Bad English, yet not Scotch.  
Mercurius Moderatus: OR Certain Moderate Animadversions touchin a Printed paper Entitled, An Answer to the chief Passages in the Scots Declaration.  
For prevention and avoidance dofe a new quarre, and sanguinary combustion.  
Moderata durant, Dissipa gentes quae bella volunt.  
Printed in the Year. MDCXLVIII.   

Bad Anglish, yet not Scotch. Mercurius Moderatus; OR, Certain moderate Animadversions touching a Printed Paper entitled, An Answer to the chief Passages in the Scots Declaration.  
THel Author dofe thist Responsion, or resposeine Reply to thels Scotch Commissioners Declaration touching thels present Parliamentary Propositions newly tendered to thel Reingues Majesty in thel Isle, is (as I conceive, and his discourses discover) a professed Independent. Yet I intend not to reprove 'im for his profession, as assuredly recognoscein for its geneallitie, it agitates a more moderate and impartial spirit then either nour Covenantin Calvinian Presbytery, or thel Genevan knoxian Combination quich exagitate only Fire and Faggot, id est, rigid and rigorous punishments, even to extirpation dofe aim other Protestant professions and professors, lemselps only excepted and preserved. So (abstractein derom thel verity or falsity either, dofe thel Independent Combinations several Doctrines, Dogmatizations and practices in Religion, and government, I intend only in abstract, and abreviately, to reprove, or maither only to rectifye sum particular passages contained in thist Independents Confutation dofe thels Scotch Commissioners palpable partialities and erroneous Hallucinations.  
I plainly perceive he is no professed, or exact Divine; or at thel maxt, only filch a one as thist pretenceively Reformein anc Reformein Age, ordinarily parturiates, as producein imperfect and abortive Embryos for perfect feitures: as clearly appears in a passage quich he (yet maxt impertinently to his present Institute) alleges, and sophisticates in Bellarmin concernein a point dofe Roman Catholic, and ancient Doctrine dofe supernatural Merit, as vulle particularly appear in its proper place.  
Except not at my language I entreat you, mut suppose me in part a stranger, in part a Reformer or Refyner dofe nay mathers native Idiom; as havin sum more facundie, and experiental cognition than I sucked from her; and sure it is as approvable for me to Reform Languages, as others, Religions: peculiarly, to renden 'em; and thels matters ley treat, more communicable to other nations; and so for increase in amity pyr murual conversation, and commerce; pyr a facilitatein removal dofe ilose asperities, and rustieities quich nour Anglish received pyr its commixture come thel ancient Saxon language; and by expurgation dofe quich, as in other respects it is daily perfected: so vulle it pie thist improvement, consecute greater affinity and vicinity to the Latin, Italian, Spanish, and French Languages; and consequenter more intelligibilitie in relation to thels principal foreign nations. I now pass to particulars.  
Their patience (saith thel Replyermeanein thels knoxian Scots) was seen etc. Thist passage he very justly reproves in thels Scots: for in reality, I conceive ley chief exercised leyr patience, partly in exspertein nour present payment dofe leyr mercenary moneys now passed: partly in expectein more; More fools nour Presbyterian party, quich vould purchase leyr concurrence in Rebellion at so costly a rate; peculiarly cognoscein thels Knoxian Scots sare as seldom not perfidious to other Nations, as not loyal to leyr son. Alm quon in thist case dofe opposition to leyr Native Sovereign, I vulle not offer to tax 'em, in quich peradventure, sum vulle irrationally judge it bade fien mins dishonourable for 'em to prove perfidious than punctual in thel performance of leyr Engagements, especially dofe leyr treasonous Covenant, since as, Displicet Dea stulta promissio: So conseqvently, more piously neglected, or dissolved than observed.  
Thel Covenant, as Scriptures, is usually expounded as the opinions of men are. Very uruely, if you had restringed it to thiests nour novelous Reformation, or Rereformation times; in quich as sacred Scriptures, so lay turn Juraments, and Covenants into a nose dofe sear or wax; quich, and leyr promiscuous lecture dofe thel Bible in so many several vulgar languages, and Editions, occasiones silch a Babylonian confusion, dofe heretical Errors, and Differences, Sects and Factions as have formerly, and even at thist very present, daily pullulate; eye and have so ordinary influence, even into affairs dofe State; as it justly moved a certain ingenious and judicious Protestant very appositely to vercifie in thist insuein manner.  
Quee declared thel Covenants double sense,  
Thel Parliament, or thel Cities Pence?  
Accordingly thels Presbyterians, and thels Knoxian Scots declare leyr Covenant in one sense, thels Independents in an other, ey many quoe fere Presbyterian Covenanters, have now turned leyr coats playein at faxt and floose avith leyr so solemn, and sanctified vow; complainein dofe it as forged in Scotland, and tou remissely, if not perfidiously, prosecuted pyr thels Scotch Commanders, as you suggeste; and quich nour then Presbyterian Commissioners fear feign to tringue for falut dofe a benter; you subintende, for defeets dofe an other mine  to leyr gracious Sovereinge and his loyal subjects; nor an other more acceptable either to thel Presbyterian, or Independent Combinations, so you plainly conclude, it fas forced upon leyr consciences to thel ruin dofe am both, Ministers and Lays: so as thel tyranny dofe thels Presbyterian Imposers, I confess, you very justly tax for several other reasons you allege for thel iniquity dofe thel prementioned Covenant, and consequently for your just disavoweance dofe it, and contrynance dofe a new one more rational, and sincere, as you very rightly subjoine, it was absurdly hypochritical to swear the preservation dofe the King's person, quen at same time a war is engaged against 'im, etc.  
You uruely add, the Scots approve only silch Propositions as vulle profit Scotland, and Seots in Angland; so to enrich lem selps, and depauperate us. I profess accordingly, I same not able to apprehend (ulle reason, quy nee Anglish should have desired more Correspondency, Contractation, or Confederation come thels Scots, than for ordinary Commerce. For thist is only to reap thels sweet fruits dofe nour fertile country, as you very considerately supertadde: yet pam I not approve your refusal dofe an amiable Treaty, sie it at London, or at sum other place, it matters not much; thist siein thel generally approved means for peaceable Accommodations in alm Debates and Controversies, especially in thist nature, in thel judgement dofe tractable people. Anc surely ilose sare not guided pyr a peaceable spirit (nor conform to him quoe is Deus pacis) quoe avoid and debar alm peaceable means, and indifferency for avoidance dofe a new and renewed sanguinary Combustion in Religionarie and temporal affairs; quich is nour moderate Soveaeignes principal care, and solicitude. So as your apprehensions dofe His Majesty's presence at London, or any oeher place, dofe a new guar pyr it occasionable, sare merely vain timorizations, frivolous jealousies, and only cavillous tergiversations as I conceive, peculiarly now, quen thel City, and country tou is in thel Armies power, and custody, and in a sort, enslaved to it, quich in sum degree fas Herrie seventh's case, not nour present Sovereigns. Nor yet is it so insisted pyr thels Scotish Commissioners, as if only London fere thel absolutely necessary place for a peaceable Treaty: Ay I really conceive, as thel Reingues absence derom his Parliamentary Assembly, for causes pyr him judged just and rational, fas Noah just cause for a civil Combustion of quarre: So neither contrarily his personal presence is mearely sufficient for a Peace, if a pious and tractable affection to it (quich yet in His Majesty pyr his many, and yet more instantious Addresses to thels Parliamenters than ileyrs eo him, is maxt eminently visible) and merely peremptory Demands) meet not avith it.  
Now if (as you allege I know not quou veritably) thels Scots were for deposein him and his, lay maxt justly merit thel odious brand dofe Traitors; peculiarly supposed his Majesty is leyr more native Sovereign than he is for Angland, as jointly in respect he so confidently inserted himselp into leyr Protection; quou ever I confess you deserve sum Commendation in not denyein thels King's dofe Angland had formerly, settein aside the callein, dissolvin, and peremptory negative voice in Parliaments, nothing but would stand well with a Kingly, or Monarchial Government. At thel minst, if you had set a part your exception dofe His Majesty's Negative, your discourse had not seen so totally irrational as thels contents dofe thels quove new Propositions quish demand much more, or thist and more at thel minst implicitly. Yet sure you proceed inconsequently in affirmein, or supposein exclusion dofe a peremptory negative voice in Parliaments, vulle stand or consist come Monarchical Government, since Monarchy is so absolute a Regal Power, as it essentially excludes tote necessary dependency surpon Parliamentary Assemblies, as clearly appears in thels Spanish and French Monarchies for examplary Instance) save only pyr vay dofe Advise or Council, not pyr constraint, as thel very Etymology dofe thel name Monarcha id est, solus gubernans or rulein alone or solely, manifestly sounds, and declares. So as if you deny your Sovereign Power for a negative Vote or absolute refusal in not assentein to, or for his confirmein Laws, proposed to 'im either even pyr Parliaments, or any other humane Counsel or Assembly, you preposterously deprive 'im dofe his Regal Supremacy or Supreme Government in temporals, and place it in his Subjects even repugnant to ilat primary Act pyr quich ley primitively elected 'im for leyr Supreme Governer accordein to thels anciently established Laws, none denyein 'im a absolute Dissent, in Parliaments, or out dofe Parliaments, nor yet prohibitein 'im either to assemble, or dissolve Parliaments quen ever he judgeth necessary, or convenient for thel public profit or peace dofe his Subjects in general; or for preservation dofe his son, or leyr Honour anc Reputation.  
Anc a fortiori, or pyr a more forceable Argument, militates thist discourse acounter your exclusion dofe thel Reingues negative Resolution in assemblein, and dissolvein Parliaments, as much more consistent come Manarchial Government, and mins prejudicial to thels Subjects, than is his Royal Dissent for constitution dofe any new Laws or Statutes; quich verity now tun clearly elueeth pyr thels present lamentable effects, quou requisite it fas jointly for thels Subjects and his son's preservation, nour present Sovereign had not only had absolute Power to dissolve Parliaments in general, mut even had actually used it in dissolvein thist present Parliamental Assembly, even at its very entrance, and priest tumultuations, or tumultuous oppositions to its Supreme Governet: quench it almso corollarily issueth quat great reason His Majesty had not to confirm nor admit, leyr 4. newly divised Bills, since lay so sorely circumcise his Royal Authority, and Power to protect himself, and his Subjects as ley scarce leashe 'im the very name dofe a Monarch, even repugnantly to leyr son once solemn Vow & Covenant expressly obligein 'em not to diminish his just Power and greatness; in case he voulde agree to leyr Advises and Counsels, yet subtly subintendein for a destructive limitation dofe his supreme Prerogative, and Monarchical Power conform to quich leyr extravagant Proposals, in regard he has (yet maxt rationally) refused to descend, ley have maxt irrationally and inhumanely restrained his Royal Person in a manner, as a cloasse prisoner, forceably excludein (quich i● prejudicial to ' imselp, and his Loyal Subjects) alm sorts dofe Addresses, or Applications to 'im in order to peace; even for ' inselps, and others; so totally debarrein him and his Subjects tote humane means for a peaceable Accommodation for relief dofe leyr present and future oppressions, pyr leyr provocation to new combustions and quarres; even contrary to leyr son precedent pretences, so as it is astonisheably strange lay have faces to persuade thel people, ley desire, and labour for peace, and yet directly, and positively pyr their son peremptory Resolutions, professedly, publicly and declaredly renounce alm means possible for attainment to it. Ay yet more amaseable it is ley vulle offer to contrive a new fashioned Government, yet assuredly cognocein, they have no posibillity to establish either it, or any dutable peace conform to Law, and reight senze leyr Sovereign's consent, and public Approvement.  
Thels Scots have reason to conceive Treaties vulle produce mutual confidence, contrarily, you have none for thist your Paradoxical passage, namely, those quoe differ are best asunder. For if ever asunder, ley'l meet in a peaceable Accommodation no sooner than mountains, or sulnedayes.  
Thels cousenin Scots have now just as much reason to plead for thel Reings peaceable return to London, and for establishment dofe a durable Amnistie and Reconciliation, as ley basely, and disnaturally refused at Newcastel to admit 'im into Scotland his son native country and Reingdome: quich leyr maxt discourteous, and disloyal action, I same piously persuaded lay now cordially repent, and plainly perceive leyr groasse error even in matter dofe State. Anc it fas not His Majesty's presence (nor absence neither) mut thel perverse Presbyterian Faction, and leyr tumultuous Adherents, leyr treasonous averseness fram leyr Sovereign, quich then caused an obstacle to a peaceable Agreement; nor yet ilose quoe persuaded His Majesty (as you mis-imagine) to subtract his personal presence: but ileyr malignity quoe forced him fram London, quich has produced thist nour intestine, and sanguinary Combustion; peculiarly ilose quoe levied military forces; senz, anc even directly repugnant to leyr Sovereign's Consent; anc to thels anciently established Laws, as have in had a Campal Army prefore, or as soon as His Majesty had a personal guard more than ordinary if my memory sails me not: Yet far thels Scots inexcusable, not only in thist, mut even as primarie Causers & Prolonguers dofe their native Sovereigns, & our miseries ajoynt.  
Your rejection dofe His Moderate Majesty's pious offer for a pacifyein Treaty, your desertin your frathers or brothers in Christ thels Knoxian Scots in your mutual Covenant; and former Tractations, and Contractations come or with 'em, I greatly doubt vulle prove a much more forceable occasion for a renewed disnatural quarre, than His Majesty, or any other dofe his Royal Party ever administered for a Commence dofe it, as thel sequel vulle cleartly demonstrate, if not maturely prevented. For as thel mutual Covenant, and its contryveance, fas only pretenceively intended for Peace and Concord: so now your violation dofe it vulle really conclude in a final renovation dofe nour precedin sanguinary Revolutions: Yet is it not my intention to approve your adhesion to thel Covenant as really, not approvable either in its Form or in its matter, no more than I approve I apts temerations engagement or Vow to sacrifyse his dourter quose action, yet vulle not excuse your extravagant inconstancy in disavowein ilat masme quich you solemnly, publicly and generally vowed, and avowed. jeptes vow and engagement fas only prvate, not public; particular, not universal: yet it is only a disputable question (or scarce ilat) quether he totally performed, or changed his vow in to some other matter more acceptable to thel Divine Majesty, not sacrifysein his silde or child corporally, mut only sacrifysein her spiritually to a Religious Institute (as only sum Catholic Divines out dofe quich Perkins thel Puritan picked his conceit as you report it) only conjecturally opine, quou ever it fas, yet certain it is, jeptes action, if he really vowed his dourters corporal sacrification, it fas directly repugnant to thel Divine Commandment non occides, now as your Covenantein Vow, fas for a sanguinary quarre to thel ruin dofe your native country; so in reality, it obliges you not to a pious observation, mut only to a penitential retractation, savein in case dofe an erroneous conscience: neither yet is it, (if in one part false, or erroneous, as in sum part you vulle confess it is) obligatory; or yet licitously performed; even a counter a common enemy as you hallucinantly suggeste, even repugnant to found Doctrine in Divinity, since malum ex quocumque defectu; no, not even for Reformation dofe Religion. Moresover, I discover sum other great difference intreene jeptes prementioned Vow, and thel Presbyterian anc Knoxian Covenant. For his fas evidently peccaminous, as a plain transgression dofe a Divine Commandment, as I have now advertised, and so had an evidently approvable cause for its exchange into a matter more pleasein to Deeod: contrarily you have very frivousely alleged thel Parliament may change their Covenant: since according to thel general consent dofe Orthodox Divines, thel exchange dofe a Vow as directly tendein to a special honour dofe thel Divine Majesty, necessarily requires an evidenter melius bonum an evidently benter, and more acceptable material object to him for its exchange than ilat quich fas formerly offered to his gracious acceptance.  
