
           all
           this
           blood
           finde
           no
           pity
           in
           thee
           ,
           yet
           is
           it
           an
           offence
           to
           thee
           ,
           that
           it
           extorts
           teares
           and
           lamentations
           from
           us
           ?
           O
           thou
           unbowelled
           sanguinary
           wretch
           ,
           if
           God
           be
           the
           God
           of
           protestants
           ,
           he
           will
           judge
           these
           cruelties
           of
           papists
           ,
           and
           their
           abettors
           :
           and
           if
           he
           be
           the
           God
           of
           papists
           ,
           we
           know
           our
           slanders
           and
           calumnies
           cannot
           deceive
           him
           ;
           wee
           submit
           our selves
           and
           our
           cause
           to
           his
           revenging
           hand
           .
           But
           thou
           wilt
           say
           ,
           
             the
             Kings
             party
             in
             this
             warre
             are
             good
             Protestants
             ,
             and
             we
             are
             Anabaptists
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           The
           tyranny
           and
           superstition
           of
           Bishops
           has
           driven
           some
           of
           our
           tender
           and
           stricter
           protestants
           into
           utter
           dislike
           of
           Ceremonies
           ,
           and
           that
           pompous
           ,
           or
           rather
           superstitious
           forme
           of
           Church
           discipline
           which
           has
           beene
           hitherto
           used
           in
           
             England
             .
          
           Some
           of
           us
           desire
           an
           alteration
           of
           some
           things
           in
           our
           Lyturgy
           ,
           by
           advice
           of
           a
           learned
           and
           uncorrupt
           Synod
           :
           others
           perhaps
           scruple
           Church
           musick
           ,
           and
           any
           set
           forme
           of
           divine
           service
           ,
           to
           be
           imposed
           of
           necessity
           ,
           liking
           better
           the
           single
           order
           of
           
             Scotland
             .
          
           What
           new
           Creed
           is
           there
           in
           all
           this
           ,
           or
           what
           change
           of
           Religion
           were
           this
           ,
           if
           there
           were
           any
           great
           numbers
           of
           men
           so
           opinionated
           ?
           But
           it
           is
           well
           enough
           knowne
           to
           
           our
           Adversaries
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           not
           one
           man
           of
           both
           Houses
           of
           Parlialiament
           that
           is
           violent
           against
           all
           publick
           set
           formes
           of
           prayer
           ,
           or
           that
           forme
           which
           is
           now
           in
           use
           ,
           or
           that
           desires
           any
           alteration
           of
           Doctrine
           in
           Essentialls
           ,
           nay
           ,
           nor
           of
           Discipline
           ,
           except
           in
           things
           very
           few
           and
           inconsiderable
           .
           And
           it
           is
           well
           knowne
           that
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           as
           it
           would
           loosen
           the
           rigour
           of
           Law
           in
           some
           scruples
           for
           the
           ease
           of
           tender
           consciences
           ,
           so
           it
           abhors
           utterly
           all
           licentious
           government
           in
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           all
           by-wayes
           of
           confusion
           .
           In
           the
           City
           the
           King
           has
           instanced
           in
           
             Pennington
             ,
             Ven
             ,
             Foulk
             ,
          
           and
           
             Mannering
             ,
          
           as
           notoriously
           guilty
           of
           Schisme
           ,
           and
           doubtlesse
           they
           were
           named
           for
           want
           of
           worse
           :
           try
           these
           men
           now
           by
           the
           old
           Creed
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           nine
           and
           thirty
           Articles
           ;
           nay
           ,
           examine
           them
           concerning
           the
           Common
           prayer
           Book
           ,
           and
           it
           will
           soon
           appeare
           how
           farre
           they
           are
           strayed
           into
           Brownisme
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Schisme
           :
           it
           will
           appeare
           how
           they
           are
           wounded
           in
           schismatick
           ,
           and
           all
           protestants
           in
           them
           ,
           and
           the
           true
           Religion
           in
           us
           all
           :
           it
           may
           be
           they
           have
           not
           put
           pluralities
           ,
           or
           the
           Parliamentary
           Votes
           of
           Bishops
           into
           their
           Creed
           ;
           it
           may
           be
           they
           have
           reserved
           no
           implicite
           faith
           for
           Convocation
           acts
           ,
           and
           Canons
           ,
           which
           the
           Replicant
           may
           perhaps
           judge
           very
           irreligious
           ;
           but
           they
           hope
           this
           never
           had
           any
           anathema
           pronounced
           against
           it
           in
           the
           old
           Church
           by
           any
           Councell
           before
           Antichrists
           dayes
           .
           Let
           not
           railing
           passe
           for
           impleading
           and
           condemning
           ,
           and
           we
           will
           all
           be
           tried
           in
           the
           same
           manner
           ,
           and
           if
           any
           new
           Creed
           be
           found
           amongst
           us
           ,
           differing
           in
           substance
           from
           the
           old
           ,
           let
           our
           adversaries
           themselves
           give
           and
           execute
           sentence
           upon
           us
           .
           If
           Brownists
           could
           be
           as
           well
           distinguisht
           and
           nominated
           in
           our
           Army
           ,
           as
           papists
           are
           in
           the
           Kings
           ,
           or
           were
           really
           as
           many
           and
           as
           far
           countenanced
           ,
           we
           would
           distrust
           our
           cause
           ;
           whereas
           we
           now
           beg
           no
           otherwise
           the
           blessing
           of
           God
           upon
           our
           Armies
           ,
           then
           as
           we
           are
           enemies
           both
           to
           Popery
           and
           Brownism
           .
           Dares
           our
           Replicant
           make
           such
           a
           prayer
           ?
           no
           ,
           somtimes
           
             he
             owns
             Papists
             ,
          
           and
           somtimes
           he
           seemingly
           
             disowne
             them
             :
          
           speaking
           of
           the
           Kings
           party
           ,
           once
           he
           saies
           ,
           
             As
             for
             the
             establisht
             religion
             we
             will
             become
             suiters
             to
             you
             ,
             that
             you
             will
             severely
             punish
             all
             persons
             whatsoever
             that
             transgress
             against
             it
             .
          
           Papists
           certainly
           have
           transgrest
           against
           our
           religion
           ;
           if
           the
           rebellion
           in
           
             Ireland
          
           be
           a
           transgression
           ,
           or
           if
           the
           instant
           taking
           up
           of
           arms
           here
           against
           the
           parliament
           be
           a
           transgression
           ;
           yet
           see
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           when
           they
           call
           us
           to
           punish
           the
           papists
           ,
           they
           themselves
           arm
           &
           enable
           papists
           to
           punish
           ,
           nay
           to
           destroy
           us
           ,
           is
           this
           all
           the
           ingenuity
           we
           shall
           expect
           ?
           well
           ,
           to
           our
           law
           notion
           :
           it
           is
           argued
           in
           the
           next
           place
           ,
           
             that
             a
             Papist
             fighting
             for
             the
             King
             ,
             though
             in
             a
             notion
             of
             Theology
             ,
             he
             may
             be
             accounted
             an
             enemy
          
           quatenus
           
             a
             Papist
             ,
             yet
             in
             understanding
             of
             Law
             ,
             hee
             was
             accounted
             the
             Kings
             friend
             ,
             as
             to
             his
             fighting
             :
          
           Priest
           squires
           Doctrine
           just
           ,
           
             hee
             that
             fights
             for
             the
             King
             ,
             
             or
             rather
             at
             the
             Kings
             command
             ,
             let
             the
             cause
             be
             what
             it
             will
             ,
             he
             is
             the
             Kings
             friend
             .
          
        
         
           When
           
             Saul
             ▪
          
           gave
           a
           furious
           command
           to
           f●ll
           upon
           the
           Priests
           of
           
             Iehovah
             ;
          
           amongst
           all
           his
           servants
           ,
           he
           had
           no
           entire
           loving
           freind
           but
           
             Doeg
             :
          
           so
           when
           his
           unnaturall
           rage
           ●ncited
           him
           to
           take
           away
           the
           life
           of
           
             Ionathan
             ▪
          
           the
           whole
           Arm●
           that
           defended
           
             Ionathan
          
           were
           his
           foes
           ,
           and
           if
           it
           had
           proceeded
           to
           parties
           (
           as
           it
           had
           ,
           if
           
             Saul
          
           had
           had
           as
           many
           
             Idumeans
          
           in
           his
           service
           as
           King
           
             Charles
          
           now
           has
           )
           those
           onely
           which
           had
           been
           the
           execrable
           instruments
           of
           the
           Kings
           Tyranny
           ,
           had
           been
           the
           Kings
           friends
           ,
           and
           had
           fought
           for
           their
           King
           :
           so
           those
           six
           hundred
           men
           which
           adhered
           to
           
             David
             ,
          
           out
           of
           a
           pious
           intent
           ,
           to
           preserve
           his
           innocent
           soule
           from
           the
           bloudy
           hands
           of
           
             Saul
             ,
          
           and
           his
           three
           thousand
           impious
           murderers
           ;
           and
           the
           
             Keilites
          
           also
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           been
           faithfull
           to
           
             David
          
           (
           as
           they
           ought
           to
           have
           been
           )
           were
           guilty
           of
           Treason
           and
           drew
           their
           swords
           against
           their
           master
           .
           But
           I
           expect
           now
           that
           the
           Replicant
           insist
           upon
           the
           Iustice
           of
           the
           Kings
           cause
           ,
           
             as
             not
             taking
             armes
             to
             master
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             but
             to
             defend
             themselves
             against
             the
             Parliament
             :
          
           this
           if
           it
           could
           be
           proved
           ,
           would
           over-rule
           all
           ,
           but
           it
           being
           in
           question
           ,
           and
           as
           resolutely
           denied
           by
           one
           side
           ,
           as
           affirmed
           by
           the
           other
           ;
           the
           Replicant
           must
           evince
           by
           reason
           all
           that
           he
           expects
           to
           gaine
           from
           us
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           so
           probable
           that
           a
           Parliament
           should
           invade
           a
           King
           ,
           as
           a
           King
           a
           Parliament
           :
           'T
           is
           not
           so
           probable
           ,
           that
           a
           Parliament
           should
           be
           misled
           ,
           and
           have
           ends
           to
           enrich
           it selfe
           by
           oppression
           as
           a
           King
           .
           'T
           is
           not
           so
           probable
           ,
           that
           that
           Army
           which
           consists
           all
           of
           Protestants
           ,
           should
           be
           so
           adverse
           to
           the
           reformed
           Religion
           ▪
           as
           that
           which
           admits
           and
           favours
           all
           Papists
           and
           Delinquents
           :
           T
           is
           not
           so
           probable
           ,
           that
           that
           Army
           which
           is
           raised
           and
           payed
           by
           Parliament
           ,
           that
           is
           by
           the
           flower
           of
           all
           the
           English
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           should
           fight
           for
           Arbitrary
           government
           ,
           and
           against
           propriety
           ,
           liberty
           and
           priviledge
           of
           Parliament
           ;
           as
           that
           which
           hath
           nothing
           considerable
           ,
           but
           rapine
           and
           pillage
           to
           maintaine
           it
           .
           If
           many
           evidences
           of
           facts
           ,
           many
           pregnant
           proofs
           ,
           and
           many
           lively
           circumstances
           of
           time
           and
           place
           ,
           did
           not
           absolve
           the
           Parliament
           of
           trayterous
           conspiring
           against
           the
           Kings
           Crowne
           ,
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           person
           ;
           and
           convince
           
             Digby
             ,
             Percy
             ,
             Iermin
             ,
          
           and
           divers
           of
           the
           Kings
           and
           Queens
           party
           ,
           of
           conspiring
           against
           the
           priviledges
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           the
           lives
           of
           many
           of
           our
           noblest
           Pariament
           men
           .
           If
           all
           other
           arguments
           did
           faile
           ,
           the
           very
           invitation
           of
           Papists
           to
           the
           Kings
           Standard
           ,
           &
           the
           rising
           of
           the
           Papists
           with
           such
           generall
           consent
           now
           ,
           that
           all
           
