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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53762	A prospective for King and subjects. Or A schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II. Kings of England, Scotland, and Ireland. With some few advertisements to the people in the 3. nations concerning the cruel, exorbitant, and most tyrannical slavery they are now under which they have wrought themselves into, and stil desiring to be, by up-holding of a pretended court of Parliament, altogether ruling contrary to the lawes of the lands or any branch there of and according to there owne lustful and arbitrary wills. Written by Wendy Oxford once an honourer of them and there pretences, but now as great an abhorrer of there Macheeslian practises.	Oxford, Wendy.	1652 (1652)	Wing O844; ESTC R214667	19,165	34

his Sacred person remember when you did this murther you wonded your God through the sides and so long as you fight against to keepe your native Soveraigne from his rights and possessions you deteyne God out of his right the King being the vice gerent of the Lords so that in plaine termes you tobbe God of his dues and the King of his contrary quite to our Savious rule give unto Caesar the things which are Caesars and unto God those things which are Gods 3. Next most renowned Prince promise to the people that you wil doe justice to al which is termed Regia mensura even to the meanest as wel as to the greatest without partiality neither inclining to the right hand of affection nor to the left hand of hatred I be seech you toread Sir Francis Bacons Essaies of Iudicature wherein he speaks to Prince as wel as to Iudges if thou per ceivest sayth he on the on side high hils of advantage powerful combination and violent prosecution and on the other side the low vallyes of poverty and dejected nesse prepose thy way as God did to judgement Isaiath the 40. Chap and the 3. verse by raising vallies and taking downe mountaines so shalt thou lay the foundation of thy sentence on a sure ground Then O King as Iehosaphat said Be of good courage and doe justice and the Lord wil be with thee and al nations shal feare thee Now let me speake againe to your people as to this 3. advise And if so that such promises be made to you good countrymen by a King I and by your owne King not a forreigner by a protestant Prince of your owne religion and not of astrangeon that you shal have your religion resetled your lawes now torne to peeces reestablished so that in causes of justice and judgment you shal have true sentence Secundum allegata probata and that you shal have Iudges like Elohem upon life and death and like Solomon when meum tuum is in dispute and not like these Kingly usurpers who to your greifes I speake it had rather Ius dare to make lawes of there owne upon there authorityes of sic volumus sic Iubermus not fearing at al that feareful malediction in Abekuke chapter the 5. and the 1. verse Cursed is he that remooveth his neighbours land marke I say they had rather Ius dare them Ius dicere then to pronounce the old lawes already made If such things be promised by our dread Soveraigne what shal let you but an extraordinary judgement of God for your sinne of in gratitude from in throning him in his native rights and yours which wil prove in conclusion your freedomes and greatest gaines But some of these mens Baal preists may say what wil you extirpate those you have chosen to make and preserve your lawes I answer they deserve it having beene chosen by you to doe so nay they having sworne so to doe but they have prooved false for sworne and grosse covenant breakers who have wrested the lawes of God and the gospel of Iesus Christ to there owne ends the Iustice of God requires it and man also melius ut pereat unus quam pereat unitas better for on to perish then unity to be destroyed they terme themselves a Parliament and as but on body therefore let that on as a rotten corrupt and putrified body be cut of to save a whole stocke from perishing Fiat Iustitia Ense reseindendum ne pars sincera trahatur Looke upon the Apostles rule Nos scimus bonam esse legam modò index à legitima utatur We know that the law is good if a man use it lawfully To the end of what hath beene hitherto spoken by mee I humbly begge of your Majesty that I may returne unto you and your goodnesse heare mee That your Majesty would not be advised by any favourites when you shal by Gods blessing attaine to your crownes to deale with your people as physitians sometimes deale with there patients that they must be recovered by corosives and sharpe remedies no Deare Sr. that you please to cure them with a diat and asswage with fomentations And if against the light of nature and lawes of nations and rights thereof your people shal persist in there obstinacy and contemne your many times offred grace and goodnesse then you are excused in the binding cutting and pruning such stife stakes that wil rather burst then bend and al to be really looked on as to the restoring your selfe to your owne and them to your selfe yet you may not extirpate all But for the a voyding of this latter I wish great Sr that your Kingdomes may be setled without more blood as firme as mountaines not to be remooved your cities returne in obedience and your strongholds with continuance of the same al your subjects obsequious and not to hate monarchy under thoughts of freedome and so conspire stil to with hold there obedience O that is a greivous sinne and absolutely unlawfull by the lawes of God and man to resolve a redemption by a wicked temptation of liberty Such subjects must expect to labour under general convulsions and be wasted with unheard of Lacerations No farre be it from your people to entertaine such precipitation of thoughts and farre be also contempt and rigour from your Majesty least the divine power of God bring to passe that which few feares none dare attempt and Prince and people ab horre wherefore O Prince resolve of comeing to your owne if possibly by love and peace and rather suffer a little longer then ruine al. Si vis vincere disce pati Now you that cal your selves the supreame power of England Scotland and Ireland I can compare you to no other then to the 30. Tyrants of Athens or to the Tribunes amongst the Romans either lyke the 30. Tyrants who were chosen by the people to be there conservators of there lawes and liberties even so were you who held the people with goodwords and faire glozzed declarations as you have done until they had the opportunity and strength to persist in there designe of Tyranny then they turned the weapons of the people against there owne breacts and became absolute Tyrants whole names and deeds had never beene blotted out had not this age bred such monsters as you are to outvy them in the highhest manner that may be or els you may be compared to the Tribunes amongst the Romaines to be appealed unto from inferiour courts of Iudicature and chosen Parliament men to be advisers about affaires and assistants to the King which in a short time you by your machevilian perjuries and so phisticated conjurations to the people namely your declarations promises remonstrances c. In your usurped authority have not only overtopped the Kings power like the Tribunes but have cut of King and power to al posterity Wherefore al people may justly say either you are without Christ or Christ without peace A hard saying I must confesse but yet

