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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92404	The converts letter to his old freinds. Or The apologie of a commander of the Kings party, for diserting of that party, and bearing armes for the Parliament. Wherein is shewed, that those pretences of defending the Protestant religion, the fundamentall lawes, the liberties of the subjects, &c. on that party, are but specious. What Irish, and papists, have been honoured & cheifly intrusted. How if that army doth conquer, as it is now moulded, popery and tiranny, of necessity must be introduced. Withe the lawfulnesse of bearing defensive armes by the Parliament. Printed and published according to order.	W. R.	1645 (1645)	Wing R94; Thomason E260_43; ESTC R212471	7,823	11

Protestants in Bristoll must be shot to death for refusing to go under his command And Walt. Mountague though a known Jesuite and taken in London as a spye must bee thought in exchange worthy of a Captaine and Lievtenant of horse more then the Earle of Cleaveland that is a Peere of the Realme and commanded a Brigade of horse if what was offered may be beleeved He that doth but consider what Garrisons on the Kings party are and have been intrusted in the hands of Papists viz. In Oxford the Kings head quarter Sir Arthur Aston must be Governour and Collonel Gage since shine his assistant In Bristoll the next grand Garrison the Lord Herbert the Lord Rivers the Lord Sturton c must have the superintendent or directive power Mounsier Garnier a French Papists of the Queens placing is Major of the Town and a Jesuite as I am informed is the Governours Capt Lievtenant In Basing are the Marquesse of Winchester and his retinue In the Forrest of Deane are Sir Jo. Winter and his In Barkley Castle Collonel Power as I named before and Slowley his Major In Nunny Castle Captaine Pratar c. These all in these places have the command And by these in one corner of the Kingdome you may judge of other Parts as Expede Herculem by the dimension of the foot the whole body He that doth but consider besides these in the Armies who are most intrusted or respected shall find them to be most Papists Such as Collonel William Arundel of Warder and his horse Regiment all Papists Robert Bret Lievtenant-Collonel to Courtney made a Barronet Peter Treviltan Major of foot to Prince Maurice Major Webb sometimes to be Major Generall for Dorsetshire Richard Hunt Lievtenant-Collonel to the Queens Regiment of foot Cum multis alis● quos nunc per scribere longum est These you know I presume which are all within my knowledge besides Captains and others of meaner command And besides Irish Scottish Dutch and French papists amongst the Cavalry which for number are like the Locusts in Egypt These are only in my memory and I beleeve I here mention in particular an inconsiderable number of them in comparison with the whole If I might beleeve some of the Irish Rebell Cōmissionets who told it me themselves I declared is much to severall persons It is intend●d 〈◊〉 ●and 10000 of the Irish Rebels in England suddenly And if this be 〈◊〉 way or these the persons b● whom the Protestant Religion is 〈…〉 O●●●f these are any Symptomes or tokens 〈…〉 of the times I take the word defence to be correlative to the word offence And as in the word so in the matter there can be no defence without offence or injury first offered Yet this was that pretence of defence under colour whereof the Rebels of Ireland massacred plundered and expelled the Protestants for no other offence then for teaching them civility and how to live like Christians So as here is the first offence offered by Papi●ts cloaked in the name of defence and under colour of maintaining their Religion Lawes and Liberties I professe I thought really the King intended according to his severall Protestations Vows and Declarations with seeming innovations made by Parliament and their party to performe all these things pretended which engaged me to serve amongst you 1. Because it was said to maintaine the Protestant Religion established by law which was sound in all fundamentall points of doctrine Howsoever it was in discipline I did not then so well consider 2. That it was to maintaine the fundamentall Lawes established legally under seeming presidents of authority and antiquity To which I saw no answer although there were one published 3. Because they were engaged amongst you persons of great honour and fortunes reputed good Protestants whom I thought in this monarchicall government setled by law would not longer assist the King in this war then whiles he maintained the Protestant Religion and governed by the Lawes 4. That so long as there was no other proper strength but Protestants and subjects And that army trusted in the hands of such There was no danger of popery or tiranny if the King should prevaile by the sword although some few Papists were made use of as a ministeriall hand only And for my part I assure you charity binds me to the same opinion of the reallity of the Kings owne intentions in the same still though I am otherwise satisfied of his power in performance thereof for when I consider 1. What