NO INTEREST Beyond the PRINCIPALL OR The Court CAMISADO By Reduction of Government to its primitive end and Integrity Rom. 13. 4. The Ruler is the Minister of God to thee for good ALSO NEVVES from SCOTLAND OR The REASONS Examined of the Warre THREATNED May. 1. 1648. Imprimatur Gilb. Mabbott LONDON Printed for H. Becke and are to be sold in the Old Bayley 1648. No Interest beyond the Principall OR The Court Camisado IN the case of divorce when it was put to Christ by the Pharisees to know his opinions in it he being neither Scribe nor Pharisee Mat. 19. of no sect nor faction one that drive no designe but Gods and that came to fulfill the law not to destroy it sends those great doctors to Schoole to the primitive end and institution of marriage as it came immediatly from God in innocency when and where all things were very good as he that will taste water purely must doe it at the fountain But they not satisfied with this solution by way of justification urge an old statute Law of Moses which by its antiquity authority and usage might as they thought v. 7 plead right of prescription for that masculine priviledge of putting away their wives But Christ tels them that Plant never grew in innocency God grafted no such Sience in the stocke of created nature it was a mushroome that grew out of nature corrupted Moses saies he bacause of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives but from the beginning it was not so as who say It was indeed a politique law of concession but policy must not annull divinity neither reason of state not laws municipal must crossewhâ—t with right reason or the principles of entire nature Therefore I who am come to enlighten your judgements and reforme your manners Gospell-properties tell you againe that whatever your lusts and exorbitancies might occasion Moses to do or enact by way of connivance or permission that does not justifie the practise though never so old and generally received to be lawful but rather shew it to be unlawful because that permission varies from the first position or standard given by God himself the prime legislator whither this case if rightly stated and argued must be reduced for solution no authority binding above his nor no law against his though seemingly never so specious A cleare demonstration which is the best way to answer questions and work reformations in matters of Government Not to be mis-led by words of Art civill superstition or formall pretences to the violation of the lawes of God nature or reason It is true that Government as marriage is of God but it is as true that governors as persons marrying are of men and that the great Interest which word is now the onely Idol that men sal down and worship of both Government and Governours is the glory of God and the good of mankind The end of the institution is the onely interest of the thing instituted and consequently the Meaâ—e-wand or Standard by which it is to be regulated and reduced though as old as Moses when God gives opportunity and time brings truth to light In this age of ours Kings plead for prerogative flowres of the Crown and right of Soveraignty as they and their flatterers cal it And even Parliament-priviledge is made use of by prerogative members for promoting the arbitrary interest of the Crown thus is authority wire-drawn as if Governours rather then the Governed were the end of Government and Government it selfe is rather made a personall Interest then a publique utility Yea Laws nay Oathes are thus made use of to captive insnare men by prerogative glosses as if it wer in the power of men who are the sons of reason to swear themselves into beasts and to abjure their very nature and that by vertue of an ordinance of God which Government is What confidence can Kings have in people by such ties as being ex natura rei unlawfull do untie themselves and which are both unlawful to be taken and when taken unlawfull to be kept Such glosses as Court Parasites put upon lawes allegiance tending to make Kings absolute and their power as well negative as positive and their duty meere matters of pleasure and acts of will in the way neither to render Kings safe nor their people happy The Popery of an implicit faith and blinde obedience will not cannot last alwayes which because it is so much countenanced by Episcopacy that rag of Rome therefore thence is that maxim No Bishops no King implying that when ever the vail of ignorance and blind obedience was done away by abolishing of Bishops and the peoples eyes were opened by divinity and reason to see themselves mis-led by pretence of authority from a right understanding of the nature of government they will never endure to be slaves instead of freemen subjects to governours instead of government and to serve their interests who are their Ministers and Gods meerly for their good having their being in office and authority by for nor to no other end or purpose For as the Pope is afraid of nothing so much as the translating the word into popular languages for fear of betraying his jugling tricks in divinity so nor Kings and Royallists then that the Lawes of the Land should be English'd I meane not so much in language as in sense and reason though there is no good reason why English eyes should look through French spectacles except it be to see to lose our way to liberty and property as they have done but for English Lawes to speake Prerogative is worse then to speake French some Commentators are better Courtiers then Lawyers who should be men of reason and not so discredit the Law the honour of their profession as to force it against reason to advance the will of a man above the reason of a State and the originall end of government it selfe Therefore its time to be no longer fool'd with State tearmes of Interest Jewels and Flowers of the Crowne or the old overworne word of Prerogative for what is this but first to set up a golden image and then to fall downe and worship it I am not against Kings nor their Crownes it s the abuse and onely that that I abominate which hath as much blindfolded the people of Christendome as the Popes supremacy hath the Princes thereof whose eyes yet shall be opened to see their errour and to withdraw their necks out of his Ecclesiasticall yoake and so it s hoped shall the peoples specially Englishmen in things Civil to know as their obedience to authority so good authority in reason justice and equity for that their obedience for so men act like men else like beasts which only are subjected to will which yet is not the least part of that bondage of corruption the creation groans and travels in pain under Rom. 8. 20 21 22. being unwillingly made subject to that vanity in hope and earnest
