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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56836	The profest royalist his quarrell with the times, maintained in three tracts ...	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Loyall convert.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. New distemper.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Whipper whipt.	1645 (1645)	Wing Q113; ESTC R3128	63,032	100

The Profest Royalist HIS QVARRELL WITH THE TIMES MAINTAINED IN THREE TRACTS viz. The Loyall Convert The New Distemper The Whipper Whipt Opus Posthumum HEB. 11. 4. He being dead yet speaketh OXFORD Printed in the Yeere 1645. TO THE SACRED MAJESTY OF KING CHARLES My most dear and dread Soveraign SIR BE pleased to cast a gracious eye upon these three Tracts and at Your leasure if Your Royall Imployments lend You any to peruse them In Your Three Kingdoms● You have three sorts of people The first confident faithfull The second diffident and fearfull The third indifferent and doubtfull The first are with You in their Persons Purses or desires and good wishes The second are with You neither in their Purses nor good wishes nor with their desires in their Persons The third are with You in their good wishes but neither in their Persons nor Purses nor Desires In the last entituled The Whipper Whipt these three sorts are represented in three Persons and presented to the view of Your Sacred Majesty You shall find them as busie with their Pens as the Armies are with their Pistols How they behave themselves let the People judge I appeale to Cesar. Your Majesties Honour Safety and Prosperity The Churches Truth Unity and uniformity Your Kingdoms Peace Plenty and Felicity is the continued object of his Devotion who is SIR Your Majesties Most Loyall Subject Fra Quarles THE LOYALL CONVERT VIRG. Improbus haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes HOM. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OXFORD Printed by LEONARD LICHFIELD Printer to the Vniversity 1645. To the honest hearted Reader READER I Here protest before the Searcher of all hearts that I have no End either of Faction or Relation in this ensuing Treatise I am no Papist no Sectary but a true Lover of Reformation and Peace My pen declines all bitternesse of Spirit all deceitfulnesse of heart and I may safely in this particular with Saint PAUL say I speak the truth in Christ and lye not my Conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that I neither walk nor write in craftinesse nor handle the holy Scriptures deceitfully Therefore if thy Cause be Iesus Christ in the name of Iesus Christ I adjure thee to lay aside all wilfull ignorance all prejudice all private Respects and Interests and all uncharitable censures Deale faithfully with thy Soule and suffer wholesome admonitions Search the severall Scriptures herein contained and where they open a Gate climbe not thou over a Stile Consult with Reason herein exercised and where it finds a mouth find thou an eare And let Truth prosper though thou perish and let God be glorified although in thy Confusion THE LOYALL CONVERT THE Kingdome of England that hath for many Ages continued the happiest Nation on the habitable earth enjoying the highest blessings that heaven can give or earth receive the fruition of the Gospell which setled a firme Peace which Peace occasioned a full Plenty under the gracious Government of wise and famous Princes over a thriving and well-contented People Insomuch that shee became the Earths Paradise and the Worlds Wonder is now the Nursery of all Sects her Peace is violated her Plenty wasting her Government distempered her People discontented and unnaturally imbroyld in her own Blood not knowing the way nor affecting the meanes to Peace Insomuch that she is now become the By-word of the Earth and the scorn● of Nations The Cause and Ground of these our Nationall Combustions are these our Nationall Transgressions which unnaturally sprung from the neglect of that Truth we once had and from the abuse of that Peace wee now want Which taking occasion of some differences betwixt His Majestie and His two Houses of Parliament hath divided our Kingdome within it selfe which had so divided it selfe from that God who blest it with so firme a Truth so setled a Peace and so sweet an Vnity As that sinne brought this division so this division sharpned with mutuall Jealousies brought in the Sword When the Lyon roares who trembles not And when Iudgements thunder who is not troubled Among the rest I who brought some Faggots to this Combustion stood astonisht and amazed to whom the mischiefe was farre more manifest then the Remedy At last I laid my hand upon my heart and concluded It was the hand of God Where being plundered in my understanding I began to make a scrutiny where the first Breach was made that let in all these Miseries I found the whole Kingdome now contracted into a Parliament which consisted of three Estates A King a house of Peeres and a house of Commons by the Wisdome and Vnity whereof all things conduceable to the Weale-publique were be advised upon presented and established I found this Vnity disjoynted and growne to variance even to Blood The King and his Adherents on the party and his two Houses and their Adherents on the other The pretence of this division was the true Protestant Religion which both protested to maintaine the Liberty of the Subject which both protested to preserve the Priviledges of Parliament which both promise to protect Yet neverthelesse the first never profaned the second never more interrupted the third never more violated Standing amazed at this Riddle I turned mine eyes upon his Majesty and there I viewed the Lords Annointed sworne to maintain the established Lawes of this Kingdome I turned mine eyes upon the two Houses and in them I beheld the Interest of my Country sworne to obey his Majesty as their supreame Governour I heard a Remonstrance cryed from the two Houses I read it I approved it I inclined unto it A Declaration from His Majestie I read it I applauded it I adhered to the justnesse of it The Parliaments Answer I turned to the Parliament His Majesties Reply I returned to His Majestie Thus tost and turned as a Weather-cocke to my own weaknesse I resolved it impossible to serve two Masters I fled to Reason Reason could not satisfie me I fled to Policie Policy could not resolve me At length finding no Councellour but that which first I should have sought I hyed me to the Booke of God as the Great Oracle and ushering my Inquest with Prayer and Humiliation I opened the sacred leaves which not by chance presented to my first eye the 20. of the Proverbs v. 2. The feare of a King is as the roaring of a Lyon and who so provoketh him to Anger sinneth against his own soule Now I began to search and found as many places to that purpose as would swell this sheet into a Volume so that in a very short space I was so furnished with such strict Precepts backt with such strong Examples that my Iudgement was enlightned and my wavering Conscience so throughly convinced that by the Grace of that Power which directed me neither Feare nor any By-respects shall ever hereafter remove me unlesse some clearer light direct me But above all the Rest a Precept and an Example out of the Old