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A96074	The constant man's character. Intended to be sent first as a letter from a gentleman in the country, to a gentlemen his esteemed friend and countryman, a Member of the House of Commons. Since inlarged into a discourse by way of humble advice to keep him from revolting, either directly or collaterally by the side-winde of being Presbyterially affected, through the mistaken and unhappy conceit, that those who have taken the Covenant, cannot without breach of the same, assent and submit unto the late proceedings of the Parliament, when as the parts of the Covenant seem to be inconsistent within themselves, as the author's observations here discoursed do manifest. The scope whereof is 1 Historically to set down the occasion and beginnings of the war. ... 4 To prove the fitness and necessity (as matters now stand) of complying with, and submitting unto this present government. For the powers that be are ordained of God, Rom. 13. Together with some animadversions incident hereunto on the same book, and on the two declarations, intituled The declarations of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament at Oxford. The one touching a treaty for peace, [the] other concerning their endeavors for peace. Printed there, 1643.	S. W.	1650 (1650)	Wing W105; Thomason E595_7; ESTC R204161	52,955	81

to reduce His dis-affected Subjects of Scotland to their obedience desiring withall It may be recorded as an Ordinance of Parliament and to be printed as a testimony of their Loyalty to all the world and to succeeding ages which could not but stir up the Scots to seek protection and assistance from their fellow-Subjects and Friends wheresoever whom the King called His dis-affected Subjects and how He doth secern them from the rest is hard to judg when as the whole and most considerable part of that Kingdom did by their Pacts and Counsels at their Assemblies held withstand and resolve to withstand divers of His Messages obtruding on them such matters as made against the Peace of their Church and Kingdom See His Declaration since the Pacification Page 63. third also likely to bear a part in the broyls of the other two the King Himself jealous and displeased to see the Parliament then at distance with Him in transaction of matters concerning the three Kingdoms Petitioned and Appealed unto termed in an envious and scornfull way by some of His Party Omnipotent Others murmuringly upbraiding that it was Idolized Himself as it were neglected and left out none or seldom Addresses made to Him So the Parliament had a narrow path to tread between their hopes to regain the King 's lost Favour after many evidences of His Anger poured forth and their hazarding the ruine of those Principles which by their Duty and Covenant they were to assert and defend What those Principles were follows in this Discourse if rightly cast up but two in chief The securing the Protestant Religion the Primū quaerite The preserving the Laws and Peace b Suprema Lex salus Populi the chiefest Law the Peoples Safety The other Principles are subservient onely and fall in by complication and dependency upon those two as the means unto the end Lastly Sir That this Parliament thus acting You strenuously argued as knowing well that their Cause was just their War Defensive when another a Mr. Denz Hollis his Speech June 1642. Gentleman of the like abilities with you had in an excellent Speech delivered to that purpose That there was a succession of Designes to interrupt it as first by awing and taking away the Freedom of it by an Army then actually assaulting it and with the Sword to cut asunder the onely Nerves which strengthens and knits together the King and People the People amongst themselves and the whole frame of Government in one firm and indissoluble knot of Peace and Vnity That the Parliaments taking up Arms was to defend onely to repell the force and violence practised by a few of the King's side at first afterwards to provide against the mischief which His party heightened through Rage against the Parliament pretence of Loyalty towards the King might several ways intend That the Parliaments resisting His and His Party's attempts was as you then judged and discoursed for no other end then to maintain their own just Priviledges in order to the Maintenance of the Laws and Liberties of their fellow Subjects That they did not intend an offensive War the consequences whereof as of all Civil Discords could not but prove calamitous and sad the event and period as fatall and uncertain when as besides the two Parties immediately engaged each against the other a middle and Neutrall part although wiser in their own eyes then their Fellow Subjects worse as well in the b See the Declaration of the Lords and Commons assembled at Oxford Printed there pag. 26 27. King's Parties Accompt as in the Parliaments would fall in more to be shunned then a moderate Enemy That it being presumed the aim and councels of the Parliament and all men else being for Peace and Justice a War once waged would hinder and destroy their ayms and produce more overtures for discord more fresh supplies for quarrelling in the prosecuting which many unexpected chances would fall out to increase the discord as in the controversies between man and man he who hath not been so forward and visibly active for the side unto which he doth adhere shall be traduced and accused by him that loves him not for a Neutrall or an Enemy That amidst their hopes of Conquering there would not be wanting discontented and seditious humours even out of their own Party to traduce and calumniate their proceedings if not consonant to their particular humours and phantasies That those humours would be