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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35194	The parliament of graces briefly shewing the banishment of peace, the farewell of amity, the want of honesty, the distraction of religion, the flight of sobriety, the lamentation of patience, the love and care of charity : together with the cause of the breaking up of the house of the parliament of graces, worthy the reading in these times of desolation and calamity / by Humfrey Crouch.	Crouch, Humphrey, fl. 1635-1671.	1643 (1643)	Wing C7288; ESTC R31341	2,834	10

THE PARLIAMENT OF GRACES Briefly shewing The banishment of Peace the farewell of Amity the want of Honesty the distraction of Religion the flight of Sobriety the lamentation of Patience the love and care of Charity Together With the cause of the breaking up of the House of the Parliament of Graces worthy the reading in these times of desolation and calamity By Humfrey Crouch Printed in the Yeare 1643. THE PARLIAMENT OF GRACES The names of them that are present in this Parliament Patience Hope Humility Obedience Charitie The names of them that have absented themselues in this times of distraction are these Peace Amity Honesty Religion Sobriety And first of all distressed Pacience speake And unto all the rest her mind she breakes Patience DIssressed Brethren for so many I terme you Our House is divided as is the Kingdome Peace is fled For where there is warre there is no roome for Peace Amity taken her leave of us for where there is dissention among brethren there can bee no love nor amitie abiding As for Honesty she left us long agoe before these warres began because shee could not finde an honest man As for Religion she hath been so cuft and beaten by the Nonconformists and Separatists of these times that she hath absented her selfe from us for a time to see what the en of these things will be notwithstanding she hath a hope that the King and Parliament will not see her quite troden under feet and when it shall please God that the King and Parliament accord together then will shee fly unto them for succour Sobriety seeing swords drawne in Churches and Religion put to flight was ashamed to stay among such uncivill and unnaturall people But stay who comes here Our old friend Honesty alas poore wretch thou departedst in an ill time and art returned in a worse Honesty Brethren how fare you Patience What Our old friend Honesty what goe away from us in an ill time and returne againe in a worse alasse here is no imployment for thee I tell thee what since thou tookest thy leave of us last our kingdome hath been altogether by the eares Honesty I am sorry to heare it but where are all the rest of our brethren Me thinkes your number is very small What 's become of our old friend Peace the quietest wretch that ever was knowne Patience Alas our poore friend Peace was beaten out of the Kingdome by a malignant party they call him Discord a very Rascall one that hath set all the Kingdome together by the eares and there is no hope of her returne till the King and Parliament agree Honesty But where is Amity Patience I tell thee Honesty Amity tooke her leave of England and of us iust about the time our Queene tooke her leave of the King only she left some of her garments behinde her which in her absence the more is the pitty hath beene so stained in blood that all the water in the river of Thames is not ble to cleanse the staines of so deep a Die Honesty The more is the pitty But where is my kinde friend Charity Patience Oh Charity although she be not here with us yet she is one of our Court and one of our Counsell and although she was very fearfull to stay in the kingdome and was once minded to leave the Kingdome but that she feared that if she went the Kingdome could not stand she resolved then not onely to stay but to doe the best service shee could for the common good of the weale publicke and to this end got a Frock and turned Porter and carries in every day whole baskets of plate and money to maintaine a warre as I heare in defence of the Gospell Honesty Why are you in any feare or have you a iealousie of the King Patience No but of some that are about him as Papists and divers ill-affected persons that may perhaps divert the King from what he is or keep him from what hee should bee so that Charity takes not this Porters paines to maintaine a warre against the King but against them that keep his Maiesty from his Parliament Honesty That is one way but faire meanes is another way and a safer way to stay the effusion of blood for in such a war the father kils the son the sonne kils the father one friend kils another Ah poore England there is strange alterations since I was here last Patience Alas brother you say true but it can no way be helpt but by taking up Armes the more is the pitty all the faire meanes that could possibly be used have beene put in execution both by petition perswadement and what not and shall the Parliament suffer the Countrey to bee ruined and the City spoiled by those malignant persons of his side and not seeke to prevent it No the lawfulnesse of the cause proves the lawfulnesse of warre though of it selfe unlawfull and unnaturall Honesty But all this while where is Religion the pillar of the Church then Patience O poore soule almost distracted shee runnes from the Parliament to the King and from the King to the Parliament with these words Have pitty have pitty upon me my fiiend lest my glory be ecclipsed and my honour lye in the dust Honesty Why hath her old Patrons the Bishops failed her and given her three slips for a teaster Patience No honesty but she finding them dishonest unto her did petition unto the Honourable House of Parliament that they would be so pleased to turne them out of her service Honesty And have they done so Patience Yes truely in that they did very iustly and very honourably As for Canterbury he wou●ud have given all Lawde to the Pope and the Pope to the divell but the Parliament stopped his passage Honesty But there was a little great bird there called Wren Pray what is become of him I remember I once asked a service at his doore and after he heard my name was honesty he gave me a kick and bid me be packing and then I thought it was time to leave England when the pillars of the Church refused me Patience O that bird the Ron though the least of birds yet the highest in ambition I tell thee what Honesty Because he would have bin highest strived to sit upon the Roman Eagles back but the Parliament clipped his wings Honesty But hath Religion any hope of being established again to her former dignity by consent of king and Parliament Patience The King puts her in good comfort and doth protest as his Father before him was so is he Semper eadem one and the self same Defeador of the self same Faith and bids her be of good comfort For He is fully resolved to venture his estate life liberty and all before He will see her suffer the least iniury that may be The Parliament assures her of the same Honesty Then why is not the thing done since both parties are greed what is the seanon on 't Patience O Sir to tell you the the truth there are adverse parties of both sides which hinders the cause and keepes the work unfinished For first the strongest and most ablest Papists in the land are of the Kings side and keepes him from his Parliament secondly there are a many who out of a blinde zeale cry out no Bishops no this thing no that thing as if His Maiesty and and the Parliament understood not what they did without their directions so the Papists gives offence one way and these theot her way and what setled peace are we like to have till God turne these Achithophels wisdoms unto foolishnesse Honesty But pray how stands the City affected to Religion Patience With a full resolution Honestie Then I perceive this is a place of abiding for me if they entertaine Religion they will also entertaine Honesty with hat the whole Courrrose and all with one voyce cryed Lord put an end to these sinfull dayes and shaking hands said The world is at an end And so I end FINIS