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A80408	Redintegratio amoris, or A union of hearts, between the Kings most excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in Parliament, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his command; the Assembly, and every honest man that desires a sound and durable peace, accompanied with speedy justice and piety. By way of respective apologies, so far as Scripture and reason may be judges. / By John Cook of Grayes-Inne, Barrester.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing C6026; Thomason E404_29; ESTC R201862	78,816	92

loves the Assembly yet conceives that Liberty had been long since setled but for them who make the smal differences between the Conformists and Reformists wider 45. The absurdity of that Common Argument that if Independents be permitted then Papists must Errors in Religion to be tolerated but not against Religion 46. That there are more differences between the Papists then are in this Kingdom therefore we are to spend our wit upon them and our love upon Protestants Pope Joan in the dark as good as my Lady 47. A moderate Presbytery commended for restraining vice and for external beauty but a rigid Presbytery dangerous to this Kingdom men wiser in the South then in the North the danger of Coactive violence in matters not fundamental 48. Whether it be as lawful to fight for Christs Kingly Office as for his Priestly Office and whether Christians may presume of Gods extraordinary power in case of Arms without an extraordinary warrant 49. What Liberty of Conscience is desired and that natural men know not what belongs to spiritual priviledges and what use may be made of the late Common-prayer-book 50. A request to the Assembly to become suitors for just Liberties and to the Army not to mingle their interests by any means with those that shal oppose the High Court of Parliament Redintegratio Amoris OR A Union of Hearts between The Kings Most Excellent Majesty the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons in PARLIAMENT His Excellency Sir Tho. Fairfax and the ARMY under His Command The Assembly and every honest Man that desires a sound and durable Peace accompanied with speedy Justice and Piety AFter a shower how glorious is the Sun The War being ended what endearments should there be between all true-hearted English men When hands are tyed the great business is to unite hearts 'T is the wisdom of State when the heart of War is broken to deal Honorably with the Conquerors and gently with the Conquered 'T is the glory of a State as wel as a man to pass by an infirmity and far more noble to forgive him whom thou mayst kill then to kill him whom thou mayst forgive The Title of this Treatise I hope will please every man but such as feed only upon poyson which creatures soon after break in pieces that are grown rich in a time of poverty or fear a Day of Account before the Day of Judgment some only can fish in troubled waters the matter of it I hope wil relish wel to wel-tempered pallates that have the salt of reason for my own particular it hath ever been my hearty prayer and what I have prayed for I have ventured to write for though I know very few that have gained any thing by the Press besides their own contentment but hard censures but he that is wise when men are fools is true when they are lyars I am not in love with my own conceptions and yet will father them that they be not illegitimate and the mother conceiving them is a single heart as an English man the subject is weighty and many ticklish points but strong affections may be discerned by weak performances and I hope men are more merciful then formerly those that love wil excuse let others bring reason for reason I am satisfied to give the Reader rational satisfaction I must dig deep for these precious truths for taking too much upon trust and that to be reason which only looks like it hath occasioned our late mischiefs And 't is as hard to make some men beleeve the Truth as it is to disswade others from Errors Wherein as it is said of Errors that to reduce them to their first original is to refute them bastards love any discourse but to hear of their originals so in all matters of Reformation by the Interven-of the Sword the foundation Root highest wel-spring fountain end and grounds of all government is in the first place to be sounded fathomed and discovered which under favour have been the great defect in many writers in this late Com●●stion that speak of obedience to higher powers of the un●awfulness of resisting and of the Rights and Liberties of the people● 〈◊〉 drawing from the Fountain but following the stream● of former Authorities and practises of other times which have ●he ●●●●●nance of example but not the least force of a Law 〈…〉 striving to know by the Causes why such a Government is appointed or Law is made as by the effects that so they find it to be Which Impolitiques is the Reason why there are so many Practises to be reformed in Courts of Justice the Judges finding the course of the Court which they say makes the Law to be so they never look further at the reason why it is so for if they did but consider the end and primary intention of all Laws viz. the execution of justice which consists in giving every man his own they would rather dispence with 10000 formalities and niceties in Law then neglect the doing of justice rather suffer all the courses of the Court to be broken and shivered into attomes then suffer one poor man to be undone by a mispleading or Error in the proceedings for justice is of moral and of perpetual equity but the course of a Court is but Ceremonial the Ceremonial Law of God always gave place to the moral when