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death_n	life_n	lord_n	word_n	9,286	5	4.0695	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42492	The religious & loyal protestation of John Gauden, Dr. in Divinity, against the present declared purposes and proceedings of the army and others about the trying and destroying our Soveraign Lord the King sent to a collonell to bee presented to the Lord Fairfax and his generall councell of officers, the fift of January 1648 [O.S.]	Gauden, John, 1605-1662.	1649 (1649)	Wing G367; ESTC R18555	7,799	18

THE RELIGIOUS LOYAL PROTESTATION OF JOHN GAUDEN Dr. in Divinity Against the present Declared Purposes and Proceedings of the Army and others About the trying and destroying our Soveraign Lord the KING Sent to a Collonell to bee Presented to the Lord FAIRFAX And His Generall Councell of Officers the fift of January 1648. Imprimatur Ja Cranford LONDON Printed for RICHARD ROYSTON dwelling in Ivie Lane Anno Domini 1648. To the Reader NOt any va●ty or ostent●tio● of ●old and u●e●o●able freedomes which are not worth the haz●●● or d●●spl●a●ures they may ●●tract but onely duty and integ●i●y ●omm●●nd●●ng me resolutely to looke at Gods glory and the di●charge of my owne Conscience both to God and Man 〈…〉 these ensuing Papers 〈…〉 which I lately with all ●um●lity and cha●ity presented by the hand of a Colonell my worthy friend to his 〈◊〉 and the rest of the Councell of Warre Indeed I am perswa●●d that Go● requires and looks 〈◊〉 in the generall over-awings of mens spirits who behold the Army mo●e with terrour than with love and charity which I doe not some men 〈◊〉 to assert both his righteousnesse and their owne uprightnesse amidst and against the crooked and perverse motions of others in this untoward Generation which is ready to father upon God and the Christian Reformed Religion one of the most adulierous deformed and prodigious issues that ever the corrupt hearts of the men of this world conceived their unbridled power brought forth or the Sun beheld Wherefore as not by my assent so neither by my silence must I have any hand in the midwifery of so monstrous productions which seeme to threaten the ruine of the King and the subverting the fundamentall constitutions of Parliament Lawes and Liberties Next to the betraying and killing of Christ was their sin who either denied or deserted Him The impetuous torrent of present power having broken all banks of Ancient Legall Formes affaires seeme now let out to such generall and popular diffusions that they admit no other restraints but those which the common Peoples assents or dissents m●y give to them It is hard if among such a multitude of men all our Oaths Protestations and Covenants sacred and civill ties will not obtaine so much of Loyall and religious Subjects as by a word or two both decently and seasonably to enterpose when as the Lord liveth there seems to be but a step between the life of our Soveraign Lord the King and some violent death Me thinks I heare His Majesty in His Agony solitude and expectation of an enforced death calling to me and all other His Subjects You that never believed My Life was sought after in the bottome of this Warre but My safety and Honour you that never fought for Me yet professed to abhorre the fighting destinately against Me or destroying of Me Cannot you dare not you now speak one word to save My Life and your own Soules shall your silence seem to encourage and make up their saffrages who therefore pretend they may and will destroy Me because it pleaseth you and the generality of My people For my owne part as I hope to have communion with God in Christ I dare not have any fellowship with so foule a sinne as the Killing of the King but rather I ought to reprove it and fairly contest against it whatever His sin may be yet I thinke Him not criminall or obnoxious to any Tribunall but that of God whose Deputation Authority or Commission they can in no sort that I see produce to any satisfaction of religious minds who at present undertake to be His Tryers Judges Condemners and Destroyers onely because the KING is in their power Whereas Gods Commission warranting such an Act ought to have not onely the stamp and image of prevalent power on one side which the most flagitious actions oft have but also the superscription of his word and the expresse signatures of his will in the municipall Lawes on the other side by all which power is derived limited and warranted to act with moderation and righteousnesse I beseech God to restrain power to soften hearts and to frustrate those purposes which to me seem to have so much of sinne Hell and horrour that if I hated the Actors the most of any men which God knowes I doe not but love and pity them and pray for them I could not shew my hatred more against them than by wishing them ingaged and suffering them to go on and thus to fill up the measure of their sinnes by destroying Him for whom I have alwaies been taught and now most of all to think it my duty to cry aloud GOD SAVE THE KING So clearly poynting that ambiguous Verse which most men are afraid to doe Regem occidere noli Timere bonum est TO His Excellency the Ld. FAIRFAX And his Generall Councell of Warre RIght-Honorable and Honored Gentlemen Your Power and Actions render you terrible but that candor and affability which you say you beare to all makes you accessible and invites Addresses to you even from those who differ from you I am one of the least considerable of many as to any contesting with you or obstructing your proceedings yet since some of you yesterday invited me or any man to a free declaring of our judgements in order to the great Affaires you are now upon wherein although your selves as principall are most concerned yet my selfe and others are like to be involved in the successe of your actions both as to my temporall and eternall well-fare if I either approve or dissent My humble Request to you is That without contracting your displeasure I may use that liberty which God and Reason hath allowed me and your selves have not yet forbiden to me or others in this way Happily I might with more safety in silence tremble before and humbly adore the Justice and Power of the great God which he hath ●y your meanes and yet may carry on further against the sins of this Nation yet I consider not you only but my selfe am highly responsible both to God and Man for what you doe and I seem to consent unto in matters so enormous of so vast and publique influence both to the present Age and Posteritie You are not ignorant that Successe is a great Bribe and Snare to the Judgement where the heart is not very watchfull over it selfe and much in Prayer to God for his wisedom and Grace which is most set forth in the using Successes humbly and honestly to the advantages of Piety and Charity Prosperous Power is loth to stop it selfe with moderate bounds or to suspect it selfe either to want or goe beyond the line and limits of Justice It is compassed about with many applauders and flatterers who easilie mistake the fact it selfe or the confidence of the Agents for the rule of Righteousnesse and interpret Gods permission of what may bee very wicked and un-just as his approbation and witnessing to their Justice The rule and standard of