fed and animated by the first and common Enemy on purpose to divide and weaken the prevailing Power That divers other Consequences likely to result from War would prove harsh and irksom to a People born and governed under Laws and Peace as that the Souldiery and prevailing power knowing their own opportunity and strength would be apt to intermeddle with private Interests to the perverting Justice and trampling down the Laws which in a time of Peace distributes to every man his just right so that thereby the People would not only want the blessing of Peace but grow subject to the oppression charges and injuries incident to a War The Parliament could not but foresee that in case a War were to be waged their own Countrymen the English both Officers and Common Souldiers must fight it out Forreigners Souldiers of Fortune when they have gained will desist their undertakings and be gone That the English were unaccustomed to war therefore not fit for the Discipline and managing thereof through an easie and soft way of breeding not able to endure the hardship and duties of a War howbeit experience hath otherwise proved it That the English Gallantry and their courage un-acquainted with the conditions of a Warfare and the temper requisite to a Souldier might make them upon every discontent as apt to mutiny and resist as fight for he is not always the best Souldier who hath most courage unless he hath temper withall to yeeld obedience to the commands of his Superiours The Parliament could not but be sensible withall of the troubled condition of their fellow Subjects that the apprehension of Engaging would carry with it a sad aspect all men unwilling to and wary how they did Engage That the engaging Parties on either side when they see the face of War inevitably approaching would for their better strength and Union betake themselves to what Policy Pacts and Leagues they could Defensive and Offensive as to binde themselves and friends by Vow and Covenant which being to consist of severall Heads and Parts could not be so exactly and entirely framed but might admit of a doubtfull sense how to be be observed how to be understood in part or in the whole so consequently divide the Covenanters within themselves They could not but withall know that which side soever should prevail both sides would be loosers the King and Kingdom vast a See it recited in the Declaration Printed at Oxford 1643 pag. 13. sufferers in the loss as they in an humble dutiful Message although

of this new subdivision That for the dissentings sake of three or four Gentlemen you will not grant that there are many whom you think to have been forward to lead on a Party for whose known valour whose many continued and successfull atchievements in this War bringing yee to this plenitude of Power you may easily dispence with them for one puny error in Opinion that I say the People must embroyl in a second War about tearms meerly notionall about opinions strange and unknown to them In the first War they knew for whom they fought for the King or for the Parliament about a Form of Government which hath not nor can take deep root untill the War which confounds overthrows all Government be ended The direct and certain Issue in the Tryall of the Contention was Whether the King having by His Creatures actually invaded the Subject's Liberties the other differences in Church and State are collaterall accidentally emergent out of the grand Difference about the first and more principall the Subject's Liberty The Court of Parliament should sit as Scepticks to look on only without purposing or endeavouring to redress the same or to be confined in their Councels as their Enemies should prescribe or the extreamest of all so driven to new Councels to extraordinary high and severe proceedings to seldom practised and unheard of courses the passages and quality of the Persons with whom they had to deal being weighed withall as where the Disease is imminently dangerous the mischief desperate the Cure must be answerable or the whole Body perish for want of a timely and prudent remedy to be applyed Your actions Sir if rigid and severe as to your Enemies if variable and uncertain as to your selves may in these streights and exigencies whereunto Ye are driven and forced for safety be dispensed with It seems to fare with Ye as with Seafaring men in a boysterous storm who are feign to steer their vessell which way they may best secure their Fraught and Charge sometimes Northerly sometimes plain North sometimes Northwest sometimes Northeast sometimes plain South sometimes North again so from one cross point to another having still the Harbour and End of their voyage in their eye So with Ye encountring with such uncertainty and variety of oppositions from your Enemies yet all meeting in one Center to the subversion of your Power and strength such Non-conformity and Dissention even amongst your selves and friends that ye cannot as yet act within a direct certain and constant compass to please all Lookers on yet your aym and end may be one and the same the supreamest Law the Peoples * Nulla tam sancta Lex est quam non opporteat si salus Populi postulet urgeatque necessitas muta●● Bodin lib. 4. de Repub. Safety Wherein if ye shall fayl or not able to make good your undertakings We know by a seven years since experience how barbarously and cruelly your Enemies malice did shew it self against ye as being Rebels in case they shall recover their Power again how a desperate revenge added to will second their first and furious cruelty and to crown their glory as for the better exalting their pretence they shall impute it unto Gods justice saying It is the Lords doing it may be his suffering it through your Divisions and it is