expectation to be delivered and shal we be so vaine specially when a price is new put into our hands as willingly to take up that yoake which the creature though senselesse and irrationall unwillingly beares in hope of being infranchised of it at the last accounting even annihilation better then subordination to the inordinate will of falne mankinde Old errours are so much cryed up under new lights as that old truths will scarce be believed against custome in errour Kings they will not but tell you it s against their interest not to be arbitrary and the people they dare not believe it if the Princes doe not though neither to ' ne nor to ' ther but must needs grant that ab initio non fuit sic its consonant neither to the nature nor the end of government and consequently not of Sovereignty which onely so farre is sovereigne as it is preservative Therefore the Law sayes of al men the King can doe no wrong hath lesse power to doe wrong because greater obligation to doe right then any man else nay he is so far from having power to doe wrong that he is neither to doe it nor suffer it to be done by any inferiour powers but to see that justice and protection according to Law be administred to all by the Ministers thereof whereof hee 's the chiefe But the nature of man even in innocency though not by it lusteth after an exorbitant superiority for when God had made him Lord over all but the forbidden fruit hee thought himselfe no King over the creature whilst the Creator limited his power though but in one and therefore he resolves either to win the horse or lose the saddle gaine that or lose all So Kings bee their power never so great to doe yet except they may also have power to undoe negative as well as positive power to deny as well as to grant and undoe as well as doe they are unsatisfied and sticke not in effect to affirme that except you grant them Tyranny you oppose Monarchy Wherein yet they doe themselves no right nor those that flatter them into such principles for when people see they cannot grant safe and lawfull premises but with hazzard of sophistical and prevaricate conclusions to bee inferred thereupon it makes them fearefull to grant any thing lest they lose all an Inch given makes an Ell taken As if commissions c. for honour-sake goe in the Kings name then the Court consequence is they are the act not his Laws then the next result is they are ad placitum and not quamdiu bene se gesserint Prerogative is so procreant that no wombe is barren to the third or fourth generation but every inference is productive of another So let him have the honour to confirme and assert Laws then the next remove is you must allow him the use of his reason and the next to that therefore a negative as well as an affirmative voice grant-freewill and falling from Grace will follow Suppose him the fountaine of honour then he retorts I may conferre it on whom I please and for what cause for vice as well as vertue I may make George Villiers and his vertuous mother Duke and Countesse of Buckingham and court-minions Privy-councellours nay aliens of the Scotch Nation whose native state interest by vicinity is against ours Peers and Parliamentmen in England Therefore lay the foundation upon the rocke not in the sands make out that position in plain English That the King can do no wrong nor the Crown neither by declaring that neither legally nor illegally by abused law or power above law it neither is nor ought to be in their power to do so and provide accordingly let legall and regall be but one and the same as in sound so in a safe and sound sence univocall tearmes and soveraignty made soveraigne by preferring the Coronation Oath with a right understanding Magna Charta purged of superstition and the Petition of Right well back'd with Propositions to be principall flowers of the Crowne before it be worne againe in England and that by a penall law for if it be lawfull for a private man or particular subject to implead his Prince by law upon a particular wrong much more for the State or people in generall to implead him by armes or proceed against him in case of a generall wrong when theirs neither Law nor Judge but salus popoli to determine betwixt them And therefore Trajan both wisely and worthily when hee delivered the sword to the Pretor bid him use it for him whilst he ruled well and against him when ill Let Kings have as much honour freedome and safety in the way of righteousnes as becomes men of their place the contrary whereof is dishonour slavery and danger both to Prince and people Let the people know that his name is of no more use in commissions and statutes then his Image and superscription upon coyn the one arguing no more propriety or title in him then the other the honour of both his is that for publik advantage not disadvantage he can no more suspend the one then the other or destitute his people either of laws or their lawful execution then of money and trade Gospel timeshould make our Kings better Christians then to desire such Catholike authority when they see heare and read the evill effects that doe and cannot but attend it both to him that is in authority by way of temptation and those that are under authority by way of ruine and destruction Giants of old those men-monsters begotten of Gods displeasure inordinate concupiscence what effects had their exorbitancy of strength but to make them men of exorbitant minds proud cruel rebellious toward God and tyrannous over men A reasonable size best befits a reasonable man too much power of any kind makes a man a monster and hazzards him to do monstrous things Nimrod was the first we read of that by invasion and oppression of publique right and liberty affected a Babell Kingdome Government beyond rule and to be absolute on earth as God is in heaven therefore was he call'd The mighty hunter before the Lord Gen. 10. 