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A90636	The high-way to peace: or, a direction set forth for the composing of those unhappy differences betwixt King, Parliament, Army, City, and kingdomes : shewing the sad effects these distractions have brought upon the whole island. / Published for the honour and love he beares to his native countrey, by Sir Edvvard Peyton, Knight and baronet.	Peyton, Edward, Sir, 1588?-1657.	1647 (1647)	Wing P1953; Thomason E411_12; ESTC R12435	8,735	16

it had not buriall by the Artifices and faction of Barnevelt the chiefe of which he cut off with great celerity and so dispersed the rable who intended their ruine The Parliament after a long and dangerous voyage brought to a good passe by the warre ended there arose a difficulty to disperse and dispose the Army long diverted from sending supplies into Ireland by home-bred troubles because they had not paid the Souldier who were unwilling to disband without their arreares A wonder an Army so glorious in the opinion of all should be dismissed without salory in consideration wherof the houses very well resented their worth and valour yet found they wanted ready monies and therefore were forced to solicite the City where they might command to issue money on good security to reward the Souldiery but their answer was they would not till they were cashered for some in London were contrary in faction to the armed forces and the Army to the City affirming as it was just in plaine words they would not lay downe their weapons till they received their pay in part and security for the rest fearing to be served as the reduced Officers for a time without money meat and cloathes So that there was a double Set to be played one to get moneys and another to disband a discontented victorious Army denyed the one and disappointed of the other the Parliament was put to their trumps and forced to play the game another way By this time the great Counsell saw it impossible at one and the same time to satisfie the Souldier and please the City because some few discontented persons that well ordered City is not without growing imaged against the supreame Judges sent a number of unruly Prentices to force their unjust demands a president without patterne and violence never heard of this caused both the houses to have their own● guards and not the Cities of purpose to secure their persons debate freely prevent future molestation and remedy repining mischiefes likely to invade the peace of the State By this it may appeare plainely the hindrance of our prosperity lies in the plots of malecontents not in the Parliament nor Army the desi●e of the one is to send and the willingnesse of the other speedily to be sent away and not like a vulture to eate out the bowells of the Countrey by free quarter a charge only for the peoples just defence against forraigne or domestick foes which might invade or disturbe their quiet Yet at the present there wanted not pestilent spirits would set a bone twixt Parliament and Army and twixt both and Scotland though our wise Senate labour with might and maine to settle a common peace heere and in both Nations as his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairefax and Counsell of Warre indeavour to bring the Souldier to obedience and give content to the Scot. Whereupon the Souldier guarded the Parliament and secured the Tower that no tumults molest the Parliamen nor infest the City By this time the wisdome of the great Counsell hath retrived by wofull experience the haunt of those who slight their endeavours though with much expence toylsome labour of body and danger of person they continue then continue to bring to passe the happy condition of Church and State when others seeke more their owne ends then Gods glory and good of the Kingdome For such people it is impossible to please for where inconstancy possesseth the heart a long travell to bring felicity to perfection is most irksome never considering affaires of so great consequence cannot be effected but with long labour and much reluctancy So that the people jealous of a new warre raised on the basis of their late payments are stirred up with an earnest desire to be rocked in two cradles affected most to wit ●ase with rest and peace knowing full well warre brings a consumption to a Kingdome how rich soever especially the wise seeing some Countries without corne others without stock some without Tennants others without money some without Cattle others burthened with free quarter all concommitants of Civill Warre which makes all long like a woman with child to be brought a bed of a well grounded peace hoping as in that last seaven yeares of our Henry the third what mischiefe and dissolation warre had caused in almost thiry yeares ill government was repaired by aprentiship of yeeres for which he was called the Justinian of his time So now if the storme were past and seaven yeeres never so unfortunate the Common weale may become in a short space fat and faire So that nothing can be more cordiall then to have no Army at all for the people feare that power may become dangerous when Land and Sea are invested in the person of one that what is given to a servant may be usurped as an absolute Master as Henry the 7 made the right of his Queene his owne and so buried her title not knowing where Religion is plac'st in the heart there can be no treachery in the action and what is lent for a time will be restored to the proprietor Therefore I beseech all to consider the cause of our danger is the wrath of God which hanges over our heads as a dismall cloud ready to discharge upon us for many horrid opinions and blasphemies as swearing prophanation of Sabbaths drunkennesse fornication adultery will-worship formality hatred malice and liberty to do what pleaseth sence though never so contrary to the eternall Law the least of which are heavy enough to pull downe the greatest judgement namely sin punished in committing of sin O that wee could with Ieremy shed a fountaine of teares Certainely it is not the malignity of the ayre causeth the Plague plotting and humane device warre combining of the Grasier and Farmer scarcity but our grievous sins and want of love bring upon us these evills wherefore let us leave our transgressions and be charitable one to the other for hatred bringeth division distraction mutinies opposition and armed forces let us have care especially of tender consciences which will be sooner convinced by sweetnesse then severity let not Presbyter hate Independent Independent Presbyter Protestant Papist Papist Protestant Brownist Anabaptist nor Anabaptist Brownist but let all reason together with mildnesse the best still to confute errour and fittest meanes to worke out truth as the steele gently strikes out of the flint fire falling upon tinder of good desires kindles the match of pious affections and so lights the candle of knowledge to shew the beaten way God hath appointed to walke in if not a new yet a brighter way so shall the noone day of understanding be cleared and no twilight of errour and mistake Fot swavity causeth Iaphet to dwell in the Tents of Sem fulfilling the divine Prophesie of these latter times 11 Esay 6 78 9.10.11 The Wolfe shall dwell with the Lambe the Leopard lye downe with the Kid and the Lyon and the Fatling together and they shall not hurt nor destroy saith God