power and influence a beloved Queen may have on the Kings actions Which was Solomons case and our sad experience can witnes 2. What Councellours and advisers are againe most in favour beloved honoured and trusted which projected the greivances that begot these Wars and which were the primitive cause of our miseries 3. That by the occurrences it doth plainly appeare the Irish Wars were set on foote by the same Councells 4. That the fundamentall Laws of the Kingdome are made a stalking horse to creep under covert rather then a path to walke by And that it strayned at to make an unlimited prerogative in the King for their own ends 5. That al● Commanders in the Kings army are by degrees new moulded for the most part And that army put into the hands of the two Princes Papists forreigners or such as have betrayed their trusts to ambition or avarice 6. That oppression and injury by plundering and otherwise is rather palliated then punished And all Laws but what the will of every man by the sword doth administer become dead letters 7. That such numbers of Auxillary Forces as Papists French Irish Dutch c. are brought in and intrusted when as Protestants are suspected put forth and discountenanced 8. That of necessity that army as now it is in all humane probability must produce popery and Tiranny by constraint of their power if the sword thereof prevaile these things being considered and the faire carriage on the Parliament side I presume it will satisfie all indifferent persons on your party aswell as me that the Parliament aymeth at nothing but those ends which are religious honorable just legall and according to their Covenant For defence of the Kings Royall person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and liberties of the Kingdome with their owne just rights and priviledges c. The Parliament is that great Court of justice and Councell of State which was freely convened and consented unto to continue by the Kings own expresse authority and confirmation That by the ancient and known priviledges of the same hath power to raise the Posse Regni as a Sheriffe by the Common Law hath to raise the Posse Comitatus to obvene and suppresse all insurrections and disorders and to execute justice In whose Ordinances the Kings implyed though not expresse assent is declared by law Which are to be obeyed more then the orders or rules of any other Court of Justice It hath

jurisdiction cognizance over all persons and in all causes in these his Majesties Dominions The Members whereof in duty if not by oath more then the Judges in other Courts ought not to deferre or delay to doe justice Neque propter magnum sigilum neque propter parvum although the Kings expresse Commands were against it So long as their is on there party no quarrell but defence and nothing else aymed at but to pursue the Covenant which is the same the King himselfe took in Scotland So long as there is no other end but to defend the ancient Laws and Liberties established And to reforme the Church of England in discipline according to the patterne of other Protestant Churches which are allowed by those Protestants under the Hierarchy to be found in doctrine in all parts of the essence of Religion and in discipline not so subject to tirannicall oppression and exorbitancy So long as Episcopacy the Church government so much stood for by you though alleaged to be antient is not Iure divino but polliticall confessed by the author of the New distemper allowed to be printed at Oxford and the same which the best reason and authority authentique doe speake So long as the Litturgie or booke of Common prayer established by Law in Edward the sixths time if all in it were good and without exception were but a thing indifferent and then put to the question whether it were better to expunge the ould Litturgy or Masse Booke or to compose a new When although it was carryed at present wanting our experience that it was better to expunge the old Yet D. Ridley B. of London since a Martyr in the Church for the same reasons now thought fit and many others were then for erecting a new one So long as any prayers according to found doctrine and the word of God comming from the sincerity of the heart and true devotion may be as good and effectuall to salvation as the Booke of Common Prayer if all in it were good and without offence It is more safe in this quarrell to joyne with the Parliament and their party be they for the Presbiteriall or Independent discipline being both Protestants sound in doctrine then to joyne with the Papists that are neither sound in doctrine nor discipline The Scots they first bear defensive Armes for defence of their Religion Lawes and Liberties where no effusion of blood was And this is approved of in the ●ct of pacification in that Kingdome by the King himselfe to be a laudable undertaking The Irish they beare Armes on the same pretence and shed the blood of many thousands of innocent persons without any provocation A hundred thousand computed at least yet this must be hushed up approved of under a Pacification and many of them are honoured and specially intrusted for it And must the English tamely lie still and