8 9 10. And every one after him that hunted inordinatly after power as he did was proverbially called as he was another Nimrod or as wee now say Nimrod the second Nimrod the third the mighty hunter c. deriving both his name and stile as the brand of his presumption and unlawfull ambition or usurpation The account that Kings are to make for the talents that are lawfully conferred upon them is great enough and need not be increased by the talents themselves unlawfully usurped Abused power makes men on earth the most unlike to God in heaven of any thing therfore unlimitted authority is uncompatible to a creature and able to make a man a devill Angels in heaven as well as Adam in paradise fell by free-will and freewill power and how then think we can Common-wealths
stand by it specially in one man That King that makes conscience of his place and people will rather think his power too much then too little considering he must answer for no more then he hath and with Moses be content to depart of his spirit to lessen his charge for his own ease and their benefit and if he doe not then a little is too much for power without conscience is like a horse without a bridle ready to hurry the rider into ruine and over-run al that stands in his way Nor will a conscientious King purchase power over his people against their wills with the losse of their blood his greater care will be to use that well he hath and not to make his successors absolute that his Subjects may be slaves nor conquer whom he should protect he will as well remember that he is the father of his Country as of his next Heire who yet is but his successor and the Kingdoms Heire the Crown and Kingdome being an incorporate body for he cannot dis-inherit him though the people may and upon mis-government depose him as in case of adultery marryed people may divorce the knot that ties them together being broken asunder his care should be rather to leave rules to his Son to govern well then power to govern ill and himself to dye desired as good Josiah did rather then when he is dead to be stiled of happy memory because of his unhappy Reigne Would Kings be more Religious they would be lesse ambitious and see reason for it yea beleeve themselves as well in debt to their people as their people to them owing both mutuall love and duty striving rather to deserve obedience then to inforce it and entituling themselves to their peoples Allegiance rather by their administrations then commands themselves inviolably keeping the Oath of good Government that so they may not give their people the least coulour of liberty to breake theâ—e of dutifull Allegiance and knowing how dangerous a thing 〈…〉 a Printe is both in the sad consequence of ill example and the wosull effects of divine justice so frequently inflicted on the people either for or by occasion of the Princes sins What reason can be given why all other Governors and Magistrats are to rule for the publique good and onely Kings for their owne greatning No inferior authority hath a negative power to suspend justice or protection so farre as he is to administer it by his place the King himself can derive no such power to any and if he cannot derive it then he hath it not inherent in himself for the Soveraignes power is principally to impower others Magis and Minus make no essentiall difference Betwixt the King and a Constable there is difference of power in point of proportion but not in specie or kind it is of the same kinde and to the self-same end one hath not power for and the other against Or what reason can be showne why the King ought to have a negative arbitrary power is it because Kings are more infallible unerring then other men we have not found it so Or what good reason can be shown that de facto he hath it Hath any known law of the Land conferred it on him or is it meerly by usurpation hath he taken it because the people durst not deny it as former Kings have done Forrest-Lands then made the people undoe them by forrest-forrest-Laws why then prescription in wrong entitles no man to right especially Kings whose office is neither to do nor suffer to be done any wrong to the body whereof they are the head Or is it as some affirme because the King is supreame for say they seeing arbitrary power must be somewhere therfore it is fittest to be in the supreme Magistrate To this I Answer That arbitrary Legislative power is in the supreme Magistracy or Government not Governour the Parliament not the King for the people being a numerous dispersed multitude and so not fit alwayes to be together to see to the execution of their own Laws do therefore meet occasionally in an aggregate body for the consultive and creative part of Laws and constitutions that so they may be such as are most fit and doe best sute with the nature of the place and people and then leave them for the executive part principally to the care of the King with other ordained Ministers as being better executed by a few then a many and better consulted and made by a many then a few therfore hath he the honor of