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cause_n	good_a	great_a	king_n	5,512	5	3.6764	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97078	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 W635A; ESTC R23908	6,068	2

past sufficiently punished and hath been even of the most criminal incomparably less than what may be charged o● most of all his Majesty's Protestant Cityes And I am sure there have been in the very worst of them and in the most disobedient more than fifty the greatest numbe 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 particula 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 an be no exception Yet it notwithstanding all this the few and miserable Survivors and Heirs of the dead in the generall desolation must suffer again and under is royal justice I beseech you my Lord Let not the tables of Sylla and Marius Let not their generall proscriptions or confiscations be renewed on this occasion or aixed in the Courts and Judicatures of the Brittish Monarchy Let not these bright dayes of universal joy be rendred to the Irish Catholicks alone dark sad and distal Nor let these dayes be infamously memorable to posterity for a distinction so unequal Even the greatest and worst of Delinquents amongst the Catholicks of Irelnd 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 ad but very few of such because only some of the 〈…〉 have fought against them even to despair and fought against them that have been most refractory were so far from being Regicides or any way inclined unto them and only such ad but very few or such became 〈…〉 most 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 when England and Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland wholly deserted the Royal cause and fought against then as well in defence of his Majesty's rights as under the title of his subjects till at last by long sieges and multitudes over powred and through Gods unsearchable judgments and their desertion by friends abroad and home-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 e justly taken to secure the peace of that Countrey from rational dangers if any such can be in our dayes from the Catholick Natives What I humbly beg is That if nese Catholicks must be alwayes so unfortunate as to be thought unworthy his Majestly's graces and favours to Protestants that fought against him when they fought fo him or of such as he vouchsafes even Presbyters Anabaptists Quakers Fift-monarchy-men Independents the greatest enemies to regal power in some tenets whrein the Roman Catholicks are the surest friends his Majesty may be at least graciously pleased to let them have the benefit of his Concessions articled with them Ad 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 tim than his Majesty is pleased to continue or make it There is a huge difference betwixt their influence on the meaner Officers and common Souldiers now and that it wain 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 ommon Souldiers payed However my Lord their power cannot be so dangerous as their un just demands of byassed interest and pretended zeal if complyed withall by his Majesty and by a breach so notorious and so great of our Articles For besides that such proceedings would in all probability estrange 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 Pritestants who have ever fought in any of his Dominions 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 of their own safty notwithstanding any Declaration from Breda or Acts of Westminister pass'd in this present Parliament they would which is most of all to be feared as the worst 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 or scarce ever 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 sad 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 of this nature and judg ments following even such as are in fallibly known to have been for this only cause inflicted and by God's own immediate execution for the greatest part and th rest by his good will and pleasure that of the 21. of the 〈◊〉 of Samuel is pertinent and formidable The very first of faithfull Kings elected by Gods immediate ordinance anointed by God's immediate commandment appointed by him Ruler of his peculiar people and Champion on earth of his Church against Infidels even this beloved 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 most fearfull and Exemplar judgments recorded by Samuel were decreed against him and for this very fact alone against his posterity and against the whole Kingdome 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 exprate this publick breach of publick Articles Not although they were his own Subjects with whom he broke 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 to the Children of Israel 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 of 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