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A80408	Redintegratio amoris, or A union of hearts, between the Kings most excellent Majesty, the Right Honorable the Lords and Commons in Parliament, His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, and the Army under his command; the Assembly, and every honest man that desires a sound and durable peace, accompanied with speedy justice and piety. By way of respective apologies, so far as Scripture and reason may be judges. / By John Cook of Grayes-Inne, Barrester.	Cook, John, d. 1660.	1647 (1647)	Wing C6026; Thomason E404_29; ESTC R201862	78,816	92

their flesh the Papists raw flesh without bread some Priests would pronounce the words with a very loud voice thinking thereby to bring Christ the sooner from Heaven The people are angry with the Priest and say it is an incivility to invite a man to a Dinner and not make him drink others hold that no Article of faith can be contrary to a mans senses The Lord knowes that I write not this out of any Irreverence to the blessed Sacrament Dominicani Daem nic●ni Franciscani Fraudiscani Carmelitani Carnalitani Mendicantes Manducantes Cervi Servi but to shew that the Papists have more differences among themselves then the Protestants for he that will but read Mounseiur St. Aldegonds Table of d fferences between the Papists shall finde that there are above 500. differences between them about the point of Transubstantiation which Trent makes an Article of their faith and they differ in above 20. severall points among themselves the Iesuites contending for the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary The Dominicans tooth and naile opposing it every order of Monkes and Fryars studying to advance themselves and commend their own Saint and Patron and debase others in comparison so as if there should bee as many subdivisions in every point wherein they are divided as about Transubstantiation which I think is no hard matter to make good I might conclude that there are 10000. differences among the Papists and yet they all agree cordially against the Protestants and live as lovingly as if they were universally of one opinion and in Luthers time haveing a generall meeting for the reconciliation of all these differences one of their Bishops subtile and politique fearing that Luthers Arguments would take w th the People to make the Masse an arrant strumpit desires to make one objection for his satisfaction against it the which was that either Christ held in his hand bread or his body or the accidents of bread or something else or nothing if bread then the word this must be taken for this bread and that would be repugnant if his body it had been absurd to say my body is my body and they say it is no body till after the prolation of the words if the accidents then the Transubstantiation was before the words and to break accidents is not to break bread if any thing else what was it if nothing the Scripture is false for hee took and to say that the word this demonstrates nothing as present but what shall be this is to make our Saviour a Iugler to deceive their senses concerning the Virgins conception without sin he was likewise pusled because the Scripture saies all have sinned but only Christ and how then do they keep a Holyday for the Virgins Conception for no day may be kept holy for an unholy thing Others said it was but tolerated not approved but saies the Bishop brethren you see these are rationall doubts and your jarring will be the Lutherans uniting therefore Pray since wee cannot all agree in opinion least our differences should advantage the common Enemy let us live in love and banish all strife and contention and I doe here by Authority from the Apostolique See decree an Amnestia and Oblivion of all differences that have sprung up amongst any Papists concerning variety and d●fferences in judgement the hearkning to which advice as some Polititians observe An Act that all that differ in opinion shall li●e lovingly non obstante was a meanes to continue the greatest part of Germany in the Romish Religion I remember that at Paris going to see the Cardinalls Library which was kept by Doctor Smith our Countryman a subtile man and a great Schollar Bishop of Chalcedon alias terra incognita he was very earnest with me to reconcile my selfe into the bosome of the Roman Church abusing that Scripture that the Nation which did not serve her should bee destroyed and so must England I told him that mysticall Babylon must bee destroyed and he speaking something uncivily of England saying he was persecuted for his service done to his honoured Mistris and deare Mother the Church of Rome I made bold to tell his Lordship that he Courted a foule Mistris not because shee was foule but because shee was in the darke and in the dark Pope Ioane is as good as my Lady Amongst other discourse he told mee that the Protestants in England would destroy themselves and intreating his reason said he do not you see how they persecute the Puritans in England and Scotland and at Geneva And in the French Church Master Melletier Amarant for smal differences in opinion who being men more singular for zeale then the rest are