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A33417 Certain letters written to severall persons Capel of Hadham, Arthur Capel, Baron, 1610?-1649.; Morley, George, 1597-1684. 1654 (1654) Wing C465; ESTC R22646 20,606 50

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the greater number a vertiginous and giddy generation that will never suffer quiet to themselves you nor others The opposites to these are the most prudent-constituted form of Rules the World hath known a vast number of people wedded to it the matter therefore irreconcileable no example friendly to you all Potentates made partyes against you the certain disunion of Scotland with England the dammage and infamy for the losse of Ireland the defamation of Christian Religion more especially of the Protestant Professours and lastly the person of a most Excellent Prince loved reverenced and desired by the generality of his people Besides all these and others that are obvious to the commonest understandings trust me no mortall man can have a prevision of the future vexations which such a Regicide such a Parricide will bring to the persons affairs and designments of the Army if a prognostick may be made by the rules of Reason by the constant course of humane actions by the conjunction of the present affairs of this Kingdome It is the certain expectation of all sober men that Iacob followed not Esau closer by the heel then the Armyes destruction will that of such an inhumane act of violence upon the sacred Person of this King What then in the name of God is it that hinders you answerable to reason suitable to duty and agreeable to piety from making hast to joyn your self to the Law and to agnize that Prince whom the lawes and ordinance of God have set over you Obey then the municipall Law under which you were born that hath nourished and cherished you restore it promote it all you can reverence that Prince into whose custody God hath committed both the Lawes and your self who I doubt not will find it most conveniency to imploy your self and the soberest of your party in the eminentest administrations under Him And verily I wish it Nor do I think it in any degree reprehensible for you or any other to observe the Physicians rule Accipe dum dolet take this opportunity of the present anguish of the King and Kingdome restore it to its former habit of quiet and peace There is none that will grudge you such sober commodity as may arrive to you by it But with such manner of discourses I will not detain you least I should thereby mis-leade you into a false opinion of me My principles according to the temper of these times are very remote from self-safety or to imploy ungenerous flatteryes for it Know this assuredly that I firmly believe that an established Magistracy is Gods immediate Minister nor can it be deposed by those that owe obedience and subjection to it without the highest guilt of impiety And that this is a verity so plainly held forth to us by the sacred Scriptures as an ordinance imployed by God for the manifestation of his power and goodness in the conservation of humane communion and society that the conscientious sufferers for it may expect a Crown of Martyrdome by it That this Government is a Monarchy and his Majesty the right and lawfull King hath not a colourable objection to gainsay it Read the Act of recognition 1 Iacobi calmly done by the whole Parliament and unanimously pursued by the whole Nation at a season and opportunity that might have encouraged pretences if any could have been found How happens it ●hat the lawfullness of Regall rule is questioned Search the Scriptures God it is that owns their Charter He it is that gave it them Per me Reges regnant Prov. 8.15 not per nos t is no plurality they hold by Where Salomon speaks in the person of the eternall Wisdom thereby to advertise us of no doubt greater reverence and circumspection God himself appoints Moses the first Prince of the politick State of the Iews after him Ioshua c. Is it the title and hereditary succession of Kings you look for See then God himself chuseth Saul afterwards guides the lot lastly follows the publication and acknowledgement of the people Afterward God rejects that Dynasty and by especiall command fixeth David whom by like appointment Salomon succeeds and from him continued that family in the rule in the eldest son of that Family Yet is the person so sacred so delicate that no violent hand must come near to approach it Wherein are the Scriptures more plain and expresse then in this particular Touch not mine Anointed David before he was a King and persecuted by a King who can saith he stretch forth his hand against the Lords Anointed and be guiltless 1. Sam. 24.5.6 Multitude of texts there are that both justify the dignity and enjoyn reverence to the person And conformably it hath been the avowed doctrine and practise of the Church in all ages even under Heathen Princes 'T is an argument too copious for a paper to contain the reasons and instances for it rather indeed it is too manifest to be disputed Hath not God coupled the fear due to Himself with the duty of reverence toward the King Prov. 24.21 22. My Son Fear thou the Lord and the King in conjunction meddle not with them that are given to change Mixe not with such machinators for a like end shall be to the offendours against both Destruction Sir my conclusion shall be very plain because you may thereby be the better assured of my sincerity in all the rest The ancient constitutions and present Lawes of this Kingdome are my inheritance and Birth-right if any shall think to impose upon me that which is worse then death which is the profane and dastardly parting from these Lawes I will chuse the lesse evill which is Death I have also a right in Kingship the Protectour of those Lawes This is also by a necessity and conjunction with that other dearer to me then life And lastly in This King is my present right and also obligations of inestimable favours received from him I would to God my life could be a sacrifice to preserve his Could you make it an expedient to serve that end truly I would pay you more thanks for it then you will allow your self for all your other merits from those you have most obliged and dye Your most affectionate Friend POST-SCRIPT SIR I Adde this Post-script When with the most unheard of and highest violation of all Lawes humane and divine of Morality and Sanctity both upon the person of the King and municipall Lawes of the Kingdome so execrable an Act is perpetrated let the profit of it to the Actours be summed up it amounts to nothing more then this That a King is escaped out of their present possession but the succeeding King obliged by all the tyes of Religion Nature Duty and Honour encouraged with all the irritations of this Nation Scotland and Ireland fortifyed by the Interests of all Christian Princes and States to animate and aide him for his revenge upon the Actours I am not guilty of so implacable and inveterate malice as to wish that the contrivers