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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

is blindnesse without seeing honesty Now for as much as his Majesty and the Parliament hath tyed themselves each to other in an Abraham-like Covenant not to passe the limits of their own bounds in which they have set and tyed voluntarily their own selves and hath erected to all the world in print a Protestation to that purpose and both parties interchangeably by solemn vowes and promises in the presence of Almighty God hath vowed to stand fast and to stick in honour each to other till life shall depart and that they will hold the one to the other for better for worse for richer for poorer goods and all laid down in the Covenant of their promise one for the other for the maintenance of the true Protestant Religion and both their Honours safetie and Priviledges each of other And if these two new betrothed turtle Doves by so solemn a vow made between themselves shall peck one at another as they begin too much to doe God of his mercy help them and be impatient one with another and not keep their bills out of anothers eyes they will too much wrong themselves like man and wife who quickly and too often forget themselves in their matrimoniall Contract and by their long jangling at last part and lay the key under doores and run away So if the King and Parliament shall forget their so serious Protestation vow and profession one truly taken for and in the behalf of the other in declaration of the tendernesse of honour and true affection each to other and now not bearing one with another in love nor submit in this pleasant knot of agreement in mind each with the other like Abraham and Lot this were deplorable saith the Divine and wonderfull Here the Vncle for quietnesse sake submits his honour in his hoary hairy head to his greene headed Nephew with a motion that there may be no falling out because said he we are Brethren So his Majestie and his Honourable Houses of Parliament what an easie matter were it for these two Turtle Doves sympathizing in affection say but so much as Abraham and Lot did one to the other and why because by faith surely Brethren in Christ all then would be ended if but this spirit of humilitie were in them both There was a very low submitting spirit betweene the Scots and us and shall not there be the like between his Majesty and his neerest people will his Majesty be worse to his owne and best loving people than the Scots And if we shall fall out upon earth will not the Father in Heaven be angry who hath sent his Gospel of peace amongst us teaching of us that if possible we should have peace with all men will it not then displease the Lord that we have learned no more Religion nor be no more endued with faith and patience but goe together to shed the bloud one of another to the shame of our Nation and hissing to other Kingdomes let it not be told in Gath nor published in Ashkelon These beginnings of warre on neither side are fruits of the Spirit it may be thought for the fruits of the Spirit are love patience meeknesse forgiving one another forbearing one with another And let it be remembred what Abner said to Joab shall the sword devoure for ever how long will it be ere thou call back the people from following of their Brethren knowest thou not that it will be bitternesse in the end so it is wished by the people of the Lord that bloud touch not bloud And Sir Benjamen Ruddyards speech is excellent to this purpose and worthy of note the Parliament undoubtedly will not doe amisse to hearken to those grave lines and worthy speech of his H●s first Speech was for Religion and the setling of the Church of God in the very first place of all but it is not I thinke a man may be bold to say followed Now his second Speech is against shedding of bloud the defiling of the Land To have a whole Land desiled with blood a most wonderfull and deplorable thing and Christians bloud is of a deepe dye were it amisse then if green heads would take gravitie along with them in all their actions who most resemble the Image of their maker and hoary hairs is a crown of glory being found in the way of righteousnesse and to heare a grave old religious and wise Gentleman speak and giving advice and instruction it is as it were if seriously considered God Almighty himself in a Crown of glory giving good counsell to the younger Was it not the Lord himselfe spake with the people of Israel in the mouth of Moses and was it not the Lord in Joseph spake unto his Brethren concerning his bones and was it not the Lord in Solomon which spake unto the people concerning the building of a house to his name and certainly it is the Lord that speaks from the mouth of wise and grave righteous men to the yonger sort to learne wisedome And if a Crowne of glory shall not be heard speak who can one better hear Green heads desire to be heard some for their owne ends and some for their owne applause in the world but an auncient grave man speaking questionlesse looks not either for favour or affection in the right hand or on the left but strait forward because he is going forward to God Almighty to receive his pay for the pains of his labour whose works shall follow him And so much for the hearing of gravitie Now for that we have taken a Protestation every one ought seriously to consider the burden of a vow is upon us and that vow too in which is included that we should endeavour and study the peace of the three Kingdomes and yet notwithstanding now so solemne Protestation in the sight of God and man touching amitie and peace in this our Kingdome yet there is a thousand times more rumours of wars now then before our Protestation What were we like Peter strong in the faith when we made this Protestation and now when we should stick close to it be weak like Peter not remembring we have made a Covenant with the Lord not onely to hate Idolatry and to decline from it as much as in us lyeth but also includes the undertakers thereof every one that he should study and labour for peace so much as in every one of us lyeth and seriously consider of our Protestation and be ever and alwayes now and then looking upon it and look up unto our Saviour Christ as he lookt back upon Peter and pray to him that we may keep our resolution And it is very good for the Cavaliers about the King seriously to consider of it and so to doe or otherwise any that shall attempt his Majesty to take up armes against his Parliament and aske themselves if they have not taken the Protestation if not it were good they did and not divide themselves against the body of the Kingdome by flattering of his