it appears fairly to the Court that the Debt is due or that the Plaintiff hath title to the Land if there be as many Errors and mistakes in the pleadings as there are stars in the Firmament the Judg must break through all forms to make the Plaintiff master of his right and to object matters of form and confusion is but to tyrannize over poor men that are not able to buy Justice and to be more careful of the shoo then of the foot that wears it Resembling herein the stranger that admiring the height of St. Marks-Tower in Venice thinking the Foundation could not be deep by reason of the water was very studious to know whereupon so goodly a Fabrick stood the people said it was so but how it came about was for the Senate to know the reason they troubled not themselves about it but I must dig deep for this precious truth and go to the ground of the point which being ●ound in the groundsels the building is not to be suspected and I conceive 1. That by nature all men are born alike free as we hold all by Frankalmoign so nature is Gavelkind tenure and there is no power natural but parental further then every man doth expresly or implicitly impower other men over him and every Father is a King in his own family Abraham Isaac and Jacob in Canaan had no Government but Domestical Parental or Proparental And though I cannot agree with Learned Charron that the Jews had power of life death over their Children which he would prove by Abrahams offering up Isaac which he supposes Isaac being about 25. would not have

of the greatest trust hee that is true to his end cannot be a Traytor The War first undertaken for the defence of Laws and Liberties hath had a great influence upon Religion and pray answer me this Question if the Parliament had told you at the first that you should not expect any Liberty of Conscience in case of prevayling but that you must serve God according to the precepts of men whether you see reason for it or no would you have engaged so cordially upon a promise of freedom for your temporall estates What is all the World worth if a man enjoy not the freedom of his soul peradventure you will say that the world cannot deprive you of the liberty of your Consciences for the Saints are as free in prison to enjoy God as if they were abroad as sweet experience can testifie and the more we glorifie him by suffering for him here the more conformable are wee made to our Head and shall be glorified with him and Jesus Christ is eminently all Ordinances in himself most true but in the dark the best eyes have need of Candles We are not yet as we shall be we live upon the beams here and not the body and it derogates much from the wisdome and the love of Christ to reckon that as a shadow which he hath appointed for a standing Ordinance Religion teacheth nothing against nature piety doth not ruinate humanity but makes one man worth twenty I assure you Gods people hope that you will deliver them from the Bishops successors as well as themselves by what title soever they be called I doubt not but you have both naturall and spirituall affection to this poore Kingdom the poore Saints that are rich in faith act faith in Christ for deliverance by you they say they care not what becomes of them so as the Crown may be set upon the head of Christ and fealty and alleagance sworne unto him who is no enemy to any just governours they are perswaded that the Parliament of themselves intend no lesse and that there are very many in both Houses most cordiall servants to Jesus Christ who are even sick for the love of him that dyed for the love of them but here is the case there is a potent faction within this Kingdom men that have enriched themselves in these times of danger and calamity a base thing so to build upon the ruines of our brethren that count gain godlinesse and these consist of subtill Atheisticall and depraved Polititians on the one hand and devout superstitious rigid Zealots on the other hand who by specious pretences and plausible insinuation worke upon the candor and devotion of many honest men whose mindes are vertuously disposed to enslave this Kingdom for their own ends and this under a pretence of Gods honour service worship and uniformity and this designe so politikely carried on that the wisest men may be mistaken for he that thinks no hurt himselfe is seldome suspitious of others The chiefe Religion of these Polititians is to have no Religion in the power of it but such a forme established as is most sutable to his Grandor and they thinke it a sin to let any man live in this Kingdome who will not eat up as sugar all their Orders and Sanctions our noble Worthies in Parliament would quickly be as wholsom medicinable restoratives to heale the wounds of this Kingdom but that they like byting corrosives study to make them greater and more dangerous setting up all sails to sail withall and rowing with all manner of Oares but being discovered will I hope be abhorred by all honest men Now to restrain the malice of these ambitious men the Lord hath preserved you to this houre and me thinks I heare Iesus Christ be-speaking you in this manner Hearken yee noble Army of Martyrs in affection and resolution who carryed your lives in your hands for my sake and for morall justice wherewith I am delighted I take it as kindly from you as if you had given me your lives but keepe them I am preparing mansions for you but your worke is not yet done you must stand up for the liberties of your brethren you must stand up in the gap for me who alone trod the wine-presse of my Fathers wrath for you why have I impowred you but to purchase liberty for my people Did I preserve you from active martyrdome that you should bring your selves to passive