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A97078	A letter desiring a just and mercifull regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of October 1660, to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that kingdom.	Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing W635A; ESTC R23908	6,068	2

although what is more observable these articles were obtained of Joshua through his ignorance of the people that treated with him and by their lyes and circumvention of him Nor finally although these Articles were assented unto by Joshua only and his twelve chief Captains the whole multitude concern'd in this business not consenting otherwise as appeared within three dayes after the Conclusion by their generall murmur against the Prince My Lord none of all these extenuating circumstances nor altogether not even back't with zeal for the people of God the Scripture noting particularly that Saul sought to slay the Gibeonites in his Zeal to the Children of Israel and Judah no excuse no pretence whatsoever could obtayn so much mercy of the great Justicier of Heaven as to inflict the punishment of this article-breaking on the person of Saul alone not even together with his beloved Jonathan's or on his Legions and People in his own dayes only The vengeance of God must pursue his Posterity and Kingdome long after his death and for this cause alone A mortal Famine of three years continuance must consume the twelve Tribes of Israel even in the reign of his Successor and for this very Sin only as God himself revealed to holy David Nor would the Famine cease till by David's commandment seven of Saul's Children and Nephews were delivered to the Gibeonites and by the hands of these very men whose Articles he broke crucisied alive upon a Mountain to expiate this publick and horrid sin even in the face of the Sun May Providence and the Kings Righteousness and your sage Counsel my Lord obstruct all occasions of reflecting on this and so many other examples of God's revenge of Article-breaking any further than that the best of Kings may see the worst of evils attending the Counsels of our Adversaries and that their power whatever it be cannot be so dangerous as their demands against our Articles My Lord I conclude here but with my hearty wishes That in the House and at the Counccls of our great King your Excellence may both appear and approve your self hereafter what you are in part already another Joseph That by the best of Advices you may preserve the best of Princes and all his people of so many different Nations of the Brittish Monarchy May it be so my Lord And may the Catholicks of Ireland in particular owe you a great Deliverance as I cannot but confidently expect from you in due time for my light in the triangle cannot be extinguished But my Lord may not innocent beloved Benjamin alone nor friendly Reuben only but even Simeon and Levi and their Complices against you heretofore have cause to bless God for you hereafter May they all finde in effect that you have the bowels of Joseph to forgive and compassionate them and his power to deliver them and his faith to believe That God permitted their evil against you even in forcing you twice away from them of purpose to preserve you for their good and that you might return even this second time their great Deliverer Propitious Heaven and your own good Genius my Lord second my wishes And may your faithfull Believer see with his own eyes the full accomplishment that he may employ all his dayes after and all his Labours in consecrating to Posterity your Name with this Eloginm of Joseph The Saviour of his Brethren and of his Countrey and of all the people And these are the hearty wishes of My Lord Your Excellency's most humble most obsequious and most devoted Servant P. W.

