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A85343	Good English: or, Certain reasons pointing out the safest way of settlement in this kingdom; drawne from the nature of the aims and interests of the severall parties ingaged; and as the case now stands, this second day of May. 1648. A peece of serious observation, wherein the secrets of every party, as they stand in a probability of complyance, or opposition to His Majcsty [sic], are fully discovered.		1648 (1648)	Wing G1043; Thomason E441_10; ESTC R202219; ESTC R204897	24,027	30

to repaire himselfe than assist others The French are his Invaders the Portugalls Revolters and the Neapolitans Rebells The French are busie in maintaining what they have gotten and seeking after more But if they were at leisure little might be expected from them unlesse it were to foment our differences and as they first helped to unsettle us so still to keep us from setling that England which is the ballancing power of Europe and her King Arbiter orbis Christiani the Arbitrator in all differences of Christendome being broken by her owne strength at home might have none to spend abroad to hinder that prodigious design wherein the late successes of the French have heightned them to become Rivalls and Competitors with the Spaniard for an Vniversall Monarchy Denmark hath enough to do in repairing those ruines which were brought on them by the late Swedish Incursions The Hollanders esteem it a safe way to conform themselves ever to the prevailing party in England seeing they have a great part of their livelyhood by Indulgence from the English Nation Moreover though at first they esteemed the Match of the Prince of Orange with the eldest daughter of England as a matter of much honour yet now they look upon it as a businesse that in time may prove of ill consequence fearing so great an alliance might dispose the Prince to aspire and establish a greater Interest of his own than is meet for a Member of a Republike if Monarchy were at its height againe in England And further many among the Dutch supposing that the Grandees here aime at the same forme of Government with themselves doe flatter themselves in conceit that such a neighbourhood would be willing to admit of a nearer friendship and complication of Interests than can be hoped for from a Monarchy though there be farre more reason to suspect the contrary So that wee see how little his Majesty may expect from any of his Neighbors And truly it is no small part of our happinesse in the midst of these distractions that we have had and are like to have so little of their Company The hopes then of his Majesties restitution being wholly founded upon the affections of his People and bounded within his owne Dominions let us take a view of each within their station The Scots seem to bee divided among themselves some pretend absolutely for his Majesty others only upon condition of signing the Covenant c. In Ireland a Cessation will open a way for supplies out of that Kingdome In Wales they are in arms already for his Majesty and all the Royall Party in England wait but for an Oportunity in the same way to free themselves from their present vassalage under the power of the Independent party in the Houses wherein likewise the Presbyterian party are as much concerned as any seeing the other of Brethren are become their bitter enemies and would shew them as little courtesie as others were it not to stop the mouthes of their leading men at home and in hope to work upon the prime Presbyters in Scotland What the Refult of the Scotish resolutions will be is yet not certainly knowne If the pretending royall party there carry an Ingagement simply for the King no doubt but the Royallists here joyning with them they may finish the work by subduing both the Factions But if they bring in a mixt Ingagement for the King and the Covenant which we have great cause to fear I conceive the Royallists ought not to joyne with them but to expect and indeavour a Close with the Independent party who will be forced for their owne safety to wave their high-flowne Resolutions and bethink themselves of a Complyance with his Majesty which ought rather to be sought after and imbraced as lesse dangerous to the royall Prerogative than a close with the Presbyterian Touching the probabilitv and conveniency of a Complyance betwixt his Majesty and the Independent party in case the Scots ingage for Presbyterie I shall endeavour to fortifie my opinion by undeniable Reasons But first give me leave to manifest the great danger of closing with the Presbyterian Party though accompanied with never so many specious pretences That a Scotish Ingaging for the Covenant resolved on as it seems will be clearly destructive to Monarchicall Interest I shall prove in severall particulars First because they aim thereby at the introduction of Presbyterie and the over-turning of Episcopacy the maine pillar of Monarchy as it hath ever been esteemed in this Nation And therefore it was that all the Kings of England from time to time have so willingly sworne to grant and to preserve unto the Bishops and to the Churches commited to their Charge all Canonicall privileges and due Law and Justice and to protect and defend them c. And King JAMES who had long experience of the sad effects of the alteration of that Government in the Church of Scotland was so fully convinced of the neare relation betwixt Episcopacie and Monarchy that hee left this for a sure Aphorism to his Posterity No BISHOP No KING For it having been of so long continuance here and deeply rooted in the Lawes of this Kingdom it must needs be that a change in the one will work an alteration in the other Secondly The Truth hereof was so well knowne to the Master-builders of this Reformation whose Aime appears now to have been ab origine how contrary soever their Pretences were for an alteration of the civill government that they first began their work with pulling downe of Episcopacie that in the ruines thereof they might lay the foundation of their new designe Thirdly It is very apparent of what ill consequence the extirpation of Episcopacie will be to his Majesty seeing it is a meanes to clip the Crowne of a very considerable part of its Revenues which by the Lawes of the Land are annexed thereunto as the collation of Bishopricks and Deaneries the first fruits and profits of their Lands and Revenues during their vacancies the first fruits and yearly Tenths out of all Ecclesiasticall Promotions and sundry other privileges profits and emoluments arising out of the State Ecclesiasticall Fourthly to ingage for Presbytery is to indeavour the introducing of a Democraticall form of Government which is directly incompatible with a Monarchy and as it cannot stand with the power of our government so it withstands the Honour of our Governer debasing the Majesty of Monarchy into a popular parity without respect of his most sacred Person Fifthly by ingaging for Presbyterie they labor to erect a power in the State Ecclesiasticall distinct from that of the Civill for it is a Maxim among all Presbyters and we find it pleaded for at large in the Confession of Faith agreed upon by the Assembly at Westminster which as yet the Houses have been more wise than to confirme that there ought to be a power in the Church distinct from that of the Civill which Tenet of distinction must bee the same in effect

