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A67439	A letter desiring a just and mercifull regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of October 1660, to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that kingdom.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W636; ESTC R23908	6,059	1

been it hath been these many years 〈◊〉 sufficiently punished and hath been even of the most criminal incomparably less than what may be charged on most of all his Majesty's Protestant Cityes And I am sure there have been the very worst of them and in the most disobedtent more than fifty the greatest number Abraham proposed for mercy to Sodom just men I say to his Majesty and your Excellence then which you take no further cognizance of justice in this particular And what besides may render them unfit objects of the generall mercy if not perhaps their Religion Which nevertheless being so Christian and allowed by Articles can be no exception Yet it notwithstanding all 〈◊〉 the few and miserable Survivors and Heirs of the dead in the generall desolation must suffer again and under his royal justice I beseech you my Lord Let not ●…bles of Sylla and Marius Let not their generall proscriptions or confiscations be renewed on this occasion or affixed in the Courts and Judicatures of the Brittish ●…archy Let not these bright dayes of universal joy be rendred to the Irish Catholicks alone dark sad and dismal Nor let these dayes be infamously memorable ●…sterity for a distinction so unequal Even the greatest and worst of Delinquents amongst the Catholicks of Ireland even of those very Corporations or Cityes that have been most refractory were so far from being Regicides or any way inclined unto them and only such and but very few of such because only some of the 〈◊〉 immediate actors have been hitherto thought fit to be excluded a share in this joy that they have fought against them even to despair and fought against them 〈◊〉 England and Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland wholly deserted the Royal 〈◊〉 and f●…ht against them at well in def●…nce of his Majesty's rights as under ●…e of his subjects till at last by long sieges and multitudes overpowred and through Gods unsearchable judgments and their desertion by friends abroad and 〈◊〉 divisions they lost themselves and their Countrey Nevertheless my Lord far be it from my thoughts to desire the obstruction of any lawfull and honest course may be justly taken to secure the peace of that Countrey from national dangers if any such can be in our dayes from the Catholick Natives What I humbly beg is That if these Catholicks must be alwayes so unfortunate as 〈◊〉 thought unworthy his Majesty's graces and favours to Protestants that fought against him when they fought for him or of such as he vouchsafes even Presbyters ●…baptists Quakers Fist-monarchy-men Independents the greatest enemies to regal power in some tenets wherein the Roman Catholicks are the surest friends 〈◊〉 Majesty may be at least graciously pleased to let them have the benefit of his Concessions articled with them And what I beg my Lord is That his Majesty not so much regard the power of our Adversaryes as the justice of our cause My Lord their power is no greater at this time than his Majesty is pleased to continue or make it There a huge difference betwixt their influence on the meaner Officers and common Souldiers now and that it was in the time of the Long Parliament or in the dayes of tyranny and anarchy In a word it will signifie a meer nothing if once uncommissioned by his Majesty and the common Souldiers payed However My Lord their power cannot be so dangerous as their unjust demands of byassed interest and pretended zeal if complyed withall by his Majesty and by a ●…h so notorious and so great of our Articles For besides that such proceedings would in all probability estranange the hearts of the Irish Catholicks from his Majesty and by a consequence of reason how strange soever this may appear at first sight kindle and raise in all judicious Protestants who have ever fought in any of his Domini●… either against himself or against his Father even in the very Demanders how much soever blinded at present by proper interest perpetual jealousies and distrusts ●…f their own safty notwithstanding any Declaration from Breda or Acts of Westminster pass'd in this present Parliament they would which is most of all to be feared as 〈◊〉 of evils and may Providence divert it in obstructing the cause turn the heart of God from our good Prince and bring his judgments on him My Lord never ●…ver did publick breach of publick faith escape very publick and very dreadfull judgments even in this world I mean Histories profane and sacred are full of 〈◊〉 examples of both kinds And for the peoples breach our Irish Nation these fourteen years past so wonderfully scourged beyond almost all example for their breach of their first articles those of fourty six with you my Lord will be recorded in after ages as one of the saddest But for a Princes transgression fo this nature and judgments following even such as are infallibly known to have been for this only cause inflicted and by God's own immediate