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A66771	The prisoners plea, humbly offered in a remonstrance with a petition annexed, to the commons of England in Parliament assembled / by George Wither ; falsely charged to have composed a lybel against the said commons, and therefore now prisoner in Nemgate ; it combineth also many interjections not to be defined, as	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3180; ESTC R12459	31,803	62

Pestilence and Famines both Spiritual and Temporal Let us take heed of it And since Bloodshed is the principal crime for which the Judgement already begun is feared will increase and for the expiation whereof some satisfaction must be made to witness the truth of our Repentance though it be not in our Power to make satisfaction for the least Transgression let us all be so cautious to search into the whole matter and to find out every Circumstance of our Duties that we add not Sin to Sin Blood to Blood and suppose we do well when we have done more wickedly by an hypocritical misapplication or an ignorant search Or least in place of true Christian Oblations we offer up the abominations of the Heathen who sacrificed the Innocent Children of their Enemies to appease the Ghosts of their slaughtered Princes or do like them who offered the Fruits of their Body to Molech for the sins of their Souls Or lest we think as many have done we do God or our Country good service when we have oppressed or slain or banished those who worship him not as we do even those for whose sakes we are hitherto preserved by him in whose sight the Blood of the meanest of his Saints is more precious then the Blood of the greatest King who hath not aswell a Saintship as Kingship For the Expiation therefore of our Blood-guiltiness so far forth as it will be requirable to testifie the sincerity of our Contrition and Repentance plenary satisfaction as I said before not being in our Power we must effectually and speedily prosecute the means which are but two in chief The one is the washing away of wilful Bloodshed with the blood of malicious Murtherers by Executing Justice The other is by Mercy in pardoning those who have shed Blood causually ignorautly and without any apparant malice And this Justice and Mercy must be dispensed without partiality rashness malice or by-respect to our selves or to any other That we be not deceived in the Persons who are to be the Objects of this Justice and Mercy we must be very wary least we incur the curse pronounced against them who Justifie the wicked and condemn the Innocent so in stead of being rendred acceptable become abominable unto the Lord For the World is so full of deceitful Juglings that she can make that which is Righteous and Holy appear to be unrighteous and prophane wrap up Suparlative Impietie in such a Mystery that it shall seem the Perfection of Holiness make Traytors and Murtherers appear to be Saints and Martyrs true Saints and Martyrs to be reputed Murtherers and Traytors and bring them to the greatest outward shame and suffering Therefore to prevent these Falacies we must by the example of David seek of God to be rightly informed not onely as touching the true Cause of the Plagues that are feared or lie upon us but also for the Principal Offenders for if we seek but to men to humane Lawes and reason and to what our own hearts will Dictate there is so much falsehood in all these being usually swayed by Self-Intrests that we may easily be deceived If inquiry had been made in Davids time touching the Famine afore mentioned of that part of the People then of Sauls Faction who were the Murtherers for whose Bloodshed that Plague was inflicted they probably would have answered that it was for the bloodiness of Davids house and of his confederates who had Trayterously disinherited the true apparent Heir of the Kingdom Anoynted and made King by Gods own appointment with consent of all the People and that his Blood-guiltiness was manifest by a long Rebellious warfare against the house of Saul his Lawful Soveraign If the same question should have been then asked of Davids Party it is likely they would have said that Saul and his partakers were the Murtherers by shedding blood in opposing him to whom God had translated the Kingdom from Saul for his disobedience and conferred it on David by the same Anointing by the same Prophet who inaugurated Saul and in regard the Kingdom was also confirmed upon David by consent of the same People If the Priests in these dayes had been consulted with all they perhaps would have thought and said that it had been for the Blood of those Priests of the Lord which were barbarously Butchered by Saul rather then for the blood of the Gibeonites and it may be they and many other who usually Judge according to common appearances would have thought that Famine had been inflicted for the blood of Abner Ishbosheth Amasa Ammon Uriah and many other as well as for the blood of the said Priests But the Judgement came not forth at that time for any of these It was not absolutely for shedding of meer Innocent blood nor for Blood Royal or esteemed Sacred no not for the blood of a King but for Blood shed by a King and for no such precious blood as the blood of Israelites or Friends or Free Subjects but for the Blood of slaves of whom little account was made and for breach of an Oath and a Covenant to and with despised Persons though contracted Illegally yea contrary to Gods expresse command with a People whom they were to have destroyed and though it had been fraudulently and surreptiously procured which Exemplary Judgement was executed and left upon record to make it known to all Nations and Generations how abominable it is to God when men violate the Lawes of Humane Society though out of a pretended Zeal to the welfare of his own People and that he will sooner dispence with an Oath and Covenant made ignorantly contrary to his own expresse command then with violation thereof in such a case when it is once made and that neither length of time or Pious or Politick pretences can incline him to leave it unpunished This hints unto us that which will be very considerable at this present by you and by all this Nation as touching that Bloodshed into which God is making inquisition concerning which we are to make inquity of God himself by the Urim and Thummim of his Word as also by impartially examining our own Consciences lest the false Witnesses which the World self intrest may suborn corrupt our Judgements For if we ask of our meer Courtiers or Fawning Parasites who think there is more Divinity in the blood of Kings then of other men whose Bloodshed is at this time punishable by Famine they as I conceive will tell us that it is onely for the Blood of the late King which I believe not though there lies a blood-guiltiness for that on very many If we ask of the Prelates they peradventure will add thereto the blood of the late Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and the violence done to their Hyerachie If we ask the rest of the Clergy they wil cast in the blood of those Ministers of the Gospel who have been slain by the Sword are destroyed by Oppression The Peers will say it is

pay likewise weekly for one meal a day besides extraordinary expences in other necessaries so much as provided me competent meat and drink five weeks one week with another before I came hither which pittance did preserve me in good health without having any other addition to the value of a penny and I would to God there were not many at this time more oppressed then I am in this kind That expence was defrayed also by Charity which made me then so frugall lest there might be a failing thereof as there hath been lately of what was formerly sent in hither perhaps by reason my offence being agravated so much that I being numbred and made a Companion of Thieves and Murtherers without any difference it hath rendred some of my Friends afraid to visit me and for that some other of them are so impoverished that they are disabled I would have added no more but considering with what Malignancy some giddy Censurers have objected against me the harshest passages in my Poem without their Qualifications as aforesaid I cannot but be sensible of that influence it may have upon those hearers who shall never see the said Poem in its proper dress and perfected as I intended I will therefore make bold to put your Honours in mind that I shall conceive my self much injured if any Member of this House shall in his Publick Capacity pass a Vote against me concerning that Book which is supposed a Lybel until he shall first peruse or hear it wholly read or if he shall charge upon me as my Act either of those imperfect draughts thereof which were seized in my Chamber until I deliver it forth compleated according to my purpose in regard till then they are neither mine nor ought so be reputed I will once again also put you in remembrance that it is but the Common Fame with some Inferences thereupon which I would have expressed and which therefore if offencive ought to be charged upon the People not upon me who did but Eccho to what they spake This being considered and that I onely wrote in Private to a good end what I had heard and partly knew yea and what some of you likewise and many Thousands know to be true I cannot justly be termed a Lybeller or that Poem a Lybel Though he who seized my Papers and is or was as I am informed the Master Newes Carpenter that chips out unto us the Weekly Intelligences hath already deemed me as I hear also to the Gallowes and intends to endeavour what he can to prefer me thither by publishing my late Poem in fragments with his Animadversions thereupon I shall have no cause to be displeased thereat if I may have Liberty to answer him in Publick and be allowed also a true Copy of the said Poem Habitual vitiousness hath so corrupted most men and made them so slavish that they dare not speak of or to their own Idolized Creatures but with Epethites and Attributes due to their Creator or with some abusive application of the holy Text nor hear things exprest as they truely are or called by their proper names and that makes my Poem so distastful to some Readers This slavishness hath also partly occasioned and justifies those whom you call Quakers who do it by a Spiritual impulse and not out of a carnal affectation to singularity to neglect and condemn the Complements Language Dialect and manners of these times Some of my Predantical Censures without your doors who know not what free Language is allowable to the Muses in reprehending Vice being more offended with honest words and wholsome Truths though soberly if plainly and boldly spoken then with wicked deeds seem to think it little less then Blasphemy to affirm their are or may be Fools imprudent rash inconsiderate or debauched Persons admitted into the House of Commons Nevertheless you may perceive by what I have already expressed that I know it to be possible and why should I not believe it so to be when was it otherwise what wise men among you have not so found it to their vexation and trouble or how could you be a true Representative of the People if there were not such among you considering what for the most part they are how factious how froward how malicious and how troublesome they have often been to themselves and to your sober proceedings when I find Dawes and Doves together in one Dove-house flying dayly in and out together I may possibly forbear to speak of it but if my Life should lie upon it I cannot chuse but think and believe the Dawes are Dawes whosoever sayes to the contrary when they are such in Shape Colour Feathers Voice and Action nor do I think the Pigeons are not true Pigeons because their are Dawes among them I have been so used to a true Pace that I cannot easily tread a shufling Amble or fall into a false Gallop But I will harp no more on this string for it is harsh in mine own ears God save them and you are wise enough to apprehend what is considerable without more words Fools are afraid of their own shadowes and had rather be flattered into destruction by false representations then to be delivered by plain dealing Truth will nevertheless prevail at last in despight of impostures and falshood God hath sent his Harbengers and will come ere long to put an end to the Delusions and Confusions which our incredulity prophaneness and Apostacies have occasioned to abound yea even that great Mystery of Iniquity which begins to sprout afresh and which hath lately appeared in many Shapes ripens every day so fast that it will shortly be rotten and I believe as old as I am I should live to see the fall of it if I might survive but till the Age whereto some in this Generation have artained Gods will be done for though I die before that time I shall stand up in my Lot to behold the effects of it Come Lord Jesus come quickly I have now done with what I primarily intended by this Remonstrance purposing at first to conclude with Petitioning somewhat for my self relating to my present outward Condition But as my case and the times are I neither know what will be most advantagious nor what is likely to be granted for considering how I stand misrepresented many will be ready to speak against me and not one plead for me except those whom God shall extraordinarily incline thereunto and what respect they shall vouchsafe lies yet hidden between God and them I think I may truly professe that I desire neither Prosperity nor Adversity no not the best things absolutely at this present as relating meerly to my self for as bad as it seems to fare with me I dare not ask for any thing absolutely but what I am warranted absolutely to pray for because I know not what God hath preordained as best for me and most tending to his Glory and lest I may Petition my self out of the Frying Pan into the