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A45431 A cordial for the cavaliers Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1661 (1661) Wing H56A; ESTC R39505 2,092 1

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A CORDIAL FOR THE CAVALIERS Worthy and Deserving Gentlemen IN the Affairs and traverses of this life it is a tru Rule and 't is a comfortable one That He who dischargeth a good Conscience hath enough of his Own wherewith to reward Himself though he receive no compensation from any where else The World knowes and Envie it self doth acknowledge That in the late Confusions which were of that length that might have shaken the firmest Spirits in their Loyalty you have discharg'd a Good Conscience three wayes towards your Creator towards your Country and towards your King your Religion bound you to the One Nature to the Other and your Alleageance to to the Third And although Many of you have not yet receiv'd what you expected for the two last yet touching the first whereunto the other also conduce you are sure to have such a Reward one day that will not only be above all Merit but beyond all Imagination in the Kingdom of Eternitie Adde hereunto that I hold your Condition to be farr from being desperat but that you may receive Rewards at least som Consideration from the other Two viz from your King and Country For the present Parliament which represents your whole Country being compos'd of so many Wise and well-weighed Gentlemen whereof divers have been Co-sufferers with you will as it is well hoped out of a sense thereof have such reflections upon your Sufferings and Services both Active and Passive that they will enable his Majestie whom the Law stiles The Fountain of Honour and Bounty and whereof indeed no other Power should partake with Him I say it may well be hoped that this Parliament before their Recesse will put his Majestie in a Capacity and humbly Advise Him if not to Reward you yet to Relieve your present wants in such a measure that the Steed may not starve while the grasse growes You know well that the King hath been among us but a little more then the compasse of one year And his Grandfather Henry the Great of France was above seven years which is an Age in our Law before He could requite those who stuck to Him not much above twenty months in making Him Master of the Flowerdeluces You know the vast debts his Majestie hath payed both by Sea and Land which yet were not his own nor his Kingdoms but of that accursed usurping Commonwealth which exhausted more of the Publick Treasure then all the Kings of this Land since gold and silver were first coind in it You know He is so shortned that He hath not yet provided bread for All of his own House He is in such a condition that He cannot give his Royal Aunt that treatment which might be expected He hath not wherewith to go his Progresse Consider what vast Expences his Fleets at Sea his Lifeguard with other Garrisons do stand Him in As also what debts He drew upon Himself so many years beyond the Seas for his necessary subsistence c. Now whereas some object he hath rewarded Roundheads Truly I believe if a Catalogue were made of those upon whom he hath conferr'd Honour or Office since his Return there will be found above twenty Cavaliers for one of any other upon whom he hath set any marks of Favour 'T is true albeit he came not in by the Presbyterian yet he could not have come in without Him so peaceably Though some alledge that what the Presbyterian did was not as much out of a Love to the King as out of a Hatred he bore to the Independent who may be said to have us'd the Presbyterian as the Fox useth to deal with the Badger who having found out his Chamber in the Earth he so berayeth it that the Badger comes thither no more and so the Fox makes himself master of the hole Whereas som except against his Majesties lenity and Indulgence let Them know that Mercy is the inseparable Inmate of a magnanimous breast and that the noblest way of Revenge is to forget and scorn injuries I have read in Storie that one thing which made Lewis the twelf of France most famous was a Speech which drop'd from Him when being advis'd by som of his Counsell to punish such and such as were profess'd Enemies unto Him while He was Duke of Orleans He answer'd That the King of France doth not use to revenge the injuries of the Duke of Orleans No more with most humble submission be it spoken doth King Charles resent much the wrongs that were done to Charles Stuart Therefore Noble Cavaliers possess your Souls with patience We have a most Gracious King who is in the Meridian of his yeers and will live to revvard all in time In the confus'd medley of mundane affairs the Proverb often is verified Some have the happ but some stick still in the gapp Some have the fortune of preferment some not and 't will be so to the worlds end The Author hereof though during the many yeers that he was in prison for his loyaltie had 3. sworn over his head in an Office of Credit that hee shold have had de jure yet it nothing discomposeth him being more then in hope of a compensation some other vvay And as vve have a Gracious so have vve a Glorious King the most Glorious that ever vvore these three Crovvns For all the eyes of Christendom are fix'd upon Him vvith a kind of astonishment and admiration and not only of Christendom but of all the World besides for 't is vvritten that the Great Turk should say If he were to change his Religion he would fall to Worship the God of King Charles of England who hath done such miracles for him such miracles that no story can parallel And certainly God Almighty must needs love Him for whom he doth miracles vvhich that his Divine Majestie may continue to do are the incessant Prayers of 20 Iulii 1661. I. H. Sold by ●enry Marsh at the Princes Armes in Chancery-lane 1661.