in all my holy Mountaine this plainely insinuateth that all severity and harshnesse should be banished from Gods people and love in sweetnesse be towards one another for the Wolfe Leopard and Lyon are cruell beasts of pray which devoure the Lambe Kid and Fatling are innocent creatures so that if the cruell and innocent shall agree in all Gods Mountainer by which is meant his Church Then tender consciences ought not to be forced nor private duties in Families prohibited that God may blesse this State that piety may abound and Parliament and City not oppose each other for severity causeth distractions where Magistrares have no power nor Nobility and Gentry respect holding all things in common And if severity of Presbyters rage over weake consciences they may usurpe the temperall power over persons estates and purses and become as Antichristian as the Popes of Rome and worse then our late Bishops for when the Clergy rules over the consciences of people temperall power may out face never governe and so by insensible degrees become humblers of States a course contrary to Apostolicall Doctrine which prohibits to Lord over Gods heritage when no man can know the conscience but a Diety no more then the heart unlesse they had the infalibility of the spirit so by this they trod the beaten path of the Romane Church when the Popes raised the mount of Supremacy over Kings and Potentates a pride would not be pulled down though assaied by many Emperors and Princes If Parliament and Army are at a distance the one hath no power to command nor the other will to obey When the Parliament is against the City the Cities Charter may be questioned Monopolies and Impositions will be on Marchandize and manufactures to overthrow Merchants and tradsemen and the Parliament shall not have the Citizens purses at their command with their will and ability as they ought for if the Physitian and Patient should fall together by the eares the Physick may be as well poyson as holesome for the high Senate purgeth Monopolies and vomits up Impositions that trade and marchandize may flourish The City and Countrey bring branches from the tree of one roote ought to accord as loving brothers and are then happy but if they fall at variance and disturbe each others pretious peace what a world of mischiefe will insue Besides bloodshed how can the City vent their forraine commodities When the Countrey may live of their homebread or how can the Countrey sell their broad cloathes stuffes fustians cheese wheate malt or cattle with divers others too long to recite If City and Army stand at a distance and oppose each other the one may starve the other stopping provisions by Land and Water nor the Army have pay but from the Magazin of the City to maintaine their forces Lastly if England and Scotland have a warre they will never be reconciled but become goades in one another sides revive deadly fewd and which is worse for us Scotland will batch a portall to let in forraine enemies as French Dutch Spaniard and Dane to cause the seate of the warre to be heere more advantagious to the invader then the invaded and more over meete heere with a strong Presbyterian Party to assist them made angry and revengefull against others by Pulpits On the contrary side the Scots shall finde us hardy resolute valiant and incounter with an invincible Army whom God hath blessed and I hope will and certainely I doe not see what colour the Scots have to invade us covenanting solemnly to assist us for when they side with a party they will ruine themselves to destroy us for they shall adde fewell to make a flame when they should quench the fire They cannot come on our English ground till our Parliament vote them or if they shall invade us without our consent they are to be reputed enemies violators of peace plunderers of our Countrey to inrich themselves by our poverty let them know their intrusion without command of Parliament revives the noble tenure of Escuage which many of the Kingdome hold by to serve against them with horse and foote till they be beaten out the number of those who hold by that service by ancient survey have beene computed forty thousand horse and foote and if such Tennants shall refuse they forfeit their estates Doe they conceive King Charles will protect a Nation that sold him Or those that prised him more then gold Moreover every wise man will rather joyne with rich then with poore his Majesties revennues being yearly a Million heere not there a hundred thousand pounds I have spoke this because they threaten us with Declarations yet I honour the Nation and desire they may have satisfaction to a tittle but if they shall persist and nothing shall satisfie them but blood they will lose their arreares get nothing but blowes and set up their rest upon one battle out of their power to raise another nor doe I see what safe retreats they have but what is gotten by blood and so make the addage true they come for nought but our goods not to right our wrongs but to fight with us not to settle religion but for lucre and gaine O foolish England will yee nourish serpents in your bosomes ambitious to be Lords of your estates Will you ayde and assist those that will ruine your Kingdome And will you become traytors to your owne Countrey I assure you the Law of England will make you so this I have spoken rather to deter their illegall invasion then provoke them for the force of all my minde shall carry it selfe to perswade brothers to agree in unity and to assist one ano●her wi●h hearts lives and fortunes in a just and pious war desired of both for I honour the Nation and should be grieved people of one Island should be cut in two pieces brothers in Christ should become mortall enemies who joyntly are able to vanquish France or Spaine I humbly beseech God to reconcile us together let the lamentable example of us and Ireland be before our eyes a back doore to let in a forraigne enemy subjects of the same Soveraigne though opposite in religion as in their mindes of whom it hath been said that they were good servants but when they got the key of power into their hands are bad Masters governed by one indeede no Law witnesse the unnaturall bloodshed there how can barbarous cruelty be revenged as long as we have civill war Moreover an Army divided cannot stand therefore my humble suite to the Generall Councell of war Agitators and Common Souldier is to hold together who joyned are a sheafe of arrowes but disjoyned may sheath their swords in one anothers bowells or be vanquished for then martial law will be of no force validity how often have the Romane Cohorts and Turkish Jannisaries chose new Emperours kild their Commanders and Generalls and at last they ruined one another the sword is a good servant but a bad Master Or if the