disgraced whereas in our Church those which are most zealous are most honoured and the humility and austerity of the Capuchines and Cordeliers helpe to make amends for the luxuriance of other orders I wish every understanding man would but ponder this Argument can that Religion subsist and flourish where the most strict and powerfull professors of it are the objects of malice and opprest for their Consciences Wee allow saies he a greater latitude of opinions in the Church of Rome notwithstanding the inquisition then your Bishops will do in England I told his Titulary Lordship that is was the interest of England to bee as zealous for the Protestant Religion as the Spaniard was for the Pop●sh The purity of the Gospell and the free exercise and practice in the power of it is now the interest of this Kingdom and there is no such way under Heaven to make this Kingdom suddenly happy as for all godly men though of different judgments to unite cordially together against the common Enemy I think no man will say but that the Independants are as great Adversaries to Popery as any others are in this Kingdome But now sayes the Reader I perceive you are for Liberty of Conscience that Babell of confusion and monstrous Chymera as men call it Stay good friend if you be a spirituall man and a new creature that hast found any mercy from heaven to thy poore soule I shall speak a few words with you about this businesse for spirituall arguments to a dead heart are but as warm water to a dead man for a carnall man to argue of spirituall priviledges is for a man to take out a hot Iron with his fingers Conscience is a Diamond and only wrought upon by the dust of a Diamond men that have no Conscience know not what it is The best argument that hath bin brought against the Congregationall way is that which the Papists urge against Christs Priestly office in point of satisfaction that it is more lyable to Abuses and Heresies then the way of Classes so sayes Aquinas if good works do not merit who wil do any good works the prudentiall way certainly to move men to doe good works is to tell them that they merit by so doing but look at the Institution what is the will of Christ I doe

the use of the Directory hee would not think it fit that his MAJESTY should have the liberty of his Conscience he sayd wee had Covenanted against it to take it away as a branch of Popery I told him the speciall point of popery to be rooted out is all domineering and tyrannizing over the conscience Are wee not all the servants of God why should wee Lord it one over another in matters of conscience but hee replyed that we were to bring all to the neerest Uniformity I answered that neerest was not the same Many ships sayl neer a Rock that come not to it the Common Prayer Book and Directory are very neer of kin I know no reason why they may not bear with one another if his Majesty and the Parliament please I remember being at Sedan a passage not unworty to be inserted the Duke of Bullun Prince of Sedan whose Ancestors and himselfe had been speciall friends to the French Protestants for the love of a beautifull Romish Lady changed his Religion and turned papist The Town being all Protestants as good reason they had accordingly opposed it He entreated them that he might be married by a priest in the Towne they refused it The Duke left his Mother the good old Madam in the Castle went away and was married return'd with his Lady but the Inhabitants shut the gates against him and so hee went to one of his Summer houses two leagues from the Town and there were severall Treaties between him and his Subjects about his Re-admittance He alledging that since he and his Ancestors had been the procurers of their Liberties why should they envy him the liberty of his conscience they sayd He was a Star faln from Heaven and it would be dangerous for them to be under his command An Englishman discoursing with Molinaus and Rambursius two learned Ministers about it assumed by way of argument that as that case stood with all its circumstances for them to deny him the exercise of his conscience who had purchased their Liberties was most unjust in it selfe and would be prejudiciall to other Protestants by incouraging Catholike Princes against them and might bring mischief upon their own heads at last he had liberty to come into the Town the Lady Duchess his wife and Masse was sayd in the Castle allowing her two priests and no more but not long since the French King made advantage of it against them that they denyed liberty to their naturall Prince and they are now I feare as the Rochilers are and no freer But this I drive at Rigid Presbytery is but yet a Probationer if it should be setled in this Kingdom● in the height and power of it it would undoubtedly cost ten times more bloud to remove it then ever it hath done to abolish Episcopacy I speak of a Rigid strict Presbytery that make their judgement as the Kings Royall Standard to weigh and measure all opinions by them to walk by their rule which will admit of no Exceptions if you would know what such a Presbyter is you may take it thus A Rigid Presbyter is he that is against every man and every man against him he