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A letter of vnity tending, generally to a peace, especially to that betweene Presbyterian Independent opinion. Written July 12. 1648
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Wing W109; Thomason E437_17; ESTC R204709
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obtained by your freinds assistance should enflame ye into discord about tearms meerly notionall at least not universally received and approved because controverted as yet and strongly * By the Vniversity of Oxford at a Convocation held there Iune 1. 1647. objected against by Others of a contrary Diet to both the Presbyterian and Jndependent Tearmes also scarce understood not heard of by the most part of the People who rather then they will undergoe the charge and hardship of a continued or second Warre about opinions unknowne about Words unheard of except in the worst sence of Factious Schismaticall rending from the ancient and received forme of Government will choose rather to submit to the mercy of a former or latter Enemy and to be enslaved by enduring an Iron yoke then to be consumed by a lasting Warre If concerning these new unheard of Tenents which may be good and profitabl◠when reteyned yet disturbing by reason of their Novity Ye shall embroile your selves your Parliament and Army in a second Warre haying so victoriously sped by your mutuall assisting one another in the first and consequently loose what ye have gained ye cannot but foresee the event The Quarrell seemes to be tripartite between the Presbyterian Jndependent and the Kings party you wilnot find it so but two Parties to joyn against a third although being fienely carried it may otherwise outwardly appear And those two which in their Bodies are most contiguous each to other will sooner unite in their accord to the subduing of the third then having gained the power by degrees extirpate the other also and set up what they please themselves So having prevailed through your dividings will by the hard chance of your example better manage their Victory to keep it then Ye did when Ye prevailed which We the standers by are most sensible of who shall be scorned and trampled on in your sufferings occasioned by your contention The division was at first betwixt the King's Party and the Parliament how occasioned how prosecuted most men know together what hath bin the progresse what the successe To breviate it in one word setting aside all emergent and collaterall Disputings and Debates all Changes Chances and Innovations which have fallen out since the beginning of this VVarre and are no proper effects thereof The King having suffered much wrong to be done by his subordinate Ministers of Justice to his Free-born Subjects which was not for 1.2 or 3. years onlie done but for many and untill a Parliament was called and no power in being to emulate and match the Kings save the Court of Parliament of Lord and Commons assembled for vindicating such wrongs as for redresse of greivances in the Common-wealth * See the Statute 36. Edw. 3. cap. 10. the proper end of instituting and ordaining a Parl. at the first Those Ministers of Justice were rescued by Armes and a strong hand from the hand of Justice To which by the way the Kings freinds recriminatorily Object That the Parliament hath done the like and that therefore each Power the Kings and the Parliaments are guilty of iniustice of Oppression c. So the Parliament is ingaged in a Warre as ye are now enforced to secure and maintaine themselves their freinds succeeding Parliaments and the Lawes the Sinews of all peace and in that they have as yet prevailed wrestling with many difficulties and finding yet reluctancy much repining and envy at their proceedings they imprison impose an fine their Adversaries yea they lay Contributions and heavy Taxes on their Freinds amongst other the Subjects of this Kingdome untill their intended work for a safe and lasting Peace be finished Neverthelesse it is not to be thought that they offer this simpliciter per se and with a purpose to continue in so doing but per accidens being thereunto necessitated for the maintenance of their power for defence of themselves and their Adherents Hence was die first occasion the issue of these six yeers War and will be the fuell of a New fire kindling through your discords If not timely prevented If the Parliament upon their Victory shall subdivide again rending into new Opinions and they so earnestly maintained by each others Partisans as that betwixt the K. the Parl. it cannot be but that the more weake and vanquished Party of those two the Presbyterian and Independent would rather adhere and apply themselves to their first Adversary to joyn with him for their assistance then to be overcom by their last in this new subdivision If you please to forecast what may probably be the Event how neerly ye are linked in a mutual botherhood with another Nation what hath bin the end of your mutuall League the preservation and maintenance of the Peace of both Kingdoms consequently of the third For this rent rests not with us alone 〈◊〉 of English Nation it concernes our united Freinds who have had an hand in setling the Presbyterian Government not that they contend happily to have it immediatly to begin before the Warre is ended and in a rigid unalterable way to inure or to endure for ever Another Parliament may alter and abrogate it as this Parliament hath the Episcopall their Articles Manifestoes and Declarations do evidence no such conceipt of power or primacy over us or our Parliaments as to make any Government of their devising perpetuall amongst us no more then any of our devising perpetuall as unto them We are governed by distinct and different Lawes from them Neither is the Union betwixt Us and Them any thing the lesse because of our severall Formes of Governement in Church and Common-wealth but during the time of these combustions and They in part foreseeing the eminency of our troubles to joyn with and assist us in the removing of them Now to forsake Them or the Leagve entred into by Us and Them one Article wher of is the maintenance of the Presbyterian or such a like forme of Government yet with an expresse limitation how with a tacite sense when where to bid battaile both to them and to your solemne Vow Vnlesse yee shall be evinced by sufficient Arguments to the contrary as where strength of Reason inevitable necessity your endeavours for the maintenance of a firme and well-grounded Peace still encountred by a Malignant and adverse Party who can yet insinuate their desire of and affections unto such a Peace to be the cause of your deserting it For such respects and interests may in any impartiall and un-byassed Judgement dispence with and make voide your tie or Covenant subject unto greater and more obliging Interests even in the covenanters eye unlesse they be seasoned with much prejudice Withall consider Sir the prowesse valour and successe of your Army the faithfullnesse of your General how victoriously he hath sped in his designes and enterprises of reducing the strong holds and fortresses held in opposition unto ye consider withall his Armys strength and power in case they become your Enemies who have