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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45604	A Remonstrance to the kingdome, or, An appeale to conscience, as thou wilt answer it at the dreadful day of judgement, whether it be lawfull to take up arms? &c. written by J.H. souldier.	J. H., souldier.	1643 (1643)	Wing H80; ESTC R14421	4,108	8

vertue And the King and Kingdome being thus abused by evill Councellors to whom could we the oppressed Subject appeale if we did attempt to petition his Majesty we should meet with so many bribe taking Courtiers between the Porters Lodge and the Presence that either we wanted money to purchase preferrers or else through the multiplicity of hands our Petition was presented to God knowes who and we had an answer God knowes when so that despairing of redresse we were forced to return home to repent or at least to lament the abuse of Justice If we petitioned the Judges especially the major part of them they must have a Bribe too and at last after foure or five Termes attendance we should have answer returned contrary to all reason that the Lawes were so and wee must suffer Thus at all hands the Lawes were abused and most were officious to conceale the complaint of the Subject the King must not know the truth all was Law all was for the good of the Subject when their chiefe Designe was at one blow to destroy the Religion Law Office Authority and Libertie both of King Parliament and People The King and Kingdome being thus involved and intangled in these destructive Strattagems the Lawes of the Kingdome having lost their power and all things being become a Chaos of disorder what 〈◊〉 shall be used to reduce things to their first Order for certainly although the King neglect it the Kingdome may and ought to take order for its own safety why surely a Parliament in which is represented the whole Body of the Kingdome must be the safest and most effectuall meanes to redresse former and prevent future evills now this Parliament carries with it a neere resemblance to the composition of the Government of this Nation being compounded of three degrees the King the Peeres and Commons all which should joyn together in the regulating and reforming those things which were so burthensome to the Common-wealth but if the King shall neglect to joyn with his great Counsell the Lords and Commons of the Kingdome and shall adhere to those evill Councellours which have been the authors of those former evils for reforming of which the Parliament was called and shall not onely neglect the Office of a King which is to preserve the lawes and People from oppression but shall joyn with those persons which have been such apparent Enemies to himselfe and the whole Kingdome in the abetting and maintaining those lawlesse practises against the Parliament and so consequently against the whole Kingdome Now speake thy Conscience without feare or flattery as thou wilt answer it at the dreadfull day of Judgement where all secrets shall be known whether thou thinkest it most warrantable to joyn with a King so mis-led in the maintenance of such a cause undertaken by Papists and their adherents Projectors and their dependents Delinquents and deboist and despicable persons or to ioyn with a Parliament which hath reformed all those former practizes and abuses and doth endeavour to prevent the like practises for the Future and doth dayly labour to maintain the lawes in force with the iust Authority of the King to the glory of God and the good of the whole Kingdome now iudge I say whether it be lawfull for the Parliament which is the representative Body of the Kingdome and was called together to consult and conclude of those affaires which did conduce most unto the security both of King and Kingdome Now Judge I say whether it be not lawfull for them in the behalfe of the King and his just Authority the Lawes of the Land and the Kingdome in generall all which are indangered by this abused authority to raise an Army to oppose those persons who have thus abused the King in telling him that was Law which was oppression have caused him to neglect his Office and abuse his power in giving way to have an Army raysed against himselfe his Parliament and People to protect them from the censure of the Law making a way to their own security through the ruine of his Majesty and the whole Kingdome and if as I conceive thou must be convinc'd for Conscience must strike a true alarum thou findest thy owne errour banish that covetous desire out of thy heart and seem not loyall from the teeth outward let not thy Purse onely be imployed in forwarding this acceptable service but if thou art of ability let thy Person second thy Purse for know it for a truth in so doing thou shalt do God thy King thy Country and thy Soule good service it shall be imputed to the for good and not for evill when Haman shall be hanged then Mordecay shall be cloathed in the Kings Garments and the religious Jewes respected by their gracious Soveraign God save the King and Parliament

