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A88104	The a fury of vvarre, and b folly of sinne, (as an incentive to it) declared and applyed. For caution and remedy against the mischiefe and misery of both. In a sermon preached at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne and publike fast, Aprill 26. 1643. By Iohn Ley Minister of Great Budworth in Cheshiere.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1879; Thomason E103_1; ESTC R11792	61,846	83

posterity with them a prey to that party whose ambition and bloodinesse have no bounds but such as an over-prevalent power doth force upon them Such was His Majesties good meaning to his Subjects of Scotland published in print not much above * Auno 1639. two yeares ago which may be a just ground of all that hath bin hitherto said in his Name and we have no cause to conceive that his goodnesse and kindnesse should be lesse to his people of England then to them since though his Majesty was not borne among us he is pleased to make his choyce to live among us as accounting this Kingdome for the chiefe part of his Royall birth-right and therefore fixing his abode here And I doubt not but the lives of his true Christian Subjects in common both as Christians according to the pious compassion of Charles the Emperour “ Bu●●●lz Jud. chronolog ad ●● 1541. p. ●● Who had rather save one Christian then kill a thousand Moores or Turks or other perfidious enemies and as Subjects to whom he hath the relation of a father as hath been shewed may be still pretious in his sight his owne sight I meane not in others who looke upon a Protestant Parliament and people with blood-shotten-eyes whereby he may more comfortably remember that * Mavult commemor are se cum posser perdere p●per●●sse quam cum parcere potuerit perardisse C●cer Orat pro Quint. ● 3. p. 2. He hath spared their blood when he might have spilled it then contrariwise that he hath killed where he might have saved alive 4. Preparations to warre are many times and alwayes should be made with purposes of peace as we have observed before which each party is so much the more engaged to accept of upon so honorable tearms as they make more profession of Justice and Religion 5. If we saw no hope of peace by any mediation of man or woman we may yet desire it pray for it and hope to speed in our prayers by the favour of God to his people and his power over such as are most powerfull by the Sword for he hath over-ruled not only the hands but the minds of such as have been most forward for warre as in the difference betwixt Frederick the Prince Elector of Saxonie and another Germane Prince when Frederick prepared warre against him and he without any preparations to that purpose had resolved to commit his cause wholly to God Bucholz Iud. chron ad An. 2450. p. 420. Let another man said he be so mad but I will not as to make warre with him who committeth his cause unto God Now if our desires endeavours and hopes of peace which we should keepe if it were possible with all the world Rom. 12.18 should all prove frustrate we must by our Christian Prudence doe our best to make a vertue of necessity and as cunning Physitians doe our endeavour to turne a poyson into a Medicine then For a fourth Application of the Point the sharpe point of the Sword of warre let it be our warning against division among all those whom the adverse power would unite in a society of sufferings if they should successefully proceed and how many are they All true Protestants must looke for nothing lesse from Papists if they get the better then the losse of their liberty of conscience and of their persons their lively-hoods and lives the regular and conscionable Christian must expect scornes and contumelies of all kinds and he is like also to have his eares and heart smitten with execrable oathes and blasphemies of impious Atheists the civill sober and temperate man shall be urged and it may be forced to swallow downe needlesse draughts as an Horse doth a drench by domineering drunkards the rich man shall be sure to be made a prey to the needy or greedy Souldiers whose luxury will lavish out in a day or night what a provident worldling is laying up all a whole years together And if he have a wife or daughter whom their carnall appetite will not refuse for a familiar companion he may suffer in the sensuall and shamefull abuse of their persons and he that hath but his personall liberty to loose shall if warre conquer him be made a slave to the conquerour If therefore men have any private emulation or exception against each other they must now set them aside as the creatures in the Arke laid by their Antipathies within because of the common danger of an inundation without our danger is much more then theirs of drowning in the water For ours is a drowning in blood and our reason and Religion both oblige and enable us to be more chary of our mutuall concord and more ready to cement up every little chinke in the Fabrick of our State we should now above all times unite our hearts in affectionate well wishings to the common welfare our heads in a communion of counsels and cares to recover it and our hands for support of our selves and suppression of those who if they had us in their power would fall upon us more fiercely then the evening Wolves Hab. 1.8 upon aprey of fatted lambes And is this a time for the Protestants of England to fall to variance among themselves to breake in peeces and as it were to crumble away into petty breaches of particular Societies into new Sects and Factions Is it a time for any of them to desert the common cause of their Brethren by Nation and Religion and against them both to partake with Papists and to put to their helping hand on their side not considering or not caring what shallow heads or hollow hearts have they the whiles what intent first set their wheeles in motion or what event is hoped for and pursued by the furious driver of that Hell-fiery Chariot of Popery which is no lesse nor better then to wrap up their native Country in most lamentable ruine and to bring downe the straight and golden Scepter of Jesus Christ by which he governeth his Church under the sway of the crooked and wooden Crosier of Antichrist who pretends title to the chiefe office of a Pastor of Christs flock but acts the part of a wolfe toward the Sheep of his fold They could not surely be so wanting much lesse so adverse to so weighty a cause in so cleare a case so necessarily requiring a most cordiall union of us all if they considered how our adversaries though of * It is ordered and est ablished and that upon pain of the high est punishment to be inflicted by authority of this Assembly that every Roman Catholick English Welch Scottish who was of that profession before the troubles who will joyne in the present union shall be preserved and cherished in his life goods estate as fully freely as any native So in the orders made at the Popish generall Assembly at Kilkenny Octo. 24. 1642 Ord. 14. Order 33 severall Counties and Countries are associated in an

