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A93763	The reason of the war, with the progress and accidents thereof. / Written by an English subject. VVherein also the most material passages of the two books printed at Oxford (in which His Majesties party do undertake to justifie their proceedings) are briefly examined; viz. The [brace] declaration, entituled, Tending to peace; relation of the passages at the meeting at Uxbridge. July 1. 1646. Imprimatur Na: Brent.	Stafford, William, 1593-1684.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5152; Thomason E350_8; ESTC R201041	87,456	156

Whosoever shall invite the company or desire the accesse of any person whither it be of a King as supreme or of any other person of a lower rank it is to be presumed to be for the mutual and amicable society of those who are desired if before the time of entertaining there be a strangenesse or aversnesse of friendship in the invited friends the desire of the inviter ceaseth and he abateth his welcome The Comparison although it seemeth here betwixt two equal parties friends of the like degree therefore not fit to hold is the more effectual betwixt two parties the one superior of Power to wrong the other inferiour Subject to bee wronged The reason wherefore the Members in the House of Parliament were preferred in their Countreys suffrages to be their Judges was for the opinion of their Wisdom and Integrity above at least equal to others of the Countrey Wisdom consists of Circumspection Diffidence foresight * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Euripid. The French call Mistrust the Mother of Wisdom Diffidence especially as Integrity doth of distributing and doing all men right In the Parliaments refusing or admitting His Majesties accesse they have a narrow path to tread to please all men which no man or Counsel yet could do for if by denying him they prolong the War impoverish and exhaust the Kingdom as some men and their adversaries give out if by admitting they lose and frustrate their preparations and past endeavorings for the Subjects welfare for it will rest in the King and in His parties Power to annihilate their Acts their prudence and councels will be exposed to obloquy and scorn For howbeit His Majesty as a Christian as a King may and cannot chuse but have a deep sence and compassionate heart against the farther shedding of his Subjects blood His party which He professeth under the name of friends not to desert will expect a large interest in His Power their interest which when they have gained any man may judge for what use it shall serve In War the prevailing and stronger side relieth upon their Forces the weaker and more vanquished on their stratagem and cunning for the Parliament to be over-wrought by the cunning Practices of their adversaries were a lessening of their wisdom The people of CVMA were branded for their too late wisdom their imprudence was turned into a Proverb The fisherman once struck alwayes takes heed A parley once betwixt two parties found false makes the more innocent part the wiser afterwards If neither Peace nor Conquest can be the sooner had the War continued is like to have a most sad and fatal upshot the fault of the continuing resting onely on some few mens accompt betwixt these two extremes viz. the Dissolute licentious and Armed man on the one side and the harmlesse poor Subject on the other The oppressour on the one and the oppressed on the other side or where it first began betwixt the Papists stiling themselves the Kings friends in His name and under colour of defending Him on the one side and the Protestant on the other side in whose blood the Papists do think to imbrue their hands naming them Rebels Traytors to His Majesty The Prophet sums up the diffeence in a few words betwixt the ungodly and wicked who have drawn out their sword and bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy and to slay such as be of a right Conversation But that there is a superintendent Almighty Power the Lord of Hoasts who will be a defence to the oppressed even a refuge in time of trouble whereof he hath already given a pledge and manifested his Power and loving kindnes unto His in the more remote parts of Christendom by giving several successes in signal victories to the Protestant party in those parts against the more Popish Although in those vast Armies there are Papists on either side yet take them either in degree or number the Spaniard Emperor and their confederates consist only or for the most part of Papists accomplices in a confederate League by open enmity as by secret subtile practises to extirpate the Protestant religion The persons on whom the Accompt of the continuance of this War will lye are those alone who throughly convinced of the injustice thereof waged by the Kings party against his people knowing withall who have been the first actual Authors and promoters of this War who since the counterfeiters and pretenders to a Peace remain yet obstinate adhering to that party in that desperate and resolute way as preferring rather the ruine of their own native Countrey before the failing of that their party The sober relenting and wise demeanors of these engaged might have put a period to this War if they steering their affections all one way to the light of Sence Conscience Reason shall set aside the punctilio of reputation which no wise man did ever lose of being thought inconstant their actions