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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

which God grant and is heartily prayed by Richard Farrar To the Right Honorable Thomas Lord Fairfax Captain General of all the Forces Of the PARLIAMENT And to the Lievtenant General and to all the Commanders and Officers and every Souldier in the Army NExt to His Majesty the two Honorable Houses of Parliament and the Clergy I presume to make my address to you The sons of Mars I would I could say The sons of Peace That which I aym at in this my Discourse with a peaceful mind God knows not wishing ill to any man but desiring to have peace with all men is to perswade you in whose hand the power of the Sword is that you would remember you are Englishmen that we have one Common Mother the Kingdom wherein we live whose bowels are dayly ripped up by this bloody unnatural War When the Soldiers in the New Testament demanded of John What shall we do he said unto them Do violence to no man neither accuse any falsly and be content with your Wages If any Soldier now high or low Commander or Officer should demand of me what he should do I should first answer him as S. John did but in regard you are Christians which those Soldiers were not nor Jews neither but Romans I shall take the boldness to say much more then S. John did there to those Soldiers and yet no more then our Saviour left in Command For your Pay to begin there God forbid you should not have it at the full and that quickly You have ventured hard for it body and soul My former Expedient for Peace and Safety expresses my desire in that As for Liberty of tender Consciences I wrote it not out of Fear or for Flattery but what I did and do beleeve ought to be But I must profess I am infinitely afflicted to see the high calamity like to be greater which by a most bloody intestine War this poor Kingdom groans under and fain I would find an Expedient for it at least I would spend my poor talent to make some stop of this great issue of blood And therefore I take this boldness to speak to your Excellency the General and all subordinate Officers of this great Army of the Parliament not leaving out all those who have been and now are in Arms against you for my discourse is to all but my chief aym and hopes are in you for I am perswaded it is in your power next to the King under God to procure a sudden Peace if you will have it the right way who dare oppose it and so suddenly to still the raging and furious fire of this most unnatural War If you will but practise that lesson which I have dictated to his Majesty the two honorable Houses and the Clergy of Self-Denial how examplary will ye be to all posterity and how well will it become you in the midst of all your strength and power to decline it I mean not to lay all down instantly and let your enemies who God knows I beleeve are far from desiring peace theright way cut your throats or subject your selves to them it were folly in you to trust them and wickedness in me so to counsel you but you to begin first though more powerful and to desire Peace and endeavor it If therefore you will begin as I said with Self-Denial of all Self-Interests be it honor or profit or what ever it be Peace I think may be easily obtained Why do we fight kill and ruine one another Are not we brethren May not Treaties end it better then the Sword Remember I pray you what Abner said to Joab Shall the Sword devour for ever Knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the end And God saith He will not pardon innocent blood and I am sure there can be no War where many Innocents yea those that know not the right hand from the left do not suffer God will not be answered by your saying It is the inevitable fate that accompanies War it cannot be avoyded The question will then be Who bid you go to War S. John bid you Do violence to no man and Christ he comes but a very little after the Baptist with Forgive your enemies Away saith he with an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth c. that is wrong for wrong Bless them that curse you c. And surely it were the best Christian Courtship to appease all differences by Peace The blood-thirsty man saith the Scripture shall not live out half his days and if he do grow old in blood here as few do yet shall he never see the Lord in the Land of the living unless he get it with a hearty repentance and what hope can he have that dyes in a battel killing and killed whose soul in the instant of separation is wrapped and enveloped with rage revenge blood horrot and height of fury against his opposite as the body for the most part at the same time is environed with dreadful sounds howlings and shriekings with fire and smoak the very Emblem of Hell it self And what sayes our Saviour As the Tree falls so it lyes I would to God every souldier would think of this hourly and beleive it ever Suppose I pray you A common drunkard whose practise it is dayly so to be dyes drunk by a fall or other accident as we have had many such fearfull examples doe or can you in any charity hope well of such a soul shall he be received into the everlasting joyes the like of Adultery or fornication I speak of a common adulterer and fornicator whose God is his lust who dyes in the arms of his Dalilah can you hope well of him I am sure it is a high presumption so to speak sure I am his case is Fearfull and by the Rule of Scripture we may be hold to judge no hapinesse could arrive that soul so dying The Case is the same with those that dayly fight battells nay who long for it if but a little retarded if war be unlawfull I dispute it not I take it for granted and I am sure by the new Testament utterly condemned Now if so he that dyes killing and killed as I said before what a most miserable condition is that soul in for their works good or bad follow them saith the scripture doe they so in what a state then is that soul in dog'd and clog'd with such deeds of darknesse before at after the expansion of it what time is there of repentance when the outward man is in such a Confusion and horror for battells afford not many quiet and calme slumbers Sure I am he that is lives by the mercy of God most strictly with S. Paul mortifies himself and dyes dayly to the world yet such a soul works out it is salvation with Fear Trembling and finds it not too scarce well prepared for its seperation Iudge then ye Men of war E. Contra Remember for Gods sake for your souls sake

