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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36088	A Discourse concerning the grounds & causes of this miserable civill war wherein Ireland is exhausted, England wasted, and Scotland likely to be imbroyled, and wherein not only liberty but religion is endangered, &c.		1644 (1644)	Wing D1587; ESTC R15277	28,919	40

A DISCOVRSE CONCERNING THE GROVNDS CAVSES of this miserable civill war Wherein Ireland is exhausted England wasted and Scotland likely to be imbroyled and wherein not only Liberty but Religion is endangered c. KING CHARLES was within few late yeeres quietly possest of three flourishing Kingdomes and for a while as his subjects seerned to enjoy all the blandishments of peace under his raigne to the envie of other Nations so hee appear'd eminently glorious in the inviolable loyalty and obedience of his subjects ●o the inciting of envie amongst other Princes But to that serene delightfull calme a most dismall tempest hath since succeeded and in so short a traverse of time a more wofull desperate Catastrophe then this which now confounds both King and subjects was scarce ever brought about in any other Country All our gamesome Holidayes past seeme now to us like the sleepe of Ionah in the ship the trance thereof only lockt up our senses for a while that we might be betrayed to the greater horror and amazement when the incursion of unexpected ralamities should immediatly seize us under so dead and stupid a condition Ireland already is become as sad a spectacle as the ruthlesse hand of war ever made any since Vespasians dayes and England though it sinkes a little more slowly yet is in the posture of sinking and is not to be supported but by a divine hand more then ordinary and lastly Scotland is but one degree onely more removed from destruction The greater the Popish faction is in Scotland and the more potent that Court-party there is which suggests to it selfe probable advantages out of the shipwrack of broken England the more inevitably is that Nation owned and destin'd to the same ruine as England let not dreames infatuate she must expect the same line to be stretched over her as England has if she prevent not her fate by some sisterly assistance whilest it is thus distant she shall certainly unpitied perish at its neerer approach But the Question is Whence did these unnaturall broyles spring and arise Hath the Kings misgovernment or the Nations rebellious disposition caused these sudden distempers has all this discord beene stirr'd principally by Ecclesiasticall or Civill Persons and have their ends been temporall or spirituall How does that commotion which was in Scotland differ in cause from ours in England or this in England from that in Ireland Has it beene the same designe carryed on for many yeeres together from whose maturity at length all our troubles in all the three Nations have been derived Or have the Scots occasionally aimed at one thing the Irish at another and the English at another If the Rebels in Ireland and the Parliament in England have purposes diametrically opposite how is it that the King protests against both how comes it that he wages a war upon the Parliament that is as favourable to the Irish as destructive to the English And if the Scots and the English propose the same thing how is it that the English are thus implacably Prosecured whilest the Scots are friendly intreated How is it that Papists are so far united yea even in Ireland where they pretend for the King contrary to the acknowledgement of our Court yet all of them move undevided and in England where they fight for the King and are accordingly entertained and allowed so to doe yet still they are unanimous whereas Protestants hold no perfect correspondence any where in Ireland they joyne against Papists yet favour the Papists cause in England and in England they fight under Popish Banners and by consequence maintaine the Romish faith both in England and Ireland And if these miseries have beene not meere late accidentall events but the studyed and prepared accomplishments and productions of divers former yeeres then whether is' t more probable that the Parliament hath beene this long time busie in plotting against the Court or the Court against the Parliament To give satisfaction to all men in all these Queeries will be difficult but to give satisfaction to all honest Protestants and to convince all our most subtill enemies be they Protestants or Papists will not be impossible and therefore my utmost skill shal endevour it And if this age will not give me credit therein I am certaine the next will I will commandingly say That it shall without dissent and deniall receive and acknowledge these truths which I now deliver The sonnes of the Iewes erected Trophyes and built Monuments of honour for those Prophets which had been stoned in the ages before and yet at the same time perhaps they maliciously murdered the true successors of the same Prophets such difference is there betwixt the evidence of present and past truth neverthelesse I shall for the present lye the lesse obnoxious to contradiction or distrust because I shall not so much insist upon conjectures or nude averments of my owne as the censures of strangers and Papists and the judgements of other Statesmen whose partiality herein is the lesse to be suspected The great tyranie and usurpation of Roman Prelates who to purchase to themselves an Ecclesiasticall Empire more large and uncontroleable then any temporall Monarch ever challenged had perverted Religion and innovated the whole frame of Christianity began to be discovered to many in England about 120 yeeres since Henry the eighth also so farre as his owne Crowne was concerned therein was willing to countenance the discovery but as for a totall reformation of Religion or redemption of his subjects liberty from popish thraldome no such thought ever entred into his breast 'T was indifferent to him on the same day and in the same place to hang a Papist maintaining the Popes supremacy and to burne a Protestant denying those corruptions of Religion whereupon that supemacy was founded so indigested and rude a Chaos of Doctrine was that which he sought to authorise and to daub over with his untempered morter Edward the sixth by a more blessed illumination set himselfe to pull downe the whole fabricke and to raze the very foundation of Hierarchy and had it not been a worke of more yeeres then it pleased God to adde to his life hee surely had not left one stone upon another Queen Mary set her selfe as entirely to repaire the Popes Empire as her brother did to ruine it yea even to the effusion of much blood with a more fierce zeale she laboured in it and had not death overtaken her and the hand of God otherwise crossed her perhaps no hopes had been left for a new restauration under her successor Queen Elizabeth with as perfect an integrity as either her brothers was in maintenance of truth or her sisters in maintenance of superstition applyed her selfe and her utmost power to restore Religion againe in full conformity to her brother and opposition to her sister Two admirable Councellors she had Cecyll and Bacon both cordiall and totally addicted to the Protestant Religion the honour of whom leaves her honour unquestionable