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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91667	A reply to the House of Commons. Or rather to an impostor, giving answer in their names to the Londoners petition, presented to the said honourable House. Sept. 11. 1648.		1648 (1648)	Wing R1075; Thomason E470_6; ESTC R205525	11,724	15

it as so reasonable so necessary that little importunity we hope will gain it especially when it shall be considered that the House it self is in equal danger of the Revival of the Enemies power as we our selves and somewhat more as being more eminent and partaking in the profits of this Indemonitie which can only be made good by the inviolable preservation of the House of Commons Supremacy we therefore at this time were the more urgent for fearing that by the Treaty and Act of oblivion we should not only be rendred for our faithful services guilty of the blood and miseries of the war for what else does the Kings pardon and Act of oblivion import then which we had rather dy a thousand Deaths but also be made liable to the mercy that is to the cruelty and revenge of our conquered Enemies For the guilt you suppose we have contracted by doing many things opposite to the Laws in Being we can with ease bear it since it extends but to the Letter not the end and intention of Laws to preserve which all our Actions have bin directed which yet neither were justifiable had we not had the Commands of that Power which we judge Supreme to whom the safety of the Common-wealth so requiring of which they and they only are the Judges it seem'd necessary that many things should be done against the present Laws which they then during the violence of the Rebellion against them had not time to alter and this had they not done they had hazarded the slavery or destruction of the Common-wealth and the subjugation of all Lawe to the Will and Pleasure of a Tyrant You often urge us to ask pardon as if you had already the rod over us and were certain that this Treaty will make you our Masters but the best is we had experience enough how pittifully apt you are to flatter your-selves thinking all cock sure and your own when the success hath proved quite otherwise Your pride and presumption indeed has undone you which yet you will not renounce but crow in your rags and upon the dung-hill so that a man by your writings would judge you Victors or at least in great hope to prove so by some fancied Stratagem such as the Treaty which yet we hope will deceive you That we are against the Treaty 'T is because that 's against the good of the Common-wealth and that was lately the opinion of the House it self We conceive there is a neerer way to Peace we are sure to a better Peace than the Treaty can produce What-ever-may be pretended on the other side the Treaty not-withstanding the seeming large Grants is not for Peace but to gain abilities for War which at this time are utterly wanting and therefore is it that we say That party are the greatest Promoters of it that are most opposite to the House of Commous For Princes breach of Oaths of which you say you are ignorant it were an easy matter to shew you by the practice of the whole line of our Kings and by their principles too that no obligatious can be strong enough when they have power and opportunitie to break them Be pleased to look upon the Royal Project lately printed or but take any History of the English Kings and read over any Kings rain and you will find their Oaths and Obligations to be like nets of sisters thred made for necessity and to divert as they use to expresse themselves the present Torrent of Power The House cannot make him so free but at his time he will urge restraint and 't is the common discourse of his Party that he has no way to gain all but by granting all that to deceive the deceivers will be no deceit when in the mean season the Prince keeps up and the Castles hold out Time is gaind and forraign Princes are solicited as in their own quarrell to yeeld assistance So that we cannot but say That what seems to be the way to Peace is indeed the means of a New war and the last hopes of a conquered enemy to revive and appear again in the maintainance of their old quarrel The true way to Peace is the good establishment of the Common wealth according to just and equal expedients as we have presented Which would give such good satisfaction to the People to all we mean that are not interested in the Tyranny that no considerable part of them would ever be drawn to engage in a New war and that would both keep down home-bred Insurrections and keep out forraign Invaders who will never venture in unlesse there be a considerable party to receive them And though many at present dislike what we present in our Petition yet upon the settlement thereof they will find such a real happiness to themselves in the Freedomes thereof and so little particular or private advantage to us or any else that they will soon with us blesse God for the same and blame themselves for having been both their own enemies and the Common-wealths And thus I have run through the most material scruples of our Answerer for the rest another time shall serve because we would not weary the readers with too large a Treatise We shall say no more at this time but pray to God to bless us and all men else in our motions for common good and blast us and others when ever we or they shall wittingly prosecute ought that may tend to the dammage of our Country FINIS