will endure no man in the Kingdom but those that are of his opinion in omnibus and therefore no man in the Kingdome hath reason to endure him I assure you that that grievous Disease called the Sudor Anglicus the Sweating Sicknesse which lasted about forty years in this Kingdome that swept away so many that Harvest could not be Inned in many places was not so dangerous to this Kingdome as this Rigid Presbytery if it should grow inveterate there is a Prophesie in Scotland It began with Knoxs and must end with knocks my prayer is that the Rulers in that Kingdom would have a more favourable regard to tender Consciences and give free liberty to Gods people in their Native Kingdome There are many Scots banished into Holland and other places for matter of Conscience whom I verily believe to be precious Christians some of them told mee that their parents had been principall Instruments in the Reformation of Religion in that Kingdom and therefore took it unkindly that they should be exiled for some differences in opinions no way fundamentall or destructive of State-policy for why in the name of God should it any more disturbe the peace of the Kingdom to permit Christians to pray together in a private Chamber then for others to meet there about their ordinary businesse I desire deerly to be conceived when I use the word Presbytery the Lord knows my heart I use it onely for distinction sake not for reproach I do not oppose nor speak against a moderate Presbyter but look upon it as an excellent way to restrain vice and for my own part I like it for that which many fear it Namely it will be a means to prevent many frivolous quarrels and contentious Law-suits Certainly there is an externall beauty in that Government in Scotland Geneva the French Congregations but truly the power of Godliness is seen but little amongst them I have known in a Presbyterian Ministers house that there hath bin no prayer nor Family dutyes performed twice in a yeare and Examination before the Sacrament counted superfluous and if any thing have been questioned no other answer but the Puritans in England will be under no Order nor Government Is it not fit that Gods people for whose sake the World continues should have a being in the World if they can mayntain it nor do I say any thing against moderate Presbyters I believe there are many godly men of the Presbyterian judgment though not as they are Presbyters Saint Peter opposed Christ in the worke of redemption for which our Saviour sayd unto him Get thee behind me Satan and the devout women opposed the Apostles in the planting of the Gospel Amaziah and Jehosaphat good Kings of Judah yet took not away the high places Hezekiah did and Josiah yet more and more all godly men are not equally enlightned Were there not some godly Conformists think you in the Bishops time that opposed Nonconformists He that is the strictest Presbyter now possibly seven yeares since was for Bishops and seven yeares hence if God give repentance for keeping his Son Christ out of his throne may be an Independent But this is the misery that those men which are the most zealous promoters of the Rigid Presbyterian way are Politicians whose greatest Religion is to be of no Religion at all that play their game so cunningly that the godly Presbyterians not discerning their ambitious aymes which is to make themselves Grandees in Church and State joyne and concur with them as I have told you what the Rigid Presbyter is so I shall expresse whom I mean by the godly Presbyter I am well acquainted with many of them and I verily believe in my conscience that hee is such a one who really intends the glory of God and the welfare of this Kingdom and

husht and subdued I think no History can be produced that ever any good Magistrates were subdued by force for God sits upon the Bench with them but many times Kings and Governours have refused to do justice till the people have enforced them Hitherto the Army hath had the justice of Heaven and so long as they intreat in the Kingdoms behalf things Honourable and safe for the Parliament to grant their Continuance is the best assurance that our Worthyes in Parliament can desire For what great King or Court but receives honour by a faithfull and victorious Army who will exceedingly facilitate the work and prepare the way for our Parliamentary Worthyes as John the Baptist did for our blessed Saviour I hope I have satisfied every rationall man that it is not possible in a prudentiall consideration that without the intervention and intercession of this Army this Parliament as things stand can never be able to settle the publike Liberties and happinesse of this Kingdom for who sees not what a spirit of malignity there is st●ll working in this Kingdom Is all the malignant bloud drawn out or dryed up Did never Serpents re-assume their poyson upon occasion Are not the Jesuites negotiating a reconc●lement between the Catholike Princes hoping to eat up Holland at a breakfast England and Scotland for their dinner and all other Protestants at supper and all to erect a universall monarchy and what 's their pretence Mark it I beseech you to avoyd disorder and confusion for it can never be well