will alike unite and joyn together against the refusers of Peace as against a common Enemy and every good Subject will according to the habiliments whereunto he has been used and bred act and wish best only to that side which wisheth best undividedly unreservedly to the King and Kingdom In the dividing which every one takes it ill to be suspected to be partial or that his wishes should seem rather to incline to the King then to the Parliament to the Parliament rather then to the King they thinking that their wishing well to the King is to wish well to the King and Kingdom because the King protesteth the welfare of the Kingdom The perusing this Treaty doth clear the question and doth settle and confine the doubtful Judgement of whosoever may be mistaken in this conflict The Unity and joynt accord in the House of Parliament may be a leading case to induce a general Unity among all the Subjects of the Kingdom That as by the singular policy presented in the Harmony betwixt the House of Lords and Commons and as between the Commons themselves strengthening and crediting their proceedings the like Unity may descend intirely to the inferior Members throughout the Kingdom For howbeit there may be different wayes several disputes by cause of various judgements all tending to one and the self same end yet no Argument to divide them from their chief principle The Subjects Peace And although emulation alwayes attends great and eminent spirits keeping off for the most part an accord of mindes Gods Power is so much the more visible in their actings and endeavorings for Peace Himself being the Author of Peace and lover of Concord in making men to be of one minde in an House Briefly to comprise the whole in a few words by way of question and for the sooner restoring these unhappy Kingdoms to an happy Peace and general Unity the matter of this Civil and unnatural War betwixt the Prince and people betwixt the Subjects of three Kingdoms contending each with other as it had it's rise from mistakes and jealousie doth now as the possibility and enjoyment of a firm and lasting Peace rest and determine upon the clearing of these few questions Whither His Majesty has had evil Councellors Instruments about Him who have diverted Him from the course of justice some of whom stiled now His friends Whither His declining and forsaking them be ingratitude in Him or to be accounted a deserting His Friends Whither there be a lawfully summoned Parliament and where Whither the peoples taking up of Arms in maintenance of this War ut supra be either in the beginning or in the continued course thereof Rebellion and Treason FINIS

Art and might nothing left unattempted to awe and conquer them and which they judge most hard that Proclamations forbidding all Traffique unto the place of their sitting that other Messages some requiring Obedience others threatning and sent them where they sit to be debarr'd the publishing their Reason and Answer of not obeying which they cannot communicate thereby to satisfie the Kingdom in that all commerce and intercourse betwixt the King and them is inhibited by those his Proclamations Fear of a Prince's displeasure is a note of a Peoples subjection no lessening their just courage the Parliament have manifested both Submission Courage Courage in not yielding when they were weakest Submission in not refusing to Treat when strongest Former Princes have been best pleased to own such Subjects men of Valor and Constancy not terming those vertues Rebellion Treason when as Rebellion rightly understood may be against a State as against a King it may want a proper appellation otherwise King James as wise and discerning a Prince as the latter times have afforded throughout the Christian Empire erred much in delivering his judgement How he sets forth the Enemies to a State and the unhappinesse of that King who admits such his above recited Speech in Parliament 1609. hath mentioned in several passages thereof Misdemeanors intended and committed against a State are done with an high insolent hand and deserve an answerable punishment as well as against a King the State being a firm and well built frame of Government wherein the King and Kingdom is conerned The King although a Supreme Person yet a Subject to Infirmity The several threatnings published and violence offered the Houses of Parliament may well grow thin when those of the Kings party contend to make his Power absolute and unlimited thence in him to Punish Pardon and Reward at pleasure In him also or in themselves to Judge alone the consideration whereof might invite many to his party who at first deliberatively upon advice and best judgement promised their duty and affections to the Parliament since finding their strength decreased by the departure of many their fellow Members might think it unsafe to stay themselves They could not but foresee that the King offering to remove the Houses of Parliament to some other place the City of LONDON would be quarreled with as harboring those whom his Majesty calls his Enemies and from whence he was driven away as he and his party do complain by seditious Tumults Whether those Tumults were the true or suggested cause of his removing thence or the Letter written to disswade him from any compliant way with the Parliament but rather to betake himself to some remoter place elsewhere c. 