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england_n	english_a	king_n	scot_n	6,292	5	9.4575	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92421	A remonstrance concerning the grievances, and maladies of the kingdome of England rightly stated in X positions. VVith remedies prescribed for the speedy help of each of them: viz. The King, Parliament, Army, Assembly of Divines. Citizens of London, the people in generall. Apostate round-heads. Newters, Cavaliers, Scots. Licensed and entered according to order.		1648 (1648)	Wing R975; Thomason E421_8; ESTC R22238	14,482	16

A REMONSTRANCE Concerning The Grievances and Maladies of the Kingdome of ENGLAND RIGHTLY Stated in X POSITIONS VVith Remedies prescribed for the speedy help of each of them VIZ. The King The Parliament The Army The Assembly of Divines The Citizens of London The People in Generall The Apostate Round-heads The Newters The Cavaliers The Scots Licensed and Entered according to Order LONDON Printed for John Hickman 1648. Maladies and Remedies 1. THE Scots to dispatch them first because they have furthest home are a people that would be thought more wise than honest and yet because it is no wisdome to renounce honesty none therefore are greater pretenders to it They are singular School men in State-matters and can distinguish to a bristles bredth for instance They can break their Faith and keep their Covenant come like Brethren to help the English and never strike stroak for them but at New-Castle and Cannon Froome the one to keep it the other to leave it because it was worth no more and yet hate with perfect hatred those that did better service because they did so The old Modell and they whilst it was on foot were then scarce Brethren but now they and the Old Modell men against the Army are sworn Sisters They March'd to Hereford and back again and all the way comming and going took the winde of the Enemies Garrisons as if the plague had been in them If the Parliament wish'd them advance Southward they retreated Northward by a Scotch figure because the North of England is the South of Scotland And lay just so long before Newark till by private confabulation the King came to their Leaguer and then and there broke their word but kept Covenant with the Parliaments Commissioners against their promise carrying away the King to Newcastl● in all post haste as if they had meant to have invited him to Edinburgh in freedome honour and safety but no such matter my Lord touching the Kings dignity and greatnesse the Covenant onely bindes on this side Tweed for beyond it hee 's little enough but it seemes they have bargain'd with him like the two Tribes and half so they may have all beyond Jordan they 'le see him in safe possession of Canaan therefore for that end must there needs be a personall Treaty and an invitation of him whom they 'le heere invite into Scotland to London in honour safety and freedome the Kings own words fiddle and stick which makes Pragmaticus the Court jester ready to leape out of his skin for joy to heare this tune played upon the Scotch Bag-pipes so that hee 'le goe neere to want a Theame to rime upon next weeke being reconciled to this loyall faternity But they tell you the reason and for my part I beleeve them why they would have the King entertained at our cost because they say their happinesse is in him for you must consider the two great wheels of the Scotch engine is now in perpetuall motion the one to make England Scotland in matters Ecclesiasticall so that It is and It is not so in Scotland were urged in the Assembly like ipse dixit in the Schooles the other is to make Scotland England in things civill and though an English man in Scotland must not untie the Kings shoe latchet yet they sticke not to propose to have the third part of offices about him here They cry out of the abuse offered a single Commissioner at Hampton-Court and that no repare is made the whilst they sanctuary Knox and nose us with Cheesley those arch incendiaries that in whole volumes abused the whole state of England with breach of priviledge of Parliament to boote which by Covenant is to be maintained and they punished but a tricke at maw will helpe that for they can in their printed Papers those Scotch spectacles to blinde English men take the Covenant in peeces and quote it in abstract Propositions leaving out the principall verbe still the conditionate coherence of one thing with another so that the reason why they so cry up themselves wherein they have an excellent faculty for transcendent Covenanters is because they do by the Covenant as some sectaries of these times doe by the scriptures bring their sense to it and not take sense from it And for most part what is their religion Presbytery they do by it as the Iewes did by the Temple worship it instead of God and though swearing lying dissembling be even nationall vices amongst them yet by vertue of this bare badge they cry up themselves for the people of the Lord as if heaven also could be caught by craft but forma dat esse is a maxime undeniable with them they are the best Christians and Covenanters because the best Presbyterians which they make their staulking-horse to catch city and country and the Assembly also and their skreene to be-spatter the English Parliament except the eleven Members whose devotion to Presbytery and the old Model prefers them in favour above the rest From State Presbyters Libera nos The Remedy Let us doe them all good Offices and keepe them at all due distances mix not interests keep Covenant in the intire plaine English sense of it avoid their tedious Haran●s pond speeches and voluminous Papers which they onely speake to the Parliament first to the end that after they may speake them in print to the People which they know so great a body as the Parliament pressed with infinite and weighty businesses cannot suddenly answer and so think to cary the cause by cajoling the vulgar and to devide betwixt the body reall and representative and then the towne 's their owne too much Serpentine wisdome to stand with the innocency of Doves Thinke not the worse of Presbytery because they Idolize it but let power of godlinesse and purity of worship goe hand in hand Let in a word the Parliament be true to their trust and England to it selfe II Next Vous-avez Cavaliers t is fit these two should goe together since Pragmaticus saies the Scots are turned Royallists these degenerate English men that fight to be slaves but had more wit than to stand to it For the ingenuousest of them say that if the King had got the better the Kingdome had beene undone they see so farre now into his disposition and yet they in hope to be sprinkled with Court holy water are content to sell their birth-right which their Progenitors nobly purchased with their blood and they as ignobly sell it with theirs They complaine of compounding which yet is a Cheaper tenure to hold by then disseising which had fallen to our share if they had been paramount as themselves sticke not to say and threaten to try us all for Traytors at the Kings-Bench barre where proud Banks and pricket Heath must have given sentence and then there had beene old worke for new Tiburne The two Germaine Princes must have beene denizoned with the Estates of Northumberland and Pembrooke and their blew Ribbands to boote as judging most