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A77378	The loyall convert, (according to the Oxford copy.) A convert will be loyall: or, some short annotations on this book; / by W. Bridges. Published by authority.	Bridges, W., fl. 1644.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Loyall convert.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4483B; Thomason E257_2; ESTC R210047	51,595	31

the help of the Gibeonites against the Israelites sure it had been preposterous 2 If you say The King hath sworn to protect them every way you speak sadly And it is asmuch as to say The King hath sworn to protect them which if they grow strong and have not content will powder and poyson him You remember and we too the King of France And I beleeve some of the assistants of his Majesty that now is the son their neer friends should have been the assassinates in the time of his Majesty that then was King Iames his Royall Father 3. If you say the King protects them other way then by the Law it s no Protection but a toleration like that of Vsury c. in our Land But the Papists themselves renounce our Laws The last Iesuit that dyed did in my hearing at the Gallows rail upon them all he said They were bloody ill made and worse kept c. Then it must be Toleration but that word will sound ill Nay fourthly If you say the King protecteth or that he ought to protect Papists any way you speak Illegally for Whom the Law protects not the King either cannot or ought not to protect but the Law protects not Papists therefore the King ought not to protect them Whom the Law disarms of them the King ought not to require an armed assistance and that against Parliament and Protestant party but the Law disarms Papists therefore the King ought not to require an armed assistance of them Again I consider his Majesties Subjects 1. As Men and Subjects and so while they live amongst us doubtlesse they have and ought to have a kinde of protection viz. 1. Quoad sanguinem as to blood no man may kill them 2. Quoad jus possessionem no man may rob them But 2. If you look on them as enemies to Religion and Papists their portion is no more then To be tributaries To pay so much an hour sleeping and waking To hold themselves in their Ubi their place To be uncapable of some offices and many other things which other men of the Protestants have c. Papists as Protestants he hath sworn his Protection therefore from all His Subjects as well Papists as Protestants he may require assistance Neither does he call in Papists as Papists to maintaine Religion as himselfe hath often manifested but as Subjects to subdue or at least qualifie Sedition The aid of the Subject is either in his person or in his purse both are requirable to the service of a Soveraigne (k) As to your case Sir I give you this answer It cannot be but that offences will come but woe unto them by whom they come what necessity is there to use defence where there is no opposition Your devilish counsell tels His Majesty That they are against him which are indeed most of all for him And hereby he thinks himself straitned to call about him those to help him which indeed will neither help him nor you longer then they think you help to help on their Designe which is to set Antichrist in his throne in England once again The case then is this Let His Majesty please once to return to His great Counsell again Let Delinquents stand upon their own legs Let Papists betake themselves to their Tribute Restraint c. And then see Sir if you be not willfully blinde what necessity will be of this sin of calling in Papists Rebels Forreiners c. As to your distinction that they are called in not to maintain Religion c. Why Your Religion Sir and that of Rome will be enough consistent See Vertum Roman and you have the Iesuits judgement in it which I beleeve is of great authority with some of you I tell you once again That the Protestant Religion at large and that 's it which you would have there went but a pair of Sheets between it and Popery and such a Religion I beleeve the Rebels and Recusants too will be easily perswaded to maintain As to that that they are called in to subdue or at least to qualifie Sedition Truly you remember me of the trouble in Israel in Absaloms time which when it was composed and the people of the Land begin to differ among themselves again 2 Sam. 20.1 c. There was come thither one Sheba the son of Bichri a man of Jemini a wicked man and he blew the Trumpet c. and made a worse sedition then there was before Beleeve it Sir these Sheba's that you have called in when our division is at the height and their time is come will be the first that will blow the Trumpet and say We have no part in David c. we fought for the King because we thought he would fight for the Pope otherwise we cannot be for him unlesse he be against the power of Protestant Religion As to our using of evil instruments I give two things in answer 1. Woe to that wicked Counsell which brings the good men of a Land into such bad straits 2. I am perswaded there are some which put themselves into the service of the Parliament and are wicked that they may rob and steal and do wickedly and thereby in the eyes of them which cannot see asperse the Cause and Parliament-side One Captain was hang'd not long since who at his death confessed and professed himself a Roman Catholick I was a By-stander and dyed for plunder Put case His Majestie should use the assistance of none but Protestants Tell me would you not be apt to cavill that he is favourable to the Papists neither willing to endanger their persons nor endamage their purses or at least that they are reserv'd for a last blow Or in case Papists should largely under-write to your Propositions send in Horses Armes or other provisions would you not accept it and for its sake their persons too Are you so strict in your Preparations as to Catechize every souldier Or to examine first every Officers Religion Or having the proffer of a good Popish or debaucht Commander tell me should he be denied his Commission Remember Sir Arthur Ashton whom his Majestie entertains by your Example These things indifferently considered it will manifestly appeare that the honest-minded vulgar are meerly seduced under the colour of piety to be so impious as by poysoning every action of their lawfull Prince to foster their implicite Rebellion But in case your side should prosper and prevaile what then would then our Miseries be at an end Reason tels us No God keeps us from the experience Thinke you that Government whether new or reformed which is set up by the Sword must not be maintained by the (l) As to the maintaining of the government by the sword c. And if so set up it must be so preserved c I am sorry to see That a Gentleman a wise man as you would make the world beleeve you are should wrap and involve together so many so grosse and so absurd