A Letter desiring a just and mercifull regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland given about the end of October 1660. to the then Marque … 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Duke of Ormond and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom My Lord SInce I had the honour of speaking last to your Excellence I reflected by occasion of several Discourses had this week with Persons of quality on the dayly encrease of the Fears and jealousies of my Country-men Which is the Reason That instead of waiting on you this morning about private Concernments as I intended I chose rather out of my unalterable affection to your self to give first this Paper and therein my thoughts and my desires relating to the Publick that is to your self and to His Majesty and his Kingdom of Ireland My Lord I thought fit to tell you That considering the general fear seiz'd already almost on all the Nobility Gentry and others here of that Nation and reflecting on the vast difference betwixt my own belief and theirs it seems to me I behold in us particularly who have for so many years so much relied on your word and vertue somewhat fulfilled not unlike the mysterious extinction of all the Lights to one in the Ceremony of Tenebrae in holy week For my Lord I observe in the generality of the Catholicks of Ireland here even I say of those who have been so long as well your constant believers as your passionate sticklers a dimnesse and darknesse seizing their judgements even your fastest friends heretofore losing at present their faith of your future appearance for them and hopes of their delivery by you at any time evermore Some through ignorance of State affairs and intrigues obstructing as yet others through inconsideration of those wayes you take much wiser though slower than folly and rashnesse could chalk out and some out of prejudice or an evil passion which blinds them and makes them abuse the timorousnesse and credulity of all they can to lessen your esteem and your dependencies all they are able My Lord these are thoughts which more and more trouble me dayly because I have dayly new occasions to reflection them And therefore would no longer but give them your Excellence even in this method and in writing that they might take the deeper impression as very much concerning you since your own welfare and the Kings and Peoples in my judgment very much depends on a good esteem of so great a Minister as your great deserts have made you But withall My Lord I will give your Excellence my most earnest and most humble desires that you delay no longer than shall be necessary to clear these clouds of darknesse and clear them in this present conjuncture by an effectuall demonstration of that justice and favour you intended the Catholicks of Ireland in your Articles of 48. when they so freely put themselves and their power into your hands I am not ignorant that some have after transgressed in a high nature But you know my Lord there are many thousands of Protestants in the three Kingdomes who have been far more hainously criminal both against his Majesty and against his Father of blessed memorie and who have contributed or intended as little for bringing home his Majesty as the most wickedly principled of he Roman Confederates of Ireland And we all know my Lord that all the Protestants are not only pardoned except a very few of the most immediate Regicides but equalled in all capacities with his Majesty's most faithfull and approved subjects Yet if these unfortunate Catholick transgressors must be alone in this generall Jublie of the three Nations held unworthy to rejoyce in the Kings restauration if they alone besides their most grievous and most unparallel'd sufferings under tyranny these eight or nine years past must a-new suffer and yet a more heavy judgment under the most clement Prince on earth if they alone must experience all the rigour of his law and judicatures for their offences after the Peace of 48. which offences however criminal were not bloudy your Excellence may be neverthelesse pleased to consider the Transplantation cannot be continued on any such account nor on any other which may stand either with those Articles or with the equity of the Laws and such lesse with the justice of a Prince whom God hath restored to redeem the oppressed from the yoak of tyranny to lead captivity captive and give gifts to men And yur Excellence may be further pleased to consider That the Corporations generally cannot be excluded on this account nor on any other may stand with his Majesty's gacious concessions in these Articles Neither do I think there can be any reasons of State may accord with the dictates of a good conscience to exclude them I confesse my Lord the undutifulnesse of some two or three peradventure deserved punishment and Limerick a severe one But this my Lord is long since inflicted by the hand of God and man The plague and famine the sword and gibbet even by the power of tyrants destroyed them and reveng'd your quarrel though I am sure you asmore divinely principled than to mind your own revenge on any Besides my Lord your Excellence knows th●re have been very many faithfull subjects in these town seven in the most criminal of them My Lord you are more just than to involve the just in the punishment of the wicked God himself whose power cannot be limited by Laws would not punish the just not even when he was most incensed by the most criminal Cityes that ever stood on earth He assured the Prophet Jemy That could he find but one just man in all Jerusalem when most sinfull and reprobate and by his revenging justice design'd for a generall desolation he would sine out that man from the wicked and save him for to our translation reads nay for his sake be mercifull to the whole City if your Translation be right When the ding sins of Sodom and Gomorrha forc'd open the flood-gates of heaven to power down those prodigious flames of fire and brimstone we read in Genesis yet would ●he justice of God permit execution before he had put in a place of safety one just man that was found in Sodom And which is yet more observable was further pleased assure Abraham That he was so far from intending to involve the just in the destruction of the wicked That if in these great places design'd for so great vengeance he 〈…〉 men he would 〈…〉 pardon all the rest that is not Sodom alone but the five Cityes and the whole Pentapolitane region annexed My Lord our gracious King hath in imitation of this mercy of God Pardon'd for some just mens sake all the Protestant Cities of his Dominions And will He not pardon the miserable remainders of one poor Catholick Town or two or three at most if perhaps there be so many that have any way offended I am sure whatever th●●r offence hath been it hath been these many years