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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97172	The preparative for London. Be mercifull to your selves. An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London, before their meeting in a Common-Hall, which is now to be called, by the good providence of God, upon Saturday the 24. June. VVhereby they have, if they neglect it not, a gracious opportunity offered them to become the happy instruments of their owne safety, and the peace and preservation of these kingdoms. / By Thomas Warmestry. D. D.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W887; Thomason E449_26	11,417	16

THE PREPARATIVE FOR LONDON Be mercifull to your selves An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London before their meeting in a Common-Hall which is now to be called by the good providence of God upon Saturday the 24. of June VVhereby they have if they neglect it not a gracious opportunity offered them to become the happy instruments of their owne safety and the peace and preservation of these Kingdoms By Thomas Warmestry D. D. MAT. 5.9 Blessed are the Peace-makers Printed in the Yeare 1648. The Preparative for London SHall the Sword devoure for ever 2 Sam. ● 26 Know ye not that it will be bitternesse in the latter end How long shall it be then ere ye bid the people return from following their brethren Oh let me beseech you to remember the Lord your God! And to take the wasted and bleeding condition of your poor distressed country into tender consideation Let the groanes and the sighes of the fatherlesse and the widdowes and the cries of the oppressed and consumed people of this Land and of poor distressed Ireland enter into your ears and pieree your hearts that you bring not the guilt of innocent blood upon your selves Provoke not the Almighty to give you the dregs of that Cup which hath been mingled in his fury against the sinnes of you and of these Nations because you have shewed no pitty upon your Brethren Hear their cries unto you that the Lord hear not their cries and the cry of that bloud that hath or shall be shed against you And let it be in your hearts now at length to lay aside all thoughts of division and self-seeking of strife and debate of opposition and contention And to put on bowels of mercy towards your fellow Christians and Country-men Yea to be so mercifull unto your selves to prevent that impendent ruine desolation that hangs over your City like a flaming Sword or dreadfull Comet and seemes every day to draw neerer and neerer unto you least when the fire is once kindled amongst you you cannot quench that with your fruitlesse tears which you would not prevent by your timely endeavours Consider that power that God of his great goodnesse of his great goodnesse to you in speciall if you neglect it not as well as to these Nations in generall hath yet left remaining in your hands and in your hands alone with his blessing and assistance which the Lord grant you to put yet an happy period unto the great miseries of these Kingdomes Consider the great and manifold inducements both heavenly and earthly both politique and oeconomicall Both publick and private Both in point of duty in point of piety in point of justice and mercy of honour of interest in the regards of safety of wealth of welfare and of very being and subsistence that do now exact it at your hands It is the duty that nature in self hath taught all men even the very heathens themselves and is much more cleerly commended unto us by the rules of Christian charity That all men ought to seek the good of that state and body of which themselves are members Piety commands us to seek the preservation of Gods Church and the recovery and establishment of true Religion amongst us Justice engageth us to employ our lawfull and Christian endeavours for restoring Law and Justice amongst us and of wronged and oppressed people unto their rights Mercy obligeth us to seek the preservation of our selves and brethren and to prevent the farther shedding of innocent blood That the poor people of this wasted Nation may be no longer worryed by those savage wolves and beares that have now for so long a time take their pleasure in the devouring of their brethren If regards of honour be of any force with us what an honour will it be unto this City to be the moderatours of so bloudy a quarrell and to procure a reconciliation between the King and His people which shall illustrate their names unto all posterity and endeare them to the hearts of the people as the repairers of the breaches of their Country and the preservers of their King and this whole Kingdome under God If your interest wealth and welfare or your very being and subsistence be considerable unto you all these hang upon the designes of peace and upon the restitution of Government amongst us without this your forraign traffique is like to be obstructed by the Navy and if this fail you the intestine trade is too shallow to feed the roots of so great a tree as is this of your City How many severall callings manufactures occupations that make up a great and the most flourishing part of your City will be utterly starved in so great a straite Besides that your trading at home doth daily and is like continually to decay by the banishing of a great part of the people from the City and by the impoverish-of many thousands more whereby they are disabled and others not suffered to exercise that commerce with you that should make for the mutuall supply and supportance of you and them and so your very being is in question when your livelihood and supportance is cut off Consider the great and providentiall conjuncture of affaires in the present state and condition of things that doth invite you to the undertaking of this work So great and considerable a part of the Kingdome going before you with flaming desires in the prosecution of the designe of Peace many whereof have opened the way unto you with their blood and many more waiting and expecting your example and encouragement no doubt that they may joyn hands with you in so happy an undertaking Consider the charge that is like to be your part if the Kingdom be engaged in another War And the poor supplies that are likely to come in in those abridgments which you are already under to enable you to nurce up such a daughter of the horse-leach that wil ever be crying unto you give give without regard either to your necessities or possibilities Vnde habeas quaeret nemo sed oportet habere When the Sword of the Souldier is once more made drunk with blond you will finde much ado to make it understand reason Non missura cutem nisi plena cruoris hirudo Will they leave sucking at your veines think you till they have drawn out your very life and heart blood Consider how bloudy and violent the prosecution you may guesse it by a late paroxisme in Essex how hazardous and uncertaine the event of another War will be How you your selves are like to be divided within your selves by the several parties which is likely to set you on fire amongst your selves that perhaps in a litterall sense when want and famine shall become the dismall nurce of fury and rage amongst you at the best it may expose you to a a City-war and what confusion is like to attend it Consider if you could be choosers of the success and in that you

would not agree but would be at war amongst your selves about the very event that you should choose But in case you could as the case now stands with you that you have in either part or in whole displeased all parties at one time or another What event can you expect that will not in probability make the spoile of your City if by that time you shall be extant or have any thing left that is worth the plundring the center of the motion and the reward and triumph of the victory If the King prevaile it 's true he is gracious and hath learnt no doubt by his own sufferings great lessons of mercy and compassion towards others But the sons of Zerviah may be too hard for him and perhaps he may have much adoe to conquer the rage of his incensed Army that he may be mercifull unto you The Scots are hungry The Army full of fury and offence and when they are gotten into power your cold courtesies will be taken for injuries what you have done will be forgotten and what you have denyed will be remembred The Houses have received diverse discontents from you The Presbyterian Party hath been deserted by you and many of them chased away and others imprisoned by your admission of the Army you are a body made up of such variety of complexions and have shewed your selves so variable in your actions That you have left room enough for every side to pick a quarrell to make advantage of their power against you and that Sword that shall be up will hardly be disputed with each of them will finde their severall enemies amongst you which may engage the whole unto disaster or if they could finde none yet it is no hard matter for arbitrary Conquerours to make enemies that they may make use of their successes Though you be Guelph yet your goods will be Gibellines No way in the world to secure you in any degree but a timely peace Consider the small number of moments that is allowed you for the dispatch of this great businesse and the prevention of such important mischiefes which calleth upon you to delay it no longer consider the great and horrid impiety that is now discovered by the great mercy of God in the designe to have poysoned his Sacred Majesty which should have been the crown of the rest of those hellish cruelties which have been exercised against Him The God of Heaven look upon the authors and complices and put it into your hearts to separate your selves from all complyance with such devilish and atheisticall undertakers and to seek the deliverance of Him out of their hands Consider I beseech you seriously to consider that happy oppertunity which hath been heretofore denyed you though many of you have desired it and now God by the forelaid plot of his Divine disposition and goodnesse hath by the seasonable returne and the course of times put into your hands by the necessary publike meeting of your City at this time an opportunity which you should looke upon as a call from heaven to set you about this blessed businesse an opportunity which if you now neglect the Lord knowes whether ever you shall have the like againe for ought you know it may be the last offer that ever God will make you for the procurement of your own preservation for ought you know if you shall despise this mercifull concession of the Lord unto you before another such a season shall returne and you know how hard it is to procure such a meeting out of course The flame of your City may be the funerall pile of your selves and your Wives and Children and the Ashes thereof may be left as the greate trophee or monument of your stupid folly and impiety and of the mine of this whole Nation The Lord of his mercy give you wisdome to prevent it I know there are variety of opinions amongst you I know it too well and I grieve to thinke on 't The Lord in his good time make an end of all differences He is able to do it and I hope he will do it in some good measure and in his good time If we disappoint not our selves of so great a blessing But in the mean time I beseech you let not any difference in judgement so quite extinguish the flame of Christian Charity which is a robe large enough to hide a multitude of errours as well as fins as to make us forget all compassion unto one another at least not to forget to have compassion upon our selves let us repaire the breaches in our affections which I dare be bold to say no diversity of judgement whatsoever hath Commission from God utterly to dissolve then we may well hope that God will take his season to make up the differences that are in our apprehensions since it is his promise to the meeke that he will guide them in judgement Psal 25.9 The unity of our hearts must be the foundation to set up the building of our united judgements for froward thoughts separate from God and wisdome is a loving spirit is canonicall truth though it be in an Apocryphall booke The want of mutuall love puts us out of the school of Christ since it is the very livery of his Disciples to love one another John 13.35 This is the right method of union and I wish it were better thought on and then the mutuall conversation and peaceable and Christian communion and conference with one another might be a great meanes to unite us in our judgements but our Wars and fightings come from our evill lusts James 4.1 In the meane time do not henceforth hold your opinions at so deare a rate as to make them the purchase of the ruine and destruction of your selves and these whole Kingdomes and Nations It is a truth wherein nothing can divide you but inexcusable compliance with corruption that you all ought to joyne the utmost of your force and wisdome to prevent ruine and destruction to that body whereof you are now Members and the word of God layes no impediments in your way If any carnall interests and ingagements do I am sure they are held at so high a price by those that stand upon them at this time that if they understood it they would not thinke it their interest to maintaine such interest The asserting of private advantage with the perdition of the publike is as if a man should pull a board out of the maine bottome to preserve the beauty or integrity of a Cabin which with all its ornament and entirenesse sinkes unto the bottome in the drowning of the ship The truth is whatever the Articles be that are proposed there is inequality and injustice in the very capitulation whensoever the publike is enforced to a treaty with private concernments for the preserving of it self since no particular goods is at all considerable where it stands in counter to a publike in the same or a higher kinde And those Members have rather need