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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51058	A moderate and most proper reply to a declaration, printed and published under His Maiesties name, December 8 intended against an ordinance of Parliament for assessing, but indeed animating and encouraging the malignants, and delinquents, in their violent courses, for the maintenance of themselves, and their malignant army.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2320A; ESTC R41506	9,253	8

Neither hath the Lord Major with a faction told the houses that that they will have no Accomodation or peace but with the Sheriffs and Aldermen hath advanc'd and assisted a Petition to His Majesty for peace True it is they desire a sound and durable peace accompanyd with Truth and piety neither can they be much blam'd if they feare pretences of peace that may cover such designes of mischiefe and massacry as lately appeared at Branford But it seemes the notes were taken in short hand which were sent to this Writer concerning Sir Sidney Mountague for if the story had been written in words at length and the whole matter declared it might have been known That Sir Sidney Mountague besides refusing the Oath if it must be so called of Association drew forth a Declaration and vouched the authority of it for calling them Traytors that had taken the same And let these men judge whether it were any part of the vertue of patience that the house which had entred entred that Association should indure the word Traytor to be cast upon the face of it or whether it were not a more commeudable vertue of curtesy to dismisse and separate a person of that opinion from the dangerous and infectious society of Traytors And now follow some mistaken figures of rhetorick which should run on this manner These are the men that have sent to the states to treate with them that they permit not Souldiers and Armes to come from their provinces to make and maintain War against the Parliament of England These are the men that have sent into Scotland where Murrey is labouring to kindle a fire to consume this Nation to cast water upon that fire and withall to intice our Brethren of Scotland now the papists are up in Armes to seek the peace of this Kingdom and the safety of Religion agreeable to the Act of pacification And not only for that Act but for their own security it being an unquestionable Truth That if Ireland be the breakfast of the papists and England their Dinner Scotland is likely to be their supper In a word these are they that have made a preserving Ordinance to save the Parliament Religion Lawes and Liberty which were in danger to be devoured by illegall Commissions of Array as illegall Sheriffs Armies of papists and other ill-affected persons But the words which follow that an Army was first raysed by the Parliament are so manifestly untrue that it is strange how they could leave of the lest remnant of Conscience to utter-them and of loyalty to utter them under His Majesties Name It is possible they may have heard of a Bible and therein of one David that like the Parliament was accused of rebelling against the King and these were hunted like a Partridge But that which I would say to them is according to the speech of that David to Abner yee are worthy to dy because yee have not kept the King neither his life nor honour The life of the King hath been exposed to danger by bringing him into the Battell and his honour by making his Name a cover to notorious falsities For were not the beginnings of an Army raysed in Yorke * and did not a papist there come forth and say let the sword try it before the Parliament either made Votes That the King seduced by evill Counsell intended a War against the Parliament which Votes were also before the beginning of the Army of the Earle of Essex And yet if the Parliament had raysed Forces that may beare the name of an Army to bring Delinquents to Justice who can lay any blame upon the Parliament or who can thence gather a reason why the King may justly rayse an Army against the Parliament Yet is the raysing of this Army for defence of the Parliament or of the power and authority of it over delinquents more then once in the last leafe termed a Rebellion To this I will fetch an answer out of Bodin Bodin having written much in favour of Kings though degenerated into Tyrants and so much that he confesseth he was tax'd for it yet at last lights on this story and thereupon gave his sentence The Earle of Flanders befieged his subjects in Gant with an Army of fourty thousand men The Army within the City was but five thousand Upon this disadvantage they humbly sued for pardon The Earle answered them they must come forth with halters about their neckes and then he would tell them his mind Hereupon not having any assuraude of mercy they issued forth and defeated his great Army with a litle one and the Earle was forced for his own safty to hide himselfe under the Bed of a poore woman who sent him forth in a shape far below his degree But hereupon this Author inferres Then did it appeare That there is nothing morevaliant then a subject brought to despaire nor any war more just then that which is necessary I only adde if the Parliaments War be necessary and a necessary War is just certainly a just War cannot justly be called a Rebellion FINIS * And the Earle of New-Castle too * Though it is constantly affirmed that the word plundeting is not in the warrant See the last Declaration * Did not Sir Francis Wortley draw his sword there and cry for the King for the King Bodin de Rep. lib. 3.