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A88086	Contemplations upon these times, or The Parliament explained to Wales. Digested into three parts. I. Containing, a brief, faithfull, and pithy history of the Parliament, ... II. Cleer resolutions of such doubts, as his countrymen of Wales are not so well satisfied in, as could be wished: which are reduced to these 3 points, touching the [brace] King. Covenant. Common-Prayer-Book. III. A closer application unto the state of Wales, ... / Written by a gentleman, a cordiall well-wisher of his countries happinesse.	Lewis, John, Esquire.	1646 (1646)	Wing L1839; Thomason E349_19; ESTC R201035	20,378	40

of Christ will appeare now in the later end of the world in greater glory then ever it did I am no maintainer of a Temporall and personall Reign of our Saviour upon the Earth though for ought I can see it is an opinion that contains nothing but consolation to Gods children Sure I am the Prophets abound with most glorious descriptions of the Church which besides the spirituall sense cannot I think but be temporally meant at least in respect of the extension and amplitude of the Church and which as yet hath not been altogether fulfilled towards it You need only view the Prophet Isaiah alone and you shall have whole Chapters replenished with nothing but lofty eloquence upon this subject And if you do but well heed it the very like expressions like golden veines run through all the holy Books both Old and New Neither is it the holy Scripture alone though they are instar omnium but in all Ages there have been some that by speciall inspiration have foretold us of a most happy state of the Church in the later times I could referre thee for this to the Acts and Monuments where Mr. Fox h 〈…〉 collected odde sayings or prophecies of holy persons as Bridget Katherine Senensis Iohn Husse Savanorola and others For thy present delight lest thou heedest them not there I will alleadge one or two As he cals her Holy Bridget said That the Pope should be thrown into the Deep as a milstone And that the cause of the binderance of the Gospel is the Prelates and Priests And that the Clergy turned Gods commandements to two words Da pecuniam Iohn Husse said Oh how largely doth Antichrist extend his power and cruelty but I trust his power shall be shortned and his iniquity shall be detected more and more among the faithfull people and let Antichrist rage as much as he will yet he shall not prevaile against Christ And Katherine Senensis who lived about 1379. told one Antoninus that after writ her history That by the troubles in the Church of God after a secret manner unknown unto man God shall purge his holy Church and stir up the spirit of 〈◊〉 Elect and after these things shall follow such a Reformation of the holy Church and such a Renovation of holy Pastors that the only cogitation thereof maketh my spirit to reioyce in the Lord and that all the faithfull shall be glad to see themselves so beautified with so holy shepherds yea and the●●● Infidels allured by the sweet savour of Christ shall return to the Catholick fold and be converted to the true Bishop Gi●e thanks therefore to God for after this storm He will give to his a great calm Even but thus much signified so long agoe and our eyes seeing the great work of these times so much tending to the accomplishment of these things we cannot but admire the Lord and acknowledge this Parli●●●●● not wholly a device of man Neither is it impossible to discover some glimmerings of this Kingdom even in the monuments of Gentiles as it hath pleased God to reveal unto them some obscure Notions of his greatest Mysteries which are sweetly serviceable to the setting forth of his holy Truths What more is that of Virgil as conceptions of Sybilla Cumaea though usually restrained to our Saviours incarnation I am nova Progenies Caelo dimittitur alto Te duce siqua manent sceleris vestigia nosti Irrita perpetuo solvent formidine terras Plainly A Child shall be born from Heaven to pardon the sinnes of men and fill the world with blessings Iosephus a Jew sayes Nations should come from Iudaea that should be masters of the Vniverse What the Sybils have abundantly delivered of this I referre you to the former place of the Acts and Monuments and only add one thing of Cicero which to me seems a very remarkable place Nec erit alia lex Romae alia Athenis alia nunc alia posthac sed apud omnes gentes omni tempore una lex Deus ille legis inventor disceptator later c. All which seems to be englished in the 2. chap. of Daniel ver. 44. And in those dayes the God of Heaven shall set up a Kingdom that shall not he left to other people but it shall break in peeces all other Kingdoms and it shall stand for ever But how may this be seeing the Turk is likeliest to be the great master of the world and at this present looks terribly towards Christendom I answer This may prove but a flash of lightening before his ruine and it will be at least a good means to procure peace charity among Christians which is seen to be but too miserably wanting Remember that in our God the Lord Iehovah is everlasting strength Let us every one kill the Turks at home his crying bosome sins and we shall be surely able to cope with him abroad let us do our parts and God will surely do his and in his good time put his book in this Senacheribs nose and his bridle in his lips For He knowes his abode his going out and his comming in and his rage against us We have heretofore only read what Iehovah is and our Fathers have but told us of his noble works And truly say what holy Iob said of old I have heard of thee by the hearing of the of the ear but now my eye seeth thee But in these days we may say we have seen him his noble works we have experimentally found the wayes of his Omnipotencie and seen the power of Prayer and plentifully tasted the fruits of Humiliation and the dealings of God in points of utmost extremity And therefore it is but a sorry courage that cannot against any difficulty or danger as suppose the Turks present greatnesse reare up an heroick heart and think him no more then a Tom Thumb against Christ and his King dome And it shall come to passe in that day that the Lord shall punish the Host of the High ones that are high and the Kings of the earth upon the earth Then the Moon shall be confounded and the Sun ashamed when the Lord of hosts shall raign in mount Sion and before his Ancients gloriously PART II. Containing Resolutions of Doubts touching the PARLIAMENT To my Country-men of WALES I Hope by what you have read you are grown to some good liking of the Parliament And being thus suppl'd to a right understanding of it lest some Scruples like roots of Corns should still remain in your thoughts I will with the like Divine assistance endeavour to satisfie you The main Doubts whereunto all the rest are reducible are touching these three things KING COVENANT COMMON-PRAYER Book You will confesse by the event of things that the Parliament hath told you many truths which formerly you would not possibly believes Now you will grant the King followed an ill Councel and that the Cavaliers had undone us all I hope