             Ireland
          
           is
           almost
           lost
           to
           the
           papists
           ,
           and
           some
           hopes
           were
           else
           to
           recover
           it
           ,
           would
           sufficiently
           assure
           me
           ,
           that
           religion
           and
           liberty
           stand
           in
           more
           danger
           of
           the
           Kings
           party
           ,
           than
           of
           the
           parliaments
           ▪
        
         
         
           I
           could
           not
           with
           more
           cleare
           and
           cheerfull
           confidence
           die
           for
           the
           truth
           of
           the
           protestant
           Religion
           ,
           then
           for
           the
           Iustice
           of
           the
           parliaments
           cause
           in
           this
           warre
           ,
           
             noscitur
             ex
             Comite
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Let
           the
           papist
           plead
           for
           the
           Delinquent
           ,
           and
           the
           Delinquent
           for
           the
           papist
           ,
           those
           ends
           which
           have
           so
           closely
           cemented
           ,
           and
           kindly
           incorporated
           both
           together
           ,
           make
           a
           sufficient
           discovery
           to
           me
           ,
           as
           well
           what
           the
           papist
           ,
           as
           what
           the
           Delinquentis
           .
           And
           this
           age
           must
           prove
           monstrously
           unnaturall
           ,
           in
           producing
           a
           wonder
           never
           heard
           of
           in
           all
           former
           ages
           ,
           ●f
           Iustice
           doe
           now
           rest
           on
           the
           Kings
           ●ide
           ;
           For
           surely
           ,
           no
           King
           ever
           till
           now
           ,
           having
           a
           iust
           cause
           ,
           was
           opposed
           therein
           by
           the
           maior
           and
           better
           part
           of
           his
           subiects
           ;
           much
           lesse
           was
           it
           ever
           seene
           or
           heard
           of
           ,
           that
           any
           King
           in
           a
           iust
           cause
           was
           deserted
           by
           the
           maiority
           of
           his
           Orthodox
           subiects
           ,
           and
           supported
           by
           the
           unanimous
           aid
           of
           such
           ,
           as
           hated
           his
           true
           protested
           Religion
           .
           God
           send
           the
           King
           to
           lay
           these
           things
           seriously
           and
           pensively
           to
           heart
           ,
           for
           since
           none
           of
           his
           wise
           and
           worthy
           Ancestors
           ever
           yet
           had
           cause
           to
           wage
           war
           either
           with
           the
           Collective
           or
           Representative
           Body
           of
           the
           People
           :
           so
           none
           at
           all
           ever
           in
           any
           warre
           ●ided
           with
           a
           false
           Religion
           ,
           or
           against
           the
           true
           ,
           till
           this
           unhappy
           day
           ;
           in
           the
           King
           
             Charles
          
           is
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           I
           hope
           will
           be
           the
           last
           ,
           and
           therefore
           this
           is
           worthy
           to
           make
           a
           sad
           impression
           upon
           his
           soule
           .
           But
           our
           Replicant
           will
           tell
           us
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Kings
             Iustice
             may
             yet
             govern
             and
             awe
             both
             parties
             by
             the
             same
             Law
             ,
             whatsoever
             their
             antipathy
             be
             .
          
           The
           King
           has
           Law
           ,
           and
           power
           by
           the
           Law
           to
           protect
           the
           better
           partie
           ,
           and
           to
           provide
           for
           the
           peace
           of
           both
           parties
           :
           But
           notwithstanding
           that
           Law
           and
           that
           power
           the
           poore
           British
           Protestants
           in
           
             Ireland
          
           have
           beene
           left
           unprotected
           ,
           and
           lamentably
           exposed
           to
           a
           generall
           Assassination
           :
           And
           had
           they
           not
           beene
           betrayed
           by
           their
           vaine
           confidence
           in
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Kings
           protection
           ,
           they
           perhaps
           might
           have
           found
           other
           meanes
           to
           defend
           themselves
           ;
           therefore
           it
           is
           no
           refuge
           or
           comfort
           to
           them
           now
           ,
           to
           hear
           the
           name
           of
           Law
           proclaimed
           &
           reiterated
           ,
           when
           as
           things
           hapned
           there
           ,
           it
           has
           been
           the
           very
           shelfe
           and
           rock
           whereon
           the
           Protestants
           have
           been
           miserably
           bulyed
           and
           wricked
           ;
           ●hen
           pardon
           pray
           ,
           if
           the
           same
           name
           of
           Iustice
           also
           sound
           but
           harshly
           at
           this
           time
           in
           our
           eares
           :
           when
           papists
           which
           have
           destroyed
           our
           religion
           in
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           are
           raysed
           to
           preserve
           it
           in
           
             England
             ;
          
           and
           protestants
           which
           were
           sending
           succours
           and
           supplyes
           into
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           are
           in
           the
           instant
           invaded
           here
           in
           
             England
          
           for
           the
           better
           suppression
           of
           Popery
           both
           here
           and
           in
           
             Ireland
             ;
          
           T
           is
           a
           strange
           kinde
           of
           assurance
           or
           ●oy
           to
           us
           ,
           to
           see
           the
           names
           of
           Religion
           ,
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           parliamentary
           priviledge
           ,
           stamped
           upon
           our
           coyne
           ,
           or
           interwoven
           in
           our
           Standard
           ,
           when
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           we
           see
           the
           same
           Coyne
           imprested
           for
           the
           entertainment
           of
           a
           Popish
           Army
           :
           
           and
           the
           same
           standard
           marching
           against
           the
           representative
           body
           of
           our
           Nation
           ,
           and
           the
           supreame
           Court
           of
           Iustice
           in
           our
           State
           .
           Nay
           ,
           and
           the
           strange
           time
           that
           is
           taken
           for
           the
           righting
           of
           Religion
           ,
           Law
           and
           Liberty
           amongst
           us
           ,
           m●kes
           our
           assurance
           ,
           and
           joy
           the
           lesse
           triumphant
           ,
           for
           we
           plainely
           see
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           season
           now
           is
           ,
           no
           one
           Protestant
           falls
           here
           by
           the
           Kings
           sword
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           same
           stroak
           three
           Protestants
           at
           least
           are
           cut
           off
           in
           
             Ireland
             .
          
           And
           lastly
           ,
           the
           manner
           of
           rightting
           Religion
           ▪
           Law
           and
           Liberty
           ,
           is
           most
           strange
           of
           all
           ,
           for
           open
           warre
           is
           not
           now
           sufficiently
           destructive
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           spread
           all
           over
           the
           face
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           subterranean
           plots
           are
           brooded
           further
           in
           the
           dark
           ,
           and
           by
           privie
           intell●gence
           ,
           the
           whole
           City
           of
           
             London
          
           is
           to
           be
           engaged
           in
           a
           tragicall
           conspiracy
           ,
           to
           murder
           it selfe
           in
           one
           night
           :
           What
           the
           benefit
           ▪
           therefore
           is
           of
           Law
           and
           Power
           ,
           and
           Iustice
           for
           the
           disabling
           of
           Papist
           and
           Delinquents
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           safe
           guarding
           of
           loyall
           Protestants
           we
           all
           know
           :
           But
           when
           papists
           and
           delinquents
           finde
           countenance
           ,
           and
           the
           true
           religion
           is
           abandoned
           ,
           and
           le●t
           obnoxious
           to
           mischiefe
           by
           the
           perversion
           of
           Law
           ,
           Power
           and
           Iustice
           ;
           the
           names
           alone
           will
           not
           availe
           us
           ,
           but
           our
           Replicant
           further
           saith
           ,
           
             Subjects
             must
             not
             give
             Lawes
             to
             Princes
             courtesies
             .
          
           In
           matters
           of
           a
           private
           nature
           Princes
           are
           absolute
           ,
           but
           not
           so
           in
           publike
           affaires
           ,
           where
           the
           publike
           safety
           or
           liberty
           is
           touched
           .
           In
           their
           own
           pallaces
           Princes
           may
           dispose
           of
           Offices
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           State
           if
           they
           make
           Patents
           prejudiciall
           to
           their
           revenues
           ,
           to
           their
           prerogatives
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           peoples
           interest
           ;
           the
           Iudges
           shall
           pronounce
           them
           deceived
           in
           their
           grants
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           deeds
           void
           and
           null
           in
           Law
           :
           Princes
           cannot
           alien
           any
           parcells
           of
           their
           Crownes
           ,
           
             Hull
          
           may
           not
           bee
           transferred
           to
           the
           King
           of
           
             Denmark
             ,
          
           nor
           
             Portsmouth
          
           to
           
             France
             ,
          
           nor
           
             Falmouth
          
           to
           
             Spaine
             ,
          
           for
           Kings
           have
           no
           sole
           propriety
           in
           such
           things
           ,
           and
           the
           same
           reason
           is
           in
           the
           super
           intending
           Offices
           of
           Royalty
           i●
           s●lfe
           ;
           they
           are
           not
           transferible
           at
           pleasure
           :
           Some
           Princes
           (
           to
           use
           the
           words
           of
           
             Tacitus
          
           )
           are
           so
           infirme
           and
           credulous
           ,
           that
           they
           remaine
           
             jussi●
             alienis
             obnoxii
             ,
          
           and
           
             non
             modo
             Imperii
             s●d
             libertatis
             etiam
             indigent
             ,
          
           they
           are
           so
           enslaved
           sometimes
           to
           their
           basest
           flatterers
           ,
           that
           their
           very
           D●adems
           are
           as
           it
           were
           aliend
           and
           made
           prostitute
           to
           seducers
           ,
           and
           these
           their
           flatterers
           and
           seducers
           (
           in
           the
           ●xpressions
           of
           the
           same
           
             Tacitus
             )
             Minoee
             metu
             &
             majore
             praemio
             peccant
             .
          
        
         
           The
           unhappy
           Protestants
           in
           
             Ireland
          
           were
           of
           late
           undone
           by
           the
           vast●
           power
           which
           was
           put
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           
             Straff●rd
             ,
          
           and
           all
           the
           Ecclesiasticall
           ,
           if
           not
           Civill
           disturbances
           and
           distraction
           ▪
           which
           have
           of
           late
           infested
           these
           three
           Kingdom●
           ,
           were
           in
           great
           part
           ●a●sed
           by
           excesse
           of
           power
           over
           ▪
           the
           Church
           ,
           delegated
           to
           the
           Archbishop
           of
           
             Canterbury
             :
          
           
           Without
           doubt
           when
           the
           foundation
           of
           Popery
           was
           first
           to
           be
           laid
           ,
           it
           did
           not
           prosper
           and
           advance
           so
           much
           in
           sixscore
           yeers
           under
           the
           first
           Popes
           ,
           as
           it
           did
           in
           six
           yeeres
           here
           under
           
             Canterbury
             :
          
           And
           
             Ner●
          
           himselfe
           in
           his
           first
           three
           yeeres
           did
           not
           attaine
           to
           so
           much
           insolence
           and
           tyranny
           as
           
             Strafford
          
           did
           in
           one
           yeare
           .
        
         
           The
           Kings
           freedom
           therefore
           in
           favours
           will
           ●ever
           justifie
           the
           preferring
           of
           such
           men
           ,
           to
           an
           unquestionable
           com●●nd
           ,
           nor
           the
           subjecting
           the
           lives
           ,
           liberties
           ,
           and
           soules
           of
           so
           many
           millions
           of
           Religious
           Protestants
           to
           their
           corrupted
           disaffected
           wills
           :
           Neverthelesse
           ,
           for
           ought
           I
           can
           see
           we
           have
           since
           but
           changed
           one
           
             Strafford
          
           for
           another
           ,
           and
           one
           
             Canterbury
          
           for
           another
           :
           Only
           to
           stop
           our
           complaints
           :
           This
           Replicant
           tell
           us
           ,
           
             That
             the
             courtesies
             of
             Princes
             are
             not
             to
             be
             questioned
             by
             subjects
             .
          
