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cause_n	king_n	liberty_n	parliament_n	2,621	5	6.9289	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55791	A paralel between the proceedings of this present King, and this present Parliament		1648 (1648)	Wing P337A; ESTC R221396	9,060	13

A PARALEL Between the PROCEEDINGS of this present KING And this present PARLIAMENT Quicquid delirant Reges plectuntur Achivi LONDON Printed in the yeer MDCXLVIII To the CITY GOD was pleased to make you glorious instruments of our liberty in the last troubles the Cavaliers account it your shame good men your glory They for this cause hate you and seek to divide you These care for you and endeavour to unite you They endeavour to draw you to themselves not that they love you but that they may make good their aims by weakning you These endeavour to set you upright for no other ends but your own safety as knowing how dangerous your Avulsion were from the Common-weal They can never love you remembring how their Cause hath suffered by you These will ever cleave to you be your selves never so unwilling as knowing how advantagious to the publike you have been and may be The way to continue you glorious is to continue your old interests and not seeking new ones which will ever lead you into new precipices If you mean to enjoy the fruits of your hazards and expences stick to your former Cause and become not rennagadoes to your noble professions and adventures If you do I do not now admonish but prophesie your faces will be covered with shame and your mouths filled with gravell and those means which carnall wisdom may suggest to you as the fittest for your security will in despight of your policy prove the unhappy and fatall causes of your devastation It grieves me to think how forward you are in these forbidden paths yee harbour Snakes in your bosoms an especiall antidote that may hinder the poyson to come at your heart is more then necessary God hath hindered many of your motions if you go on there may one be connived at and then take heed least you gather the judgements of other Countries as you have their people already contracted into your bosoms Ye have yet wise Governours among you follow them and be advised by them remember how like fathers they were to you when you last stirred at Guildhall remember their safety is yours they cannot undo you and preserve themselves Hate all those murmurers that distill poyson in your ears and provoke you to discontent your selves may hereafter confesse that this advice was faithfull Grudge not at the Army though they may be a little burdensome That handfull of men know it stands between you and oppression had that bank been pulled down those waters which have lately overflowed some pieces of our Land had broke in upon you and overborne you This addresse proceeds from my well-wishes if prejudice will suffer you to peruse it you and the whole Kingdom to whom it will not be unseasonable may draw from it some usefull conclusions the God of union prosper it unto you and continue you firme to your first love least you slide into a shamefull and miserable Apostacy which ever doubles the crime in a Malefactor Adieu A PARALEL between the Proceedings of this present KING and PARLIAMENT § I. AMong the many causes which have cherished and heightned our late and present distempers there is none have been more powerfull then the audacious liberty and carelesse permission of printed Pamphlets which seeming inconsiderable have better familiarity with the vulgar and being fraught with reasons fit for their capacity do not onely confirm those malignant whom they finde so but by their tart aspersions laid on the best Persons and their bold misinterpretations put upon the sincerest actions corrupt and poyson many times the best and purest integrities while they of the adverse Party laugh in their sleeves to see so many good fames sullied and so little opposition to be made against them § II. Nor hath the Parliament been awanting to take notice at severall times of this inconvenience witnesse their many Votes and Orders and appointing of Committees to this purpose which as yet have effected nothing For which some have given these reasons First That no particular person of sufficient abilities armed with sufficient authority and encouraged by a competent Salary hath been deputed to this employment but the businesse hanging on many shoulders hath through carelesnesse of the Superiours the treachery and cunning of the Underlings who are known to receive fees from the Hawkers and Printers for their connivance fall'n to the ground Another cause is given That the Mercuries and Hawkers so they call the men and women that carry these papers up and down are grown into a kinde of a Corporation and finding the sweet of it will not be deterred by these empty threats of Bedlam and Bridewell for needy people are in a manner lawlesse A third cause is assigned which indeed is the neerest from the truth That a wrong course is taken to endeavour to suppresse Libels in the hands of these people when they ought to be originally supprest at the Presses which till it be done they take but the same course as if a Physitian should endeavour to remove an internall fixed Disease by the cutting off of some outward member § III. But the troth is this and which till it be remedied all attempts in this kind will be vain the permission of Bibles printed beyond Sea and some others of the most saleable Books to be commonly vended hath so discouraged the mystery of Printing here that many Printers are necessitated to undertakings of this nature though never so hazardous so they bring them in some little profit and their Brethren knowing not how soon the case may be their own out of interest dissemble it This once remedied there would not a Pamphlet peep out but it would be track'd to its first rise and discovered And I beleeve this wholsome policy put in execution would of it self prove effectuall without that tyrannicall passe-port of an Imprimatur first spawned by the Inquisition fostered by the Bishops and their Trencher-chaplains and at last catcht by the turbulent Presbyterians § IIII. I must adde as a branch of this cause that although Printing be decayed Printers are encreased whereas the Presses were before of a set number which must needs infer there is danger in the multitude of them whereas if they were limited as I said before there might scarce be a Ballad done but it would be accompted for and the State might be satisfied if it were injured by a piece without need to curb it by a License which commonly rather defaces good pieces according to the humour of the Licenser then expunges bad ones We shall not at this time insist any thing upon these excellent advantages and horrible inconveniences which may proceed from the good or bad managing of Printing the wisdome of any State though never so weak will finde it out But to the purpose if this be beside it § V. Among the many Pamphlets that have infected our Common-weal two in respect of their continuance and audacious impudence have not been of the least note Pragmaticus