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A88813 Annotations upon the late protestation: or, A true character of an affectionate minde to King and Parliament. T. L. 1642 (1642) Wing L67; Thomason E114_28; ESTC R22327 8,937 16

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Majesty to goe against his Parliament and they that have taken it let them consider a vow is upon them Apparantly the Marquesse of Harford and Lord Paulet hath broken down the ridges of their so serious Protestation in breaking of his Majesties peace in falling upon the Yeomanrie in Somerset-shire Now what more displeasing to God Almighty than breach of Covenants and of peace one to the other when they shall take the Lord to be a witnesse against them of their untruths one to the other then what a case are those Gentlemen in let them call themselves to remembrance that are with the King and the Marquesse o● Harford and the Lord Paulet who have broken the Covenant of peace before God and the people and them that doe intend the least thought of dishonour to the Kings Parliament have they not seriously taken the Protestation in which is included the peace of the Kingdome honour of Religion King and Parliament and the vow and protestation taken for the honour of the one is the same vow and protestation for the honour of the other and they that shall vow and yet in shew hold for the honour of the head and not the body dishonours the head by flatterie by endeavouring to set it off from the body by seditious and evil counsell and they that goe about any such thing doe greatly dishonour their Countrey and Kingdome whose own houses by sinne is laid wast so they would have others also For the Head hath called the body politique of the Kingdome together desiring the same to be joyn●● to its head for its help comfort and lifting of it up in his straits who was ready to fall and weary with holding up looking upon the Scots like Moses hands against the Amalekites that Aaron and Hur was faine to take the pains for him to hold them up and now the Aarons and the Hurs of our Kingdome being called upon the Mount I mean to the Parliament to consolate and lift up the head of our Soveraigne and so long as our Aarons and Hurs are upon the Mount and our Head and Soveraign lyeth his head upon their shoulders they by the blessing of God will bear him out of the bitter waters of Marah and sweet shall be his rest I will flatly forbid the bloud-thirsty Cavaliers say so much upon whom if his Majesty repose is to be feared it will be but a pillow of briars and thorns bespattred with bloud Now if there be any that shall be so ungodly that hath taken this Protestation for the honour of King and Parliament and yet shall performe but halfe his vow and half his worship and honour but to one instead of both who have indeed inseparably united themselves by their solemn vow and Protestation which no way they can reverse and seek to take away his Majesties favour and affection from his Aarons and Hurs and from reposing upon his own Parliament perswading of his Majesty to hearken to the dammee blades of the time the way of undoing his Kingdome they may goe and take Ananias and Saphira by the hand and it is thought some have tasted of the same suddain death they did And my Lord Marquesse it is conceived hath very hardly leapt this pit-fall and if Paulet scape and many more they have great cause to magnifie the mercy and patience of God towards such wretches And for Kings Solomon he saith It is an abomination for them not to hold and keepe Covenant vowes and Protestations And hath not Spaine made her selfe more hatefull to the Kingdome of England and other Nations nay to the very Heathen by the breach of her truce and Covenants then ever otherwise she would have done this verifies the truth of the word of the Lord which saith It is odious for Kings to lye And in the 5. of Eccles it is said It is better for a man not to vow than to vow and not to pay for God taketh not pleasure in such kinde of weake Protestations nor people who are rashly taken up with the mouth and no more think upon them with hearts but bids us pay that which we have vowed And I pray God we may all so doe and that the Lord may delight in us to doe us good And this by the way he is the true hearted man that is for the King and Parliament and all other are meerly insinuating and wicked flatterers aiming at a little deceitfull favour to accomplish their owne ends which at the best is bad enough as my Lord of Straffords was who with all his deep councell holding so much against the Common-wealth and endevoring to bring in an Arbitrary government contrary to the liberty of the Subject went to the grave without his head a wise man would think it a very faire example to keep out of Princes books and be not so vile as to advise Kings against their Subjects from whom they have under God their daily bread both King and ill flatterers too therefore the Common-wealth ought to be loved not hunted nor laid in ambush for And if the Kings blessed Majestie and his honourable Houses of Parliament did but seriously consider of their new Matrimoniall knot and Covenant in which they have so solemnly tyed themselves by their owne free vowes and joynt consents each to other and what faithfull Protests and Promises they have made one to the other and for the other which I beseech God of heaven they may doe and lay the Protestation both of them to their hearts