above the rest was in these sad and suspitious times unseasonably moved by His party for they having conplained of late of extraordinary wrongs and losses befaln His Majesty His Treasure and Revenues denyed unto Him His Houses and Castles spoyled His Woods cut down and wasted c. It will now be feared That to repair and make whole those losses His Subjects Estates and Lands must satisfie most mens demeanor questioned when He shall have totally Conquered His peoples faults and negligences set out to the full to render the owners culpable or else His Majesty cannot but be the greatest Sufferer Nor to be the last no man can think His Majesty will survive the losse of all His people a good Subjects Prayer ought to be with a small insertion in the Poets addresse to his Maecenas Serus in caelum redeat c. serus é terra then in caelum redeat diuque laeto fruatur nomine And if it were possible without insolency to wish that many days may be yet added to those of His which God hath numbred to the end that He may live to see a new Generation spring up of stout and constant English Hearts to succeed in the room of those whom this unnatural War hath wasted But these exceptions moved by the Assembly at OXFORD of too curious and suspitious spirit are proposterous to the pursuit of Peace their Imputations of Treason and the like Crimes to render their fellow-Members sitting at WESTMINSTER odious to their fellow Subjects are no fit preparatives to Peace nor their calling the Parliaments Intentions so deeply protested to be real Counterfeit Neither is this Contention by the Sword alone but by the Pen on which side whither on the Kings or the Parliaments the Arguers in print touching the subject of this War since it first began have wrote the more solidly and rationally concerning it which have more candidly and succinctly without railing or expatiating terms set down the Arguments the Reader is to compare the difference and judge For Rhetorique and strength of Wit or for a sublimate and fine stile of Expression the Assembly at OXFORD as having the more youthful facere and nimble Wits in their party and Quarters the help and influence of the pregnant conceits and nimble Fancies in the University there may seem to have the start But let the Writings on both sides be examined according to Reason and Judgement and the Reader will judge the difference Let it be instanced in three or four the most remarkable Messages in Writing and the Answers thereunto no other being so opposite to each other as these here mentioned First The Letter to the Governor and Counsel of See the Letter and the answer War at BRISTOL from the Lord General of His Majesties Forces demanding a forbearing of putting to death the two Citizens there with the Governors Answer thereunto The Answer is for-judged already and the Reader saved his pains of judging it by being termed by the Kings party The Governors * In a Book of an unknown Author called The States Martyr insolent Answer when as it is adjudged by other more impartial Readers to be a well weighed apposite sober Answer Secondly That for the Marques of Argyle and Sir William Armyne the Commissioners from both Kingdoms fully and in few words delivering their See their Message and Sir Thomas his answer Intentions and Reasons thereof to Sir Thomas Glenham a Commander in chief in His Majesties Army with His Answer unto them full also of words and of suspition Which in a Treaty sincerely meant should be left out and the Objections answered with Reason and Judgement no perverting or wresting of the sense against the Authors meaning no total and universal dislike had by His Majesties party to every thing which the Parliament shall declare or do And it is requisite withal that the matter of a Treaty to be disputed to and fro should have an equal and free passage and reciprocal intercourse which the Parliament judgeth to be denyed to them sitting at WESTMINSTER that when Declarations have been published and set forth against them they are by His Majesties Proclamation inhibiting all Trade and Traffique thither denyed their reasonable Answer to be likewise published so they cannot be heard nor set forth to the world what they can say in defence of themselves so the Accusations from the one side His Majesties party are bitter concluding and offensive whatsoever the War is and their Challenges in print not to be answered by their fellow-Members for the reason above recited One other intercourse of Messages between both parties of a latter time this April the Summons sent by the Committee of both Kingdoms to the Lord Bellasis Governor of NEWARK for surrendring that Town and Fort the Summons expressing perswasive and important Motives to surrender * See His Majesties Letter dated Mar. 23. and the Secretaries Answer to the Committees summons Apr 1. 