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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

honouring the King joyned in one sentence of branding such who condemn Authority and despise Governments of being subject for the Lords sake to all that are over us to the King as Supream c. all being New Testament Precepts together with the paterns and practises and professions of Primitive Christians have all been urged fully and satisfactorily to the Ingenuous by learned Mr. Prynne the honour of our English Nation in this time of the generall Apostasie and prevarication of this Nation from their duty to their King and yielding obedience to Gods commands and Christs and his Apostles both Precepts and Presidents and the Churches pattern and practise for these sixteen hundred years and upwards I shall return to the assertion before layd down namely that Monarchy was the best of Governments to which I added that ours was the best of Monarchies as to the dignity of Monarchy or Kingship to use the new word put upon our former Government by the Rumpers to both of which I have already spoken and urged as to the excellency of Kingly Government Gods promise to Abraham and the accomplishment thereof under David and Solomon that Nation never being so famous so glorious and so flourishing as during their Reigns besides whose examples let the whole world be sought for instances and never shall we finde the magnificence of a Common-wealth comparable to that of Monarchies How did the Roman Empire in Augustus time excell in glory the same Roman Common-wealth And yet who knows not that is moderately versed in the Roman History that their very Common wealths were but nominally so really Monarchies What were the Consuls but in stead of a King and the Senate his Councill Which Consuls though two yet how oft stood one for more then a Cypher What was Bibulus joyned with Julius but as his shadow What was Antonius with Cicero when he without mentioning the other boasts of himself not privately but openly even to Envy O fortunatam natam me Consule Romam You will say the Consule were changed yearly Granted but had they stood longer it had been better however the Senate being for life and the Consuls chose out of the Senate they were better able to understand the series of affairs yet how did one Consull envying his Predecessor carp at what Lawes were made in his time and labour to disgrace and repeal them the other making a party stood up and maintained them Thus the Agrarian and the Portian Laws with many others that might be named were polemically handled in the Pulpits and disputed in the field by bloudy battels that it was not amiss which was said by one concerning the Agrarian Law That the opposing and defending it had cost as much bloud and made as many breathlesse Carcases as would dung as much Land as was really benefitted by it How were they during their Common-Wealthsship plagued with continual aspiring minds whose thirst and rage was never quenched but with incredible bloudshed Sylla Marius the Gracchi with many others may be reckoned up whose ambition of overtopping all proved almost the Ruine of their Commonwealth How were they inforced sometimes voluntarily to choose sometimes perforce to endure a Dictator which was a King or Emperour with a new name not much unlike to our English Protectour When Rome was sackt the Senate slain and all things desperate the Capitoll only remaining in a manner of that great City the rest turned into rubbish and ashes by the merciless flames then something like a King was found necessary and that was a Dictator who having done his work and freed his almost ruined Country in plain hearted simplicity resigned his Dictatorship and was repayed his good service with the full measure of ingratitude If upon a force put a King or somewhat like a King be the best expedient it is doubtlesse best alwaies for non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri Furius Garnillus found how ungrateful his countrymen proved when by his means they were delivered a good caution for men in Supream Authority to look to themselves But to return to the Roman Common-wealth so much admired by our modern Statists It will be no solaecisme to affirm that whatever was in it worth admiration was performed by such who wanted nothing of a King but the name and settlement for want of which they were ever rent with divisions Conspiracies and inbred tumults often inforced to make or to indure a Dictator or Protector or High-Gonstable call him what you will but an absolute Monarch he was untill Julius Caesar came who first being chosen perpetuall Dictator after assumed the title of Emperour and as an Empire Rome flourished as long and was incomparably more glorious then in its own condition when a Common-wealth As for the Civil warrs in the Empire that were frequent and bloudy it must be owned that peace and warre are in the hands of God by whom Kings Reign and injoy peace or enmity at home and abroad However the Reign of Augustus Caesar and of severall of his Successors shew evidently how happy and how peaceable it is possible if God please for an incredible Monarchy to be for a long season but the want of any example at any time for the like in a Republique shews it to be next door to impossible that is beyond Imagination improbable How glorious how stately and magnificent was the Babylonian Assyrian Persian and Grecian Monarchies And at this day the Turkish Tartarian Persian Chinensian Aethiopian and Indian Monarchies with that of the Moores in Affrica These I name as Heathenish but great Monarchies And of Christians the Russian Palonian German Spanish French and formerly English Monarchies how famous are they and were we To which