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cause_n	king_n	lord_n	prince_n	3,449	5	5.5271	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84394	The shepherds letters: 1 To his soveraigne lord King Charles his sacred Majesty. 2 To the renowned noble princes, grand-sonnes to great James of famous memory, late west-emperour of the world, Prince Rupert and Prince Maurice. 3 To all the late bishops, doctors, and ministers reputed malignants in the kingdomes of England and Scotland give these.	Ellyson, Thomas.	1646 (1646)	Wing E632; Thomason E319_3; ESTC R200553	5,825	8

against his Father which Action is so repugnant to Order so odious to Reason so urgent to Nature so contrary to Custome nay the very Conscience and all I beseech you to consider it c. But to leave relating their impious Projects in these places their limbes unluckely leapt to our English Stage to act the like Tragedy which in the Reigne of Elizabeth Queen of famous memory the Earls Rebellion in the North will well witnesse and many may remember to this day that being insatiable they ceased not to assault her Successor with the Powder-plot as is said c. But now to keepe their gall of bitternesse in continuall action with all their Fox-like subtill Sophismes they have assaulted seduced deceived and drawne away our Soveraigne Lord the King from his royall Throne and edged him in Armes against his Parliaments of both Kingdoms which I dare ingage both life and soule is as truly Noble Learned loyall and loving Subjects as ever King have had that wore these Crownes so that with the Prophet I may truly say There is a wonderfull and horrible thing committed in the Land the Prophets have spoken falsly the Priests beare rule thereby the people please to have it so but what will be the end thereof Jeremiah 5. Wherefore I most intirely supplicate your Princely minds very seriously to consider for what cause God hath appointed you to spring from the loynes of Princes surely to have regard to Gods eternall Decree and to be Fronteers in fighting of his Battailes against such Butcher-like bloody and tragecall attemptors and to apply your Princely powers to deliver our Soveraigne Lord the King from their poluted Papist Jaile whether he be holden by force or by perswasion But if they say they be good Protestants I doe answer If the Tree be good let his fruit declare it for I finde Divinity-Logicke in a short rule He that is not with me is against me c. now seeing Religion is of highest concernment I beseech you remember If one man trespasse to another a Judge may determine but if a man fight against God none can releeve him Wherefore howsoever bring our Soveraigne Lord the King to fit upon his Throne to Governe the many Thousands of Israel to the great joy and comfort of us all for it is the onely very ordinary meanes for preservation and continuation of his Crowne State and Dignity to him and his for ever and also for his Princely Power with Potent strength to establish Peace in the Palatinate Countries for the endlesse good of you and yours that so all our Israel from Dan to Beersheba may sing Halelujah to the Lamb of God for so great deliverances which Graces I beseech God of his great mercies in his good time grant us to the good of his Church and the praise of his glorious Name to whom be all glory and praise for ever His Majesties abject Subject whose prayers passeth to God for the preservation of his sacred Person with the continuation of his Crowne State and Dignity to him and his for ever The Shepherd of Easeington Tho. Ellyson January 1645. Right Reverend and well beloved I Doe stand up to speake unto you But I professe and also protest I do it not by way of insultation over your decayed estates for I doe acknowledge my selfe ten time triple bound to the good mercies of God for preserving me to stand when he suffereth many much better to fall But I doe it by way of exhortation to your edification and comfort though I confesse many millions of men farre fitter for it then I yet I will not suffer great Clearks onely and to be saved alone for it is of necessity for me to be saved also and what the Law saith it saith to them that are under the Law whereof I am one and doth apply that precept of Moses as spoken even unto me which saith Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart but thou shalt plainely rebuke thy Neighbour and suffer him not to sin which precept the Apostles doth itterate double and triple over willing and requiring us to admonish one another exhort one another edifie one another c. which portions of Scripture your selves oft times have treated upon to the great edification and comfort of your hearers Wherefore I humbly petition your patience permit me to surrender the same comfort to comfort your selves for your neglect is greatly accused to because of this gseat confusion amongst us and I do believe it but that I may not wrong you upon bare report I desire to examine your Commission and compare it with your execution