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A86028	A glasse for vveak ey'd citizens: or a vindication of the pious, prudent and peaceable petition (to the Honorable the Lord Mayor, aldermen and commons in Common-Councel assembled) now in agitation, from the false aspersions and calumniations of a seditious pamphlet, intituled, A dialogue, &c. By one that hath taken, and desires to keep his covenant. Very usefull for all that have subscribed the petition. Published according to order.	One That Hath Taken, and Desires to Keep His Covenant.	1646 (1646)	Wing G844; Thomason E341_5; ESTC R200897	5,251	8

mens Names were to it that never saw nor at that time heard of their Petition 2. That we might make it appear that the Sectaries are not so numerous so formicable as they would be esteemed they are very inconsiderable comparatively and for all your witlesse Observations upon this Petition in many Parishes the resusers are so few that we can write their Number with one Figure without the help of a cypher Nay the more hands will be got to it because they see Envy it self cannot charge the Petition with any crime but let the man make up a probable Tale if he can He tells us Malignant Ministers come in and compound and these may joyn with the Remonstrants so he meaneth and these with the Scots may make a party c. The man talks of Sedition but no such Sedition as this to divide betwixt the City and the City the City and the Parliament England with Scotland one House of Parliament with the other and joyn these with Malignant Ministers and Popish Priests But take this Observation by the way though all the Sects in the Kingdom shelter themselves under the wings of Independents yet the plain hearted Petitioners seek not Malignants to make up their number but though the Dissenting party will not joyn with them in Petitioning what their own principles lead them to yet we shall be willing to joyn with them for the removing of these or any other Grievances which our Covenant obligeth us to Then the man findes fault with our godly Ministers that Exercise every morning Some out of conscience others byased with base ends have done What stirring up the Magistrate in their popular Sermons at Westminister and Pauls to what man to keep their Covenant to be zealous for God and for the Publike good Let all that love God and the Peace of the Kingdoms say Gods blessing to their hearts But in your next take this Observation That there are no Ministers in the City pray more hearaily for the Parliament and the Armies then they do and that all our Victories since our New Model hath been and then begun when this Lecture was set up I thought good to give him this hint lest his impudence leads him at last to blaspheme an Ordinance of God which God hath honored with incredible successe To speak a word to the particular charge hearken Reader the great charge that is laid upon this honest Petition what is it they Petition for setlement of Religion the letter of the Covenant well if this be Malignancy and Sedition we will account it our honor to be so and till we can be disingaged from our Covenant we will Petition and Petition and Petition again for the setling of Religion This doubtlesse is our duty and cannot be any breach of Priviledge Reader take notice no Word in the Petition can be excepted against but Religion but this he faith is meant Presbyterial Government but who told him so how came he to know the sense of our Petition we did not make any Malignants or Sectaries of our counsel the man in stead of aspersing hath vindicated the Petition Religion is the worst word in it well then to conclude they that would have Religion a word in our Covenant setled and reformed they that would have a happy period put to all our pressing grievances Ireland poor bleeding dying Ireland that lately hath received a mortal blow if God prevent not relieved recovered that would have Peace setled upon the Foundation of truth and a firm Union betwixt us and our aspersed Brethren of Scotland an end of this uncivil Civil wars come and subscribe to this pious prudent and peaceable Petition and eccho back We will all subscribe OBSERVATIONS Upon the useful Dialogue c. 1. SEe the wicked policy of Sectaries because they fall from their own principles and to shew their opposition to them that endeavor so keep the Covenant they charge the Presbyterian party with Sedition and compliancy with Malignants and Cavaliers when as the truth of the charge lies at their own doors guilty persons accuse first 2. Look upon their impudence condemning that as seditious dangerous destructive to the Parliament c. which is the declared judgement upon serious and mature consideration of a godly grave wise and sober Court the Representative of this Famous C●ty without giving any pretence or shew of Reason for their gracelesse groundlesse censures 3. Observe their Sedition in hatching jealousies betwixt the Parliament and Kingdom presenting this City whose fame for their zeal to the Cause of God is gone through the Christian world as Seditous as joyning with Malignants as deserting the Parliament and