blood of another by War Who is My Lord Your Excellencies most humble Servant Richard Farrar TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lord Major The Right Worshipfull the Aldermen the Worshipfull the Common Counsel and every Free-man of the Citie of LONDON THis great M●tropolis of yours lifts not up her head so high but that having so boldly adventured upon the Clemency of his Sacred Majestie the patience of the two Honorable houses of Parliament the Freedom of my speech to the Clergy the high priests Scribes and Pharisees of this Kingdom and the hazard of distasting the Army An Army and such an Army as hath made your proud walls shake at the very sight of it and for ought I know or you eith●r the earth-quake 〈◊〉 yet past I may presume to crie aloud in your gates and to proclaim in your streets that if any citie in the Christian world had need to be summoned to Self-Denyall It is this great citie whose Inhabitants were grown so proud with prosperity that they said in their hearts 〈◊〉 least and too much exprest it in their words and actions a Babylon did Revel. 18. 7. Shee said in her heart I sit a Queen I am no widow ●nd shall see no sorrow therefore shall her 〈…〉 c. And did not you eight or ten years since sit as a Queen in your bed of State and rest but lo Almighty God brought war into your gates and the sword into your Stately Palaces and your young men felt it you made but a sport of it at the first you courted the sons of Mars and you discovered all your wealth unto them as Hezekiah did to those that were sent from Babylon read the place the 20. Chapter of the second of Kings beginning at the 1● verse untill the 20. I pray God it have no allusion in time to your citie and now after seven years Apprenticeship are you not weary would you not be made free Remember those dayes of peace when every man did eat of his own vine and sate under his own fig-tree did you make good use of it no you grew wanton with ease and proud with folly and therefore God sent war amongst you your hearts were alwayes various from the wayes of God and therefore God suffered you to be diversly minded to make way for your destruction and now at last for your wickednesse hath suffered the spirit of giddinesse and divisions to be even in the midst of your citie yea in every corner of it and it is just with you for you were so far from Self-Denyall that you denyed your selves nothing you had a mind to I passe by the excesse of pride in apparell like Princes rather then Apprentises and for Gluttony and Luxury the world could not match you I say nothing of your Epicurisme every way with your neglect of the poor that dayly beg'd at your doors I speak not this to all I am confident God hath a Remnant in this Citie who serve him most faithfully and who are not onely free from those sins but dayly lament them in others who stand in the Gap and for whose sake this Citie hath stood so long and doth yet stand Great hath been your Diana of profit and you have sacrificed so long at her shryne out of hope or fear that if God open not your eyes and that you suddenly repent your destruction is at hand Go into Self-Denyall or you shall have no peace lay aside all private and self-interests that of the Publicke Faith disbursements for Ireland Bishops Lands Excise Custome house c. and repent nor upbraid your for wardnesse at the first to help on the work had it been holy and pious The end shews plain now and it did long since appear you did it for your own ends it was fear or hope of profit put you on not the Zeal of Gods Glory the Honor of the King or the good of the kingdom I speak not this to all but to the most and chiefly to those whose private interests engage them now so hotly in the progresse of a war that the whole Kingdom is in hazard of utter Ruine look into your own hearts and say how true or false I speak if true make good use of it that is repent and amend and that not with cast down looks but humble hearts You petition for Peace it is well so you did once for War God forgive you but do you desire and pray that God will give you Peaceful minds one towards the other Do you endevor it Have you not like the rest of the world Peace in your mouths War in your hearts I wish I could forget that not many years since you cryed one day Hosanna and Crucifig the next If so you cannot 〈◊〉 deceive not your selves nor be you deceived by others that misguide you pray to God to open your eyes you are blind your wealth blinds you you cannot see where your safety lies Not in your selves not in your strength that is already proved not in your wealth you do but hoord it up for others unless God give you open and repentant hearts your safety lies in your Self-Denial and in your suffering not your doing away with all warlike and bloody designs you will be lost here and for ever by them add not to your former evils blood to blood there is no ill so great which you are not guilty of you have done like the rest of the Kingdom or rather you were their example You have sought your own and not the things of God nay you have fought for them more then once And now it is just with God to leave you a prey to your enemies Yet let me tell you your greatest enemies are not only within your walls but within your own brests It is your Treachery to God and to some body else hath betrayed you to hourly fears You look down to the earth you grovel there lift up your heads lift up your hands too but chiefly lift up your hearts to God from whom alone must come your salvation Do all you can for Peace in a godly way not by plots and strife We must not do ill that good may come of it This City hath a great account to give when God shall make inquisition for blood There is no worldly Counsel meer worldly can do you good God alone must do it by turning your hearts to him and to your lawful King and in your love to your fellow Subjects but add no more blood to blood The Militia of good consciences is better and safer for you then al your Arms or the Army if it were yours in the day of Trouble you will find it so If there be any means or power in you by Prayers to God Petitions to men or the opening of your purses in a peaceful way to procure Peace forbear not to do it Sero sapient Phryges Do it and that quickly for Gods sake for the Kings sake for your own sake for the whole Kingdoms sake