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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34356	Considerations upon the present state of the affairs of this kingdome· In relation to the three severall petitions which have lately been in agitation in the Honourable City of London. And a project for a fourth petition, tending to a speedy accommodation of the present unhappy differences between His Maiesty and the Parliament. Written upon the perusing of the speciall passages of the two weeks, from the 29 of November, to the 13 of December, 1642. And dedicated to the Lord Maior and aldermen of the said City. By a country-man, a well-willer of the City, and a lover of truth and peace.	Nethersole, Francis, Sir, 1587-1659.	1642 (1642)	Wing C5925; Wing N495A; Thomason E83_38; ESTC R5547	9,715	15

constant Royall Revenue upon the Crown as hath been often promised by this Parliament and to deliberate and resolve upon the most easie ready and equall way to raise such summes of money upon emergent occasions as may be for the security of all the professors of the Protestant Religion against all Antichristian Power c. Which are matters of such difficultie and length that if the Armies now on foot shall be maintained till they bee all agreed by Treaty the whole Kingdome is in danger of being ruined before it be concluded You have the raving thoughts of a simple Countryman wedded to a solitaty life in a desert which he hath long and often there revolved in his own minde and at length conferred them with divers wiser men whose having approved of them upon their second thoughts more then at the first hath much confirmed him that he is in the right and that encouraged him to take the present occasion humbly to recommend them to the serious and mature consideration of the Honourable City of London which hath hitherto ever had the honour to settle the troubles of this Kingdome on that side to which it hath enclined but he is very jealous it may be in danger to lose now unlesse it be reduced to unity in it selfe And if peradventure any part of that he hath written should have the happinesse to receive such approbation of so wise a Senate that they should think of conveying it higher he doth then further humbly propound Whether the Petitioning for a day of most solemne Fast to bee specially designed for the seeking of Gods face in the behalf of this Kingdome which it hath been strange to him we have hitherto been content to do by the voluntary devotion of private men upon the Monthly Fasts without any publique direction from King Church or State as if this Kingdome were an Appendixe of Ireland and not that of England and a Declaration that the monthly Fast is also joyntly intended to be kept for the purpose any other request may be made for the procuring of a speedy and aforesaid may not bee a fit addition to lasting peace For conclusion since it is the part of wise men in every businesse of great concernment to fore cast the contrary events may fall out and the respective issues of them I shall onely humbly beseech my Lord Major and the sage Court of Aldermen first to anticipate in their thoughts upon the one hand that it is not more impossible the Kings Forces should ere long obtain the remainder of those advantages towards the severall Seas and upon the severall Rivers of this Kingdome or those other within the Land which it is apparent they aime at then it was for them a while since to prevaile in any of those they have already gotten and then to ask themselves what the consequence is like to be if the body of the City or Country should grow weary of this war before such a peace be made as is desired by all good men and in reason may be attained while the affairs stand yet in ballance by their meanes who by bearing the greatest purse in this State may ever have the lowdest voyce in all Counsels to which they shall be admitted And then upon the other hand to figure to themselves by strength of imagination That the Forces of the Parliament have freed the King from the restraint he is supposed to be in now and to have him so freed in their power and then to put this question to themselves What use they can make of this Victory if his Majesty who by all that know him is known to be the most intelligent and most resolved King this day living in the whole Christian world should by the power of his own understanding continue as fixed in his resolution not to make any greater or other alteration in Legibus Angliae concerning Church or State then hee hath already declared himselfe willing to do in his severall Answers and Declarations set forth before and since the beginning of these troubles and particularly in His Majesties Answer to the Nineteen Propositions when he was environed with Evill Counsellors and Cavalliers And yet more particularly to put these two questions to themselves How His Majesty imagined to bee in the hands of the Parliaments Forces shall bee gotten to London against his will And whether it bee for the good of their City that His Majesty should for ever make his residence other where especially if he should do it upon any alienation of his affection from the Inhabitants thereof or any sort of them After the debating of which matters within themselves I shall onely take the boldnesse to exhort them to carry themselves like wise men which short word is enough to the wise And yet I would not have the Counsellors or Cavaliers grow insolent by running away too fast in their phancies with any of the things I have mentioned For if the designe or hope of any of them be at last to introduce an Arbitrary Government by dissolving this Parliament by force without the consent of the Houses which is Treason by the knowne Law of the Land and a Treason infinitely aggravated by the many publicke and I doubt not most sincere Protestations of his Majesty made to the contrary they may read their destiny in the Lord Straffords fortune Or if there be any of them who perchance having as much care as another to preserve the temporall Liberties of the Subject intire may yet have a mischievous machination in his head either to re-introduce a great part of the doctrine and practice of Popery into this Church under the name of the Protestant profession or but to hinder such a further Reformation as is yet necessary for the setting up of the power of Godlinesse in the hearts of the people of this Land and of the Kingdome annexed therunto which is to undermine his Throne who is King of kings and Lord of lords let them remember what King David a truly brave Cavalier sung to his Harpe in the first Psalm of his making He that fitteth in Heaven shall laugh them to scorne the Lord shall have them in derision and that which Solomon his son the wisest Counsellor that ever was on earth hath left us upon record in his Proverbs There is no wisdome nor understanding nor councell against the Lord. The Horse is prepared against the day of battaile but safety is of the Lord. My humble advise therefore to them shall be that while it is yet time they would lay the prudent advise of the wise Gamaliel to heart And now I say unto you Refraine from these men and let them alone For if this Counsell or this worke be of men it will come to naught but if it be of God yee cannot overthrow it least happily yee be found even to fight against God FINIS