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A51361	Edward Morgan, a priest, his letter to the Kings most excellent Majesty, and high court of Parliament and to all the Commons of England who was drawne, hanged, and quartered on Tuesday April 26, 1642 : this letter he writ with his owne hand a little before his death and left yet to be published to the view of the world.	Morgan, Edward, d. 1642.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2730; ESTC R30528	3,370	10

Edvvard Morgan A PRIEST His Letter To the Kings most excellent Majesty and High Court of Parliament and to all the Commons of England who was drawne hanged and quartered on Tuesday April 26. 1642. This Letter he writ with his owne hand a little before his death and left yet to be published to the view of the world LONDON Printed for T. B. 1642. To the Kings most excellent Majesty And To the High Court of Parliament and in them to the whole Kingdome of England Dread Sovereigne I Make a tender to your Royall Majesty and in you to the high Court of Parliament and to your whole Kingdome of an illustrious example of the divine providence no lesse wonderfull for admiration then the discovery of Gods judgements made by the Prophet Daniel to King Nebuchodonozar and Baltassar his sonne not lesse behoofull for the good and welfare of your selfe our gracious Queene your Roy. I Off-spring and our whole Kingdome if you will vouchsafe o●pprehend and make use of it then the discovery of the treacheries of Bagathan and Th●res and of the pernicious devices of wicked Aman made by Mardocheus to King Ahassuerus was for ●in and his people My course hath beene d●●ected to your Royall Majesty by Gods sacred and speciall appointment ever since your first comming to your Crown and before though I never addressed any writing unto you in speciall 〈◊〉 this m●tter till now because I was first to dealt with Roman Catholicks and afterwards with some of your Iustings Iudges and other Officers and finally to expect in p●●●ence some events of the divine provi●ence succeeding thereupon that ascending to your R●y●ll Tribunall by degrees I might have more ample and speciall matter every way to present and not appeare emptie handed before you Now Gods judgements are growne to a great ripenesse or to speake with allusion to our blessed Saviours expression in a like case The figtree hath budded whereby men may know Summer is nigh Wherefore if your Royall Majesty and the high Court of Parliament will be pleased to make a due enquiry and examination of my course whereby the matter of fact may bee authentically made knowne and then cast a serious eye upon the publicke events of the divine providence which succeeding in due conformity and consequence this many yeares and parallel to the approved testimonies of Gods speciall judgements in ancient times are as it were the great broad Seal of heaven giving weight and authority to my words and endeavours besides that your Majesty may with ease see that there is a supernaturall order of things taught by supernaturall faith which one not many yeares since in a publique printed booke dedicated to your Highnesse hath endeavoured to evacuate you may moreover with like facility perceive how the sacred decrees of Gods heavenly providence are drawne up not onely concerning the rest of the Christian world but also especially concerning you and your Kingdome and by conforming your selfe to his holy will decline the common mischiefs approaching which otherwise by no humane meanes can possibly be avoided Let not my meannesse who am but an unworthy instrument and the least of your Majesties subjects move your Highnesse or the grave assembly of Parliament to dispise the offer which I make but first enquire and examine diligently as both Gods Law and mans reason do enquire and then judge There are some dangers which can neither be knowne nor avoyded unlesse they be first gratiously discovered by some speciall favour and operation of the first cause which is God himselfe from whom nothing can be hid and in such cases though his divine Majestie doth many times imploy men of great wisedome and sanctitie as he did the Prophet Elizeus to discover to the King of Israel the ambushments set to entrap him by the King of Syria yet he doth sometimes also not onely use the most contemptible of men as instruments to make the greatest potentates acquainted with his wayes and so enable them to avoid prepared mischiefes but moreover taketh a brute beast for the like purpose as in the case of Balaam and his Asse Your Majesties great predecessor William the Conquerour thought it wisedome in a certain occasion to hearken to the advertisement even of a naturall foole as we reade in our Chronicles and long before his time Alexander the great gave eare to a woman who was thought distracted as Curtius the Historian doth testifie by which happie credulity God who is al able to make fooles and mad men speake his wisedome having discovered his