presenting the Parliament as not regarding the City nor minding their grievances nor their own Engagements in leaving takens of honor upon this faithful City The Lord rebuke this lying Spirit 4. Behold them condemning the course of Petitioning the way themselves take the only way left to the Subject to have their grievances removed and that which is the indubitable right of the meanest Subject must be denied to the Common-Councel of London humbly to Petition Astonishing impudence unparallel'd Malignancy prefound ignorance 5. Reader see sonce again for there is no end of basenesse they pretend love Christian sweetnesse charitable opinions one towards another take heed plain-hearted Christians here is a snare for you when they talk and write of nothing that the Presbyterians do but what is dangerous mischievons seditious increasing the fire whilest they call for water I must leave them they be too subtile for any plain-hearted man to deal with To the Right Honorable the Lord Mayor The Right Worshipful the Aldermen and Commons of the City of London in Common-Councel assembled The Humble PETITION of divers well-affected Citizens and Free-men of London under the Jurisdiction of the Lord MAYOR Sheweth THat the great care and uncessant pains of this Honorable Court for promoting the Cause of God is so eminently known that your Petitioners conceive they shall be too much wanting to their own duty and safety if they should be backward in the thankful acknowledgement thereof Wherefore as they give you many humble and hearty thanks for what you have already done in reference to the Publike good so being desirous what in them lies yet farther to strengthen your hands to so glorious a work they cannot but let you know their Resolutions to adhere unto you in all your just and legal proceedings Not doubting but the same good hand of God that hath hitherto been with you will still be upon you for good while you endeavor in your places the establishment of Truth and Peace and the removal of those pressing Grievances that lie upon us as you have lately done in that free and necessary yet Humble and Dutiful Remonstrance and Petition to the Honorable Houses of Parliament And however there want not those for the present who out of self-respects calumniate your good Intentions therein yet being perswaded that in very faithfulnesse to the Publike you have done it your Petitioners not only approve of it but rejoyce in it the rather since they know no other orderly way for obtaining remedy for their common Grievances then by your Addresses to the Parliament in their behalf Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray That this Honorable Court will be pleased still to persevere and couragiously to go on in and by all pious and prudent means endeavoring the speedy settlement of Religion the Peace of the Kingdom the Union of both Nations the safety and welfare of this City and in a word the performance of that Covenant wherein we are sol●mnly ingaged to God the Righteous Judge of all the wo●ld In reference to all which good ends your Petitioners further pray That you would still continue your humble Addresses to the Parliament not only for a gracious Answer to your said late Remonstrance but for all such other things as shall necessarily conduce to putting a happy period to our present miserable distractions And that in the mean time you would put in execution among your selves so many branches thereof as the Power wherewith by the Laws of this Kingdom you are already invested will extend unto And your Petitioners shall ever Pray c. FINIS

A GLASSE FOR Weak ey'd Citizens OR A Vindication of the Pious Prudent and Peaceable PETITION To the Honorable the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Commons in Common-Councel assembled now in agitation From the false Aspersions and Calumniations of a Seditious Pamphlet Intituled A Dialogue c. By one that hath taken and desires to keep his Covenant Very useful for all that have Subscribed the Petition Published according to Order London Printed for Tho Underhil at the Bible in Woodstreet June 19. 1646. READER IS not the very reading of this Petition more then sufficient to vindicate it from the Aspersions and Calnmniations of this Pamphleter I have to deal with I prethee tell me I am in earnest Is it not a fair sober moderate plain and peaceable Petition Can envy it self quarrel with it Can malice pick any thing that is ill out of it If not let this man bear his own doom I think in my conscience some men will finde fault with any thing But let us hear what the man saith of it in his uselesse Dialogue it is a very dangerous Petition and there is more mischief couch'd in it then you are aware of A dangerous Petition Reader peruse it again it is worth thy reading twice over In the Preface it commends the Honorable Court of Common-Councel for promoting the cause of God gives them hearty thanks for what they have done for the Publike good promising to adhere to them in all their just and legal proceedings mark that Reader this is according to our Covenant thanking them for endeavoring to remove