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A92404	The converts letter to his old freinds. Or The apologie of a commander of the Kings party, for diserting of that party, and bearing armes for the Parliament. Wherein is shewed, that those pretences of defending the Protestant religion, the fundamentall lawes, the liberties of the subjects, &c. on that party, are but specious. What Irish, and papists, have been honoured & cheifly intrusted. How if that army doth conquer, as it is now moulded, popery and tiranny, of necessity must be introduced. Withe the lawfulnesse of bearing defensive armes by the Parliament. Printed and published according to order.	W. R.	1645 (1645)	Wing R94; Thomason E260_43; ESTC R212471	7,823	11

THE CONVERTS LETTER To his old freinds Or the Apologie of a Commander of the Kings Party for di●●●ting of that party and bearing Armes for the PARLIAMENT Wherein is shewed that those pretences of Defending the Protestant Religion the fundamentall Lawes the Liberties of the Subjects c. on that party are but specious What Irish and Papists have been ●o●oured ●●●ifly intrusted How if that Army doth conquer as it is now moulded Popery and Tiranny of necessity must be introduced With the lawfullnesse of bearing defensive Armes by the PARLIAMENT Veritas non querit Angulos Romans the 16.17.18 Now I beseech you brethren marke them which cause Divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine which yee have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not the Lord Iesus Christ but their owne Belly and by good words and faire speeches deceive the Hearts of the simple Printed and Published according to Order LONDON Printed for H. Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleet-street MAY 30. 1645. The Apologie of a Commander of the Kings for diserting that party and bearing Arms for the Parliament with the reasons that induced him thereto To all my old fellow Protestant Souldiers in the Kings Army these Fellows in Arms NEver had any man greater confidence of the Kings owne integrity and power of himselfe in the managing of his owne businesse then I had But now my feares too truly tell mee otherwise in point of power And I very much pitty many honest and sound Protestants amongst you great enemies to Popery which are ingaged on that party out of the same confidence that I was Whom I wish though never that occasion to pry into the secrets of the times which I have had to consider well with themselves and they shall find Prince Rup●●t and his Accomplices fight even so much for the Priviledges and Liberties of the Subjects as the Papists doe for the Protestant Religion I lay nothing of this on the King God forbid in an injurious way I should touch so much as the skirt of his garment But it is apparent there are those who buzze into his Majesties eares extreame pretended injury in point of Prerogative c. which in effect is but to engage him in opinionated necessitie to make use of their help to right himselfe And under colour thereof to draw his Majesty as pretended principle by accident to countenance the Malignant designes of Papists and publick disturbers of the Peace to accomplish their own ends And lest I should be thought a generall Satyrist rather then to tell particular truths I shall descend to some particulars I know that most of you which have Commissions in that Army have in them this specious clause incerted For defence of the Kings Royall Person and Authority the Protestant Religion the Lawes of the Land the Liberty of the Subjects and priviledges of the Parliament But how farre these Commissions in these particulars are pursued I shall offer by the occurrences since time is the best teller of truth in things of this nature I shall draw my first observation from Ireland which wil shew how far this is pursued in matter of Religion And herein I must confesse I did think the Rebellion in that Kingdome to be an act of their owne without any allowance from England although it was alwayes alleaged by the Irish that they had the Kings Commission for it That they were the Queens Souldiers that they fought for their religion c. He that doth but consider how and on what tearms the Cessation there was made pretended to be an act of necessity how many of the Irish Rebels were drawn over into England under the name of the Protestant Army there Such as Welch his Regiment of horse The recruit of St. Legers Regiment of foot now the Duke of Yorks regiment Osullivan the Lord of Muskeries Cook his Troop with many others which have butchered the Protestants in that Kingdome He that doth but consider with himself what Irish have been alwayes Liegers about the King viz. The Lord Taffe the Lord of Costeloe Sir John Dungan Garrat Talbot George Evelin Mr. Robinson Mr. William Brent Philip Roch Doctor Meara Physitian to Prince Rupert Rob. Welsh Rich-Power Captain O Bryan Major ô Neil Edmond Keogh Butler c. besides English Papists the bellows and fomenters of war cānot but remember that the statutes inacted in this Kingdom against popish Recusants have been well put in execution according to the Kings Proclamation about this time three years