execution for the greatest part and the rest by his good will and pleasure that of the 21. of the 2. of Samuel is pertinent and formidable The very first of faithfull Kings elected by Gods immediate ordina●… anointed by God's immediate commandment appointed by him Ruler of his peculiar people and Champion on earth of his Church against Insidels even this belo●…d of God for a time this dear darling of Heaven for some years no sooner attempted against Articles on the poor Gibeonites and their four Cityes but those 〈◊〉 fearfull and Examplar judgments recorded by Samuel were decreed against him and for this very fact alone against his posterity and against the whole King●ome of Israel Neither could all the miseries of his own life after nor the ignominy of his own death and of the best of his children which followed very soon nor the army of God perishing with him by the swords of Idolaters expiate this publick breach of publick Articles Not although they were his own Subjects with whom he ●…roke and not Subjects only but slaves born and by covenant nor slaves alone but Amorites whose Towns and Lands and fortunes had been the free gift of God ●…o the Children of Isreal in his promise to Abraham 700 years before and long after appropriated the second time unto them by the Law of Moses and by his particular command for extirpation of the ancient Inhabitants and of the Amorites by name and for never entring any League or Peace or Covenant with them Not although these Gibeonites when they articled by their Predecessors were Insidels enemies or one true God and their articles made with true believers and believers infallibly such and not with Saul but with Josue 300 years before the Raign of Saul and never by him ratified Nor although what is more observable these articles were obtained of Joshua through his ignorance of the people that treated with him and by their lyes and circumvention of him Nor finally although these Articles were assented unto by Joshua only and his twelve chief Captains the whole multitude concern'd in this business not consenting otherwise as appeared within three dayes after the Conclusion by their generall murmur against the Prince My Lord none of all these extenuating circumstances nor altogether not even back't with zeal for the people of God the Scripture nothing particularly that Saul sought to slay the Gibeonites in his zeal to the Children of Israel and Judah no excuse no pretence whatsoever could obtayn so much mercy of the great Justicier of Heaven as to inflict the punishment of this article-breaking on the person of Saul alone not even together with his beloved Jonathan's or on his Legions and People in his own dayes only The vengeance of God must pursue his Posterity and Kingdome long after his death and for this cause alone A mortal Famine of three years continuance must consume the twelve Tribes of Israel even in the reign of his Successor and for this very Sin only as God himself revealed to holy David Nor would the Famine cease till by David's commandment seven of Saul's Children and Nephews were delivered to the Gibeonites and by the hands of these very men whose Articles he broke crucified alive upon a Mountain to expiate this publick and horrid sin even in the face of the Sun May Providence and the Kings Righteosness and your sage Counsel my Lord obstruct all occasions of reflecting on this and so many other examples of God's revenge of Article-breaking any further than that the best of Kings may see the worst of evils attending the Counsels of our Adversaries and that their power whatever it be cannot be so dangerous as their demands against our Articles My Lord I conclude here but with my hearty wishes That in the House and at the Councels of our great King your Excellence may both appear and approve your self hereafter what you are in part already another Joseph That by the best of Advices you may preserve the best of Princes and all his people of so many different Nations of the British Monarchy May it be so my Lord And may the ●…cks of Ireland in particular owe you a great Deliverance as I cannot but confidently expect from you in due time for my light in the triangle cannot be extinguished But my Lord may not innocent beloved Benjamin alone nor friendly Reuben only but even Simeon and Levi and their Complices against you heretofore have 〈◊〉 to bless God for you hereafter May they all finde in effect that you have the bowels of Joseph to forgive and compassionate them and his power to deliver them and his faith to believe That God permitted their evil against you even in forcing you twice away from them of purpose to preserve you for their good and that you might return even this second time their great Deliverer Propitious Heaven and your own good Genius my Lord second my wishes And may your faithfull Believer see with his own eyes the full accomplishment 〈◊〉 that he may employ all his dayes after and all his Labours in consecrating to Posterity your Name with this Elogium of Joseph The Saviour of his Brethren and of his Countrey and of all the People And these are the hearty wishes of My Lord Your ●…ellency's most humble most obsequious and most devoted Servant P. W.