'T is true there was at that time which his Majesty speaks of a great concourse of people about Westminster and White-hall and the Londoners languishing long as many Subjects elsewhere did under the heavy pressures of Injustice implored his Majesty and the Houses of Parliament for redresse every one being earnest to have Justice done with the first opportunity of the Parliaments sitting They might peradventure press too near and rudely to his presence but whether his Actions after such removing suited with the Instructions of that Letter then sent when the Jealousies did first begin let all men judge The Orators opinion was Nothing so elegant or Cicer. Offie good but words may stain yea and wrest it too to an ill sense The peoples numerous and importunate desire of Justice their pressing near to his Majesty is by the power of Oratory Seditious Tumults On the other side some taking part with the Parliament give out That the Book of Common Prayer is altogether Idolatrous the Church-Government by Bishops Antichristian There may be an Error and corruptive use in this or any Form yet not to be mark'd by such Attributes Nothing also as the same Orator observes so harsh or horrid but the eloquence of words can mitigate and excuse The impetuous coming of great numbers of Armed men with Swords and Pistols following the King when he came to the House of Parliament to demand the six Impeached Members is by vertue of milde language the * In the Kings Answer to the Declaration from the Lords and Commons 1642. single casual mistake of the King the indiscretion of some few rash Gentlemen Which by the way the disaffection born by his Majesty to the City the place of the Parliaments sitting presaged all possible means to be devised of dividing the place and the Parliament met there which could not be better managed then by excepting against that and adjourning to some other place To speak it plainly it was the Cities Assistance and Affection to the Parliament which caused the Anger for be it spoken to their perpetual Glory the happy correspondence betwixt the City the place of security for that Court and that Courts consulting for the Cities and the Publique good hath hitherto next under Gods Protection delivered Both the City and the Parliament It follows next in point of Conscience which is to be obeyed the King divided from the Parliament or the Parliament as the King is the Head and eminent part of the Parliament the Parliament the Heart of the King although the Head may be forceably or otherwise turned then the Heart directs the Heart is neverthelesse the same nor to be thought divided from the Head Wherefore the Parliament residing there where it was first Summoned and the King there vertually * The Commissions cannot otherwise work then to a Parliament wherefore if his Maj●sties personal presence be a necessary part of Parliament without which there can be no Parliament the Commissions can be of no force his absence making it no Parliament The granting which lets in other inconveniences upon dispute touching the locality of his presence as where whether in his Throne within the walls of the House or in his Court adjoyning The King and his Majesty are as it were inseparable Majesty is proper to him alone only his Attribute somtimes we say the King somtimes His Majesty neither is any mans person any more then a corporeal substance It is the Minde the Soul the Dignity and qualifications thereof which do as the Philosopher speaks inform and give being unto man Neither can it be thought that a personal contiguity is to be required of the King to be within the Parliament walls no more then the Body of the Sun to descend and touch the Earth when as it sufficeth that by its power and influence it gives heat and nourisheth a Commission for passing Bills in his absence and a Law in force for transacting matters when he is absent by Commission to convey his Royal Assent 33. Hen. 8. Obedience is due to the Parliament so considered viz. his Majesty in his lustre power and vertue being there incorporate with those his Faculties and whosoever resists that Court resists the King as Head Herewith suits the * Rom. 13. Apostles

other Acts in several Counties for raising money c. or otherwise for discharging some Trust to them committed when as themselves the more eminent the more aimed at by the Enemy and the nearer to danger cannot appear with safety to execute the same Let any man suppose it to be his own case then he will not blame them for absenting themselves and substituting others in their room Many are the objections in this kinde which beget Disputes many accusations had against either part What the Parliament findes and complains to be practiced in opposition to them by their Enemies they observe most sensible presumptions for no one thing in bar to such presumptions to make up one tittle of compensation in lieu of the dangers which might happen or to give any the least satisfaction for removing the imminency of the same The vulgar and common salve used by His Majesties party of His passing bills since the Parliament began for the relief and ease of His Subjects as a pledge of His Princely goodnesse and care of His peoples welfare His often and deep Protestations for the maintenance of the Protestant Religion and the Fundamental Laws of the Kingdom yet as matters now are these Acts of His not compensatory to those hostile Acts practiced by His party against His Parliament and people Besides those Acts of Parliament passed by His Majesty are in His and a new