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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89338	Englands warning-piece: shewing the nature, danger, and ill effects of civill-warre, and of those nations which have bin infested with it, described. Very necessary for these times wherein we are in so great feare and imminent danger of civill dissention. With a true relation of the miseries and distractions of Germany, France, Ireland, and Spaine. Also the sudden death of the Queen Mother of France. By Thomas Morton.	Morton, Thomas, 17th cent.	1642 (1642)	Wing M2837; Thomason E109_14; ESTC R7397	5,522	8

they make it a point of Religion and a worke meritorious to murder Gods people under the name of Heretikes what misery slavery tyranny nay what death nay what horrid kind of death these men our poore brethren doe endure under these other men if I may call them by so good a name as men our and their enemies some loose their Lands some their liberties some both others with both their lives estates and happy is he that with losse of estate can escape can these men be as they pretend Gods people when by their ungodly nay unmanly actions they prove themselves no be of more then Turkish cruelty My pen cannot speake in a dialect sad enough the ones misfortune and the others insulting tyranny these and more then these are the mishaps which befall a Land infected with civill Warre which of all warres is most dangerous and pernicious in the other we are made miserable by our enemies in this our friends are our enemies in that we may be prosperous in this we must needs be miserable those are undertaken of necessity this is begun by trechery pride cruelty oppression and a number more of horrid crimes and ends in confusion and destruction all contribute and lend ayd against our open enemies when we are at warres with our selves who can be safe or who secure Victory being here a Misery and Conquest an Overthrow he alone thinkes himselfe safe who seeth none survive to molest him and who is happy but bankrouts ferlorne desperate men and those whose fortunes can be raised no other way and such men are as the greatest offenders for the greatest causes of such broyles and dissentions for none but the enemies of the Common-wealth will disturbe its peace or seek its ruine these are the Incendiaries in a Kingdome these cannot indure that there shou●d be wholesome Lawes to punish Delinquents for then themselves would not escape but they breed variance invent Plots foment Jealousies and all to distract disturbe and if they could quite overturne the Republike and with such sugred language and subtile carriage doe they infuse their guilded poysons and sweetned infections into those that cherish them that for the present they suppose them their greatest friends choisest Counsellours who will at last prove themselves their most dangerous enemies and it is no small point of these mens pollicy by all waies possible to reader those odious and contemptible to the common people whose onely end it is to settle peace and procure the happinesse of the people To the wicked insinuations and mischievous practises of these men must we needs attribute the unhappinesse of our present condition that such may receive condigne punishment for their base actions we should as in our Protestation we are bound to use all lawfull meanes peace being that which every good Subject doth desire and these men being the soarest enemies to a well-setled peace nor is it the mischiefe alone of Civill warre to divide a Land against it selfe which is misery enough but it is also a sinister cause of introducing forraigne enemies a soe taking his best occasion by the weaknesse of his foe to insult over him and then who knowes not that enemies abroad and enemies at home must needs bring a Land to the lowest depth of a most desperate misery but let us not be so busied in deploring the sad case of it as not to seek a timely remedy for it for if this be not prevented who amongst us can say he hath a House Land a Wife Children nay who can safely say he hath a Life so uncertain and in so great danger will all things hang. Another let to unity and that a great one too are the unhappy differences betwixt the King and his Parliament the occasions of which differences have bin by many touched and I wish they had not the misfortune to know them or we the unhappinesse to feele them for how can the Kingdom subsist if the Pillars by whom it subsisteth are undermined how can peace flourish when the maintainers of it are not at peace amongst themselves How can happinesse attain to us if the introducers of it are at unhappy variance O let it then be the desire of all true subjects that these may agree concord and be united that themselves may enjoy again their Peace and Liberties and happily avoid what is so much feared Civill dissention for most manifest it is that a King agreeing with a truly setled Parliament must needs make his Kingdom truly flourish for they being chosen from all parts of the Kingdome and by the free Election of the men in those parts must needs be supposed to know what the grievances or wrongs what the troubles or vexations of the whole Land are and none doubteth but were there an agreement betwixt the head and these members hose wrongs would be righted those troubles would be appeased and those vexations quieted and secured before this be done it cannot be expected that we should be safe and peaceable and better were it to enjoy peace at hard conditions then that we should be embroyled with civill distractions for then would the Lawes be cast of the Magistrates despised the liberty of Subjects turned into the licentiousnesse of Rebels and all things strangely metamorphosed into a confused Chaos and we all know that the Lawes are the sinewes and nerves which consolidate and strengthen the Commonalty they are the authority by which every man challengeth his right and enjoyes his owne in them the prosperity of the Subject being set downe the punishment of offendors prescribed and all politicall government established then by whom were all these made and enacted but by the W sdome and Counsell of Kings and their Parliaments the Magistrates are those t●at being authorized by those that made them doe give r●se to the Lawes by declaring them and putting them in fo●ce by such the Lawes which in themselves are dead being enlivened for they invindicating those that suffer and punishing those that doe wrong and in justice doe execute administer justice upon which the Lawes are founded The liberty of the Subject is not such a licentiousnesse as will authorize him to doe any thing without feare or care of any ensuing danger but it is that whereby he enjoyes that which is properly his own without any molestation or trouble and this liberty also produceth from the ordaining of good Lawes which are by Kings and Parliaments and the executing them which is by Magistrates we may then plainly see that the maintenance of the Kings honour and estate the power and priviledges of Parliaments and the liberty and property of the Subjects are those which make a State politicall truly peaceable but when the Kings Prerogative is invaded the just power of Parliaments by every one questioned the liberty of the Subject misinterpreted all things turne into a confusion and straight is fomented a civill Warre sooner begun then ended and produced by as bad causes as it selfe doth generate disastrous effects Let then the Law proceed duly and justly against those magligannt spirits whose onely aime it is to bring such sad ends to passe and to poison the Land with the infection of Arbitrary government that all things may be lawfull nothing safe which how great misery it will bring upon us a very Heathen could tell who openly professed That he had rather live in a Land where nothing is then where all things were common and lawfull Nor is it Englands unfortunate condition alone to be so neare to its ruine and de●●ruction nor is it onely Ireland whose distresses want reliefe but both our neighbours France and Spain are violently oppressed with their owne greatnesse Jn Spain whole Countries revolt against their King and choose another thinking themselves too great a Nation to be swayed by one Scepter or ruled by one Monarch Castile and Portugall scorning to be lesse then Kingdomes by the losse of which great Countries how much the honour and revenue of that King will be impoverished we may easily judge In France not only the Kingdome but the life of the King himselfe was in great danger by the Stratagems they say of an unnaturall Mother and an ambitious Brother strange that he should be in danger of losing his life by her that first gave it him and that a Brother should prove a Traytor but the horridnesse of this plot was defeated to the destruction of the Conspirators for no so●ner was it knowne to be divulged but it shortned some say tooke away the life of her that world have taken away the life of her Sonne Shee within five dayes expiring Such is the deplorable estate of ill successe in ill Enterprizes perish all they who desire the Misery o pugne the Happinesse of this Land and by the goodnesse of GOD and care of this prudent PARLIAMENT let their horrid devises perish with themselves FINIS