tumults of Scotland p 5. if some of their bad blood were shed he should make accompt that the blood was let out of his owne veines nor shall we saith he draw one drop of it in any other case then a faithfull Physitian will and must doe for the preservation of the whole body And after a great deale of sharpe expostulation with them in a Booke consisting of 430. pages in Folio he thus concludeth t Ibid p. 430 As we have found the aide and assistance of our loving Subjects towards this Iourney so we heartily desire their prayers all the time of our absence for a good successe unto it and that if it be possible we may returne with peace and without the effusion of any drop of our Subjects blood Besides these gratious words he gave reall proofe of his Royall and Christian compassion in committing the Treaty of Pacification unto such pious and Honourable Lords as whose consciences liked no compliance with the Popish Religion whose innocence was not affraid of peaceable Justice whose wisedome fore-saw the destruction of two Kingdomes if they should assault one another with Armed furie which their goodnesse abhorred as his Majesty did And as David when he was diverted by Abigail from his designe of destruction of Nabal and his family for his churlish ingratitude towards him blessed God and her and her advice for keeping him from comming to shed blood 1 Sam. 24.32 33. so his Majestie though neither so rough or rash in a resolution of revenge as David was at that time u In his Majesties Speech in Parliament Novemb 5. 1640. gave thanks to those Lords for their paines and industry before they had brought their Mediation to an happy period which I doubt not but he did more fully when afterward it speeded to a perfect accomplishment And though as Solomon saith the heart of a King is unsearchable Prov. 25.2 Unsearchable by any except by the King of Kings we may probably conceive upon the consideration of and in conformitie to such premises that when both the English and Scottish Armies were in Array for a posture of encounter his Majesty might have such meditations as these These Souldiers on both sides now ready to rush upon mutuall mischiefe are my naturall Subjects my Subjects are the strength and honour of my State if I give the signall of assault and set one Armie against another it is like to be a bloody day and the issue of blood being opened in a warlike way will not easily be stopped If it should thus begin between two neighbouring Kingdomes by their Vicinity they may ever find occasions to continue quarrells and to seeke revenge with cruell rage and ruine one of another and who shall sustaine the greatest losse at the last by such reciprocall slaughters but my selfe who am King of both Kingdomes If my Subjects kill up one another my power will be much impaired my dignity diminished for in the multitude of people is the Kings honour Prov. 14.28 and their diminution mydisgrace for what is a King without his people And if King Edward the Confessor when his Captaines promised for his sake they would not leave one Dane alive w Cambdent Rem p 214. thought it better to leade a private and unbloody life then to be a King by such bloody butcheries It cannot but be much better for me to preserve two Kingdomes in peace and concord and to continue a King over two numerous Nations without blood-guiltinesse then to commit them to a hostile conflict with hazard of great slaughter on both fides and of mine owne comfortable enjoyment of both Kingdomes And though they have given me occasion of a severe contestation with them yet if x Ibid. p. 242. we Princes as one of my renowned Predecessors wisely said it was K. Henry the seventh should take every occasion that is offered the world should never be quiet but wearied with continuall Warres And for the cause of this quarrell of my Scottish Subjects it is a question of Rights and Priviledges and lawfull liberties of their consciences persons and estates fitter to be decided by the prudence of Parliamentary Commissioners then by the violence of Military executioners whose Sword hath not an eye to see any difference between right and wrong nor can shew in the last resolution it makes which side had the better cause or better mind either in an open Warre or in a private Duell or y Bishop Hall Decad. 4. Ep. 2. pag. 338. single Combat though in times and places where Popery hath prevailed it hath oftentimes been taken up for a tryall of truth and right Once indeed did that Prince of most admired prudence Solomon call for a Sword to decide a controversie betwixt two mothers pleading about their right to a living and a dead child 1 King 3.24 but he did not use it as a Sword nor did he meane it but onely by pretending perill to the living child to discover the true mother both of the living and the dead by the evidence of her compassion who would rather have none of it at all then not all of it alive And if one child were so tenderly beloved by a true mother I that am a true Father not a tyrannicall Usurper of my people cannot but be more chary of many thousands of them then to put them into a bloudy combustion among themselves And my royall Father who for his wisdome hath been magnified as a second Solomon is highly z Sir W. Rawleigh Hist world l. 5 c. 3. § 17. commended For having done a most Kingly and Christian-like deed in Scotland which the most renowned of all his Predecessours could never doe in beating downe and extinguishing that hereditary prosecution of malice called the deadly feud A conquest which shall give him the honour and power of kingly prudence for evermore And that done and both Scotland and England united in his Royall Right a K Iames his Speech in Parliament anno 1603. p. 488 489. and in his third Speech in White-ball p. 511. he proposed and zealously pursued their union under the generall title of great Brittaine And I will not so degenerate from his gracious disposition as to set them at emnitie whom he so desired to settle in unitie And though the Souldiers be ready and forward to fight better it were that the most valiant Captains should yeeld to the perswasions of a weake woman as b Plut. in the life of Coriolanus p. 239. Coriolanus to his Mother Volumnia or that two compleat Armies readie to dash one with another should suffer their manhood to be overcome by female mediation as did the Armies of King c Servce French inventor p. 193. Edward the third and King Philip of France then that they should make such a confusion and dashing together as might be like to breake both in peeces and to bring them to a feeblenesse which might make them and perhaps my selfe and my