LONDONS Remembrancer: Or, a timely ADMONITION TO THE Citizens of London,( More especially the L. Mayor, Aldermen, common-council, and others in Authority) To endeavour a speedy Accommodation WITH His Majesty: That his Majesties undoubted Rights may be restored, the Kingdoms just Liberties maintained, and the further effusion of Christian blood prevented.  
By a lover of his King and country.  
Printed in the year 1648.   

Londons Remembrancer: OR, A Timely admonition to the Citizens of London; more especially the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, common-council, and others in Authority: To endeavour a speedy Accommodation with His majesty.  
My Lord, and Gentlemen,  
THe desire I have of the weal public in general, and in particular of every one of your safeties, I attestate God the searcher of all hearts, to witness, is the sole and onely cause of my addressing these lines unto you: I hope they will come as words spoken in due season, and work so effectually with every one of you, as may seasonably prevent the further effusion of blood.  
First then, I humbly and hearty desire your Lordship and the rest respectively, that you would every one of you cast an eye back, and maturely contemplate, what unnatural effusion of blood hath been made these five or six yeares past, in many parts of His sacred Majesties Dominions: and then seriously ponder in the name and fear of God, that if the blood of Abel cried out to heaven for vengeance, what shall the blood of so many Nobles, Gentry and others cry for against the Causers of it?  
Secondly, call to mind I as earnestly beseech you, that old and true Adage, Iniquissima pax justissimo bello anteferenda, That peace, though upon unequal terms, is to be more highly valued then the justest war; by the one your City( as formerly) may long flourish, by the other it is like to prove either a second Aceldama, or Gomorrha.  
Thirdly, forget not, that the same God whom you profess to believe in, who was born in the reign of Augustus Caesar, in whose time peace reigned over the face of the whole universe, onely died to make our peace, and left his heavenly blessing to all those that pursue and seek after peace, saying, Blessed be the peace-makers, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven. O then how eternally happy may ye be, if ye prove but the happy instruments of making up that breach that now lieth wide among us, by seeking after, and speedy settling a happy peace.  
Fourthly, I auspiciously desire you to consider, what the wished fruits of peace are, and what desolation and destruction attends upon war: by the former, as the old saying is, small things grow great, by the latter great things small; Concordiâ res parvae crescunt, Discordiâ magnae dilabuntur.  
Fifthly, I earnestly implore you seriously to peruse the ancient annals, who reads the Chronicles( I am unwilling almost to mention them) shall unfortunately find how ominously this City was once branded for its Rebellion in Henry the thirds time, and had not the mercy of God and the good King been above her deserts, doubtless utter ruin and devastation had been the scourge long since for her then unhappy rebellion. I pray God the cause be not too much yours, and that you have not onely paralleled, but also outvied their unhappy proceedings, under as gracious a Prince as ever swayed the sceptre; whose piety to God, whose love and mercy to his Subjects, whose incomparable wisdom in managing all his affairs, whose patience in all his unjust and direful sufferings, whose readiness and willingness to forget and forgive former injuries, may justly style him Charles the Great, he being the glory and mirror of all Christian Princes. They used as glorious and specious pretences as ever you did, asserting that they fought for Religion, King and Liberty; and have you not done the like? but see their sad Catastrophe, they were forced to subjection at last, to their lasting shane and utter infamy: You may onely prevent that by your happy compliance with his most sacred Majesty. Be wise then as Serpents, lest you buy your repentance at too dear a rate: For vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, and I will repay it.  
Sixthly, forget not to remember by whom Kings reign, By me Kings reign, saith the Lord of Hosts, whose command is, touch not mine Annoynted, asserting, that the wrath of a King is like the roaring of a lion, shall Heavens great King, who is King of Kings, teach you to obey, and shall any Mandate from man animate you to the contrary? God forbid.  
Seventhly, and lastly, I earnestly beg of you, as you tender the glory of God, the honour of his sacred majesty, the happiness either of this City in particular, or the whole kingdom in general, That you suffer not yourselves any longer to bee misled under any specious pretences whatsoever, remembering, that it is better to obey God then Man: Man cannot, he onely can save and deliver you; repent then, I say, repent while it is to day, least death and destruction fall upon you unawares: For know, and know for a certain, that God is no less just then merciful, and though slow, yet sure in punishing. If you be  told by any of the false Prophets of the times,( I may rather justly style them Hypocrites,) that you fight for Religion: tell them whosoever they be that so inform you, that you have justly a religious scruple concerning that particular, since not one place of Scripture gives you a lawful liberty to hold up your hand against Gods anointed, and your most lawful sovereign, and both Religion, Law, and reason, commands the contrary: What Religion is it pray tell me? nay, rather, 'tis sure the Doctrine of Devills to shoot at the King for his safety. What Religion is it to thrust out the most able and Orthodox Divines, and to thrust in such as are oft times too too factious, too too illiterate? What Religion is it so to fight for the Liberty of the Subject ▪ as to force whom some please either to give away all they have, or else to have it all unjustly taken from them?  
Lastly, what Religion is it to massacre one the other, when heaven saith, Thou shalt not murder? Well then, it being both against Religion, Law and Reason, to act any of the●e or the like enormous Commands, be it yours and every good Christians resolution to repent and sin no more, least a worst thing fall upon you.  
return, I say once more, return in time to your due and accustomend Loyalty: let it be the glory of the wisest, most noble & richest among you, to have your actions rather then your words speak aloud both to God and man; that you are hereafter unanimously resolved to leave these by-paths of error, and with a firm and joint consent to put in execution those heavenly summons, viz. to fear God, and honour the King; to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars, and unto God the things that are Gods. Do this, and live for ever.  
FINIS.