to that purpose 10. Aug. 1642. Or shall we not think this Proclamation was set forth meerly to delude the people He that doth but remember how many thousands of the Kings loyall Protestant Subjects of Ireland were bereaved of their lives and estates without any provocation or injury offered And how the King by act of Parliament granted the power and care of Reducement of that Kingdom to the Parliament of England cannot but think very strangely of the pacification in that Kingdom made or to be made on such dishonourable tearms when as no satisfaction shall bee made for the effusion of so much innocent blood or for the poore Protestant Inhabitants losses be they never so great He that doth but consider how the Irish papists Rebels have been honoured and trusted both in England and Ireland and what immunities have been granted them viz. Muskery must be made President of Mounster and Thomond The Parliament of Ireland must be allowed to be held at Kilkenny the Metropolis of Rebellion Poynings act must be reversed which is that no Act of Parliament shal passe until it be first certified into England and allowed of by the King and his Councell so as the Irish shall by this have liberty to make what acts they please The Protestant party if they dare adventure their throats must come to Kilkenny to the Parliament Edmond Fitzgerrald otherwise called Edmond ô Clenlas must be made a Barroner for the good service he did in Ireland in raising maintaining a Troop of horse and a foot Company in rebellion all the wars against the Protestants Robert Welsh and Rich. Power must be Knighted as part of their Irish Court agents and have great commands conferred on them one to command a Brigade of horse in England and the other to be made a Collonel and then Governour of Bartley in the place of Collonel Veale a Protestant that must be suspected and put forth Bryan ô Neale Edmund Butler Garrat Talbot another part of their Irish Court agents must be Knighted at least if not Baronets and great commands must be conferred on them He that doth but remember how at the beginning of this Parliament the foure main Jesuiticall spirits of this Kingdome were banished by act of Parliament with the Kings owne consent viz. Sir John Winter Walt. Mountague Sir Toby Mathews and Sir Kenelm Digby And yet of these how much Winter is honoured and trusted now is publikely knowne insomuch that

jurisdiction cognizance over all persons and in all causes in these his Majesties Dominions The Members whereof in duty if not by oath more then the Judges in other Courts ought not to deferre or delay to doe justice Neque propter magnum sigilum neque propter parvum although the Kings expresse Commands were against it So long as their is on there party no quarrell but defence and nothing else aymed at but to pursue the Covenant which is the same the King himselfe took in Scotland So long as there is no other end but to defend the ancient Laws and Liberties established And to reforme the Church of England in discipline according to the patterne of other Protestant Churches which are allowed by those Protestants under the Hierarchy to be found in doctrine in all parts of the essence of Religion and in discipline not so subject to tirannicall oppression and exorbitancy So long as Episcopacy the Church government so much stood for by you though alleaged to be antient is not Iure divino but polliticall confessed by the author of the New distemper allowed to be printed at Oxford and the same which the best reason and authority authentique doe speake So long as the Litturgie or booke of Common prayer established by Law in Edward the sixths time if all in it were good and without exception were but a thing indifferent and then put to the question whether it were better to expunge the ould Litturgy or Masse Booke or to compose a new When although it was carryed at present wanting our experience that it was better to expunge the old Yet D. Ridley B. of London since a Martyr in the Church for the same reasons now thought fit and many others were then for erecting a new one So long as any prayers according to found doctrine and the word of God comming from the sincerity of the heart and true devotion may be as good and effectuall to salvation as the Booke of Common Prayer if all in it were good and without offence It is more safe in this quarrell to joyne with the Parliament and their party be they for the Presbiteriall or Independent discipline being both Protestants sound in doctrine then to joyne with the Papists that are neither sound in doctrine nor discipline The Scots they first bear defensive Armes for defence of their Religion Lawes and Liberties where no effusion of blood was And this is approved of in the ●ct of pacification in that Kingdome by the King himselfe to be a laudable undertaking The Irish they beare Armes on the same pretence and shed the blood of many thousands of innocent persons without any provocation A hundred thousand computed at least yet this must be hushed up approved of under a Pacification and many of them are honoured and specially intrusted for it And must the English tamely lie still and suffer