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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55791	A paralel between the proceedings of this present King, and this present Parliament		1648 (1648)	Wing P337A; ESTC R221396	9,060	13

and Elencticus the former for a watry and sleight kind of bitternesse seasoned for the most with prophaned sentences of holy writ whose abuse is all the ingenuity it can claim The other which occasioned this present task by a malicious ribauldry and desperate reviling of what persons it pleased and upon what grounds he cared not which being also followed with a frontlesse assertion of whatsoever might advance the cause he undertook hath made it self the companion of its friends to see what a stout and daring champion they had got and the entertainment of many of his enemies to see how unjustly and frowardly he struck at them § VI. With these degrees hath this sheet of paper in despight of the obscurity of its birth and Author made it self the censor of most of the actions and passages of the Kingdom insomuch that having in late weeks foulely fallen on my Lord of Warwick my Lord Wharton Master Speaker Master Soliciter Master Corbet Master Bradshaw Master Hall Master Lilly with others of lesse note and quality it struck in it its thirtieth sheet at the Parliament it self and with a rascally comparison endeavoured to make all the bitternesse that could be emptied against them to serve as a foil to set of the King whom it doth rather injure by how much he layes to his charge those vertues which either are not found or are awanting in him and paints him with those colours which any body that is not byassed may see are adulterate and belong not to him so that on the one side his dispraises being scurrilously libellous and not to be beleeved his encomions on the other side are meerly petitionary and not to be granted by any one that hath the least notice of the actions and carriage of this King § VI. But because a generall Answer is not enough to satisfie particular instances we will run over the Particulars and see by what truth nay discretion they can be made good yet must we professe to retain all reverence to the King's person whom we do not in the least levell at further then what may conduce to cleer the understanding of this present comparison § VII We shall onely premise that there is a great difference between the carriage of a Government a long time setled and rooted in the opinions of the people and one that is but new and arises from a change for mens expectations being in the later case raised and not meeting perhaps with equall satisfaction presently turn into disaffection whereas in a setled government mens thoughts are at a stand and though they meet with some inconveniences they are rather willing to suffer them then run the hazard of an insurrection To adde that a Government of some standing hath commonly observed and remedied those inconveniences which a State of a lesser standing cannot as either being employed in other affairs or else for the present not willing to note them Withall in the former case the Revenue is setled and certain which is not so in the later although there be much the more occasion which may cause some unusuall levies yet without the imputation of tyranny § IX So that were it true what the Pamphleteer sayes that the people were weary of the oppression and slavery which he says they now groan under it might be rather their own inconsideracies then the mis-government of this Parliament whom yet as being but men and walking in slippery times I suppose no man is bound to justifie in every particular yet for setting up any arbitrary or tyrannicall Government the best of them would as much loath the thought of it as the worst would fear to attempt it § X. But how do they oppose a gracious c. King when all their endeavours have hitherto been to draw him from those Counsellours which by the confession of his own party have been too prevalent with him and had we any leisure to make long reflections on the late war it were no difficulty to demonstrate that the stubbornnesse and aversnesse of Him and his Party drew it out to that length though the Pamphlet charges the People that they embrace an unnaturall and bloody War § XI The people are also charged to abandon all Order Ecclesiasticall as if taking away of Bishops whose grosse enormities became the outcry of the whole Nation reduced us into an Anarchy or the taking away of superstitious Ceremonies not onely burdensome to tender consciences innovated against Law brought prophanenesse upon us and shook the frame of all divine Worship And whereas he sayes that no government can suit with this Nation but Monarchy 'T is granted onely we desire it may not be Muscovitish or Turkish and we now come to the Paralell § XII We know and the deadliest enemies he hath have acknowledged that his Majesty conformeth himself unto the lawes of Nature which these Tyrants at their pleasure trample on This fellow either not understood or explained not what he meant in that place by the lawes of Nature nor can we till we be as wise as he make an answer to it onely if he understand it as it is in the Schools 't is but a poor acknowledgment every King having other Lawes whereby to govern But why did he not instance wherein the Tyrants as he cals them did trample on them for by generall criminations it is easie to overthrow the best integrity § XIII The King respects Religion Justice and Faith whereas they regard neither God Faith nor Law For the King's Religion we refer it to that power who best knows it For his Justice whether all the acts of his reign fall under that note or no may be soon enquired For his Faith which we must interpret to be keeping of promise 't is well enough known how contrary his Declarations and Letters have been one to another For the Parliaments regarding of God his mercies to them so many and so continued shew them not unsincere For their regarding of Faith tax them if thou canst with any breach of Promise For their regard of Law to what end have they fought so long but to rescue it from oppression and how can they not regard that whereof they are the makers but indeed there is a height of malice in this expression and there can be no more said against the Devil himself § XIIII The King referreth all his actions to the good of the Common-wealth and safety of his Subjects whereas the other respect nothing more then their own particular profits pleasure and revenge If the King referred all his actions c. he were an Angel and no Man But this is a meer hyperbolicall common place of flattery For the other c. That that there may be such ayms among some particulars we wish we could deny but for the generall 't is an imputation that a deadly enemy would hardly charge them withall § XV. The King always endeavoured to enrich his Subjects whereas these Tyrants seek after nothing more then by