THE LOYALL CONVERT According to the Oxford Copy A Convert will be loyall OR Some short Annotations on this Book By W. BRIDGES VIRG. Improbus haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes HOM. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Quaeris uter melius Rex ne imperet anne Senatus Neuter quod saepe est si sit uterque malus Sin sit uterque bonus Numero praestare senatum Inque bonis multis plus reor esse boni Difficile est numerum forsan reperire bonorum Sic facile est unum saepius esse malum Et fuerit medius saepe inter utrumque Senatus Sed tibi vix unquam rex mediocris erit Consilioque malus regitur meliore senator Rex consultores sed regit ipse suos Alter ut eligitur populo sic nascitur alter Sors hic caeca regit certum ibi consilium Reader if thou wouldest read any more such Poetry as this See Thom. Morus Anglus where there 's much to this purpose Published by Authority LONDON Printed for Edward Husbands 1644. To the Honest-hearted READER READER I Here (a) When you have taken the Protestation to shew your self any thing for the searcher of hearts then I shal be perswaded to give you some credit and shall desire the honest hearted reader to think he hath to do with such a writer but such gentlemen as you seeme to me to be can take a solemn nationall Covenant and spit it up again and without conscience fall into that desperate Iesuited maxime That no promise is to be held with such whom you can soon call heretiques or schismatiques or any thing The Searcher of hearts hath a controversie with Covenant breakers I would you did read such places as Ier. 34.18.20 and would learn to applie them better then you have done any scripture that I can see in this treatise and yet I desire to see without prejudice protest before the Searcher of all hearts that I have no End either of Faction or Relation in this ensuing Treatise I am no (b) You do not know what you are nor indeed doth any carnall man He that doth not stand onely for the one thing Luk. 10.42 may and indeed at some time or other will fall into an any thing Better men than you have confessed that they did never think a man had need to be converted till they themselves were converted But you are even the same that thousands of your stampe are that is to say Sure service-book men and the worst of men moderate men falsely so called Lukewarmnes neutrality and ignorant pride with obstinacy see the wisdom of God concluding them inseparable Rev. 3.15.16.17 Papist no (c) Your sectary we know what it is viz. any one that is truly religious a reformation and a religion at large is the thing such as you love that is to say Sundayes no Sabbath and the book of liberty put into practise again Wakes Church-ales Rushbearings c. oh it was a merry world in those dayes upon which tearms I must say of your Peace as once the Father said Vbi non hoc bellum ibi pax diabolica Where there is not this strife namely between the better and worse part there 's a devilish Peace With this introduction commonly these men begin such pamphlets and they think they prevail much upon the readers affe●tion I say to the honest hearted reader look about thee In nomine Domini incipit omne malum Satan can transform himself into an Angel of light and so do his Ministers also If thou espiest this Protestation before the sound of his masters heels are behind him And he is a stone-cold formalist some Chrismas zelot as full of obstinacy as an egge is of meat one that will tell you he would be resolv'd but hee 's resolv'd aforehand of such a one let Solomon give the true character Prov. 26.16 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit then seaven men that can render a reason Sectarie but a true Lover of Reformation and Peace My Pen declines all (d) That we shall leave to the judicious reader if there be not exceeding much of both bitternesse and deceit too judicent impartiales good reader have thine eies about thee and see without prejudice bitternesse of Spirit all deceitfulnesse of heart and I may safely in this particular with Saint Paul say I speak the truth in Christ and lye not my Conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that I neither walk nor write in craftinesse nor handle the holy Scriptures deceitfully Therefore if thy Cause be (e) Our cause is the cause of Iesus Christ as hath been clearly and plentifully proved nor ever yet gainsaid but by sophismes lyes and quarrellings And that defensive warre the Parliament hath now a foot hath been sufficiently vindicated as is to see in the severall treatises to that purpose if we had to do with reasonable men Wherein good reader thou hast the question rightly stated without any Andabatisme which this Gentleman hath not either so much wit or so much honesty to do We desire him therefore to take the good counsell that he gives And in the name of Iesus Christ laying aside all willfull ignorance pride prejudice private interests and uncharitable censures to deal seriously and not so deceitfully with a truth of God Reader he knowes our question is not what he here sayes it to be for all his specious pretence We will therefore in these Annotations Christ willing search his severall scriptures and where they open God and thou be judge Reader we will not seek to shut We desire to consult not only with reason but with religion too Which in the power of it such men are sadly ignorant of And then to his last clause Let truth prosper though we perish and God be glorified though in our confusion We say Amen and So be it Iesus Christ in the name of Iesus Christ I adjure thee to lay aside all wilfull ignorance all prejudice all private respests and Interests and all uncharitable censures Deal faithfully with thy Soul and suffer wholsome admonitions Search the severall Scriptures herein contained and where they open a Gate climbe not thou over a Stile Consult with Reason herein exerciz'd and where it finds a mouth find thou an eare And let Truth prosper though thou perish and let God be glorified although in thy Confusion THE LOYALL CONVERT THe Kingdom of England that hath for many Ages continued the happiest Nation on the habitable earth enjoying the highest blessings that heaven can give or earth receive the fruition of the Gospel which setled a firme Peace which Peace occasion'd a full Plenty under the gracious Government of wise and famous Princes over a thriving and well-contented People insomuch that she became the Earths Paradise and the Worlds Wonder is now the Nurcery of all Sects her Peace is violated her Plenty wasting her Government distempered her People discontented and unnaturally embroyl'd in her