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Loyalty amongst rebels the true royalist, or, Hushay the Archite, a happy counsellour in King David's greatest danger / written by Edward Wolley ...
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Wolley, Edward, 1603-1684.
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nothing else to doe but to study how to Rule and Reign and hereby I shall enforce you to believe that you shall not be able to make a Royal Throne a passage into my Fathers prison And after you have presented me with a Crown to dare to wish me so much ill as once to think of Chains and Irons I know well that this discourse will surprise you and that you did not believe when you presented me with a Scepter that I should not rather have received it with Thanks then Reprehensions but this act is extraordinary in its commencement in its progress and in its conclusion and it is just that all circumstances should be proportionable Let it then suffice you onely to know that if I be ignorant to what point Subjects are to pay their obeisance yet I am not ignorant to what degree Soveraigns may extend their clemency Notwithstanding there is this difference betwixt them that the Subjects have no limits for the first but Soveraigns have for the latter The People are obliged to the Princes wills both by their Births their Lawes They owe them their goods their lives and their liberties and their Princes owe them nothing but Iustice which can hardly pardon Traytors If these Truths Maximes had been equally understood and followed by the late King my Soveraign and you his People affairs had not been in that sad condition as they now are The State had not been reduc'd to such confusion the Provinces had not been Cantonized Germany had not been so full of Factions Italy had not been so divided all the Cities of the Kingdom had not had so many kings as they now have Governours you had not been guilty of the crime of Treason in elevating an Usurper to the Throne the King my Father might still have Reigned or at least I might have received the Crown from his hands and not from yours his Tomb might have been bedewed with my tears his Scepter had not been prophaned his Hearse might have been covered with Trophies not with Chains you might have been happy and innocent But as his Clemency and your Rebellion were the sole causers of all these evils so your Obedience and my Iustice are the only means to make reparation Consider a little I pray you that you fall not back in the same estate wherein you were in what Relation you now stand and in what condition I am First you have violated all sorts of Rights in the person of your King you have raised a War against him you have assaulted him and afterwards poysoned him you have abused the confidence he had in you you have detained him prisoner with as great Treason as Injustice with as great insolency as cruelty an injury which was never offered hardly to the person of an ordinary Herald Thus you have violated and impudently abused your King you have detained him prisoner during a Treatie of Peace for five years together led him from prison to prison you have forced him not only to set by his Militia and to depose his Crown but you have constrain'd him with violence to transfer it into other hands then to mine To conclude you put him to death and you have reduced my self to a strict necessitie to search my safetie in my flight and to go and shew my miserie beyond the Seas Yet this is not all you have done one thing which never any did before it hath been seen sometimes that the Grandees of a Kingdom have interposed themselves against a Tyranny and have destroyed it but 't was never seen that they themselves elevated a Tyrant to the Throne as you have done In these kind of crimes the Abettors may be said to be more criminal then he who hath received all the fruit For if each one of you in particular had aspired to set the Crown upon his own head you might have been more excusable then to have snatcht it from your lawfull Prince to place it on the head of an Vsurper But you 'l say to me the Prince that bore it was not able to support it To that I shall answer As I have the honour to be his Son and was his Subject it belongeth not to me to determine what he could or what he could not seeing he was my Father I ought not to presume to be his judge and seeing he was my King I ought not to be so impudent to censure much lesse to condemn his actions he being not obliged to render an account to any But God alone Believe then the same respect I have for his memorie you ought to have had for his person he was your King as well as mine seeing then that Kings are called the Fathers of the people Their Subjects are obliged to have for them a true resentment of a respect which their very birth may infuse into them Besides as Soveraigns are the true Images of God and that the splendor of their puissance is abeam and ray of his power Subjects ought to have an equal submission to their Soveraigns will When you see a Comet appear the Sun eclipsed the Thunder bolt fall on innocent heads when you see Floods drown whole Towns by their inundation and the Sea passing his bounds and swallowing whole Provinces in the bottome of the deep devour them up When you see an Earthquake make Kingdoms tremble and cause horrid devastations of whole Countries then I say it is permitted to the People to murmure Do you not discern the contrarie how in these occurrences they redouble their vowes and prayers and that they are never more obedient to God then at such a time as if God had forsaken his providence of the Universe and when it shall so happen that Heaven for the punishment of your sins gives you a Prince under whose Reign policy and prudence are not well observed during whose Government Forraign and Civil Wars devour all with cruell ravages it belongeth not then to you to reprehend and condemn your Soveraign for is he feeble then you ought to sustain him is he unfortunate you ought to bemoan him is he wicked you ought to look upon him as a scourge and chastisement sent from Heaven and to wait with Patience for a remedie from that hand which hath caused your evil For when a Prince commands an Armie and gives Battail if it so happen that the Souldiers perform not their devoirs and dutie that his squadrons yield the main body be broken and in the end after he hath done even miracles in his person he be yet constrained to quit the field and to retreat from his Enemies is it not the Prince that loseth the Battail Is it not the Prince that suffers the disgrace Is it not the Prince that is reputed vanquisht And that bears the loss and infamie of the day Notwithstanding that by his own particular actions he hath merited to be conqueror seeing it is thus why will not you in such conjunctions bear with the infirmities misfortunes
