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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

all contenteth himself with a part even with such a part as he may quietly and honourably possesse with the suffrages of his people for if the greedy appetite be not satiated a poore shepherd shall finde more hearts case in a beggars cottage then a great Emperour if ambitious in a Princely Palace Let Kings therefore consider that the more they abound with worldly wealth the more doe abound their cares for when goods increase they are increased that eat them and the best way for a King to be rich is to know when he hath enough and not to improve his revenues through pilling and polling his Subjects by sordid and unnecessary Taxations and Monopolies for hereby hee doth not strengthen his Crowne but bewray his tyranny nor increase his honour but call in question that love which he oweth to his people O what great grief it is to loyall and loving Subjects to see their Sovereigne undoe himself for the enriching a company of unworthy temporizing and self-seeking Parasites Who perhaps if his back should be at the wall would turn their backs upon him and like a shadow follow him no longer then the Sun shineth or if he should stand in need of their counsell could give him none better then that of Achitophel That any Prince should thus mistarry is grievous and lamentable but for such a King as your Highnesse should be who have so often smarted through the Machiavillick impostures of the Roman Antichrist and his Abettors for such kind of men expose yourself your posterity and Crowns to such extream exigencies Quis talia fando temp●ret à lachermis Be wise therefore ye Kings and be learned yee Judges of the earth be carefull as to have the wicked removed so also to have your desires moderated seek no more then is enough either for your selves or others for then certainly you shall finde in your Thro●e more cares then comforts and in your Crowns more thorns then Diamonds for he that loveth silver shall never be satisfied with silver nor he that loveth abundance with increase as wealth cannot fill mans heart so cannot grace his purse naturall desires are finite but the desires of the soul are infinite which when they are not watched but let goe loose roving up and down and not composed and limited according to the rules of godlinesse have brought men even Kings and Princes into infinite labyrinths and anxieties witnesse that insatiable conquerour whose unlimited ambition the Poet thus bemoneth Unus Pellaeo Juveni non sufficit orbis Aestuat infoelix angusto limite mundi And many also of the Roman Caesars whose time wee may read in their insatiable affections and whose covetousnesse hath brought their Titles and Diadems unto their uttermost period of whom we may almost say etiam perire animae that little of them that is left is perished in a word therefore happy is the man be he King or Subject that delighteth more in piety then in pelfe in heavenly goodnesse then in worldly goods Cui paternum Splendet in mensa tenui salinum Nec leves somnos timor aut cupido Sordidus aufort Secondly for the obtaining an honourable and lasting peace and performing this work of righteousnesse your Highnesse must look well to the rightnesse of Religion viz. that the Religion which you establish be made choice of not according as to the eye it seemeth gayest but as it is most free from and most contrary to all corruption of mans life and manners such as is grounded not upon mens invention but divine direction That your Highnesse give way to such a kinde of divine worship as is not according to the nature and will of man but according to the will of God who being a Spirit loveth best to be worshiped in spirit and truth and not in or by any painted or graven images outward pomps gaudie cloaths or superstitious representations of any thing that is in heaven above or in earth beneath such as all false Religions abound withall and whereby hereticall and Idolatrous Priests delude and dazle the eyes of simple people who are naturally inclined to affect that soonest which to the eye seemeth gayest making them believe that these dumb shews and pictures are lay mens books in the mean time hiding from them the power of Christ in the work of the ministry And seeing there is no difference between your Highnesse and us in points of doctrine the word of God being preached by us both in as great purity and orthodoxnesse as can be consistent with a militant Church our request unto your Highnesse is as you tender either your own or our peace to admit with us the same reformation and purity in matters of discipline as is implyed in the premises for certainly Sir solong as the discipline of your Church remaineth unpurged the members and professors thereof can never properly be said to be of the true Protestant Religion well they may be called Protestants and said to be of a Protestant Religion viz. comparatively as they have relation to Eutherans or Nicholuitans or some other sect of Protestanisme but to be Protestants indeed that is true Protestants of the true reformed Protestant Religion they cannot because their Religion is reformed onely in part viz. in matter of doctrine the discipline remaining and being retained in the same corruption and superstition as they received it from the Roman Church whereas the true Protestant Religion exercised in the Presbyteriall government is equally reformed as well in discipline as in doctrine depencing absolutely upon the word of God without any excessive or scandalous mixture other then accords with Christian simplicity decencie and charity of humane inventions or superstitious innovations But if you Highnesse will needs maintain some disparity amongst Ministers preferring some before others who in respect of their eminent parts may seem to deserve better we will not discommend it providing that your Highnesse remember well your Fathers Councell in his Basilicon Doron pag 44. viz. so to charge and change them with such bonds as may preserve them from creeping into corruption A third mean to procure an honourable and lasting peace is to unite the people as well as the Countreys of England and Scotland which can never be effected by your Highnesse so long as you stand in opposition to the Parliament But and if you can be so happy as to come in then we conceive it may easily be wrought in this manner viz. First by making an universall act of oblivion in both Parliaments for all Nationall quarrels and deadly feuds which have been a prohibition from all which in time to come may acrew betwixt the natives of either Kingdome by reason of any occurrence or passage of preceding or future times Secondly by abolishing the respective names of English or Scotish men which in respect of the great controversies and differences which have been between the two Kingdoms doe still continue names of prejudice to the great exasperating of the affections of both sides and possessing them with rigid and implacable mindes one against another upon the least and most slender occasionall distastes and that all the inhabitants of this one Island may be called by one name of East West South or North Britains with some aditionall title of the Shire or County prefixed for disinction sake Thirdly by engaging an equall number of both Kingdoms in their fellowship at armes in some publick and fortunate lawfull war beyond the Seas where their honour and danger may be equally divided and no jealousies nor contention arise amongst them but of wel doing certainly one victory obtained by the sound valour of the Scots and English wheresoever it be so it be not at home let it be in Bohemia France Spain or where your great Councell will think fiting will make a stronger and more indissoluble knot of union both between them and your Highnesse and amongst themselves then ever your Highnesse could make by choosing your Minions alternatively out of each Nation or by making Scotch men Lords of England English men Lords of Scotland or yet by mixture of marriage for although marriage may make two persons one yet can it not make two people to be one certainly all these are too weak ingrediences to compound a love-potion for them that were wont to thirst after one anothers blood it must be something more energeticall and vertuous that must qualifie and chain the different humors of these two Nations and make them forget whose fortune it was to be envied and whose to be contemned in times past and to speak ingenuously never had King a fairer oportunity to effect this as your Highnesse hath now all the Kingdoms in Christendome almost being now by the ears together especially if in this your day your Highnesse would resipiscere and come to your self and so much tender your own health and welfare as to apply unto your almost gangreen and incurable wounds a salving playster of Parliamentary Union FINIS Transilvania France Ireland Aristot Ethic. lib. 5.