you oppose the Venetian Seigniori the Low Country Boores and the rude Switzer Cantons Because I find you good at Comparisons I shall be with you there and let the effect speak the cause And because I perceive you liked very well of our Constitution from 48 to 53 as giving great hopes of a glorious rising Common-wealth I shal admit that time to come also into Comparison with our selves under Kingly Government during the Reign of our late King of blessed memory although unfortunate to the infamy of his Subjects as many as were guilty of his Tragicall misfortunes before these sad divisions appeared which produced in your opinion so glorious an effect As for the Athenian Lacedemonian and other Grecian Common-wealths they were of so old a date that the History of them is scarce to be had true and certain and therefore I shall speak little of them but as by the by perhaps I may glance at them as you have done First then as to the Venetian Seigniory I yeild its long continuance its abounding in Riches and traffique but withall I suppose you wil easily grant the power of its troublesome neighbour the Turk and the fear of its other neighbours who would soon swallow it up if divided hath been the chief

admit many they fear would dwell among them who might make a Conscience of keeping Allegiance inviolable and would urge against their Protestanisme that ungospellike rejecting their lawfull King although provoked by persecution and would cite the practise of the Primitive Church unanswerably discountenancing and their profession and Doctrine loudly and openly condemning the same by which means the multitude might be brought about to be undeceived and willing to entertain or at least desire their former Loyalty So that Policy not Conscience excluded from among them the Popish and a sordid desire of Gain set open the Flood-gates to all other Religions Among which if that may be accounted a Religion Athiesme is not excluded but findes its Sanctuary Now I pray you Sir where is the Magnanimity of Spirit that you boast of herein When nothing that bears the face or carries the name of Religion is disallowed but that only which is the only publique Religion of their former Prince lest by entertaining it his Friends should be let in therewith to the shaking of their new layd foundation the chief security of which seems to consist in their Nationall abjuring their formerly sworn to Soveraign not minding in the mean while the dishonour done to Gods name by those multitudes of abominable heresies yea damnable blasphemous Doctrines which swarm in those Countreys Amsterdam especially as Frogs swarmed in the Land of Egypt and yet they the more the pity are not at all troubled thereat because they bring profit and commerce along with them but I wish they do not hereby heap up to themselves wrath which may be powred forth upon them in the day of Gods Vengeance When no King was in Israel and every man did what was good in his own eyes then Micah made his graven and molten Image his Ephod and his Teraphim and hired a Levite to be his Priest Then was every man at his liberty what Religion he would follow a King only being so generous spirited and noble as to Engage that Religion publiquely to be professed which appears to him and his most learned Divines the true and most agreeable to the pattern and precepts of Gods Word and prohibit whatever strikes at this foundation nor to suffer any Rents or Schismes in the Church the inlets generally of farre greater mischiefs both in Church and State whereas a Common-wealth being but a puny Authority is compelled to tolerate this and that and twenty Heresies because some rich men or other are Favourites to all and nothing keeps the most rustick Peasant from being created the Greatest Heer or Lord among them but want of a competent quantity of Silver Gold or Merchandise Kings therefore in Scripture are promised to be nursing Fathers and Queens nursing Mothers to the Church but no such Promise concerning Republican Lords let them be never so high and mighty Nor is this degenerate basenesse of spirit visible only in Religious but as well and as much in Civil yea Ordinary concernments and there is a naturall reason for it since according to the Proverb According to a mans meeting so is his greeting Vulgar deportments find but vulgar respect nor is it fit or likely that he who puts little value upon himself should have greater put upon him by others that are about him Majesty and state may be kept without adoration but not without humble and due submissive respect Too much familiarity in all relations breeds Contempt The state and distance which Solomon kept between him and his subjects we finde registred by the Penmen of Sacred Histories as part of his magnificence and no small portion of Gods temporall blessings cast upon him as an additional Supplement to that for which he requested to wit Wisedome And I finde Paul the famous Apostle appealing to Caesar from Festus who was a subordinate Deputy to the Emperor hoping for greater shelter as to Religion from the Head of all Majesty Caesar himself then from an inferior Substitute or Lieutenant unto him And we read in the last Chapter of the Acts how long and how free he lived considering him in bonds at Rome being arrived in prosecution of his Appeal an evident argument that he expected and doubtlesse found more freedome under the Wing of Majesty then probably he should have had from an Inferior Governor neerer allyed to the common rank of men And as in the persecution of Religion the greatest favour is to be found in probability from Majesty it self so in the protection incouragement and advancement of Religion Kings and Emperors are unparallel'd Fathers and Nurses thereof Witnesse