marvellous in our eys that he hath wrested the Sword out of our Enemies hands and put it into ours for no man they will say can think that Rebellion shall for ever pass unpunished Then when they have regained their Power they will not want Arguments from their own as from a Neutrall part siding with them upon their conquering to bring whom they please within the compass of Treason and Rebellion and to make your * See your Remonstrance 1647. Persons and your Acts their sport and scorn those Proclamations of the King 's lately proscribing and accusing many of both Houses of Parliament guilty of High Treason with other Edicts of His to be revived those Sentences and Judgments seriously denounced against Them and their Proceedings the Scoffs and Flouts jestingly passed on ye and your Friends to be recounted and by the Wit and Power of your Adversaries made good against ye when ye have lost your Power These stout and circumspect wayes of yours are most remembred and deeplyest lodged in their brests who speak least of them I am only the Remembrancer and cannot believe it to be a defection and falling off as that you think the Parliament and their strength too weak to protect their Members therefore to forsake it Your Power is visible yet your strength not shortned the great difficulties the fierce conflicts which ye have wrestled with the revolting of your Friends the multiformity of Opinions amongst your selves might have abated your success and weakened your strength had not an Almighty hand supported ye amongst those difficulties Never so many Stratagems Policies and Falshoods practised by an Enemy to impair your strength to advance their own but that the God of Truth hath discomfited and dispelled them all In which whether He hath done it in favour to the justice of your Cause or in His foreknowledg of their malice to be avenged if they could have got the upper hand I leave it to the judgment of the cryed up a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p 263 Author who hath more fitly observed That Gods wise Providence often permits what his revealed word approves not then he hath suited his resembling your Successes to prosperous windes filling the Sayls of Pyrates to justifie their Piracy when as the giving or denying Victory and Courage in the day of Battell is a more immediate and effectuall work of Gods Almighty Power acting and taking an especiall care in disposing the affairs of War To proceed and shew how petty a difference there is betwixt those two Tenents is easie for any man who shall enquire into the quality of either of what growth settlement or extent they are The one the Presbyterian not ripe enough as yet to be established neither the times now fit to entertain a fixt or established form of Government to binde all sorts of men Many having been left at liberty whether they have or will take the Covenant many who have taken it thinking themselves not obliged forthwith and in all parts to keep it having for some cause discovered since their taking set it aside The other the Independent a seeming rather then a certain abdication or a totall renouncing all Government or for ever The Lord Generall and his Army called Independents but why let them that call them so answer for it have solemnly b In their Remonstrance dated Novem. 1648. pag. 6 declared against such Disorder and Non-Government The Independent Party as they are called may haply desire to shake off that heavy yoke of Government which grown through the corruption of Manners and indulgency of Times into Abuse Exorbitancy and Oppressings doth gall and heavily

Parliamentary Body remaining at Edenburgh So that as to the Parliament of England it must be confessed that He meant not what He expressed in allowing that Latitude of Power or that His Party hath since prevailed with Him to renounce that judgment which He declared to have had of Them That the contentions at the first sitting of the House were upon the point about matters of Fact what things were done what attempted to be done how the King and His Ministers of Justice had demeaned themselves since the beginning of His Raign how many Oppressions of severall kindes had been offered by them how they had offended against the Known and Fundamentall Laws in an Arbitrary way of Government The Question then tacitely disputed in all mens hearts betwixt Those who would that He should go on to do what He pleased and Those who contended to have Him govern according to the Laws Whether there were any Power in being to emulate and check a King 's except a Parliaments That this Parliament in contending to maintain the one against the other was interrupted and opposed and as the Scots aver b See the Scots Remonstrance 1640. cited by M. Tho. May in his History of the Parliament of England written 1647. For no other reason called then to give the King relief and ayd against their comming into England on which grounds they sent to the Parliament of England a Justification of their proceedings intreating Them to be wary in vindicating their own Laws and Liberties to frustrate the Designs of those Evill Counsellours who had procured this Parliament for no other end then to arm the King with warlike supplyes against His Scottish Subjects and by that War to enslave if not to ruine both Nations That after many violations and dissolutions of Parliaments in England This was not to redress Grievances but to be so over-reached if They were not carefull and couragious that no possibility should be left for the future redressing any That so dangerous Practices might be well suspected when at the same time a Parliament was denyed to Scotland although promised on the word of a King granted to England when not expected and obtruded upon Ireland