and but weigh their actions one as well as the other and their words together it will surely cause no more falling out but a neerer uniting of Prince and people together in love when they shall looke and fresh call to remembrance what new Covenants the Head and the members have made for the honour and safetie one of another all which may be easily done in laying of the Protestation in print before them then fall out they cannot nay with leave they dare not A Protestation is taken and vowes are made on both sides but are they not cast behinde the backe and out of sight out of minde I remember the Minister said when the people were a taking the Protestation that they should each of them buy one of them and sticke them up in some places of their houses which I conceive from him was after the manner as God commanded the Israelites to doe with his Lawes to the end that they might be ever now and then a looking upon them that so they might better remember and think upon them in the field and in the house what a solemne vow promise and Protestation they have taken in the presence of Almightie God that thereby they might be the better put in minde to keepe them and when this shall be seriously pondered and considered of with Cain though he longs to have his fingers knockle deep in his brothers blood as some have had too too much alreadie could be able to separate Ruth
from Boaz Shem from Japhet the King from his faithfull Ones the Parliament the Royall Head from so amiable a bodie ecce signum their paines and money with the hazard of their dearest blood and sequestring of themselves from their deare wives and sweet Children to attaine and win and bring home their beloved King who is led away by the wild boares of the Forrest to the mountaines of Lebanon Shinar and Hermon where they keep him in the Lions den and among the mountaines of the Leopards Notwithstanding the bodie Politick hath wooed along time the Head to come in and to be joyned to the same that it may not be miscarryed nor lose out of it that rich glistering Diamond which yet praised be God stickes fast to it even Ireland I remember very well what a Scottish Minister said in Delph long since and I cannot hold it in That when a King or people refuse to heare Councell and advice and refuse the harkning one to the other to be advised one by the other it was he said a signe God had appointed some destruction there I beseech God it be not so now here among us for the King will neither heare nor be advised by his Councell nor his Councell will not heare nor hearken to the severall Declarations of the King but be at so great distance one from off the other as if they were afraid one of another and no body praised be God is about to hurt them if they would be but quiet between themselves and it is deplorable to think how that the King and Parliament hath vowed and sworn each to other in love and yet should so quickly in one twelve moneths forget as they seem to do their solemne tye one to another and in stead of being true and faithfull friends each to other begin to wrangle between themselves neere daggers drawing and about that too which should be for both their safeties against our enemies even the Militia God of heaven helpe us is the cause of our combustion and God forbid that that which the Lord hath appointed us for our preservation should be for our destruction Now the way to prevent the mischiefe is that all the Counties of England joyne as one man not crossing nor wrangling one with another but as you did all Petition for the Militia to the Parliament for the setting of your Counties in a posture of safety for the defence of his Majestie in these troublesome times and the Kingdome so you would beseech his Majesties favour not to be against nor goe about to crosse his Parliaments proceeding who studies night and day for his good and call in his Commission of Array which makes the disturbance and his mad Cavaliers which breake his Majesties peace and will begger his Majestie if he be not carefull of himselfe as his Majestie I hope will begger the Papists who lend him money to undoe himselfe and if they could would have him fight against the Protestants his loving Subjects which into my heart it cannot enter that so pious and so gracious a King will do ungracious actions too nay he cannot doe it belonging to God for the Child of God cannot sin and Paul in the Romanes saith he shall not for he there saith Sin shall not have dominion over him where now is then the simple Papists vaine hopes These things most humbly are studied not that the chiefe Cedar of this our Lebanon our gracious King and the other attendant lower Cedar knowes not what is made in Promises Vowes and Protestations each to the other and is past betweene themselves but this is humbly as Saint Peter in another case speakes to put high and low rich and poore in remembrance knowing we must shortly all leave this tabernacle as the Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed himselfe Let us therefore in the feare of the Lord cast away strife anger envie debate hatred bickering with jeering one at another and beare one anothers burden in love and so fulfill the Law of Christ and be joyfull Head and members all one in another and rejoyce together and I say rejoyce The truly well affected to the honour and happinesse both of his sacred Majestie the King and both Honourable Houses of Parliament humbly so prayeth T. L. FINIS