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england_n	arm_n	great_a	king_n	4,192	5	3.7877	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89608	The Parliaments proceedings justified, in declining a personall treaty with the King, notwithstanding the advice of the Scotish Commissioners to that purpose. / By Henry Marten Esquire, a Member of the Commons House.	Marten, Henry, 1602-1680.	1648 (1648)	Wing M823; Thomason E425_20*; Thomason E426_2; ESTC R202838	8,630	19

have beene foyled in 7. Argument Arg. 7. Which the Commissioners call a farther Answer to their owne Objection is indeed a seventh Reason newly thought on and borrowed our of the Parliaments Reply to the Kings Message of the 11. of Sept. 42. All this notwithstanding as we never gave your Majesty any just cause of with drawing your self from your great counsell so it hath ever been and shall be far from us to give any impediment to your Return or to neglect any proper means of curing the distempers of the Kingdomes and closing the dangerous breaches betwixt your Majestie and your Parliament according to the great trust which lies upon us and if your Majestie shall now be pleased to come back to your Parliament without your forces we shall be ready to secure your Royall Crown and dignity with our lives and fortunes your presence in this great counsell being the only meanes of any Treaty betwixt your Majesty and them with hope of successe Answer An. All this cannot relate to all that which hath beene done since September 42. he that saith if you shall now be pleased doth not tell you at what time soever you shal be pleased he that offers you fair termes if you come without your forces would be thought to imagin you have forces to come with One while the Reasons of our former Delarat go for nothing because the Kings condition and Ours are quite altered from what they were then another while and that within foure or five lines we must be held to our old refused offers notwithstanding any alteration of affaires 8. Argument 8. Arg. If they were esteemed enemies to the Parliament and the peace of the kingdome who advised the King to withdraw from his Parliament what estimation will the world have of them scil the Parliament who after such a Declaration will not suffer him to returne to his Parliament when he offers to cast himselfe into their armes Answer Ans This whole Island I meane the highest authority therein did justly esteem them enemies to the Parliament and the Peace of the kingdomes that advised the King to withdraw from the Parliament but since he hath followed that advice hath fought against them hath despised all overtures of reconciliation with them the knowing part of the world will esteeme them no lesse enemies that shall for base and sinister ends advise the Parliament to receive him and shall injuriously asperse the Parliament for declining that advice especially considering how falsely it is affirmed that he cast himselfe into Our armes The fact standing thus when Our armes had made his Head-quarters too hot for him he cast himselfe into the Scottish Army and they like men of honour understanding by how they were entertained delivered up into Our hands all the strengths and priosoners among whom he was one that had come to theirs in England 9. Argument Arg. 9. If so kinde an offer shall be refused and the King driven to dispaire it is to be feared these Kingdomes shall be involved into greater difficulties then ever Answer I will admit for once that the King hath yet some good thing to offer and some goodnesse of will to offer it unto the Parliament Do they not deale hardly with Us who will not suffer us to refuse a kindnesse to say no we thank him without beckning him into dispaire and threatning Us with an involution of such difficulties as never were nor as is to be hoped will be And therefore I do hold that as Pharaoh was then most kinde to the Israelites when he slighted all their poore addresses so the Lord was then their compleate deliverer when he shut out all communication with their oppressors by drawing off a Sea betwixt them FINIS