A REMONSTRANCE TO THE KINGDOME OR AN Appeale to Conscience As thou wilt answer it at the dreadfull day of Judgement Whether it be lawfull to take up Arms c. VVritten by J. H. Souldier Read and Judge LONDON Printed for Thomas Watson 1643. AN Appeal to thy Conscience As thou wilt answer it at the day of Iudgement Whether it be not lawfull for a Nation to take up Armes in the defence of Religion Law and the Office of a King c. IT is the common discourse among those that make seeming Loyalty to his Majesty their pretence of Malignancy to the Parliament that it is unlawfull for a Subject to take up Arms against his Prince or a Parliament as they generally alledge to raise an Army against a King though never so wicked in his Life nor never so tiranicall in his Government Under which pretence they would manifest to his Majesty and to the world that it is their meere loyalty to his Majesty that doth thus predominate in them and not any sinister end to themselves when on the contrary I will instantly manifest unto you by an undeniable argument that it is meerly a covetous desire to secure them selves from that charge which the common callamity of this Kingdome requires and not love to the King nor from any cause that they can really ground a hate or dislike to the Parliament or their proceedings You may be pleased to remember that not many yeares ago there was a 〈◊〉 of Ship-money imposed upon the Kingdome which tax was pretended and avouched to be warrantable by Law by some that are very active in this Warre against the Parliament and and I am certain it was seconded with the Kings Authority yet then you may remember what Generall muttering there was against the King and Nobillity one cried out the lawes were abused another wispered the King was mis-led by ☞ then these now strong Royalists were Anti-Rounheads then their loyalty was not so great neither were they so forward as they now professe though in my conscience they never intend any such thing to spend their lives and estates in the defence of his Majesty no the very thought of parting with a little money had banished those thoughts out of their Brests then God send us a Parliament c. Now compare the time past with the time present God has been pleas'd to send them a Parliament who redressed those grievances of which they so much complained for which they thought themselves deeply ingaged but now the practises of those persons before mentioned being grown to such a dangerous head that the necessity of the Kingdome enforceth the Parliament to leavy money for the raysing and maintaining of Forces to bring those to condigne punishment that were the authors of those so much lamented distractions both in Church and State now they slip their necks out of the Collar nay thinke they if they raise warre wee must part with money and therefore wee will stand for peace they could have else no pretence for their malignity those men that they formerly so much complained of are honest men and good Protestants and the Parliament is now the onely obstacle is not this apparent canst thou whatsoever thou art cleere thy selfe where was thy Loyaty to thy King then why didest thou not apply the lesson to thy selfe then which now thou appliest to others Give Caesar his due it is easily proved that he had as much right to that as to many things which thou at this time pretendest to be due to him To beginne with thy main pretence with which thou wouldest deceive the world and doest deceive thy own Soule Thou pretendest that it is not lawfull for a Nation to take up Arms against a King mis-led in the maintenance of Religion Law the Office of a King and safety of the Kingdome when the Religion Lawes and Office of a King are abused and brought to apparent ruine Object But you will object that you se none of these things in danger which are pretended Solution It is not unknown to those that will not declare themselves ignorant or wilfull that there were severall Innovations crept into our worship and doctrine nay they were inforced and imposed by those soule killing Prelates whose Idolatrous crimes being neither punished nor repented of hath caused God to throw among us these Babels confusions this diversity of tongues and diversity of opinions each opposing other in the maintenance of that Religion which their Sophistry hath spoiled and in so doing hath destroyed the whole Kingdome and if the purging the Church of these innovations and setting up a true worship with the endeavouring to bring those to a legall triall that were guilty of the said misdemeanors to the end that they may receive the reward of their labour be not agreeable to the lawes of God and the Kingdome may easily be discerned The like argument may serve concerning the abuse of the lawes but I shall forbeare to mention the particulars thereof onely I will appeale to thy own conscience whether the lawes were not abused leave it to the to consider by whom whose authority As touching the Kings Office or the Office of the King I shall insist upon that as the main thing which concerns this discourse and upon which this difference is grounded The Kings of England at their Coronation sweare solemnly to maintaine the Lawes of the Land and to govern the Land according to the Lawes and Govenment thereof so that it rests not in the Kings power to alter the government of the Kingdome and to bring in a new for he must maintain the ancient established Lawes of the Kingdome and must governe by them for the Lawes of the Kingdome are the protection of the Subject by which it is apparent that it is the Office of a King to which he stands ingaged by his Oath taken at his Coronation to preserve the Lawes and to govern by the Lawes in which consists the health and wealth ipeace and security both of his Majesty his royall off spring and the whole Kingdome Now if the King be wrought upon by evill Councell so that he is drawn personally to make breach of the Lawes which by his Office and Oath he is bound to preserve without all question there is a dirivative power from the first Principle of Law from which the People may claime a lawfull authority to use the most effectuall meanes to preserve themselves with the Office of the King and Lawes of the Kingdome from the violence of the King so sedued and mis-led for the Kingdomes safety is the supreame Law Now that the King was mis-led we may suspect otherwise how came so many Projects to be granted under the great Seal which Projects granted by his Majesty were great breaches of the Lawe and great oppressions to the Subject and contrary to the Office of a King which is to preserve the Subject from oppression and to maintain the Lawes in full force and