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death_n	body_n	let_v	life_n	4,658	5	4.4534	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85989	The prelatical Cavalier catechized, and the Protestant souldier incouraged. By a missive sent to King Charles in the name of the Protestants beyond seas. Wherein these three questions are resolved. Viz. First, how inconsistent a prelaticall government is with the true Protestant religion, and with the peace and welfare of this kingdome. Secondly, how absolutely necessary it is for King Charles and his associats, to entertain peace with the Parliament at any hand, if ever he hopeth to recover or enjoy any glory or splendour of his royalty. Thirdly, which are the best means King Charles, &c. can use for obtayning an honourable peace for the present, and improving and continuing the same in time to come. Much conducing to encourage and confirme all true Protestants in the truth of the Protestant cause, especially all souldiers that are for King and Parliament. ... Presented to the Honorable Councels of Great Britain, now sitting in Parliament; and the rest of the Kings Majesties subjects. / By Eleazer Gilbert, a minister of Gods Word. Printed, and published according to order.	Gilbert, Eleazer.	1645 (1645)	Wing G706; Thomason E296_28; ESTC R200215	22,248	25

and gangrened that they are destructive to the whole body But God be thanked Sir the humours of your people are not yet so desperate but that if your Highnesse like a good Phisician will vouchsafe in love to visit them feel their pulses and apply unto them a dosis or potion sutable to their distempers they may be easily both cured and qualified but as for the medicine which you have applyed to them hither-tils if we be not much mistaken the ingredients thereof have been too sharp and if you give them any more of it you are like to marre all For there be some humours and diseases that are sooner expelled and cured by lenatives then by corasives by gentle potionsr then by sharp purgations and such are these of the Inhabitants of Great Britain both Scots and English but especially the Scots whom I cannot more fitly compare then to a Cannon bullet which is dinted and quelled with the least softnesse and is never so rigid and piercing then when it is most resisted would you therefore have the peoples sore healed why then Sir correct your physick this plaister of war is too corasive Bellona should be a Kings ultimum refugium his last because his worst refuge Be therefore perswaded by us that whosoever did first perswade your Highnesse to this course had as good advised you to tread upon a thorn or put your hand into a Wasps nest For when you conceived White Hall to be on fire they did what they could to adde fuell to the flames and cast on faggots when your house was burning making the rent greater and the wound deeper and consequently the remedy worse then the disease As therefore your Highnesse doth tender your own Honour and safety welfare of your Children and Friends and prosperity of your people if it be possible and as much as you can divert from them this course of war Remember that God will require the life of a man at the Hands of his brother and if of a brother much more of a father Gen. 9. 5 For a King is the nursing Father of Gods people take from hence-forth a precise account of the death of your meanest subject and let his bloud and life be precious unto you Seeing that homo quilibet est pars communitatis every particular person is part of the whole State a Subject of one Kingdom and member of one politicall body If therefore one member suffer let all the members especially your Highnesse the head of all suffer with it 1 Cor 12. 26. Otherwise it is a dangerous symptome that the body of these Kingdoms is palsie-stricken or at the least some Lethargy or mortall sicknesse is approching to it which rendreth it both insensible and incurable The fourth and last question is what is the best means or which may be the chiefest preparatives for your Highnesse and your Associates to obtaine an honourable and lasting peace We shall in this point also endevour to give you satisfaction if either you will follow our advice or receive the same without partiality or prejudice And first we say that the best way to a firme and honourable peace is by the work of righteousnesse For the work of righteousnesse is peace and the effect thereof ioy and assurance for ever as the Prophet speaketh Esay 32 17. Where by the work of righteousnesse wee doe not so much understand that imputed righteousnesse of Christ which is truly and properly inherent in him but so made our by faith that God doth accept of us as righteous for his sake as if this righteousnesse were properly and truly inherent in our selves which is called the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 1. 17. and the righteousnesse of the Kingdome of God Matth. 6. 33. nor by this work of Righteousnesse doe wee understand altogether thut actuall righteousnesse which is to be performed by us whereby we shew the truth of our faith by the works of piety charity humility c. although the words may admit either of these without prejudice but by the work of righteousnesse we conceive principally an habituall disposition and inclination both to practise and affect things that are good and righteous in a word wee mean no otherwise then that your Highnesse would withdraw and alienate your affections from unjust and unrighteous persons Offices and Officers who have these many yeers past mayntained and still hope to mayntaine themselves by the ruine of the Church and Common-wealth who like so many Syrens have so long and so miserably inveighled you and by their Circean inchantments moved you to presse that prerogative which the Almighty gave you for the preservation and welfare of the people and that both in Church and State Affairs so much and so far as that whereas it should have been as a Diamond in your Crowne to honour and adorn you they have made it by their Sophisticall and Machiavilick insinuations as a prick in your side or a thorn in your foot to hurt and mischief you May it therefore please your Highnesse to let this be the first preparative to an honourable and happy peace even to withdaw your Royall person and favour from the contagious company of such flattering Sycophants that from hence-forth you may not onely professe but practice that part of the Royall Motto Salus Populi suprema Lex And to this purpose because your Great Counsell of State are now about a work of Reformation let not your Highnesse fail to comply with them in the same then which you shall finde nothing more pleasing to God and profitable to your self and that in these two things viz. First in contenting your self with such a competency of Royall Priviledges Revenues and Prerogative as may be most consistent with the truth and purity of that Religion which you professe manners of the Country and affections of your Subjects shewing rather a royall and Christian moderation then an imperious and insatiable ambition and so you may enjoy it peaceably and comfortably thinke your self-sufficiently enriched although you have no more for the present then what is shared out for you by the providence of God and love of the people yea although it were much lesse especially rebus sic stantibus then was left you by your royall Progenitours For what greater happinesse can come to a King then contentment who is never more excellent and commendable then when his affections are most moderated and what contentment can your Highnesse want when if complying to the complexion and disposition of your politicall body you continue to be the head of such a wise noble and godly Nation to sway the Scepters of three almost Angelick Kingdoms in one City whereof there is to be found more wealth lustre beauty Prudence Temperance Justice Valour and finally all the delights of the sonnes of men then the Emperour of Muscovia and divers others great Potentates can command within the Circumference of their vast Dominions Happy therefore is that Prince who knowing that he cannot have