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cause_n	king_n	parliament_n	petition_n	2,565	5	9.5981	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95903	Vicissitudes progress, with its convoy through the counties of Essex, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Middlesex, to Westminster and to London. By way of premonstration.		1648 (1648)	Wing V336; Thomason E452_5; ESTC R203899	14,716	16

a meass of pottage cursed to posterities But the great Question is What is Right The Law will decide that Controversie the People ask but what their Forefathers enjoyed and what they bought with the greatest price If Law may take place the Controversie is quickly ended Law is the Rule of Justice and Justice is the end of the Law take away the Authority of the Law and Justice hath no foundation but if Will not Law must be Judge on either party England is in a sad and despicable condition it is a symptome of inevitable ruine to King and People The King and the People have both one Law to be their Rule one God to fear and serve one Judge and one Throne of Judgement where both must appear and there will be no respect of person● It were wisdom to consider what answer must be given Who shall then give account of the wrong done and for the blood of the slain which cryes and cryes loud from the earth to heaven in all parts of His Majesties three Kingdoms And who but His Majesty next under God can stop those sanguine showers and binde up the bleeding veins of his people It can no way be done but by the establishing of our Laws securing Religion priviledges of Parliament and liberties of the People by this means the King his Successors and the people by Gods blessing shall be Cemented together inseparable secured from future breakings out His Majesty being to them as the heart in the Body and the blood in the Veins which uncorrupted is the fountain of Life and Health but corrupted is the cause of all distempers and must be purged else the whole Body will perish The distempers from the Head or Heart are defusive and each Member feels its part Hence comes the general complaint all cry for ease but few or none seek the right means of ease but as sick men desire change weary of every place loath every wholsome thing shift from pillow to pillow from bed to bed from one place to an other still the distemper grows Then the Physitians are blamed railed on and reviled because they were deemed petty gods able to cure all but finding them but men we 'll not be advised by them what they prescribe for cure the people reject and what they tell us cherisheth the disease the people desire this as to a person so to a body Politick not onely prolongeth the cure but increaseth the distempers all this cometh by the mutability in men To speak plain the cause of the distempers in England Scotland and Ireland is either in the King or People or in King and People The Essex men in their commanding Petition implyedly lay the fault in the Kings absence from His two Houses of Parliament ye all know His Majesty withdrew Himself from them yet those Petitioners would vent their spleen against the Parliament because they do not Treat with His Majesty Personally as if a Treaty would change the Kings heart but they forget their former complaints and cryes under Royal burthens arbitrary pressure that lay upon them before this Parliament began because as I told you mutation causeth oblivion the other Countreys Kent Surry Sussex c. in their sedicious way seem to Petition for a Personal Treaty or rather command it to he had and fix Peace as the aym to fool other Counties as themselves were fooled by the Enemy but while Peace is in their mouthes War was in their hearts and hands their Petitions spake Peace but their association with arch Incendiaries and Delinquents proclaimed War this is evident as their folly to be so fool'd to act their own ruine by their own hands For my part I blame not any modest way of Petitioning for it is the Peoples Interest nor do I blame any of these Counties for Petitioning for a Treaty I really believe a Treaty is the best way to settle the Kingdom but I justly blame the uncivil way of Petitioning and abhor the practice of taking Arms against a Parliament It is possible a Treaty may conclude all differences but not very certain yet it would be more advantagious to the Parliament then to the King my Reason is because the People conceive the King will consent to any thing that is right and that He is now another man will confirm Law and secure the Subjects Liberty c. it is the desire of my heart that it may be so for I truly honor the King But if His Majesty upon tryal shall refuse to do what the people say he will do and hath offered or what shall be sufficient to secure their Rights it will then plainly appear to them and to all the world where the fault is and the hearts of the people will and must cleave to the Parliament for safety But before there can be a Treaty there must be some Security else the Parliament and with it all good Subjects may be destroyed together for if they that have been the Original of these bloody Wars drew his Majesty from his Parliament and endeavored an Arbitrary Government and Innovation of Religion and procured this War stand still in power as we see they are able to raise a new War be not brought to Just punishment or some restraint laid on them they will be incouraged to take advantage of a Treaty to do the same again and worse for except security be first given they may change the Scene from a Treaty to a Tragedy but a Treaty is now resolved on as soon as it may be with conveniency and safety no time nor endeavor is omitted the people see it and know it Besides the King having formerly published several Declarations and Proclamations rendring the Parliament and all that have adhered to them to be Traytors and Rebels Those Declarations and Proclamations must first be recall'd else how shall the Parliament be in a fit capacity to Treat but the Petitioners say not a word of this nor so much as once mention their Solemn Covenant which shews what kinde of Spirits they are of and what is their design nor are any to judge of this but onely the Parliament what is safe and what not It is true there have been obstructions to Treaties and to Peace but that was never the Parliament but particular men that seek their own ends to some such we know War is Peace and Peace will be their loss But we know great bodies move slow and great businesses cause long debates and the Parliament have had a Brother Kingdom to joyn in all Treaties and Peace a business once well done is done for ever but done to halfs is worse then undone and will prove unrepairable prejudice to the publique time endeavor and patience will help all Object The Parliament have had time enough sate many years done nothing as to Settlement either in Church or Commonweal but all things grow worse except to some that have sought themselves and gotten estates out of others loss they intend to have no

