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A78464	Certain considerations: being the legitimate issue of a true English heart: presented to the free-holders, and to the free men of the several corporations in this nation; to regulate their elections of Members to serve in the next Parliament, to be holden the 25. of Aprill, 1660.		1660 (1660)	Wing C1691; Thomason E765_8; ESTC R207146	8,330	7

Storm may meet him there too Sir John Hotham the Fatal Father of as Fatal a Son is sent with 500. Souldiers to keep Hull for them who there denied the King a peaceable Entrance into his own Town And now a Vote passeth to raise 10000. men upon pretence to defend the Parliament against the King who was so far from having a Camp that his numbers scarcely exceeded a Court nor was there about him any Militiarie appearance as yet and the Complexion of his Message of the 20. of January 1641. Courting them to peace with the offers of more Acts of Grace then could modestly be expected from the most indulgent Prince is a sufficient Demonstration how little he delighted in his peoples blood or his own revenge But this Message though the King often prest for an Answer of it had none but what a Battail fought against his very Person at Edge-hill spoke in the Language of the Cannon for by that time their contempt and speedy marching toward him had summond him to receive such persons as would hazard their Lives and Fortunes for their Princes preservation Now was the whole Kingdome in a jealous trepidation A war was begun and the Citty of London doubtful of the Effects of such sad and unnatural Hostility Petition for Peace but with others of the same Inclination and Address were opposed by the Souldiery incouraged for that purpose and beaten and wounded and trodden under the feet of the Horse-Troups where in the Pallace yard some seeking peace lost their lives And as the Kings Messages of Peace so often repeated were ever sleighted so his Messengers for Peace were used and one carried to London blind-folded through their quarters was thence imprison'd and after many weeks confinement at last return'd without the least word of answer They blinded his eyes who came for the Nations Peace because they saw not the things which belong'd to their own For Colbrook and Oxford and Uxbridge are witnesses of the Kings endeavour for Peace and how unsuccessful all his Treaties were which could never procure so much as a Cessation of Arms. And after all this he offer'd his Sacred Person among them an attempt o● no smal hazard yet discovering abundantly how much he thirsted after his peoples Happiness that so his Treaties of Peace might be more prosperous but could not be admitted with how little Variation might we say He would have come to his own but they would not receive him But next let the pretended Causes of the War be considered and they as their Declaration of August 1642. told us was first to defend the true Protestant Religion and this they defended by pursuing and at last destroying them who were the Defenders of it The Pillars of the Church the reverend Bishops and most of the reverend Divines of the Nation for the defence of Religion were-suppressed and their Freeholds for so were their Benefices ravish'd from them they their Wives and Children turnd out of dores to seek their Meat in desolate places and to their Places were preferr'd some of Jeroboam's bleating Calves to bellow out their Cause among the People who had not absolutely as yet shook hands with Loyalty And now a race of dumb Asses are raised up to forbid the p●etended Madness of the Prophets and an inundation of Sectaries suffered to rush in and overwhelm the Religion these good States men pretended to defend and the greatest Atheists made the Darlings of the Times whilest the Children of this our Israel who durst sacrifice to their God according to the Discipline and Doctrine of the Church of England were punish'd and imprison'd And to defend Religion the better the Birth-day of our Saviour to gratifie their Brethren the Jews was profaned and the Observation thereof made a Crime Secondly they declared to defend the Kings person whilest their Pulpits and their Presses and that without control spoke noth●ng but Treason and Rebell●on They defended him with Volleys of undistinguishing Shot Pikes and Canon and when forc●d from place to place seeking security and finding none he had thought to make the Scots his refuge this rock dash●d him in peices and they the Scots his own Natural Subjects sold him to the Parliament who more generously wicked than the Jews gave 1000000 l. for him a great price yet less than he was worth but that vast summe was made the price of Blood and a Counterfeit high Court I cannot say of Justice though they called it so Arraigned Condemned and Murther'd their King not without the prefaces of many grand indignities and spitting in his face His erected Statua which honored the Exchange thrown down and an Infamous Inscription calling him Tyr●n● for they persecuted him after his Death became the Monument of their Insolence and Rebellion and when they had kill'd the Heir they seised on his Inheritance selling and sharing his Estate among them And thirdly let it be considered how well the Priviledges of Parliament so much declared for were defended when by the help of their Janizaries they secluded a hundred of their own Members at a time and imprisoned above forty more for no other known Crime but that they were wearie of their owne Crimes and through horror of Conscience thought not fit to oppress their King any more And that these mens Ambition might reign alone the House of Peers the undoubted Birth-right of the Nobility was dissolved by a Vote and no footsteps of Nobility were to be found in Parliament but that the Earl of Salisbury to honor the Peers House and his owne in great humility availed his goodness defying as much the checks of his Blew Garter as those of his Conscience was preferred into a Burgess And fourthly let it be considered how well the liberty and rights of the Subject have been defended by these grand Declarers for their Defence and that will appear by their inforced Loans Contributions Parting Mens Estates taking the fifth and twentieth part and by that dishonorable way of Excise and for the better enjoyment of the Subjects Libetties laying them in prison and forbidding the Benefit of a Habeas Corpus And have not the Laws been trampled under foot and Magna Charta and the Petition of Right made the sport and scorn of Cromwell's Ambition who must be made Protector that so the Guilty might not want protection nor the Innocent to be oppress'd And here let it be considered Whether the Kings Proclamation of the 24. of October 1642. were not Prophetical when he told them their War was to take away his Life to Destroy his Posterity to Change the Religion to suppress the Laws and to make the People Miserable by an Arbitrary power And are there not as Mr. Prynn's Memento tells us above one hundred Declarations Remonstrances Petitions and Ordinances of their owne to witness their Perjuries and Hypocrisies And let it be considered Whether the Solemn League and Covenant that holy Engine of Division will not as Mr. Prynne speaks stare in their faces