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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78824	The Kings possessions: written by His Majesties own hand; annexed by way of notes, to a letter sent to the Ecclesiasticall Assembly at London: in answer to a letter sent from them.	England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I); Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.	1647 (1647)	Wing C2360; Thomason E371_15; ESTC R201308	8,613	12

THE KINGS POSSESSIONS WRITTEN By His MAjESTIES own Hand annexed by way of Notes to a Letter sent to the Ecclesiasticall Assembly at LONDON Jn Answer to a Letter sent from them NEWCASTLE Printed by Stephen Bulkley Printer to the Kings Majesty 1647. THE PREFACE READER MAy the Father of lights open thine eyes to see over this strangers shoulders and by this impartial Perspective what thou whilst kept down thus low by thy new Masters and through tby Seducers false Mediums hast not hitherto been suffered to perceive it being now purposely hid from thine eyes Behold a meer stranger that notwithstanding his manifold obligations and personal ingagements to a contrary Discipline in the Church and different forme of Government in the State yet over-ruled by the manifest truth and honesty of the Kings Cause breakes through all those Restraints of his Liberty as far as he may to tell thee thus much plain English Truth Behold here Genevas ●eneration and ful vindication too of thine own Mother the Church of England as it stood under Episcopacie traduced here at home by her own Spurious brood of Superstitious Popish Antichristian what not And this Apology directed to the Assembly-men in answer to their Letter what ever it was Behold here again a clear justification of a King vilified by his own for that for which strangers do admire him His clemency his inclinations to peace his acts of grace c. Behold here the root of Gall that which hath brought forth all these Nationall mischiefes the popular tumults conspiracies pointed at here is the only evident cause of the Kings divorce from the Parliament See here by whom poor Ireland was deserted one thing also thou mayst here take notice of from these standers by That the Clergy in their own proper Sphere may be as fit and as honest perhaps in some respects more able for the good speed of a treaty then those that doe slight them with utter Praeterition Last of all behold here the loyall and religious Subjects only Militia or his own proper Magazine to wit the known Lawes of the Land that and prayer and submission are the only defensive weapons allowed here by this Master of Fence I say no more save only that I do heartily pitty thee and therefore I do still pray for thee and for all thy fellow bondmen that God will bring into the way of Truth all such as have erred and are deceived Amen Reverend godly and worthy Sirs our deare Brethren and Companions in the Worke of the Lord. JF proportionably to the griefe we have conceived at your letters wherein you have expressed the most sad face of your affaires we had but as much ability either by our consolations to asswage your sorrowes or by our counsels to ease your burthens or by any our co-operation to help your extremity we should think our selves very happy in so well corresponding with your honourable and most loving compellation of us and right glad we should bee thus to requite you with our best and effectuall good offices But alas as the scantnesse of our capacity in this kind so the ignorance of the more inward causes of so many miseries and chiefly the perplex dangerous ●ature of matters now in agitation among you All these put together strike us quite dumb we are as men who●ly at a stand able only in a kind of silent astonishment or holy horrour to admire and to adore that finger of God which is now lifted up over you all But since being by you so lovingly invited to it we must needs at last break off our silence We are reduced to an extraordinary Suspence both of Minds and of Pens what to say first or last or indeed what to say at all And now in the end after long deliberation least as Jobs friends we should transgresse by precipitate or unseasonable discourse Behold our hearts and mouths top-full of the Sences and Expressions of our hearty commiseration our eyes running down with teares of compassion our breasts even swoln up with sighes groans at your calamities These are they God is our Witnesse that fill up the greatest part of our private prayers of our publike Devotions Fastings and Humiliations In all which we are resolved to give the Father of mercies no rest untill your tranquility being once more ordained in Heaven God do extend peace upon Earth unto you all like a River the fulnesse of his Blessing like an ever-flowing stream Our affaires yea the generall interest of all the reformed Churches are so closely involved in yours and so mutually depending thereon That your safety once procured assures us all of our own good Estates Therefore especially during this grievous Tempest which may seem to bring about again the heavie times of the Saints great primitive Tribulation we are in a manner compelled with trembling hearts and lips to powre out our lamentations into the eares of our most gracious and heavenly Father no longer now only preparing to contend by Fire as he once revealed it in a Vision to his Prophet Amos Amos 7.4 5. but already for a long time really contending by Fire indeed And how then can we forbear from crying out O Lord forgive cease we heseech thee by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small and round about all in a flame by the fire of thy burning indignation From this our own Watch-Tower untoucht as yet by Divine miracle We have beheld this furious conflagration spreading it self all over We have seen the Grisoen-Italian Churches utterly defaced the Gospel in Bohemia its ancient Seat wholly extirpated the Palatinate devoured the French Churches deprived of all humane supports refuges like so many poor little Callow Birds alive indeed but only during pleasure the German Churches almost all over-shaken yea more then half destroyed your own Ireland swallowed up with an unexpected deluge of Assassines and Robbers one onely thing was wanting to that huge heap of publique calamity namely that flourishing England the very eye and excellency of all the Churches Christs own choice purchase and peculiar the Sanctuary of the afflicted the Arceonall of the faint-hearted the Magazine of the Needy that Royal Standard of good hope should by so unlookt for an accident without an externall Enemy or forraign Impression become in a manner it s own Felo de se and make an end of its self with its own cruell hands What a sad spectacle is this to see that Church thus trodden under foot To see that glorious Fould of our Lord thus ransackt yea worryed not by the wild Beasts of the Forrest not torn in pieces by the mercilesse pawes of the Lyon or of the Woolf but utterly dismembred by its own unnaturall sheep inraged and exasperated one against another An horrid example this and till now never heard nf among the reformed Churches It seemes heretofore like Christs own true sheep they were kept tame by the feare of God united by the same bond of