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Suppositions, with this humble request and advice of many thousands. To the right honourable the Houses of Parliament. By J. W.
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J. W.
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1642
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SVPPOSITIONS With this HUMBLE REQUEST And ADVICE OF MANY THOVSANDS To the Right HONOVRABLE The HOVSES of PARLIAMENT By J. W. London Printed for Ralph Mab 1642. Suppositions With this Humble Request and advice of many thousands to the Right Honourable the Houses of PARLIAMENT TOwards the compleating of every Structure three things are necessary the workmen the Materials the Tooles this Structure is the Common-Wealth the Workemen those good and indefatigable Members of the Houses of Parliament the Materials are Orders Rules Ordinances and good Lawes made and to be made the Tooles are the Iudgements and opinions of Men these Instruments if necessary to the building although never so meane ought not to bee neglected and therefore though you find this paper amongst the Horchpot of Bookes slight it not the Widdow in the Gospell was commended for her mite as much as the bounteons givers I am a Native and Free-man in this Common Weale and desire among so many thousands to bring in my Manuall also towards the good of this Fabricke and therefore ad rem How horrible how unchristian-like Civill War is Volumes might be compleated in manifestation one yeare in that more considerable then thirty of War abroad The cause of our Masacring one the other is not well understood Reason in all men is not alike shall we butcher each other we having no forâ—â—ine enemy amongst us because each have not like understanding O God forbid Misdoings not misunderstandings are just causes of punishment and then surely not of War Suppose the KING should conquer were it certaine whether all those good Lawes made this Parliament should still continue whether those worthy men of that great Councell should not be miserably distroyed yea another Parliament had and old Lawes for Subjects benefit and priviledges nullifyed Kings Prerogatives more inlarged established Would not our Religion be in extreame hazard yea his sacred Majesty and Posterity peradventure by those treacherous Papists together with many other rablements taking the advantage of being in his Army at the instant of his conquest be in danger of being conquered May we not then fear many of our chiefest Nobility might be attainted or destroied and other upstarts enroomed and also many places of all sorts bestowed upon people who are both empty of worth birth and fortune in liew of their owne cankred pernicious councells might not we expect the plundering of our Estates the ravishing of our Wives and Children yea all our Lawes Liberties Religion all the good wee now happily enjoy all at once in the Laps and hands of Miscreants Vermin and base seducers of that our Noble King Should we be conquerers would not the King have it ever wrote in his heart how stained should we be with the blood of our Fathers Kindred Friends and Countrymen c would not after-ages extreamely blame us would not other Nations deride us may not Kings in future times hate the Lawes now made calling them forced may it not happen that in the tryall of this victory some mischance may fall upon his Sacred Majesty or upon our Noble Prince did not holy Davids heart smite him for touching yea but the Lap though of Sauls Garment Is every cranny of your heads pried into and is there no other way but war what shall I say thinke or doe my Pen cannot expresse the horrid conclusions of such a war If there be any such that have drawn breath from the poysonous aconites of the earth as now to belch forth such venemous counsells to proceed if possible to the contrary in this true-Religion-decaying war my Pen shall not honour them so much as to set downe their curse it was prepared for them of old and God is just in due time will render it them Preces Lachrymae Arma sunt Ecclesiae Clergy methinkes should take all caution not to blow at the bellowes of this dissention but rather labour to sweat water and blood for prevention and so to Oratory that to their Auditors Religion the true protestant Religion I trust in my Redeemer I shall defend with my life next to that the Laws and Liberties of our Nation and the Parliament and Priviledges thereof being the top of our Inheritance I would sacrifiâ—e my deerest blood in defence of But when these shal be but in dispute of violation although I confessed I thinke the world is satisfied that there hath beene unparallelled mistakes hrongs of people stand amazed at the beginning of such a war yea bleeding Ireland those miserable comfortlesse people there breath out such sighes and groanes at these distractions that heaven suffers violence Changes and chances happen to all men in this mortall life like chances of gamsters at Diâ—e If good chance it may miscarry by over-sight if bad it may fortune to be amended by good play shall then these my humble conceiâ—s happen in o the hands of any Member of that Great Councell let mee beseech him and surely if God heare my earnest prayers they are in some degree to doe for me let them promote with effect but this motion that forthwith a day of humiliation be set a part yea with iniunction of more strictnesse then ordinary to councell with God in this great work and I trust his Sacred Maiesty will doe the same Where the wit of man ends there the Providence of God begins Come out of your selves then you learned Councell and let us together with you fall flat upon the earth before the Lord that he the King of Salem would now find a way of reconciliation Cor Regis manibus Dei This being done assure your selves will vivifie the doubting spirits of many thousands and also God even our owne God will give us his blessing FINIS