suffer Religion Lawes Liberties and themselves to be trampled on by persons disaffected only out of a Conscientious scruple that they ought not to beare Armes against the Annoynted of the Lord as is said when the King is made but the cloake to their designes although it be to defend the Religion Lawes and Liberties which truly lye at stake from innovation David that was a man after Gods owne heart in a private quarrell as to himselfe made not this scruple when he offered the King of Gath to goe up to battell against Saul And at most he was ingaged but in his owne private defence from tirranny and oppression Much more may be done when the Publique Cause of Religion Lawes and Liberties are endangered Kings commands in a Monarchichall government are like the Lawes of God in the two Tables which declare their full will and their subjects duty Their wils are so setled in the Lawes established that they are to be obeyed in their commands but so far as they are agreeable to the Lawes and noe further The very heathen by the light of nature only did confesse and alow it to be the most just and honorable quarrell in the world to fight pro aris f●●ls for their Gods and Countrey And Propatria mori pulchrum that it was a gallant thing to dye for their Countrey The most strict Divines under the Gospell though in a private quarrell hold it fit to turne the other care to the smiter rather than smite againe yet noe waies allow us to tollerate injuries offered unto God Nehemiah ● ●3 Maccah 13 1● We must not 〈◊〉 we see Religion Lawes and Libertie trampled on lye still in the ditch and cry God help only when God hath given us power without using the means to establish them And to expect deliverance by the immediate hand of God in a miraculous way as of ould time Math. 4.5.6 When the divell tempted our Saviour to throw himselfe from the Pinacle of the Temple The Devine observeth That Christ would not cast himselfe downe though he might have saved himselfe D● Su●t●in his D●●●●e●●●re 14 without the Ministrye of Angles to shew us not to seeke supernaturall meanes when God doth lend us naturall We tempt him when we seeke health without a medicine or victory without a combate wee tempt him when by reason or counsell we may avoyd some evill and yet explore his power And last of all we tempt him when we enquire to far into his wisdome or require that unlawfully which he is wo●t to offer by meanes And therefore when the cause is just the authority lawfull the intent good that God may be glorified a right continued I●● 235. and imminent dangers avoyded at is and may be lawfull for Christians to take Armes And soe to doe is nothing contrary as some have dreamed to Christian Peace c. with this ca●tion That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 desire of superiority be not the cause of our taking Armes Iam. 136. It was the course in the primitive Church to stand up at the reahearsall of the Creede with their hands on their swords as ready to defend that fayth It is according to the law of nature Vim vi repellere for every creature to defend themselves from injury much more the publique state or Church and Common weale It is a trespasse justifiable by the Common Law to kill another se defendendo in defence of himselfe or his goods By the Matriall Law Kings in the darke are not distinguished from enemyes but by the Worde which is the Law Neither are they to be knowne but by the Lawes which distinguish Kings from other men in these times of darkenes The King is the ●●●untain of justice from whence by the Cōmom Law and Christian charity is p●es●med can 〈…〉 streame He is a 〈…〉 of the Church ●●x under Christ in these his Majesties Do●●●nions But if the fountain branch into two streams by suffocation on pollution o● the old channel I will leave the polluted or muddy streame and swimm ●o s●ake in the cleare o●e if the bead be disaffecte by any the members is with all d●● reverence to the h●ad I will joyne with those member least disaffected to cu●eth● rest and endeavour to take of that distemper from the head And if by experimentall practice it appeare that any member be incurable To save the head and the r●st of the body I say Enserceidendum est ne pars sincera tra●●tur Let it b● cut off least it pu●r fi● the ●est If the King therefore by evill Councell and adv●ce personally comma●d●●● on thing Acts. 4.19 the Lawes e●ta●●l shed and the Gospell bi● the contrary I will honour the King but obey the Lawe Acts. 5.29 and the Gospell in which is the Kings implyed assent And the Parliament also which ●s the Kings highest Court of justice and Councell of state can best expound interpret and give vigour to the Lawes And doe desire the fl●u●ishing of the true light of the Gospell Therefore I say with Moses unto such ●s are of the Parliament and their party who I now bele●ve and perceive to manage their busines with sincerity Dread not nor be affraide for your God fighteth for you Deut. 29.30 but goe on and prosper And I desire to ●oyne with you in the worke For salvation belongeth unto the Lord and his blessing is with his people Farewell and I am in charity still Psalme 3.8 W.R. Aprill the 4. 1645. FINIS