of action for mine own discharge For unto you it is said Sonne of man I have made thee a Watchman to the House of Israel c. if I send a Sword through the Land and if you give not the people warning yet they shall die in their transgressions but their blood will I require at thy hand c. Here is a fearefull accusation what excuse can you make for if you say The great Archbishops sate in the sterne of the Churches to turne it as their wisdome might direct them c It will be replyed That if they were deprived of wisdome it is pitty ye were deprived of grace to resist their folly for when a free Parliament was called you had both place and voice as well as they so that your best friends can frame no excuse but that you are so grievously falne that that admoniiton appointed for that great Church of Ephesus may fitly be applyed unto you Remember therefore from whence ye are fallen and repent And you inferiour Ministers that may seeme to shelter your selves under the shadow of great Doctors even you also are inexcusable for although for orders sake they did hold priority of place yet your Commission for binding loosening demolishing and building is equall to them so that convincing Truth doth testifie that with Demas you are falne from Paul and followed this present World remember therefore from whence yee are falne and repent For my love to the Ministers of the Gospell would willingly solist your cause by excuse if I could finde fit ground for it but if I should plead your obedience to God from that Precept which appointeth us to Honour the King I should be answered that as you have applyed that obedience you have dishonoured both God and the King you haue dishonoured God which had given an absolute order that to Aegypt we should never returne againe for if we did he ordered two inresistable Armies to pursue and ass●ult us till we be destroyed for although mercy would willingly preserve us yet very Justice must justly inflict the Sword and Pestilence upon us which hath greatly enlarged the Grive revived and advanced Death which is an enemy to Nature for it destroyeth the Creature a great dishonour to God a most grievous fall remember therefore from whence yee are falne and repent And your honour to the King is according to it for it hath greatly distracted his Government indangered his sacred Person demolished the glory of his Kingdomes which consists in the multiplicity of Subjects made many a Wife to want her Husband and many a Wives Sonne hath his blood mingled in the dust which no doubt will be required at your hands except yee repent For if a mans owne transgressions doe often draw him into a dangerous strait when the blood of many is laid upon him his condition must needs be most desperate but my desire is not to drowne you in the deapth of desparation but to draw you to repent For Abraham denyed his Wife Joseph swore by the life of Pharaoh David committed two deadly facts Paul persecuted the Church of God and Peter forswore that he knew his Master yet by repentance all these obtained mercy and is amongst the most glorious Sonnes of God and so may you be if with Peter yee will waite upon Christ till he looke backe upon you with one glimpse of Grace which is indeed the very bottomlesse Ocian of all excellencies wherefore I beseech you free your selves from all corrupt mixtures flowing from humane devices and receive with meeknesse that which is able to save your soules to wit repent And if one sparke doe kindle to your comfort I beseech you certifie our soveraigne Lord the King what dangerous waies you have walked and informe his Majesty that to goe forward there is no hope for the Prophet saith That the true feare of the Lord is to depart from evill Wherefore perswade his Majesty to use all possible meanes speedily to returne to his owne Jerusalem to governe his people prudently with all his Power to the great thanks-giving of us all c. I beseech you doe not slight my Petition which doth so neerly concerne your selves for as I am bold without blushing to speake in the faces of men I have also a good Conscience in the presence of God whose Judgements you cannot escape Wherefore I beseech you let the remembrance of our mortality by Sword and Pestilence so mortifie your corrupt affections as to make a true recollection of the time that is past and apply a true Christian resurrection for the time to come Henceforth put on such an habit of holinesse as may practice true Piety hereafter to the praise and glory of God the prosperity of our Soveraigne Lord the King and his Posterity the common good of all his Kingdomes and our eternall Thanks-giving through Jesus Christ to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost one God be all honour and praise for ever Amen His Majesties abject Subject whose Prayers passeth to God for the preservation of his sacred Person with the continuation of his Crowne State and Dignity to him and his for ever The Shepherd of Easeington Tho. Ellyson January the 10th 1645. FINIS