Parliaments power to retract or repeal them at pleasure For let it be granted that they were Acts of Parliament which His Majesty hath thus passed in that the Members of both Houses at WESTMINSTER are by His party denied to be a Parliament yet sometimes called a Parliament sometimes Rebels there is like to be little stability in what they have enacted neither is that which is contingent and possible to be altered to be adjudged compensatory to what is certain and actual The difference of times that they were reputed a Parliament when those Acts passed but since reputed Rebels or the distinction into persons that some are reserved to be a Parliament others Rebels will breed a greater confusion then help to frame an Answer by those of His Majesties party who object this favour of His Majesties passing divers Bills for the welfare of His Subjects c. That they may be repealed altered in part or all dissolved or want their vigour in execution it is probable when the persons who have and are the chief assistants in this War are the greatest Losers by those Acts recited Next as touching His Protestations His frequent Declarations of manifesting His intentions His late actions of Clemency and Pardon shewed to those whom he calls Rebels when they were taken prisoners at a late Seige by His Majesty His releasing and setting them free when He might have detained and proceeded against them as Traytors and Rebels in the judgement of His party These are to be acknowledged indulgent and merciful Acts becoming a just and Christian Prince yet they may be two wayes understood First in relation to the good of His own party prisoners in the Parliaments power and in danger to have suffered the like in case the King should have punished theirs Secondly those His Acts of releasing of His milde using of those His prisoners it is possible might be construed as present Acts of Clemency to endure only for a time and that He may be perswaded afterwards to punish them as Rebels These are times of wit and jealousie and the same Reasons which have occsioned this War even His peoples Jealousies may continue them without abatement there is no lesse cause of fears and dangers His party having tried every way by traducing the Parliament at home by attempting to set them at varience with Forraigners abroad having moved every stone as the Proverb is to subdue those whom they term Rebels no way left untried to take away their power and shadow of power no means left unassayed either milde of Inviting or violent in Affrighting and those plausible and gratious Acts used possibly to encrease yet the number of his party may cease from a total pardoning only remitting for a time until a full Conquest be obtained And when the Crown is repossest the Conquest fully had the French Proverb tells us Que la Coronne unifois prinse oste toute sorte de defaults i. e. that when the King shall be reinvested to His former full Power and Regal Dignity the Parliament and the power thereof then laid aside and become void the possessing of the Crown doth as well quit all quarrels and acceptions and cancels all disputes as it clears and purifies all manner of defaults imperfections or exceptions to be made concerning the means whether fair or foul of gaining the Conquest As Jealousies have been the cause of this Contention so what the cause of Jealousies The principal and most certain one hath been in matter of fact namely the infringing the Subjects Liberty soon after the Petition of Right was granted in full Parliament to be omitted here because set forth in several Declarations and Remonstrances One and more universal was that in the case of Ship-money which had it not been withstood by a Gentleman of repute let his Ghost be railed at and a Parliament soon after summoned what had become of the Subjects Liberty If a Writ comes down directed to a Sheriff of a County he bound by Oath or fearful of incurring displeasure in case he refuse to execute the Kings Writ and having the Posse Comitatus within his Office what remedy shall the poor Countrey man have dwelling one hundred or two hundred miles from the Court if he refuse or hath it not to pay against Imprisonment or his Goods taken from him by Distresse Justice hath its boundary and is circumscribed by Law Injury and Injustice like the violent Torrent of an Inundation over-flowing the Banks and Metes overwhelms and drowns as Decency and Order when bound up by good and wholsom Laws if disturbed and broken down falls into Uncertainty Indiscretion and becomes Confused Let men talk of fears and jealousies and in an Ironical way smile at those whose peculiar care is to prevent and remove the same no man knows what the Progresse of that wrong had been had it not been withstood The mention whereof seeing so often inculcated in other Writings can be no pleasing Theme to any Subject And whereas His Majesty hath confessed and retracted that His Error being now condemned to an utter abolition ought to be buried in Oblivion neither doth it become every ordinary Subject to traduce and accuse His Soveraign of Injustice doing it comes too near to what the wise man expresly forbids of Cursing the King in their thoughts as of what the Statute Law provides against Only to satisfie one Objection used by some of His Majesties party in His behalf touching the same Better say they the payment thereof should have continued then so much blood spilt such vast Sums of Money spent in