have enough to bestow on there owne edifices but nothing to bestow on the repairing the Temples of God but rather pulling downe the churches as they doe dayly amongst you reedifiing there owne buildings as it is in Agge the 1. and the 4. verse It is time for your selves to dwell in your houses and this house to lye waste O such wretched cormorants who doe not onely let the houses of God liewaste but utterly pul them downe and purchase lands with the spoyles thereof yet these sacrilegious persons are accounted by you good Christians yet you sticke and adhere to them who make there buildings as it is spoken in the 6. chap. of Ioshua and the 26. verse Not laying the foundations thereof in the blood of there bodyes but in the spoyle of there soules which God in the conclusion wil make them as swallowes nests which in the winter fall downe of themselves and wil you yet thinke upon such people wil you stil deny your obedience to your King who would there on doe as Noah did after the stood who built an alter to the Lord Gen. the 8. and the 20. verse I wil here conclude deare countrymen with this my last advise to thee Which is That thou forsake this pretended Parliament who have brought thee to this miserable condition that they have left no authority in England able to settle peace your lives fortunes being liable to there lustful wils by illegal accusations blanke impeachments threatning declarations who have put out the eyes of the Kingdome the two universities of Oxford Cambridge knowing that learning is a steppe to Religion both to your lawes liberties and al enemies to there barbarons irrational and illegal way of Government al which when you tooke part first with these members wee that have Christianity doe beleive that you were seduced by these faire pretences of defending Religion King lawes and liberties which they first held to you and you thereby being unwilling to have a Parliament conquered by the sword and consequently your selves and you not thinking that they could so farre prevaricate as to conspire against King Parliament and your selves to the utter subversion of al lawes liberties and the fundamental Government of the Land betraying religion unto Heretickes and Schismatikes sharing the spoyles of 3. Kingdomes betweene them now resolving to enrich themselves more in forraigne Lands I say that as my selfe was once at the first blinded you my countreymen had no intention they should be so farre intrusted as you have found to your greife they have engaged you before you were aware but thinke it not yet too late to draw backe your feet and yet stippe the bridle out of your mouthes with which bit they thinke they have you at there checke having girt the saddle so fast to your galled backes and they as ranke riders mounted who have not only spurred you out of your estates lawes and liberties but wil spurre you into hel by new oathes Treasons Covenants c. If you take not the more heed and be not the more resolute for now they have Squeezed what they can out of the Kings party they cal them home beginning to make up there bottomelesse vessels ful out of your estates who have beene there freinds Now I have shewed you the Lyon whome they hunted after the Lord of the forrest not only to be sicke and weake and so become a prey to them he is not only goared by the oxe bitten by madd doggs and kicked by Asses and as our saviour was spittedon by pharises but even as our saviour was become a prey and crusified for our sinnes so was your King for your lawes liberties and the sinnes of the whole three Kingdomes Now to al Christian Princes I speake to you especially of blood or the same religion which this martired King Charles the first was Looke I say you neibouring Kings and Princes upon this sad example unheard of President and unparelled violence and the Lord graunt you may apply it to your owne soules and lay your councels and forces in conjunction to make examples of such murtherous subjects thereby you shal not only feare your owne people from the like attempt but reestablish him who no doubt may be able to helpe any of your greatnesses in such or any other distresse and I am confident wil be willing to his utter most power And you wil have O Princes the hearts and praiers of al our gracious Kings leidge people in his three Kingdomes of England Scotland and Ireland for your redemption of them likewise from slavery and bondage to which I cry Amen FINIS THE EPILOGUE And declaration of the penman Most Gracious Souveraigne TO shew your gracious Majesty that I love my country so much that I could devote my selfe to death for it as the Decij in Rome have done and that I resolve to be such Quem neque pauperies neque mors neque vincula terrent I in the presence of God and in the name of al the freeborne commoners of England doe declare that there is no legal Parliament in England nor lawful Government in Scotland and Ireland that there is not 495. Commoners by names of Knights and Burgesses neither is there a house of Lords nor is there a King with out any of which by the knowne lawes of England petition of right by which Kings formerly knew what was theres and the subjects theres nor by there ordinances remonstrances and declarations made in the yeares 1642. 1643. where in they declared they intended not neither could they make law without his them Majestyes consent I doe farther protest against those arbitrary exacting and usurping few members remaining at Westminster that what ever they have done or shal doe as thay now are is void and null by law ab initio and of none of effect by there owne doctrines and judgements declared in there ordinance made by them the 20. of August 1647. where in they made void ab initio al votes ordinances and orders passed by the then Lords and Commons from the 26. of Iuly 1647. to the 6. of August following when there speaker with some other renegadoes of them huried away to the army then at Windsor and this faith I resolve to live and die in as Your Majestyes loyal subject Wendy Oxford