Sword Scepter and for that cause were good Kings in former times wont to goe their progresses as Judges doe their circuits not to make hunting-matches horse-races nor yet to give Laws but to inquire and countenance the execution of justice preservation of peace according to law punish the violators And as Kings so all other Governments and governors their Interest is neither contrary to nor diverse from the publick good their chief end is their cheif interest neither power priviledge nor liberty to consult debate or conclude belongs to any and to them least that are intrusted most but what hath proximity with is reductive to and acted for it therfore those Parliament-men whose principles and transactions vary from that pole they are the most destructive members to Parliament-interest that drive a Court designe with publick imployment for Prerogative and Priviledge run the same danger the apparent abuse of same brings all into question potius unus quam unitas better then throw out some rotten Apples then spoyle the whole hoard be not tenderer of your members then they are true to their trust if the Common wealth see some made examples the punishment of a few will preserve the reputation of the whole that the body is sound though some members be rotten God made not man for himself the interest of the creature is the service of his Creator and therefore our rise was our fall the raising of our interest was the ruine of us all He that being chosen and intrusted with arbitrary power wil therfore use it arbitrarily is Adams own child and after his likenesse If it be objected that the King pretends the publick interest in those things which by absolute power he claimes and entitles himself unto as the Militia and negative voyce that they are for the better protecting and rule of his people and the Royall party in Parliament forsooth urge Liberty of conscience for liberty of speech Cum Privilegio to betray their trust To these I Answer first Joyntly That it is an easie matter to put a bait upon a hook and no hard thing to catch Gudgins with it but for my part I will never trust him nor them by the By that erre in the main Secondly Severally And first for the Kings claim and pretences which the effects have proved barely to be such in reason he can neither desire it if he know himself to be but man nor his people
grant it to his their apparent ruine Only blind Cupid is fit to stand a top of the wheel of Fortune none that have eyes in their heads would desire so slippery a place when they see they so much over top themselves that their hands cannot mannage what is under their feet but they must needs turn round to their own ruine But if seeing they see not and will venture their necks to have their wills yet there is no reason the people should build Babel to bring confusion upon themselves VVisdom is to pursue a right end by right means consequently not to expect good government from a corrupt will endowed with Arbitrary power What hath bin the ruin of Empire so much as Empire Kings have lived to repent their power and people much more And Secondly for his party in the Parliament Priviledge in their hands is as bad as prerogative in his they having no more right of power to abuse that then he this Whoever represents a County or Corporation is entrusted by a part of member of the Common-wealth for the good of the whole and is in the 〈◊〉 of an Embassador or Commissioner to negotiate in a joynt body with the States Generall for the State in generall For by the Laws of Embassie State agents though Plenipotentiaties are not to betray them they treat for their power is neither intended nor ought to be interpreted to the prejudice but profit of them that imploy them The Feffee for the Feffor Liberty and priviledge are allowed to Parliaments to transact the liberty property and safety of the people and he that goes retrograde to those what place or part of the Common-wealth soever he serve for by right of community ought to be rejected by the rest that serve for and are intrusted with the whole In a word words by tract of time degenerate like men Tirannus once was taken in the better part when Kings were better common-wealths-men and that they and their people were joynt purchasers trading abroad not at home for preeminence So was the word Interest whilst it was of publick cognizance and all Qu. Elizabeths dayes kept it self sober by drinking English Beâ—re till it was made drunk with Fâ—â—…tiniack and the King and his Courtiers by use upon use and interest upon interest had almost swallowed up all the peoples Principall And Reason it self run hazzard to have her eyes put out that Prapria que maribus which was wont to be the common name for all men it begun to be wholly ingrossed at Court entailed upon the crown begg'd for a Monopoly insomuch as there was almost no Reason left but Reason of State within the compasse of a cabinet councell all else was either bruitish or rebell on nor no state but that of the King his Royal consort the one Scatch the other French When publick Interest is impropriated ex officia to private personall purposes then ceaseth the name nature of a Governour by deviating from the primitive end institution of government ordain'd by God Nature consequently love loyalty obedience duty for what oblieges these not greatnes without goodnes for then the devil might challenge them at our hands who by Scripture is stiled principalities and powers yea the Prince of this world Authority whatever the kind or species of it be whilest it points right to the pole and retains the vertue of the Lord-stone where with it was first touched its safe to sale by it but if either through corruption or injury of time it make standing variations at wrong points then it must either be new touched or quite changed else contrary to intention when first sea-saile you le make a wrong voyage