divine knowledge and judgement by meanes of those silly ones those two great Princes avoyded imminent danger of death and conserved their lives and fortunes for their great succeeding victories On the otherside the neglect of timely advertisements hath brought many great Princes and amongst the rest that great Monarch Iulius Cesar to the losse of their Crownes and lives Hee that will not hearken to God in his gracious signes and forewarnings must feele his heavy hand when it will be too late to avoid it For me I doe not professe my selfe among the number of wise men and if your Majesty or the great assembly of State now on foot please you may take mee for a foole or a mad man provided you acknowledge that God Almighty can by his holy overruling Spirit make a madnesse prodigious and so use the folly or madnesse of his creature as an instrument to expresse ●n act of his divine wisdome providence and power but what ever I bee foolish or wise or however your royall Majesty or the high Court of Parliament shall be pleased to thinke of me God is wise even in the foole and mad man and his holy will is to be searcht out in all which if it had beene duly done more then thirteene yeares agoe adhering close to the testimony of divine and humane Law implied in the reality of my whole course with a due inspection of the countersignes extant even then in the seeds of those heavy events which have appeared since most plainly to the view of all in their own proper perfect existence when before some of your Majesties tribunalls I did publikely in GODS name and in vertue of his publicke Lawes speciall right and command with due relation likewise to the Lawes of our Realme and two of your Royall Majesties Proclamations invite your Royall Highnesse and your whole Kingdome to a due enquity of Gods prepared judgements and of the devices then in hatching to entrap you and your people not only your Iudges and other persons of higher ranke and note who lye now exposed to the rod of Iustice might have beene freed from undergoing the danger now threatning them but your Majesty also might with ease and security have prevented those troubles and mischiefes which turmoile at this present all your Realmes and threaten a desolation So much it behoves Princes and States to attend and examine well if God almighty dot but make even B●laams Asse bray forth some imminent judgements in his holy name For mischiefs arising from the power of man may by the power of man with Gods ordinary concourse be extinguished or averted but such as are threatned by God Almighties speciall hand and power can by no meanes possible be avoided but by admission and performance of such conditions as his Majesty divine is pleased to propose I have strove to keepe silence now these many yeers being loth to medle any more in a cause which hath cost me so much trouble and affliction though I know not why I should be so handled by any for suffering God Almighty to expresse in mee whether men will have it to have beene by the intermediation of wit or madnesse a testimony of his divine providence towards his Church and people but I dare be silent no longer being furnished now with such illustrious evidence of fore-pessed events proper to my cause to confirme my words and the thing it selfe concerning so deeply your Royall Majesty our gracious Queene your Royall Off-spring and our whole Kingdome lest God Almighty should inflect upon mee the judgement threatned against the Watchman in the thirty third Chapter of the Prophe● Ezechiel yet I will forbeare to trouble your Royall Majesty with the specification of particulars till I see whether I be thought fit to bee admitted to a free and indifferent heating or no. One thing I must crave pardon of your Royall Majesty and the great Assembly of Parliament that I addresse my selfe thus to you in print before I have acquainted you with my case in a more private way The reason I have done so is that seeing every man now prints what he lists and my cause hath beene many yeares since publike and I suffered so much in maintainance of it under the view of many I may either by the testimony of some at least wise of those many be introduced to a free and publike audience or else upon compassion be voted as a foole or madman to be set free from prison and further trouble seeing I never appeared in so many yeares extremities either furious seditious or turbulent and so be committed to the care of my friends that I may end my old age in peace and quietnesse commending you and your Kingdome to Gods mercifull providence care and protection I humbly beseech God Almighty to blesse and protect your Royall Majestie our gracious Queene your Royall Off-spring and our whole Kingdome and grant that you may know his holy will and faithfully perform the same to the glory of the divine Majesty and the common comfort and good of all From the Prison of Newgate 23. April 1642. Your Royall Majesties loyall and lowly Subject Edward Morgan