of old David Solomon Hezekiah and Josiah with many other godly pious Princes And of late since Christ Constantine and Theodosius with severall glorious truly Christian and famous Emperours And among us Edward the sixth Queen Elizabeth King James and without regard to your rayling black mouth our unparallel'd Martyr King CHARLES under whom how glorious was our Church to the admiration of many and envy of some of our Neighbours During whose pious Reigns if we will be poring only upon what was defective and whining after what was to be desired in our Church Discipline we shew our selves very ungratefull to God and men but if with thankfull hearts we could have enjoyed and prized what really was our Lot beyond all who were about us we might have said truly Our lot was fallen to us in a pleasant place and we had a goodly Inheritance God not so dealing with every Nation as he had with us who therefore might be named the darling of the Lord. It is the glory happinesse and true beauty of a Nation professing Religion when the face of man is not feared but God is so far exalted that none is acknowledged beside him King in the Church and therefore not only Caterpillers and Locusts are destroyed and Cattell which browse upon the Vynes kept out but the Foxes the little Foxes are taken that spoyl the Vynes they having on them tender Grapes How glorious a thing is it for a truly zealous and pious P●ince to countenance and encourage the Priests and Levites such I mean who oversee and manage the service of the Lord that out of the Church may be excluded not only the abominable and the unclean but likewise every thing that offendeth What more dangerous in the Church which is the Garden of the Lord then Factions and Heresies but what so fatall as the plucking up its Hedge and throwing down its Wall which is not as many imagine a foolish agreement or Covenant of the people one with another but a Christian and conscientious submission for the Lords sake to those who by Divine right are appointed and set over them to maintain which pale inviolable the King when a true nursing Father of the Church as blessed be God we had many such is next to God the greatest defense on earth on which score not without cause our Kings have had and deserved the name several of them of Defenders of

to antidate our Ruine and beggery to spend all one year or two before our new found Patriots of never before heard of Liberty squeeze all out of us and get all from us Have not the Keepers of our Liberties like theevish Promethews dealt with our Liberties as he did with Pandoras Box Let fly among us only plagues and miseries and now they keep all close when there is left only hope and scarcely that in the bottome Where is there any reality of Liberty in any of our injoyments either civil or religious and yet that Oh that is pretended as a sufficient reward and price of our last bloud and expended Treasure In our Courts what unsettlement and upon every change what turning out of office whoever would not comply with the horrible villanous practises by which each interest supplanted another Look backward to the first gaining of this Nominal Freedome and you shall find many Judges discarded Sergeunts at Law layd aside Counsellours their Gownes stript over their eares Attorneys turned from the Barre Sollicitours and other attendants on the Law made uncapable of either publique imployment or preferment in a word all Officers of the Law in Civil as wel as Common courts of Judicature put out of place and by consequence cut off from all means of lively-hood upon no other ground then because their Consciences would not permit them so farre to sleight their duty of allegiance to which they were likewise engaged by a sacred and indispensable Oath as to take another league and covenant a vow and a protestation in their judgments Crosse to the former here was Liberty if ever with a plague and vengeance I doubt not but this with other things hath been the cause of the many Judgments since that poured forth and still continued upon this perjured Nation How was the Solemn League and Covenant obtruded upon all men that had any thing to be plundered of And what Liberty had they in case of refusal except we will account turning out of place of either honor or profit the Imprisonment of mens persons for a long time with barbarous cruelty during their imprisonment the violent taking away their estates by Sequestrators to be libertie No man could be permitted to crosse the Seas in almost any capacity whether of Merchant or Factor or passenger unlesse he would first swallow this potion Where then I would gladly be enformed lay our Liberty Unlesse we will confess and that God knowes and we have all felt it is the truth with Cicero Nomina rerum perdidimus jamque licentia militaris libertas appellatur We have left the true names of things since now the Souldiers petulancy is calthe Peoples Liberty And if we had such cause to complain of the beginning of these our distracted calamities when you seem to give the Army this Character that they were undeceived and in their own power with what reason may we lament and bewail the following times and changes which have been ever since And yet the peoples liberty hath been the thing cryed up Continually What think you Sir of the Engagement what agreement hath it with the Covenant And yet that must be taken or no judge must continue in office no Army Officer in Command no Minister must preach nor School-master teach School nay nor any man have the benefit of the Land either as Plaintiff or defendant And call you this Liberty Mr. Milton I confesse the tameness of our English Nation beyond any former either Antient or modern president gave the Rump liberty of perpetrating