           The
           Queen
           has
           now
           attained
           to
           a
           great
           heigth
           of
           power
           as
           formidable
           as
           she
           is
           to
           us
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           her
           sex
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           her
           Nation
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           her
           disposition
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           her
           family
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           her
           Religion
           ,
           and
           lastly
           ,
           in
           regard
           of
           her
           ingagments
           in
           these
           present
           troubles
           ;
           some
           think
           shee
           has
           an
           absolute
           unlimitable
           power
           over
           the
           Kings
           sword
           and
           Scepter
           ;
           which
           if
           it
           bee
           so
           ,
           no
           end
           of
           our
           feares
           and
           calamities
           can
           be
           ,
           no
           propositions
           can
           profit
           us
           ,
           no
           Accommodation
           can
           secure
           us
           .
           If
           the
           King
           himselfe
           were
           a
           Papist
           ,
           he
           would
           yet
           look
           upon
           us
           as
           his
           naturall
           subjects
           ,
           but
           when
           his
           regall
           power
           is
           secondarily
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           a
           Papist
           ,
           to
           that
           Papist
           we
           appeare
           but
           as
           meere
           hereticks
           without
           any
           other
           relation
           of
           subjects
           :
           By
           secondary
           power
           also
           ,
           a
           stroak
           is
           given
           with
           m●re
           secresie
           and
           security
           ;
           so
           that
           there
           is
           the
           lesse
           feare
           in
           the
           party
           striking
           to
           break
           and
           retard
           its
           violence
           :
           It
           issues
           like
           a
           bullet
           ,
           whose
           line
           is
           not
           direct
           ,
           but
           with
           some
           elevation
           in
           the
           ayre
           ,
           or
           with
           some
           windings
           in
           the
           barrell
           of
           the
           gun
           ,
           whereby
           it
           doth
           more
           execution
           at
           a
           further
           distance
           .
           Therefore
           our
           Kings
           many
           and
           dreadfull
           Oaths
           and
           Vowes
           of
           sincerity
           in
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           are
           not
           satisfying
           ,
           if
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           any
           of
           his
           Kingly
           prerogative
           bee
           shared
           with
           such
           as
           are
           not
           sincere
           in
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           ;
           it
           were
           farre
           safer
           for
           us
           that
           hee
           would
           sweare
           for
           his
           party
           ,
           then
           for
           himselfe
           .
        
         
           But
           our
           Replicant
           will
           never
           have
           done
           with
           the
           Law
           ,
           hee
           still
           tells
           us
           ,
           
             That
             every
             man
             is
             to
             bee
             tryde
             by
             his
             Peeres
             the
             Lords
             in
             the
             Lords
             House
             ,
             and
             the
             Commons
             at
             the
             Kings
             Bench
             ,
             and
             though
             the
             House
             of
             Commons
             have
             no
             right
             of
             Iudicature
             ,
             yet
             there
             is
             another
             tryall
             for
             Treasons
             ,
             and
             our
             m●●●e
             p●int
             in
             difference
             at
             this
             time
             is
             concerning
             Treason
             .
          
        
         
         
           The
           Parliament
           is
           nothing
           else
           but
           the
           whole
           Nation
           of
           
             England
          
           by
           its
           owne
           free
           choice
           ,
           and
           by
           vertue
           of
           representation
           united
           in
           a
           more
           narrow
           roome
           ,
           and
           better
           regulated
           and
           qualified
           for
           consultation
           then
           the
           collective
           body
           without
           this
           art
           and
           order
           could
           be
           .
           The
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           make
           but
           one
           entire
           Court
           ,
           and
           this
           Court
           is
           vertually
           the
           whole
           Nation
           :
           and
           we
           may
           truly
           say
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           by
           its
           consent
           Royalty
           it selfe
           was
           first
           founded
           ,
           and
           for
           its
           ends
           Royalty
           it selfe
           was
           so
           qualified
           and
           tempered
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           ;
           and
           from
           its
           supreame
           reason
           ,
           the
           nature
           of
           that
           qualification
           and
           temperature
           ought
           only
           to
           be
           still
           learnd
           ,
           and
           the
           determination
           thereof
           sought
           .
           For
           who
           can
           better
           expound
           what
           Kings
           and
           lawes
           are
           ,
           and
           for
           what
           end
           they
           were
           both
           created
           ,
           then
           that
           unquestionable
           power
           ,
           which
           for
           its
           own
           advantage
           meerly
           gave
           creation
           to
           them
           both
           ?
           If
           Kings
           and
           nationall
           lawes
           had
           any
           humane
           beginning
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
             {non-Roman}
          
           ,
           as
           the
           Scripture
           sayes
           they
           are
           ,
           they
           had
           not
           their
           being
           from
           themselves
           :
           and
           from
           nations
           collectively
           taken
           they
           could
           not
           have
           their
           being
           ;
           for
           nations
           so
           are
           not
           congregable
           ,
           nor
           consultable
           ,
           nor
           redeemable
           from
           confusion
           (
           pardon
           the
           hardnesse
           of
           words
           )
           and
           therefore
           it
           must
           follow
           ,
           that
           both
           Kings
           and
           laws
           were
           first
           formed
           and
           created
           by
           such
           bodyes
           of
           men
           ,
           as
           our
           Parliaments
           now
           are
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           such
           Councells
           as
           had
           in
           them
           the
           force
           of
           whole
           Nations
           by
           consent
           and
           deputation
           ,
           and
           the
           Maiesty
           of
           whole
           Nations
           by
           right
           and
           representation
           .
        
         
           The
           enemies
           of
           Parliaments
           seeing
           this
           not
           to
           be
           gain-said
           ,
           and
           seeing
           that
           it
           must
           needs
           follow
           ,
           that
           that
           cause
           which
           first
           gave
           the
           being
           ,
           and
           prescribed
           the
           end
           of
           that
           being
           ,
           must
           needs
           have
           most
           right
           and
           skill
           to
           limit
           ,
           and
           direct
           the
           manner
           of
           that
           being
           :
           they
           seek
           to
           divide
           the
           coactive
           from
           the
           representative
           body
           of
           the
           people
           :
           they
           seek
           to
           divide
           between
           the
           two
           houses
           of
           Parliament
           :
           and
           these
           seek
           to
           divide
           between
           the
           head
           and
           the
           body
           of
           the
           Parliament
           .
           They
           perswade
           the
           multitude
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           entrusted
           the
           Parliament
           only
           with
           their
           purses
           to
           give
           away
           subsidies
           ,
           and
           replenish
           the
           Kings
           coffers
           ;
           but
           not
           to
           settle
           their
           rights
           and
           franchises
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           knowne
           the
           bounds
           of
           Prerogative
           ,
           and
           restraine
           the
           unnaturall
           encroachments
           or
           erruptions
           of
           the
           same
           .
           If
           the
           community
           have
           beene
           agrieved
           to
           complaine
           ,
           or
           almost
           accuse
           ,
           is
           a
           sufficient
           priviledge
           of
           the
           house
           of
           Commons
           ,
           and
           this
           ,
           but
           to
           avoid
           further
           repining
           ,
           shall
           not
           be
           granted
           them
           .
           T
           is
           pity
           that
           our
           Doctors
           doe
           not
           study
           the
           Law
           further
           ;
           for
           with
           a
           little
           more
           industry
           ,
           they
           might
           perhaps
           finde
           out
           ,
           that
           every
           private
           man
           as
           well
           as
           the
           house
           of
           Commons
           ,
           or
           the
           whole
           Community
           out
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           our
           Knights
           ,
           and
           Burgesses
           in
           it
           ,
           may
           
           give
           the
           King
           money
           ▪
           and
           if
           occasion
           be
           ,
           preferre
           an
           accusation
           against
           such
           a
           ●yrrannicall
           Lord
           or
           favourite
           ;
           well
           ,
           if
           such
           Rabbies
           ,
           and
           expounders
           can
           satisfie
           any
           of
           the
           unworthy
           vulgar
           ,
           and
           some
           Gentlemen
           ,
           and
           Lords
           who
           have
           spirits
           below
           the
           Yeomanry
           of
           
             England
          
           (
           for
           such
           I
           have
           seene
           too
           many
           since
           3.
           
             Novemb
             ▪
          
           1640
           ,
           they
           shall
           be
           no
           further
           disabus'd
           by
           me
           .
           In
           the
           next
           place
           ,
           
             They
             attempt
             to
             work
             a
             disunion
             between
             the
             Houses
             ,
             the
             Lords
             shall
             have
             a
             power
             of
             Judicature
             ●ver
             their
             Members
             so
             they
             will
             exclude
             the
             Commons
             from
             any
             part
             therin
             ;
             and
             upon
             condition
             that
             they
             will
             so
             farre
             disclaime
             them
             ,
             as
             to
             leav●
             them
             obnoxious
             for
             tryalls
             at
             the
             Kings
             bench
             ;
          
           This
           sitting
           of
           the
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           in
           severall
           Houses
           ,
           does
           not
           prove
           them
           severall
           Courts
           ,
           nor
           does
           the
           observance
           of
           particular
           Priviledges
           in
           either
           House
           ,
           and
           not
           laying
           all
           things
           common
           between
           both
           ,
           prove
           any
           independance
           of
           either
           :
           doubtlesse
           they
           are
           like
           the
           twines
           of
           
             Hippocrates
             ,
          
           they
           both
           must
           live
           and
           die
           together
           .
           In
           former
           ages
           judgement
           was
           so
           given
           upon
           the
           greatest
           Delinquents
           ,
           at
           that
           the
           Commons
           were
           parties
           in
           the
           judgement
           :
           And
           sure
           ,
           whilst
           they
           were
           Judges
           over
           Lords
           ▪
           themselves
           were
           not
           subjected
           to
           inferiour
           Courts
           :
           the
           Lords
           then
           knew
           they
           could
           not
           indure
           any
           indignity
           to
           fall
           upon
           the
           Commons
           being
           but
           distinct
           parts
           of
           the
           same
           Court
           ,
           but
           it
           would
           reflect
           upon
           themselves
           ;
           and
           the
           Commons
           knew
           that
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           Lords
           was
           an
           addition
           to
           themselves
           ,
           whilst
           the
           
             Curiatii
          
           stand
           close
           together
           ,
           their
           three
           adverse
           Combatants
           are
           too
           weake
           for
           them
           ;
           but
           when
           they
           are
           divided
           by
           unwarinesse
           in
           the
           encounter
           ,
           they
           prove
           all
           three
           too
           weake
           for
           one
           of
           their
           enemies
           .
           I
           will
           not
           make
           any
           comparisons
           ,
           or
           say
           whither
           the
           Lords
           or
           Commons
           deserted
           by
           the
           other
           suffer
           more
           ;
           I
           will
           only
           say
           ,
           that
           nothing
           but
           fatall
           want
           of
           policy
           ,
           can
           divide
           or
           diminish
           their
           mutuall
           love
           and
           correspondence
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           last
           place
           ,
           
             division
             also
             is
             raised
             betwixt
             the
             King
             and
             Parliament
             ;
          
           there
           is
           a
           generation
           of
           men
           which
           se●ke
           not
           the
           good
           of
           King
           and
           Parliament
           ;
           nor
           could
           prosper
           if
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           were
           united
           as
           they
           ought
           to
           be
           .
           These
           men
           because
           their
           suggestions
           cannot
           prevaile
           to
           alienate
           the
           Parliament
           from
           the
           King
           ,
           apply
           all
           their
           indevours
           to
           alienate
           the
           King
           from
           the
           Parliament
           :
           their
           perp●tuall
           suggestion
           are
           ,
           
             That
             the
             greatnesse
             of
             Kings
             is
             eclipsed
             by
             Parliaments
             ,
             That
             there
             is
             in
             Lawes
             themselves
             a
             kind
             of
             enmity
             ,
             and
             something
             that
             is
             inconsistant
             with
             royalty
             ,
             That
             Kings
             are
             bound
             to
             seek
             nothing
             but
             themselves
             ▪
             That
             Kings
             can
             seeke
             nothing
             in
             themselves
             ,
             so
             nobly
             as
             the
             satisfying
             of
             their
             wills
             ,
             especially
             
             when
             their
             wills
             are
             fixt
             upon
             things
             difficult
             and
             forbidden
             .
          