Would not I have taken your lives as kindly from you at Nas●bey Bristol c. as if after disbanding you should be imprisoned and put to death for Heretiques or Schismatiques Is not my kingly government as precious to you and as well worthy fighting for as my Priestly office But if you should be disbanded before Gods people have their liberties secured I should have covered my face and onely thought that you did not so well understand the Doctrine of Christs government and dom●nion in his Churches and amongst his Saints as the Doctrine of satisfaction by faith in him Is it not most apparent that the day of your disbanding is in probabi●ity the Eye of the Kingdoms ruine for does not this potent faction say they will not suffer an Independent that they cannot live but by the death of the Independent party Hath God preserved you hitherto in times of War to be insensibly destroyed in times of peace Was not your Commission to fight for Laws and Liberties whereof Conscience is the greatest hath not the Kingdom sufficiently dishonoured Religion formerly in the Bishops times but must they now under a pretence of uniformity seek the life of her Children and of Religion it self do they not ayme at the life of Religion which is the heart of God and the lives of his children which are the apple of his eye The Me●curialists at Court did but strike at the letter of the law in some things but these Phaetons would set all on fire and ayme at the power of Religion the very life of our Laws whose humours are so corrupt that the least scratch turns into a Gangreen For I am confident that these cruell men cannot bring one argument for themselves but what I may improve for the Popes Supremacy which was pretended to be for orders sake to avoid confusion but in reality hath been the occasion of all Tyranny But many words are not proper to an Army you have won the heart of Gods people in you is fulfilled that prophesie Esay 49. That Kings shall be your nursing Fathers Commanders persons of Eminency for what the watchfull Constable worthy Justicer reverend Judge and all other Officers of Justice do in punishing Traitors in times of peace the same in effect is done by Armies in time of War every Souldier hath been a judge to do justice and execution upon the enemy I have but this request to make to you that you hearken not to any Syren songs but be ever true to your first principles let the Honour of Parliament always be of most high account and precious esteem with you your jarring with that Supreame Court would be a pleasant melody to many that will pretend faire to you speak you fair to borrow your hands to take out the Chestnut for them that would have you crack the shell for them to eat the kernell It is reported of the Lioness or the Bear that if a whelpe dye she will roar in the Den exceedingly over the carkass or else having got some gobbets of flesh hopes by continuall clamour to put life into it some such there are that by daily exclamation against the Supream Court think to vivifie their dead Cause and to put life into a carkass that will not acquit our renowned Worthyes from the highest Crimination and yet will justifie your station by the Law of the Land I beseech you if the Parliament had no power to Commissionate you to redeem out Liberties what are you that have acted by their authority I hate dissimulation the happiness of this Kingdom will rest principally in this that all the godly though of different opinions favour and assist one another and that all honest peaceable men joyn together as one man to break the neck of all oppression and injustice Let every man contend for the Honour and Priviledges of the King and Parliament in the preservation of the Liberties and Birth-rights of the people And when the Kingdome is happily setled let us say that God hath done all yet honour them whom he hath honour'd The End

Redintegratio Amoris OR A Union of Hearts between The Kings Most Excellent Majesty the Right Honorable the LORDS and COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax and the Army Under his Command The Assembly and every honest man that desires a sound and durable Peace accompanied with speedy Justice and Piety By way of respective Apologies so far as Scripture and Reason may be Judges By JOHN COOK of Grayes-Inne Barrester The falling out of lovers is the renewing of love London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the black spread-Eagle neer the West-end of Pauls The principal matters are That 1. NAture is of Gavelkind Tenure 2. All lawful authority is derived from the people who cannot by any Covenant inslave themselves 3. Good Kings raign by Gods approbation Tyrants by his permission till the people can free themselves 4. What Law is what Rebellion is 5. That Anarchy is better then Tyranny 6. That in quiet Kingdoms much Iniustice is to be suffered rather then to oppose the Governors till it be insufferable and then it is ne resistance of authority because God never did nor man can give any such authority 7. Some Scriptures answered and such reverence to be given to divine authority as to beleeve that there was a reason for every thing though we cannot reach it 8. That Bishops for Religion and some former Judges in point of Prerogative are of equal credit 9. What und●d Lord Keeper Littleton and others 10. Twelve politick Judges to execute quick and cheap Justice requisite to felicitate this Kingdom with an Expedient for it 11. Essentials not to be lost for Formalities 12. The Law and the Prophets to be rather studied then law and profit 13. A Cause at first as plain as a bul-rush comes to be as hard as an oak 14. That Parliamentum is parium lamentum and that Kings originally agreed to