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A35827	The journals of all the Parliaments during the reign of Queen Elizabeth both of the House of Lords and House of Commons / collected by Sir Simonds D'Ewes ... Knight and Baronet ; revised and published by Paul Bowes ..., Esq.	D'Ewes, Simonds, Sir, 1602-1650.; Bowes, Paul, d. 1702.	1682 (1682)	Wing D1250; ESTC R303	1,345,519	734

What shall we say of the Prophet Elias shall we call him Cruel because in the Zeal of Justice he killed all the false Prophets of Baal Did not God approve his fact with the miraculous sending of abundance of rain after three years continual drought But to those men I think God himself and his Angels will seem Cruel and his Justice Cruelty that they under the colour of mercy might be spared until time will serve to satisfie their own cruel hearts An Argument perswading that the Queens Majesty ought to have in Conscience a great care of the safety of her own person EVery Prince being the Minister of God and a publick Person ought by Gods word to have an especial care of his own safety more than a private Person and chiefly when the case so standeth that the safety of his Realm and Countrey and the true worshipping of God by Gods disposition may seem to depend on him But now so it is in the Queens Majesty therefore in Conscience ought she to have a singular care of her safety if not for her self sake yet at the least for the furtherance of Gods cause and stay of her Country to the maintenance whereof she is bound before God Moses wished to be put out of the Book of Life for the safeguard of his People Exod. 32. Paul wished to be Anathema for his Brethren Rom. 10. Codrus and divers other Heathens gave away their Lives for the safety of their Countries Contrariwise we wish and are humble Suitors that it may please her Majesty to preserve her own Life and to cut away the dangers thereof if not for her own cause which happily her noble Courage doth smally regard yet at the leastwise for Gods cause and for her faithful and loving Subjects whose Life and good Estate dependeth on her Obj. It may be objected That her Majesty reposeth her trust and confidence in the Providence of God and therefore maketh light of all attempts that her Enemies can work against her Respons Surely it must needs be confessed that the same proceedeth both of noble Courage and of a strong Faith and trust in God and ought indeed to be the Bulwark of help and comfort to all good and godly Princes yet so far as they seem not withal to tempt God by leaving that diligence and those ordinary means whereby he useth to save and deliver David knew himself to be Anointed and appointed Israel by God himself yet he did not rashly cast himself into the hands of Saul his Enemy Jehosophat and Hezechias in their great distresses undoubtedly had their chief trust and confidence in the Providence of God but they ceased not both to shun and cut off all those things whereby danger might grow and to use all means whereby their safety might be holpen It is alledged by Christ. Thou shalt not tempt thy Lord God but surely it might have been as fafe for Christ. without tempting God to have cast himself down from the Pinacle of the Temple as for the Queens Majesty to suffer in her Bosom this poisonous Serpent that ceaseth not continually to thrust the sting of her venemous workings into her Majesties safety and possession of her Crown It is well said Principum securitas paucorum vitâ redimenda est There are divers Histories yea and Examples of late time whereby it hath been declared that the tempting confidence of Gods Providence not shunning evident occasions of danger hath fallen out to the extream hurt of the Parties and on such as have depended on them which we think not meet to recite lest they might seem in this Case Ominosa as God for his great Mercies sake forbid that they should be Many Reasons Authorities and Examples more besides this may be taken out of the Holy Scriptures for Confirmation of this purpose but for tediousness we thought good to omit them and to leave the residue to God In the 20 th Chapter of Levit. there is much like matter and that in as earnest manner set forth neither can any in Conscience think that this punishment was here by God appointed so grievous only for those that then seduced the people of God to Gentilish and heathenish Idolatry for Idolatry and false worship by whomsoever it be begun though they bear the name of the Church or of the People of God never so much It is a direct offence against the first Table and therefore in Gods Judgment worthy no less punishment Yea their offence must needs be more hainous in the sight of God for that they have had greater opportunity to understand Gods true worship Shall any Christian man think that the worship of God appointed in his Law being but the figure was more acceptable and pleasant to God than this his true worship in the Faith of Jesus according to the Gospel of our Redemption or that the violating of the same or seducing of his people from it is in his Judgment less displeasant or not so grievously to be punished as was the breaking of his Law or the seducing from it Shall we think that the gathering of a few sticks on the Sabbath Day is to be punished by Death in a poor simple person and the seeking to subvert the Gospel of Christ and to draw the people of God to that Idolatrous Doctrine that teacheth to impute the merit of Christs Blood and Passion to wicked mens devices yea to Stocks to Stones to Sticks to Water to Bells c. shall not be worthy the punishment of Death in a noble Person God direct our Judgments otherways By these words of God before recited Deut. 13 if it be evident that God willed his Magistrates to spare neither Brother nor Sister nor Son nor Daughter nor Wife nor Friend though he were never so nigh if he sought to seduce the people of God from his true worship how much less is an Enemy a Traytor and an Adulterer to be spared These Reasons for the speedy Executing of the Scottish Queen being part of those contained in the written Copy of the said Reasons I had by me and of which the latter part containeth the Petition of the House to her Majesty which see Entred at large in their proper places on Thursday the 28 th day of this instant May ensuing are transcribed out of the said written Copy and are added to this days passages because it is very probable the House did ground their before-mentioned resolution upon them although not only the day on which they were first digested in the House be there omitted but also the very year is through the Error as it should seem of some transcriber falsly set down to have been the Thirteenth of her Majesty in which Parliament the matter of the Scottish Queen was not at all mentioned nor at all dealt in by the House of Commons until this present Session of Parliament in an 14 Reginae Eliz. as doth appear plainly by the Original Journal-Book of the same House And now follows the residue

