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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27252	A view of Englands present distempers occasioned by the late revolution of government in this nation, wherein (amongst others) these following particulars are asserted : (viz) that the present powers are to be obeyed, that parliaments are the powers of God, that the generality of Gods enemies are the Parliaments enemies, et contra : together with some motives, ground, and instructions to the souldiery, how and wherefore they ought to subdue by arms the enemies of the Parliament in England &c.	Beech, William.	1650 (1650)	Wing B1683; ESTC R28903	51,490	140

Do but observe his learned oration well painted over with smooth words and you will say he was an Asse and went the ready way to betray his Clients if Felix had not been Judge and their better friend to keep Paul close prisoner still Do but mark Whom we took and would have judged saith he and we believe him according to our law Let me presse you to note this passage Tertullus plainly declares that he proceeded against Paul for no other cause but upon the grounds of hatred and revenge How so He should have been judged according to their law What was that I pray read it in the foregoing Chap. ver. 12. Certain Jews made an assembly and bound themselves with a curse saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul The old murderer Satan had given them a Commission of Array to kill him and the Law was only this They had sworn and bound themselves under a Curse ver. 12. that they would soon dispatch him and there were at the least fourty Malignants that had listed themselves to murder him I know not what other Law they had against him but this was all the Commission of Oyr and Terminer that past the consent of both Houses the chief Priests and Elders that they might kill him without any more dispute being the Embassador of Christ as your enemies did that Embassador in Holland for being your Messenger For they had said before that Damn them they would do it as they here had bound themselves by oath to do the like feat This was the Law they meant to try him by and the foolish Orator could not conceal it but tells Felix in plain terms that they had an intent to destroy him if Lysias had not rescued him It is very likely he would have had Felix understand him in a better sense but that Lysias Letter to the most excellent Governour Felix as he stiles him discovered their bloody purpose before that he could not have him shot to death nor sentenced to die while Felix was Judge O the treachery of your Enemies in this powder-plot and O the deep subtilty of your seeming Friends in this horrid treason against your true Friends It is better expressed by Interjections then it can possibly be engraven in stone or cut out in wood the narrow compasse of words cannot enlighten you into these dark Cells I would but I cannot be more large I can but I will not be more tedious I promised as much at the first and I shall strive to pay my debts I shall crave only so much patience as to put up Josephs request unto you that seeing the Almighty providence hath restored unto you the Liberty that you desired and hath made you the Keepers and Distributers of the Liberties of England and that you have the many Clusters of Grapes in your hands that you would be pleased to let some of the juice of those Grapes drop into the Cup of your afflicted Josephs Remember him and shew him mercy I pray you now that you are restored And if ever you heare Tertullus charging your friends as Iosephs Mistris did Ioseph because he could not be tempted to commit folly with her Remember I pray still that it is Tertullus that pleads not Tertullus the novice the fool but Tertullus the Barrister it may be Tertullus the Serjeant the Iudge the Committee-man the Commissioner It is possible I say that such a thing may be I beseech you Sirs suspect ever when you hear their reputation blemished Is not the hand of Ioab in all this If they would have you believe that your friends be not your friends but they were self-ended vitious your enemies in intention though eminently faithful in action Remember still that it is Tertullus or one or more for him And what if these Instruments come hot from your Enemies forge what if they have a dark Lanthorne too and are underminers of your honour and safety I beseech you sirs suspect this evermore and cast in your thoughts that such a thing may be You suspect your meat sometimes and the safety of your persons and houses and why not as well the very being of your Honour and Safety 2. Do not love your enemies but love them I have heard many bleeding narrations that the late Mulct so honourably intended by you to shame your Enemies into obedience is become an unspeakable snare and shame to your friends for being Round-heads and it lies upon them chiefly and upon the least of your enemies Their subtilty hath almost unavoidable wayes to cleave and winde about your soundest trees that like Ivy will soon eat out the very heart of their integrity if not carefully cut at the root or at least prevented in their windings about because there is such difficulty if not impossibility to find out the root as being so deep and intricate and dangerous to be digged after and costly and ticklish to discerne it from other roots like it O the depths of subtilty I am sure this heart-eating serpent-like vegitative by winding and turning and creeping insinuations doth hinder the growth of the most sound trees and the tallest Cedars and the strongest oaks in England your friends find this in most Courts they have to deale with and by sad experience they can say there is very little growth of publike affection towards them that have served the publike in two three foure years standing for which time they have been sad Spectators here and see no growth T is a very dangerous thing for you thus to love your enemies Remember I pray the simple credulity and foolish pity of the well-meaning Country-man who seeing an Adder in the field Frigore prope enecatū almost dead with cold alas poor creature quoth he brings it home in his bosome applies it to the fire fosters it with the warmth thereof The subtile creature no sooner recollects his spirits againe but with all his venemous activity annoys the whole house affrights and stings the children and servants and O what a hissing doth it make you would be sorry ever to see this wofull effect of your love your children and servants feel it already they are mortally stung by these Serpents they do hisse at your friends and jeere them to their faces for being for the Cause and they tell them the divel will serve all his servants so as you have served yours I beseech you Honourable Sirs do not love them so as that your enemies shall have cause to scoffe at your friends and deride their loyalty Yet love them too the saying is a man may love his house and yet not ride upon the ridge of it his child yet not alwayes be muching of it his wife and yet not still be fondling her upon his knee Love them as the wise man would have you love your children There is folly bound up in the hearts of your enemies too as well as in the hearts of children and the rod of correction must