and fall amongst enemies instead of friends or a destructive and be cast amongst rock and sands instead of knowne Seas NEWES from SCOTLAND OR Their reasons examined of the WARRE threatned THe Scots would faine make war upon England but they are to seeke for a why and a wherefore and are ready to fall together by the eares amongst themselves what shall be the cause of the quarrell yet keep us in continuall alarme to the losse of Ireland for the world must have a blind But bee the reason never so politicke Religion must be the overture which the Scotch dangerous Committee not being wise enough to reconcile Traquire who of late was first in their exception and now in acceptation was called to councell to help at a dead lift being for michiavillian policy another Strafford One part of them say the Sectaries meaning the Army have broken the Covenant which they never tooke But if breach of Covenant be a cause of quarrell the Scots neede not goe so farre to fight they have Covenant breakers nearer hand at home is it possible that such pretenders to piety should see a moat in their brothers eye so far off and overlooke the beame that is in their own streyne at a gnat and swallow a camel threaten warre to England for they themselves know not what one while saying the Covenant is broken and another while that it is endangered and the whilst cocker up their owne Commissioners with an omne bene in their palpable Covenant-breaches and Apostacies But it seemes they must fall out with us to keep them friends amongst themselves though if they had eyes in their heads they might see Gods hand in creating such fewds at home to prevent the mischiefe they would bring abroad But wherein have the Army broken the Covenant why principally for not being Presbyterians for that in pretence with some and reality with others is made the chiefe if not the only hinge that the Covenant winds and turnes upon though the word Presbitery is not so much as once named in the Covenant a weak foundation then to build a warre upon but to strengthen it they say the Army have refused orders for their disbanding and forced orders for their standing though the Parliament of England never told them so but they forget what their Army did when it was sent to but to disband their supernumeraries which they flatly refused and forcibly kept them a foot spite of the Parliament and to the despite of the poor Country that groaned under so heavy a burden of so heavy a body and by the same force kept Carlile and Newcastle whether the Parliament would or no by what clause in the Covenant or Treaty is not knowne to this day and the King of England too in England till they thought good to part with him and that notwithstanding all authority reason or right to the contrary But the true reason why the Army whose greatest fault in their faithfulnesse is such an eye sore it is because by their meanes principally their strong party in England is much weakned those fine designes of a joynt interest legislative propriety and the Kings comming to London in freedome honour and safety and other such like have been shrewdly disappointed by demolishing their eleven pillars
and line of communication at once If the Parliament of England and their Army were as mischievously disposed as they would render them and did beleeve breach of Covenant cause of quarrell they would never sit still and suffer such retrogradation as is daily and declaratively acted in Scotland from the Kingdoms to the Kings Cause and Party covenanted and fought against nor their Committee of danger to denounce warre as they do having a visible power on foote to spoile their councels before they can bring them to maturity and to fetch back what they carried hence and those English Malignants and Incendiaries that went hence which contrary to Covenant they refuse to deliver Brotherly love and charity covers a multitude of faults and does not cry every failer for a breach of Covenant on neither side no more than every discontent is a breach of wed-locke especially touching things of non-concernment and a Covenant so large comprehensive and subject in many things to various acceptations by its manner of penning David in the 44. Psalme shewes what God counts breach of Covenant when hee saith vers 17 18. We have not dealt falsly in thy Covenant our heart is not turned backe Now whether in this sense the Lord Louden or the Lord Fairfax the Scotch Papers and Practises or the Parliaments declarations and long sufferings have broken Covenant let God and the World judge As the Covenant warrants not breaking so nor fighting for breaking much lesse a supposed one and that in our own forme and interest God is witnesse as of the Covenant so of the breach and it properly belongs to him not man to punish save in their severall places vocations and interests those are the words of the Covenant whereby the Scotish judicature may and ought to question their owne Scotch Covenant-breakers but by no means to stretch their line over Tweed and to make themselves work in anothers Harvest to punish us and not themselves for things concerning us not them But it seems when the Covenant was first made in Scotl. it was then resolved it should be broke in England and that whatsoever was acted crosse to their designes especially of joynt interest should be the breach of it else they will never bring in such farre fetch'd unconcerning things into the account as they do When they have done justice in Scotland upon their apostalized Covenanters Malignants and Incendiaries we in England will thanke them for their prayors and friendly animadversions in what they can justly taske us or probably suspect us of what kind but not till then nor further then that For by the Covenant the supream judicatories of both Kingdoms respectively have only power to punish Another party are angry and threaten warre because