did forbid that his Traiterous Son Absolom should be slain and when he was killed effeminately he bewailed the same to the discouraging of his People but he was sharply rebuked by Ioab his Councellor saying Thou hast shamed this day the faces of thy Servants which have saved thy life and the life of thy Sons c. Thou lovest those that hate thee and thou shewest this day that thou passest not for thy Captains and thy Servants And now I perceive if Absolom had lived and all we had been slain it would have pleased thee well What inconvenience was like to follow unto David by this doing and what other good direction may be taken out of this History well considered for brevities sake we leave to the Consideration of wise Princes and Governours When David was so much moved with these words that he was contented to take another course which turned both to the Comfort of his Subjects and his own benefit the application needeth not If David were moved thus to do to the Comfort of his own Subjects only and the abashing of his own private Rebels how much more have we to desire God to move the Queens Majesty by the Execution of this Lady to glad the hearts of all true Christians in Europe and to abash and damp the minds of all the Enemies of God and Friends of Antichrist Obj. It may be objected that thus to proceed is not Honourable for the Queens Majesty Respons The shadow of Honour as may evidently appear deceived upon like occasion both King Saul in sparing Agag King of Amaleck and King Achab in receiving to his Mercy King Benhadad as it is in the Example in the second Reason mentioned who did pretend great honour in saving a King and thought dishonour in the contrary that one King should kill another but mans Judgment and Gods in such cases are far diverse for indeed Execution of Justice upon any person whatsoever is and ever hath been accounted honourable Ioshua a worthy Prince and Governour put to Death at one time five Kings and that as might appear rudely causing his Souldiers to set their Feet on their Necks and slay them and willed them to be stout and not to fear to do it Ioshua 10. We find also in the Scriptures that in this Zeal of Justice two wicked Queens Iesabel and Athaliah both inferior in mischief to this late Queen have been by Gods Magistrates Executed and the same Execution commended in Scripture Obj. It may be further objected that the Queens Majesty in so doing should exceed the limits and bounds of Mercy and Clemency Resp. Indeed a Prince should be merciful but he should be just also It is said Misericordia veritas custodiunt Regem but in the next Chapter it followeth Qui sequitur justitiam misericordiam inveniet vit am Pro. 20. The Prince in Government must be like unto him who is not only amiable by Mercy but terrible also by Justice and therefore is called Misericors Justus Dominus Mercy oftentimes sheweth it self in the Image of Justice Yea and Justice in Scriptures is by God called Mercy Psal. 136. Who smote Egypt with their first-born for his mercy endureth for ever In that Psalm the smiting of Egypt with terrible Plagues the destruction of Pharaoh the killing of great and mighty Kings are called the merciful works of God as indeed they were but mercy towards the People of God and not towards the Enemies of God and of his People Therefore as the Queens Majesty indeed is merciful so we most humbly desire her that she will open her Mercy towards Gods People and her good Subjects in dispatching those Enemies that seek the confusion of Gods cause amongst us and of this noble Realm It may also be said that to spare one Person being an Enemy a Stranger a professed Member of Antichrist and Convicted of so many hainous Crimes with the evident peril of so many thousands of Bodies and Souls of good and faithful Subjects may justly be termed Crudelis misericordia Petiliano objiciente Deum non delectari humano Sanguine Respondet Legimus multos à famulo Dei Moise Misericorditer interfectos Nunquid crudelis effect us est cùm de monte descendens tot Millia juberet occidi August contra literas Petiliani li. 2. c. 86. Saul Jehosaphat Reges fuerunt populi Dei dum misericordiam iis quos Deus oderat praestiterunt Dei offensam in opere pietatis incurrerunt E contrario Phinehas filiique Levi gratiam Dei humanâ caede suorum parricidio meruerunt Hierom. The same Hierom de Origine animae saith the like Sparing of evil persons is misericors inobedientia S t Augustine also saith Sicuti est misericordia puniens est etiam crudelitas parcens Object But happily it may be that some do discredit these reasons by the persons when they cannot by the matter and will put in her Majesties mind that we in perswading her respect our own danger and fear of peril coming to us and not right and true judgment Yea and that it may appear very unseemly and worthy sharp reproof in a Bishop to excite a Prince to Cruelty and Blood contrary to her merciful inclination Resp. As touching the first branch Surely we see not any great continuance of danger likely to come unto us more than to all good Subjects while this State standeth and the State cannot lightly alter without the certain peril both of our Prince and Country Now if our danger be joined with the danger of our Gracious Soveraign and natural Country we see not how we can be accompted godly Bishops or faithful Subjects if in common peril we should not cry and give warning Or on the other side how they can be thought to have true hearts towards God and towards their Prince and Country that will mislike with us for so doing and seek thereby to discredit us As touching the second branch God forbid that we should be instruments to incense a merciful Prince to Cruelty and Bloodiness neither can we think well of them or judge that they have true meaning hearts that in the Minister of God and Officer do term justice and right punishment by the name ofBloodiness and Cruelty God I trust in time shall open her Majesties Eyes to see and espy their cruel purposes under the Cloak of extolling mercy When the Prince or Magistrate is slack in punishing the sinful and wicked the Bishop and Preacher is bound in Conscience before God to exhort him to more diligent and severe dealing therein lest the Blood both of Prince and People be required at his hands 3. Reg. 20. May the Prophet be accounted cruel to incite Achab to Bloodiness which so sharply rebuked him for his Clemency shewed towards Benhadad May Samuel be justly named cruel because in like case he reproved Saul for sparing the life of King Agag and killed the said Agag with his own hands in the sight of the Prince