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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

how you will answer when God shall come to make inquisition for Blood I know not how will you answer it you blood Subjects of this bleeding Nation who joy and delight in Blood and Revenge who regard not the cryes and the Teares of those poor Innocents which your swords make Widows and Orphans whose cryes yet ascend up into heaven and must without sudden repentance bring done a most unheard-of judgement upon this Nation For you the Subjects of this land who are not Souldiers are equally guilty in your willing Contribution to bothsides and how many of you are ruined by your own party to whom you gave assistance And it is just with God it should so be A Land so defiled with Blood that professed such purity of Christianity and hath practised on all hands the most horrid and barbarous Acts that ever were read of The Father against the Son the Son against the Father c. And doe you expect Peace by going on in Blood b●leeve no Minister that preacheth War lawfull Read my Epistle to the Clergy when they preach such stuff that 's some of the leaven which those Scribes and Pharisees mingle with their other good Doctrine and so spoile the whole Lump Alas did they not mix some good things with the bad who would come neer them Christ taught the contrary viz. Love one another by suffering never came ill but much ill by resisting beleeve Christ and follow his precepts and example he that teacheth you other is an Antichrist This Kingdom is highly guilty of all the sins that all the Prophets denounced judgements against in the old Testament Israel Judah or any other Nation I shall not need to name them Prov 6. 17. God hates hands that shed innocent blood Isa. 59. 7. Their feet run to evil they make haste to shed innocent Blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and destruction are in their paths the way of peace they know not c. read on to the end of the 15. verse and behold the Prophet speaks what we with our eyes have seen and do see daily acted by Authority on both sides in this miserable Land And now as if that it were not enough that the Land hath been made drunk with our Blood and God knows how much innocent The other Element of Water the Sea that must be died of a bloody Colour Preparations on all hands And for that sin of oppression of the poor and innocent never the like that hath been on both sides within these seven years and yet is In a word the crie of the sins of this Kingdom is gone up to Heaven like that of Sodom and Gomorrah without sudden repentance we must expect the like plagues had there not been and were there not still some righteous Lots amongst us sure we had been destroyed long since and when those righteous Souls dye away or depart Gods wrath will suddenly raine done upon us without Repentance to our utter Confusion Repent therefore and that suddenly and as I said before go into Self-Denyall be quiet let no man force you to fight on either side much lesss be forward to go your selves as too many have done and paid dear for it Pray but fight not fight against your lusts and worldly corruptions against all self-interests whatsoever that's Self-Denyall and then all will be well the Peacefull-minded their prayers with the Widows and Orphans if they prevaile not with God to turn the hearts of the wicked shall at one time or other prove of such strength that like the Angel that destroyed the host of Sennacherib in one night so shall Gods Judgements find hunt out and destroy the wicked out of the land who hate the Children of Peace and laugh at them for the Children of God are the Sons of Peace What would you have would you have a King a good King the best of Kings and would you have Peace Behold he brings you the Olive-branch of Peace by his Self-Denyall he denies or will deny himself for your good as never King did were the best of you a King it would not be found an easy thing you are Subjects and yet you cannot part with your petty private Interests Molehills to the Mountains of those of a King Look upon the Kings Picture of Mercy and Love in my first Expedient and upon his Covenant in this tract you are equally safe with himself A better safety then the Militia Look every Subject into his own heart for I write to all and deny himself but half as much for a Subject as the King for a King and I dare say we shall have Peace a blessed and a happy Peace a Pious Peace away with a Politick Peace it will never hold we shall have a Confident Peace on all sides away with a Jealous Peace a distrusted Peace Think of no Peace but what comes by the security of Self-Denial on all hands it is above all your Militia's and casts down all Malice If no Peace must be till the fearful hearts and guilty consciences of all men be satisfied then we must never look for Peace In what a condition are you then in O ye Inhabitants of this Land I write unto you all Consider of it And let those men be branded to all posterity who will take or receive no security but what is beyond all history or example as this truly is nay beyond all reason and thereby render themselves the progeny of Cain himself I say once more Consider of it To conclude if speaking truth to his Majesty to the Parliament no lye to the Synod orthodox Divinity to the Army what Christ himself preached to the City what their own Consciences know to be true and to you all the Subjects of the whole Kingdom of England I except none what you are most of you highly guilty of even by the very Word of God I say if This be Treason I am a Traytor a Traytor against all and let me suffer for it but let my Tryal be at the Judgment-seat of Love at the Bar of the New Testament my Saviour my Judg the Apostles my Jury and then proceed I fear not You have all of you King Priests and People pursued your own ends your Self-Interests and you must cast away your Babylonish garment and wedg of gold or God who can do it will spue you all out and give this Land to a more deserving People Not the Scots or Irish alas their Graves must be digg'd before your Funeral be fully solemnized or perhaps to some of your poor innocent babes who are not old like you in sins and iniquities they may perhaps partake of that blessed Peace you would but cannot have so long as you wilfully resist God in your abominable sins of Malice Envy Revenge Hatred Blood-thirstiness Covetousness and that which is the Center of all and contains all the mischief that is Self-Interest the only venom that hath of late years poysoned this goodly and once flourishing Kingdom Christ denyed himself who should not The King denies himself and you will not Oh beloved Countrymen I speak to the whole Kingdom I wish every Ear heard me look your selves in this glass that I have here presented you with it is not of so pure a chrystal as it might have been made but it will shew you plainly the ugliness of your painted holiness and rotten-heartedness to God your King and fellow-Subjects that so by a true Repentance forsaking the evil and doing the good you may come to a sight of your grievous sins of Gods infinite Mercy of your Kings abundant Love and your own future happiness which is uncessantly prayed for at the hand of God by The greatest Sinner of you all yet ready to sacrifice himself for a safe and wel-grounded PEACE Richard Farrar Errata Page 6. line 7. read fought for sought Pag. 29. l. 36. read that lives FINIS