refer the peoples complaints to whom soever they would choose and that Parliaments never dye intentionally 15. The mixture of the three estates commended yet if one of three o●ligors fail the other two must pay the debt for Justice must be d●n● 16. That the Judgment of Parliament is inevitable for all positive Laws by vertue of the fifth Commandment 17 Kings are not less free by reason of Parliaments no more then men are less safe upon Pauls for the Rails 18. To question the Justice of the Parliaments Cause is to doubt whether Protestant or Popish be the true Religion 19. Yet so as the King had some colour for what he did in Gods Ordinance which the Parliament if they should break trust have not and his late party adhering to the letter of Scripture and some Law cases Touch not mine anointed c. had the same colour as Papists for transubstantion by This is my body 20. Mr Jenkins easily answered and Dr Fearns matter combustible 21. Reasons to induce his Maiesty to beleeve that the Parliament did nothing but in discharge of their great trust without which they could not have answered it to the Kingdom and that his Maiesty would frame arguments for that purpose 22. That the Parliament would conceive that his Maiesty acted according to his present light for the satisfaction of his Royal Conscience his Royal Allies and many of his people at home would frame arguments for his Maiesty besides that the Law lays all the blame upon his evil Counsellors 23. That this is a principal expedient to beget a right understanding and endeared and loyal Affection between his Maiesty and people 24. How his Maiesty is head of the Church and one Argument for his Maiesty when the several Parliaments in England and Ireland present acts for establishing of the Protestant and Popish Religious severally what his Maiesty is to do and that the King of Poland swears to maintain both those Religions 25. That the Lords are intrusted by the people though not elected as Guardians of the Kings Contract with the people and that all subordinate Officers are to mind the duty of their places more then the desires of those that preferred them 26. Two things in the House of Commons questioned the Members not being sworn and their not Administring oaths and Answered 27. The Lords supplicated to be indulgent to tender Consciences being exempted from the Presbyterian discipline 28. Three Ordinances begg'd 1. Redemption for our poor brethren slaves to the Turks 2. Liberty for poor Prisoners that are ready to starve 3. Some speedy course to abate the price of corn least poor people be famish't 29 An Apologie for the Armies not disbanding who have bin true to the Covenant and seek nothing but for what they first ingaged and have been the breath of many of their nostrils who would not have their breath in the Kingdom 30. The Declaration against them a Nullity the Revocation of it a great honor to the Parliament and Army What spirits the Armies opposers are of 31. The two great expedients for a substantial settlement of the Kingdom Reformations in Courts of Justice and Liberty for tender Consciences cannot as mens interests now stand be effected without the Continuance of the Army 32. That the main interest of this Kingdom is to be as zealous for the Protestant Religion as Spain is for Popery 33. The Interest of all honest men is speedily to Vnite specially for Gods people 34. That the difference was not whether the Kingdom should be Protestants or Papists but Protestants at large or strickt Professors 35. That should the Army disband til Liberties are secured they would be a ludibrium to all the world and culpable of all the sufferings of Gods people 36. Some late Arguments against the Parliament answered and the Honor of that high Court in all things to be maintained so as the Honor of God do not suffer nor the peoples liberties destroyed 37. No man to grow rich in a time of Civil War Nor usury then to incur some Vsurers within the statute de judaismo and a provision that there may not be a begger in Israel 38. God wil not suffer any good Governors to be destroyed so long as they Administer Justice but t is dangerous for the supream Court to deny the people their Just Liberties 39 Forreign Negotiations against Protestants and the private Interests of some which are contrary to Publique Liberties are Grounds for the Armies continuance 40 Religion introduced by blood every where but in England a Prophesy concerning the sword to that purpose therefore truths which cost dear are to be loved 41. That war is lawful to defend Religion not to promote it that the sword maybe imployd for Religion as the servant of justice 42. Who are the hinderers of Irelands Releif and how Antichrist with his left hand may fight against his right 43. That H. 7. did wel to kil R. 3. and long may his Royal race inherit in our present Soveraign Lord King Charles and his princely Progeny 44. The Author

