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A85989	The prelatical Cavalier catechized, and the Protestant souldier incouraged. By a missive sent to King Charles in the name of the Protestants beyond seas. Wherein these three questions are resolved. Viz. First, how inconsistent a prelaticall government is with the true Protestant religion, and with the peace and welfare of this kingdome. Secondly, how absolutely necessary it is for King Charles and his associats, to entertain peace with the Parliament at any hand, if ever he hopeth to recover or enjoy any glory or splendour of his royalty. Thirdly, which are the best means King Charles, &c. can use for obtayning an honourable peace for the present, and improving and continuing the same in time to come. Much conducing to encourage and confirme all true Protestants in the truth of the Protestant cause, especially all souldiers that are for King and Parliament. ... Presented to the Honorable Councels of Great Britain, now sitting in Parliament; and the rest of the Kings Majesties subjects. / By Eleazer Gilbert, a minister of Gods Word. Printed, and published according to order.	Gilbert, Eleazer.	1645 (1645)	Wing G706; Thomason E296_28; ESTC R200215	22,248	25

event of any temporall occurrence all things falling out to all to them that sweare as to them that fear an oath we will neither think the worse of them because of their present afflictions nor the better of their enemies because of their atchieved victories The Almighty hath his own fulnesse of time for the managing and disposing all important passages under the Sunne but especially for such as doe more immediately concerne his own glory and the good of his Church and although he hath suffered the Roman Antichrist and his Catholick children for these thirty or forty years past to ride over the bellies plow and make long furrows upon the backs of these and some other Protestant Princes Psal 129. 3. yet as God is just and his Gospel true the feet of all the enemies of Protestant Religion shall slide in due time Yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Deut. 32. 35. For when That seven-headed and ten-horned monster having caused the Kings of the earth to commit fornication with her Rev. 18. 3. and stirred them up by policie and machiavilisme to fight against the Lamb Revel. 17. 14. so soon as shee shall be fully drunk with the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Jesus Christ and also hath made these Kings drunken with the wine of the wrath of her fornication in a word when shee hath for a long time sitten upon that septicolled Citie like a Queen saying and domineering over it I am no widdow and shall see no mourning then shall there come upon her a sodain alarm as there did upon Samson Up Samson the Philistims are upon thee Up Romish Babylon for all thy strength and cunning a Lambe shal overcome thee and these Kings which thou cast been so much in love with and have been so much in love with thee they shall stand afar off because of thy torment saying alas Alas for that great City for in one houre is thy judgement come If therefore your Highnesse and your Confederates have not already given your names to this Beast and if you be not yet drunke with the wine of the wrath of her fornication For the Lords sake come out of her let not your souls come into her counsels neither be ye joyned with her Assemblies lest partaking of her truelty you partake also of her plagues For as the Lambe overcommeth and destroyeth all such as oppose and contradict him in the truth and purity of his worship so doth he in his appointed time honour crown and blesse all that in syncerity and simplicity of heart joyne with him for the mayntenance of the purity and truth of his Ordinances of which number are not onely these noble Princes so many of them as have declined that broad way and embraced this narrow way one that leads to the new Jerusalem but also the mayn body of Great Britain England and Scotland which have mutually and interchangeably Hungary ingaged themselves besides a considerable number of Reformed Protestants beyond the Seas yea and the Luther an Protestants also in Denmarke Sweden Germany Prussia c. besides the protestants of the Greek Church inhabiting the Territories of Muscovia white Russia in Poland and other places who are almost allequally engaged with us towards the curtaling of the horns of the Romish Bishop all which as we conceive if there were any firme complyance betwixt you and your Great Counsell of State might here be brought easily to reconciliable minds towards us to joyne with us in one common cause for the abandoning and abolishing all Antichristian and and unlimited Jurisdiction from the protestant Churches throughout Europe So that in all places and Dominions of Christendome there may be but one Shepherd and one sheepfold every severall Kingdome and Province thereof through the annuall and mutuall correspondence of their Princes and States and the strength of a generall Councell by their authority seasonably convocated being perswaded and throughly informed in the truth of all essentiall points that may any ways concerne our salvation and finally all that professe the name of Christ may be brought to consent together to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace that there may be but one Faith one Lord and one Baptisine one Father in us all through us all and for us all and then what an easie thing it were for a Christian King that is Defender of the Faith Inot onely to enlarge his Dominions but also to improve his just splendour and priviledges both for himself and for all that he hath relation to throughout the known world we leave to the censure of the indifferent reader But if wilfulnesse and prejudicacie have so much preposessed you and your associates that you will not thinke of any other or better way to prevent your own and your Kinsmens ruine then that which you have now in hand Wee have no more to say to you but what Mordecay said to Ester Ester 4. 13. Deliverance will be brought another way For as God is true you will finde this certain that so many of your kindred and other Protestant Princes and States that doe justly suffer for the cause of Religion if they persevere unto the end God will exalt and raise them by the same Religion and work their deliverance by no other means then by the same whereby they have suffered The fourth and last motive which we shall mention at this time is the duty which by the Law of God you owe to your people which is to shew your chiefest care and use your best means for the preservation of their lives and liberties especially seeing they are all members of that politicall body whereof your Highnesse professeth your selfe to be the head and seeing also that in them viz. in then good affections health and welfare doth consist as Samsons did in his locks your great strength and livelihood For if there be a sympathy and fellow-feeling in the body naturall in so much as when the foot is trod upon or any other member hurt the head will complain as if the injury were done unto it and so likewise in the true Church of Christ or body mysticall as the Apostle emplyeth when he biddeth us rejoyce with them that rejoyce and weep with them that weep Rom. 12. 15. And be like affectioned one towards another And again Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn not if wee say there is such a sympathy in the mysticall and naturall body why should not the same be also in the body politicall if therefore any or many members of the body of Great Britain be diseased or distempered through malignant humours which may perhaps not onely work obstructions in the pipes of government but also make the head complain and cry out for pain yet are not these members by war or any other means of this nature to be cut off from the head unlesse they prove so poysoned putrified

and gangrened that they are destructive to the whole body But God be thanked Sir the humours of your people are not yet so desperate but that if your Highnesse like a good Phisician will vouchsafe in love to visit them feel their pulses and apply unto them a dosis or potion sutable to their distempers they may be easily both cured and qualified but as for the medicine which you have applyed to them hither-tils if we be not much mistaken the ingredients thereof have been too sharp and if you give them any more of it you are like to marre all For there be some humours and diseases that are sooner expelled and cured by lenatives then by corasives by gentle potionsr then by sharp purgations and such are these of the Inhabitants of Great Britain both Scots and English but especially the Scots whom I cannot more fitly compare then to a Cannon bullet which is dinted and quelled with the least softnesse and is never so rigid and piercing then when it is most resisted would you therefore have the peoples sore healed why then Sir correct your physick this plaister of war is too corasive Bellona should be a Kings ultimum refugium his last because his worst refuge Be therefore perswaded by us that whosoever did first perswade your Highnesse to this course had as good advised you to tread upon a thorn or put your hand into a Wasps nest For when you conceived White Hall to be on fire they did what they could to adde fuell to the flames and cast on faggots when your house was burning making the rent greater and the wound deeper and consequently the remedy worse then the disease As therefore your Highnesse doth tender your own Honour and safety welfare of your Children and Friends and prosperity of your people if it be possible and as much as you can divert from them this course of war Remember that God will require the life of a man at the Hands of his brother and if of a brother much more of a father Gen. 9. 5 For a King is the nursing Father of Gods people take from hence-forth a precise account of the death of your meanest subject and let his bloud and life be precious unto you Seeing that homo quilibet est pars communitatis every particular person is part of the whole State a Subject of one Kingdom and member of one politicall body If therefore one member suffer let all the members especially your Highnesse the head of all suffer with it 1 Cor 12. 26. Otherwise it is a dangerous symptome that the body of these Kingdoms is palsie-stricken or at the least some Lethargy or mortall sicknesse is approching to it which rendreth it both insensible and incurable The fourth and last question is what is the best means or which may be the chiefest preparatives for your Highnesse and your Associates to obtaine an honourable and lasting peace We shall in this point also endevour to give you satisfaction if either you will follow our advice or receive the same without partiality or prejudice And first we say that the best way to a firme and honourable peace is by the work of righteousnesse For the work of righteousnesse is peace and the effect thereof ioy and assurance for ever as the Prophet speaketh Esay 32 17. Where by the work of righteousnesse wee doe not so much understand that imputed righteousnesse of Christ which is truly and properly inherent in him but so made our by faith that God doth accept of us as righteous for his sake as if this righteousnesse were properly and truly inherent in our selves which is called the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 1. 17. and the righteousnesse of the Kingdome of God Matth. 6. 33. nor by this work of Righteousnesse doe wee understand altogether thut actuall righteousnesse which is to be performed by us whereby we shew the truth of our faith by the works of piety charity humility c. although the words may admit either of these without prejudice but by the work of righteousnesse we conceive principally an habituall disposition and inclination both to practise and affect things that are good and righteous in a word wee mean no otherwise then that your Highnesse would withdraw and alienate your affections from unjust and unrighteous persons Offices and Officers who have these many yeers past mayntained and still hope to mayntaine themselves by the ruine of the Church and Common-wealth who like so many Syrens have so long and so miserably inveighled you and by their Circean inchantments moved you to presse that prerogative which the Almighty gave you for the preservation and welfare of the people and that both in Church and State Affairs so much and so far as that whereas it should have been as a Diamond in your Crowne to honour and adorn you they have made it by their Sophisticall and Machiavilick insinuations as a prick in your side or a thorn in your foot to hurt and mischief you May it therefore please your Highnesse to let this be the first preparative to an honourable and happy peace even to withdaw your Royall person and favour from the contagious company of such flattering Sycophants that from hence-forth you may not onely professe but practice that part of the Royall Motto Salus Populi suprema Lex And to this purpose because your Great Counsell of State are now about a work of Reformation let not your Highnesse fail to comply with them in the same then which you shall finde nothing more pleasing to God and profitable to your self and that in these two things viz. First in contenting your self with such a competency of Royall Priviledges Revenues and Prerogative as may be most consistent with the truth and purity of that Religion which you professe manners of the Country and affections of your Subjects shewing rather a royall and Christian moderation then an imperious and insatiable ambition and so you may enjoy it peaceably and comfortably thinke your self-sufficiently enriched although you have no more for the present then what is shared out for you by the providence of God and love of the people yea although it were much lesse especially rebus sic stantibus then was left you by your royall Progenitours For what greater happinesse can come to a King then contentment who is never more excellent and commendable then when his affections are most moderated and what contentment can your Highnesse want when if complying to the complexion and disposition of your politicall body you continue to be the head of such a wise noble and godly Nation to sway the Scepters of three almost Angelick Kingdoms in one City whereof there is to be found more wealth lustre beauty Prudence Temperance Justice Valour and finally all the delights of the sonnes of men then the Emperour of Muscovia and divers others great Potentates can command within the Circumference of their vast Dominions Happy therefore is that Prince who knowing that he cannot have