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cause_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	2,073	5	3.6840	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25857	No peace 'till the king prosper a letter writ from a true lover of peace to one that is both modestly inquiring and discovering the true and false paths to a present peace : that if the Parliament prevaile against the king, peace cannot be, but if the king prevaile, it must be, and if neither prevaile, it will not be.	Arnway, John, 1601-1653.; A. A.	1645 (1645)	Wing A3734; ESTC R200232	5,192	10

ballance the force or cast it against them But by this meanes necessity will inforce and effect a Treaty of Peace The unbloudy doubtlesse is the most blessed Peace Cursed be he that is against it Thrice happy he or they who shall make it But what hopes then to see it when already all meanes have failed it Will they who upon even and equall Termes of Strength are unreasonable in their Propositions by prosperity grow more moderate For His Majesty to yeeld to their demands whatsoever they are is not to make an end of the debate but Himselfe His Crowne and His Conscience That may bring things to a Period perhaps but not to a Peace Victory can doe no more but what it will when the opposite Party is destroyed that before hindred it And what can the King more yeild then what He hath already offered and assured for Peace For Himselfe halfe His Sword in the Militia and a good piece of His Crowne And for the Church as much as can consist with His Honour and Oath to Almighty God and the Peace of His Conscience If this was not thought price enough for the Purchase then will it come at a rate more reasonable now No We have great reason to suspect that if where the power is mind had been ever truely to it it would have come then For though it be m●st sure that the King both in Reason and Religion hath been a vehement Seeker of it and offered so much to purchase it and as certaine that even of them who sit at Westminster and live in London and in the Countrey under Parliamentary power many for their parts doe heartily desire it foreseeing the ruine of all without it it is to be feared That the Authors and Actors in these Warres will not for particular Reasons and respects ever allow of Peace but whilest the power is in their hands for ever abet and maintaine the Warre They may think that no Security can warrant their indemnity If one Parliament for the present necessity should pardon all another more free may revoke it If the State should particular Persons of ruined Fortunes and Families will never forgive it If they would they should live the hate and scorne of the Land that now at pleasure rule it and all their fellow Subjects and the King Himselfe in it I would they did not both think and assuredly know and beleive it And will a County stand safe if a Kingdome fall to ruine Alasse what Lands or Houses can be dry in a Common deluge How can the Limbe live if the Body languish The Kingdome thus may fall into a Consumption it must if the vitall and substantiall parts faile in an altering of the fundamentall Constitution of it and these may be the last Limbs that fall and that 's all they get by their Neutrality to be the last Nay perhaps by the just judgement of God and Man they may be the first hated of both sides for their Indifferencies and destroyed by the prospering side for not ayding the prosperity Surely as those are Enemies to the Peace and Countrey that resist the King and wage Warre against Him with His owne Weapons People Monies Meanes and so distresse and drive Him to extremities to defend Himselfe against them So those who doe not assist the King are not friends to the Peace of the Kingdome And if Divines say true that he murthers life who can and doth not preserve it as well as he that destroyes it I dare excuse neither of the Bloud that is shed in the interim The Resistant from being positively guilty of it all and the Non-assistant privatively ingaged in the Guilt And though I confesse it seeme some Plea that many in the Kings Armies are so insufferable in their Carriages that even they breed a loathing of His Cause for it yet this will not hold good till it appeare that the King doth not abhorre and bewayle the injuries of His good People and yet is in so great extremity for want of Meanes and Supplies that He knowes not to His great griefe how to remedy it Nay it recoyles upon them for did they joyne hands with Him to assist with their lives and fortunes to uphold Him in whom their safety as much as His owne consists this would not be done and suffered For then a due Pay would maintaine an exact Discipline and the first Offendors having their due punishment the rest would not dare to transgresse Then the use of Forreigne hands would be needlesse most apt on both sides to offend Nor would cause be to call in the Irish to ballance the power of the invading Scots to the impoverishing and endangering if not undoing of the Land To conclude then for my Lines have already exceeded a Letters bounds whosoever feares God and honours the King as every Christian should or loves Church or Kingdome or Countrey as every Child of either ought let him take this to heart and ponder it well and he will see there is no way left to Peace but to raise the King to prosperity to assist Him with our Meanes and Lives Valiantly and Vigorously to hasten it least for want of ayding Subjects in the just defence of Himselfe and the Throne by God committed to Him He be forced as his Predecessors of old and his Enemies now to sue and seek for help from others His owne People failing Him the sad but only remedy for a disease so desperate which is then left Him A sad and wofull case God knowes to fall into such hands for cure and he best sees what Calamities it may bring upon us but to us it will be more sad if our guilt cause them all because that had never been if after all Supplies of ours sought againe and againe our Native King had not been first forsaken of us Nor let that which runnes in some minds trouble us That the King then will come in Conquerour over us and so rule us And therefore the Scale of Warre is to be kept in such a Poise that He prevaile not so farre as to prosper and subdue His Enemies No If He Conquer His Enemies His Friends and good Subjects will Conquer Him by free Parliamentary advices to settle a shaken State and prevent like Conclusions in time to come by wholsome Lawes begot of those bad manners which are past and were so perillous to Him and pernitious to all of us His owne Prudence and Conscience will Conquer him who hath in this Schoole of Warre learnt He and His Children with Him that the happinesse of a King consists in such a Government as yeelds a Loving not Rebelling People His owne uncruell and un-Tyrant Spirit and disposition will Conquer him So farre from thirst of Bloud and severity of Vengeance that Justice may rather seeme to complaine of being cloyed with so great a Sweetnesse Sir if you know me you know me to be a Lover of my Religion and Nation and of my Conscience as my King and so I beleive you to be else this had never come to you from SIR Your and your Countryes friend A. A. FINIS * 80 of the blood Royall Slaine in these Warres Speed In the Treaty at Vxbridge the Militia offered by the King to be put into the hands of twenty of which the Parliament to choose 10. and so the Forts and Castles of the Kingdome