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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79229	A calme consolatory view of the sad tempestuous affaires in England.		1647 (1647)	Wing C307; Thomason E384_13; ESTC R201452	40,675	56

all cases this alone would admit of the harshest reproofe yet even in this case though I am well aware that such particular commands are now expired and that the written word is the only rule of righteousnesse an humble intreaty should be my severest reprehension it should be with the Prophet Jeremy Obey I beseech thee the voice of the Lord which I speake unto thee Ch 38. v. 20. and with St. Paul I know thee O King to be expert in all customes and questions wherefore I beseech thee to heare mee patiently Acts 26.3 nay should I dare to question him in principles and fundamentalls of Religion King Agrippa beleevest thou the Prophets I would quarrell downe my owne boldnesse and subjoyne St. Pauls checke upon my too forward insolence I know that thou beleevest ● 27 else if I set my tongue loose to speake evill of so high a diguity be my cause never so good and my affliction never so great the King does but persecute me and I the King And throughout all this my intention is very farre from defaming any of those Honourable Members of either House who are summoned by the Kings Writ and the Kings Authority to consult de arduis Reip Negotiis the Heathen himselfe will teach me better Divinity 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tat. 9. lib. ult whose ever curiosity or prejudicatenesse shall cull out a Libell hence because he would be thought profound and such a one as can search and pierce deeper then common eyes if he will needs swim where he should but wade whilst hee does thus Male recitare without the expense of a new printed Disclaimer I doe already disavow the Adulterated sheets and lay them at his doore as being become the Reading author I dare boldly hope who ever shall suspect those great and high names of sinister designes upon the Kings honour and power for there is no place so high not the very Throne no person so upright not the very King but these wild dayes will calumniate of hollow jugling protestations to God and all the world that they did never really intend to contrive our Dread Soveraigne into the most flourishing Prince in Christendome that all their many many Declarations did but veile their owne politique ends under so glorious a maske of faith and sincerity acknowledging themselves no lesse then humble and loyall Subjects from that place of Judicature where they are as great as earth can make them I dare boldly hope the time is now hard at hand in which it will appeare all this was no maske but their very face no forgid comelinesse but a native unpainted glory and that Aaron and all the children of Israel shall see Moses and behold the skin of his face to shine also Exod 34.30 that their often attesting God and adjuring us by so great a Name Jerem. 42.5 so true and faithfull a witnesse so just and revengefull a Judge of Falshood in such an act especially and such an omission being circumstanced up to so high a nature by the Representative Nationall capacity of the joynt-persons whereby the Honour of God of which he is so jealous Exod. 34.14 that it is his very Name Esa 42 8.48.32 and which he will not impart to another would not barely suffer but be led captive and insulted upon as conquered and invassalled to a greater honour will be lookt backe upon as a Religious vow and Prophesie and their present immediate actions conspire into a devout performance and lively fulfilling of them which otherwise would be but a dead nay a killing letter let any foule mouth speake what infection it please Such Wise men cannot but consider that the interest of a whole Kingdome is involved in such Publique Vows and by the violation of them and the Majesty of God must lye at stake gasping for the dregs of Gods last judgements and such good men will not but prevent so universall a mischiefe so that I will not feare under the conduct of such Pilots a sudden Transmigration a new living 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that without crossing the Seas wee should all start up Russians and Aethiopians not that our glory will be extinguisht at home which shines so cleare abroad Doctrus p. 80. for the Italian or else his Favourable translator ingenuously preferring us to all the world does give us this generous marke of disparity from those because amongst them There is nothing worthy of observation more then the Tyrannous controuling of Lawes and the immediate prostitution of all sorts to the imperious will of the Prevailer and againe Anglia libera Gens pag. 94. As my businesse will be anon to incourage those who have lost their Fleece for their owne conscience sake to suffer Cheerfully not only so but that they would Frui Diis Iratis take possession of their losse and injoy their misfortunes not only so neither but that they would possesse their owne soules also in their patience without which a man is besides himselfe Luke 21.19 and not a man so it is now that they would not forestall the great Court by unwotthy feares but suspend a while and in imitation of the meeke Lambe of God Isa 53 7. Acts 8 32. v. 3. v. 10. not open their mouths before the shearers and see if like Jobs their flocks and herds will not be returned with interest the seven thousand in the first Chapter to foureteen thousand in the last for my owne part though I am much of their perswasion and pray still that I may be so who can like the resolved Emperour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and if I stray in judgement bee content to doe penance here to the utmost farthing that I may escape the eternall prison by an Involuntary unbargain'd deviation yet I freely confesse my selfe so complicately guiltfull that transgressions are so twisted round about me that I am ty'd and bound with the chaines of them that I have drawne iniquity with cords of vanity and have sinned as it were with a cart rope and againe Esa 5.18 with that rope have pluckt downe vengeance from heaven upon this Kingdome that I must confesse what evill soever some men may call it there is no malum paenae in the City but the Lord hath done it and if any shall aske me Amos 3.6 hath not my wickednesse cryed aloud for this scourge some charitable man may returne this answer in an humble astonisht sense And he was speechlesse I had rather strike my guilty breast then make a Pharisaicall Oration of innocence who have nothing else of good in me but the acknowledgement of my ill and the justice of God upon it and this may perhaps intitle me to some one quality of Seneca's Goodman Quicquid viro bono accidit Epist 76. aequo animo sustinobit sciet enim id accidisse lege divina qua universa procedunt In such a case of trialls the very Atheist like the Apostate Julian with