Religion Lawes Liberties and themselves to be trampled on by persons disaffected only out of a Conscientious scruple that they ought not to beare Armes against the Annoynted of the Lord as is said when the King is made but the cloake to their designes although it be to defend the Religion Lawes and Liberties which truly lye at stake from innovation David that was a man after Gods owne heart in a private quarrell as to himselfe made not this scruple when he offered the King of Gath to goe up to battell against Saul And at most he was ingaged but in his owne private defence from tirranny and oppression Much more may be done when the Publique Cause of Religion Lawes and Liberties are endangered Kings commands in a Monarchichall government are like the Lawes of God in the two Tables which declare their full will and their subjects duty Their wils are so setled in the Lawes established that they are to be obeyed in their commands but so far as they are agreeable to the Lawes and noe further The very heathen by the light of nature only did confesse and alow it to be the most just and honorable quarrell in the world to fight pro aris f●●ls for their Gods and Countrey And Propatria mori pulchrum that it was a gallant thing to dye for their Countrey The most strict Divines under the Gospell though in a private quarrell hold it fit to turne the other care to the smiter rather than smite againe yet noe waies allow us to tollerate injuries offered unto God Nehemiah ● ●3 Maccah 13 1● We must not 〈◊〉 we see Religion Lawes and Libertie trampled on lye still in the ditch and cry God help only when God hath given us power without using the means to establish them And to expect deliverance by the immediate hand of God in a miraculous way as of ould time Math. 4.5.6 When the divell tempted our Saviour to throw himselfe from the Pinacle of the Temple The Devine observeth That Christ would not cast himselfe downe though he might have saved himselfe D● Su●t●in his D●●●●e●●●re 14 without the Ministrye of Angles to shew us not to seeke supernaturall meanes when God doth lend us naturall We tempt him when we seeke health without a medicine or victory without a combate wee tempt him when by reason or counsell we may avoyd some evill and yet explore his power And last of all we tempt him when we enquire to far into his wisdome or require that unlawfully which he is wo●t to offer by meanes And therefore when the cause is just the authority lawfull the intent good that God may be glorified a right continued I●● 235. and imminent dangers avoyded at is and may be lawfull for Christians to take Armes And soe to doe is nothing contrary as some have dreamed to Christian Peace c. with this ca●tion That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 desire of superiority be not the cause of our taking Armes Iam. 136. It was the course in the primitive Church to stand up at the reahearsall of the Creede with their hands on their swords as ready to defend that fayth It is according to the law of nature Vim vi repellere for every creature to defend themselves from injury much more the publique state or Church and Common weale It is a trespasse justifiable by the Common Law to kill another se defendendo in defence of himselfe or his goods By the Matriall Law Kings in the darke are not distinguished from enemyes but by the Worde which is the Law Neither are they to be knowne but by the Lawes which distinguish Kings from other men in these times of darkenes The King is the ●●●untain of justice from whence by the Cōmom Law and Christian charity is p●es●med can 〈…〉 streame He is a 〈…〉 of the Church ●●x under Christ in these his Majesties Do●●●nions But if the fountain branch into two streams by suffocation on pollution o● the old channel I will leave the polluted or muddy streame and swimm ●o s●ake in the cleare o●e if the bead be disaffecte by any the members is with all d●● reverence to the h●ad I will joyne with those member least disaffected to cu●eth● rest and endeavour to take of that distemper from the head And if by experimentall practice it appeare that any member be incurable To save the head and the r●st of the body I say Enserceidendum est ne pars sincera tra●●tur Let it b● cut off least it pu●r fi● the ●est If the King therefore by evill Councell and adv●ce personally comma●d●●● on thing Acts. 4.19 the Lawes e●ta●●l shed and the Gospell bi● the contrary I will honour the King but obey the Lawe Acts. 5.29 and the Gospell in which is the Kings implyed assent And the Parliament also which ●s the Kings highest Court of justice and Councell of state can best expound interpret and give vigour to the Lawes And doe desire the fl●u●ishing of the true light of the Gospell Therefore I say with Moses unto such ●s are of the Parliament and their party who I now bele●ve and perceive to manage their busines with sincerity Dread not nor be affraide for your God fighteth for you Deut. 29.30 but goe on and prosper And I desire to ●oyne with you in the worke For salvation belongeth unto the Lord and his blessing is with his people Farewell and I am in charity still Psalme 3.8 W.R. Aprill the 4. 1645. FINIS