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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80362	Considerations for the Commons, in this age of distractions.		1642 (1642)	Wing C5909; Thomason E112_17; ESTC R22413	6,839	8

CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE COMMONS IN This Age of Distractions OUr present breaches call out to every honest Christian to become a continuall centinell watching against the incessant assaults of such as indeavour to undermine the peace of this Kingdome therefore seeing a storme Inevitably falling its good to meete it with understanding rightly informed that so we may know how to propose the way of truth to others and how to prosecute it our selves It hath ever been and still is the constant practice of the common enemy to set at variance not onely the Princes of severall Nations but each Kingdome against it selfe dividing betwixt Prince and people and incensing subject against subject that so they might the more easyly accomplish their wicked intentions in our divisions and how zealously this designe of the adverse party hath beene carried on of late yeeres in these Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland I thinke there is no intelligent ones but they can readily trace it in sundry particulars and now at last having crowned their endeavours with the accursed fruits of ingaging this Kingdome in a civill war they drive on furiously in the pursuance of this their hellish designe which must of necessity usher in ruine and destructions if not speedily opposed and crushed and let all good Christians be carefull lest by their own backwardnesse they make good that base assertion of some malignants That the Protestant profession is too tame to withstand them Now therefore since our present breaches call for a contribution from every one it s no more then our owne interest requires that wee apply our selves to the common good and that we may the better know our duty and how we are to dispose of our selves either in the assisting of the one side or in resisting of the other as we are thereunto called Let us briefely take a view 1. Of the chiefe authors and fomenters of these unhappy distractions 2. Of the ends they drive at 3. Of the meanes they use to accomplish those ends 4. Of the dangerous inconveniences that will insue if these be not opposed 1. For the Authors of our present miseries the severall Declarations of Parliament tell us that they consist of Papists of an ambitious and dissolute Clergy of delinquents obnoxious to the Justice of Parliament together with some part of the Nobility and Gentry that either feare reformation or else seeke to lay the Foundation of their owne honour and preferment in the ruine of the Kingdome and we appeale to all the World whether all of them or at least the greatest party of them that have withdrawne His Majesty from his Parliament and are now about him do not come within the compasse of this definition being such as have constantly laboured to bury the happinesse of this Kingdome in the ruine of the Parliament and therefore they that trust these Men too much questionlesse they know them too little for surely there is no man unlesse hee bee willfully blinde and stupid but will conculde that the many eyes of those famous Peeres that have sometimes beene adjudged the ablest States-men in this Kingdome accompanied with so many choyce worthies out of all parts in the Land should see more plainely and discerne more cleerely into those things that tend ro the good and safety of King and people then those dimme lights about of Majesty which can see no further then their owne personall preferments and base ambitious aymes do lead them now accordingly let people adhere to the Counsells and commands of the one or the other as in reason they shall finde cause 2. Consider the ends that this malignant party hath hitherto and still continues to drive at and their practices shall be judged one chiefe and maine end they drive at is the destruction of this present Parliament and in it all future Parliaments and together with them the alteration of Religion the subversion of the Lawes of the Kingdome with the utter abollition of the rightfull liberties and priviledges of the Subjects All this will cleerely appeare if you take but a briefe survey of their proceedings from time to time first their love or rather indeed inveterate hatred to this Parliament appeares in the many consultations they had and attempts they made as is plaine by the depositions of many to bring up the Northerne Army against the Parliament and likewise in that unjust charge of Treason which was pretended against some members of both Houses and the Kings comming with a company of Cavaleeres to the House of Commons to fetch them away by force and then that which addes vigour to all the rest their withdrawing of His Majesty from his great and best councell into the Northerne parts of this Kingdome under pretence that His Person was in danger at Whitehall which was a notorious black lye Then for their love to Religion I thinke that is manifest to the World by their conversation their affecting of Blood rapine Torture Oppression and Cruelty their frequent Swearing God damme mee and God sincke mee together with that sweet harmony and mutuall corespondency betwixt Romanists and they the Counsells of Jesuiticall Papists having a cheife influence into their proceedings Judge if these render them defendours of the true Protestant Religion And then the great care they take for upholding and maintaining the Lawes of the Land appeares by their love to Parliaments which are the Lawes protectors as also by their favourable construction of the Commission of Array the puting of the Sword of Justice into the hands of divers Popish and ill affected persons giving them places in the Commissions of the Peace and outing of others which it seemes were too zealous of the good of King and Kingdome And lastly their care of preserving the liberties of the subject appeares by those many illegall taxations of old and of their late endeavours to possesse the World of an absolute and unlimitted power in Princes Thus for the ends 3. Consider the meanes they use to accomplish these their ends the maine whereof is to raise up a spirit of divisions and continually to increase a disunion first betwixt His Majesty and his loyall subjects and then betwixt one subject and another for they well know that where verity is accompained with unity it makes a people invincible and therefore the better to carry on this their truth-detesting designe first the King must be dealt with that the Major part of Parliament being seduced by a few Trayterous factious spirits endeavour to deprive him of his just prerogative and to trample upon his Crowne and having thus impudently suggested a thing as false as the Father of lyers can invent then no stone must be left unrowled whereby this misunderstanding betwixt the King and his people may be increased After this the Subjects they must be dealt with by many specious pretences and smoath expressions and heartlesse Protestations of the zeale of these men both for the good of King and people and of the earning desires