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A92745 A true declaration and just commendation of the great and incomparable care of the Right Honourable Isaac Pennington, Lord Major of the City of London, in advancing and promoting the bulwarkes and fortifications about the city and suburbs. With a vindication of His Honour from all the malicious aspersions of malignants. Published and presented to His Honour, by W. S. W. S. 1643 (1643) Wing S207; Thomason E99_27; ESTC R20463 7,292 15

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The true Portraiture of the Right Honourable ISAAC PENNINGTON Lord Major of the City of London A TRVE DECLARATION And just COMMENDATION OF THE Great and Incomparable care of the Right Honourable ISAAC PENNINGTON Lord Major of the City of LONDON in advancing and promoting the Bulwarkes and Fortifications about the City and Suburbs With a Vindication of his Honour from all the malicious aspersions of Malignants Est major quam cui poss●t ventosa nocere Turba malignorum Published and presented to his Honour by W. S. London Printed for R. Harper and are to be sold at ●is Shop in Smithfield 1643. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Isaack Pennington Lord Major of the most Famous City of London Right Honourable YOur Honor being the chiefest Treasurer of the Weal-publicke of this City I amongst the subscriptions and contributions of well affected persons have in this Booke like the Widow offered into your Treasury but only two mites of Service and Duty and for it doe most humbly pray your gracious favour and your Honours good acceptance I know it will appeare strange unto some who if they dislike my industry and distaste my zeale I esteem them only tanquam pedarios sensores trampling on the truth of the Cause and carrying their eyes in their heeles and not in their heads kicking and spurning at all zealous and well affected Patriots But those malignant humours are so farre from me and my intents that in publishing this booke I have scattered abroad the fire of my zeale to shew it selfe in its owne shine and placed my happinesse in your Honours approving my endeavours I have verily cast into your Treasury as much as I could and for my part doe judge it every mans part to depart from all where hee oweth all that is for the good and safety of the Common-wealth and the City which to advance your Honour hath and doth most Religiously and stoutly endeavour To this I can only adde my dayly prayers and will still power them forth to the God of all glory and mercy that his manifold and dayly blessings may be multiplied upon your Honour for your great viligilancy and care over this great City in these imminent times of Danger while I desire your approbation of this testimony of my zeale to your Honour and presume to subscribe myselfe your Honours most humble servant W. S. My Lord THE happy maintaining of truth in His Majesties Dominions is the great and most honourable employment of all Subjects but especially of those unto whom the good of the Subject is in a more peculiar manner intrusted that are so many Patres Patriae so many Fathers of their Countrey to dispose and defend the Rights Priviledges and Interests of their Countrey and the liberties of the Subject such are the two honourable Houses of Parliament and all Magistrates who ought to comply with His Majesty so farre as His Majesty doth comply with truth and truth is defined to be conformitas rei cum intellectu the conformity of any thing with the understanding Now in matters of Religion the will of God is the object of the understanding so that if the intellect or understanding be not rightly informed and conformed to Gods revealed will and word that Religion is false and erronious and such are the Idolatrous opinions of the Papists being conformed only to the will of humane traditions and inventions altogether repugnant to the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles And if the Delinquents who now swarme in Armes about the King have by force and evill counsell raised an unhappy division under fair pretences of Religion which they intend to overthrow and will maintaine Idolatry to be truth the violation of all Lawes divine and humane to be truth sint omnia protinus alba let all things even blacke it selfe be called white But if these Delinquents and Malignants did in the first place sow private seeds of dissention betweene the King and His Parliament in vulgus spargere semina and afterward disperst them amongst the vulgar people if they by pernicious counsell drew first His Majesties affection then His Person away from the Parliament then banded themselves into a great Army against the Parliament against the Subject and most especially against the Protestant Religion whose ruine they had formerly contrived and finding that all their intentions were by divine providence blowne away like the venemous worke of the Spider in publicum exitiosi nihil spei nisi per discordias habent tamen Deus Rex pretiosa nomina praet exuntur they are Tacitus his words with little alteration these men destructive to the Common-wealth had no hope to bring about their Idolatrous and wicked intents but by pretending those pretious names of God and the King as standing in their defence when indeed they oppose both seeing none can stand for God and the King truly and lawfully unlesse he stand also for the good of the Subject of the maintenance of the Protestant Religion Truth doth not consist in any duality of good and evill of right and wrong of reall and counterfeit of verball and substantiall but like a dye throwne by the hand of adversity or powerfull opposition doth alwaies set upon a square it is one and the same still like it selfe and therefore indeed it is good because it is alwaies one thus with God who is all goodnesse there is no shadow of alteration or changing but the Divel and his workes are multiplicia fallacia and therefore malignantia so the malignants of these times give out that they fight for God but indeed their meaning is fallacious for they intend being delinquents to keepe themselves from the censure of the Law they would erect againe their superstitious Idolatry and make the land groane againe under monopolies and arbitrary taxations they would enjoy the liberty of their owne wicked dissolutenesse and would have no reformation of Religion lest they should be compelled to a conformation thereunto and therefore stand neither for God nor the King but for their own manifold private ends and are malignants to God the King and the whole State of the Kingdome The question being thus stated between the malignants and those who stand for the maintenance of the true Gospel and the King as farre as he stands for the truth and is conformable thereunto it doth appeare how and by whom the Kingdome is now distracted the truth sheweth it selfe we are conformable to God first seeking his glory and then the honour of the King who cannot be the Kinst of malignants and true Protestants and therefore we are true obedient subjects unto his Majesty in endeavouring to divide those evill counsellours from him and to bring the King and his Subjects to a religious unity consisting of many parts as the Laws divine and humane the just priviledge of the Subject by a free and legall government together with the priviledges of Parliament all which these malignants endeavour utterly to subvert and destroy Et si