and persisting in never before heard of Villanies with as much impunity as impiety but accursed be that Liberty from the Lord which will only give a company of Villaines liberty to be as much Bloudy perjurd murderers and unjust oppressive Robbers as they please but abridge all other of former means of living unlesse they will assent to and approve of these actions or else appear so The end of all this is impoverishment of the Nation losse of Trade decay of Ingenious Arts and manufactures the ecclipsing of our former credit esteeme and reputation in the eys of our neighbouring Nations That we may truly say of England Our glory long since is departed from us How did the Rump first by secret complyance and complots animate the aspiring Commanders in the Army and then betray all their Counsel to them So that the Great Counsell of England the Glory of our Nation the foundation and fountain of our Laws having first made warre with their KING and those who stuck to him constant and faithfull were soon divided among themselves and the greater part thereof at last betrayed and turned out of doors by a small number of their own fellows who with a mutinous Army to back them assume the Supream Authority of England into their own hands and declare and act accordingly cashiering the house of Peers cutting off their KING disabling his posterity and to secure themselves in this unparelleld treason and rebellious innovation form an Engagement to be true to the Common wealth as it was then Established without a KING and House of LORDS This and these like actions and declarations you call just generous and magnanimous and such as gave hopes of a glorious rising Common wealth this you call our happily fought for and succesfully attained Liberty but I with more truth and reason know and shall justifie these actions to be rebellious perfidious and treacherous the declarations to be but heraulds for infamous perjury and discovered men made impudent by victorious successe who with faces of brass blushed not at what the Sunne could not but blush who declare their sinnes like Sodom and think Villanies because prosperous are heroick actions and noble performances What palpable prevarication is it Sir for you to give this for the happy End of the many and bloody battels and skirmishes which were fought between the two Armies of the King and Parliament Was the warre begun on such a design or wit●●hat pretence If not when came it to be the cause Mr Prynne in his historicall relation of things as they were acted in his vindication of the secluded Members cites their own votes consultations resolvs and messages to from the chief Officers of the Army and by all makes it apparent that the House of Commons were so farr from making that to be the mark shot at in their contest with the King that many daies were Elapsed before they could make up the Quorum of a House of Commons nor was the number of Rumpers to the very last greater then to argue our folly and misery and to aggravate their impudent imperiousnesse in curbing a Nation formerly so famous for valour so long a time and of our shame this is none of the least part that now hopes of our deliverance through Gods great mercy is appearing one should have so much confidence as to appear in publique and to court us not only to keep on but be in love with

Bramble not only to King it over the Trees but a fire also to proceed out of it to the consumption of almost all the stately Cedars in our Lebanon So that instead of a wise prudent King for many Generations Royally descended we had sometimes a Link-boy a Cobler and a broken Citizen a Plow-man with some Apostate Lawyers and two or three unthrifty Sollicitors with a few twenty pound a yeer Yeomen domineering over us with rigor and swelling the least joynt of their fingers beyond our murthered Kings loyns yet all pretending Reformation otherwhiles the Fagge-end of the House of Commons dissolved actually by the Kings death insulting over their Fellow-brethren and the Lords and inslaving the whole Nation by usurping Supreme Authority and squeezing all sorts of people beyond any president to satisfie their exorbitant lust and covetousnesse For some years we endured an aspiring Tyrant oppressing grinding and afflicting the poor Now and then we had the Army Officers Lords paramount but all oppressing the people both in City and Countrey and writing their Dictates in bloudy Characters Could any plague be worse then these miseries and slavish being tossed from one Condition to another changing not only our Governours but also the Government as oft as a Harlot changeth her Paramours Our Fanatique Rulers setting up and again pulling down Governments as oft as they saw new light leaving us to the sad choyce of either dancing to their fantastical pipe or else being destroyed agreeing in nothing but in keeping out the true Heir and his faithfull Friends under the notion of the Common Enemy This God brought upon us for our great sins one while giving up the whole Nation the Lords and majority of the Commons to the odious servitude of a perjur'd Rump under whom besides monstrous Taxes which they extorted to maintain their Janisaries the Apostate Souldiers by whose mutiny and rebellion they were first constituted and by their assistance kept up in name and notion as the Supreme Authority of England men had not liberty to avoyd perjury but at the utmost peril of ruine to themselves and Family Ministers especially and all who were to be admitted to places of trust nor could they stand to their Oaths and Covenants vigorously and act what they covenanted solemnly to act and perform but they were declared Enemies to the Common-wealth for continuing constant and true to their Vowes and