1646. The Governor his Secretary's Answer full of good Language Courage and strength of Wit wherein mentioning His Majesties Letter sent the 23 of March last past unto both Houses of Parliament he urges the Kings most gracious conditions in that He will disband His Forces dismantle His Garisons The Secretary recites not all the Kings proposals of having His Friends pardoned the Sequestrations taken from their Estates Either the Secretary saw not the Kings whole Letter whereof he recites one part only or else he smiles in his sleeve thinking by his short Comment on the Letter to satisfie the Committee there and the whole Kingdom besides His Majesties Letter is full and genuine in its meaning to be taken collectively not apart as of disbanding dismantling c. without pardoning c. and such collective maner of speaking is alwayes conditional the one to be done on the one if the rest be performed on the other side The Secretaries reciting them is short of His Majesties meaning and mentions it as the Tempter in the Gospel tels our Saviour All these will I give thee which was as much as his eye could behold but on what condition If Christ would fall down and worship him The condition which he annexes to his promise annihilates the gift The conditions which the Secretary cals Gracious in His Majesties Letter of disbanding His Forces c. if nothing else were to be expected are in every mans judgement as in the Secretaries most gracious But to have His Friends His party pardoned the Sequestrations wholly taken off from their Estates were to put them whom the Parliament accounteth offendors and their Enemies into a better condition then their own Friends The Secretary if knowing His Majesties whole Letter and would contract it into parts reciting that only which serves his turn the Committee being presumed to be solid and able men will follow their own Judgement without replying to that Answer This sophisticate and defective manner of Arguings abates the merit of their cause and
Subjects of both Kingdoms then the present War betwixt the King and Parliament The League betwixt them the more strict and Solemn the more irreconcileable the discord when it happens and nothing to compose the Quarrel when once began besides the Sword Nothing to prevent the beginning of the Quarrel save only the forbearing and bearing each with other The self-denying quality so much assumed and protested is then exercised and best proved in so prudent a patience as is practised by a continued entire Union betwixt them both and neither of them to arrogate wholly unto themselves the successe of so much Conquest as hath been obtained But if the * The English one shall think that their opulency and wealth shall wear and drive out the other notwithstanding their approved valor or that the * The Scots other shall hope that their valor shall suppresse and conquer the English mens not inferior to theirs These unhappy thoughts and attempts if any such upon destructive hopes must turn into misery unto their Friends Reproach and Obloquy to themselves a pleasure and fulfilling their Enemies expected hopes who will be ready to upbraid them with the common and old Proverb as in the like case the contesting between the Presbyterial and Independent to let in Episcopal again When Robbers fall out true men come by their goods meaning that a party of English and Scots having complotted to divest the King of his Soveraignty and to take away his Regal Dignities and now by variance within themselves his Majesty hath regained his former Being If any infinuate means of dividing the two Nations privily and with excellency of Art carried on by their seeming Friends shall unhappily inure closely and insensibly to work this Mischief as for one Nation to upbraid and cast Aspersions on the other of Inconstancy Ingratitude Falshood and the like What a new intestine War may happen hence when either Nation shall have partakers at home and abroad in Forraign parts The English shall have Friends to credit what they say against the Scots and they reciprocally against the English and no time or season amidst these Commotions the Enemy being vigilant and active to foment the Quarrel to Examine or Dispute the Truth to set right the Misapprehensions of the particulars of such Aspersions when the very fear entertained of late of a disagreeing between the two Nations hath appalled the hearts of their common Friends and more set back and retarded the hopes of Successe and Peace then the News of Victories can forward them As for other Differences which might arise betwixt the Nations touching some Punctilio's of Pre-eminence or the like King James therefore of happy Memory in his Star-Chamber Speech in See the speech the sixteenth year of his Raign hath wisely and peaceably composed and setled deducing his Reasons from the Policy of his most wise * Henry 7. Ancestor But to the Known Objections now in being and published by the Common * Incendiaries and Fomentors of this War Enemy as of an Invasion made of the Scots as of Rebellion in the English when both Nations have been sufferers the Rights and Liberties of both violated are strange Objections in the judgement of standers by and to determine the truth of those Objections or on which side the Offensive on which the Defensive is there is not like to be any Umpire in the Question To expect a Forraigner to interecede or moderate most of whom admit a sensible and compassionate affection in them towards these our Nations their own and their nearer Friends Engagements are enough to take up their own thoughts besides a wise considerate and Politique State doth evidence their wisdom in not intermedling with the Affairs of others rather when Troubles and Commotions are abroad to look the more closely to their own especially in a Case of so nice a difference as betwixt a King and a Parliament the Representative Body of the whole Kingdom and each of them contending to make good the Justice of their Quarrel Nor is it probable that any Prince of another Kingdom will in relation to himself as making this difference betwixt the King and his Subjects here his own case send over his Forces hither to assist a Vanquished party All Kingdoms have their several Forms of Government peculiar to every Nation some of a more absolute and free some of a more mixt kinde The People