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A generall cry: for the king to come sit with his Parliament in his former splendor, honour, and royall Majesty; or the kingdom is undon, &c.
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1648
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Wing G497fA; ESTC R230536
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their rights what reason is there then that the Parl. shall protect the King from Justice and bring him home to sit among themselves seeing he hath rejected their wholsome advice and Councell humbly offered unto him in due time even as Sihon King of the Amorites rejected the Councell and Messengers of Jeptha and Izrael humbly offered unto him he not regarding them but dissolving all amity with them did fight against them to the losse of his life and Kingdoms Our King being much more bound in duty for the publike good and safety of his Parl. and people then Sihon was to Jepthae and Israel yet dissolving all bonds of duty he perpetrated an unjust and wicked Warre to the incredible destruction of his most faithfull people quite contrary to his many Oaths and protestations made to the contrary Nor hath he ever manifested any signe of repentance by setting against his wicked Councellours and adherents desiring they may be brought to condigne punishment nor shewing any grief for his great offence committed against the Majesty of God in thus setting against the publike good and safety of the Kingdoms and people Again what reason of his former liberty to sit and act with the Parl. he being at their dispose is this the way to secure themselves and the people who have alwayes stuck to them and suffered with them from all future dangers will not a poysoned Fountain corrupt every stream and rivellet it can have accesse unto if it be not cut of Again if you say he is their Father and Husband and they are his wife and Children with whom he ought to have cohabitation and Communion as the only meanes to cure all distempers in the Kingdom Argue rightly the Husband hath adultrated his bed and spent his strength with harlots and strangers having exposed himself by a loathsome and poysonous sicknesse unto death the Father hath murthered a multitude of his best Children and would gladly kill the rest being a prisoner for it is it therfore fit he should have cohabitation and Communion with them Can this be the only meanes to cure all distempers in the Kingdom esspecially now he hath dissolved his interest of a Father and Husband almost to this great Families destruction but irreparable losse Again consider with what expence of blood losse of friends Estates and hardship the faithfull of the Land have by Gods singuler goodnesse unto them at last overcome Giants of difficulties and now being at some rest quietly possessing and enjoying their lives liberties Estates and Lawes anciently and naturally inherent in themselves now theirs by right of Conquest also How can they now surrender themselves and all they enjoy in a most slavish manner unto their conquered enemy and prisoner that he may possess all as his own and rule them at his pleasure and will You know that Jeptha and Israell would not part with that right which God had pessest them of not full 300. years unto their then enemy but not conquered prisoner the King of Amon and yet it was not theirs but the Amorites by originall right they only wan it and did weare it by the Sword and Gods goodnesse to them Iudg. 11. 19. 20. c. Again consider how the Kings personall presence with his Parliament can produce personall unity seeing the Lord hath said the soul that sinneth it shall dye Zek. 18. 20. by this means they may bring not only his sin but all Gods righteous Judgments belonging to the King upon their own heads for thus saith the Lord because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people 1 King 20. 24. May not God most justly say this unto the Parliament if they let him go free Again the eminency of the Kings person and sin doth no wayes extenuate but agravate his judgment and makes him successes it was Conjas Case As I live saith the Lord though Conja the Son of Iehojakim King of Iuda were the Signet upon my right hand yet will I pluck him thence Ier. 22. 24. 30. read the place And again write him a man that shall not prosper all his dayes Will it not then agravate the Parliaments Judgment and make them succeslesse if they make themselves partakers of his sin in not executing Judgment But we hope better things Again is not the Parliament very sencible of Gods righteous hand in blasting all the Kings designes when hatched and his Councells though laid as low as Hell delivering his person into their hand and will they not execute Judgment upon him that Gods blessing may be continued upon the Kingdom with them and their posterity and will they not expell from their fellowship in both Houses all such as they can discover to have undermined their proceedings and to have been under-hand friends to the King that they may be able to act freely for the Kingdoms in Judgment and righteousnesse without interruption or opposition of the wicked Wisdom is better then weapons of Warre but one sinner destroyeth much good Eccles 9. 18. How much more may many Achans among them destroy 3. Kingdoms which God forbid if Law Justice and Judgment be not executed Again let the King in his person be where he will have not the Parl. the King Authoritively with them in his royal Power Office Capacity to maintain Law and execute Justice upon the wicked they have his Sword his Scepter and his Seal that they may do justly love mercy and walk humbly with their God Mica 6. 8. And is it not in this sence the King cannot deceive nor be deceived never dyes can neither do nor take wrong and is it not in this sence we have fought for the King and Parl. though the King was in personall opposition to both what necessity is there then that he must sit in person with the Parliament We know that neither policy open Warre Treachery great and small Guns all kinds of practices and Councells with Pikes Swords c. could formerly reach them in many years yet now more privately short daggers can or may do it suddenly surely and is it not the time of the personall Treaty this personall treachery hath been perpetrated in a most butcherly and bloody manner upon Col. Rainsborough a principall Heroy faithfull Member of their own House and Servant to the Kingdom Did ever any Treaty end without Treason acted by the Kings party Did ever any man thus perish being at rest in his quarters and in the midst of your own forces for whom let every faithfull one lament as David did for Abner saying how dyed he as foole his hands were not bound nor his feet put in fetters there was no cause for that he was no Delinquent nor conquerred prisoner he fell as a man falleth before Children of iniquity wicked men and is there not a conspiracy in the midst of us against all the most active men in both Houses and the Army who if now dissolved the Kingdom is ruined may you not all fall if you do not timely Justice upon your Gods enemies the chiefest fatest of them Ought Agag to be spared if you would have your selves the Kingdom sure setled secured from destructioÌ„ by their enemies read 1 Cron. 10. 13. compared with 1 Sam. 15. 9. c. and 22. 23. But to conclude though many have added unto all their sins this evill to ask them a King not one as Saul was then without blemish when first appointed of God to satisfie their vain desires they trusting in a King more then in God But one worse then Rebellious Saul when Afterwards corrupted stayned and rejected of God for his transgression was only in sparing Gods enemies which may possible be the Parliaments sin and confusion if they be not zealous and faithfull unto the Lord which God forbid but the Kings transgression is in destroying and â—uting of the Lords deare friends his first borne his peculiar Treasure and Jewells those that are so tender to him that he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye God hath reproved Kings for their sakes saying touch not mine Anointed nor do my Prophets no harm Iohn 15. Exod. 4. 22. 19. 5 Zec. 28. Psal 105. 14. 15. here then you see therefore the greatnesse of the Kings sin and sutable is their sin who ask such a King and this even this sin have they added unto all their sins as if that God had said there is none of all your sins like unto this sin it is a seminary of sins and hath its wombe full of the greatest sins and Judgments conceived in it and to be brought forth together and although there be many that have done all this wickednessâ— and turned aside after vain things yet know that the Lord hath promised for their encouragement and comfort that he will not forsake his people for his great names sake because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth withall your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you 2 Sam. 12. 22. 24. Had ever any Parliament the like experience of Gods goodnesse and is it not that you may settle and secure every one in their rights priviledges lives and liberties that they may live a peaceable and godly life under you being freed from all Tyrants and oppressors hands is not Gods glory in the publike good and safety of the people your principall ayme and interest that all things may be reformed according to Gods Word we beseech you then set that pattern before you without any fear or amazement for he hath said I will never leave thee nor forsake thee Iosua 1. 5. so that we may boldly say the Lord is my helper and I will not fear what man shall do unto me Heb. 13. 6. Now if any of you will not walk in Gods way and Councel according to the plain truth sincerely set forth unto you but if we shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your King Sam 12. ult FINIS