wee will not receive the King upon their tearmes and let them exercise a legislative power so furiously driven on here in England for which they also urge the Covenant that Scotch Magna Charta which because they made it therefore they conceive they cannot breake it assuming a legislative power not onely in but over poore England by vertue of it for that they that are the makers must it seems be interpreters and thus the Covenant which was intended by us unto liberty was meant and is made use of by them unto our bondage and the King his very party and cause Covenanted for that was Covenanted and fought against Monstrum horrendum An ounce of Scotish confidence is more worth than a pound of English honesty Thus Traquier himself is become a Covenanter Such gamesters will never lose what game soever they play at that can play fast and loose and make any thing of every thing and from the words mutuall advice and consent mentioned in the eigth Article of the Treaty intitle themselves to a joynt interest and us to breach of Covenant and Treaty whereas those words imply only thus much that as the war was managed by a joynt ingagement against a common enemy to both Nations so that it should not be ended by a peace transacted or treated by one Nation alone without the privity and consent of the other that so neither of their interests might be damnified Not that both of them should be confounded The rare contradictions that their Papers and Practises hold forth sometimes the King must not come to London till he have given security and satisfaction then again be must come without either sometimes propositions and no personall treaty othertimes a personall treaty and no propositions which now are impositions sometimes the King must take the Covenant otherwhile if be come not to the length of our desires in so doing we must be content sometimes they tell the King upon his refusing the Propositions both Kingdomes will be constrained for their mutuall safety to agree and settle Religion and Peace without him and then upon turne of the tide they tell us we must wait till God change his heart For the safety of the Kingdome the Army must be Disbanded and the King invested in the Militia or it in him Sure Janus is Propitious to these ambidexers else they could never so bewitch wise men as well as fools with their Sorceries as they doe and with the Preshyterian Eele-hooke draw the City and Assembly after them and that not onely in England but in Scotland also where they say they have deluded the well-meaning Clergy who are consented to joyn with those Covenant-breakers in a warre against us provided it be for Covenant-breaking The little good that we have got by the great cvills that we have undergon God justly may and it may be will punish us for it but they for their dissembling shal not scape hypocrisie and falsehood is as hateful to God as to man I doubt not but the issue will prove it so according to their own prayer or forme of thanksgiving upon their deliverance from the French by the aid of the English in these words Suffer us never O Lord to fall to that Ingratitude and detestable unthankefullnes that we shall seek the destruction and death of those whom thou hast made Instruments to deliver us from the tyranny of mercilesse strangers Dissipate thou the councells of such as deceitfully travell to stirre the hearts of the inhabitants of either Realm against the other let their malitious practises be their owne confusion But that which I admire is that they should joyn and unite in Scotland to get England though with hazzard of their owne and that wee will not do the like to keepe it are wee so stout stomacked and our malice so implacable that we will rather lose a good land than shake hands and be friends amongst our selves I meane not the Malignant Cavaliers those excrements of English-men of whom I dare prophecy they shall never hurt any but themselves nor doe much more harme though they may often attempt it then break glasse windows and write libellous pamphlets but the mis-understanding City and Clergy who doe well to oppose errour so be that they themselves erre not fundamentally in doing so and cause the losse of all or hazzard it who have smal cause to think they that are for the King will be for Presbytery I am no Independent save as to the Scots but an English-man were all of us so true to English principles and interest as the Scots are to theirs they durst never set foot upon English ground in a war-like way See we not how it hath been their constant practise and indeavor to set England on fire that they might come in by the light of it and shall we by our differences pave them a way and open them a two leaved doore to enter in at and march into the bowels of our Kingdome by have we fought for the freedome of ourselves and posterity and saved it as a brand out of the fire to be cheated out of it at the last What made this Kingdome bee so often conquered from the Romans to the Normans but domesticke differences and shall it now be our fate to become conquerable by those we our selves have so often conquered through dis-union Beleeve not their overtures be they never so specious Thei 'le tell you thei 'le not joyne with Malignants and Cavaliers as the King and the Earle of Newcastle gave out they would not joyn with Papists whereas they do not only already receive thē joyn with them but themselves are such faced quit about to the King and his cause whereof they have given these good signes amongst others they have received Commission from him to make Malignant Knights and Lords that sit in their Parliament and to gratifie the King again have retorted Traquier and imployed him as a confiding man in Embassie to the King in the Isle of Wyght beleeving the King will give more credit to him that hath been true to his principles then to them that are false to theirs FINIS