know their Boundaries of Obedience the Princes theirs of Power and because Rebellion is charged on the Subjects here those Princes of other Countreys some think will take part with the King of this least it should prove a leading case to animate their Subjects also to Rebel 'T is two ways answered The several Forms of Government in this and other Countreys do diversifie the case Secondly This is denyed and no ways proved to be Rebellion An exact and serene Judgement is hardly to be given by strangers not Natives who dive not into the depth and state of this present Quarrel withall the Conflict is seldom so equally carried but that one side hath the better of it then it is against the Rule of common Policy to * Noli in Caducum parietem inclinare Lip Polit. incline to the falling and weaker part least the stronger by their inclining be provoked to become their Enemies Briefly then the extreme terms and contesting parties in this War are a Delinquent party on the one and a Parliament a Court of Judicature on the other side the first being conscious to themselves of several offences against the Common-wealth and welfare of the Subject contrive a course how to evade the hand of Justice as by sheltring themselves under a strong and supreme Power The King suggesting ill offices betwixt him and that Court of Judicature gaining thereby the better credit with the Adversaries thereof then by advising him the most likely ways of encountering it namely in betaking himself to some remoter place of strength which Advice was accordingly followed and thereby his Majesty better enabled to command the parts next adjacent to his residence as at YORK the Northern Then to require and Summon in such other Countreys near unto him as complyed not at the present with him in such design as he purposed as also to be displeased with other of his Subjects who took any averse course to his proceedings next to set up his Royal Standard at NOTTINGHAM that whosoever dwelled near and came not in to his party were in danger of his displeasure By this means his Forces might soon increase whether Love or Fear the Motive for when a Prince shall tell his Subjects near him of a Rebellion nothing then more noised by his party then Rebellion Disloyalty and preparations by him made to subdue the Rebels if he shall then require their Ayd who dare refuse These were the first parties in the Quarrel by these means the Kings strength might increase the Parliaments abate Hence grows the name of a Rebel
the maintenance of this War and the Subject thus impoverished The Parliament grants as much that of two evils the lesser is to be chosen where of necessity one must happen as in case of inevitable necessity that Wisdom and Industry cannot prevent if otherwise Necessitas non excusat quae potuit esse non necessitas saith a learned * Tertullian Father of the Church acutely When the Princes Treasure and Revenue suffice not for the Common good as when the Realm is invaded or any notable Rebellion of the Subjects happeneth such an Invasion or Rebellion as is not procurata not simulata but vera gravis manens He may then by the common opinion of the Civilians impose new Taxes in requiring Aid although out of a Parliamentary and common way The like Objection is made by others of His party Better it were that those six Gentlemen Impeached of High Treason should have suffered their Estates and Posteries overthrown and ruined then to have a Kingdom wasted other of His Majesties Dominions destroyed and so many thousands worryed in one anothers blood This is surely the rich mans Argument who by reason of the superfluity and plenty of his Estate can easily bear the Charge and is scarce sensible of the Burthen or that he having a Power and Interest in his Neighbors Assessing him is under-rated and therefore content to pay the Tax not sticking at the Illegality of the same he thinks his Hill so sure that he shall never be removed or his Power so great that the Laws enacted for the relief of the poor the number of which must needs multiply by reason of such oppressions will scarce concern the rich according to the Proverb of Neque accipitri nec milvo tenditur rete One and the same Answer serves both Objections It were better that a man should receive a wound from a stronger then himself and afterwards to be maimed by him a third or fourth time after to endure the like or greater Injury better all this befal him then to be killed for so it happens to him resisting in his own defence it had been better for him to have endured all those Affronts and wounds then by repulsing them to lose his life as the lesse of the two Evils but where the one might have been avoided no necessity of the other to have happened the Objection is invalid But to the subject of this Contention multiplying it self into several forms of Difference the question hath for the most part been about matter of Fact 1. What hath been done what hath been attempted in offence to the Subjects Liberty 2. Touching the Object and Latitude of Obedience what Obedience and whether all maner of Obedience is due unto the Kings Personal Commands for the Subject to perform whatsoever He requires To the object of Obedience it is a commonly received Position That the King is to be obeyed in all things Lawful and Honest as before The Proposition is proved by the duty of Subjection to the higher Powers in the first Verse of the Chapter the limitation shadoweth forth by the duty also of those Powers to take vengeance on the Evil-doers for as Tremelius notes on that place if unlawful See the Glosse things