when not desired The Rise of all which was from the Anger which the Scots knew the King conceived against them for some particular acts of theirs charged with disloyalty as That they refused and declared amongst other matters against His Messages sent them to receive the Service Book obtruded on them for which as for Vindicating themselves from the like charged Disloyalties they were Accused by the King to have wrote a a Cited and complained of by the King in the same Declaration against His Scottish Subjects for inviting Forreign Powers into this Kingdom Pag. 56 57. See the Letter it self in the same Declaration Signed by seven of the principall of the Nobility of Scotland Letter to the King of France imploring His Protection as weary of their Obedience to their own King For which disloyall Letter as it was termed a chief b The Lord Louden See in his Answer his prudent excuse Peer of theirs was imprisoned and condemned to die That the Pacification had and made to take away all differences past and which might ensue betwixt the King the English and the Scots by the prudent and joynt advice of a select Committee of English and Scottish Lords as to remove all jealousies betwixt both Nations was soon after it was made scorned and slighted The Scots then complaining in their Informations made unto the See the same Book English their Friends and Brethren of many injuries they had received since the Pacification made and contrary to that Agreement This the Condition then of the Scots These the very words of their Remonstrance That the Vnion and Brotherly League entered into by both Nations was in the King's Indignation no otherwise construed then an Invitation in the One and Invasion of a See the King's accompt of them how in the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He keeps it in memory That they were the first that began His troubles in the Treatise of His leaving Oxford and going to the Scots and elswhere in severall places of that Book Also in the Declaration printed on the King's behalf at Oxford 1643. Page 23. Suggesting an intent in them to confound the Government and alter the Laws of England p. 28. The Marquesse of Montrosse declareth how they began His Troubles viz. by dispersing their Apologeticall Pamphlets as he terms them through great Brittain before the troubles began and before their coming with an Army into England See a Book entituled The History of His Majesty's Affairs under the Conduct of the Marquesse in the yeers 1644 1645 1646. Page 3. Forreigners in the other Nation and howsoever the Charge in the seven Articles exhibited against the six Members of both Houses was laid to those few only yet probably it had reached many other of the English Nation had not the first assault of Violence in the King's Party miscarryed as it did So many sad and direfull notes could not but portend a War against one or both Nations as Time and Opportunity should best serve to manage the Design in hand or else the Parliament knowing themselves to be a free and full Convention in all parts a Parliament both in the Substance and Form Summoned by the King 's Writ to meet c. as in the Circumstance of Time and Place must submit to the Will and Pleasure of an b Amongst other motives to His anger about the E. of Strafford's death which whether He would have avenged on the Party who condemned him may be guessed at in that He or an unknown Author in His name severall times repents the injustice of that act How Himself was forced to yeeld complyance for which sin as He mentions it He and His Kingdoms have felt long great and heavy troubles See the same Book in the Treatise concerning the E. of Strafford and the Marq. of Montrosse his Declaration set forth 1649. aggravating the same to incense the King and His Party against the Scots expressing in it their disloyall practices breach of Duty Covenants calling them Traytors c. incensed King So to be Dissolved or Awed at pleasure or to have Boundaries put upon their Acts and Counsels by such as they knew to be corrupt and would have removed from the King To the end His Throne might be established That in this agony and doubt whether They should Submit Desist or Act according to their Trust they thought it neerly land necessarily concerned them to provide for the publique welfare for their own and the Kingdoms safety some of their Members being impeached and charged two Kingdoms provoked and menaced the a See the King 's gratefull acknowledgment of the affection and loyalty of His Irish Subjects in offering to supply Him with Preparations c. together with their Persons and Estates even to the uttermost of their ability

was Respice finem the prudential Proverb is made good by an acute Epigram Non refert quà sed quò So the maintenance of the King's Honor c. are but the Means in relation order to the End the preservation of Religion Laws c. The well-weighing which Protestation might have confined and settled the unresolved and doubtfull thoughts of man in what the end and aym of the Protestation was A promise to fulfil in as much as in us lies the Commandements of the first and second Table of the Law directing our duty towards God and Man the severall parts in the Protestation tending in the summe to the maintenance of God's Honor the King 's the Subjects Right and Liberty no one part thereof if rightly applyed and understood crossing another and therefore how it comes to passe that the Protestation being one and the same the course of mens affections should be thus divided into Factions and Part-takings or that some should be of opinion That to maintain the King's Honour Person and Estate is to adhere unto Him in this present War in what He shall command They should withall consider the other