for quick and cheap justice would do it abundantly that the poor may have justice for Gods sake and the rich for reasonable Considerations The favorites of state have always magnified the happiness of English men above all other nations in regard of the Assizes that twice a year Queen justice rides her Progress and Justice is sent them home to thier doors but I profess the Kingdom is a great looser by it 't is a meer spunge to suck away their moneys for little or no Consideration matters of the Crown only excepted and why more hast to hang a man for stealing a sheep then to help a poor man to his just Debt for what a charge is it to try a Nisi prius and when the matter of fact is tryed the party is never the neerer judgment is far of the Defendent may dye or elss writs of Error brought that a man is not beholding so much to the Law as to a good purse to obtain his right therefore this I would humbly beg of the Parliament for the present because to settle a Court of Judicature in every County wil require time and much wisdom to foresee and prevent subsequent inconveniences that the Reverent Judges may every Circuit if possibly to begin this Summer circuit be enabled by Commission to hear and determine besides the Nisi prises all private differences between party and party throughout the whole Kingdom the matter to be brought before them by Petition the Defendent to have timely notice in person or at his dwelling house by Affidavit of two witnesses in case he appear not both parties to bring their witnesses and evidences and the matter being heard to be speedily ended and execution by the Sherif accordingly unless it be very weighty and then to be adjourned to Westminster whereby a difference may be ended in a moneths time for 5. l. charge at the most which now costs 50 or 100. l. and is 3 years at the least in deciding and ends most commonly with the ruin of one party and the other gets such a blow that is long in recovering I know this wil be counted a dangerous design tending to overthrow the Law but it is only by such as fear rather the overthrow of their own profit more then they value the Law and the Prophets for I am sure they cry out for quick and cheap justice and I wil burn my books nay venture my life upon it that no man can render a reason nor frame an objection against this but that I can easily refute it if this be granted as a maxime of state that the Publique good and quiet of many is to be preserved before the private profit of a few say not that I shal hereby wrong my own profession 't is all one if I did in reference to the Publique good but this is a great mistake Lawyers would get more by speedy Justice for who had not rather give his Councel 40. s. to end his business in a day then attend many moneths and give him 10. s. a time for motion upon motion references and references besides no wise man wil go to Law for as matters are carryed the worst end by Arbitriments is better then the best can be expected by the Law all things computed unless in special cases and so what is lost in the hundred is found in the Shire pray do not say this wil prejudice the City and keep away Termers suppose it were so why should all the blood in the body be drawn into one veine When one member swels too much the body pines but that 's another mistake for men would bestow that in Cloaths and Commodities which they now spend in Law-suits but I hope time wil make us wise but then comes the old objection wil you have all things arbitrary and uncertain Nothing less but every Controversie to be ended according to reason and every former President and Judgment to be authentical and binding so far as there is reason for it and not otherwise the contrary practise is as dangerous to the state as implicite faith in matters of salvation for I would but ask this question If a Judg beleives in his Conscience that former Presidents were against reason whether if he observe them he doth not therein condemn himself but if he see reason for the Judgment then it is his own Judgment that leads him and not the bare Authority of his Predecessors but it wil be alledged that reason is malleable and one reason may be brought against another truly in matters of moral Justice t is hard to imagine any great difficulty that cause which at first is a bul-rush comes to be a Gyant differences for the most part are plain and very easie at the first beginning of the suit but when by motion upon motion the cause is put out of its course the matter grows so intricate that a poor Clyent can scarce get out of the Labyrinth but my meaning is not that every rational man should be able to understand the reason of a Law-case but that that cannot be given Law when there is a good reason to be given against it as put the case there is a verdict for a Just debt now whatsoever can be alleadged that such a process did not issue regularly yet reason says that the Debt ought to be presently paid and this can be no more called confusion then Mithridate deserves the name of Poyson And now if I should proceed Methodically I should argue whether the Parliament have sufficient grounds to raise Armies as they did but that is but to argue whether the Protestants or the Papists be of the true Religion and next I should lay down what those just grounds and Arguments were but that would savor of Presumption having been so fully and ungainsayingly declared by both Houses and might be unsafe if I should omit any and at the best prove tedious to the reader my desire being not to build upon any mans foundation nor to bring Arguments which have been exposed to Publique view already though I judg them better then my own yet 't is but a kind of cosenage to the reader to invite him to make several purchases of the same matter a trick more Common then Commendable in this Printing age yet something I must say concerning those matters which is this that the Arguments and motives which swayed me to adhere so cordially and constantly to the Parliament against the late Oxford party were rather Scripture grounds and reasons of state and self preservation then Law-cases and Printed authorities for I always conceived that the King was obliged to call Parliaments as often as the generallity of the people besought him and to disolve them til the Parliament said omnia bene was against his oath and that he was to consent to all such Laws as should humbly be presented to his Majesty by both Houses and when I find in our Law books that the King is a God upon earth as