           Neverthelesse
           ,
           there
           is
           nothing
           but
           falsety
           in
           all
           these
           suggestions
           .
           For
           Princes
           are
           the
           Creatures
           ,
           and
           naturall
           productions
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           so
           are
           their
           Prerogatives
           as
           has
           been
           set
           forth
           ,
           and
           every
           rationall
           and
           naturall
           thing
           loveth
           its
           own
           off-spring
           ,
           and
           that
           love
           is
           rather
           
             ascending
          
           then
           
             descending
             ,
          
           it
           is
           liker
           the
           sap
           of
           the
           root
           ,
           then
           of
           the
           branch
           ,
           viz.
           
             The
             people
             are
             more
             inclinable
             to
             love
             Princes
             ,
             then
             Princes
             to
             love
             the
             People
             ;
          
           There
           is
           likewise
           a
           neare
           consanguinity
           ,
           and
           reflexive
           benevolence
           of
           aspects
           between
           Lawes
           and
           Princes
           ,
           they
           are
           both
           of
           the
           same
           descent
           ,
           and
           tend
           to
           the
           same
           end
           ,
           and
           both
           are
           inviolable
           ▪
           whilst
           they
           are
           assistant
           each
           to
           other
           ;
           the
           enemy
           of
           both
           has
           no
           hope
           to
           prevaile
           ,
           
             Si
             attribuat
             Rex
             legi
             ,
             quod
             lex
             attribuit
             ●i
             .
          
           T
           is
           retrograde
           also
           to
           nature
           ,
           that
           Princes
           whom
           God
           has
           set
           to
           feed
           his
           people
           ,
           and
           not
           without
           the
           creation
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           should
           think
           themselves
           more
           valuable
           then
           that
           people
           ;
           or
           that
           they
           should
           confine
           their
           thoughts
           to
           themselves
           as
           Gods
           ,
           despising
           the
           universality
           ,
           when
           God
           has
           called
           particular
           subjects
           
             their
             brethren
             ,
             and
             forbidden
             them
             to
             lift
             up
             their
             hearts
             above
             any
             of
             them
             .
          
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           that
           Princes
           which
           have
           as
           other
           men
           ,
           sinfull
           affections
           ,
           and
           are
           subject
           more
           then
           other
           men
           to
           sinfull
           temptations
           ,
           and
           are
           accountable
           to
           God
           therefore
           ,
           in
           a
           higher
           degree
           then
           other
           men
           ,
           should
           think
           it
           inglorious
           to
           deny
           their
           own
           irregular
           wills
           ,
           and
           to
           submit
           to
           Lawes
           ,
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           the
           Publike
           prayers
           and
           advice
           of
           their
           subjects
           ,
           't
           is
           a
           thing
           scarce
           credible
           .
           The
           most
           expert
           Navigator
           preferres
           the
           guidance
           of
           his
           Needle
           before
           his
           own
           conceit
           ;
           the
           most
           tried
           Engineer
           wholly
           relies
           upon
           the
           certainty
           of
           his
           rule
           .
           All
           Artists
           how
           rare
           soever
           apply
           themselves
           to
           their
           Instruments
           ,
           absolutely
           renouncing
           their
           skill
           and
           experience
           in
           comparison
           of
           Mechanick
           directions
           .
           Only
           Princes
           chuse
           rather
           to
           erre
           with
           their
           own
           fancies
           and
           fancy
           feeding
           flatterers
           ,
           then
           to
           go
           right
           with
           publick
           advice
           ,
           and
           no
           mischiefe
           ▪
           which
           can
           happen
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           millions
           of
           others
           by
           their
           error
           ,
           seems
           so
           unkingly
           to
           be
           suffered
           ,
           as
           a
           retractation
           from
           error
           .
           But
           our
           Replicant
           has
           more
           particular
           objections
           against
           Parliaments
           ,
           
             As
             ●irst
             ,
             That
             they
             have
             no
             cognizance
             of
             matters
             of
             State
             :
             secondly
             ,
             That
             in
             matters
             of
             grace
             and
             pardon
             th●y
             have
             no
             power
             or
             right
             :
             the
             King
             in
             those
             ,
             has
             an
             Arbitary
             sole
             authority
             .
          
        
         
           Lawes
           ayme
           at
           
             Iustice
             ,
          
           Reason
           of
           state
           aimes
           at
           
             safety
             ;
          
           Law
           secures
           one
           subject
           from
           another
           ,
           Law
           protects
           subjects
           from
           insolence
           of
           Princes
           ,
           and
           Princes
           from
           sedition
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           certaine
           rules
           may
           be
           given
           
           and
           written
           ;
           but
           reason
           of
           State
           goes
           b●yond
           all
           particular
           formes
           and
           pacts
           ,
           and
           looks
           rather
           to
           the
           being
           ,
           then
           well-being
           of
           a
           State
           ▪
           and
           seeks
           to
           prevent
           mischiefe
           ●orraign
           as
           well
           as
           Domestick
           ,
           by
           emergent
           Counsels
           ,
           and
           unwritten
           resolutions
           .
           Reason
           of
           State
           is
           something
           more
           sublime
           and
           imperiall
           then
           Law
           :
           it
           may
           be
           rightly
           said
           ,
           that
           the
           Statesman
           begins
           where
           the
           Lawyer
           ceaseth
           :
           for
           when
           warre
           has
           silenced
           Law
           ,
           as
           it
           often
           does
           ;
           Policy
           is
           to
           bee
           observed
           as
           the
           only
           true
           Law
           ,
           a
           kind
           of
           a
           dictatorian
           power
           is
           to
           be
           allowed
           to
           her
           ;
           whatsoeever
           has
           any
           right
           to
           defend
           it selfe
           in
           time
           of
           danger
           is
           to
           resort
           to
           policy
           in
           stead
           of
           Law
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           the
           same
           thing
           in
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           
             To
             deny
             to
             Parliaments
             recourse
             to
             reason
             of
             State
             in
             these
             miserable
             times
             of
             warre
             and
             danger
             ,
             as
             to
             deny
             them self-defence
             .
          
        
         
           Many
           men
           ,
           especially
           Lawyers
           ,
           would
           fain
           have
           Law
           alone
           take
           place
           in
           all
           times
           ,
           but
           for
           my
           part
           I
           think
           it
           equally
           destructive
           to
           renounce
           reason
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           adhere
           to
           Law
           in
           times
           of
           great
           extremity
           ,
           as
           to
           renounce
           Law
           ,
           &
           adhere
           to
           Policy
           in
           times
           of
           tranquillity
           .
           Nothing
           has
           done
           us
           more
           harme
           of
           late
           ,
           then
           this
           opinion
           of
           adhering
           to
           Law
           only
           for
           our
           preservation
           :
           &
           the
           King
           and
           his
           party
           though
           they
           are
           too
           wise
           themselves
           to
           observe
           Law
           at
           all
           ,
           yet
           have
           wrought
           much
           upon
           the
           simpler
           sort
           of
           our
           side
           by
           objecting
           against
           us
           neglect
           of
           Law
           .
           Certainly
           as
           our
           dangers
           now
           are
           ,
           it
           would
           bee
           good
           for
           us
           to
           adde
           more
           power
           to
           the
           Earle
           of
           
             Essex
          
           (
           if
           he
           be
           thought
           the
           worthiest
           man
           of
           Trust
           amongst
           us
           ,
           as
           he
           has
           deserved
           no
           lesse
           estimation
           )
           for
           till
           I
           see
           him
           look●
           upon
           ,
           and
           served
           as
           a
           temporary
           Dictator
           ,
           and
           the
           bounds
           of
           his
           Commission
           to
           bee
           only
           this
           ;
           
             ne
             quid
             detrimenti
             capiat
             Respublica
             cavere
             :
          
           I
           shall
           never
           think
           the
           Parliaments
           safety
           sufficiently
           provided
           for
           .
        
         
           To
           frame
           any
           Arguments
           ,
           or
           reasons
           ,
           or
           to
           offer
           p●ooses
           ,
           that
           the
           Representative
           body
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           is
           a
           Counsell
           of
           State
           ,
           rather
           th●n
           a
           Court
           of
           Justice
           ,
           would
           shew
           me
           as
           foolish
           as
           the
           Replicant
           :
           ▪
           t
           is
           impossible
           any
           man
           should
           doubt
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           does
           think
           the
           being
           is
           to
           bee
           preserred
           before
           the
           well
           being
           ;
           or
           that
           whole
           Nations
           have
           any
           imterests
           either
           in
           their
           owne
           being
           or
           well
           being
           .
           Let
           our
           Adv●rsa●ies
           triumph
           in
           their
           owne
           conceits
           ,
           and
           when
           in
           the
           same
           case
           there
           is
           both
           matter
           of
           Law
           and
           State
           (
           as
           in
           the
           case
           of
           
             Hull
             ,
          
           where
           the
           King
           had
           ●n
           interest
           rather
           in
           State
           then
           Law
           )
           let
           them
           upbraid
           us
           for
           declining
           of
           Law
           ▪
           I
           shall
           like
           that
           best
           which
           they
           dislike
           most
           in
           us
           ▪
           I
           wish
           we
           had
           not
           observed
           Law
           too
           farre
           ,
           for
           they
           would
           never
           so
           farre
           recommend
           ▪
           
           it
           to
           us
           ,
           did
           they
           not
           know
           it
           might
           be
           sometimes
           unseasonable
           .
        
         
           
             As
             for
             acts
             of
             grace
             and
             pardon
             .
          
           I
           shall
           not
           much
           quarrel
           thereabout
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           can
           best
           advise
           the
           King
           how
           far
           it
           is
           fit
           to
           passe
           a
           Law
           of
           oblivion
           in
           these
           generall
           times
           of
           confusion
           :
           And
           the
           Answerer
           of
           the
           
             London
          
           Petition
           affirmed
           ●othing
           ,
           but
           that
           their
           advise
           therein
           was
           likely
           to
           be
           most
           wholsome
           ,
           which
           can
           hardly
           be
           contradicted
           .
        
         
           And
           the
           Law
           is
           cleare
           enough
           that
           though
           the
           execution
           of
           Law
           be
           farre
           intrusted
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           there
           is
           a
           dispensing
           power
           in
           Him
           ,
           so
           farre
           as
           he
           is
           supposed
           to
           be
           damn●fied
           or
           to
           be
           interested
           in
           the
           penalty
           ;
           yet
           where
           crimes
           have
           been
           committed
           against
           the
           whole
           State
           ,
           the
           King
           ought
           not
           ,
           and
           where
           particular
           men
           have
           been
           injured
           ,
           the
           King
           cannot
           suffocate
           ,
           frustrate
           ,
           or
           deny
           Justice
           .
           'T
           is
           against
           his
           Oath
           ,
           't
           is
           against
           publike
           Liberty
           to
           deny
           satisfaction
           by
           stopping
           execution
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           
             But
             London
             is
             the
             most
             considerable
             part
             of
             the
             Kingdome
             and
             the
             Petitioners
             the
             best
             part
             of
             London
             ;
             and
             the
             most
             to
             bee
             valued
             in
             other
             parts
             ,
             are
             inclined
             to
             the
             same
             request
             for
             peace
             ,
             therefore
             the
             Parliament
             ought
             to
             yeeld
             .
          