were rewarded with losse of Life and Confiscation of Estate God at length gives a check to this Tayle of Authority by the chief Instrument of their own Treachery and Villany and sells them and the Nation to the greatest Monster of cursed hypocrisie and damnable rebellion that ever yet Nature brought forth Who with reproach turns them out of dores giving them a serious but true Reproof calling them as they were a pack of Whoremasters Drunkards and base self-seeking Wretches and having thrown them aside with deserved scorn and contempt seats himself in the Supremacy calls and dasheth to pieces at his pleasure several ridiculous Juntoes or Mock-Parliaments makes Warre with Spain to almost the ruine of our Trade and Peace with France and Holland c. only to eject our Hereditary exiled distressed King from all Protestant supplies sends away thousands of the English to Hispaniola Jamaica and Flanders which proved a grave to the Men and a waster of some Millions of Treasure Orders Nineteen hundred thousand pounds to be setled on him as an Annual Revenue which he took by the Sword and would have had confirmed to him and his Successors by a Law of his own making and imposing Those who opposed him felt his fury and as many as disgusted his proceedings he had Court-plots to insnare them with Witnesses at hand who would not fail to accuse and Mercenary Judges Attorneys Generall and Sollicitors to impeach aggravate their crimes and condemn them and for failer here he had at his beck a Monstrous High-Court of Justice who like desperate Hounds would flie at and fasten upon any that he pointed out to the slaughter who were hanged beheaded drawn quartered their bowels burnt and what not cruelties done to them at the Tyrants pleasure Others suffered close and tedious imprisonment till with Nebuchadnezzar their Hair became like Eagles Feathers and their Nails like Talons or Clawes in comparison of what they were before such was the monstrous villany of this Tyrant and Vsurper and such cursed Instruments had he in readiness to execute what he should command Those who know not this are very strangers in our Israel Lord what Plague could equal the misery we suffered under this Monster At length God puts an end to his rage Death arresting him with fury madnesse and despair And his Son after him proclaimed proved moderate but was too good to hold God not yet seeing it meet to put an end to our plagues and miseries He through Gods judgement lost that Vsurped Government like an Asse which his Father got like a Fox and mannaged like a Lyon or Wolf And now again by the Swords determination the Rump was a second time Rampant and begin to act at first like themselves that is Monsters of perjury and villany The Gentry of Cheshire are proclaimed Traytors for declaring for a Free Parliament and the ruine of all their Estates and some of their Liues is agreed on for attempting it Praysegod is made chief Sequestrator with a Commission to pick the very flesh of all who should dare to stand up for a Free Parliament to the Barebones Yet God in mercy to the poor Nation hearing the grones of the oppressed did respite this Calamity and once more brought to ground the pride of the Rumpers turning them again out of dores by the same Instrument whereby it pleased him to defeat the Endeavours of divers of the Gentry who laboured after and Declared for a Free Parliament and then the Army Officers fall to tampering with the Government and rule and domineer with as much insolency as impurity And lest this Scene should want its solemnity the project of the Army Officers the Committee of Safety order Hewson and others to march into the City where they triumph in the innocent bloud of unarmed Apprentices whose only Crime was that they resenting their sad misery occasioned partly by so many Changes and wofull distractions but especially by the decay yea almost total want of all Trade by which thousands were undone and reduced to beggery formed and assayed to deliver a Petition to the Lord Maior Court of Aldermen and Common Council to incire them if possible to endeavour the removall of the cause of these their pressures and burdens greater then which were expected daily the insolent Souldier threathing the City and Alarming it from time to time with menaces of fire and plunder These Sword-men like Jehu drove the Chariot of their imagined Vtopian Common wealth with such fury and wanting Money withall ran upon so many Rocks and Sands that with much basenesse and sordidnesse they

that as you have happily begun so by means of the already convened Parliament which in few daies is to begin its sessions you may be instrumentall in the great work of setling these Nations once more upon a sure Basis of lasting peace and settlement England Scotland and Ireland call to you with stretched forth Arms not in a dream as the man of Macedonia did Paul but waking in affectionate addresses and sigh forth their desires groan out their wants before your Excellency saying come help us We are but as water spil upon the ground which cannot be gathered up again because the banish'd is not called back from exile nor the heir restored to his right we were robd my Lord of our King not legally deprived of him by such who usurped the Title and Authority of the supream power of England but upon examination were found not to be so but were proved Lyars we crave him in whom we al have an interest which yet we never forfeited however we were opprest in it by the audacious impiety of the Rumpers Now then what hinders but he may be restored to us and we to the enjoyment of him My Lord we beg humbly your assistance herein and blessed be God we find such incouragement and resolution both from your excellency and your