be commanded us we must Answer as Saint Peter doth It is better to obey God then man Unto which the question touching the Latitude of Obedience hath a reference for as for those who exact and contend for a greater degree of Obedience as to have all maner of Obeying both Active and Passive due unto the Kings personal Commands doubtlesse all of them have not always thought it so but enforce such Doctrine now in these Disputative times on purpose to make the Kings party the stronger by their strength of Arguing If the King hath power of Life and Death as to take His Subjects life in case he obeys Him not in whatsoever he Commandeth then Nature Necessity and Law which allow yea enjoyn provisionary Acts for safety and have endued Mankinde with several habiliments for its own defence seem all to have lost their strength Besides whether in such a case as this here recited of the Kings power of Life and Death if he take away a Subjects life whether he be not guilty of the breach of the sixth Commandment I leave to an humble and moderate Divine to judge To free the question touching the extent of Universal Obedience and close it up with this conclusion The Exactors of this unbounded and immence obedience seem to allow unto Kings a greater Latitude and Priviledge of Power thence a greater of Obedience from their Subjects unto them then unto God Hence is the Inference proved by this Enthymeme That power is greatest which requires the greater extent of Duty wherefore if God neither can nor will command any thing unjust and Kings may both that is they both can and have commanded unjust things If notwithstanding they be to be obeyed both Actively and Passively in whatsoever they do or will command whether just or unjust there is by consequence a more Universal Obedience due unto them then unto God 3. The third question seems to be whether the Court of Parliament being a Fundamental power and all Fundamentals equall all principals alike having protested the maintenance of the Kings Honor Person and Estate may in defence of the King Laws and Government when imminently endangered especially when actually invaded justifie to take up Arms without and against the Kings Personal command if He refuse Whether dangers are imminent is briefly answered The Kings party deny the imminency of danger they say they are but Phantasms and unnecessary fears c. When mischief is neer and threatens opportunity and power serving withal it may be termed danger when 't is already fallen 't is part the name of danger and becomes Calamity 4. The final and casting result of the States judgement what those Laws dangers and means of preservation are reside in the two Houses of Parliament 5. The two Houses of Parliament are alwayes a part in the supremacy of power and in case of the others abserce or refusal as matters now stand Both virtually the whole 6. In the final resolution of the judgement of the State the people are to rest and in obedience thereunto may in defence of the Laws and Government use and bear Arms. Not that the Parliaments Votes and Ordinances are in themselves infallible but to us inevitable nor do we Idolize them or Doctor Fern infers nor think them omnipotent as His Majesty or some of His party do hyperbolically and smilingly object Not to possess the Reader with the Dignity Priviledge of that Court by transcribing here any ancient or particular passages of contest which are not valuable to justifie the Authority therof when as particulars prove not generality in Arguings such particulars especially as are easily answered yet whether the Historian notes it as an evidence of the Earls courage or of the Parliaments
power the passage is short and not unfitly quoted of the Earl of Warwick his contest with King Hen. 6. who directing his Privy-Seal for discharging the Earl of his Captain-ship of CALLIS the Earl refusing continued his office his reason was that it was granted him by a Parliament Whereto it may be objected that might be a personal contumacy in the Earl which proves not the Authority of that Court therefore not binding other Subjects yet this objection may be replyed unto that the Earl knew on what ground and by what judgement his refusing it was granted The Court of Parliament is not hereby so adored or prized nor are they so fond of their own Acts and Ordinances as to think them absolutely pure and unchangeably perfect or to derive the blessing of successe on their designs for the merit of their actions inuring for the present either in abrogating ancient or constituting new Acts and Ordinances which they may retract as occasion shall serve but to the Justice of their endeavourings which were they able to make good their proper and total power they would ere this have terminated and reduced their Acts into established Laws It is probable that many of those ancient usuages and Constitutions which they for reasons best known to themselves have for the present altered will revert and turn them to their former being without utterly abrogating the same To conclude and settle the doubtful and wavering Judgements had touching the power and Authority of this Court the aforecited * Sir Ed. Cook Oracle of Law hath delivered at large in his fourth Book of Institutes who wrote it in a calm and quiet time when there was no need to defend the Authority thereof Besides the preamble to the Statute concerning Parliaments sets forth and confirms the Power See the statute Authority and by necessary consequence the Priviledge of that Court as the only and proper cure of Grievances and remedy of Mischiefs in a