and saved harmlesse by a more effectual and speedy Power then the Committee of Indempnity They shall save their lives by losing them they shall win their goods by spoiling them it is not so here This they shall have at present and in case they cannot be heard presently they shall be supplied in the mean time with words to answer and patience to endure whatever shall be laid upon them by the world ver. 19. But is this all No their great services shall be acknowledged before God not forgotten and their arrears discharged without any defalcation with better content then 3s in the pound O all you Noble Host that will be Christian Martyrs Can you desire better pay Thus God will do and thus ought you to do also that are called Gods or else you dishonour God in being called by his name and entituled The supreme Authority of the Nation You are his highest Court on earth You are his upper Bench of Christian Magistrates You have given out as strict Commissions and put men upon as hard and uncouth duties as ever any Powers put subjects upon For 1. Have you not sent them as sheep amongst Wolves too and what would have become of the sheep if the Lamb had not got the conquest For did you not engage them against the cruel Irish and are these lesse cruel then Wolves then Tygers And are not your friends lives closely bound up with yours in respect of the direful revengeful and degenerate Cavalry of this and the neighbour Nations What would become of their lives if you had sunk Who laboured in the storm but they while many of you and us like Jonas slept between decks And now you are come into harbour can it be that you should forget them that saved you and became the vertual next to God and effectual interpreters of your dreams that otherwise must have vanished away as dreams And the freedom of England in those honorable thoughts of yours to rescue it from Tyrannie had been strangled in the birth and had never seen these few beams of our yet obstructed liberties There is such a thing in nature as forgetfulnesse And what a stigme and note of infamy doth the Spirit of God leave upon Pharoahs chief Butler for it Gen. 40.23 Yet did not the chief Butler remember Ioseph but forgat him And oh that all they that have guilt upon them in this kind that do drink wine in bowls the Butlers priviledge to do it on free-cost and never call to mind the afflictions of Joseph would do no lesse for their friends then he did for his Ioseph Gen. 41.9 I do remember my fault this day Great men and men of place and publike employments are very obnoxious to these failings and the reason thereof is obvious and oh that these also would remember their faults this day I beseech you Honourable Sirs send speedily and draw your friends out of dungeons raise them from their beds of sicknesse and free them from their discontented Landlords Pharaoh did so for Joseph a stranger to him he freed him from the Ward and the Master of the Ward Do you so too for your neighbours and your friends and speak comfortably to them and do as well as speak too lest Pharaoh rise up in judgment against you They have been put upon hard duties it lies in their bones and breasts in their heads and hearts and upon their wives and children and landlords and creditors to this day 2. But what talk I of hard Duty To lie in the cold fields and to fight with bears and wolves is but a sport and delight to those bold and unnatural attempts and undertakings that your Commission hath put men upon It hath familiarly cut the knot of all relations and put the son to discharge the instrument of death toward his own father that gave him life The tie of brotherhood was of no value to the tie of their loyaltie to you The Marriage-bed hath been divided since their Espousals to you and the loving husband could never return again to his beloved wife Oh how many Widows and Orphans and Cripples have your Commissions created that God never made so He made men and women perfect it was sin and judgment and the sword that makes criples and orphans and widowes Hath not the father disinherited the son and doth not the brother betray his brother and cause him to be put to death in your quarrel or that is worse then death disinherits and shames him that was for the Cause and for no other fault but for being so Obj. Is not the Law open and are there not Committees for redresse of such grieveances Ans. O Caesar said a Souldier to Augustus when he would have put him off to another that should go in his name to the Iudges whom he feared but could not he said go in person O Emperour said he when thy life was in hazard I dealt not thus with thee to put thee off to a Deputy but received all these scars and wounds to save thy life with these limbs and wilt thou put me off to Deputies And will you put us off to Lawyers Will ye put a lame man to walk to Lincolns Inne that never loved Law when he had legs Well then you have put them upon harsh imployments it cannot be denied What shall be their pay Let it not be shame I beseeeh you whatsoever you provide for them their hearts are full of reproach and their purses are full of that coyn already You may think I have erred from my Scope but I shall cleer the passage I am now upon exhorting you that seeing it is Gods purpose to bring down all the implacable enemies of England and seeing you are the Iudges of his upper Bench on earth that you would put forth your Wisedome and Iustice in subduing these enemies And because the drift of my discourse looks more upon your wisedome then your Iustice for the composing of our sad divisions Wisedome being the Queen-Regent in all Councels and Justice but the daughter yet so as that wisdome can as well be without her right hand as be without her I am now upon an humble and submissive agreement with your wisedomes about mulcts and oblivions that those Canine and greedy Appetites David was warranted to stile it the Greedinesse of Dogs seeing they have been so familiar already at the table as to snatch away the Meat from your Trencher which we supposed you had portioned and cut out for your children may be shamed from your table by holding to them the whole joint sure if they be not more impudent then that blushing creature is at such a sight they will be ashamed and go out of doors at such strange and unwonted kindnesse and yet receive kindnesses too Left therfore your Lenity should strangle her sister Iustice and stab her in the fifth rib in stead of kissing her I am warranted to lay these two restraints upon your indulgence 1. Do not shame your friends