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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80504	A copy of a letter vvritten to a private friend, to give him satisfaction on some things tovching the Lord Say.		1643 (1643)	Wing C6173; Thomason E72_5; ESTC R23237	4,385	9

somtimes more out of his own purse and hath borrowd somtimes to lend for the service of the State And for Sir William VVallers businesse me thinks they should give a Peere of the Lords House liberty to use his reason what he did in that he did onely concurre with others in both Houses and by the same reason they charge it upon his Lordship they charge it upon the Houses and if so they appeale to themselvs and place the Judgement not in the Parliament which they pretend too but in the People This let mee adde that in my weak opinion that Commission in which though power was derived to Sir William from his Excellencie yet his Instructions were to issue from the Parliament and at this rate how could his Excellencie command Sir William VValler and how was his Commission consistent with this desired Expedition Besides two Generalls in one Expedition speake too much consusion Another thing is that this Lord was the occasion of Mr. Nyes going into Scotland and that he went purposely to hinder the Scots from comming in because they would hinder the setting up of an independent Government in Churches the falsity of that appeares besides what he hath said to Gentlemen of trust of the necessity of the Scots comming in by the effects for the Scots doe come in and both Mr Nye and that Lord have taken the Covenant and are forward instruments in furthering that work all they can And as for Accommodations of peace which he is charged to be forward in he was never further for it then what Religion and Reason calls for at every mans hand that is if that could be obtained peaceably which we labour for with so much effusion of blood and hazzard of all he rather desires it and so I hope do you and every honest man Others say he hath made his peace at Court but give no reason of this their beliefe and I am confident can procure none by all their Arts the wiser of men know that if the Court could have tempted him and violated his principles hee need not have been so much wanting to himselfe as now to have his peace to be made up he might have maintained it at an easier rate then now he could if any such thought could enter into him regaine it But who can imagine that a prudent man should run the hazzard of his honour estate and every thing and this in pure opposition to the Court and yet with design to comply with it why should the Court inveigh against him more then any man charge him again and again with treason and yet he a friend to them When the Parliament affaires were at the lowest why did not he runne to Court as others have done Why hath both his Excellency and this Lord suffered with so much patience the peoples calumnies from passions surmizes jealousies or I know not what to call them but onely their integrity to this cause hath supported their endeavours notwithstanding for the publike interest which they make their owne and as it hath pleased God to take away the mist from the peoples eyes touching my Lord Generall by his last expedition so I doubt not but God in his good time will disperse the clouds as to that good Lord also at least to disabuse the honest party This as to reason But then in point of Religion can any Christian be so uncharitable as upon a very surmise to question that foundation of piety which God hath laid in him and de facto maintain that doctrine which in his understanding ●e ha●●s falling from grace and so by practice contradict his own principles surely if most deliberately I have once judged a man in the condition of grace I am not but upon most weighty Reasons to call that happy case into question I would say to you and every honest heart make this Lords case your own throughout the whole story of it I will not abuse your patience longer this let me beg of you and every good man that you would not so easily take upon trust such Reports either of that Noble Lord or any other Lord or Gentleman intrusted by the State as you meet with in every high way and most likely given out at first by some Iesuited Malignant out of design lest you become guilty of wounding the innocent in their good names and Honour which is as great a sinne as wounding their bodies but I hope better things of you and I could wish that as to this Lord when you meet with any thing that makes you doubt either his Religion or Reason for any act he doth in order to the Commonwealth where the question now unhappily rests with some addresse your selfe to him and if he doth not satisfie you or any reasonable man I will forfeit my reason and question whether there be an honest man to be found Thus you may see my confidence and I trust not unreasonable considering my many yeeres uninterrupted experience I say no more onely this I confesse it is a wise mans part to be suspitious in these evill times but to be jealous without reasonable grounds becomes no prudent man I have unbottomed my heart to you that I might give you satisfaction and doe professe unto you that there is no one assertory passage herein but my conscience beares me witnesse I have spoke the truth in it I rest Your assured loving Friend Octob. 17. 1643. FINIS