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cause_n	church_n	just_a	whole_a	2,767	5	6.2168	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90364	Vox verè Anglorum: or Englands loud cry for their King. Written by a hearty well-willer to the Common-weale, and the flourishing of our nations.	Peirce, Edmund, Sir, d. 1667.	1659 (1659)	Wing P1066; Thomason E763_3; ESTC R207084	20,483	15

fortunes of far the most inconsiderable part of the three Nations and indeed of all in generall who cannot but be included in that happiness which in this conjuncture of time with so much renown and security to themselves and triumphant rejoycing of all peaceable minds and loyal hearts they may now with such facility obtain for them and such a Ray of Honour as if slighted will very probably never dawn or in the least glympse thereof appear again to them And this upon good grounds may further be said likewise That if the great God of Peace shall in his mercy be pleased to encline their hearts to this way of Peace so much desired and longed for it may with full confidence be assuredly relyed on by them that the least hair of any of their heads shall be so far from perishing thereby that such of them who shall appear most forward and instrumental therein may have what security they please to bear what share or place they please in this our such restored happiness which with any candor or modesty can be expected or desired by them nor would it be grudged them by any person whatsoever whom they imagine therein their chiefest malevolents and regrettors for who can think them honoured too much or preferred too high who as the case stands and after so long and tedious a storm can or shall without blood restore to three Nations that calm and happiness of peace and settlement which otherwise may perhaps cost thousands of precious lives besides the necessitated ruine terrour and astonishment which in all probability must prevent and go before it I am sure it may with certainty be averred of some and upon very good grounds the same also may be asserted of many And doubtless there be thousands even many thousands of the same pious mind likewise who are so far from aspiring and revenging thoughts thereby that to see that gladsome day of our Soveraigns return to his just rights with honour and safety that thereby a sure and lasting Peace may be setled amongst us and so derived to our posterities would most readily sacrifice their own present fortunes and most of them no contemptible ones neither yea and their very lives too and cheerfully chant out their last Nunc dimittis c. And for those Gentlemen of the Sword who are as highly concerned in this particular as any persons else whatsoever it is so cleerly their interest to effect what is thus generally desired that if Cimmerian darkness be not before their eyes nothing under heaven can be more apparent and manifest to them for they cannot surely but see the uncertain condition they now stand in under what general disdain and odium to their Countrey they live how often they are put to act the part of Italian Bravades and Turkish Janizaries for some vile and corrupt interest or other how unfixed and unstable their stations are what designes are perpetually upon all or some chief of them To say nothing of the present designe now generally in talk and apprehension Where and in whose hands the Militia of the Nations is to be placed and what the intended effect and purpose thereby is how frequently they are made instruments of destruction to their fellow Brethren and Subjects and often to trip up and sometimes to destroy one another And to add to all this and ten times more which may be said their Pay which alwayes is collected from the People long before it is due many times is subducted from them and drawn into other channels perhaps into private purses and that to such as are their chief capital enemies This and much worse is their present state and condition whereas if they be instrumental to advance this general vote and desire of the people that it might thereby take effect they would render themselves the very Darlings of the People and those general hearts which now have them in most odium and disdain will be so open and united to them that they would even quite empty themselves for a just remuneration for them nothing can any way stick upon them of former sully but this way would be cleerly and absolutely wiped off and their fame and renown for so just and loyal an action to their native Soveraign lovely sound not onely through this Island but through the whole Christian world and merit even trophies of honour to be erected to them that their just praise and exaltation may never endingly continue There would in this case of such return to their loyalty and giving such undoubted testimony of it be certainty of Permanency for them certainty of due Pay certainty of Honour and from the highest to the lowest of them certainty of just and full content and satisfaction for preferment and otherwise which their own hearts and desires can with any modesty wish and suggest to them Nothing of which can be had or so much as in the least kind hoped for what ever vain and empty Chymera's are insinuated to them by those whose ends they serve in that frail and fluctuating condition they now stand in and in which the way they are in they cannot but look ever to continue Nor is all this meer words and fiction neither but will be really and undoubtedly made good nay if need be secured for by such ways and means as shall be subject to no just exception whatsoever unless they will degenerate from that noble confidence which is or ought alwayes to be refulgent in men of honour and the Military Tribe especially when they have to deal with a person of such high honour and extraction and he their own native Soveraign and who is not in condition to deceive them nor need they indeed be deceived but have if they please their remedy in their own hands and power Upon which grounds it is with great reason hoped that they will not be out at but upon due consideration of the premises will above all others advance this now general voyce Let the Heir c. I intended far more brevity and fear I have been too tedious yet are there many things as much and some perhaps more considerable than what is premised inviting all people of all sorts and conditions who may seem in any way to be opponent to it unanimously to joyn in advancing this firm and sure settling way of a lasting peace and happiness in our Nations especially those who now in Assembly take upon them to be representatives and if so certainly no duty can be more incumbent upon such then to listen to and accomplish the general vote and desire of those whose persons they so take upon them to represent this certainly is a main and chief part of their errand upon which they were first sent and intrusted by them And for which they can pretend to any Assemblies or meetings upon the score of the people The peoples general votes and desires they hereby know and may have further full ample and assured satisfaction that it is so if they will and that as speedily as they please freely permit that particular to be put into any unquestionable way or order for such their more full and plenary satisfaction and assurance Nor can they upon any account whatsoever before God Angels and Men even by their own wayes and grounds they go on be they just or unjust and according to their own insinuations of freedome to them deny the people this their most reasonable request that as they take upon them to be their Representatives so they would give them free leave and that without any awe or dread whatsover to be upon them freely to express their minds and desires what they would have such their Representers do If this be denied slighted or omitted what case the people stand in will surely then be most clear and manifest and how can it then be otherwise deemed by all even such who at present may perhaps have some good thoughts of them but that their own consciences fully dictate to them the real truth of whatsoever is herein before asserted To which consciences of theirs it is herein likewise appealed in manner as is before expressed the sincere dictates of which freed from and unbribed by corrupt and sinister ends if they will neither follow nor yet hearken to these loud and general cries and clamors of the people whom they would be thought thus to represent but keep them still in terrors bonds and chains to be lead captive as they list and whether they list at their own few wils and pleasures then Hear you O Heavens and hearken O Earth and Thou the great God and framer of them both manifest thine own power and might and cause thou both Heaven and Earth and all thy whole creation amongst us in their courses speedily to assist and help us and thy own appointed Vicegerent over us to this just way of peace and firm settlement so much and so long thirsted after by us Pity O pity thou our dispised Church distracted State and even gasping Common-weale and let thine own outstretched arm by such thine own means as thou knowest best speedily in this thine own ordained way Heal up these our wounds and wasting divisions which in such case none indeed but thine own hands can close Pluck us out from this Romish and Jesuitical deep Pit which is thus digging and preparing for us And open the eyes of all seduced and deluded persons who cannot see and melt the hearrs of the most obstinate and perverse who will not see this their common open and apparent danger and be mercifull O Lord yet be merciful unto them and let not their transcendent crimes appear against them at that great and dreadful day of account Nor This Paper if slighted neither to their utter and everlasting astonishment and confusion FINIS