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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

Nation and made us their servants for Ever But especially because of his performances we have already had the taste and in a great measure fruition but the good to be reaped from your Honourable Consultations is yet in expectation to you therefore I addresse my self as an humble Suitor and yet Confident Petitioner but to his Excellency thanks is already due for a large portion of benefits which we have received of him in this kinde To which I may adde that this being written and intended to be published before your Session Reason and Order call for it that I should in the first place addresse my self to the Power in being especially of whose good we have so largely tasted and next to the Power which is in Expectation shortly after My Addresse Right Honourable and Worthy Patriots to you is to intreat you not because I in the least doubt your own most ready inclination thereto to set your selves seriously to the healing of our breaches Yea I know you will do it however it will not be amisse nor I hope interpreted peremptorinesse for me your faithfull Honourer to submit a few Considerations to your most judicious censure first inviting to a settlement upon our Ancient Basis and only firm Foundation not barely Kingly Government but our most Virtuous King Charles the Second to whom God grant a long and prosperous Reign whose Restitution I hope and pray for and doubt nothing Right Honourable Senators but by your means to see accomplished But Secondly giving your Honours the groun●s why I wish it may be effected and brought to passe as soon as possible I shall after conclude this Discourse humbly begging that the great God of Heaven would give you wisedome and courage that He who sitteth among the Gods may sit among you directing and guiding you in the ready way to settle these Nations in firm peace that Religion may be countenanced and flourish our Rights as Men and Christians asserted vindicated and preserved to the glory of God and the comfort of all that fear him in all three Kingdomes This Right Honourable Lords and Gentlemen can be no way brought about but by restoring the true Heir to his Inheritance all other wayes or means are but only suggestions of the Adversaries of the Nations happinesse who would continue things in unsettlement on purpose only to secure and indemnifie themselves from deserved justice Consider I beseech you how many prejects have been contrived towards our Settlement upon different Foundations which all proved sandy and so the Building thereon raysed though cemented with Bloud and Rapine soon fell and we were ever put after each Change upon greater straits and left in worse confusion then we suffered before So that the change of our Medicaments and Physicians in order to the Recovery of this sick State hath been far worse than our Disease it self the one causing us to languish in unsettlement the other accelerating our Destruction and threatning our utter Ruine Which must needs be attributed to the Justice of God who hath forsaken us because we forsook him He hath seen and beheld all the guilt under which this Nation lyes and if for two Transgressions and for three the Holy and Righteous God would not turn away the punishment of severall Nations what shall be done to us for seven crying Sins yea rather for seven times seven Abominations How have Rebellion and Treason Perjury Persidiousnesse and Murther Hypocrisie and Sacriledge besides all sorts of Heresies profanenesse beastlinesse unmercifulnesse cruelty and oppression reigned in these Nations and raged as if in contempt of Heaven How hath bloud touched bloud How have the Rumpers and after them the Vsurping Protector filled London and the whole Land with Innocent Bloud the cry of which is come up to Heaven and there calls aloud for Vengeance But now at last God in unspeakable mercy hath seemed to return to us and as a Father doth offer in love to embrace us to him be the praise In answer of whose so great tenders of favour and future blessing give me leave Honorable and Worthy Patriots to grone forth my most affectionate desires before your Wisdoms The cause of our long continued Calamities hath been and is unquestionably a spirit of ungratefullnesse toward a signally gracious God and a spirit of Rebellion toward his Vicegerent on Earth the KING also a spirit of profanenesse in contemning his Worship and Service together with the Ministers and Dispensers of the same This wicked ungodly spirit like a fertile although accursed Root hath brought forth numerous branches of such crying sins which at this day are to be found among us and formerly have been practised and remain yet unrepented for Now most Worthy Senators it behoves you seriously solemnly and industriously to endeavour a Nationall amendment of these Nationall Abominations Nor is it enough to bewaile the guilt but by amendment and restitution we must endeavour to wipe away the blot and expunge the stain contracted The Villany committe● against the Father and his Off-spring w●o was the Father of these Nations was committed upon a Na●all pretense and therefore it behoves it should be Ntiona●ly disclaimed In that act God was highly provoked by Oaths Vowes and Covenants not more sacredly made and solemnly taken and entred into but as perjuriously broken in the face of the Sun yet the perjury justified and defended under the Cloak and pretense of Religion Tantum Religio potuit suadere malorum My Lords and Gentlemen you are the Successors of that Parliament and many of you the very persons that sate therein It behoves you now to testifie openly and effectually against this treacherous perfidious perjury which ended in bloud or else you will be found Justifiers of the same Gods wrath is not to be appeased without hearty contrition and repentance of these sins for time past and an amendment for future which Amendment must be answerable unto that praevarication wherewith God was and is provoked else the Plaister will be too narrow for the Sore Consider my Lords and Gentlemen our fault in all its branches Ingratefulnesse towards an● perjury against God Apostasie from our Religious profession to the toleration of all Heresies and Blasphemies and perfidiousnesse unto Rebellion from with contempt and rejection of our Liege King and his Posterity contrary to Duty Oaths and Protestations this must be adaequately repented of and satisfaction reparation and restitution made to parties injured if ever we expect Gods return to us in mercy and not a Visitation in judgement For with Majesty many thousands were injured in the highest degree to whom if at least justice be not done for the future and an acknowledgement of and taking shame for what is past where reparation cannot be made God without a miracle can and no doubt will make use of these to be the Executors of his Vengeance and fierce displeasure against this Nation who then would be not only here and there bespotted but over head and ears

plunged in those crying sinnes which the Lord who is true and just hath declared he will not pardon But Noble Senators I am confident God will give you that wisdome and true piety that you will effectually wash your own hands and I hope cleanse the whole Nations in generall from these crying Land destroying State overwhelming impieties by laying the fault and guilt upon those who are really guilty of the same That so once more our Foundations may be layd and we may be established in Righteousnesse That this long afflicted shattered Nation may once more take root downwards and shoot forth branches and bear fruit upward to the glory of God and the reviving heart refreshing joy of all those who fear him For this end I humbly begge of God in ●o●r behalf and am with good hope persw●ded that these Two Houses will not undertake the Patronage of the grand Causers of all our past and still continued calamites by desiring a generall Act of Amnesty which will neither be for Gods glory nor yet for our settlement It will skin over the sore leaving it full of corruption in the bottome For the Lords sake I pray heartily that your Wisdomes may be kept free from making your selves guilty of that innocent bloud both of Majesty and severall others which lies yet only at the Rumpers dore and those who were Members of that Monstrous Sloughter-house the High Court of Justice nor upon all of them alike for many I conceive to be free from all malice and known shedding of innocent bloud but only deluded and deceived by the insnaring devices of the chief Contrivers whose impiety as it amazeth my spirit so it staggers my Rhetorick that I cannot finde out fit expressions to suit their execrable deserts Bloud defiles a Land nor can it be cleansed from it but by the bloud of those who shed it Because Manasseh shed Innocent bloud much so that he filled Jerusalem with it therefore the Lord would not pardon Israel from going into Captivity The sins of those in Authority bloud especially is oft almost ever punished by Nationall miseries the whole Nation bleeding largely oft times for the bloud of a few innocent persons whose bloud is not publiquely required and avenged Manasseh had shed innocent bloud much which the Lord would not pardon although Manasseh had been carryed Captive into Babylon and there as to himself repented his Idolatry Murthers and other Abominations Josiah also followed him a holy tender hearted Prince who restored the Worship of God to its purity and made such a Reformation as none ever did before him nor after him of whom it is testified to his Immortal prayse that no King was ever like him in Jerusalem yet for the bloud-shed of Manasseh the Captivity should not be turned away God would not pardon it Doubtlesse many of the Nation were Instrumentall in shedding this bloud some as false witnesses others as Executioners whom Manasseh when he repented or his Son and Successor good Josiah ought to have rewarded with bloud without which Justice the Nation is not cleansed from the guilt thereof for want of which in probability most holy unparalel'd Josiah contracts a guilt upon himself and the Nation for which he in the flowre of his Youth falls by the hand of Pharaoh Necho and all his people felt the miseries of Warre Bloud-shed Famine and final Desolation which ended in a long and grievous Captivity in his Successors dayes My Lords and Gentlemen God hath given you wisdome and I humbly implore his Divine Majesty in your behalf that he would be your faithfull Guide and Counsellour in this particular It was not the actual sinne of the Nation nor of the Parliament of England but of a Combination of the perjur'd Treacherous part of Englands Commoners with a Rebellious Soldiery whom some hypocriticall grand Officers deluded into Rebellion against that Authority which raised empowered and payd them and to whom they were sworn and ingaged to be true and obediently faithfull who plotted contrived and put it in execution whom it were as much pity as impiety to shelter from Justice However our King may truly be said to be as was said of the Kings of Israel a mercifull King His sweet Disposition notwithstanding the great provocation of his Dear Father Bloud I know is so inclined to compassion and to forgivenesse that I doubt not but all Offences against his Father and himself save only the wilfull malicious shedding Royall innocent bloud he will of himself freely passe by and of those who had their hands imbrued therein I doubt not where Charity it self can excuse the Offendor to be deluded and not an Active Ring-leader he will be more inclinable to mercy then justice Yea and even those whom Mercy it self cannot plead for I know he will pity and weep over their causelesse malice and obstinate impenitency Who can plead for such Worthy Senators who boast of that at which the Sun even blushed and count it their glory to have their hand in our better deserving Kings Bloud Of whom one most impudently said That he reputed it his Honour to be one who was active therein and would have the memory of it Eternized upon his Monument as a most heroick commendable Fact Monstrous Villain of whose minde my self have heard others for whom what can be pleaded Yea my Lords and Gentlemen pity these Rumpers and their Bloud-hounds if ever they shewed pity to any who crossed their corrupt designs have regard to their Lives and Fortunes if ever they regarded Vowes Oaths Covenants Honour and Honesty Pity their Posterity if they themselves do it whom they care not to enslave and destroy while they secure only and indemnifie their own persons Endeavour to make their peace if they have not alwaies endeavoured and desire still to enflame the Nation and destroy you and yours and are not now labouring to kindle a new fire in these already wasted Kingdoms But if it be most certain that they at first unhappily and impiously involved these Nations in bloud and confusion and still endeavour to do the like a new to continue our distractions and hinder our settlement and are impenitently stained yea overwhelmed in Royall innocent bloud Perjury and Sacriledge which they obstinately justyfy in gods name give them leave who thus sow the wind to reap the whirlwind Immedicabile vulnus Ense rescindatur ne pars sincere trahatur Most Noble Senators the Parliamens of England were and ought to be in most venerable esteeme being the only Physick for the state in distemper it is next under God the staffe and beauty of the Nation its strength and glory This title these Rumpers usurped and kild their King imposed perjurie by force upon all and who would not actually forswear himself in imitation of them was denyed all benefit of protection The Vilanies by them perpetrated are without president only themselves may become a president for future if by connivance at these they be countenanced Then for