Majesty In the mean time the Cessation will make way for Supplyes auxiliary Forces out of that Kingdom to joyn with any discontented Party in this where it is evident that the People are so far exasperated that they will joyne with the Scots Irish yea or the Turk upon hope of freeing themselves restoring their King rather than continue in thraldom at the will and pleasure of their present Lords and Masters Fifthly though the Houses have voted the sending of Forces over to hold play with Inchiquin in Munster and so to divert his intentions from England yet People are not so silly but to see they are so far unable to raise or keep up an Army in that Country that they want wherewithall to mainteine their owne in this And moreover they are now in so ill a condition to spare men that they dare not part with any considerable peece of this Army to reduce the Welsh for feare that if themselves were left naked they might be surprized unawares knowing this that there is no sitting without a powerfull Army to guard them whereof they are not a little conscious as appeares by drawing up the major part of the Army into Quarters at a neare distance about the City Sixthly as they have innumerable causes of fear from others they wil find little ground of security even among themselves For if we consider the constitution of the Army in the several parts of it it appears to be an aggregate of differing interests opinions perswasions among whom the Grandees have the lesse numerous party being over-ballanced by the Levellers and others of the inferior Officers private Souldiers whom we may reckon as men of fortune who continue in the Army not out of any devotion or affection to the Cause but only for subsistence therefore being rather affectionated to his Majesty will be ready as they receive oportunity to shew themselves in his service And as for the Levellers though all the industry in the world be used to pacifie them from the remembrance of former injuries and draw them in to a conjunction with the Grandees against the King and the Scots yet it is probable they will never sell their bloud and fellow-subjects at so vile a rate as to purchase a sure dominion for such tyrannicall Masters who when they have help't them to do the work will be ready as they did before to crush them and pay them their wages with perpetuall slavery Seventhly their Party is very inconsiderable at Westminster the House being no longer theirs than whilest they over-awe it by force as themselves well know so that if it happen the Scots come in the Presbyterian party being once back't with an Army will soon out-vote them And then the time will come on wherein they shall be called to an accompt for all their forcible attempts upon the Houses and the city and those Members that went and joyned with them therein bee brought upon the stage for breach of trust and have the shame of high-Treason retorted upon themselves and their August-Ingagement Eighthly by a timely agreement they may settle an Interest with his Majesty to make themselves certainly great forasmuch as it is possible both their Interests may stand together with discretion entire by the restitution of Bishops and upon assurance given for liberty of conscience within sober limits Lastly his Majesty is the very basis of peace and the balancing power to all Parties in this Kingdom and without him no settlement can be expected and with whatsoever side he joynes that will assuredly prevaile To manifest the truth thereof let it be remembred of what concernment his complyance was to the Independents in subduing their opposite Faction both in the Houses and the city while he resided among them in the Army And as by this meanes at that time they advanced themselves to the height of fortune so now that they are in the eyes of all the world in a declining condition they may if they please give a check to the triumph of their Presbyterian adversaries by applying themselves more cordially and sincerely to the same way of complyance with his Majesty This wil be a means to oblige him and his Party so far that all injuries being buried in oblivion the people gladded by the return of a long desired peace the old enmity and malice will be soon abated and the Royall Party and themselves strengthened in one by an addition of the whole Body of the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty against all Presbyterian incroachments either within or without the Kingdom From all which we may sum up this conclusion that as his Majesty is obliged in point of interest to wave all Presbyteriall Ingagements and indeavour an agreement with the Independent so likewise it appears that the true interest of the Independent Party is with all speed to recall those prodigious Votes of Non-Addresse and apply themselves unto his Majesty with such moderate desires that may stand as well with his honor as their safety be a means to remove all jealousie distast betwixt him and them and upon just and necessary grounds lay a sure foundation for a lasting peace III. Reasons drawn from the Interest of the Presbyterian Party in England WHence it was and for what ends the designe of Presbytery was first brought into this Nation Time the mother of Truth hath at length fully manifested for as the pretences of it were high glorious so the issue hath been fallacious dishonorable and to it we must ascribe the originall cause and continuance of all our miseries That it arrived to such a hight in the opinions of many as to be cryed up for the onely pattern of Government under the Gospel must be imputed to the blind zeal of some and the deceitfulnesse of others rather then the intention of its founder Master Calvin For it doth not appear that he ever stretcht his model so far as the necessity and universality of a divine right but seems onely to have hewen part of the building out of the rock of the Scriptures according to the literall signification and pieced up the residue by politick and prudentiall rules such as he conceived might sound neerest the Text and serve most conveniently to cement the disjoynted members of that broken and tumultuous Common-wealth of Geneva into an entire and well compacted body It was no sooner lick't into form there but as it is the fate of all things new it began to be much extol'd and admired and the fame thereof spreading it self in England as well as in other parts wrought in many of our Country-men an itching desire to go thither and observe the manners and customes of the Government where of Spectators they soon became Proselites and returning home with new affections and opinions had an evil eye upon the ancient Apostolicall government of Episcopacy which they prosecuted with invective Libels from the Presse and Pulpit as Antichristian in the mean time extolling their