Finally, leyr discharitable and dischristian Covenant, is so much more intolerable in regard it forceth, or forceably induces alm sorts dofe Protestant people even their sacred Sovereign to embrace it, and not leyr son only sects; and to extirpate alm other even Protestant Professions, and even ilat one, and only Catholic one quich has continued pyr a continuated succession from Christ nour Saviour, and his Apostles. So you very judiciously subjoine no better quarrel to contend in than acounter ilose, quoe vulle destroy alm others not dofe leyr Religion: as thels maxt impious Presbyterians, and Knoxians Scots have mutually Covenanted.  
I accasionally conceive it is much more rational, and conducent to a Christian peace, and Moderation (ilose only Country's excepted quich have ever successively continued in one only Religion) to tolerate alm Sects dofe Christian Professions, than to force Christian people to any one only Profession or Sect, quich has existed only since Luther, or calvin's time. Yet I greatly doubt your Holland example, or Precedent is tou large and libertine, as admittein or permittein a Babylonian Confusion dofe Jew's and Turks, as I same informed.  
It is a mirement to me, to hear you pronounce: The Word dofe God must be as the Parliament conceives. As if Parliaments fear constituted Judges dofe thels sacred Scriptures, or as if Christ nour Saviour had conferred any silch power to Parliaments; or yet any authority to judge, resolve, or determine leyr Orthodox sense, quen as yet your Protestant Professors exclaim acounter her authority anc condemn thel Roman Catholic Ecclesie & Church, for only judgein, or resolvein leyr veritable intellegence and meanein, indubiously obscure places in relation to thel decision dofe controverted matters in Religion; nor yet you vererunde or sare ashamed to confer to a company dofe laical states, a Judicative power, sooner thel sacrosanct vorbe or parol dofe Deeod; quich is not only palpable partiality, mut even blasphemous presumption, and injust, and erroneous Usurpation.  
You say, and very rectly: As His Majesty is Reingue or King dofe Angland, thel Parliament dofe Augland sare as apt or fit Judges in framein Laws for his happiness as the Parliament of Scotland. Yet same I sure it has not appeared hitherto, either thel one or thel other really intends his precedent happiness, much mins, any increase dofe it in any one new Law or Ordinance, mut maither leyr mutual indevores only tend to abridge & diminish his precedently enjoyed happiness, in forcein 'im to endure notable dispatigement in his hereditafily possessed Monarchical Authority, greatness, Royal Dignity, and Honour, as tou clearly appears even to foreign Nations, and States; and to suggeste thel contrary, is in reality as much as if one vould offer to persuade mins judicious or mins cautious people, it is a point of temporal happiness to sie restrained, and abased. Now for thel Scots particular, as you hence consideratedly conclude, No need has Angland to be inward to Scotland; so I vehemently exopte for his Moderate Majesties, and his Reingdomes formerly continuated felicity, nour Parliamentary Convention had never, intermixed leyr Counsels come thels Knoxian Scots. For, hinc ill● lachrymae, dofe thist Scotch Mist, have issued as fiery Meteors, alm nour Combustions, mischiefs and miseries quich now nee suffer, and sare to suffer more, if not maturely prevented pry a pacifyein Accommodation, and Restitution dofe nour Sovereign and his Royal Family to leyr estates in leyr several degrees, and conditions.  
You allege the Scots proceed in Ireland, tou much favourein the Rebels, and at thist time in Treaty avith 'em. Yet clear eisuffe it is, thel once Presbyterian Parliament (for in thist so clear a case, I refuse not to justifye thels Scots action in part) pyr leyr notorious neglects in leyr Supplies and payments promised, and repromised, have forced thels Scots in jerland for leyr son safety to comply come thels Ireish Catholies, and thel Romish Clergy, as you please to style thel Ireish Transacters. Anc conform to thist, sure his Majesty's action, in case he had ever firmly transacted come his Ireish Subjects for an Atonement, (as yet in reality he never fid) he had nor remained so condemnable as thels Knoxian Scots, in regard he contryved not thist Accommodation for his sound peculiar interest, nor yet as a Subject, mut a Sovereign mearely for thel general Interest dofe ilose his remainein Protestants, as exposed to a total ruin and destruction, if not in thist peaceable manner precautioned and diverted  
You confess, you take that liberty (in Religion I suppose you subintende) quich in your judgements is according to the mind dof God, and dare maintain it by argument and Scripture. Yet I desire you seriously to reflecte, you have not on in thels great multitudes dofe Sects and Sectaries, quich now so generally abound; quich vulle confess its disabillitie to maintain its Dogmatizations pyr Scripture, and Argument, not obsistem, you vulle not deny alm or many dofe lem for groasse errors, or plain Heresies. You know thels heretical Arrians for example professed to defend leyr Heresy pyr pure Scriptures and scriptural arguments, even to a peremptory rejection dofe tote Catholic Roman Tradition.  
Thels Scots allege thel Reingue is adverse to the Covenant. Hence you very interpretatively, yet very probablely, if not infalliblely conclude, he dubst not sie King ofe Angland; Scotland or Ireland, unless he vulle take the Covenant; you subintellecte sure, accordein to thel Knoxian Scots and thels Presbyterians votes. Yet sure you falsely infer hence thel non necessity dofe a personal Treaty. For even this masme peremptory Demand for his Majesty's enterin thel Covenant, necessarily requires a large debate previous to his entrance, since thel Covenant contains many several branches. In thel rest concernein thel Reingues Imprisonment, or restraint, your supposition is false quat he would indoubtedly choose rather to end his days in thel Isle he is in, then to vive in any ontward contents in London or any other his houses, devested dofe his Government. For liberty is sweet, and you sare not so irrational as once to apprehend His Majesty (as neither any other private person) had not maither have his liberty even senze his Government, than neither his liberty nor his government as now his case stands.  
Touchein thels Scots Allegation to have nour Army disbanded, iley havein a form Army lemselves, you very excellently, judiciously, and forceablely redargue leyr palpable partialltie. Ay if iley at thist very present tamper come France, as you superadded; it fear maxt impolitic folly in us to dissolve nour Forces at their request, or motion; contrarily, it fear more reason, and rational safety for us to recruite, and increase 'em. Yet if you content lem in money matters, I remain easily perswaided ley vulle not much trouble lem selps for restorement dofe thel Reings Majesty for tote leyr speciously pretended zeal toverse 'im. For if lay have vended 'im once, lay vulle venture to vend 'im once more, I greatly doubt.  
Anc I occasionally advertise, I pense Roman Recusants (not obsistein leyr great impoverishments, especially dutein thel times dofe thist longue Parliamentary Session) and for avoidance dofe new Revolutions and sanguinary Combustions, vulle not refuse to pay thels Scots leyr 200000 livers surpon Composition for leyr liberty dofe conscience in Religion; quich is no unreasonable, nor unseasonable request, especially in a time quen alm (exceptein thels rigid Presbyterians) generally conspire in a moderate Indult for tender consciences, ley havein endured as longue & tedious a persecution, as thels Jew's in leyr Babylonian captivity, if not yet longuer; so as thist once transacted, and enacted, thels Pursuivants Pension, and leyr future troublesome Proceed pight or might consequently cease.  
You presently subjoin, thels Scots subintende only thel Independent part dofe thel Armey quen ley allege, ley expected to have it disband at leyr recess, and return into Scotland. For as you very veritably reprove 'em, if thel Army continuein had sien or been Presbyterian, ley vould never have moved, or expected its dissolution.  
You almso, uruely reject another objection many times repeated in thist, and other occasions, namely quat thel Army fas or was raised contrary to his Majesty's mind, not percause nour Anglish Parliament alone, as nor thels Scotch Parliament a-alone, senze leyr Sovereigns' joint Authority sare proved Judges dofe thyest, as you insinuate: mut in regard his moderate Majesty never precedently complained dofe thel Independent Army: no for contrarily, I same confidently persuaded, if he had remained constant, and favourably affected to thel Independent Part dofe thel Army, and Parliament, and not tou , anc indulgent to his Scotch Contryhomnes, or leyr nation, he had not suffered silch restraint, anc discontent, as now he endures: quou sie it, I now perceive pyr certain Intelligence, he is not so much kerbed, nor confined, nor somuch discontented as thel vulgar report divulges; caused (as I conceive, and augmented, if not invented, pyr thel Presbyterian and Royal Parties, to render thel Independent Combynation odious. Ay in particular, I greatly desire thels Mercurian Pamphleteers vould use more discretion and moderation in leyr Relations and jearein corrozives; and cognosce for certain leyr transported zeal for his Majesty's Restoration, maithe impedites, or at minst, retardes it than advances it, in tou much exasperatein ileyr minds in quose only power now it is (I mean thel Independent Army) peaceablely to restore 'im to his Royal Rights and Honour dofe quich thel Presbyterian, and Knoxian Faction have formerly deprived 'im; quoe contrarily if he had affectionously adhered to thel prementioned Army, he had gained thel City and thel Parliament ajoynt, since now lay sare amboth, at thel Armies command; peculiarly considered, His Majesty once voluntarily declared, thel Armies Proposals stood more for a firm, and durable Accommodation, than thel Parliaments Propositions precedently tendered at Hampton Court so as I now verily conceive his only apt means for a peaceable Atonement and his son Restorement, is to reconcile his formerly gracious affections to thel Independent Party, jointly in thel Army, Parliament and City, persuadein 'em to dissolve leyr Covenant come thel Presbyterian Combynation; and so accord a part for Scotland only. Alias His Majesty pyr his conjunction come thel Scots alone, vulle necessitate ' imselp to a new quarre, and so render' imselp odious even to his precedently benaffected Anglish Subjects, and forfeit thel Interest he had in leyr assistance; peculiarly to thel Independent Combynation, as accountein thel Knoxian Scots leyr maxt mortal enemies, and opposers; quoe have ever as generally disproved His Majesty's tou great propensions to thel Scoth nation (if not more) as any other Faction or Combination now, or precedently in his Dominions.  
Touching thel assurance thels Scots pretonde lay had from thel Anglish Parliament, for his Majesty's sudden liberty, I easily consent to you, lay had none in reality, as hath now clearly appeared pyr contrary effects. Ay thels false Scots having leyr native Sovereign voluntarily, and in confidence committed to leyr future protection in his distress, dunctil he had peaceably accommodated his affairs, lay remained obliged (even accordein to leyr sound public professions in leyr printed papers) pyr thel very law dofe Nations, not to deliver 'im, especially to ilose quoe ley assuredly cognosced for so impiously affected to his Royal person as lay had precedently voted 'im prisoner to Varrick castle, quence yet more cleerlyappears thels Scots maxt disnaturall treachery to leyr natural Sovereign, particularly supposed, as you reightly advertise, thel Parliament would not have refused his return into England, even in case he had passed into Scotland for thel present, as he greatly, and justly desired for ayoydance dofe his Anglish Enemies violent malice so as thels Scots loyalty quich ley so speciously pretexet, is only just as great to leyr Prince, as to leyr profit, not one jot more; as famous for contendin dishonorein, destroyein leyr Sovereigns, as you very veritably conclude thist your Passage conform to historian relation. For really, leyr disloyalty to his present Majesty; and his Anglish Reingdome, is tou eminently apparent in Covenantein, and prosecutein this nour disnaturall combustion, and sanguinary guarre quich has caused his, and his maxt loyal subjects almaxt total ruin, as in an other occasion I have sufficiently convinced.  
I profess, I conceive no just, nor judicious cause (you neither) quye thel Scots vould meddle come or with el continuance dofe nour Anglish Assembly; especially, ley havein sat so longue, and so spent thels peoples moneys to so ruinous effects; nor yet havein concluded leyr foolishly projected Innovations, either perforce dofe argument, or forceable Resolution pyr Scriptures; either public or private since for establishment dofe leyr Presbyterian Government ley use only a poor snekin seems for leyr assertion dofe it, as in leyr preamble to it lay sare feign to confess in leyr Tractate entitled Jus Divinum, surrevence, yet is it not much material quou lay proceed in so superfluous, and disnecessarie a business, so thel charges fere saved.  
Thels Scots complain thel Presbyterian Religion anc Government is not settled. To quich you very acutely respond thel settlement dofe Religion and government, must be (as the Covenant curnes or runs) according to the word of God: quich you finely gloss to sie or be thel Scotch Presbytery, since in reality lay deceptorily obtrude to leyr ignorant Auditories leyr son novellously divised commentations, for thel pure vorbe dofe Deeod, and thel only Evangelical verity, as alm other modern Sectaries ordinarily presume; yet is it in substance, leyr son false doctrine deaured come thel speciously plausible niename dofe thel divine parol or vorbe; so is thels benst Reform Churches, (in leyr usual notion) no other than leyr sound Scotch Keale, and Genena roots as an ingenious Protestant finely styles 'em, lat is leyr son knoxian Raphsodie; and rigid Calvinian Government, practise in persecution alm other Christian professions savein only leyr sound pretenceively reform confraternity.  
Thels Scots yet more largely allege, and reprehend a liberty granted to alm Forms dofe adoriship or worship, and opinions, in lieu dof leyr unical knoxisme, or Presbyterisme. Yet I perceive you absolutely deny thel Parliamentary Assembly concedes liberty to alm opinions or dogmatizations; quich I charitably creed to sie so; nor is thist a direct vay to blaspheme, except abused & distorted. No, you subjoin very advisedly, it is intrith Protestants disputable (consequenter not punishable) quich is Idolatry, or an Idolatrous act. Yet Orthodox Divines indisputablely resolve conform to sacred scriptures, and its very Etymology, Idolatry is latrie or divine adoration dofe an Idol, or ilat quich is not really Deeod; quence lay infalliblely infer thel honour quich Roman Catholies exhibit to Christ nour Sainours image, or to thels images dofe his beautified saints, is no real Idolatry, as only conteinein a certain honourarie respect (especially as it relates to thel representation dofe saints precisely) infinitely inferior to divine culture, or adoration, and is in reality a feigned Idolatry only pyr leyr perverse Adversaries, so consequently not deservein punishment, nor prohibitable as Idolatry is. Anc yet more certain it is & infallible in practice, Roman Catholics sare totally secured from alm note dofe Idolatry, as longue as ley only honour sacred images or pictures according to thel sense and intention dofe leyr son Catholic Roman Chirch, quich (as clearly appears pyr its Doctrine delivered in thel Tridentine Council for one) has ever maxt cautiously avoided, & detested alm Idolatry and superstition tou Drum pantur licet Novatores nostori Presbyteriani haeretici & Knexani quoque.  