parts of the Protestation viz. the Defence of the Protestant Religion the Power and Priviledges of Parliament the Subject's Right and Liberty for by the Protester's observing all the King is best observed and truliest His Honour and Promises being engaged to maintain the latter three when as every one who took the Protestation did in his thoughts endeavour and intend according to his Power to make Him a Soveraign Lord of a Free and Flourishing People the King's Protestations concurring with and tending to that end So the Protestation taken altogether is best observed and kept To the Protestation for the defence of the Protestant Religion every one who takes it is not immediately and specially bound by vertue of his Vow to discover and make known to extirpate or remove all Papists that is above the Power and Liberty of every common person neither is wishing well alone and sitting still a sufficient discharge of the Protester's duty of vowing to Endeavour Endeavouring is a progressive motion and the Protester's supine failing to endeavour can be no better reckoned of then the * Livy Historian did of those Souldiers who dreamed of their Enemies Votis sedendo debellari posse or what the * Isaiah Prophet doth of the Egyptians that their strength was sitting still A perfunctory and neutrall slackness in the Protester satisfies not the precept which God himself enjoyns When thou vowest a vow unto the Lord thou shalt not be slack to pay it and wherein many have not onely deserted this their Vow but endeavoured against the same others contemplatively only and remiss as not endeavouring at all but with cautious reservations and forbearances keep off their endeavourings The passive and faint observing of the Vow in some the Acting contrary to their Vow in others is a sin which God is justly angry for visiting this Land of late with long and heavy judgments wherefore if he who hath taken this Protestation and shall solemnly observe the same shall foresee or hath cause of suspition to believe that the Protestant Religion is or was when he took the same in danger of declining that the Papist is connived at countenanced by b Which is not the Author's Observation alone but the unanimous judgment of most part of the Kingdom observed by their several Petitions at that time presented especially that of the Gentry and Trained Bands of the County of Essex presented to their Lord Lieutenant the Earl of Warwick See Mr. May his History lib. 2. cap. 6. pag. 105. higher Powers for the Question is not about the certain and actual bringing in of Popery but touching the pregnancy of suspition if the Protester adhereth to that Party which promiseth to defend the Protestant and opposeth that which countenanceth the Popish his Protestation is then truliest kept a Promise or Vow the more pursued the more fulfilled In like manner to the other part of the same Protestation viz. The Maintenance of the Kings Honour every one who takes the same is not thereby bound to comply assent unto and obey the King in whatsoever He may command whether unlawfull or unjust or to think all his attempts and actions Justifyable throughout This were indeed in the highest degree to honour Him but in a more serious and as truly a Loyall way of His being Honoured by His Subjects is when they or those who are put in Place and Authority over them shall enquire into and provide against all things incident to His Dishonour when they shall endeavour to suppress all Affronts which may be offered to His Dignity This though a more remote and less flattering yet a more stable and certain discharge of Duty in Honouring Him Again as to that part of the Covenant That They had then no intention to diminish His just Power and Greatness They might intend no less untill They saw They could not overcome Him by humble Applications and Addresses that they could not discern any acknowledgment of His former Errours any placable or propitious heart towards His Parliament and People any condiscending to those Propositions as the only and necessary means for setling a safe Peace long since tendered to Him joyntly and unanimously by ye all Presbyterians and Independents as they are called yet not all of ye concluding or providing what was to be done in case He did refuse But instead thereof contrary to the * See the Articles of the large Treaty Pag. 16. Demand 4. granted by the King Aug. 1641. Articles of the large Treaty agreed upon viz. That none should be admitted to his Counsell or Attendance but such as should be approved of by both Kingdoms gracing and preferring to His neerest secrecy and trust a Person proclaimed guilty of High Treason charging still and banding with the Parliament the Supreamest and greatest Councell for Weight and Number in all EUROPE contending to lay the Blood spilt in this War at their doors and theirs alone ever seeking by His Pyoners by a covert and restless ill-will one way against the a See the Book called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pag. 23. and elsewhere in that Book His Party 's constant and continued ill-will towards the City of London The City styled by His party in their wonted Invectives against it The Nursery and Treasury of Armes and Ammunition employed against their King continued even to this day to be termed by them a Rebellious City upon all occasions Mercur. Pragmat from Jan. 28. to Feb. 4. 1649. further continuing his Invectives against the City in his weekly Pamphlet Place receiving Them another against their b See their Declaration printed at Oxford 1643. pag. 14 15. against the suggested irregular and undue proceedings of the Common Councel in London the Representative of the whole City Friends assisting Them to undermine their Power They thought