officers together with the unanimous Consent of your whole Army viz. that you will acquiesce submissively in the determination and resolution of the Parliament Blessed be God who hath put such a determination in the heart of the General and such a concurring agreement in the whole Army That we once more find an Army acquiefcing in the resolves of not prescribing work and giving Lawes to the Parliament This next to God is to be attributed to the prudence and upright heartednesse of the Generall in whom these three Nations have already begun to be and I hope nay I question not will in due time be made under God compleatly happy For my part considering to what a height of malapert unrulyness the souldiery in England had arrived in these almost twelve years of Apostasy and Rebellion which was grown very familiar to most I seriously protest that I wonder so much toward settlement could possibly be performed in these Nations in so little time considering how many and great Commanders in the Army differ as much from the pious Principles of his Excellency the Lord Generall and the submissive truly Christian temper of his under Officers as light doth from darknesse by which is more then ordinarily confirmed that true saying of the Poet Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis My Lord England Scotland and Ireland and the neighbouring Nations take notice and we who are concerned desire gratefully to acknowledge the great difficulties and intricate perplexities God hath carryed your Excellency through in order to the bringing to passe what we see From whose high merits the fiery spirited friends to the Rump would detract and asperse you with unfaithfulness to them from whom you received a Commission We all know that are sober what you did and how they ingaged your honour in dishonourable pieces of service we know how your Excellencie declared against the force that lay upon them through the ambition of Lambert Desborough Fleetwood and other aspiring Army grandees and that if any other force lay upon them so as to render them not a Free Parliament you would endeavour to remove it This your excellency fully performed when you restored the secluded Members to liberty of sitting without excluding forcibly the worst deserving Rumper nor could it have been made good otherwise The Rumpers once layed the blame of the Members seclusion on the Rebellious Mutinous Army by whose means and power it is certaine that was first effected however since it appeared to be a plot of the fagge end of the Commons House with the rebellious Grandees of the Army who would be under no yoak None that was wise could expect other from your Excellency who was once one who hazarded your life in actuall defense of his Majesty Now my Lord I respect your excellency as so grave wise and judicious that you would not engage Life fortune reputation and all that was dear to you but where you were conscientiously satisfied of the J●stice of the Cause Yea and the worst of your Honors friends own that you continued to his Majesty actively or passively constant beyond being compelled or wonne by force or flattery so long as his Majesty had either hopes or any visibly appearing on his side But after when all was lost had you followed him with the rest into Exile you could have been but a burthen at least no advantage to his Majesty or his friends could have come thereby But as Hushai Davids friend pretending to stand for Absalon defeated for David the counsail of Achitophel yet did nothing but what became a pious honest man and faithfull Subject and friend So your Excellency by taking command of an Army after the War was ended with a resolution stil never to fight against his Majesty by managing also the Navy as Admirall against the Dutch and Spaniard by leading an Army in Ireland against the Rebels and in Scotland with an Army Governing the Nation with wisdome and in peace you have been made under God instrumentall to doe that in order to a true firm settlement without bloud which for above these twelve years hath been prayed for without answer and endeavoured in vain with the loss of the lives of many and the estates of thousands This is the Lords doing for which your Excellency deserves by a Statue of Brasse and a Monument of Marble to be made famous to all posterity I know the fame Soul lodgeth in your Noble Brest now as did then the same Loyall bloud runs in your veins and I am assuredly confident that so soone as interests can be so reconciled and pacified as that between his Royall Majesty and his Subjects who by sufferings have learned Wisdome to prize a good pious Prince for the future there may be no jealousie on either side there will be no obstacle remaining to hinder our long wayted for happinesse In hope and certain expectation of which I shall and I doubt not but all sober men in these three Nations will wait for the two Houses determination and I beseech God that all difficulty may vanish before the Parliament which is now shortly to fit as smoake is driven away and disappeares before a smart gale of wind or as snow melts before the Sunne so let all obstructing disputes I beseech God wast away to nothing AND thus Noble and Honourable Senators I am brought in Order to addresse my self unto your pious Wisdome and Religious Discretion having already made an acknowledgement to his Excellency the Generall for two Causes First because he under God was the immediate and next cause of this your Convention to the disappointment of the Rumpers who intended this last time to have Earbored the