King at all Voted no more Addresses to be made to Him but have kept up an Army to over rule the Kingdom c. To this I answer They have sate long and with great difficulty they have endured much taken great pains yet cannot effect that which we desire the Reason is because there are some joyned with them in the work like Sheba sons of Bichri 2 Sam. 20.1 that would not have a King nor Peace others like the revolted promiscuous Samaritans of Sanballats confederacy adversaries to Reformation who under pretence of building Gods house pull down what others endeavor to build as in Ezra and Nehemiahs time besides the people of the Land the great complainers have as then they did Weakned their hands troubled them yea Ezr. 4. hired Counsellors against them to frustrate their purpose so that this Parliament have been forced to tread unknown paths and met with unheard of oppositions as no Parliament of England ever did before them then no marvel if the work be long But to say that things are worse then they were is a scandal It is true things are very ill and much the worse by the complainers calumnies and seditious Petitions thwarting one another And whereas you say they have sought themselves you must distinguish between the Parliament and particular men that some men in Parliament have been meer self-seekers I with sorrow of heart acknowledge but the people sent them thither therefore the people that make no better choyce are in fault not the Parliament But why are the good despised one mans fault doth not make another to be guilty no more then Peter and the rest of the eleven Apostles were to be condemned because Judas was also an Apostle yet a Thief a Traytor and a Devil You say they intend to have no King that 's clearly false and injurious Why then did the Parliament offer Proposals to the King so often from time to time and really promise to make His Majesty greater then His Progenitors if they intended not to establish their King Let but His Majesty yet secure the Kingdom and I shall not need to say this Objection is false That a Vote past the House to make no more Addresses to the King is true because He might see He refusing their Proposals they intended to settle the Kingdom without Him but that Vote was onely restrictive No more Addresses without consent of Parliament yet as Parliament should see cause they might notwithstanding that Vote make as many Addresses as they would but not perpetually there must be an end of offering In a word whatever failing have been in actions or success it is not to be laid upon Parliament but particular men and faction private designs and self-interest There have been factions and factious men and that hath added to the Kingdoms misery Is it not so in all Societies What City Town or County in this Kingdom is free and is the thing that threatens desolation pride and covetousness is the cause of it besides Romanists Episcopalists and Libertines have broached strange Opinions and old Heresies such as have been condemned by the purest Primative Churches and are contrary to Scripture sound Doctrine and the power of godliness these have strengthned factions and factions have bred quarrels and sidings by which we have weakened our selves and strengthened the Enemy and acted their design all along so as we may truly say if God give us to destruction our destruction is of our selves and all this is Gods just judgement upon the Nation Because we received not the love of the truth 2 The. 2. Isa 19.14 but had pleasure in unrighteousness therefore God sent us strong delusions that we might believe a lye And mixed a perverse Spirit in the midst of us causing us to erre And for your Objection as to the keeping up the Army I say it is Gods great mercy that there is such an Army on foot in the Kingdom at this day they are the means under God by which we or any thing that is ours are preserved yet I will not justifie any thing not just in any evil must not be done that good may come of it yet God in his wise providence turneth evil to good as the selling of Joseph into Egypt was a wicked act in his brethren but was the means by Gods providence of preserving them and their old father from death Surely no Army in all the Christian world have been more prosperous sucessful and faithful as to an Army they have prevailed in all their attempts against the Enemy like Joshua and Caleb and deserve honor and reward above ordinary Soldiers notwithstanding they be men of infirmities as other men In many things we offend all How shall we look to be forgiven if we will not forgive or how can we forgive an Enemy if we will not forgive a friend one trespass especially such a friend as hath delivered us and doth deliver us from the wrath of a cruel Enemy I have a word or two by your patience to whisper to the famous City London I say famous City for so ye once were for your zeal to God bounty to your friends and gallantry against your Enemies you were a terror to the Enemy a comforter to your friends a supporter to the Kingdom and a refuge to the distressed that fled to you for shelter your selves like Zebulun and Nepthtali Were a people that jeoparded their lives in the high places of the field To the help of the Lord against the mighty Iudg. 5 Give me leave by way of complaint to ask you How comes it to pass that you are fallen back revolted lost your first love violated your Covenant I speak not to the Magistratical part of the City who still hold to their first principles but to the generality of the inhabitants especially to the yonger sort who of friends are become Enemies I have observed but few take notice that of late very many Delinquents have put their Sons Apprentice in this City you may see their end by their practice Consider I pray Luke 9.62 the saying of our Savior Christ No man having put his hand to the plough and looking back is fit for the Kingbom of God Do not ye lightly esteem the Rock of your Salvation ye began well why suffer you your selves to be seduced by the Enemy ye did believe the Cause to be just and so indeed it was as ever any war as to the defensive part Errors in the managing alters not the cause nor can warrant your falling off The quarrel is the same the Enemy is the same and your Interests are the same that they were at the first How comes it then that ye are changed Surely this is an evil change you now make Leagues with the same Enemy against whom ye so lately were engaged notwithstanding the Enemy still hates you and seeks to destroy you Nay ye know the Enemy is Gods Enemy and an Enemy to the Truth and