        
         
           When
           our
           Adversaries
           please
           ,
           they
           can
           alledge
           numbers
           for
           their
           advantage
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Major
           part
           of
           the
           people
           were
           cordially
           on
           the
           Kings
           side
           :
           when
           they
           please
           they
           can
           give
           you
           reasons
           why
           the
           major
           part
           of
           the
           people
           are
           inchanted
           ,
           and
           therfore
           cannot
           be
           on
           the
           Kings
           side
           ;
           yet
           we
           all
           know
           the
           major
           part
           cannot
           be
           both
           for
           and
           against
           the
           King
           at
           the
           same
           time
           in
           the
           same
           case
           .
           Besides
           divide
           
             England
          
           into
           3.
           parts
           ,
           and
           we
           doe
           not
           allow
           
             London
          
           to
           be
           the
           major
           of
           those
           three
           ,
           and
           divide
           
             London
          
           into
           3.
           parts
           ,
           and
           the
           Petitioners
           cannot
           make
           it
           appear
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           full
           one
           third
           part
           ;
           this
           must
           be
           attributed
           to
           our
           Replicants
           boldnesse
           meerly
           .
           That
           which
           is
           manifest
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           most
           of
           the
           faulty
           ,
           and
           decayed
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           Gentry
           ,
           are
           of
           the
           Kings
           party
           ,
           and
           so
           are
           the
           Lees
           of
           the
           people
           ;
           but
           almost
           all
           of
           the
           Yeomenry
           (
           which
           is
           the
           most
           considerable
           ranke
           of
           any
           Nation
           )
           and
           a
           very
           choyse
           part
           both
           of
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           at
           this
           time
           side
           against
           the
           King
           and
           the
           Papists
           :
           And
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           any
           rationall
           man
           to
           imagine
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           has
           not
           infinite
           advantages
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           if
           his
           cause
           be
           generally
           apprehended
           ,
           as
           the
           more
           just
           :
           But
           sense
           teaches
           us
           the
           contrary
           ,
           that
           no
           King
           in
           the
           unjustest
           cause
           that
           ever
           was
           ,
           had
           a
           weaker
           party
           then
           this
           King
           ,
           considering
           what
           cour●●s
           he
           has
           taken
           .
           The
           King
           has
           an
           Army
           ,
           and
           such
           an
           Army
           as
           is
           able
           to
           force
           and
           overawe
           
           all
           places
           where
           they
           lye
           ,
           with
           swords
           drawne
           over
           the
           Pesants
           :
           but
           cursed
           be
           that
           man
           for
           my
           part
           ,
           that
           next
           after
           God
           ,
           would
           not
           referre
           the
           arbitration
           of
           this
           difference
           to
           the
           publike
           vote
           of
           the
           people
           .
           And
           yet
           we
           know
           that
           there
           is
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           servilty
           in
           the
           people
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ,
           they
           looke
           no
           further
           then
           to
           present
           grievances
           ;
           like
           
             Esau
          
           in
           his
           Pottage
           bargain
           ,
           chusing
           rather
           to
           dy
           for
           ever
           of
           a
           Lethargy
           then
           to
           sweat
           for
           a
           time
           under
           a
           Feaver
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           All
           Controversies
           are
           determined
           either
           by
           the
           Dye
           of
           Force
           ,
           and
           chance
           of
           War
           (
           for
           so
           Nations
           have
           ever
           censur'd
           that
           kind
           of
           tryall
           )
           or
           else
           they
           are
           concluded
           by
           Lawes
           justly
           interpreted
           ,
           or
           else
           there
           is
           a
           middle
           way
           (
           which
           we
           call
           Accommodation
           )
           and
           that
           is
           commonly
           when
           to
           avoid
           the
           mischiefe
           of
           the
           Sword
           ,
           and
           the
           uncertaine
           intricacie
           of
           Judgement
           ,
           both
           parties
           by
           mutuall
           agreement
           cond●scend
           equally
           to
           depart
           from
           the
           rigor
           of
           their
           demands
           on
           either
           side
           ,
           and
           so
           comply
           ,
           accommodate
           ,
           and
           meet
           together
           upon
           termes
           as
           equall
           as
           may
           be
           .
           Whersoever
           then
           the
           word
           
             Accommodation
          
           is
           pressed
           ,
           (
           as
           it
           is
           now
           with
           us
           in
           the
           
             London
          
           Petition
           ,
           for
           the
           word
           Submission
           is
           not
           at
           all
           used
           )
           't
           is
           most
           absurd
           and
           contradictory
           to
           exclude
           a
           yeelding
           and
           compliance
           of
           both
           sides
           .
           See
           then
           the
           manifest
           unjustice
           of
           our
           Replicant
           ,
           who
           when
           the
           matter
           of
           
             Accommodation
          
           onely
           is
           in
           Treaty
           ,
           
             yet
             urges
             u●
             to
             a
             meere
             submission
             ,
          
           and
           taking
           it
           for
           granted
           that
           he
           is
           Judge
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           has
           determined
           the
           matter
           for
           the
           King
           ;
           
             therfore
             the
             King
             ought
             not
             to
             condiscend
             ,
             or
             comply
             at
             all
             ,
             or
             leave
             any
             thing
             to
             the
             Parliaments
             trust
             ,
             but
             must
             wholly
             be
             trusted
             in
             every
             point
             .
          
        
         
           6.
           
           The
           King
           requires
           to
           have
           preserved
           to
           him
           for
           the
           future
           that
           compasse
           of
           Royall
           power
           which
           his
           Progenitors
           have
           been
           invested
           with
           ,
           and
           without
           which
           he
           cannot
           give
           protection
           to
           his
           Subjects
           .
        
         
           The
           Parliament
           desires
           to
           have
           preserved
           to
           the
           Subject
           ,
           peace
           ,
           safetie
           ,
           and
           all
           those
           priviledges
           which
           their
           Ancestors
           have
           enjoyed
           ,
           without
           which
           they
           cannot
           be
           a
           Nation
           ,
           much
           lesse
           a
           free
           Nation
           .
           Now
           the
           Militia
           and
           Posse
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           must
           be
           so
           placed
           ,
           and
           concredited
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           King
           may
           be
           as
           equally
           assured
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           or
           else
           without
           all
           Accommodation
           the
           King
           must
           be
           left
           to
           the
           Fidelity
           and
           duty
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           or
           else
           the
           Parliament
           must
           be
           wholly
           left
           to
           the
           Kings
           discretion
           ▪
           or
           rather
           to
           the
           Kings
           party
           .
           In
           this
           case
           what
           shall
           be
           done
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           pleads
           that
           the
           King
           has
           resigned
           
           himselfe
           too
           far
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           Papists
           and
           Malignants
           ,
           from
           whom
           nothing
           can
           be
           expected
           but
           pefidie
           and
           cruelty
           ;
           the
           King
           objects
           that
           the
           Parliament
           is
           besotted
           with
           Anabaptists
           ,
           Brownists
           ,
           Familists
           ,
           and
           Impostors
           ,
           from
           whom
           nothing
           can
           be
           expected
           but
           disloyalty
           and
           confusion
           .
           If
           the
           King
           here
           will
           grant
           any
           security
           against
           Papists
           and
           Malignants
           ,
           the
           question
           is
           what
           security
           he
           will
           give
           ;
           and
           if
           hee
           will
           give
           none
           ,
           the
           question
           is
           how
           he
           can
           be
           ●aid
           to
           s●eke
           an
           Accommodation
           ;
           so
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           if
           the
           Parliament
           will
           undertake
           to
           secure
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           that
           is
           granted
           ▪
           then
           what
           must
           that
           securance
           be
           .
           I
           will
           now
           take
           it
           for
           granted
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           ought
           to
           abjure
           for
           the
           secure
           the
           giving
           of
           countenance
           to
           Papists
           ,
           or
           being
           counselled
           or
           led
           by
           them
           in
           State
           matters
           ;
           as
           also
           to
           disband
           his
           Forces
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Parliament
           will
           doe
           the
           like
           ,
           and
           abjure
           all
           dangerous
           Schismaticks
           and
           Hereticks
           .
           But
           for
           a
           further
           ●ye
           to
           strengthen
           this
           abjuration
           ,
           and
           for
           a
           ●●curance
           against
           Malignants
           ,
           who
           are
           not
           yet
           so
           perfectly
           distinguisht
           on
           either
           side
           ,
           what
           shall
           be
           the
           reciprocall
           caution
           or
           ingagement
           ?
           Shall
           the
           King
           have
           all
           Ports
           ,
           Ships
           ,
           Armes
           ,
           and
           Offices
           in
           his
           dispose
           ?
           Shall
           the
           King
           assigne
           to
           what
           Judges
           he
           pleases
           ,
           the
           division
           of
           our
           quarrels
           ?
           or
           shall
           he
           trust
           his
           Parliament
           in
           the
           choise
           and
           Approba●ion
           of
           persons
           intrusted
           ?
           I
           will
           not
           dispute
           this
           ,
           I
           will
           onely
           say
           ,
           that
           the
           nature
           of
           an
           
             Accommodation
          
           requires
           some
           condescending
           ▪
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           manifest
           injustice
           in
           the
           Replicant
           to
           prejudge
           the
           same
           ,
           as
           unbeseeming
           the
           King
           more
           then
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           probability
           the
           Parliament
           is
           likely
           to
           condiscend
           upon
           more
           disadvantageous
           termes
           then
           the
           King
           ;
           and
           is
           lesse
           lyable
           to
           be
           mis●ed
           ,
           and
           lesse
           apt
           to
           break
           a
           trust
           ,
           then
           any
           one
           man
           .
        
         
           7.
           
           
             To
             shew
             that
             the
             Parliament
             is
             disaffected
             to
             an
             Accommodation
             ,
             and
             the
             King
             not
             ,
             &
             that
             therefore
             a
             Petition
             to
             the
             Parliament
             is
             more
             proper
             &
             seasonable
             then
             to
             the
             King
             .
          
           The
           Replicant
           
             bitterly
             revil●s
             the
             Parliament
             as
             having
             punished
             some
             for
             seeking
             peace
             ,
             and
             as
             having
             rejected
             the
             Kings
             gracious
             offers
             of
             peace
             with
             termes
             of
             incivility
             below
             the
             respect
             due
             to
             a
             King
             .
          
           What
           more
           damnable
           crimes
           can
           any
           man
           load
           the
           Parliament
           with
           ,
           then
           with
           rebelling
           against
           the
           King
           first
           ,
           &
           after
           rejecting
           officers
           of
           peace
           with
           foul●
           and
           scandalous
           language
           ?
           
             Yet
             this
             the
             Replicant
             freely
             grants
             to
             himselfe
             ;
          
           and
           as
           if
           hee
           were
           placed
           in
           some
           tribunall
           above
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           where
           all
           allegations
           and
           proofes
           were
           utterly
           superfluous
           ,
           
             he
             proceeds
             ●o
             sentence
             very
             imperiously
             ▪
          
           For
           ought
           I
           know
           I
           am
           as
           venerable
           and
           unquestionable
           a
           judge
           in
           this
           case
           as
           hee
           is
           ,
           yet
           I
           dare
           
           condemn
           nothing
           ,
           but
           rash
           and
           presumptuous
           condemning
           of
           authority
           without
           proofes
           ;
           and
           for
           that
           I
           have
           Scripture
           it selfe
           for
           my
           proofe
           .
           As
           for
           the
           Kings
           comming
           to
           
             Brainford
          
           in
           a
           mist
           ,
           and
           during
           a
           Treaty
           ,
           and
           there
           surprising
           men
           unprepared
           ,
           and
           retiring
           againe
           upon
           the
           drawing
           up
           of
           our
           forces
           ,
           that
           these
           are
           instances
           of
           seeking
           peace
           ,
           and
           shewing
           favour
           to
           the
           city
           is
           not
           so
           cleare
           to
           my
           understanding
           as
           to
           the
           Replicants
           .
        
         
           8.
           
           But
           sayes
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           
             you
             grant
             that
             the
             people
             may
             perhaps
             find
             out
             a
             better
             way
             of
             Accommodation
          
           then
           you
           have
           
             done
             ,
             and
             you
             allow
             them
             to
             petition
             when
             you
             fa●le
             of
             your
             duty
             :
             And
             this
             must
             needs
             overthrow
             the
             strongest
             and
             most
             popular
             argument
             of
             your
             innocence
             ▪
             and
             authority
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Parliament
           did
           never
           assume
           to
           have
           an
           absolute
           freedome
           from
           all
           failes
           or
           Errors
           ,
           nor
           does
           detract
           from
           other
           mens
           knowledge
           ,
           it
           vindicates
           nothing
           more
           then
           to
           bee
           lesse
           obnoxious
           to
           deceit
           and
           perversenesse
           then
           other
           Courts
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           rather
           because
           it
           disdaines
           not
           any
           advise
           or
           reason
           from
           any
           parties
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           9.
           
           The
           Answerer
           demanded
           from
           the
           Petitioners
           a
           modell
           of
           an
           
             Accommodation
          
           to
           bee
           framed
           by
           them
           ,
           for
           the
           better
           help
           and
           instruction
           of
           the
           Parliament
           .
           The
           Replicant
           satisfies
           that
           Demand
           .
           Hee
           makes
           two
           propositions
           thus
           ;
           1
           
             That
             the
             Parliament
             shall
             as
             readily
             consent
             to
             the
             Kings
             Rights
             as
             the
             King
             consents
             to
             theirs
             .
             2.
             
