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A frivolous paper, in form of a petition framed & composed by a disaffected party in this city of London, intended by them to be presented to the honorable House of Commons : with certain considerations propounded by way of advertisement and caution unto those who through unadvisadnesse [sic] are apt to subscribe the same / by a Well-willer to peace and truth.
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Well-willer to peace and truth.
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1642
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Wing F2231; ESTC R42320
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A Frivolous Paper In Form of a PETITION Framed composed by a Disaffected Party in this City of LONDON intended by them to be presented to the Honorable House of COMMONS With certain CONSIDERATIONS Propounded by way of Advertisement and Caution unto those who through unadvisadnesse are apt to subscribe the same By a Well-willer to PEACE and TRUTH LONDON Printed for W Ley and F. I 1642. A Copy of The Frivolous Paper before mentioned THat the present sense of our miseries Apprehesions of invetible ruine both of Church and Common-wealth maketh us to become humble Suiters to this honourable Assembly the likeliest means under God for our reliefe to consider our distressed state and to provide a speedy remedy for our present and future evils Earnestly desiring you to weigh the Care and Judgement of our Predecessors who by a known Law settled and preserved our Protestant Religion our Liberties and properties with the right understanding between King and Subjects which produced plenty and peace in our streets And to reflect with serious thoughts upon our present Distempers violating Religion by Papists and Sectaries ingaging our Nation in a Civill bloody and destructive Warre invading our laws and liberties indangering all our lives and utter disabling us to relieve our distressed Brethren in Ireland We beseech you likewise to consider the effect of a countinued Warre as the destruction of Christians the unnaturall effusion of blood Father against son Brothers by Brothers friends by friends slain then a Famine and sicknesse the followers of a Civill War making way for a generall confusion and Invasion by a forreign Nation while our Treasure is exhausted our Trade lost and the Kingdome dispeopled These things weighed and inlarged by your Wisdomes we doubt not wil be as strong motives in you to labour as in us to desire a speedy peace and happy Accommodation Wherefore we humbly crave that not lending an ear to any Fomenters of the present Warre under what pretence soever nor remembring ought that may increase Jealousies or continuall Divisions betweene His Majesty and his Houses of Parliament you will speedily tender His Majesty according to his Royall Intimations such Propositions for Accommodation as he may with Honour and safety to the whole Kingdome accept For effecting whereof we shall be ready to assist you with the best and utmost of our abilities and whilst you endeavour Peace we shall send up our Prayers to Heaven for the blessing of Peace upon you and all that desire it Certaine Considerations upon the Prefixed Petition AS God and his Church never wanted Enemies so the Devill and Antichrist never wanted friends for the promotion of prophannesse and Idolatry in all places it is hard to say whether are more the Enemies of truth and peace with God or friends of error and peace with the Devill men whom the Apostle calls sensuall fleshly and Divelish lovers of pleasures more then Lovers of God who can see no further then this life fearing more the terrors of man then of the Almighty chuse rather peace with man and wrath with God then the wrath of man and peace with God the truth of all which doth appeare by a Petition now in agitation concerning which I have gathered some plaine and undeniable observations presenting them by way of caution unto others from these particulars viz. 1. The chiefe Composers Of this Petition 2. The Malignant nature Of this Petition 3. The most probable Consequences Reasons Aimes Of this Petition First consider whether the chief sticklers and fomenters therof are not notoriously known to be Pattentees Proctors Delinquents Malignants who either have not at all or any of them in any considerable measure according to their Estates assisted the common cause of the Kingdom against the common enemy thereof whose pretences though they are for Religion and Law and the aid of poore Ireland yet they are men Popish Athiesticall and prophane in point of Religion some whereof and they not of the lowest sort have most prophanely and blasphemously in the presence of those who being desired denied to subscribe to a Petition for peace without truth cursed truth saying a pox on truth give us peace truth will follow and let us have peace and the Devill take truth c. and as for the Law consider whether many of them have not gotten their Estates by Pattents a lawlesse occupation and as for bleeding Ireland let their Receipts shew what they have done for its recovery which will amount to the same nothing as the summe which they have disbursed for distracted England they are mutinous and tumultuous professing in the presence of many that if this Petition died they will die with it and if one suffer all will suffer with such like mutinous expressions These are the parties Secondly consider the nature of this Petition and see if yee finde it not intolerably saucy and peremptory against the Parliament in many particulars First in taxing closely but cleerly this present Parliament with inconsideration of the known Laws of the Land as if either they were ignorant thereof or impotent thereby as not able to repeale or alter the same being made by themselves in their predecessors having power to nul the same at their pleasure Secondly consider whether they do not covertly but unavoidably tax this present Parliament either with indiscretion in that they presume to be wiser then their predecessors and therefore desire them to weigh the care and judgment of our predecessors who by a known Law setled and preserved our Protestant Religion and Property c. or else closely implying that this present Parliament accuseth former Parliaments of folly and unadvisednesse in that they have confirmed those things that must now be reversed either whereof is most unsufferable arrogancy and Nationall injury Thirdly consider whether they do not tax this present Parliament with their tendring unto his Majesty such Propositions hitherto which he may notwith his honour and safety of the Kingdome accept and therefore they desire that they would speedily tender unto his Majesty according to his regall intimations such Propositions for Accommodation as He may with honour and safety to the whole Kingdome accept Whereas it is most evidently known that many Propositions have been tendred and not one either to the dishonour of the King whose greatest honour would be to govern his Kingdome by the advise of his great Councell and faithfull Parliament and not by the Malignant Counsells of Papists and Traytors and out-lawed Delinquents neither hath there bin one Proposition tendred which doth not most uberously carry along with it the safety and future prosperity of this Kingdome Fourthly consider whether the Malignity of this petition doth not appeare in many phrases and expressions scattered up and downe therein as if it were the birth of the same womb which hath lately been very fruitfull in many printed and scandalous Pamphlets in casting reproches and most unworthy scandalls upon both Houses of Parliament such as The