then you may by this time believe alike what the Parliament evermore constantly professed That they took not up Arms against the King but in His and the Kingdoms defence against a Malignant Party The Parliament ever told us the truth or our own sense will give us the lie Yet let me tell you Where the truth and glory of God is concerned and Liberty of Conscience the Christian is not always to play the Asse Blessed Paul in a lesser point though one appointed to Persecutions and Patience yet when he saw his time to stand upon his priviledge as forgetting the Christian takes a Roman spirit They have beaten us uncondemned now they thrust us out privily nay verily but let them come and fetch us out Luk. cap. 9. You shall find our blessed Saviour giving orders to his Disciples And he said unto them Take nothing for your journy neither slaves neither scrip nor sword neither mony nor have two coats apeece But not long after how much is the matter altered Luk. 22. But he that hath a purse let him take it and likewise his scrip and he that hath no sword let him sel his garment end buy one What meanes all this but to tell us that He that is the Lamb of God is also Lion of the Tribe of Iudah and that the same holy Lips that bequeathed nothing but Peace to his Church pronounceth also elswhere Suppose ye that I am come to give Peace 〈◊〉 earth I tell you nay but rather Division and a sword We Christians as we are to be as innocent as Doves yet as wise as Serpents and when our Masters credit and honour is touched we must have the genius that Peter had when he struck off Malchus eare Mistake me not this is not to encourage any to Rebellion but to take off that error that Court-Divinity obtruded upon us That in no case whatsoever Arms are to be medled with he Gods glory and Conscience ever so much concerned I mean no otherwise then King Iames his own pen hath resolved it Bishop * Bilson maintained it and our King in ayding and succouriug the States and Rochellers confirms as much There are those that in points meerly of politick interest grant much in this kinde Peter Martyr distinguishing Subjects sayes That those that are merè privati may not dare to lift up an hand against their Lord and King But those other kind of Subjects he there cals Sic inferiores out superior potestis ab illis utcunque pendeat certisque legibus reipublicae praeficiunt And he instances the Ephori of the Lacedemonians and the Tribunes of Rome And what can they do Si Princeps pactis promis●is non steterit cum in ordinem cogere ac vi ●digere ut conditiones pacta quae fuerat pollicitus compleat idque vel armis cum aliter fieri non possit And then instanceth how in that kinde the Danes dealt with their King in his dayes And afterwards urging Polydore Virgil Anglos aliquande suos Reges compulisse ad rationem reddendam male administratae pecuniae Though this learned man afterwards as a Divine and modestly Ego vero dum illorum consilium ad regul●m Scripturarum examino id non probe But for thy satisfaction good Country-man in the present point I do think that our loyalty and obedience to Kings is alwayes subordinate to God and we should through them alwayes looke upon him and rather be accounted Traitors to the one then the other especially when His Glory is publikely asserted I marvell this Doctrine was so strange when even the very Common-Prayer book did teach it as in that Collect for the King Almighty God whose kingdom is everlasting c. So rule the heart of thy chosen servant Charles our King that he above all things may seek thine honour and glory and we his Subjects duly considering whose authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and obey him in Thee and for Thee according to Thy blessed Word and Ordinance If now good Country-man thou yeeldest to the Interest Gods glory hath in us thou wilt come easily to digest the Covenant concerning which nothing needs be more said to satisfie thee then what the learned Assembly have in their Instructions But lest thou hast neither seen or well understood them let me tell thee that this is not a slight Oath devised for temporall and politick ends but a most pious and solemn Covenant whereby Gods honour being at stake thou dost list thy self for his service And think not this a new trick or invention but a meer imitation of the people of God in their extremities as in the times of EZra and Nehemiah Read those holy Books and throughly ponder and understand them and I will warrant thee thou wilt not stick at the Covenant It is not unworthy thy noting how that the enemies there still make use of the King to frustrate the good works EZra cap. 4. you shall see Rheum the Chancellour with the malignant party begin Be it known unto the King that the Iews are come up to Ierusalem building the rebellious bad City And be it known unto the King that if this City be builded they will pay no custom unto the King and it is not meet for us to see the Kings dishonour therefore we will send to certifie the King So that here you see nothing but King and King And wicked Sanballat he doth the like to good Nehemiah The Iewes think to rebell for which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their King So that if any designe be on foot for GOD the only means to dash it must still be King But these good Worthies go on in their good purposes though subject to heathen Kings and acknowledging their sinnes to be the cause of their miseries And because of all this we make a sure Covenant and write it and our Princes Levites and Priests seal to it You understand the ground of the Covenant Now to satisfie you for your common objections I say first As for the Oath of Allegiance it doth fortifie and confirm it principally providing strict Clauses for loyalty and obedience to His Majesty And for Ministers who have sworn to maintain the former Church-government c. the Instructions tell them that an Oath binds tantum licitis honestis and where the lawfulnesse of an Oath ceaseth the obligation also ceaseth Constant practise shewes that Magistrates take oaths to maintain all the lawes of the land and many lawes afterward may be abrogated the meaning of the Oath being to maintain Laws while they are Laws but when they are repealed by the Power that made them they are wiped out of his charge oath And withall is it not all one now in this case as it was in the beginning of Reformation Hen. 8. All the Clergy were formerly bound to maintain the Popes Supremacie and the Doctrine