             That
             the
             Reigne
             of
             Queen
          
           Elizabeth
           :
           
             may
             be
             the
             measure
             to
             determine
             those
             rights
             .
          
           In
           this
           the
           Replicant
           is
           very
           reasonable
           ;
           for
           we
           freely
           submit
           to
           both
           his
           propositions
           :
           but
           he
           is
           not
           so
           Politick
           as
           he
           thinks
           ●
           for
           a
           submission
           to
           th●se
           generall
           propositions
           ,
           will
           not
           determine
           any
           one
           of
           our
           Particular
           debates
           .
           Let
           us
           be
           safe
           ,
           as
           wee
           were
           in
           Queen
           
             Elizabeths
          
           dayes
           ,
           and
           let
           us
           be
           secured
           of
           our
           safety
           by
           the
           same
           meanes
           ,
           as
           Queen
           
             Elizabeth
          
           secured
           us
           ;
           That
           is
           ,
           by
           shewing
           no
           countenance
           to
           Papists
           (
           much
           less●
           admitting
           them
           as
           Counsellors
           ,
           least
           of
           all
           as
           Governors
           in
           her
           highest
           Councells
           )
           let
           wise
           men
           generally
           loved
           and
           revered
           sit
           at
           the
           Councell
           Table
           ,
           and
           let
           the
           Publick
           advise
           of
           Parliament
           sway
           above
           all
           private
           ;
           let
           our
           Lawes
           be
           in
           the
           Custody
           of
           learned
           ,
           and
           uncorrupt
           Iudges
           ,
           and
           let
           our
           
             Militia
          
           be
           under
           the
           Command
           of
           such
           renowned
           Patriots
           ,
           as
           shee
           preferred
           in
           her
           dayes
           ;
           and
           our
           
             Accommodation
          
           is
           more
           ample
           ,
           and
           beneficiall
           ,
           then
           any
           we
           have
           yet
           desired
           .
           But
           our
           Replicant
           will
           suggest
           ,
           
             Be
             you
             such
             Subjects
             as
             Queen
          
           Elizabeth
           
             ruled
             ,
          
           and
           
             King
          
           
           Charles
           
             will
             treat
             you
             ▪
             as
             Queen
          
           Elizabeth
           
             did
             her
             Subjects
             :
             doe
             you
             right
             first
             to
             the
             King
             and
             the
             King
             will
             not
             faile
             to
             doe
             right
             to
             you
             .
          
           Here
           is
           now
           the
           maine
           Question
           indeed
           ,
           which
           rightly
           solved
           ,
           would
           solve
           all
           ,
           whether
           these
           deplorable
           miseries
           ,
           which
           have
           of
           late
           vexed
           and
           grieved
           our
           three
           Nations
           ,
           have
           rather
           hapned
           from
           the
           Change
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           or
           from
           the
           Change
           of
           the
           Prince
           .
        
         
           And
           most
           certaine
           it
           is
           future
           Ages
           will
           conceive
           no
           great
           doubt
           ,
           or
           difficulty
           to
           be
           in
           this
           Question
           :
           but
           now
           it
           is
           mortall
           to
           dispute
           it
           :
           it
           is
           scarce
           lawfull
           to
           suppose
           any
           thing
           herein
           ,
           Though
           
             supponere
          
           be
           not
           
             ponere
          
           but
           by
           way
           of
           supposition
           ,
           I
           will
           only
           plead
           thus
           :
           if
           the
           three
           Nations
           have
           by
           I
           know
           not
           what
           fatall
           posture
           ,
           and
           Congresse
           of
           stars
           ,
           or
           superior
           Causes
           ,
           declined
           from
           their
           allegiance
           ,
           and
           degenerated
           into
           unnaturall
           obstinacy
           ,
           and
           turned
           recreant
           ,
           and
           contrary
           to
           the
           sweet
           
             Genius
             ,
          
           which
           was
           ever
           in
           their
           Ancestors
           ,
           they
           are
           bound
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           King
           &
           to
           put
           in
           him
           as
           full
           and
           absolute
           a
           Trust
           ,
           as
           our
           Parents
           did
           in
           Queen
           
             Elizabeth
             ▪
          
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           if
           miscarriages
           in
           government
           ,
           and
           the
           pernicious
           Counsells
           whereby
           our
           Princes
           have
           been
           guided
           ,
           have
           overwhelmed
           us
           in
           these
           inundations
           of
           blood
           ,
           and
           mischiefes
           ;
           the
           Alteration
           ,
           and
           Reformation
           ,
           ought
           to
           begin
           first
           in
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           He
           cannot
           expect
           that
           we
           should
           trust
           him
           so
           farre
           as
           we
           did
           Queen
           
             Elizabeth
          
           untill
           we
           are
           assured
           as
           fully
           of
           his
           protection
           as
           we
           were
           of
           Queen
           
             Elizabeths
             ;
          
           but
           suppose
           there
           have
           been
           ●aults
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           can
           nothing
           but
           the
           sword
           rectifie
           our
           faults
           ?
           I
           never
           yet
           heard
           that
           any
           Prince
           was
           forced
           to
           a
           warre
           with
           any
           considerable
           part
           of
           his
           own
           Subjects
           ,
           but
           that
           he
           had
           an
           unjust
           cause
           ,
           or
           might
           have
           determined
           the
           strife
           without
           bloud
           by
           some
           Politick
           Comply●nce
           if
           he
           pleased
           .
           It
           is
           not
           so
           common
           or
           probable
           in
           nature
           ,
           for
           Nations
           causlesly
           to
           rebell
           ,
           as
           for
           Princes
           wickedly
           to
           oppresse
           :
           and
           when
           armes
           are
           taken
           up
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           so
           safe
           for
           Subjects
           to
           yeeld
           ,
           as
           for
           Kings
           ;
           nor
           can
           Subjects
           so
           easily
           reduce
           Kings
           to
           a
           peaceable
           agreement
           ,
           and
           cessation
           of
           Armes
           ,
           as
           Kings
           may
           Subjects
           for
           the
           sparing
           of
           blood
           .
           Kings
           can
           make
           no
           composition
           almost
           dishonourable
           ,
           or
           disadvantagious
           ;
           but
           Subjects
           being
           fa●●e
           into
           the
           indignation
           of
           revengfull
           Princes
           are
           necessitated
           commonly
           to
           this
           choyce
           ,
           either
           to
           come
           forth
           with
           halters
           about
           their
           necks
           ,
           or
           to
           fight
           upon
           great
           disadvantages
           .
           as
           Rebellious
           as
           the
           Subjects
           of
           
             Rehoboam
          
           were
           ,
           a
           kind
           ,
           ●ay
           ,
           a
           Civill
           Answer
           might
           have
           retayned
           them
           in
           their
           allegiance
           ,
           
           and
           yet
           if
           their
           termes
           had
           been
           full
           of
           insolence
           ,
           and
           their
           Capitulations
           more
           unreasonable
           ,
           yet
           
             Salomon's
          
           Councellors
           would
           have
           perswaded
           
             Rehoboam
          
           to
           yeild
           to
           necessity
           ,
           and
           to
           master
           that
           multitude
           by
           some
           finenesse
           of
           wit
           ,
           which
           he
           could
           not
           Tame
           for
           the
           present
           by
           violence
           ;
           And
           certainly
           he
           shewed
           not
           himself
           the
           Son
           of
           
             Salomon
             ,
          
           that
           wo●ld
           not
           purchase
           an
           heredit●ry
           Empire
           over
           a
           gallant
           Nation
           by
           being
           a
           Servant
           for
           one
           day
           ,
           that
           would
           quit
           ●is
           own
           policy
           ,
           because
           the
           multitude
           had
           quitted
           their
           civil●tie
           ,
           that
           thought
           that
           Complyance
           which
           should
           gaine
           a
           scepter
           more
           dishonourable
           ,
           than
           that
           Contestation
           which
           should
           absolutly
           forfeit
           one
           .
           How
           easy
           had
           it
           been
           for
           the
           great
           ,
           the
           wise
           ,
           the
           terrible
           
             Philip
          
           of
           
             Spaine
             ,
          
           to
           have
           prevented
           the
           totall
           defection
           of
           so
           many
           goodly
           Provinces
           in
           the
           
             Netherlands
             :
          
           and
           if
           it
           could
           not
           have
           been
           done
           without
           something
           which
           is
           ordinarily
           accounted
           below
           ,
           a
           K.
           would
           not
           that
           have
           been
           more
           honourably
           done
           by
           him
           ,
           then
           the
           casting
           away
           o●
           so
           brave
           a
           Dominion
           ,
           a●d
           the
           casting
           after
           that
           so
           much
           blood
           &
           treasure
           ?
           That
           King
           of
           
             France
          
           was
           far
           wiser
           ,
           and
           sped
           better
           ,
           which
           satisfied
           himselfe
           in
           his
           strugling
           through
           many
           difficulties
           with
           this
           Maxime
           ,
           That
           a
           Prince
           can
           loose
           no
           honour
           by
           any
           Treaty
           ▪
           which
           addes
           to
           his
           Dominion
           .
           Infinite
           instances
           might
           here
           bee
           alleadged
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           needlesse
           .
           God
           send
           our
           King
           truly
           to
           represent
           these
           things
           to
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           rather
           to
           trust
           plain
           ,
           then
           pleasing
           advice
           .
           God
           open
           his
           eyes
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           see
           how
           honorably
           ,
           and
           easily
           he
           might
           h●ve
           preuented
           these
           calamities
           ,
           and
           may
           yet
           stanch
           our
           bleeding
           wounds
           ,
           and
           how
           much
           m●re
           difficult
           it
           is
           and
           u●safe
           for
           the
           Parliament
           to
           compose
           things
           u●lesse
           he
           or
           rather
           his
           Party
           be
           equally
           disposed
           to
           hearken
           to
           peace
           .
           
             H●●
             .
          
           the
           4.
           was
           as
           wi●e
           ▪
           as
           vali●nt
           ,
           and
           as
           just
           a
           Prince
           as
           ever
           was
           Crowned
           in
           
             Eng●and
             ,
          
           and
           no
           Prince
           ever
           had
           by
           experience
           a
           more
           perfect
           understanding
           of
           the
           English
           Genius
           :
           yet
           he
           in
           his
           death
           be●
           (
           where
           dissimulation
           uses
           to
           be
           laid
           aside
           )
           in
           his
           last
           advice
           to
           his
           own
           son
           an
           ●heire
           (
           whom
           it
           was
           not
           likely
           he
           wo●ld
           willingly
           deceive
           )
           ●●ciph●red
           the
           English
           Nation
           to
           be
           generally
           observant
           of
           their
           Princes
           ,
           and
           whilst
           they
           were
           well
           treated
           ,
           and
           preserved
           in
           Peace
           and
           plenty
           ,
           most
           incomparable
           for
           their
           per●ect
           inviolable
           loyalty
           ,
           but
           of
           all
           nations
           the
           most
           unquiet
           under
           such
           a
           ha●sh
           rule
           ,
           which
           should
           render
           them
           servile
           ,
           poore
           and
           miserable
           ▪
        
         
           This
           he
           had
           abundantly
           prooved
           ,
           and
           found
           true
           by
           the
           wofull
           deposition
           of
           his
           unpolitick
           Kinsman
           and
           predecessor
           
             Rich
             ▪
          
           the
           2.
           