the heavy pressing grievances that lie upon us in that free and necessary yet humble and dutiful Remonstrance There is no danger in all this unlesse the man thinks it is dangerous to keep our Covenant and all the danger is if we break our Covenant Let 's hear what the Petitionary part is sure the dangerousnesse of it lies there and the mischief is couch'd in that part sure they Petition for persecution of the Saints and for rigid and harsh usage of peaceable well minded men not so or else to desert the Parliament and make a breach between them and the City which God forbid Not so neither What is it then where is the danger Thus they pray that Honorable Court to persevere and go on what in any rude and propostrous or violent courses No but in all pious and prudent means to setle Religion the Peace of the Kingdom the Union of both Nations In a word the keeping of the Covenant in which we are engaged unto God the Righteous iudge of all the world All this is in the Letter of our Covenant and pray them still to go on in their humble Addresses to the Parliament for a gracious Answer to their Remonstrance and for all other things that may put a happy period to our miserable Distractions and that themselves would put in Execution what the Laws of the Kingdom enabled them to do for the safety of the City Where the danger and mischief is I professe Reader I cannot tell But le ts hear what the man can say against this harmlesse Petition and against the Subscribers of it He confesseth though honest and understanding men Subscribe it and that with mature deliberation yet he cannot because he lacks reason to rule him in this action and he is so Bru●ish to tell us Honest men do Knaves Work when they move regularly and honestly and according to their Covenant which bindes them heartily sincerely and constantly to endeavor the Reformation of Religion the total of this Petition Knaves work he means the honest man that wrote these Observations whilest he was writing them and busie in this work was busie in Knaves work dixit out of his own mouth he is condemned He then talks of cunning strains of desperate Malignancy and here he would have spoken sense if his wit would have done it but where is the Malignancy Reader it lies here that whereas he was formerly a Malignant that would not take the Covenant now time hath had such a turn that to take the solemn League and Covenant and to make conscience in keeping of it is Malignancy either in the Root or Branches The next charge of this innocent Petition is Sedition in the abstract But why Sedition Let 's hear his reason for it for he saith of himself he is reputed an understanding man not rash but rational First It may prove an utter breach betwixt the City and Parliament But Reader this may be doth no make it Sedition it may be yea it is like to be the means to unite and sement the Parliament and City together and this is the end of the honest hearted Petitioners and cursed be such Designs that endeavor to divide them Secondly it is Sedition because the City hath Petitioned and Remonstrated to the House the House shewed no testimony of their acceptance but rather disliked it What means the man by the House This House he calls the Parliament afterwards Now if the Parliament doth dislike the Petition it must be the Houses of Lords and Commons but if neither of these have given testimony of dislike then the man speaks falsly The man cannot be ignorant of the kinde acceptance and gracious Answer the Remonstrance had from the House of Peers but by this mans Observation they be not the House nor no part of the Parliament See here is Sedition indeed to divide betwixt the House of Lords and Commons sure this man is one of Mr. Lilburns Disciples and as for the House of Commons they have not declared their dislike to i● An did not this a high breach of their Priviledge to anticipate their sense their weighty occasions permit them no● leasure to consider of it they say they will in due time and ●he City hopes to have a gr●cious and real Answer from them also For though this man can speak of nothing else but Malignancy in the Root and Sedition the Ci●y is no● conscious to it self but that in making the Remonstrance the● discharged their du●ies and m●rited blood for the Parliam●nt And thus this Famous City will do again whilest Sectaries desert them and endeavor to al●er the Foundation and consti●uti●n of the Government of this Kingdom and no longer will cry up Parliaments then they judge them savoring of them and when they appear otherwise then they can talk and write of calling ●he Parliament to an Accompt and they that gave them the Power can take it from them is not this Sedition Friend But the man would know Why the Names of those that Subscribe not the Petition must be taken and from what Authority If any did do so it was not Authority that commanded it but it was their own discretion that put them on it for these Reasons 1. That we might know who they were that Subscribed the last Independent Petition because we would fain know their Names and can prove forgery pro confesso out of their own mouthes that