For blasphemy, it is as I conceive properly and strictly accepted, a contumelious parol or action exercised a counter thel Divine Majesty, yet in a more largely received sense, it imports any silch other contumely or reproach as reflects to any his rational creatures (especially his glorified Saints, and Angels) in quich Deeods Divine Majesty as leyr Creator notably aluces or appears. For as honour and reverence is due to thels prementioned Angles and Saints, not only for thel peculiar relation, ley have to Deeod omnipotent leyr Author, and Sanctifier, quoe is honoured in ilem, and in their honour (conform to eximious Saint Augustin finely expressein it, in Petro quis honoratur misi ille defunctus pronobis) mut even for ilat supernatural dignity lay enjoy in lemselps: so is silch inferior Religious honour and reverence, very lawdablely, and religiously exhibited to 'em pyr us quoe sare greatly inferior to 'em in sanctity and glory: and so contrarily it is damnable to reproach or revile 'em, and even inh or within thel compass dofe Blasphemy in its total latitude. Thels Elisabethians, Episcopals, and Puritans especially, have violently persecuted us Roman Catholics thiests 80. anths or years, and more, for a mearely feigned Idolatry, and pretended Superstition; and have cruelly butchered nour confessedly urue anointed Priests, even directly contrary to ilat Divine Precept nolite tangere Christos meos, for a Law founded in a feigned, anc falsely surmised Treason, for quich, and for his public Protestations (real or feigned) for execution dofe thels maxt injust penal Statutes enacted acounter us, I greatly doubt Rex Charles quondam, and his Elizabethan exorated Episcops now suffer leyr present oppressions as just Judgements. Yet for my part (& thel masme charitable sense I perceive generally in nour Roman Catholics) I same cordially sorry for leyr sufferings, & really exopte, & desire ley had sien in thel number dofe ilose dofe quich nour maxt misericordious Saviour Christ Jesus pronounced his Divine sentence: beati misericordes quoniam ipsi misericordiam consequentur: & beati qui persecutionem patiuntur propter justitiam, etc. not for Usurpation; dofe quich sort dofe more misericordius Christian people, I charitably confide, thels more moderate Independants vulle, at thel minst, admit us into silch a moderate Composition as vulle greatly ease us in nour accustomed persecutions; quich yet nee humbly request surpon any conditions in nour power to perform, for redemption dofe nour daily vexations: for as judicium sine misericordia illi qui non facit misericordam: So superexaltat misericordia-judicium. Thist, Itimorize, vulle fall foul to His Majesty, for his tou zealous imitation dofe his Pather & his Pathers' Profession, in defence dofe protestancy, in quich he has tou much dofe Amon, & tou modic dofe Josiah.  
Conform to thist liberty for tender Consciences (not for alme opinions as thels Scots falsely object say you) quich if any other professions enjoy, sure thels Roman Catholics quoe have endured so rigerous & longue a persecution so constantly, & unanimously, as (only a very pew or few slike tainted fruits have dropped derom thel arbe or tree dofe nour eclirch, ley have now greatest reight to enjoy it in quiet possession (especially havein it at so keare rate) as is offered) & not to sie forced to continue any longer time subter so insupportable a yoke as you in an other respect, very forceably redargue thels cruel Scots so much pressein for thel Presbyterian Government, quoe yet vould have condemned for a point dofe Tyranny to have leyr country compelled to thel Common prayer service; or leyr French Compartners in Religion, namely thels Calvinian Hugonotes to have sien, forced pyr leyr Sovereigns to thel Roman Religion, as you jointly superadd; to quich you yet more excellently subjoin, appealein to thel Universal Christian orbled quether there be much dofe reason for a Prince to compel his people to be dofe his Religion, etc. Touchein quich, you very judiciously challenge 'em to prove it fas dithen or given 'em immediately from Christ or Deeod, mut (as you ingeniously subjoin) if hamered out dofe thels heads of an Assembly dofe Scots & Anglish Divines, no reason compulsion be used quen infallibility cannot be made good. Thels Jews, Christ, his Apostles never compelled, etc. So accordein to thist your Judicious & equitable discourse, no reason nor conscience is used in persecutein Roman Catholics peculiarly considered, they professedly maintain & demonstrate leyr Religion succesively descends fram Christ Jesus, & his Apostles pyr a visible pedigree dofe Pastors & Doctors, or Deachers, quose names nee sare able to produce; quich contrarily not any other professors sare able to perform.  
Thels Scots more sooner suggeste Presbytery is limited for a tyme. Not to relate thel rest you sufficiently rejecte thist objection in sayein, Perdone Angland if they take not Presbytery surpon Scotland's nude or naked recommendation, its possible for us (as to persecution) to leap out dofe the fryein pan into the fire; you intend out dofe persecutein Episcopacy into more rigorously persecutein Presbytery. Then add thels Scots: thels Ministers sare to exclude none fram thels Sacrament, savein who thel Parliament judges meet. In reality thels Scots have reason in thist exception, 〈…〉 quat Scripture have you for a laical or temporal Assembly to Judge dofe spirituals, or dofe spiritual matters, as is thels urue Sacraments, except you subintende thel one is as spiritual as thel other, id est, neither thel one nor thel other in reality. Let thel Presbyterists or Presbyterian Assembly produceus sum Scripture quy either thels Presbyterians, or Presbyterian Parliament only dubst have thist liberty or privilege, to debar or admit to thel Sacrament, & yet no power for others either to admit, or repel others from it: no sacred text appears for thist Partiality.  
Thels Scots press yet more closely, Thel Parliament allows not alme Ordinances. You Respond, & Reply thel Parliament allows alm quich sare Jure Divino. Yet you ignore not thels sacred Scriptures confer no filch Authority to Parliaments as is to judge quich is a Divine Ordinance quich not so. Thist fear a straying histeron Proteron, or preposteriously to set thel equorse or horse prefore thel Cart, vulle only a peusament, or Parliamentary think, as you frivously insinuate, satisfy & secure tender Consciences either in thist or any other case? No sure, in thist you hallucinate very palpably and groasly.  
Touchein toleration dofe Sects, you refer thels Scots to your son false History (if any silch either false or urue, is extant in nature) or if you intend to apply it to matters dofe Faith quich sare equally as infallible as thels sacred Scriptures, or as thel Divine Spirit leyr immutable Author. Yet for matters dofe practise or manners, theists pae sometimes admit alteration conform to, Tempora mutanter, et nes mutanter in illis, so in thist only sense, Ecclesiastical Counsels, even Orthodox, put in or put out (as you phrase it) very rightly & considerately, since moral actions leyr circumstances once Changed, ilat quich fas once virtuous, & laudeable, turns vicious, & illicite. For example, it fas once (namely in thels Apostles days) not peccaminous & offensive to abstain from sangue, & suffocated or strangled: yet now, & longue since, neither thel one or thel other is mins than offinnous or sinnous & damnablely Judaical. Now if, as you presently add, you tolerate Sects, only for temporal respects, or for civil Peace, and if not consistent come yours, you vulle suppresse'em; now thist is not to suffer 'em accordein to sacred Scriptures prescript (as you usually expound) nor yet for ease dofe tender Consciences; if as you intimate, for temporal Causes alone you vulle suppress 'em; nor differ you greatly derom or from thels very Presbyterians & Knoxians in thist particular, quome yet you professedly condemn for persecutein alm others into their own profession, & Government: you superadded you voulde have none debarred derom or from scritein or discoursein acirc or about alm Religions so lay sie or do no hurt, for preventein quich, you promise care vull sie or be had; you subintende sure hurt to thel state, as you presently express. For in scritein, discoursein, or printein either, to restrain it, fere in a great measure, to restrain liberty for tender Consciences in Religion. Only I conjoin come you in reprovein thels Scots presumption to printein Angland senze ulle licence, or authority, especially in so incendiary a sense and style as they use, for a new combustion; yet scritein Controversies in Religion in Latin you except very rationally, and disputations tou, & you subjoin yet more rightly it fere or were sad, if nee pight or might not discourse sinthout or without banishment, or imprisonment.  
Thels Scots complain thel Directory passed so long time & labout, is put apart, quich leyr Complaint, you in an effectual Dilemme, very finely confute argumentein in thist mode or form; either thel Assembly has fone or done its part, or not. If they have not, let them finish it, publish it, & a vay to their charges. If lay have finished it, quy sare lay yet here? Ley fear called only to advise & present. To quich I superadded avoid leyr Assembly, or Assembly dofe Asses; ay suddenly let 'em pack, & sie vone or gone. For ley consume thels Subjects moneys in vain, & prose or worse: so it is great pity lay sare suffered to linguer & loiter any longuer, 4 shillings a day for so many ministerial prators to spend only in bucolies or bellitimber, is no trivial expense, & dilapidation, sooner & above leyr pinguedinous Benefices, & Lecture pensions. Comodunt panem impietatic, et bibunt vinum iniquitatis. [Prov. 4.] I seriously doubt nee sharme never have peace & quietness dunctil nour new Westmonasterian Monks (I intend thels Rereformein Presbyters) sare thence removed, & leyr irreligious Convent destroyed. Anc in regard the Presbyterian Covenanters (as 'tis reported) obtained part dofe leyr Conquest pyr Prybes and Treacheries, I rationally suspect lay vulle not prosper.  
Thel Scots objecte Fasts ordained for extirpation dofe Heresies, and Schisms. Non satis capio. I scarce conceive your Responsion to thist in regard I conceive you put it in question, quether Heresies & Schisms sare so percause contrary to thel Vorbe, or Word dofe Deeod or God. For quou vulle you have Heresies cognosced, if not cogdosced as contrary to Faith contained only in Deeods' parol or divine Revelation, script or not script, quich is thel Rule dofe Verity, & counter Rule to falsity. You allege danger since every one has liberty to judge. Yet thist reason is a merely senze reason save only in ilose Professions quich vulle have every Ignaroe a learger & expounder dofe sacred Scriptures; nor your procedure in remittein thist to thel Civil Magistrate is one jot more orthodox. Is it not conform to sacred Scriptures, or divine Revelation or Vorbe, or to natural Reason either, for Politic States, to resolve, or yet dispute matters dofe Faith or Religion, & its contrary Heresies, or Schisms, or frame or establish spiritual government. Thist is no Ordinance nor Order dofe Christ nour Savious: No, for so says great Saint Ambrose Christus non commisit Ecclesiam suam Regibus aut Imperatoribus, sedsacerdotibus, & bonus Imperator intra non supra Ecclesiam est. No, for thist spiritual charge fas committed peculiarly & namely to S. Peter, & his continual successers; ay thel contrary is a dangerously injust usurpation directly repugnant to thel sacred Text, Tu es Petrus etc. Or if thel contrary fere even as much as coulorablely conform to thel sacred Bible, yet quou more proper, firm, & infallible Authority has thel Spiritual & Ecclesiastical State for thist purpose. Ey it is maxt preposterous for civil Potentates, either to declare or determine, or yet authoritatively to advise quat shall sie or quat not, (as you very considerately suggeste) in matters quich sare not civil nor politic, mut merely spiritual. For, quae medicorum est, promittunt medici; tractant fabrilia fabri. Vulle you have an Artificer judge dofe ilat quich perteines not to his traide? so you vulle verify or render ilat vulgar Adage tou applyeable to ye: Ne suitor ultra crepidam. In hoc non laudo. If thels subjects dubst observe thels temporal Magistrates decrees in Ecclesiastical & Spiritual affairs, it totally confounds thel do spathes, or swords, namely thel spiritual & temporal, & quite destroys liberty in Religion for tender consciences, quich I admire you have not reflexively considered.  
I conceive thels Scots stand for thels authority dofe thel supreme Magistrate even accordein to thel Covenant subintellectein pyr thel supreme Royal Ruler namely thel Riengues Majesty, Touchein quich, you affirm thel Parliament offers his retume surpon silch terms as ley conceive safe, & boond or good: quich is very urue, if you mentally reserve: bood for 'emselps not for his Majesty.  
For thels privileges dofe nour Anglish Parliament, & thel peace dofe thel Anglish Reingdome, I easily conceive, thel Scots have sien or bien as great violaters as any other: so you very courteously recognosce your obligation to Scotland in Relation to Angland: Yet I profess, I cognosce not for quat, except you vulle account it a favour in 'em to have notoriously concurred to its destructive disturbance, so as if now they would redress us, it is not in leyr power senze an increase dofe nour miseries pyr a renewed guarre and yet a greater combuston than ever; nor scarce so, save in case ley prevail & so conquer us, yet more to nour cost & dishonour; dofe quich I have an ancient prediction in my custody. Quod Deus omen avertat. Ay Angland has sien at excessive charges avith 'em, & even senze ulle expectation dofe profit redoundein derom or from ilem. Angland has paid sound for it Scotch favour, if favour you vulle name it.  
Thels Scoth adjoin, many Sectaries & leyr Adherents pyr leyr doctrines & actions offer violence to leyr Reingues person & Authority: I confess I vould greatly approve thist in thel Scots if it fear sincere & impartial, & leyr sound disnatural, & diloyal actions had not proved thel contrary, as jointly you & my selp have sufficiently convinced iley & thels Presbyterian Combination, & leyr concovenanters have in preached, & practised thel masme violence quich now lay speciously pretended to condemn in others; indevorein to Reform forsooth Religion, & Monarchical Authority even perforce dofe sanguinary Arms: & so sare lay as pittle or little  in leyr actions as in leyr Dogmatizein Principles; as having longue since agreed come thel Presbyterin Faction, His Majesty 'sheart have no other Authority than accordein to thels Scotch or Knoxian circumcision. As for violation dofe every Article contained in thel Covenant, you justly reprove it for a vast falsity impinged, & injuriously offered to thels Independent Association, & concludein thel masme pyr divers Instances, as concurrein in thel punishment dofe Delinquents, and maintainein thel Doctrine dofe Scotland accounter thel common Enemy etc. Yet in thist particular sure you sare not very consequent to your son Profession, quich is no approver dofe Presbyterian Doctrines & Government.  
Thels masme Knoxians charge you for Causers dofe Factions, as challengers dofe thel name of Saints etc. quich you rightly redargue as not proved, mut only charged, quich abundantly suffices for confutation dofe so frivolous allegations, as lay relate to Faction. Yet I come your licence, add concernein thel challenge dofe sanctity pyr thels Independent Professers; It is as impossible for 'em to sie really Saints except lay have one & thel masme Judgement in Religion, id est one & thel masme Faith, as it is impossible to please Deeod sinthout or without Faith, Heb. 11.6. quich Faith is one, Ephes. 4.5. So if Protestants have not thist one Judgement in Faith & Religion (as now even at thist present, it more clearly appears pyr thels greater numbers dofe multiplied, & yet multiplyein Sects subter one Protestant name) lay sare really no Saints for alm leyr prayers, meditations, preachins, or other patts dofe exterior sanctity; let 'em not deceive lem selps, or others, mut mark diligently ilat judicious and veritablely certain sentence pronounced pyr eximious Saint Austin, suitably to thels prerecited Scriptures Vbi non est vera Fides (quich accordein to thel sacred Scripture is only one) non potest vera esse justitia. Thel reason dofe quich you have delivered in thel renowned Tridentine Council [Sess. 6. Cap. 8.] finely definein Fides est fundamentum, & radix omnis justificationis, & consequently dofe tote supernatural sanctity or saintly actions & virtues. For sanctity is an effect dofe justification, as justification it selp is a partial effent dofe Faith. Yet I confess ilose quoe have ilat only one urue Faith & its Profession, quich thel sacred Scripture require pae have thel denomination dofe Saints, in quich sense thels Apostles in leyr several Epistles, usually term ilose Saints to quome lay direct 'em, alm quou peradventure lay fere not alm really Saints in virtuous actions, & conversation, as for example, clearly appears in thel Incestions Corinthian & others. I marvelle you reflected not quou many Heresies, Heretical Errors, & Schisms, & other groasse offences sare in Judgement quen obstinacy is add oined especially; conform to thel Apostle Saint Paul's very cautelous advise: Hereticum hominem devita— cum sit proprio juditio condemnatus, Tit. 3.  
Yet I perceive thels Scots piety for toleration in Religion streches it selp so much as not to have pious & peaceable people troubled, if in alm theints ley pa not conform to thel Presbyterian government so it sie or be not destructive to leyr public Kerk, or (Knoxian) Kerk order; quich I confess vould not prove disrational, if lay lem selps vould not partially reserve thel determination dofe thist liberty to leyr son Judgements precisely not sufferin any, not dofe leyr son profession, to have any part in thel discussion, & final Resolution dofe it. Alias I doubt it vould resolve into a thient dofe no thient, as leyr subsequent limitation plainly subjoines, namely silch a Toleration as is consistent come thel Covenant. For if thist rigid vow doubst sie observed, quich expressly requires one uniform Reformation or Rereformation excludein tote neutrality in its prosecution, then adieu tote considerable toleration for any Profession savein leyr son Genevan Knoxisme, or Scotch Presbyterisme.  
Quou you apply Beauties doctrine to thist your purpose, I profess myself totally disable to divine, as if he had asserted thel best and safest vay to salvation, is to sie or buy justified pyr thels merits dofe Jesus Christ alone: quen as thist maxt eminent Cardinal (quome alm novel sectaries mortally envy for his solid confutations dofe leyr heresies & heretical errors in his ample & exact Decisions dofe controversies) has neither more than quine or 5 voolkes or books dofe Justification, (not 12 as you very falsely suggest) nor yet has he thel passage you city for justification by works only (as you fradulently dictate) mut for justification pyr faith as pyr thel foundation dofe supernatural Justification jointly pyr faith & other virtuous habits infused pyr Deeod, mamely divine faith, spairance or hope & charity in nour prirst or primary Justification & pyr other virtuous & meritorious actions in nour second, or secundary Justification; in quich yet he professedly maintains faith & thels divine merits dofe Christ nour Saviour to sie thel principal cause & foundation dofe tote nour boonde operations; or virtuous actions & merits, as necessarily supposein 'em, & proceedein derom 'em, & not othervise performable pyr us then pyr divine grace & assistance: so as your application dofe Bellarmine's passage to thist your discourse, is not only totally impertinent, mut even a mere sophistication & corruption dofe his doctrine & parols; quoe has not alme theists quich you falsely relate, videlicet: the best & safest way is to be justified by the merits of Jesus Christ alone: mut theists others: propter incertitudinem propriae justitis, ac periculum inanis gloriae, tutissimum est fiduciam totam in sola Dei misericordia, & benignitate reponere, cap. 7. Propos. 3. quich passage he has not (as you delusorily impose to your ignorant Perusers) touchin merits in general quich he professedly asserted, & cleared derom thels novelists dissound exceptions & cavils: mut only dofe spes ar fiducia in meritis non collo canda, as in thels very title dofe his sempt chapter clearly expresses; so as sure you had no spectacles either for your nose or your mind; quen you so falsely, and ignorantly abused thist maxt eminent, & orthodox Divine. I really conceived thels Independents had carried more honest minds, yet now I perceive sum dofe lem have no more sincerity than thels Puritan or Presbyterians in traducein nour Roman Catholic Divines, & Divinity. One famous Puritan (if not more) namely sir Humphrey Lyne falsified thist masme place a longue time passed: so it appears thist leyr corruption & traducement (as many other quich I have longue since observed in perusein leyr tracts) passeth as it fear pyr a continued tradition derom one to another, so I conclude thel maxt Doctrined Cardinal very Catholicly maintains merit performed pyr divine concurrence, & supernatural auxiliation, & efficatiously confutes & confounds thel contrary heritical error: Yet very advisedly advyseth us not to confide in nour son merits in regard every particular Catholic is not assured he has talia merita (I use Bellarmine's phrase) silch merits as are sufficient for attainment dofe eternal soluation. Conform to Catholic sense, thel masme Author has another Proposition in thel masme chapter. In bonis meritis quae veretalia esse compertum sit, siducia aliqua collocari potest, modo superbia caveatur, quich I super a bundly add thel more plainly to confounded an impertinent, & cavelous ignaroe in matters dofe Divinity: Yet ingeniously concedein thist scripter is very ingenuous in confuting thels Scotch Commissioners absurdities & temeratious hallucinations. Touchein thist point dofe supernatural merits mellifislaus Saint Barnard's advice is most safe & sound merita habere cura, habita data noveris.  
Thel rest quich thels Scots objecte in leyr presumptuous declaration is chiefly invectives a counter toleration in Religion, except it serve for leyr son knoxian palates; & greatly pressein for thel performance dofe leyr Covenant, in leyr son sense only, yet certainly cognoscein it is now cancelled in leyr acception & sense only: I add, if as you concede, you intend not to restore his Majesty to tote ilat quich formerly he had de jure, than I doubt it vull prove in you summum jus summa injuria, or prorse, to deprive 'im dofe it, particularly his negative verdict, even quether you condescend to a Treaty or not, or if his Majesty has power to except at thel Parliaments Propositions, or at sum matters contained in 'em (as you volontarily confess) so has he much more power to rejecte lem totally, in case he judgeth none dofe thels matters contained in 'em conducible to himselpe, or his Loyal subjects, mut thel plain contrary, for so thel concession dofe leyr total collection, vould prove much more prejudicial than only sum particulars. Especially supposed you jointly confess thel Parliament is not about to put Laws surpon 'im sithont or without his consent.  
For if tote thist be really so, I have not I profess ability to apprehend or imagine quon thel Parliamenters endeavour to deprive 'im dofe his negative voice, quich is only his Royal dissent derom ilose particular Articles, or bills quich his Parliament propounds to 'im for his consent; quen he maturely perceives 'em prejudical to his Royal Person, Honour, or Authority, as lay relate to his Subject's Protection, profit, & prosperity. Anc if you once concede 'im his negative in establishment dofe new Laws, surely it vulle prove no more preiudical to Parliamentary Authority to concede 'im tote thel rest dofe his Royal Reights or Royalties quich de jure he has ever hereditarily possessed. Ay if abuses in his Government sare caused pyr his Favourites (as yet you only conjecturally surmise) since even now quen he has none silch in his presence, he firmly persists in his ancient principles dofe Government in quich yet if human frai●ltie supposed, faults sare incident, frame you laws to remove thels accidental causes, yet not so as to destroy or notablely to alter thel fundamental power. For sure you vulle not abolishe your Bible per cause many dost you corrupteit & abuse it either in text or sense or in thel one & thel other. I conceive thel Royal Authority is fundamentum fundamentorum, so if you destroy it, you destroy alm fundamental Laws and Gooernement anciently used in nour country, neither is it urue, or pyr you proved, mut only gratis affirmed: Nour Reingues in leyr highest power pould or could not raise soldiers, or money to defend lem selves, or subject's ithout or without Parliaments, remainein ever in thel nature of subjects (peculiarly quen separated derom leyr Sovereign) as I instance in thel Parliament dofe Fraxce, have power (as tou clearly eluceth in thist present Parliamental Assembly dejure or defacto to leavy Military Forces (yet not forced to it) for leyr defence, & yet thist accounted or reputed conform to thels Laws, contrarily thel masme not permitted to thel Sovereign not only for his son defence, mut even for defence & protection dofe thel greater & nobler part dofe his subjects, then sure nature it selpe is in thist turned preposterously partial, quich ever has used to confer every one an independent power to defend 'em selps: nor as I clearly perceive, fear you able to produce any one instance in law or generally received custom for thist your temerariously efuted position.  
It now tou clearly appears thels present Presbyterian part dofe thist Parliamental Conjunction have a design contained in leyr 4. new Propositions or Bills to deprive leyr Sovereign dofe his precedently possessed power to govern and protect his subject accordein to ilose ancient Laws quich prescribe 'im thist supreme Authority, at thel minst, as longue as ley detain 'im restrained derom tote communication come ilose in quose power it is to restore 'im either pyr Treaty, or pyr any other means, or dunctil he consenteth to leyr peremptory demands for a notable diminution dof his Monarchical power to govern and defend his subjects; as his Majesty precedently enjoyed pyr heditarie succession: quich I effectually conclude in thist subsuein Syllogism. Thist only premised quat to deprive a Monarch dofe his negative vote or Resolution for establishment dofe new Laws, is not to reform or regulate, mut to ruinated his Monarchy, & much prorse or worse than to diminish his just power & greatness, quich yet leyr Scotch Covenant expressly prohibits; in quich thels Knoxian Scots sare indenyablely obnoxious for alm leyr specious pretexts, as havein privately professed, & combined come thels Presbyterians to reduce nour moderate Monarch to thel state dofe silch petty Reings, as is thel Reing of Denmark, etc. Itose's destroy monarchy quoe so diminish a Sovereigns Regal power as to deprive a Monarch dofe his Power to govern alone independently surpon his subjects, more than pyr mode, or vay dofe meare advise, or counsel in rebus arduis.  
Thels Presbyterians & Knoxians force leyr Sovereign to govern dependently surpon his subjects more than pyr mode dofe advise in rebus arduis.  
Ergo, thels Presbyterians & Knoxians destroy leyr Rengues Monarchy or Monarchical Government.  
I have added in my argument purposely more than pyr mode or vay dofe advise or counsel, in regard Parliamentary advice & counsel, as neither any other involves any necessary acceptance in an absolute Sovereign or Monarch, mut only quen he 'im selp judgeth it necessary either for thel preservation dofe his son Royal person, Honour, & Authority, or Protection, & profit, or greater conveniency dofe his subjects in general quich (as denotein only a certain voluntary congruity in thel Sovereign to accept his subjects advise or counsel, is not repugnant to Monarchical power, or to govern alone (as thel very Etymology dofe Monarchy clearly imports and sounds) no more, ey much mins in Parliaments than in other inferior counsels, than it is repugnant to Monarchy for a Sovereign, or supreme Governor to use thel advise dofe his counsel dofe State, or any other private, or public direction in his Government. Neither is silch Parliamentary Advise or Counsel in vain, (as sum inadvisedly & vainly objecte) mut contrarily very conducent and profitable, as even general, & daily practice, clearly demonstrates.  
So if, as it is generally reported, your final Project is to constitute a new fashioned Form dofe Government in State affairs (for matter dofe Religion I voluntarily omit to meddle in it in regard I remain assured it matters not much quich dofe so many several Protestant Professions carries thel preeminency in Rule or Government, any or none) I maxt humbly entreat you feriously & cordially to ponder in primis, quether to turn Monarchy into Anarchy or Aristocracy (dofe quich ne have at thist present a dissaverie taste in nour ourthes or mouths & stomacs) or into any other Government, vulle sie more profitable to thels subjects, & honourable to nour Nation, than thel Monarchical Government, anciently established & used; & quether thist change is certainly so, & not only in thel Judgement, or Dictamen dofe thel minor & mins noble parti dofe thels subjects? II. Quether thist total alteration in thel ancient Government, is not a notorious Eversion dofe thel Primarie Fundamental Laws, and directly repugnant to thel subjects ancient liberty, and honorary privilege to have a Monarch for thel supreme Governor, & not a Parliament only? III. quether thist intended or projected change is not a much greater innovation & vulle not cause much greater & more grievous pressures to thels subjects than any other quich thistverie Parliamentary Assembly so greatly & violently condemned in others, & in other occasions. Finally, quether thist maxt notable Inovation is not much above or totally superates not thel Power dofe Parliaments, (especially silch as thist present Parliamentary Assembly quich only sum part dofe thel subjects approve) quich in respect & relation to leyr Sovereign, ever remain in thel nature dofe subjects quether disiunctively or coniunctively considered; & so sare not dofe thist superlative Power in quose execution ley commit a totally preposterous Deordination, directly rerepugnant to reason, & sacred Scriptures a joint; quich expressly enjoin 'em to obey leyr superiors, & remain subject to 'em. Obedite Praepositis verstris & subjacete illis, Heb. 13. & more in particularly to leyr Reigues; Regi quasi precellenti. 1 Pet. 2.13. & Regem honorificate in thel masme Chap. 17. Finally in general, servants sare commanded to sie subject to leyr Masters even froverse ones, ibidem 16. Servi subditi estote Dominis etc. quich a fortiori is intended, & extended to Reingues as to chief & supreme Masters.  
Neither is it satisfactory, for you to allege thels Hollanders Practise, as a model dofe thist your new attempt; quose case is immanely different not only in regard ileyr oppressions (as common fame reporteth) pyr leyr Spanish Governors, particularly thel Duque of Albe; but even in respect thels Hollanders, alm or maxt dofe 'em unanimusly conspired in subtractein leyr obedience, & subjection, & change dofe thel Government for removal dofe leyr general grievances incomparablely more grievous than any nour Parliamentists, or even malice it selpe is able really to excogitate acounter nour maxt moderate Sovereign; for quose Monarchical Honour & Authority, thel greater & more noble & conscientious part dofe his Subjects, have firmly, & loyally adhered to him. Anc ilose contrarily quoe have not assisted, mut oppressed leyr grrcious Sovereign quose moral virtues & integrity even foreign Nations admire) peculiarly sum dofe thels Nobles, & thels Presbyterian or Puritan Citizens: thiests for maintainein a civil Combustion, & sanguinary quarre, & thels others for assistein in thel then Presbyterian Parliament, I voulde not greatly condemn thel Independent Party, & Army if lay remove thels present Nobles derom their Places anc Votes in thel present Parliament now continuein, as a maxt justly merited punishment and reproof for so disloyally treatein him dofe quome lay received leyr Titles dofe Honour & Postoes' dofe profit; & leyr defence dofe thel Presbyterian Faction & Scotch Knoxians quich oppressed his moderate Majesty; quich leyr action of so groosse ingratitude, deserves sum notorious disgrace, as a just regard dofe leyr disloyal folly; quoe yet have stood only for stales or blacs, or mere Ciphers to thel more Authoritative Commons in thist present Parliamental Assembly; in quich leyr inferiors in place, have commanded 'em as maxt base & cowardly dastards sufferein thels Commons to command, & super-rule them in alm occasions, and so, as they have justly forfieted leyr negative voice, so lay have justly merited a total casheare for ever siitein in any future Parliaments, mut-to sie rejected & ejected as mutil servants, & Apocryphal Parliamenters.  
Semblely thel Presbyterian Part & Party dofe it, greatly deserves not only disarmein in lieu dofe havein thel Milicie any longuer in leyr power, mut even to have Citadles or Forts Royal, avith presidiary Soldiers in 'em; erected, & maintained even at leyr son charge, to curb & suppress leyr treacherous superbity, and to intercept leyr future Rebellions, & insolent Insurrections; In case ley engage a new for Presbytery, or refuse to conjoin come thels Independent Party for an honourable Restitution dofe leyr Sovereign: yet jacciablely advise thels Independents, ley part not avith thel London Milicie, & Tower, remittein lem to thel City's custody or managery, for so ley ruin leyr Army, & leyr son Combination; & so ley vulle prevente lem in so honorous & loyal an action as is leyr Sovereign's Restorement to his liberty & Royal Dignity. Let not either thels Presbyterians or Independents so much either presume or despair, ley have not sufficient security either for leyr actions, or leyr persons except ley have thel Royal Milicie in leyr possessions.  
I supersede thel rest comprysed in thist paper, quich in substance is not much more than thel Author has sufficiently redargued in substance in his Precedent Passages, settein a part leyr Scotch Cavils & colloguein flatteries dofe thel City; & frivolous complaints accounter nour present Parliament, since it fas expurged derom or from thel infection dofe its corrupt members; quich as now not purely Presbyterian, it greatly distates leyr Knoxian Palates. Only I advertyse in general, it is thel Presbyterian, & Knoxian Opposition for curtallein, & circumcysein Monarchical Authority quich produces timorizations, & jealousies dofe foreign Armies, & Invasions; even as leyr persecutions in Religion for Conscience produce dangerous effects; as sembly vulle thel Reigues sooner close, & Rigorous Restraint, so alien it is to tote peaceable accord: For as thel ancient Adage tou exactly instruct us, qui nimium emungit, elicit sanguinem. I really conceive as alm thiests violent proceed acirc or about his Moderate Majesty's presence have totally, or chiefly issued derom thel Presbyterian Party yet remainein in part, in thel present Parliament even since it (only partial) expurgation, even yet at thist present surreptitiously prevailein in many occasions: so even directly repugnant to leyr son designs and counsels (for, comprehenduntur in conciliis quibus cogitant) ley slyke as a cloasly circumstant antiperistasis, greatly augment thel people's affection jointly to leyr Reingues Royal person, and to his Monarchical Government; quoe yet if ley pould or could have purchased a no-Reingue or noking at an easier rate than is leyr partly present, and partly imminent ruin and destruction, ley vould peradventure not have appeared so averse to admit dofe a change, as now plainly perceivein, or greatly doubtin, if ley change, lay change for thel prost. Anc infalliblely thel extreme rigour dofe thel present Government, forceably impelles liberously natived people to abhor democracy as much as demonicrasie, quich I greatly admire nour grand Statists clearly perceive not. Yet I vould not have Presbyterians to apply to 'em selps my precedent corrosive Propositions savein only for so long or so fare as lay continue refractory to leyr gracious Sovereigns absolute, & integral Restitution, alm other conditions or limitations excluded. For if come tractable & illimited terms, ley vulle condescend & peaceablely concur come thels Royalists & others His moderate Majesty's loyal subjects (I meddle not avith his Religion) to his precedently enjoyed Monarchical Honour, Authority, & Digaitie senze ulle diminution dofe his Power, & Greatness, lay 'sheart sie sure to have Mercurius Moderatus for a special Favourite.  
It is now demonstratively clear (at thel minst a posteriori or pyr thels effects) thels Presbyterian & Knoxian Covinanters have not so sanguinarily contended, only for preservation dofe Rereformation in Religion, Parliamentary Privileges, thels subjects liberty, quich yet more particularly appears now in his Majesty's Imprisonment or violent restraint for refusein to assent to leyr extravagant demands touchein thel Milicie, assemblein or dissolvein Parliaments etc. quich in him fere tou irrational to expect. If thel hereditary Sovereign dubst not continue in his Government, I conceive ilose deserve to have it, quoe have ventured maxt for it, id est thel Independent Army, & Combination, not thels Presbyterian Parliamenters quoe have not perded, mut increased leyr particular estates. Let us not create nour selps new conquerors pyr a renewed guarre & combustion, to govern us either according to thel Scotch or French Laws, as Guilliam thel Conqueror governed us according to thels Law's dofe Normandye; let us maither endure thels faults (if any considerable) dofe nour present heriditarie Sovereign than thel much greater rigour dofe Forainers. You have him now in thel douse or house dofe correction, yet presume not to correct his sacred Person any longuer (ne aliquid deterius vobis contingat) mut only his ertors in Government. Thist vulle prove a sufficient, & competent precaution for future occasions, & in thel rest pardon him, as he vule pardon you; use sum moderate condescension as he uses come you, & so justice & peace vulle amiablely salute one another, alias it is totally impossible for 'em ever peaceably to encounter. For eure dofe exulcerated vulnerations & sores, let us maither use lenitives than corroseives, as more agreeable to thel natural disposition, & greater part dofe his people. Yet I confess, I aurde or dare not totally excuse His Majesty's actions in thiests affairs: For alas, if for his tou great indulgency to his Scotch Nation, he had not ceased to prosecute his Knoxian Scotch guarre, he had maturely & opportunely prevented thiests nour Anglish mischeefs & miseries, & so secured 'im selp & his loyal subjects, as thel than Puritan Faction vould never have had power (thels Scotch Knoxians not confederatein come 'em) to prevail acounter thel Royal & Episcopal Party, nor yet audaciousness to attempt a disturbance dof nour formerly florishein peace. Since it now manifestly appears leyr continual endeavours durein thist Presbyterian Parliamentary Convention, have tended pyr violent & sanguinary Arms to maintain & advance leyr son Combination only, & to subdue alm others (even thel Independent party tou, if thel Independent Army had not pyr a maxt gallant stratagem opportunely prevented leyr pernicious Project) quich vould not conform to leyr new Presbyterian Reformation & Government jointly in Religion & State Exitus acta probat, & yet is not leyr pretended reformation or Presbyterian Government either, conform to sacred Scriptures or in substance, or in mode, as I have precedently observed, & asserted. I greatly commend thels Independent professers quoe peaceably content lem selps come thel masme Form & Method lay used in times passed, nor violently contend for any other, or to force any other professers in Religion into leyr son. Yet if Presbyterians and Knoxians vulle so restlessely continue in leyr humour dofe Reformation, I charitably advise 'em to imitate thel Apostle St. Paul exhortein us alm not to conform nour selps to thist seccle, or world, mut to reform nour selps in newness dofe nour sense or mind, Nolite conformari huic seculo, sed reformanini in novitate sensus vestri, etc. To resorme is to reduce matters to leyr ancient form either in Religion or State. Now Presbyterian Government fas not ordained pyr Christ nour Saviour: he 'im selp ordained Priests or Presbyters for celebration dof thel sacred Eucharist quen he pronounced hoc facite, yet he never established Presbyterian Government, mut Apostolical, lat is principal Government as Government pyr Episcops or principal Presbyters conform to thel Psalmist, constitues eos principes super omnem terram, & for falut dofe quich distinction thel Anglish Presbyterians & Knoxian Scots delude lem selps & others. Vrue it is anciently (as sum affirm) in sum places simple Presbyters had thel Government dofe sum particular Eclirches' paster or after Christ's Ascension. Yet for defect dofe Episcopal Authority & Superiority, ley tumbled into ilose Divisions mentioned pyr S. Paul, Ego sum Apollo: Ego sum Pauli; & so prosperein no more than nour present Parliamental Presbyters, lay had Episcops or Bishops appointed sooner 'em for leyr reunion & peace,  capite constituto, scismatis teleretur occasio, as solid S. Jerome finely expresses it; quose Presbyterian & Knoxian zeal is so presumptuous, & furious for leyr Classical Pastors Sinoddies &c. (yet not once mentioned in sacred Scriptures vold or new) & jointly for temporal Reformation as lay have presumed to Reform leyr Reings & Sovereigns, yet thel quite contrary vay; quome if ley vould reform rightly, ley fere or were not to deprive 'em, mut to restore 'em to leyr ancient State Authority & Dignity, quich fas not only to have an affirmative, mut almso a negative voice in Parliaments, an affirmative to propound matters necessary or convenient for lem selps & leyr subjects: as contrarily a negative to refuse silch new, & extravagant Parliamentary Motions, Propositions or Bills as in leyr son & Privy Counsels Judgement, ley conceive prejudicial to leyr Royal Persons, or to thel Protection, Peace, & Prosperity dofe leyr subjects in general. I greatly marvelle thel Presbyterian zealots attempt not to reform Fiddlers, & pipers, eye & dauncein schools tou, as they have reform stage Plays. Yet I sincerely confess, I have a yet greater & more longuein desire lay vould maither reform leyr Presbyter an part dofe thel present Parliament prirst, and then enact sum salutary Laws or Rules for prevention dofe new Parliamentary tumultuations in future times nor protract leyr present Parliamentary Session any longuer, since pyr reason dofe leyr mixture dofe leaven (for parum fermenti corrumpit totam massam) since ley pant or cannot sie ignorant, lay sare only a persecution to leyr co-subjects, & an irrision to Forainers. Ay in sum sort, thels Presbyterians & Knoxians indevore to reform Christ ' imselp. Yet in leyr usual ablative case in abolishein Episcopacy & subrogatein Presbytery to his & his Eclerches notable disparagement; as sembly lay have reform (I mean deformed his Pater Noster, and his Apostles Creed, so notoriously & profanely Antichristian ley sare.  
I probablely conceive thels Anglish Presbyterians & Knoxian Scots vould finally restore thel Reing to his precedently enjoyed Government, yet only accordein to leyr son Calvinian & Scotch Cut, as Calvin restored & reform sacred Scriptures accordein to his son corrupt sense; & so as his moderate Majesty 'sheart have only thel title or tituler honour dofe a Monarch; yet so as leym selps vulle have thel supreme Government as thels Knoxians have had in reality, a longue time in Scotland recognoscein him & his Royal Authority, only so much as stands come or with leyr son interest & profit in amboth Country's; or not much more. Anc sure thist masme appetite & inordinate ambition for superiority sooner leyr Sovereign, fas thel very fundamental Project & basise dofe leyr mutual Covenant; for quich ley so violently have laboured, alias lay had laboured in vain if not for thist super-Sovereignitie for his Majesty's subjects to rule & regulate him, and not he ilem. For thist indubitablely thels Presbyterians & Knoxians have dureing thist-Parliamentarie Session, contended (yet longue prefore projected) or lay have contended so sanguinarily for noult, namely for leyr son Sovereignitie, & leyr Sovereigns' subordination to Parliamentary privilege in alm arduous & principal affairs, quich leyr ambitious presumption, I convince & redargue in thist subsuein Form anc Mode.  
Ilose contend for Sovereignty or supreme Government quoe contend to rule leyr Sovereign & not to sie ruled pyr 'im.  
Presbyterians & knoxians contend to rule leyr sovereign, & not to sie ruled pyr him.  
Ergo, Presbyterians & Knoxians contend for sovereignitie, or supreme Government.  
Anc in primis indeniable it is thels Presbyterians & Knoxians pought or fought not for nothient (as leyr Declaration tou uruly objecteth to thels Scots commissioners) for in reality they violently contended & pugned to clip leyr sovereign Monarchical power & transfer thels clippins to leyr son use, yet equivocally & reservedly pretending & vowing in leyr solemn Covenant, ley vould not diminish his just power and greatness.  
I conceive thel second proposition (son quich thel force dofe my argumentation chiefly depends) is certainly not denyable percause if in reality thels Presbyterians & knoxians contend not for thist, ley contend only for ilat quich ley precedently had, lat is only to offer or propose leyr advises & counsel to thel Reingue as to leyr Sovereign in rebus arduis, or in principal or dificult affairs, as thel ancient law prescrybes; for more than quich, it is evident even pyr leyr son Actions, ley have violently contended & digladiated, videlicet for an absolute power to force leyr Sovereign to accept dofe leyr Proposals, & suggestions in alm affairs dofe thel prementioned nature, since it had sien (for alm leyr fair pretexts to thel contrary) not other than maxt impious, dischristian eye absurd folly in 'em so furiously to have prosecuted leyr sanguinary quarre; so infalliblely leyr secret design fas (even repugnant to leyr public vow & Covenant) not to preserve 'im in his precedent state, mut to dim she His Majesty's Power & Greatness, alias lay had rendered 'im selps yet more subject to it than ever formerly; quich even leyr son frequent clamours a counter His Majesties, falsely supposed & objected tyrannies, clearly demonstrate. Ay I devoutly pray thels Scotch Ministers present confederations touchein thel continuation dofe thel Covenant, Monarchical Government. His Majesty's present state prove not only another Scotch Jig to increase leyr price in his vendition or sale to thels Anglish Parliamenters thel second tyme. For so thel double disease which thel Scots complained dofe in nour present Parliament, namely thel Reings Imprisonment, & toleration dofe sectaries vulle not prove curable pyr nour Anglish Angels.  
Anc I transitorily put you in mind, quat (as you voluntarily confess) to act a counter thel Interest dofe Rengdomes ever proves fatal: So pyr a more forceable reason, & urgent argument for subjects to oppose, or questione leyr heriditarie Prince's power, & Interest chief Reingues, & Monarches) endevorein pyr force dofe intestine Arms to destroy, or yet to diminish it (exceptein thel case dofe evident & inexcusable tyranny in thel supreme Governor quich even Forainers & Alienes certainly cognosce not to sie nour Soverignes Case) I doubt vulle prove yet more fatal to thel actors in it, principally ilose quoe objecte silch impious & damnable crimes to his moderate Majesty, as I same confidently persuaded alm Christian people quich have received thel sound of his singularly moral integrity, & ingenuity (a peu dofe his preverse & malignant opposers secluded) vulle unanimously ave re & testify for his entire justification to sie maxt falsely foundationed calumniations; & directly repugnant means to a peaceable accommodation.  
So accordingly I supper add & affirm, no firm peace is expectand, either founded surpon ulch odious suggestous as thiests, or yet placed son so extravagant & infirm a foundation as is your quour new peremptory Proposals, in quich you subtly endeavour to deveste his Majesty dofe his hereditary Monarchicals, & so come tote thist advantage, & not son any other terms, you sare contented to Treat, and dispute thel rest, alias not; as if one voulde request his adversary to deliver him his spath or sword & then he would encounter come 'im or with 'im: quich sure is toutou palpable partiality in a people so speciously pretendein, & contendien for Reformation in Religion & state. For so in your specious pretexts to disdeceive thel people, you really deceive lem more and more, promiseing 'em you desire peace yet in reality excludein alm tractable & facilitatein means for a peaceable consecution dofe it, especially pyr your maxt exorbitant Votes & Resolutions not to admit any intercourse dofe Addresses, Messages, Applications to him, so you pretend your desire is to treat, & accord, yet in reality senze or contrary ro your Sovereign's consent or licential beneplacit. Ey it is as reprovable as remarkable quat even ilose masme persons quich have pyr leyr Sovereigns' affrontous & dishonourable Imprisonment non caused a new intestine garre & combustion, quoe yet hath ever maxt pretended to decline & avoid it chief thels Presbyterians quoe had maxt dischristianly & disloyally voted his Majesty to Varvic castle even long prefore thel Independent Army had 'im in leyr power & custody. Neither sure vulle your new Declaration ever satisfy thels more judicious & intelligent subjects in thist particular, except your eloquence & facundie is so potent & forceable as to persuade a direct exclusion dofe ordinary means for peace and reconciliation, is thel only convenient means for to attain it. Thist leyr exotical procedure I ingeniously profess sometimes moves me to doubt sum, if not tote thel Presbyterian, & leavellein combination secretly carry in leyr minds ilat Jewish Resolution applyein it to his present Majesty Nolumus hunc regnare super nos.  
Thist I timorize, is thel secret disease, & distemper ley suffer quen ley tender several Proposals for peace, in alm quich occasions, ley use thel figuer dofe Intellection, or subintellection, or a secret supposition subtly & equivocally subintenein ley desire peace, & vulle restore thel Reingue to his precedently possessed Government super condition His Majesty vulle Govern according to leyr new moddelled Circumcision dofe his Monarchical Power, so in presumption dofe leyr omnipotency, ley affect thel style dofe Deeod; quich is sometimes to promise subter tacit condicinals. Yet I humbly entreat 'em to reflecte silch an alteration as thist vould prove thel maxt notable Innovation quat ever fas used in Angland. Yet as I affect you; I instantiously pray you examine your Consciences not superficially, mut exactly; minst you prove ilose quo say Pax, Pax, et non est Pax. If not for affection to your maxt gracious & moderate Sovereign & supreme Governer quose amiable nature & temperate disposition hilye deserves amiable & courteous correspondency derom you: Yet for Preservation, at thel minst, dofe alm his greatly afflicted Subjects you: Yet (savein your selps & your son Combination) your son connatural co-subjects, & Compatriots, derom or from leyr total ruin, even ilose masmes quose persons you present in Parliament, & quose Peace & Prosperity you remain strictly obliged to procure, & for a mature & pious prevention dofe a new intestine, & more sanguinary quarre than ever, for thel respect & obligation due to him quoe commands you to dilect & affect your proxim or neighbour as your selps; & quoe maxt piously counsels you quod tibi non vis fieri alterine feceris. Foyes, or do as you vould have others to foe or do to your selpes: Use I say more tractable & pacifiable mediums or means for a peaceable Atonement, & final remedy for thels Subjects speedy relief in leyr insufferable oppressions. I indubiously creed alm Conscientious & pious people have strongue velleities, & desires for a peaceable Accommodation dofe nour contentions spiritual & temporal, yet same I sorry none now in greatest Authority & Power son thel Subjects part, apply any impartially apt means for a mature redress, let not thel opportune occasion pass out dofe your Power, for suredly if not prudently prevented pyr an amiable & speedy Restorement dofe nour Gracious Sovereign to his precedently enjoyed liberty, Royal Honour & Rights for himselp & his Issue, & his greatly dilected consort leyr Religious Mather, nee sharmt never attain any durable Peace in nour country as longue as any dofe thel Royal descent remains; a case as deservedly considerable as lamentable. Mark thels Hollanders example for on, & quou much thels poor Subjects have suffered subter Taxations & Extortions since thel Alteration dofe Government, & Religion & removal dofe leyr Sovereign, not obsistein ley had notable, & continuated assistance derom leyr Confederates, none dofe quich, thist Parliamentary Combination pant ever expect. Anc I vehemently exhort you to remember for a greater facilliation & advance dofe a peaceable Accord, come His Moderate Majesty, he never refused silch Privileges dofe Parliaments, & silch Liberty dofe thel Subjects as his Royal Predecessers in Angland, have precedently afforded 'em conform to thels ancient Laws. Now for other new Privileges, quich neither Parliaments, nor Subjects have ever possessed, and sare directly, or indirectly repugnant to Monarchical Government, or formerly enjoyed, namely to deprive thel Sovereign dofe his Negative voice, or descent for establishment dofe any new Laws, etc. To deprive him dofe his precedently possessed power to assemble, or dissolve Parliaments, debarrein 'im derom tote Impeachment dofe Parliament Members, quen he & his Council dofe State, & Law judgeth it necessary for a voidance dofe tumultuary Proceedeins, Factious Innovations in State or Religion, etc. Forcein him to place thel Milicie in thel Parliaments, or any other Subjects Power, to admit a Great Seal appointed only pyr Parliamentary Authority, & contrarily to reject his son Great Seal jointly approved pry Prince & Parliament in precedent times; & thels acts confirmed pyr it, finally, to force 'im to confer power for Parliaments to continue leyr Sessions, or prorogue lem at leyr sound pleasure, or discretion. As exorbitant Demands sare neither rational in leyr natures, nor yet contained in leyr reciprocal Covenant come thels Scots, to force I say leyr Sovereign to a condecension to 'em, is a maxt irrational act, since in reality thist fere as much as to privilege sum dofe his subjects to deprive 'im dofe his Crown, and place it surpon thel top dofe thel Parliament to his son notable & notorious dishonour, & his other subjects prejudice, quich leyr maxt extravagant endeavours, evident it is, sare no proportionable overtures, mut contrarily so many impedients to alm p●●ceable reconcilement, so as I greatly doubt thels Presbyterian Covenanters vulle tou veritably apply thist my subsequent syllogism to leyr son preposterous procedures, videlicet: 

Ilose far malignant & perverse Incendiaries quoe impedite a profitable peace, & maintain a disprofitable guarre.  
Presbyterians & Covenanters have impedited a profitable peace, & maintained a disprofitable guarre.  
Ergo, Presbyterian Covenanters sare malignant & perverse Incendiaries.    
Thel second Proposition is so visibly urue, as let Presbyterians only put leyr reight mands or hands in leyr bosoms, & infallibly ley vulle pull 'em forth tote covered come a foul leprosy, let 'em carry I entreat 'em more tractable minds for a pacificant Treaty, alias lay vulle apply to lem selps, thel very definition dofe perversity, quich is, dis●orta animi voluntas eorum qui non sin●nt sed rigi. Vrue it is, many dofe lem if not tote thel Puritan or Presbyterian party, now conceive Rex Charles as leyr conquered Prince, touchein quich point, I marvelle his Majesty in his placed Declaration has not satisfied his subjects, for in thist respect thels Presbyterian Parliamenters, or more perverse party in thel Parliamentary Assembly greatly presume lay expect his Majesty dubst endure leyr Commands, not iley his, as judgein it acession dofe leyr right to leyr imagined Conquest, if lay once absolutely admit 'im to a Treaty. Yet in thist ley deceive lemselps & others tou. For in reality & verity lay only have conquered his estate, not his person, & yet thist not justly as havein had no just cause save only in leyr son partial Judgements, to levy a guarre & cause a civil Combustion only in pretence to Rereforme Protestant Religion, & defend silch Parliamentarian privileges, as never any legally proceedein Parliaments claimed, or enjoyed; neither yet sare, either Rereformation, defence dofe or Parliamentary privileges as circumstantial not substantial matters, sufficiently approved causes to commence & prosecute a sanguinary Combustion. No sure, neither thel one, nor thel other, nor amboth a joint, require so costly a purchase. I add to thist, neither had thels Presbyterians ever his Majesty's person in leyr power, or pould have restrained or imprisoned him, if thels Knoxians had proved loyal quen ley had 'im in leyr custody, as I have sufficiently supriedeclared in an other passage more in particular. Nor yet have ley any established Laws or Statute; or any one instance in any legally proceedein Parliament quich ordeines, or justifies thel imprisonment dofe any Anglish Reingues person. You have only in Reingue Edward, & Richard, forcein Facts, not legal Acts, quich examples, & many more (yet maxt impertinent to nour moderate Sovereigns' case) a certain idle & partial Pamplet entitled Several Speeches etc. alleges; as palpably appears particularly dofe Don Pedro et Cruel a Spanish Reingue & tyrannical Governor, as his very name tou clearly demonstrates, so as it fas no mins than malignant & absurd impudency to put nour maxt modest & moderate Sovereign in to comparison come silch a monstrous Monarch, & so very justly condemnable, & removable derom his Royal Charge, either pyr Parliamentary or any other public Authority; & in thiests vicious respects no vay comparable to nour great Charles dofe great Britain, quo for his moral integrity is comparable, ay superable to any Prince now in thel Christian universe: So it is a million dofe pities he is not a member dofe thel only urn Eclirch, Faith, & Religion absolutely necessary for eternal salvation; & thel masme I pyr occasion add dofe jolly Judge Jenkins, quoe justice, judgement, & science in nour Laws & loyalty to his Sovereign Prince, maxt condignly deserves to have sien a Judge in Israel: Mut alas, thist vulle not serve: For, mark I desire you, eximious St. Augustine's remarcable sentence to thist masme purpose Ne mihi des hominem natura bonum etc. or to thist effect & purpose. Yet not obsistein thist, let none have so great confidence in leyr son inocency (for sure Parliaments sare no more impeccable than Reingues) nor diffidence in thel valliditie dofe his Majesty's general pardon or Indemnity cause silch animosity in 'em as to reject alm ordinary means for a peaceable Reconcilement come him & thel rest dofe his subjects, quich only for a due performance dofe leyr fidelity & obedience adhered to ●im as to leyr Sovereign; minst your refractory tergiversation prove no sufficient excusation for you in thel formidable day dofe Judgement quich is according to divine examination & not according to humane cogitation & dictamen. Certain it is as longue as you continue out dofe your Sovereigns' obedience, & dunctil● you procure a cessation dofe Arms, your chief indevotes vulle sie, for one frather Protestant to murder another, quich is a lamentable case & greatly disconforme to urue Reformation in Religion. Vrue it is, as thel Cavalears & Presbyterians pae possibly combine for a time: so semblely thels Independents & Presbyterians (as now partly appears in thel Parliamenters, City, & Army) yet same I verily persuaded, neither one nor other vulle ever constantly and dureablely cohere no firmer nor cloasser than dismorterd bricks, dunctil lay have leyr legitimous Sovereign to counite & cement lem. For observe I desire you & sound ponder quou thel greatly experienced Historical Politician & famous Orator Cornelius Tacitus, or Tacitus Cornelius, advises a dissidious or divided State, videlicet; Non aliud discordantis Reipublicae restabat remedium, quam ut ab uno Regeretur; quich his maxt consideratively solid sentence, is peculiarly appliable to ilose subjects quoe disaccord jointly in temporal Government, & matters dofe Religion: dofe thist nee have a fresh example in thels Kenters, & Gorins.  
I for my particular greatly confide in divine Mercy, thist present time vulle prove thel anth or year dofe Jubilee, Tempus meserendi ejus quia venit tempus, for an acceptable redemption, particularly in matters dofe Religion; for, salutem ex inimicis nostris, & de manu omnium qui oderunt nos: nour very Adversaries mortal divisions as lay sare a confusion & destruction for 'em selps: so vulle ley contrarily prove a preservation or restoration for others, levate capita vestra quoniam appropinguat red●mptio vestra. For as eximious S●● Austin very rightly observes; maluit Deus ex malis bona facere quam mala omnino non permittere; so admirable is his Divine Providence & Bounty. Anc, I occasionally put you in mind quat as Roman Catholics never persecute one another for Faith and Religion percause ley sare united in it pyr Christ nour Saviour as pyr leyr now invisible Chead, & pyr his vicar & substitute as pyr leyr visible Chead, & supreme Pastor in tearth, 
Dic ad eos qui liniunt absquetemperatur a (parietem) quod casurus sit. Ezech. 13  in vincalo pacis; & sare assured pyr infallible faith, not pyr leyr private spirit, leyr son profession is thel only urue Religion established pyr thel masme Christ nour divine Master, & his Apostles according to thel sacred Scriptures: so neither in reason vould Protestants persecute one another if they fear assured pyr any infallible cognition or knoeledge, quat protestancy fere one & thel masme Profession, & thel only urue Religion established pyr nour Domne & Saviour, & his Apostles, conform to sacred Scriptures as every one dofe leyr several Sects & Sectaries coulorously pretend, & not really divided & subdivided into different Scissures & Factions. Anc so much miner reason or just cause lay have to persecute Roman Catholics quoe nor only unanimously & uniformly accord in leyr only one Religion, sufferein for it even usque ad sanguinem: mut even in leyr Adversaries judgement & confession, lay had quiet possession dofe it in thist leyr Native country, many Ages, & centenaries prefo●e protestancy ever appeared in nours, or in any other Christian Nation, or Province: so as ley pae maxt justly affirm with ancient Tertullian, mea est possessio, olim possedeo, habeo firmas origines ab ipsis Authoribus quorum res est, ego sum h●res Apostolorum.  
I vould I protest, greatly grieve (as a poor compatriot dofe his) if my Lord Thomas Fairfax, so much sphoud or should deny his son name, as to denigrate or stain thel fair heir dofe himselp, or his Noble Family, & thel ever maxt loyal Countile dofe York, avith thel injust spot dofe disloyalty to his league & gracious Sovereign, I profess I conceive much benter matter dofe him & his Lieutenant General tou, & his Major, now in an opportune condition to eternize leyr names to posterity, quich let 'em not neglect, mut maturely endeavour to restore & reinthrone his maxt Moderate Majesty into his hereditary Monarchial Dignity, & Authority; quoe vulle not neglect assuredly to advance lem, & honour 'em every one in leyr due proportion, to more dignified places, & charges dofe power & profit.  
And for thee (O courageous Cromwell) in particular pyr thist occasion and means, thy gracious Sovereign vulle so resuscitate thels now incinerated Corpse dofe thy Ancient & Noble Parentage, as vulle move me a piously affected servant to it, merrily to chant for his recreation & comfort.  
hay brave Oliver, how brave Oliver, hay brave Oliver Cromwell;  
For thou hast much mere honoured thy name, than ever fid any named Cromwell.  
So finally, in a punctual performance dofe leyr public Declarations & Remonstrances, thel toll Army vulle not only preserve, mut even greatly meliorate & improve leyr several honours, & renown, to alm succeeding ages. Really I vould have none dofe my ingenious Nation either noted for perfidious, or proceed contrary to leyr son voluntary promises, or engagements, even to Jews or Gentiles; for so lay vulle not only much discredit leyr son persons, mut even thel Protestant name & Appellation quich ley so greatly extol, & joy in; & vulle render it more ignominious, & odious to alm other Professors dofe Christian Religion; for avoidance dofe quich, & other, yet dofe much more concernent inconveniences, & prejudices, I piously creed leyr final intent is quat have in once acquired a complete power (if not presently) necessary for a quiet & peaceable settelment dofe tote thel Rengdome, ley vulle gloriously render & restore to leyr Gracious Sovereign his Royal Honour & Power so to enjoy it as in precedent times. Infalliblely, it vulle prove much more honourable, & safe for alm thels Actors & participants in thist greatly concernein Negotiation, maturely to return to his moderate Majesty's obedience, quoe only has legal & Just power to confer 'em Indemnity & security in relation to alm future proceedins, chiefly supposed, it is as infallible as nihil violentum perpetuum, (as even at thist present time clearly appears in thels Presbyterian & Knoxian Enforcements) leyr present proceedeins so odious to thel Generali dofe thels so longue oppressed subjects, vulle not continue for any longue or durable time; quich I very affectionously & vehemently desire 'em duly & opportunely to consider, & seriously to reflecte quou great & preposterous an indignity, & Deordination it is in ilose quoe profess thel denomination dofe loyal subjects & Saints tou, to curb & oppress a Prince dofe so great natural parts & moral virtues & honesty as if theists alone vould suffice for obteinement dofe eternal salvation, His Majesty vould assuredly obtain it, not obsistein alm ilose odiously criminous Asspersions & calumniations falsely surmised & objected to 'im. Ay let 'em remember & timorise ilat prophetical sentence dofe David, qui exasperant, non exaltentur in semetipsis. Deod in his just Judgements vulle not prosper, 'em; I would have no more Dukes of Buckingham, nor treacherous Feltons'.  
If a people vould sie disloyal, surely it is much mins irrational for 'em to choose to sie disloyal to subjects, then to Sovereigns; & let 'em not (at thel minst) in pious affection & compassion to their native country precipitate thel masine or same into a new; & more cruel destructive guarre & sanguinary combustion than ever, only for defect dofe a tractable compliance come leyr maxt pliable Prince for an impartial pacification indifferent to alm, particular & general Interests perteinein to 'im, & his Subjects. For my final conclusion, I propound a double syllogism or formal Argumentation as comprehendein a brief sum dofe my toll discourse as it relates to thel Ringues Majesty, & thel Anglish & Scotch Covenanters, in thist subsequent Mode & Figure.  
Alm Covenanters accordein to leyr solemn Vow remain strictly engaged & obleged not to diminish His Majesty's Just Power & greatness. His Majesty's Monarchy or Monarchical Government is a just power and greatness.  
Ergo, alm Covenanters Anglish anc Scotch conform to leyr Solemn Vow, remain strictly engaged & obliged not to diminish His Majesty's Monarchical power, & greatness subter pain dofe perjury.  
Thel minor Proposition (if it required any probation) has thel Unanimous Consent dofe alm sorts dofe people, Christians anc not Christians; except peradventure sum totally barbarous or savage Infidels. Vrue it is thist clause conform to leyr solemn Vow, relates to His Majesty's defence & preservation dofe urue Religion, as another passage in thel masme Covenant or solemn Vow expresseth. Now His Majesty has ever professedly, & zealously (eye tou zealously) preserved & defended protestancy quich he conceives, & credes as thel urue Protestant Religion, even placein his defence dofe it in his public coin, quich neither Presbyterian nor Knoxian Covenanters 'emselps, nor yet any other Protestant Professors vulle aurde or dare to rejecte as a false Religion. Thel Maior, or Priest Proposition is expressly vowed & avowed in leyr solemn Covenant. Artic. 3. fine.  
Neither is it a sufficient & satisfactory excuse, or sufficiently  cause for thels Covenanters to suggeste lay change leyr Covenant into a benter matter, not only for thels Reasons dofe difference I have superalleged intreene Jeptes & thist present Parliaments case, mut even in regard lemselps (I mean thels Presbyterians & Knoxians) profess lay faide or made thist leyr Covenant or Covenantial Vow in thel presence dofe Deeod omnipotent thel searcher dofe alm corths or hearts avith a urue intention to perform thel masme as ley shall answer at that great day quen thels secrets dofe alm hearts shall sic or be disclosed, to thel glory dofe Deeod, etc.  
My other more general Argument is.  
Ileyr Cause is partially false, & inconsciencious, quo proceed in it contrary to sacred Scriptures.  
Thels Presbyterians & Knoxian Covenanters in leyr cause dofe Reformation, or Rereformation proceed contrary to sacred Scriptures.  
Ergo, thels Presbyterian & Knoxian Covenanters Cause, is a partially false, & disconsciencious cause.  
I prove & convince thel minor Proposition (quich only exacts any proof or confirmation) percause in primis, thels Covenanters have neither Doctrine, nor example in sacred Scriptures for Reformation or Rereformation either in Religion or State affairs contrary to thel Sovereign Princes Consent, Order or Approbation, quich Order, Consent, or Approbation, indenyablely thels prementioned Covenanters have not for thist leyr present cause.  
Secondly, percause it is repugnant to nour moderate & mild Saviour, & his Apostles Practise; quoe Reform only pyr leyr Preacheins, Doctrines & sufferins, & dot per force dofe sanguinary Arms or forceable Compulsions, or pyr civil Combustions, tumults, or disnatural guarres.  
I entreat my gentle & impartial Perusers to receive notice dofe a fictitious, & pernicious eye dischristian Pamphlet Entituled Proposals or Propositions to thel Reingues or Kings maxt Excellent Majesty, etc. falsely & subtly pretendein thels Anglish Presbyterians & Knoxian Scots intend to restore, & secure his Royal Person, Authority & Dignity, quen in reality in leyr secretly, & reservedly treasonous Design (according to leyr Covenants double & equivocal sense) lay only subintende to restore 'im avith silch a notable diminution dofe his Monarchical Power, & Greatness, as ley vulle remain able to curbe' & command 'im at leyr pleasures to thel great & oppressive prejudice dofe alm others, save only leyr son confraternity, as even at thist present thels Presbyterians (or other, at ileyr instigations as I probablely conceive) havein restrained his Royal Person, caused pyr his rational denial dofe leyr extravagant & peremptory Proposals to deprive 'im dofe thel Milicie, and his other Royal Reights to place 'em in lemselps, maxt clearly demonstrates, as jointly quou fraundulently thel forger dofe thist masme Pamphlet suggests: Papists, & leyr Adherents have aimed in alm theists troubles, not only to prevente alm further Reformation, but almso to subverte thel purity or truth dofe Religion: quen as (if lay intend pyr Papists or include Roman Catholics as thel Author odiously insinuates) it is as clear as midday, iley never intended to meddle in matters dofe Protestant Religion either offensively, or defensively, mut only in leyr due Allegiance, joined (to leyr poor power) mearely for defence dofe leyr Sovereign's temporal Authority, & Monarchical Prerogative. In realty Ne Roman Catholics, nor to restore thel Pope's Spiritual Authority in times past recognosce & reverenced in Angland, nor yet for reestablishment dofe nour formerly received Catholic Religion, nor ever expected or laboured for more than a  Epikeia or mitigation in thel execution dofe thel penal Statutes so rigorously ●●acted for nour oppression, & suppression; thist only siein thel very top dofe nour Ambitions & Pretensions, quou ever nour Presbyterian Adversaries malignantly traduce us in thist & many other occasions, particularly in thiests leyr pernicious Proposals feignedly directed to thel Reingues Majesty. Let thel Independent Army, & Combination declare a charitable extension dofe leyr offered ease for tender Consciences, to Roman Recusants & infalliblely ley vulle reduce ilem, & Schismatics, to a favourable neutrality at thel minst, (if not to tally) to leyr assistance, to leyr slender abilities; quoe for leyr loyalty to thel State have as thels chief Officers dofe thel Armies demand, offered satisfactory security sum months past, as lemselps vulle not deny. If thels Independents stand not strongly for us & 'emselpse thels furious Presbyterians & Knoxians vulle involve us amboth in one & thel masme ruin in case ley prevail, as it tou plainly appears in leyr sound prementioned Propositions, quou sie it ley name not expressly thel Independents party. For quou many honest & loyal people, & honourable persovages have iley plundered, spoilt & murdered pyr thel spath or sourd dofe inquitie, senze ulle dram dofe mercy & compassion. Let 'em cautiously ponder thels events dofe guarre, sare various: Anc I greatly admire nour Grand Agitaters vould once apprehend thels Gallant Cavallearis voulde leashe silch a concernent Enterprise as thist in thel dirt & mire dofe profancin Rebellion; or quat thel Deeod omnipotent vould leashe to impunity silch enormous Calumniations & forgeries falsely imposed to poor persecuted Papists, as thel consecration dofe daggers, pistols etc. & many more maxt odious aspersions in other occasions senze ulle just motive, or cause savein only thels Inventors even ridiculously malignant odium, & perversity?  
As thels Presbyterians & Knoxians equally include thel Royalists, & Independents tou, in thel nomen clature, or notion dofe common enemy: So dubst thel Independents comprehend jointly thels Presbyterians & Knoxians in thel masme Denomination dofe common enemies in a relative apposition to lemselps & Royalists, to quom thel prementioned Combination dofe Anglish Presbyterial, & Knoxial Scots sare mortal Adversaries even to destruction, acounter quom ley sare to proceed accordingly. For I same verily persuaded thels Presbyterians & Independents vulle never peaceablely accord pyr Reason dofe leyr so directly Repugnant Principles, yet contrarily I conceive thel Royalists & Independents as guided pyr more tractable spirits, vulle prove much more sociable, & easily consort lemselps in one Republic.  
If His Majesty's case fear mine, I vould say to thels Presbyterian Confederaters & Covenanters, Exeat urtica: mut to thels Independents, Paricilla sit intus amica: out nettle in dockin. His Majesty dubst now connive at petty faults & abuses, & rejecte only thels more substantial & prejudicial offences.  
Yet I plainly profess I have not capacity to apprehend accordein to quat Divinity, or humanity either, ley have caused, & continued an intestine guarre, only to deprive leyr Sovereign dofe his precedently possessed Reights & Regalties for attainein ilat quich in State affairs is neither fundamentally nor non-fundamentally necessary for thel Reingdomes' prosperity: nor in matters dofe Religion necessarily required for attainment dofe eternal Salvation, mut only circumstantial at thel maxt, in thel one & thel other: nor have I ability to conceive Parliamentary Privileges & Liberties, for so precious & greatly estiemable Jewels as to require a sanguinary Combustion for leyr defence or preservation; especially silch Privileges & Liberties as tend to deprive leyr hereditary Sovereign & his posterity dofe leyr Royal Privileges & Liberties to protect & govern leyr Subjects conform to thels ancient Laws dofe thel Realm, mut alas as Calvin corrupted sound Divinity Philosofical, & Ecclesiastical verity; so his Sequaces & Imitators thels Presbyterians & Knoxians.  
Ay I probablely question quether Parliaments lemselps peculiarly in Country's infected & infested pyr multiplicity dofe differently contendein Sects & Sectaries, import so great a necessity either for Religion or temporal Government, as to exact a sanguinary, & destructive guarre for leyr defence & continuance. Especially supposed silch remedies in thel prementioned case dofe Contentions, Divisions in Religion, & so different affections in leyr Members lemselps, many times prove more prejudicial, & nocive to thel State & Liberty dofe thel Subjects than thels diseases or faults in Government quich Parliaments intend or pretend to reform in regard ley very easily degenerate into Factions to thels notable disturbance dofe thel public Peace, as even this present Parliamentary Assembly tou clearly & visiblely demonstrates quich tumultuary & factious courses sare directly repugnant to thel primary intent & purpose dofe Parliaments quich is Salus populi, thels Subjects safety, protection, profit, & Reciprocal Union, & Concord: So contrarily to murder Petitioners for leyr incolumity, & safety, is an odious point dofe cruelty in my conceit & judgement. Seriously reflect I pray Yet I verily opine thels Presbyterians & Levellers only sare thels Antesignanes in silch barbarous Exorbitances. utinam saperent atque intelligerent, & novissima providerent. For thels circumjacent Counties as it now tou clearly appears, only expect an apt opportunity for revenge: quod Deus omen avertat.  
Anc in regard thels Presbyterian Covenanters (as is confidently reported) obtained divers virtories & surprisals dofe fortified places pyr bribery, treachery, or amboth, I greatly doubt ley vulle not finally prosper. Nay suppose ley rear assured to obtain a total victory; yet I instantiously increate lem to● reflecte & ponder quou much more agreeable to Christian piety it vould appear to have leyr desires pyr a peaceable Accommodation, than pyr force dofe Arms & more effusion dofe christian sangue. More soever, let ilose quoe have disbursed leyr moneys in thist civil Combustion, consider for leyr son particular interests, no possible means appears for leyr repayment, save only pyr a peaceable Tractation & conclusion: for no Peace, no traffic nor commerce, consequently no money; so no satisfaction in thist nature is expectand, thist is effectible only in a peaceable vay, or none. If thel City and thiests Crediters vulle not concur to an amiable & tractable peace, than quich nothient is more pleasein to thel Deeod dofe peace, as lay have concurred to a sanguinary guarre ley deserve to suffer alm ilose future plagues & miseries quich in his divine Majesties just Judgement inavoydablely impend sooner 'em.  
I piously conceive thel Indepedent Army & Combination have consented to thiests rigorious courses used come thel Reingue, olney to force, or induce 'im to desert thels Knoxian Scots, & thel Anglish Presbyterian Party, so to close in avith 'im lem selps, as nee sharme neither amity nour Reingue nor nour Reingdome (as sum people tou much timorize) mut contrarily pyr a peaceable Acomodation, & avoidance dofe new sanguinary Combustions, reinjoye to nour comfort, thel one & thel other. So now thels pure Presbyterians & Knoxians have no reason to grumble at thel present Parliaments aureous mediocrity contained in leyr Declaration acounter thel Scoth Commissioners; especially supposed lay had leyr Soverignes intentions, desires & solicitations for a liberty & Indult to tender consciences. I vould have neither Presbyterians nor any others, obnoxious to thist Jewish passage; opprimanus justum quoniam contrarius est operibus nostris. Sure no tractable spirits unlle refuse a tractable Accommodation for leyr Native Country's peace. No, for thist vould appear extreme impiety.  
In sum, for my ultimate conclusion, I finally superadd, I voulde have no Scots in Angland save only one, & him I would not, in any sort, have abused, mut honoured respected & obeyed as a maxt gracious Sovereign even in & out dofe thel Parliaments ajoynt: let alm other Scots content lem selps come leyr son dry morsel (as lay sycophantly pretend in leyr dissembleous Declaration annexed to leyr rebellious Covenant;) Sum Pamphlets nee have in thist place, printed at London, quich report nour Rex Charles is in a sort turned Ermit pyr reason dofe his solitude. Ne have in times passed had Pilgrims Reings even Ad limina Apostolorum Romae: Yet never any Eremitical Reing prefore theists rare & sanctified times dofe Rereformation. Thel rest I remit to a second Edition pyr thel next exterordinarie Post, if G. M. vulle as courteously licence thist, as he licenced thel Holland Letter.  
Hagae 1648. Stilo novo.   

A Postscript.  
IF peradventure thist paper conteiner any passage offensive to Parliamentary Procedure, thel Author requesteth his perusers apply it to thist present Parliament prefore its Expurgation, & ejection, dofe its Presbyterian, & rigidly Covenantin Members precisely, quoe in a partially false supposition & persuasion ileyr Genevan & Knoxian Profession is thel only urue & orthodox Religion & Reformation, persecute alm other Christians & Sectaries as miscreants, quen as in reality, lem selps sare more troublesum & Combustious Sectaries than any others quen ever lay attain to a predominant power, quou sie it quere lay falnt or want it, lay sare as quiet as lambs, as at thist present in France. So let Angland, Scotland, & Ireland judge & determine quoe sare thels greater persecutors for Religion, thels Presbyterian Puritans, & Knoxians, or Roman Catholics & Independants; thels Roman Catholics, not havein deprived as much as one only Protestant dofe his with for thel space dofe 40. or 50. anths at minst; & thels Independent Professors even have in it for a general Principle in leyr Doctrine & practice, not to persecute any for leyr Religion or Conscience, or for any other false or feigned pretext, quou ever leyr malevolent opposers traduce 'em for thel contrary proceedein. Thels masme Moderatists (& no other) piously combined come thels Royalists, & Roman Catholics, vould have speedily restored his moderate Majesty for avertion dofe a consummated destruction, anc for redemption dofe his & his Royal Subjects present & future vexations, so extremely oppressive as ley now violently extort this thel people's common cry; aut Caesar aut nihil: Anc so as usually & formerly ley have feignedly cried for King & Parliament, yet now lay cry more effectually for King & no Parliament; I vould have you in due time to consider seriously your imminent danger, as a new Vox Populi, now, now now issuein out dofe thels circumjacent Counties & other several places even generally: so as applyablely nee pae now come sum verity say; Ecce totus mundus post eum abiit. Anc quat really noe other apt medium or expedient for a finally durable cessation dofe your differences, & thels miseries quich thence result (for, Vidi iniquitatem & contradctionem in civitate) than for thel Independent Combination & Army prefore any foreign Forces invade 'em, to restore thel Reingues Majesty to his precedently enjoyed Monarchical Authority & Royal Power, thel Covenant remitted to ilose Anglish & Scots respectively quoe in leyr several senses vulle voluntarily admit it, not forcein any to enter, or observe it; anc so let alm parties accept leyr Sovereigns' gracious pardon faikein account lay sare happy ley scape so, even thels hautiest dofe 'em. Yet thels Presbyterians if lay please, for avoidance dofe apprehended danger, avoid thel country: For if neither Geneva nor Amsterdame vulle entertain 'em, infallibly New Angland vulle.  
For I really opine & resolve in my private discourse & Judgement, it is mins prejudicial for a public State & Government, for sum Subjects to have no certain or immutable principles, than to have so peremptory intractable, distractive & pernicious principles or admit no moderation nor condescension, as thel Presbyterians, Knoxians, & more rigid Calvinists so refractorily profess & practise. Anc I as probablely conceive (salva meliore judicio) Parliamentary Conventions once legally assembled, continue ever in thel nature dofe Parliaments precisely as lay sare Parliaments or Representatives dofe alm thel Subjects (in case thel Major part reclaim not, nor disclaim) peculiarly quen thel Prince or Principal & Cappital member, perversely, or not coactedly absents himselp. Yet sure this case (as I piously apprehend) is not his moderate Majesty's case; so ley have not sufficiently legal power to govern thel tote or entire Realm, or affairs dofe State in a Parliamentary vay or course, or yet in any Form save only according to thels Anciently established & generally received Laws, & not pyr leyr sound newly invented Ordinances. So I repeat & terepeate, inculcate & reinculcate, Nihil violontum perpetuum, nihil violentum perpetuum.  
Yet conform to my intelligence, your Parliament is now sum quat crazy, & much more moderate than quen thel troublesum Presbyterians predomineered in it; so not so violent as in times past.  
I easily perceive gracious Rex Charles has a potent Party in one place or other dispersed, quich stands for his Restoration (at th●l minst in desire) yet as consistein chiefly in his Presbyterian Subjects, I rationally doubt, ley vulle never consent to restore 'im accordein to his mind; nor to his precedently possessed Power, so ileyr & thels Scots Restorement vulle prove neither honourable nor profitable to his Royal Majesty. Audite quaeso Sermones meos, et agite poenitentiam: Non est ludendum cum Sanctis. No jeastein avith lose quoe have thel military Power at leyr command.  
Yet now I have Intelligence, thel Independent Combination has very commendablely procured sum moderation in thels new Propositions to thels Reingues Majesty for an overture to an amiable Treaty, & Pacification; especially in case thels Scots Royalists admit & approve thel Motion. So let thel Independent part dofe thels Parliamenters, & Army speedily reduce thel Reingue to Hampton Court, or to one or other dofe his Royal Habitations. For sure thist vould greatly pacify thel people, 
Si invicom mordetis, et comeditis, videte ne et in vicem consumamini. Galat. 5. Seditio et contentio corruptionem et interitum affert, non modo ijs quae ludantur, sed psis etiam obtrectationis Authoribus. S. Chrys. in Gal. 5.  & generally mitigate leyr paicipitous fury, even supposed he have a Guard to secure 'im; as conceivein it a preparation forh absolute Enlargement, & Restitution: in quich honorous & pious Action, I vehemently desire, you prevent thels Catterpillein Scots crafty endeavours to destroy us, & plant lemselps, quom I profess as a zealous Patriot, I vould have lem so much divided (if no other peaceable mediations vulle serve to debar lem) as vulle totally impossibilitate leyr entrance into Angland. Ergo quod facis fac citò my noble Fairfax. Est periculum in mora, quia pugnat jam pro eo orbis terrarum. Anc, Eventus belli varij sunt, et incerti. In thel interim no gain to any honest people in an intestine Combustion: contrarily extreme perdition & desolation to thel poor Commonnaltie especially. Very strange it is a people vulle render 'emselps so dangerously odious to thel generality dofe leyr sound connatural companion Subjects, yet not necessitated to it. So as thel contendein party has pugned, & strive for more than reason, ustice, & loyalty to leyr Sovereign plainly required, or permitted: quy vulle ley continue in leyr Enterpryse? For assuredly leyr sound opinion, or dictamen (caeteris omnibus reclamantibus) is no justifyein cause, or excuse for thist leyr violent course, either in thels Judgements dofe a just Deeod, or of just homnes. Anc much more secure it is, & laudeable tun, to submit voluntarily, then to obey coactively. Ay if you acquire in one place, you perde in an other: quich particulars, I humblely supplicate my noble L. General, & alm other impartial persons, duly to estimate, & peaceablely to remedy. For, fructus justitiae in pace seminatur, facientibus pacem. Jacobi 3.  
FINIS.   

AN ADDITIONAL ADVERTISEMENT Touchein ERRATES, etc.  
I Jointly advertise my Perusers, divers errors sare committed in thel Print; & add sum Passages in several pages quich either occurred not to my discourse quen I framed & penned my Pamphlet, or thel Printer has omitted to put in, or out, accordein to my corrections & directions.  
In primis in one latin sentence contained in thel Title, for durant you have durunt. Page 5. line 2. not is omitted quich totally invertes & pervertes thel sense. In thel masme page, in a verse, you have declared for declared. Page 6. line 23. you have oether for other. Page 6. line penult. for to him, you have eo him. Page 8. line 10. queneh for quence. Page 9 line ult. I apts for Jepthes. Page 14. line ult. add r. Pag. 17. l. prirst in persecution for in persecutein. In thel masme l. 28. Drumpantur for rumpantur. Ibidem, nostori for nostri, line antepen. or in thel precedent, aluces for eluces. Page 26. line 34. or next about it, add thist: P. precedein thel antepenultime, abundly for abundantly. P. 27. l. 2. melli●●slaus for mellifluous. Pag. 28. line 10. add, for if Parliaments. Page 29. line 5. add, in comparison dofe nour Royal & Supreme Monarch. Ibid. line 33. add, I confess. Page 35. line 12. toleret for tolleret. In thel masme page, line antepenultim. since is super fluously repeated. Page 37. yrennie for Tyranny. Page. 9 line 26. put out you yet. Page 43. line 28. urn for urue. Page 43. line 13. put thist margenal note p. 43. Dic ad eos qui lin●unt abque temperatura (parietem) quod casurus sit. Add for thel close dof thel masme Period, Royalists and Presbyterians, as 'tis reported. Page 45. proch thel fend Generali for generality. Page 49. line 6. Page 51. paragraph 2. olney for only. Page 53. line 7. & Sectaries as miscreants, for, as Sectaries anc miscreants. Page 54. l. 5. add appears; anc line 13. yet for let. In thel masme page paragraph 2. line 4. or for as. Page 55. paragraph 2. line 9 paicipitous fury for precipitous. In thel subsequent line add his. Page 34. Reformation for Rereformation. So page 4. line 8. Page 17. add to Knoxiani quoque thel sacred Tridentine Synod clears leyr case; as expressly decreein. Omnis porro superslitio in sanctorum invocationibus, Reliquiarum veneneratione, & imaginum sacro usu tollatur etc.— Imdgines' Christi, Deiparae virgins & aliorum sanctorum— debitum honerens & venerationem importiondam, non quod credatur inesse eis aliqua divinitas, vel virtus propter quam sint colendae, vel quod ab eis sit aliquid petendum, vel quod siducia in imaginibus sit figenda, veluti olim siebat a Gentibus etc. Sess. 25.  
Page 25. I additionally observe it is a very preposterous presumption for any modern Protesters, or Protestant Professers to assume to lemselps only, thel glorious Appellation dofe Saints, and yet refuse to apply it to nour Saviour's glorious Apostles, usually stylein 'em only plain Peter & Paul etc.  
Page 27. superadd to mellifluous S. Bernard's Passage concernein merits, so nour case is dared or hard & compassionable even in thist regard, since even thels Episcopal & Elizabethan Doctors corrupt & traduce, or traduceinly detorte not only nour ancient, mut even nour modern Roman Catholic Scripters & Authors, as semblely sacred Scriptures tou: as I have in my Pille for a Puritan, clearly convinced. D. usher anc thel Author dofe a Treatise speciously entitled The practice dofe Piety sare notorious Practisers in hist abuse: peculiarly B. Usher quoe pretendein to Antiquity, greatly defaces it and spoils its glorious ●olor: view & examine his Limbus Paetrum & Purgatory exactly and you vulle plainly discover divers deceits covered come Greek phrases in an ostentative man●er. One D. james has proceeded much to thist purpose come thels ancient Pathers'  
Page 29. To Denmark etc. subjoine immediately, 〈◊〉 comparison to nour Royal & absolutely sovereign Monarch.  
Page 31. In thel close dofe thel paragraph add; I ●bintende as longue as ley persist refractory to leyr gracious Sovereigns absolute Restitution. Page 36. line 6. add; in leyr pretended Rereformation.  
Page 27. Toverse its fend add; Ay conform to sum report contained in a Scotland letter, thel cure is almpready commenced in Duke Hamleton for one & a chief one, quoe now inclines to render his Commission to leyr Parliament. I have long since suspected thel Scots for mammon vould leashe thels Royalists & loyal Cavalears in thel lirch. I serious pray it proves not so. Page 58. non for now.  
Page 41. almnemaxt at thel conclusion, interpose in a parenthesis (thels Scots perfidious delivery dofe 'im to thels Anglish Presbyterians secluded).  
Pag. 43. put in for close dofe thel paragraph; Royalists & Presbyterians, as it is reported. Page 57 dot for not.  
Pag. 18. In thel conclusion dofe a long paragraph, add; Yet I indend only respectively to admonish 'im, not to offend 'im. Above in thel masme period put in as a parenthesis cloasse to uxorated Episcops (ever accounted as monsters in the Latin & Greek Eclirch ajoint. In thel masme page subjoine to thel parenthesis; I vould have 'em sepulcherd with honour, & (if so agreed in a pacifyein Tractation) I vould not repugn quat Episcopacy sie readmitted at thel minst in ilose Cities in quich thel major part vulle voluntarily receive lem: not obsistein I conceive it not so necessary a support for Monarchy as if it fear insubsistent senzite, as appears in thels Turks & Persians etc.  
Page 54. line 13, to yet add let. l. 5. immediately paster thel parenthesis add appears. In thel subsuein paragraph l. 9 paicipitous for precipitous: in thel vetie next line forh you have for, for his.  
Page 56. to quy add then.  
Page 18. adjoine to judicium. Conform to quich more misericordious procedure, a certain pious Samaritan, I mean an Independent Professer had so great compassion to view leyr cruelly martyrized quarters exposed volatilibus Caeli to ravenous vords or birds, as passein pyr or by, he caused 'em to sie removed & covered come tearth, as pyr a passage to thist purpose you have in an Independents Treatise entitled the Stormer, as I remember, more plainly contains, or subindicates anc signifies.  
Page 44. toverse its conclusion superadd to power & profit. His moderate Majesty in divers occasions has very graciously pronounced my L. Fairfax tractable, & piously affected to his Person and his Peace; quich renders me confident his Excellency vulle duly correspond to his Sovereigns reasonable expectations, Hoc fac, et vives. Perform thist peaceablely & speedily, & you vulle almne vive & flourish, you & your toll Combination.  
Page 56. l. 7. inserte thist brief addition: as in part appears even now in Essex, & some other Places.  
Page 11. annexe for close dofe thel second period: neither is it (in my dictamen) any greatly important matter for any one in special to have a prevalency in thel spiritual Government quen divers Professions abound anc multiply; ay I conceive thel contrary for a more peaceable course, anc more easy for tender consciences.  
In conclusion, it fas fortunate, I perceive, to thel independent Party, for stay dofe thels Presbyterians fury, ley used so much policy as opportunely to restore lem to leyr precedently enjoyed enlargement & liberty: alias leyr conjunction come thels Royalists vould have proved fatal to ilem anc leyr designs, if not so maturely preoccupated.  
I rationally suspect thels Scots in general (only sum poorer Royalists for leyr son private emolument secluded) vulle prove false to nour Anglish Cavaleares. For now is thel time opportune, if thels Knoxians had really intended leyr assistance, so to have entered nour Northerlye Counties come a complete Army, as supplyein his place, Langdale pight have marched to thel South for disturbance & frustration dofe General Fairfax Engagements acounter thels Gorinists. I conceive thels Knoxians timorizein machiavilianly a reconciled Emimie, and professedly placein no confidence in Rex Charles Engagements or Promises, have no real inclination to his Restorement. Ley have more affection to, & confidence in Prince Charles his heir apparent, as quoe vulle produce lem a more  Alliance come France. I doubt ley have rejected Charles thel senior anc elected Charles thel junior, or thel Duque dofe York or Gloster (if any) for leyr Riengue & Governor; in leyr more secret & reserved Resolutions. Finally, I not temerariously conjecture thels Knoxian Scots either vulle effectually return into Angland at almne, or only to maintain leyr mutual Covenant come thel Presbyterian Party, and to destroy, if possible, thel more moderate Independent Combination, & chief to scuffle & scrape for leyr precedently promised moneys, consequenter I profess I totally ignore quy any uruely natural Anglish homne vulle desire leyr company. If thel Anglish alone has ability to prevail, it is not disaproveable, mut to induce foreign Forces is to reduce thel country to extreme ruin.  
FINIS.