           and
           his
           own
           prosperous
           ,
           and
           glorious
           Raigne
           ,
           and
           many
           strange
           traverses
           of
           Fortune
           ,
           which
           throughout
           his
           whole
           Raigne
           .
           He
           was
           forced
           to
           encounter
           withall
           .
           His
           scope
           therefore
           was
           to
           recommend
           to
           his
           sons
           charge
           this
           Nation
           both
           as
           duti●ul●
           ,
           and
           as
           generous
           ,
           of
           whose
           loyalty
           he
           needs
           not
           to
           doubt
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           his
           Iustice
           was
           not
           to
           be
           doubted
           .
           O
           that
           this
           most
           Excellent
           Prince
           could
           bee
           againe
           summoned
           from
           his
           peacefull
           Monument
           to
           repeate
           the
           ●ame
           advertissements
           in
           our
           Soveraignes
           eares
           ,
           and
           to
           justle
           out
           of
           his
           presence
           these
           bloud
           thirsty
           Papists
           and
           Malignants
           ,
           which
           use
           all
           possible
           art
           to
           staine
           the
           peopl●s
           loyalty
           ,
           and
           to
           candy
           over
           all
           his
           actions
           ,
           intending
           thereby
           not
           to
           reconcile
           the
           people
           by
           procuring
           grace
           from
           the
           King
           ,
           but
           to
           confound
           both
           King
           and
           people
           ,
           by
           fostering
           enmity
           between
           both
           ?
           I
           will
           only
           adde
           this
           by
           such
           instigations
           ,
           as
           our
           Replicant
           and
           his
           fellow
           Courtiers
           use
           ,
           the
           King
           cannot
           be
           happy
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           uncertainty
           of
           war
           ,
           that
           is
           by
           making
           his
           subjects
           miserable
           :
           but
           such
           Traytors
           as
           I
           am
           ,
           if
           our
           advise
           bee
           entertained
           ,
           propose
           to
           the
           King
           a
           more
           certaine
           way
           to
           happinesse
           by
           Peace
           that
           is
           by
           making
           his
           subjects
           yet
           more
           happy
           ;
           but
           our
           Replicant
           ●●ith
           ,
           
             the
             King
             is
             willing
             to
             condescend
             to
             any
             thing
             ,
             but
             you
             will
             admit
             of
             no
             reconciliation
             ,
             except
             the
             King
             will
             remove
             those
             servants
             ,
             whom
             he
             had
             found
             most
             honest
             and
             faithfull
             in
             his
             afflictions
             ,
             and
             prefer
             you
             undeserving
             in
             their
             place
             .
          
           Here
           is
           the
           grand
           knot
           indeed
           ,
           we
           oppose
           such
           as
           have
           been
           the
           Counsellors
           or
           instruments
           of
           such
           and
           such
           designes
           :
           
             the
             King
             ,
             saith
             ,
             they
             are
             his
             friends
             ,
             and
             he
             cannot
             abandon
             his
             friends
             :
          
           't
           is
           confest
           ,
           the
           King
           ought
           not
           to
           abandon
           his
           friends
           ,
           but
           the
           King
           m●y
           erre
           in
           the
           knowledge
           of
           friends
           :
           and
           as
           he
           ought
           to
           protect
           his
           friends
           ,
           in
           whom
           he
           cannot
           err
           ;
           so
           he
           is
           not
           bound
           to
           protect
           such
           as
           he
           meerly
           thinks
           his
           friends
           ,
           and
           in
           whom
           if
           he
           will
           beleeve
           the
           voyce
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           he
           is
           very
           much
           deceived
           .
           We
           have
           as
           much
           interest
           in
           the
           Kings
           friends
           and
           Counsellors
           as
           we
           have
           in
           our
           Laws
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           lifes
           ,
           any
           thing
           ,
           for
           we
           know
           we
           can
           enjoy
           nothing
           if
           the
           King
           shall
           owne
           those
           for
           his
           friends
           ,
           whom
           we
           know
           to
           be
           our
           enemies
           ,
           and
           account
           of
           these
           as
           good
           Couns●●ls
           ,
           which
           we
           know
           to
           be
           treasons
           against
           the
           State
           ,
           that
           Prince
           that
           will
           be
           arbitrary
           and
           rely
           upon
           his
           owne
           meer
           opinion
           ,
           and
           discretion
           in
           the
           imployment
           of
           Counsellors
           and
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           having
           no
           regard
           to
           publique
           approbation
           therein
           ,
           is
           as
           injurious
           altogether
           as
           he
           that
           will
           admit
           of
           no
           other
           Law
           ,
           judge
           ,
           nor
           rule
           
           in
           the
           propriety
           and
           liberty
           of
           his
           subjects
           ,
           but
           his
           owne
           brest
           only
           .
        
         
           It
           will
           be
           replyed
           ,
           not
           fancy
           ,
           but
           sense
           teaches
           this
           ,
           that
           he
           that
           obeyes
           the
           Kings
           commands
           ,
           and
           fights
           under
           the
           Kings
           Standart
           is
           more
           a
           friend
           than
           he
           that
           disobeyes
           ,
           and
           fight
           against
           the
           King
           :
           this
           is
           demonstration
           ,
           no
           error
           can
           be
           in
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           answer
           no
           ,
           't
           is
           most
           false
           ,
           Scripture
           and
           reason
           manifest
           it
           to
           be
           most
           false
           .
        
         
           
             Doeg
          
           did
           obey
           
             Saul
             ,
          
           when
           all
           his
           other
           servants
           denyed
           obedience
           ,
           yet
           even
           in
           that
           obedience
           he
           made
           himselfe
           culpable
           ,
           and
           his
           master
           abominable
           ,
           whereas
           the
           other
           servants
           of
           
             Saul
          
           were
           dutifull
           in
           withholding
           an
           unlawfull
           duty
           .
        
         
           So
           those
           3000
           Souldiers
           which
           marched
           out
           after
           
             Saul
          
           to
           take
           away
           the
           life
           of
           just
           and
           uncondemned
           
             David
             ,
          
           they
           were
           instruments
           in
           a
           base
           disservice
           to
           
             Saul
             ,
          
           they
           are
           not
           to
           be
           justified
           for
           this
           service
           ;
           whereas
           those
           600
           valiant
           men
           which
           accompanied
           
             David
          
           in
           his
           dangers
           and
           afflictions
           and
           were
           ready
           with
           their
           sword
           drawn
           to
           guard
           that
           innocence
           ,
           which
           
             Saul
          
           himself
           should
           have
           guarded
           are
           not
           to
           be
           accounted
           false
           to
           
             Saul
          
           but
           true
           to
           
             David
             .
          
        
         
           And
           the
           meere
           presence
           of
           
             Saul
          
           on
           the
           one
           side
           ,
           did
           not
           make
           the
           cause
           unjust
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           nor
           if
           himself
           had
           fallen
           by
           rushing
           oftentimes
           ,
           upon
           defensive
           weapons
           ,
           could
           that
           horrid
           guilt
           of
           his
           death
           ,
           have
           been
           imputed
           to
           any
           but
           to
           himself
           .
           Cursed
           therefore
           ,
           yea
           thrice
           cursed
           be
           these
           miscreants
           ,
           which
           ingage
           the
           King
           in
           this
           war
           against
           the
           Parliam
           not
           without
           hazard
           of
           his
           sac●ed
           Person
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           private
           persons
           and
           have
           not
           sufficiency
           to
           decide
           this
           great
           controversie
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           For
           my
           part
           I
           dare
           not
           pronounce
           sentence
           ,
           neither
           for
           nor
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           as
           the
           Replicant
           without
           all
           scruples
           doth
           in
           all
           places
           ;
           but
           I
           may
           safely
           say
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           King
           does
           ,
           though
           in
           person
           ,
           unjustly
           wage
           war
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           the
           E
           ▪
           of
           
             Essex
          
           and
           his
           Army
           may
           far
           more
           lawfully
           fight
           in
           defence
           of
           that
           supreame
           Court
           ,
           than
           
             David
          
           and
           his
           followers
           did
           for
           the
           protection
           of
           one
           innocent
           private
           man
           .
        
         
           And
           taking
           the
           controversie
           as
           undecided
           ,
           't
           is
           not
           apparent
           who
           fight
           for
           or
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           may
           himself
           as
           lawfully
           claime
           to
           be
           sole
           supreme
           judge
           over
           all
           single
           and
           universal
           persons
           ,
           and
           over
           all
           Laws
           and
           Courts
           ,
           and
           in
           all
           cases
           whatsoever
           ,
           as
           to
           claime
           any
           man
           a
           Traitor
           for
           serving
           the
           Parliament
           in
           this
           war
           ;
           and
           this
           if
           he
           claimes
           ,
           what
           Priviledge
           remaines
           to
           Parliament
           ,
           what
           
           limits
           remaine
           to
           the
           Prince
           :
           what
           liberty
           remain●s
           to
           the
           Subjects
           ?
        
         
           'T
           is
           not
           only
           then
           trayterous
           ,
           but
           ridicul●u●
           in
           the
           Replicant
           to
           assume
           that
           su●rem●cy
           to
           himself
           which
           is
           d●nyed
           to
           the
           King
           by
           condemning
           the
           Parliament
           and
           justifying
           the
           Kings
           party
           in
           all
           passages
           of
           this
           War
           ,
           we
           wh●n
           we
           except
           against
           the
           K●ngs
           party
           ,
           asperse
           not
           at
           all
           the
           Kings
           person
           ,
           and
           the
           Law
           it
           ●elf
           makes
           ever
           a
           distinctio●
           betwixt
           the
           King
           and
           his
           agents
           :
           th●ugh
           our
           Replicant
           will
           not
           allow
           any
           such
           severance
           ▪
           but
           betwixt
           the
           P●rl●am
           .
           and
           its
           instrumen●s
           no
           such
           severance
           is
           except
           for
           the
           worse
           ,
           for
           there
           
             pejor
             ●st
             author
             quam
             actor
             ,
          
           but
           sayes
           the
           Replic●nt
           .
           
             'T
             is
             the
             unhappinesse
             of
             the
             King
             that
             he
             hath
             a
             par●y
             ;
             't
             is
             the
             fault
             of
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             he
             desires
             and
             ought
             to
             have
             the
             whole
             .
          
           See
           here
           't
           is
           the
           Parliaments
           fault
           that
           
             Per●y
             ,
             Digby
             ,
             Winter
             ,
             Mountague
             ▪
             Cro●●s
             ,
             Killegrew
             ,
          
           and
           many
           other
           of
           the
           Quee●s
           devoted
           Creatures
           are
           preferred
           in
           the
           Kings
           favour
           before
           the
           Parliament
           .
           And
           't
           is
           the
           Parliaments
           fault
           ,
           that
           
             Rivers
             ,
             King
             ▪
          
           and
           the
           Titular
           Cou●t
           of
           the
           
             ●alatinate
          
           with
           s●me
           other
           Irish
           Papists
           ●●●ly
           come
           over
           have
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           command
           of
           the
           Cam●
           ,
           and
           spoyle
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           to
           reward
           them
           ,
           whilst
           
             Manchester
             ,
             Hambd●n
             ▪
             H●llis
             ,
             ●im
             ,
             Strod
             ,
             Haselrig
             ,
          
           are
           designed
           for
           the
           ●l●ck
           ,
           and
           that
           u●on
           such
           charges
           ,
           as
           shall
           intangle
           almost
           all
           the
           most
           eminent
           Gentry
           and
           Nobility
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           them
           ,
           
             That
             this
             is
             the
             Kings
             unhappinesse
             is
             aggreed
             ,
          
           but
           that
           this
           is
           the
           Parliaments
           fault
           is
           not
           proved
           by
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           and
           we
           are
           not
           bound
           alwayes
           to
           abate
           him
           proofes
           in
           matters
           of
           this
           consequence
           .
           D●ubtlesse
           we
           are
           likely
           to
           expect
           great
           performances
           from
           ●arliaments
           hereafter
           if
           it
           shall
           be
           guilt
           in
           them
           that
           they
           are
           rejected
           ,
           and
           if
           they
           shall
           be
           rejected
           only
           because
           other
           more
           favoring
           Cou●●iers
           pretend
           better
           affection
           to
           the
           Kings
           private
           advantage
           .
        