s●y they till one man have the sole power over souls and another over bodies and estates I am confident that before Rome's fall there will be a generall Warre between Protestants and Papists without any other ground of the quarrell Is it not the extremity of madnesse for Protestants to fall out to maintain Antichrists cause who is our sworne enemy How lovingly doe Protestants and Papists associate in France Poland c The French Ministers preach that the French King Queen and all are damned unlesse they forsake their Idolatry the Priests quite contrary that not a Hugonet can be saved in the name of God what ails us cannot we like bees hive into one body politique because we differ in opinion yet are of the same Religion shall small matters disjoyne them whom one God one Lord one Faith one Spirit and one common cause bonds of such great strength and force have linked together Oh yee learned Presbyterians such of you as are like dead flies in the ointment of our good names to make us unsavoury to our No●le Parliament which yet I trust yee shall never be able to doe Will yee not take warning by the Bishops Did not they tell the King that the w●y to prev●nt errours was to suppresse the Puritans The Rams of the flock are demolished will not you tremble I tell you that the way to make us all of one minde in the things of God is to grant liberty to all in things not fundamentall possibly there are some by whom the way of truth is scandalized wee may thank the Bishops and their Successours for it let the waters alone and they passe away quietly but stop the Current and throw in stones and the waters rage An Englishman scorns to have his Religion cudgelled out of him but deale with him in the spirit of Christ shew him where his feet slide you take his judgement and affections prisoners If the Bishops had not prest Subscriptions and Conformity to the Statute of 13 Eliz. they might have been longer lived for any thing I know It grieves me that you should take such pains to destroy your selves but come there is no falling from grace true repentance is half innocent tell our Parliament Worthyes that onely a liberty to tender consciences can break the heart-strings of popery t●at never any but Antichrist denyed a freedome of conscience to people of our quality and profession who desire it no longer then we are Protestants and live in all dutifull Conformity to the Civill Government tell them that Jesus Christ will never prosper those that persecute such as are humble suitors in the behalf of his Kingdom Doe yee think he will tell them that the free exercise of the Gospel for Doctrine Discipline is of so harmlesse and peaceable a nature and carriage so far from wronging any Magistrate in Sovereignty and Power that the Persi●ns and the Turks admit it The Roman Emperours in policy gave leave to build Temples Politike Charles the fifth sayd There was no other way to peace but by a liberty for all Protestants so Maximilian that succeeded him H. 3. of France Ah saith Philip the second when he was dying If I were to live again my first thing should be to grant liberty to Protestants Ah sayes the Emperour How gladly would I grant a liberty of conscience if that would now serve the turn and that would have served at first I beseech you marke me when the King of Sweden entered Germany he propounded nothing but what was most just liberty for Protestants banishment of Jesuites restitution to the Palatinate his cosen Mechelburg and some other oppressed Princes with the Emperour would not grant but being victorious nothing would content him then but to be declared King of the Romans and so heire apparent of the Empire Be wise in time A moderate meet liberty will not satisfie every man and you may proceed in your own way if hereafter you suffer in point of Tithes you may thank your selves you know whose pride and covetousness hath brought their honour into the dust Your ridged Presbytery is no more Jure Divino then Episcopacy was you may as well call Divinity damnation Doe not think that this Kingdom will suffer you to be Judges in your own Cases Your Ipse Dixit will not do it your Votes cannot make Hereticks nor Schismaticks men are wiser in the South then far North the Sun cleers the judgement to that Son of Righteousness I commend you desiring to walke with you in love and peace I shall conclude with a request to the Army you precious souls as ye have been presidents to others for honesty and justice so be a president to your selves what to continue continue just be content with what you can get and take not the value of a pin from any man but in case of necessity 't is fit that you who have saved the Kingdome should not starve injustice is a very great sin the want of morality excludes from Heaven His Majesty was wont to say that there were none in arms but Independents Anabaptists and Brownists who would destroy all Laws and Religion the eyes of all the World are upon you you know best why you tooke up arms was it not for Laws and Liberties stand fast in the Lord and in the power of his might be true to your first principles as ye are Englishmen as ye are Souldiers and as ye are Christians treason is the betraying