Nation and made us their servants for Ever But especially because of his performances we have already had the taste and in a great measure fruition but the good to be reaped from your Honourable Consultations is yet in expectation to you therefore I addresse my self as an humble Suitor and yet Confident Petitioner but to his Excellency thanks is already due for a large portion of benefits which we have received of him in this kinde To which I may adde that this being written and intended to be published before your Session Reason and Order call for it that I should in the first place addresse my self to the Power in being especially of whose good we have so largely tasted and next to the Power which is in Expectation shortly after My Addresse Right Honourable and Worthy Patriots to you is to intreat you not because I in the least doubt your own most ready inclination thereto to set your selves seriously to the healing of our breaches Yea I know you will do it however it will not be amisse nor I hope interpreted peremptorinesse for me your faithfull Honourer to submit a few Considerations to your most judicious censure first inviting to a settlement upon our Ancient Basis and only firm Foundation not barely Kingly Government but our most Virtuous King Charles the Second to whom God grant a long and prosperous Reign whose Restitution I hope and pray for and doubt nothing Right Honourable Senators but by your means to see accomplished But Secondly giving your Honours the groun●s why I wish it may be effected and brought to passe as soon as possible I shall after conclude this Discourse humbly begging that the great God of Heaven would give you wisedome and courage that He who sitteth among the Gods may sit among you directing and guiding you in the ready way to settle these Nations in firm peace that Religion may be countenanced and flourish our Rights as Men and Christians asserted vindicated and preserved to the glory of God and the comfort of all that fear him in all three Kingdomes This Right Honourable Lords and Gentlemen can be no way brought about but by restoring the true Heir to his Inheritance all other wayes or means are but only suggestions of the Adversaries of the Nations happinesse who would continue things in unsettlement on purpose only to secure and indemnifie themselves from deserved justice Consider I beseech you how many prejects have been contrived towards our Settlement upon different Foundations which all proved sandy and so the Building thereon raysed though cemented with Bloud and Rapine soon fell and we were ever put after each Change upon greater straits and left in worse confusion then we suffered before So that the change of our Medicaments and Physicians in order to the Recovery of this sick State hath been far worse than our Disease it self the one causing us to languish in unsettlement the other accelerating our Destruction and threatning our utter Ruine Which must needs be attributed to the Justice of God who hath forsaken us because we forsook him He hath seen and beheld all the guilt under which this Nation lyes and if for two Transgressions and for three the Holy and Righteous God would not turn away the punishment of severall Nations what shall be done to us for seven crying Sins yea rather for seven times seven Abominations How have Rebellion and Treason Perjury Persidiousnesse and Murther Hypocrisie and Sacriledge besides all sorts of Heresies profanenesse beastlinesse unmercifulnesse cruelty and oppression reigned in these Nations and raged as if in contempt of Heaven How hath bloud touched bloud How have the Rumpers and after them the Vsurping Protector filled London and the whole Land with Innocent Bloud the cry of which is come up to Heaven and there calls aloud for Vengeance But now at last God in unspeakable mercy hath seemed to return to us and as a Father doth offer in love to embrace us to him be the praise In answer of whose so great tenders of favour and future blessing give me leave Honorable and Worthy Patriots to grone forth my most affectionate desires before your Wisdoms The cause of our long continued Calamities hath been and is unquestionably a spirit of ungratefullnesse toward a signally gracious God and a spirit of Rebellion toward his Vicegerent on Earth the KING also a spirit of profanenesse in contemning his Worship and Service together with the Ministers and Dispensers of the same This wicked ungodly spirit like a fertile although accursed Root hath brought forth numerous branches of such crying sins which at this day are to be found among us and formerly have been practised and remain yet unrepented for Now most Worthy Senators it behoves you seriously solemnly and industriously to endeavour a Nationall amendment of these Nationall Abominations Nor is it enough to bewaile the guilt but by amendment and restitution we must endeavour to wipe away the blot and expunge the stain contracted The Villany committe● against the Father and his Off-spring w●o was the Father of these Nations was committed upon a Na●all pretense and therefore it behoves it should be Ntiona●ly disclaimed In that act God was highly provoked by Oaths Vowes and Covenants not more sacredly made and solemnly taken and entred into but as perjuriously broken in the face of the Sun yet the perjury justified and defended under the Cloak and pretense of Religion Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum My Lords and Gentlemen you are the Successors of that Parliament and many of you the very persons that sate therein It behoves you now to testifie openly and effectually against this treacherous perfidious perjury which ended in bloud or else you will be found Justifiers of the same Gods wrath is not to be appeased without hearty contrition and repentance of these sins for time past and an amendment for future which Amendment must be answerable unto that praevarication wherewith God