         
           The
           actions
           of
           Popish
           and
           Malignant
           Courtyers
           ,
           cannot
           represent
           them
           more
           friendly
           to
           the
           K.
           than
           the
           Parliaments
           .
           No
           honour
           or
           prosperity
           has
           followed
           hitherto
           therupon
           all
           their
           diff●rence
           is
           that
           their
           single
           professions
           of
           Love
           are
           more
           credited
           ,
           than
           such
           as
           are
           credited
           by
           the
           Votes
           of
           the
           Generality
           ,
           and
           attestations
           of
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           Howsoever
           though
           many
           men
           do
           think
           ,
           private
           advise
           and
           testimony
           ,
           to
           be
           more
           valuable
           ,
           and
           sit
           for
           Princes
           to
           hearken
           too
           ,
           then
           publick
           ,
           I
           never
           till
           now
           heard
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           a
           fault
           or
           blam●
           i●
           Parliaments
           to
           be
           lesse
           valued
           or
           accepted
           then
           priva●e
           p●rsons
           .
        
         
         
           To
           what
           purpose
           is
           it
           said
           ?
           
             that
             the
             King
             ●ught
             to
             have
             the
             whole
             :
          
           it
           is
           our
           c●mplaint
           that
           the
           King
           will
           not
           accept
           of
           the
           whole
           :
           and
           it
           is
           the
           Replicants
           complaint
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           is
           not
           suffered
           to
           injoy
           the
           whole
           .
           This
           shall
           reconcile
           all
           :
           let
           the
           whole
           be
           received
           as
           the
           whole
           ;
           and
           every
           part
           as
           it
           is
           Major
           ,
           or
           Minor
           be
           entertained
           in
           grace
           and
           equipage
           proportionably
           ,
           and
           this
           difference
           is
           composed
           .
        
         
           10
           But
           sayes
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           
             the
             Kings
             party
             is
             the
             more
             just
             ,
             and
             therefore
             to
             be
             preferred
             ,
             and
             this
             is
             to
             be
             judged
             of
             by
             rule
             ;
             as
             thus
             ,
             the
             Parliament
             intrenches
             upon
             our
             Liberty
             by
             imprisoning
             without
             cause
             ,
             according
             to
             pleasure
             and
             claimes
             to
             be
             unquestionable
             therein
             :
             The
             Parliament
             intrenches
             upon
             Religion
             by
             committing
             our
             best
             Professors
             ,
             and
             planting
             Sectaries
             in
             their
             stead
             ,
             the
             Parliament
             proceeds
             according
             to
             reason
             ●f
             State
             ,
             not
             Law
             :
             and
             this
             places
             an
             arbitrary
             power
             in
             them
             ,
             a●d
             makes
             ordinances
             equall
             to
             acts
             of
             Parliament
             .
          
        
         
           He●re
           in
           a
           breif
           su●me
           all
           that
           ever
           has
           been
           spoken
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           spoken
           against
           the
           Parliament
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           is
           grounded
           upon
           an
           ung●a●●ed
           proposition
           ,
           that
           the
           Parliament
           has
           no
           right
           to
           defend
           it self
           :
           For
           if
           it
           be
           lawfull
           for
           both
           Houses
           of
           Parliament
           to
           defend
           t●emselves
           ,
           it
           must
           of
           necessity
           follow
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           and
           must
           imprison
           ,
           levye
           moneyes
           ,
           suppresse
           seditious
           preachers
           ,
           and
           make
           use
           of
           an
           arbitrary
           power
           according
           to
           reason
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           not
           confine
           themselves
           to
           meere
           expedients
           of
           Law
           .
           Enough
           has
           been
           said
           o●
           this
           ,
           't
           is
           imp●ssible
           that
           any
           wise
           man
           should
           be
           opposite
           herein
           ,
           and
           the
           Kings
           party
           have
           more
           recourse
           ●o
           reason
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           arbi●ra●y
           power
           by
           far
           than
           we
           have
           .
        
         
           But
           i●
           it
           be
           said
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Houses
          
           abuse
           arbitrary
           power
           in
           imprisoning
           ,
           ●evying
           moneyes
           &c.
           cau●●l●sly
           ;
           this
           is
           a
           false
           calumny
           ,
           and
           not
           t●●e
           granted
           without
           particular
           and
           pregnant
           proofes
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           Replicant
           produces
           none
           at
           all
           ,
           were
           it
           not
           for
           this
           great
           noise
           a●d
           boast
           of
           Arbitrary
           power
           ,
           our
           Academians
           would
           want
           matter
           to
           st●ff●
           their
           in
           numerable
           pamphlets
           withall
           :
           and
           the
           sillyer
           sort
           of
           Malignants
           would
           want
           ●uell
           to
           feed
           their
           enmity
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           we
           know
           ,
           Arbitrary
           power
           is
           only
           dangerous
           in
           one
           man
           or
           in
           a
           ●ew
           men
           ,
           and
           cannot
           be
           so
           in
           Parliaments
           at
           any
           time
           ;
           much
           lesse
           in
           times
           of
           publick
           distresse
           :
           for
           then
           it
           is
           not
           only
           harml●ss●●
           u●necessa●y
           .
        
         
           The
           House
           of
           Commons
           without
           the
           other
           States
           hath
           had
           an
           arbi●rary
           power
           at
           all
           times
           ,
           to
           dispose
           of
           the
           treasure
           of
           the
           Kingdome
           ,
           and
           wh●re
           they
           give
           away
           one
           subsidy
           ,
           they
           may
           give
           20
           ▪
           
           and
           where
           they
           give
           50000●
           at
           one
           subsidy
           they
           may
           give
           fifty
           times
           so
           much
           ,
           and
           all
           this
           whether
           war
           or
           peace
           be
           .
        
         
           Y●t
           when
           did
           either
           King
           or
           Subject
           complaine
           of
           this
           arbitrary
           power
           ?
           Nay
           if
           any
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           have
           repined
           at
           the
           abuse
           of
           this
           arbitrary
           power
           ,
           and
           refused
           to
           pay
           subsidys
           assessed
           by
           the
           house
           of
           Commons
           ,
           what
           Kings
           would
           suffer
           it
           ?
           when
           was
           it
           not
           held
           a
           good
           ground
           of
           War
           ?
           so
           both
           Houses
           have
           an
           arbitrary
           power
           to
           abridge
           the
           freedom
           of
           the
           Subject
           ,
           and
           to
           inlarge
           the
           Kings
           prerogative
           ,
           beyond
           a
           measure
           ;
           they
           may
           repeale
           our
           great
           Charter
           ,
           the
           Charter
           of
           Forrests
           ,
           and
           the
           petition
           of
           right
           if
           they
           please
           ,
           they
           may
           if
           they
           please
           subject
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           for
           ever
           to
           the
           same
           arbitrary
           rule
           as
           
             France
          
           grones
           under
           ,
           nay
           ,
           &
           they
           have
           often
           been
           with
           force
           and
           all
           manner
           of
           sollicitations
           almost
           violented
           into
           it
           :
           and
           yet
           notwithstanding
           all
           this
           ,
           we
           are
           neither
           terrifyed
           nor
           indangered
           at
           all
           by
           this
           arbitrary
           power
           in
           both
           houses
           .
        
         
           To
           have
           then
           an
           arbitrary
           power
           placed
           in
           the
           Peers
           and
           Comm.
           is
           naturall
           and
           expedient
           at
           all
           times
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           use
           of
           this
           arbitrary
           power
           ,
           according
           to
           reason
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           warlick
           policy
           in
           times
           of
           generall
           dangers
           and
           distresse
           is
           absolutely
           necessary
           and
           inevitable
           :
           but
           't
           is
           a
           great
           offence
           ,
           
             that
             both
             Houses
             should
             make
             ordinances
             generally
             binding
             .
          
        
         
           They
           ,
           which
           would
           take
           from
           us
           all
           meanes
           of
           defence
           ;
           if
           they
           could
           dispute
           us
           out
           of
           the
           power
           of
           making
           temporary
           Ordinances
           h●d
           their
           wils
           upon
           us
           ,
           for
           defence
           without
           some
           obliging
           power
           to
           preserve
           order
           ,
           and
           to
           regulate
           the
           method
           of
           defence
           ,
           would
           be
           vaine
           and
           absurd
           ;
           but
           this
           is
           but
           one
           branch
           of
           arbitrary
           power
           and
           reason
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           to
           wast
           time
           in
           proving
           it
           necessary
           in
           times
           of
           extremity
           ,
           if
           defence
           be
           granted
           lawfull
           ,
           were
           childish
           and
           ridiculous
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           now
           done
           with
           the
           Replicant
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           he
           hath
           spoken
           to
           the
           matter
           ,
           I
           shall
           now
           come
           to
           his
           emergent
           ,
           strange
           ,
           calumnious
           speeches
           ,
           against
           the
           persons
           of
           such
           and
           such
           men
           ,
           but
           this
           were
           
             Caninos
             rodere
             dentes
             .
          
           I
           forbeare
           it
           ,
           only
           rehearsing
           some
           raylings
           ,
           which
           need
           no
           answer
           but
           themselves
           .
        
         
           The
           two
           houses
           are
           generally
           railed
           at
           ,
           
             as
             guilty
             of
             Rebellion
             against
             the
             King
             .
          
           All
           adherents
           to
           Parliament
           are
           railed
           at
           ,
           
             as
             Anabaptists
             ,
             Separatists
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           The
           Lord
           Major
           is
           railed
           at
           ,
           for
           preventing
           bloudshed
           in
           the
           City
           ,
           when
           the
           Petitioners
           under
           the
           pretence
           of
           seeking
           for
           Peace
           ,
           had
           many
           of
           them
           plotted
           dissention
           ,
           and
           this
           his
           Office
           is
           
             stiled
             the
             stiffling
             of
             peace
             in
             the
             womb
             .
          
        
         
         
           The
           City
           Preachers
           are
           railed
           at
           ,
           for
           satisfying
           our
           Cons●ie●ces
           in
           the
           justifiablenesse
           of
           a
           defensive
           war
           ,
           for
           this
           they
           are
           charged
           to
           
             fight
             against
             the
             King
             in
             the
             feare
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             to
             turn
             the
             spirituall
             Militia
             into
             weapons
             of
             the
             flesh
             .
          
           The
           framer
           of
           the
           Answer
           is
           rayled
           at
           for
           giving
           the
           Petitioners
           just
           satisfaction
           in
           peaceable
           language
           .
           
             Though
             his
             words
             be
             confessed
             to
             be
             softer
             than
             oyle
             ,
          
           yet
           'ts
           said
           ,
           
             that
             the
             poyson
             of
             Aspes
             is
             under
             his
             lips
             ;
          
           he
           is
           called
           a
           
             Cataline
             ,
             the
             firebrand
             of
             his
             Countrey
             ,
             whose
             sophistry
             and
             eloquence
             was
             fit
             to
             disturbe
             a
             State
             ,
             but
             unable
             to
             compose
             or
             setle
             it
             .
          
        
         
           The
           judgment
           of
           all
           these
           things
           is
           now
           submitted
           to
           the
           world
           ,
           what
           the
           intent
           of
           the
           Petition
           was
           ,
           in
           some
           master-plotters
           and
           contrivers
           of
           it
           ,
           will
           appeare
           by
           the
           arguments
           of
           this
           ●ell
           Replicant
           .
           Whereby
           it
           is
           now
           seconded
           .
           That
           the
           name
           of
           an
           Accomodation
           was
           pretended
           to
           force
           the
           two
           Houses
           under
           colour
           therof
           ,
           to
           cast
           themselves
           upon
           a
           meer
           submission
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           made
           odious
           ,
           and
           lookt
           upon
           as
           foes
           to
           peace
           ,
           which
           was
           a
           
             Scilla
          
           on
           one
           side
           ,
           and
           
             Charybdis
          
           (
           on
           the
           other
           )
           is
           here
           manifested
           .
           Whether
           the
           Answer
           to
           the
           Petition
           favour
           of
           so
           much
           malice
           and
           enmity
           to
           peace
           ,
           as
           this
           Replication
           does
           ,
           let
           indifferent
           men
           censure
           ,
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           whether
           the
           soule
           of
           that
           man
           which
           thirsts
           for
           a
           firme
           Peace
           ,
           may
           not
           dislike
           these
           practises
           of
           pretending
           to
           it
           ;
           and
           the
           soule
           o●
           that
           man
           which
           hates
           peace
           ,
           may
           not
           make
           advantage
           of
           the
           name
           of
           peace
           ,
           let
           all
           wise
           men
           proved
           and
           examine
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .