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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29209	The serpent salve, or, A remedie for the biting of an aspe wherein the observators grounds are discussed and plainly discovered to be unsound, seditious, not warranted by the laws of God, of nature, or of nations, and most repugnant to the known laws and customs of this realm : for the reducing of such of His Majesties well-meaning subjects into the right way who have been mis-led by that ignis fatuus.	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1643 (1643)	Wing B4236; ESTC R12620	148,697	268

maligned Episcopacy whilest Bishops stood they could not fill all the Pulpits of the Kingdome with their Seditious Oratours who might incite the people that their zeal to God may not be interrupted by their Duty to the King that by the Christian Labours of their painfull Preachers they may not want hands to bring their wishes to passe they are their own words Is this the reason we have not a word of Peace and Charity from that Party but all Incentives to Warr and to joyn in making that great Sacrifice to the Lord. Yet whilest they are so busy in in getting hands too many of them perjured hands let them remember Rodolphus the Duke of Sweveland his hand in Cuspinian who being drawn into a rebellious Warre against the Emperour and in the Battell having his right Hand cut off held out the Stump to those that were about him saying I have a just reward of my Perjury with this same Hand I swore Allegiance to my Soveraigne Lord. Yet the good Emperour buried him Honourably which being disliked by some of his Friends he replied utinam omnes mei Adversarit eo ornatu sepulti jacerent We have sworn Allegiance as well ashe and God is the same he was a severe Avenger of Perjury Onely Zedekia●… of all the Kings of Iudah a perjured Person to Nebuchadnezzar had his eyes put out because saith one he had not that God by whom he sware before his eyes Another instance of Perjury we have in Uladislaus when Huniades had made Truce with Amurath for ten yeares the King by the incitement of Cardinali Iulian did break it the Turk in distresse spreads the Articles towards Heaven saying O Iesus if thou be a God be avenged of these false Christians presently the Battell turned Uladislaus was slaine in the Fight the Cardinall in flight When God had justly punished Corah and his rebellious Company the Common People murmured against Moses and Aaron saying Ye have killed the Lords People Numb 16. 49. What was the Issue the Lord sent a Plague which swept away fourteen thousand and seven hundred of them So dangerous a thing it is onely to justify Traytors Dost thou desire to serve God purely according to his word So thou mayest without being a Traytour to thy Prince if our practise were but conformable to the truth of our Profession we might challenge all the Churches in the World God Almighty lighten the eyes of all those that mean well that we may no longer shed one anothers blood to effect the frantick Designes of Fanaticall Persons and by our contentions pull down what we all desire to build up even the Protestant Religion the Law of the Land and the Liberty of the Subject Treason never yet wanted a cloake we are not to judge of Rebells by their Words but by their deeds their voice is Iacobs voice but their hands are the hands of Esau. The Adulterous woman eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith what have I done yet sometimes God suffers the contrivers of these Distractions unwittingly to discover themselves that unlesse we doe willfully hoodwinke our eyes we cannot but see their aimes Among others that Speech which exhorts us to subdue the pride of Kings to purchase a Parity in the Church with a parity in the State to shed the blood of the ungodly that sleights all former Oaths and Obligations and vilifies the Laws of the Land as the inventions of men may be a sufficient Warning-Piece to all Loyall Subjects and good Christians And so may the late Petition be though from meaner Hands to a Common Councell wherein they doe nakedly and professedly fall upon His Majesties Person without any Mask and sawcily and traytorously propose the alteration of the Civill Government which every true-hearted English Man will detest Say not these are poor vulgar Fellowes These have been the Intelligences that have of late turned the Orbe of our State about or at least the visible Actors And who sees not that this is cast abroad thus by the cunning of their sublimated and Mercuriall Prompters to try how it will rellish with the palate of the People as an Introduction to their actuall Designe that when it comes to passe the World may not wonder at it as a Prodigie So was it given out among the People by Richard the third that his Wife was dead when she was in good health but she wisely concluded what was intended by her kind Husband to be her next part Where are our English Hearts why doe we not at last all joyn together to take a severe account of them who have blemished our Parliament subjected our Persons and Estates to their arbitrary Power who have sought to de-throne our Soveraigne and to robbe us of our Religion Laws and Liberties But now to the Observator Observer IN this Contestation between Regall and Parliamentary power for method sake it is requisite to consider first of Regall then of Parliamentary Power and in both to consider the efficient and finall Causes and the meanes by which they are supported Answer Stay Sir before we enter into these Consideratitions let us remember the Rule in Rhetorick cui bono what advantage will this inquiry bring us Doe you desire to be one of the Tribunes or Ephori of England to controule your King or would you have the great O●…ke cut down that you might gather some sticks for your selfe Thus we are told lately the wisest men will not thinke thems elves uncapable of future Fortunes if they use their uttermost power to reduce him that is the King to a necessity of granting Or would you have us play the Guelphes and Gibellines to cut one anothers throats for your pastime Pardon us Sir we cannot thinke it seasonable now when poore Ireland is at the last gaspe and England it selfe lies a bleeding when mens minds are exasperated by such Trumpeters of Sedition to plunge our selves yet deepe●… in these Domestick Contestations what could the Irish Rebells desire more Comparisons are alwayes odious but Contestations are worse and this between a King and His Parliament worst of all This dismall question did never yet appeare in this Kingdom but like a fatall Screech-owle portending blood Death and publique Ruine This was the Subject of the Barons Warre the consequent of this in the wrong offered to a lawfull Prince was the fountain of those horrid Dissentions between the red Rose and the White which purpled all our English Soile with native Blood we have had too much of this already Halfe of that Money which of late hath been spent of that blood which hath been shed about this accursed Controversie would have regained Ireland and disingaged England whereas now the sore festers dayly more and more under the Chirurgeons Hands Our Fore fathers have setled this question for us we desire to see what they have done before we goe to blind-mans buffet one with another If it hath been composed well or but indifferently it is better then Civill Warr And

are so many grave Solid Lawyers no Body So many of the Loyall Commons no Body Sir you doe see and you will see dayly more That His Majesty is not single in His Course Lastly It is the part of good Counsellers to present their whole advise together what they desire to remove and what they desire to introduce as well what they desire to build up as what the●…●…esire to pull down So the Observer himselfe p●…eth in another case Before we demolish old structures we ought to be advised of the fashion of new His Majesty hath required one intire full view of their demands that He might judge more perfectly what to assent to and what to advise further upon This is a sure way not to be over-reached not to cut down an old Tree before there be a new one ready to be planted in its place many Men will agree in the destructive which will never agree in the constructive part The old Senators first of Capua and after of Florence found this to be true by experience the People did not agree so well in taking them away but they disagreed ten times as much in the choise of new and they that were voted down whilest they looked upon them positively were voted to stand when they looked upon them comparatively they were not so worthy as they desired but much more worthy then those that should be subintroduced To instance in the case of the Church there are many Schismaticall Factions at this day never an one of these can have their own ends except the present government be taken away so farre they agree yet if it should be taken away not one of six should have his own ends here of necessity they must fall in pieces and in probability will cry out with the Capuans and the Florentines The old is the better of the two If every Mans single suffrage were ascertained to his proper object as it is in the election of our Knights and Burgesses we should soone see who would have most voices and perhaps the old in a free meeting might have more then all the new put together Observer But little need to be said I thinke every mans hear●… tells him that in publick Consultation●… the many eyes of so many choise Gentlemen of all parts see more then fewer Answer T is not sufficient for an adviser to see unlesse he can let another see by the light of Reason A Man ought not implicitly to ground his actions upon the authority of other Mens eyes whether many or few but of his own Many see more then few True caeteris paribus if all things be alike Or otherwise one Phisitian may see more into the state of a Mans Body then many Empericks one experienced Commander may know more in Military Affaires then ten Fresh-water Souldiers and one old States-Man in his own Element is worth many new Practitioners one Man upon an Hill may see more then an hundred in a Valley But yet if all things be alike you will say many eyes see more then one They doe so commonly but not alwayes one Paphnutius did see more in the Councell of Nice then many greater Clerks How often have you seen one or two Men in the Parliament change the Votes of the House certainly the Eyes of so many choise Gentlemen see the Grievances of the Kingdome better then any other Councell That is their proper object Observer And the great interest the Parliament has in common Iustice and tranquillity and the few private ends they can have to deprave them must needs render their Counsell more faithfull impartiall and religious then any other Answer The interest is the Kingdoms and each Subjects To be Parliament Men adds to their trust not to their interest The Observers grounds are presumptuous and tend onely to beget an implicit confidence what Mens private ends are is not known to us but to God above This we know that good ends cannot justifie bad meanes nor bad actions Men may have good ends and yet be led hoodwinked by others whose ends are worse and private ends will steal upon well affected Men. Discontent works strongly upon some vain glory upon others Delinquents may aime at their own impunity and timorous Persons at private Security But this is to be left to God that is the searcher of hearts Obsever That dislike which the Court has ever conceived against Parliaments without dispute is a pregnant proofe of the integrity and salubrity of publick advise and is no disparagement thereof for we have ever ●…ound Enmity and Antipathy betwixt the Court and the Country Answer If you make a strict survey of the Parliaments party I believe you will find as many Courtiers as Countrymen proportion for proportion To see the Revenues of the Crown be not diminished by needlesse profusion to see His Majesty be not prejudiced in the accounts of his Officers To take away Monopolyes and the like are the proper Workes of Parliaments and in probability cannot be so pleasing to some Courtiers but this is farre from a fancyed Omnipotence Here he falls into his old Complaint of the Peoples not adhering to the Parliament but we have had this Dish oft enough upon the Table Observer The King sayes T is improbable and impossible that His Cabinet Counsellers or His Bishops or Souldiers who must have so great a share in the misery should take such paines in the procuring thereof and spend so much time and run so many hazards to make themselves Slaves and to ruine the Freedome of this Nation How strange is this we have had almost forty yeares experience that the Courtway of preferment has been by doing publick ill offices and we can nominate what Dukes what Earles what Lords what Knights have been made great and rich by base disservices to the State and except Master Hollis his rich Widdow I never heard that promotion came to any man by serving in Parliament but I have heard of trouble and imprisonment but now see the traverse of Fortune the Court is now turned honest and there is no fear now but that a few Hipocrites in Parliament will beguile the Major part And pag. 23. The whole Kingdome is not to be mastered against consent by the traine Bands nor the Traine Bands by the Lords or Deputy Lieutenants nor they by the Major part in Parliament nor the Major part in Parliament by I know not what Septemvirat There is some mistery in this which seemes yet above if not contrary to nature but since the King hath promised to open it we will suspend our opinion and expect it as the finall issue of all our disputes And pag. 22. We are now at last fallen upon an issue fit to put an end to all other invectives whatsoever let us stick close to it The King promiseth very shortly a full and satisfactory narration of those few Persons in Parliament whose designe is and alwayes was to alter the whole frame of