was and is provoked else the Plaister will be too narrow for the Sore Consider my Lords and Gentlemen our fault in all its branches Ingratefulnesse towards an● perjury against God Apostasie from our Religious profession to the toleration of all Heresies and Blasphemies and perfidiousnesse unto Rebellion from with contempt and rejection of our Liege King and his Posterity contrary to Duty Oaths and Protestations this must be adaequately repented of and satisfaction reparation and restitution made to parties injured if ever we expect Gods return to us in mercy and not a Visitation in judgement For with Majesty many thousands were injured in the highest degree to whom if at least justice be not done for the future and an acknowledgement of and taking shame for what is past where reparation cannot be made God without a miracle can and no doubt will make use of these to be the Executors of his Vengeance and fierce displeasure against this Nation who then would be not only here and there bespotted but over head and ears

as it is apparent that Davids Subjects valued him at ten thousand of themselves and the Scripture promiseth KINGS in the last dayes to be given as Nursing Fathers and Queens for Nursing Mothers to the Church And that KINGS shall bring their glory and honour to the Heavenly Jerusalem as an Accomplishment of her splendor and lustre A thing not promised to any ten thousand other persons nor are so many private men nor can they be capable of it Behold a good a pious patient truly Christian Protestant Prince yet a man of Valour and Courage although made up of meeknesse and clemency who may lead us and conduct us in Warre and preserve us in Peace How have the Rumpers ecchoed to their Vsurping Protector in mannaging a costly foolish unprofitable Warre with Spain to the ruine almost and losse of the Nations Trade and the beggering of severall thousand Families only to satisfie his and their Lusts and Animosities in which Warre besides we lose three for one Whereas a true Father of his Countrey would sooner empty his own V●ins of bloud then exhaust his Subjects Pu●ses for no apparent cause and to no beneficial end We have had tryall of Vsurpers even to distraction almost to destruction Oh! now at last restore to us our true Prince and Governour CHARLES our King The excellency of whose temper and height of whose deserts as they render him truly more desirable so they make him of more value then ten thousand common men Let the worthinesse of the Subject plead for the maturity of your care And the great God who is only able to direct guide and counsell you be your Counsellor and stay That so once more being setled upon the Foundation of Truth and Righteousnesse our perjury murder and oppression being repented of and the oppressed relieved we may all have cause of solid and lasting joy which is the Earnest Prayer Most honourable Lords And worthy Senators Of your Cordiall Honourer And most humble Orator G. 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THE CONCLUSION TO His Royall most Excellent Sacred MAJESTY THus having most judicious truly pious and most accomplished Prince performed this defense of Regall Government and Authority against an acute although scurrilous Antagonist whose Reproaches of and impious falshoods concerning your Majesties most glorious Predecessor and Royall Father I have wiped off and discovered the Impiety therein of him who cast them Likewise having addressed my self to those in Power of whose good will we have already had Comfortable Earnest to stirre them up to the speedy Restauration of your most deserving and desirable Person and family to your undoubted birthright and inheritable upon honourable termes as the only way under God of putting a period to our Long suffered miseries calamities and distractions and setling us upon the happy foundation of Peace righteousness religion and true not nominall Liberty Duty now commands and engageth me humbly to lay down these my inconsiderable labours at your Majesties Royal feet and to submit them to your most judicious censure The test of which far be it from me fondly to imagine that these triviall Lines can abide However from your most accurate censure I fly to your most gracious Princely disposition craving your favourable acceptance of the will and desire I had sincerely to serve your most just Royall Interest that so I may be esteemed in your Gracious breast according to my truly loyall most cordiall intentions and not my weak and every way Inconsiderable performance In magnis voluisse sat est Pardon also I humbly begge of your most gracious Majesty this double presumption of daring to trouble your more serious thoughts with my no way valuable Lines in comparison to your other many most weighty important Princely Affairs since this last boldness is absolutely necessary in consideration of the former it being no way excusable having begun my Addresse to the Sun of Majesty to end the same in Application to any Starre of lesser magnitude To you therefore most incomparable Prince and Soveraign as I humbly dedicated and presented so I recommend this inconsiderable mite of my service to you it is due were it of the greatest worth However as it is be pleased to accept it and in it let your truly Divine Princely goodnesse cover all defects and imperfections and receive it I beseech you as a testimony of his most Cordiall devotion to your service with all possible performance to the utmost of his ability to which he is truly and conscientiously obliged and constantly resolved to stand immovably firm in all submissive Loyalty and inviolable fidelity who is My LIEGE Your Majesties unworthy most humble Orator G. 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