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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53762	A prospective for King and subjects. Or A schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II. Kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With some few advertisements to the people in the 3. nations concerning the cruel, exorbitant, and most tyrannical slavery they are now under which they have wrought themselves into, and stil desiring to be, by up-holding of a pretended court of Parliament, altogether ruling contrary to the lawes of the lands or any branch there of and according to there owne lustful and arbitrary wills. Written by Wendy Oxford once an honourer of them and there pretences, but now as great an abhorrer of there Macheeslian practises.	Oxford, Wendy.	1652 (1652)	Wing O844; ESTC R214667	19,165	34

his Sacred person remember when you did this murther you wonded your God through the sides and so long as you fight against to keepe your native Soveraigne from his rights and possessions you deteyne God out of his right the King being the vice gerent of the Lords so that in plaine termes you tobbe God of his dues and the King of his contrary quite to our Savious rule give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God those things which are Gods 3. Next most renowned Prince promise to the people that you wil doe justice to al which is termed Regia mensura even to the meanest as wel as to the greatest without partiality neither inclining to the right hand of affection nor to the left hand of hatred I be seech you toread Sir Francis Bacons Essaies of Iudicature wherein he speaks to Prince as wel as to Iudges if thou per ceivest sayth he on the on side high hils of advantage powerful combination and violent prosecution and on the other side the low vallyes of poverty and dejected nesse prepose thy way as God did to judgement Isaiath the 40. Chap and the 3. verse by raising vallies and taking downe mountaines so shalt thou lay the foundation of thy sentence on a sure ground Then O King as Iehosaphat said Be of good courage and doe justice and the Lord wil be with thee and al nations shal feare thee Now let me speake againe to your people as to this 3. advise And if so that such promises be made to you good countrymen by a King I and by your owne King not a forreigner by a protestant Prince of your owne religion and not of astrangeon that you shal have your religion resetled your lawes now torne to peeces reestablished so that in causes of justice and judgment you shal have true sentence Secundum allegata probata and that you shal have Iudges like Elohem upon life and death and like Solomon when meum tuum is in dispute and not like these Kingly usurpers who to your greifes I speake it had rather Ius dare to make lawes of there owne upon there authorityes of sic volumus sic Iubermus not fearing at al that feareful malediction in Abekuke chapter the 5. and the 1. verse Cursed is he that remooveth his neighbours land marke I say they had rather Ius dare them Ius dicere then to pronounce the old lawes already made If such things be promised by our dread Soveraigne what shal let you but an extraordinary judgement of God for your sinne of in gratitude from in throning him in his native rights and yours which wil prove in conclusion your freedomes and greatest gaines But some of these mens Baal preists may say what wil you extirpate those you have chosen to make and preserve your lawes I answer they deserve it having beene chosen by you to doe so nay they having sworne so to doe but they have prooved false for sworne and grosse covenant breakers who have wrested the lawes of God and the gospel of Iesus Christ to there owne ends the Iustice of God requires it and man also melius ut pereat unus quam pereat unitas better for on to perish then unity to be destroyed they terme themselves a Parliament and as but on body therefore let that on as a rotten corrupt and putrified body be cut of to save a whole stocke from perishing Fiat Iustitia Ense reseindendum ne pars sincera trahatur Looke upon the Apostles rule Nos scimus bonam esse legam modò index à legitima utatur We know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully To the end of what hath beene hitherto spoken by mee I humbly begge of your Majesty that I may returne unto you and your goodnesse heare mee That your Majesty would not be advised by any favourites when you shal by Gods blessing attaine to your crownes to deale with your people as physitians sometimes deale with there patients that they must be recovered by corosives and sharpe remedies no Deare Sr. that you please to cure them with a diat and asswage with fomentations And if against the light of nature and lawes of nations and rights thereof your people shal persist in there obstinacy and contemne your many times offred grace and goodnesse then you are excused in the binding cutting and pruning such stife stakes that wil rather burst then bend and al to be really looked on as to the restoring your selfe to your owne and them to your selfe yet you may not extirpate all But for the a voyding of this latter I wish great Sr that your Kingdomes may be setled without more blood as firme as mountaines not to be remooved your cities returne in obedience and your strongholds with continuance of the same al your subjects obsequious and not to hate monarchy under thoughts of freedome and so conspire stil to with hold there obedience O that is a greivous sinne and absolutely unlawfull by the lawes of God and man to resolve a redemption by a wicked temptation of liberty Such subjects must expect to labour under general convulsions and be wasted with unheard of Lacerations No farre be it from your people to entertaine such precipitation of thoughts and farre be also contempt and rigour from your Majesty least the divine power of God bring to passe that which few feares none dare attempt and Prince and people ab horre wherefore O Prince resolve of comeing to your owne if possibly by love and peace and rather suffer a little longer then ruine al. Si vis vincere disce pati Now you that cal your selves the supreame power of England Scotland and Ireland I can compare you to no other then to the 30. Tyrants of Athens or to the Tribunes amongst the Romans either lyke the 30. Tyrants who were chosen by the people to be there conservators of there lawes and liberties even so were you who held the people with goodwords and faire glozzed declarations as you have done until they had the opportunity and strength to persist in there designe of Tyranny then they turned the weapons of the people against there owne breacts and became absolute Tyrants whole names and deeds had never beene blotted out had not this age bred such monsters as you are to outvy them in the highhest manner that may be or els you may be compared to the Tribunes amongst the Romaines to be appealed unto from inferiour courts of Iudicature and chosen Parliament men to be advisers about affaires and assistants to the King which in a short time you by your machevilian perjuries and so phisticated conjurations to the people namely your declarations promises remonstrances c. In your usurped authority have not only overtopped the Kings power like the Tribunes but have cut of King and power to al posterity Wherefore al people may justly say either you are without Christ or Christ without peace A hard saying I must confesse but yet

relations so that where blood and the nearest consanguinity can not find security of councel and action it is in veine for a Prince to hold himselfe safe in many councellors great emperours Princes and generals in these our dayes who have made use of councellors as to heare the opinions of every on of them but they had never effected such great attempts as they did had they not kept the result of al in there owne harts until the very houre which they intended the enterprize may I be on ce blessed with the sight of your Majesty I shal be more plaine in my expressions then now I am for that I ossend some so much that this poore booke could not find a presse until the soarings were a little clipped and if by my expressions and confessions which I shal then lay open to your Majestyes judgement Ishal not irritate your displeasure but merit your gracious pardon it wil engage mee too make the greater discovery es which I shal for beare to any what ever but my owne Prince But thus much I shal presume on in the interim that your Majesty be cautions of some neare you and then feare not those farre from you And let this be a cave at to the Dutch for no question if it be possibly to corrupt any of there greatest States which God for bid those of Westminster wil not be wanting to the ut most of there endeavours and stocks which England with greife may say are to great great Prince cast of such sychophants as I sayd already whose persons are with your Majesty and there harts in the treasury of your enemies looke on those I bee seech your Majesty on my knees that have lost there fathers brothers and kindred nay al there estates for doeing you service and your roy al father I say cast not not of your nobility and true harted gentry they have ever beene formerly accounted ornaments to a crowne the on and propps thereunto the other and al of most honourable respects in a republicke Although I must confesse in these our latter dayes even as some deadly hem locke hath appeared in fertile ground and the richest ore hath beene digged out of barren soyle even so hath vertuons and honourable spirits proceeded from meane parentage and appeared so in your service and base and ignoble discended from Honourable progenitors who have formerly appeared as starres for there Princes but now gone out as snusses of candles against them wherefore wel sayd a holy man nobility of birth maney times begets ignobility of mind and untimely honour hinders many from honourable attempts but to such nobility and such councellours I conclude thus which I desire may be a caveat to the remaining honest of Lords and privy councellors that greatnesse can not exempt them from the vengeance of God nor al the wealth in the Parliaments treasury bye them there from which commandement contrary to there knowledge and conscience that they should honour God and be true to ther King they doe thus presumptuously transgresse which is neither Gods commandement cannot deterre nor Gods Word advise them nor his judgements feare them I wil say as Saint John writes in the 12. Chap. of the revolations the 11. verse he which is fylthy let him by fylchy still Wherefore most gracious Sr I be seech you to leave such councellours in time least your Majesty be left by them in the lurch A stander by many times sees more then he that playeth as your Majesty hath beene too often already Now gracious King be pleased too give a poore subject of your Majestyes leave to set downe a few advertisements for the procuring your owne rights and Kingdoms And first of al Sr I be seech your Majesty as to descend so much as to addresse your selfe to your people in a he avenly way of peace and goodnesse by way of declerations and remonstrances making there in a Covenant with God to follow your vowes and protestations made or to be made to your subjects although they have beene stubborne and stisse necked hitherto against you yet behold and see what the Lord God of hosts may doe with there harts for great Sr thinke not to overcome them by sword so easily as by word no no they have beene so long embrueng there hauds in bloods on af another that there harts are hardned against forra igners you may bring in they may be sooner smitten with your assuance to them that as you redeme your rights carefully you wil not only spend them wisely but that you wil first of all settle the protestant religion amongst them in the purity therof according to the best reformed churches that when your Majestyes time shal come when you must give an account to the King of Kings of your vicegerency and Steward ship the God of al Gods may say to you welcomely Euge bone serve and give your gracious selfe a Crowne of glory which shal never fal from the head of your Majesty and that your people may have just cause to mourne for suchan earthly losse and rejoyce that you are els where in glory remaining for ever hereafter which that your Majesty may attaine unto here and hereafter God of his mercy graunt Amen 2. Next that your Majesty promise to rule over them with love and not by feare the loving way of government being easy and safe but Tyranny is ever accompanied with care and terror O Sr carry this saying in your breast Ama impera Qui terret plus ille timet sors illa Tyranno convenit And truly Deare Sr. could your Majesty be but quiet a while longer your gracious selfe should soone see this saying sulfilled in the now oppressours of your people there exorbitant oppressions wil force the oppressed to take an advantage of shaking of the yoke they are now under as not being able to beare any longer neither wil Gods justice suffer the sway which is grounded on there cruel Tyranny to continue Now to these two principles which I begge your Majesty to harken unto let mee speake to my country men concerning them Remember fellow commoners that you by Gods ordinance and humane lawes are the true and lawful subjects of this King who now you deraine his rights and your owne due obdience from For heis your naturally borne King and these you now yeild obedience unto in al there false edicts have surruptiously gotten the stasse of government over you and accordingly usurpe there authority under pretence they have gotten it by conquest but alas they have not conquered there King nor you but it was you that conguered your selves in conquering your Prince and those you fought against Next remember good country men and repent as you wil answer at the dreadfull day of judgement when al your now usurping rulers and your actions of treason and murthers must be accounted for of your holding downe your Prince by the haire of the head whilst these bloodsucking rulers cut it of from