THE PARLIAMENTS Love and Loyalty TO THE KINGS Most Excellent majesty.  
Wherein is proved, that the Parliaments difcontent, and the Kings disaffection towards them, is the effect of evil Councellors, that seek the ruin and destruction of the Kingdom.  
With some additional Reasons, Declaring what hath caused This separation of the Kings majesty from London, And to raise Arms at York.  
WITH The occasion of these distracted Times, some standing for the King, and some for the Parliament, as if they desired Civill Wars as the Malignant party doth.  
London, Printed for Thomas Cook, August 30. 1642.   

The Parliaments LOVE and LOYALTY TO THE KINGS majesty.  
WHereas the Kings majesty hath been pleased to imagine and conceive by the instigation of evil effected men, that the Parliament endeavours to impair and give narrower limits to the Kings Majesties famed and Honour, and to derogate any thing from the true and legal Prerogative inherent and essential in the Kings Person. It may be evidently observed in the many Loving and loyal Declarations set forth by the Parliament, that they desire nothing more earnestly then to the utmost of their Lives and Fortunes, to promote the magnificent Honour and Glory of His majesty, to preserve the Protestant Religion, and to s●● it in such a true and upr●g●● posture of reformation, that the King may still merit as He doth inherit the title of veri Defensor fidei, the Defendor of the true fa●●h, and His majesty doth herein 〈◇〉 and comply with His Honourable Parliament, that He will maintain and defend the true Protestant Religion.  
Whereas the Parliament knows there can be no good Religion in such as raise Arms, and disquier the State of their native sovereign, contradicting their oath, bond, and obligation of their faith, whereunto they are sworn by their Allegiance, if such Arms and Forces be raised against the Kings majesty, whose Person they ought to defend against all dangers, both foreign and domestic, yet there may be some additional reasons whereby in case of necessity, when rumors and fears of invading from the Kings party are feared and spread abroad, when there is an opposition, or an Antiparliament, established to contradict the procedings of the other, when the liberty and privileges of Parliaments, which ought to be preserved entire, are took away, or slighted, not by distinctions, but absolute negations of their fundamental being, where divers Members of the House of Parliament do absent themselves, and not return again upon Summons, nor fine imposed on them for their contempt and breach of Parliamentary Power, and when they Kings majesty seduced by evil councellors of the malignant party, is instigated to raise copious and informidable forces upon groundless fears and jealousies, the Parliament considering those and other pretended reasons, and being strong testimonial witnesses in their consciences of their clear intents and loyal affections to His majesty cannot choose but be admonished by the Kings Majesties great preparations, to imagine that when their neighbours house is on fire, their own is in great peril and danger, especially His majesty having of late through the advice of some Incendaries and those that would laugh to see the city of London on fire, as they have themselves reported, strongly besieged and environed the ●own of Hull, intending to take it by starving them out, blocking up the passages for supplying them wlth any relief or sustenance. The Parliament therefore and the city of London concurring in mutual affection, foreseing the storms that threatens them, hanging in the Northorn Clouds, do intend to raise forces to deffend the Kings Honour, and the safety of the Parliament which desires no War, but the Peace and happiness of the Kingdom, the preservation of the Laws in their power and authority, the maintaining of Religion free from superstitious Innovations, and that no errors of Popery and arianism may be imposed upon us, as the Doctrine of the Church; The conservation of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject, so that all true-hearted Subjects cannot choose but have a sensible feeling of the wrongs, indignities, and affronts, offered by the malignant parunto the Parliament; And since they are Patres Patriae, the fathers of their Country, the Subjects of England ought like obedient children to maintain their Rights, and be subject to all their just and legal commands; how unjustly therefore doth that scandalous Declaration and Resolution of the County of Hereford charge them with ins●uating false- hoods, and doth fear to intimate that the Body politic of this Kingdom, hath been rather wronged in the health thereof, then any way purged by the State Physitians of Parliament, being themselves corrupted with sinister respects as the foresaid Declaration falsely mentions.  
But yet it may be objected what may be the reasons that move the King to keep such a distance from His Loving and loyal Parliament, and to confided more in evil Councellors at York, then in His great council of Parliament at London; for a general satisfactithese reasons may be alleged.  
First, His Majesties opposition against the Parliament, and by a strong hand supporting and protecting Delinquents, so that orders of Parliament are not obeied but slighted and scorned, so that it is made but Imago Parliamenti, a mere shadow; and this is one cause why the Kings Majesty and the Parliament have so long dissented and disagreed.  
The second reason may be drawn from the fear and conscientious guiltiness of some great Persons, who being doubtful and timorous least the Parliament should discover their machiavellian intentions against the peace of the Kingdom, and secretly adhering to Papists, do therefore strive to incense the King against the Parliament, and set the Kings Name and Prerogative in the Front of the battle to defend their own bad causes, and keep them from that punishment which they have incurred by their demerits.  
A third reason is because there is not that mutual relation and confidence, which ought to be between them, for the medium or mean conjunctive being taken away, or frequently broken, or to speak plainly, when the King doth not love and respect His Parliament, but is by evil council wrought to oppose them, and to suffer them to be maligned with bitter Invectives under his name in the form of Doctors, it must needs consequently disanimate the Parliament, to see their love and loyalty rewarded with nothing but contempt and dislike; what son can show any ●iliall duty if the father will not endure his fight but rejects him? what soldier can perform any remarkable service if their Captain do not esteem them as his friends, and confided in them as fidelious and true to their colours● and how can the Parliament produce those good effects which are expected, and accomplish those serious services and businesses, wherewith their country had entrusted them, if so be that the King give no encouragement to their consultations, but hath gathered force at York, under the pretence of a Guard to oppose the Parliament, and besiege Hull; so that while His Majesties love is alienated and withdrawn from His Parliament, and His actions speak contrary to His words, there must needs be jealousies and disagreement betwixt them.  
A fourth Reason may be the constant and long continued habit of disaffection; which being like unhappy seeds sowed abroad among the common people, hath brought a mutinous faction in their distracted mind, some dividing their opinions for the King, and others for the Parliament; so that they have discoursed themselves into a supposition and expectance of War, not as the Malignant party hopes to be reconciled; and this is a great reason why the Devil has brought in this Sophistry, to disjoin the King and Parliament, to the ●ubversion of this Kingdom, an effect of the evil Councells now prevailing and rending to the dissolution of this Parliament, and the disturbance of the Kingdom, This Parliament the hope and preserver of the Protestant Religion, and of the good and welfare of three Kingdoms ▪ The blows of friends are unkind, and therefore let us pray that God in these distracted times would change the Kings mind, in whose hands the hearts of Princes are as conformable as wax, and that he would give the Parliament his assistance, whose offence can be no other in the opinion of all true Subjects, but their Love and Loyallty to the Kings majesty: For,  Regis ad examplum totis componitur urbis. 

If that the King be pleased Wars to make,  
Subjects by His example Arms must take.   
FINIS.