2 Sam 15 vers the 32 Behold Hushai the Archite came to meet the King with his coat rent and earth upon his head Loyalty amongst REBELS The True ROYALIST Or HUSHAY the Archite A happy Counsellour in King's DAVID'S Greatest Danger Say unto Absalon I will be thy servant O King 2 Sam. 15.34 I Counsel thee to keep the Kings Commandement and that in Regard of the Oath of God Eccles 8.2 Written by EDWARD WOLLEY D.D. and Chaplain in Ordinary to his Sacred Majesty King CHARLES the II. LONDON Printed for Iohn Williams at the signe of the Crown in S. Paul's Churchyard 1662. To the Right Honourable JOHN Baron Grenvil of Kilkhampton and Biddiford Viscount Grenvil of Lands-Down and Earle of Bathe Groome of the Stool and first Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber Lord Warden of the Stanneryes Lord Lieutenant of the County of Cornwall and High Steward of the Dutchy and Governour of his Majesties Town Island Fort and Castle of the Garrison of Plimouth MY LORD I Have had the honour and happines to know you from your tender years and have discerned your cordial affections and endeavours to serve the Church as an obedient Sonne your Prince as a most Loyal Subject your Countrey as a most faithful Patriot And as Pompey when but a youth to experience your Fortitude fidelity to the Crown and without injury or flattery it may in some degree be said of you as Plutarch writes of that Noble Roman Is etiamnum adolescens totum se factioni Syllanae addixit cumque nec Magistratus nec Senator esset magnum ex Italiâ contraxit exercitum That you were a very early Commander in your youth and those four terrible wounds which you received in the fight at Newberry three in your head and one in your arm Continue those marks and cicatrices which as honourable badges of loyalty will bear you company to your Grave It was a question once started about Ascanius by Andromache whether he was like his Father Aeneas or his Vncle Hector Ecquid in antiquam virtutem animosque viriles Et Pater Aeneas a vunculus excitat Hector Andromache in Virgil Aeneid de Ascanio But there is not any need of such a question concerning your Lordship in whom the varietie of your Noble Ancestors seem to concenter So that the pietie of Richardus de Granâ Villâ who founded the Abbey of Neath in Glamorgan-shire in the fourth year of the raigne of King William Rufus liveth in you The courage of Sir Richard Grenvil your great Grandfather who commanded the Rear-Admiral a Ship called the Revenge wherein he so gallantly behaved himself that in a desperate fight at Sea with the Spaniards he sunk destroyed infinite numbers of Qu. Elizabeths enemies when others made all the sail they could to avoid the danger And the loyalty and great worth of Sir Bevill Grenvill seem as thriving seeds to grow up and flourish in you And it will be an honour and happiness to your Lordship to be not onely a Son and Heire of his Name loynes but of his virtues who so loved the Church of England that in person he guarded the late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury against the fury of the tumultuous Rabbles in all commotions and Rebellions either of England and Scotland in the late blessed Kings Raign he manifested the dutie of a Loyal Subject and of a noble Commander at the fight at Stratton he was successful against the enemie with a handful of men And at the fight at Lands-downe like another Epaminondas though he lost his life he got the Victory Et cum sentiret vulnus esse lethale non prius ferrum eduxit quam audisset Thebanos vicisse tum satis inquit vixi invictus enim morior To encourage his Souldiers he fought with bleeding wounds and finding that his countrey men like Gallant Thebans won the day animam efflavit he fell gloriously into the bosome of true honour renown These exemplars of virtue have doubtless attracted your Resolutions to imitation of your Ancestors and have enflamed your affections with true and right principles of Nobleness and honour But that which renders you most lovely to all who know your Lordship is that incomparable service which by your prudence fidelity secrecy and courage was transacted effected together with the Duke of Albemarle and his brother the Lord Bishop of Hereford in order to his Majesties Restauration which maketh three Kingdomes happy This is the chiefest loadstone motive that makes me address to your Lordship for patronage and protection in this argument wherein I endeavour to prove that truth may be in company with Traitors and Loyalty amongst Rebels as Hushai the Archite who was King Davids best friend and most faithful subject in his greatest danger It is true many worthyes did attend his Majesties Person in pinching extremityes abroad for many years and many thousand loyal Subjects of the three Kingdomes indured insupportable miseries from usurping bloody Wolves at home and the stings of a sort of Trepanning creeping Serpants as equally venemous as dangerous hardly to be avoided These true Royalists were on all occasions active in their persons in their counsels in their relations their friends in their purses and their prayers and by all wayes and interests to promote his Majesties Restauration But your Lordship as a more signal instrument of much happiness hath received gracious markes of Noble trust honour and favour from his Majesty the thanks of all England in the Kingdomes Representative the Parliament which will prove a happy record of your honour to posterity and blessed for ever be those hands and hearts who have contributed much or cast in if but a mite to that blessed work There is another small tender branch which budded seasonably about seven years since and appeared in the Kingdom under the complexion and colour of a Translation in the case and Parallel of Lewis the fourth the French King This first went abroad to keep alive those loyal sparks which lay-under the ashes of Cruelty and Persecution in the year 1654. meeting with curteous tinder it took fire and inflamed many affections towards the King This small piece was reprinted eight moneths before his Majesties return to England and it proved so prosperous that some thousand copies were dispersed vented in fourty houres And then it grew suddenly a publick discourse in the City and Countrey videlicet the Kings Case in the Parallel of Lewis the fourth of France This Branch leans on your Lordships Patronage and favour is added to this discourse to perpetuate all Subjects resolutions in their allegiance to their Princes and as a part of justice and merit that his endeavours nay be discerned who gave it life first fixed and planted it in England and so not to be any longer fathered on adopted authors * Tulit alter honores Virgil. My Lord I shall not afflict your Lordship with any further present trouble but wishing