Common-wealth The three first Conclusions are evident by what hath been observed before the latter of the three is Discoursed at large by a learned Author in his Book Intituled A more full Answer to Doctor Fern. But to answer one objection concerning the taking up of Arms and that the People take up Arms against their King which the objectors say is unlawful under what pretence soever If the Question be rightly weighed and stated it will evidently appear that this is no taking up Arms against the King no more then a Chyrurgion doth offend or wrong his Patient when to recover and preserve the whole body he cuts and takes away the proud and putrified flesh encircling and infecting the more eminent and sounder part And if in this Quarrel the King shall unnecessarily and with hazard to himself against the advice supplication and importunity of His Subjects expose Himself to danger Gods protection being more immediately seen over his Anointed is herein crossed if not tempted and if it happen otherwise to Him then His Subjects would His miscarrying is of Himself or rather from those who perswade Him to it The Question which hath cost this blood is not now betwixt a King governing according to the strict and precise Rules of Law the measure of each mans Right and Subjects rebelliously rising up in arms against their King and those Laws as some men in their gall of bitternes have given out but betwixt a King transgressing the known Laws as Himself confesseth and retracts His Fault and a Court of Parliament the Supreme Councel of the Kingdom endeavoring in a just and legal way to punish and represse Offendors as former Parliaments have done no other power or force to dispute or emulate a King's and the matter whereon they quarrel an actual invasion made on the Fundamental Laws and a party engaged to imbrace and abet the same whither under the notion of Loyalty or from Humor Ambition and Levity on the one side and the Parliament with a party adhering unto them contending to preserve those Laws with the Subjects Right and Liberty on the other side For the controversie is not immediately and principally in the new-sprung Differences about Church or State-Government as which the more perfect Form in State Monarchical Oligarchical or Aristocratical which in Church-Government an Independent Presbyterial or Episcopal which latter two are not much differing in themselves in their Primitive Institution as anon will be shewed in its proper place All these Controversies are emergent only and resulting out of the occasion of this War which gives occasion and liberty to all dissentions and makes every one a fierce combatant in maintenance of his own opinion But the principal parties are as before observed a party who hath actually violated the Laws by which we are governed and have their partakers and a party who contend and would preserve the same The first abetted under the stile of being good Subjects the latter traduced and inveighed against as Rebels What the Laws of this Kingdom conveyed unto us in these latter times are under which we are born and governed is by an ordinary light of study so figured in all mens knowledge as no man can but consent unto and confesse That to be the Law which the Court of Parliament doth Enact which Court hath power also to Repeal Dissolve Alter or make Perpetual as they please and that to be a Parliament certainly and definitively which is the assembling together of the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom lawfully summoned by the King in the prudent and deliberate Counsel of his heart at such a Time to such a Place for Reasons expressed in that His Writ What the Power and Priviledge of that Court in general is is learnedly and industriously set down by the forenamed Author of what power and stability this is whither to continue until their work for which they were assembled be finished or Arbitrarily to be dissolved the King hath by His own Act defined in binding Himself not to dissolve without their consent Wherefore if He shall alter such Act made and consented unto by Himself during the Session of that Court in His * Ira inimica Concilio Cicer. anger an Enemy to Counsel because He may not conform and rule them call and divide any part of them from the place where they were first summoned whither those which stay behinde in the first named place or those which come away to the last without respect had to which is the major part shall be reputed the true Parliament Object And whither that dividing be a dissolving without consent or not 't is no dissolving but a local removing in nature of Adjournment which is peculiar to a Kings power both to Summon and Adjourn Answ The King it is confess'd hath power to Summon and to Adjourn as former Kings have done to other places of the Kingdom as NORTHAMPTON OXFORD WINCHESTER c. but such Adjournments have been on special and extraordinary occasions of Plague
might make them unlesse better armed with Reasons incapable of a solid and sincere Treating with their opposites But in that a not entertaining of a Treaty hath been charged on the Parliament and therefore they are named The Refusers and Disturbers of Peace a Reason may be given if they be justly charged that if they do not at every beck send and imploy their fellow-Members the reason of their forbearing may relate to their small number whereby the Assembly at OXFORD upbraideth them For in that there be but a few Peers left to assist their fellow-Peers they cannot spare a competent number out of a few those few also it may be feared in danger of being by degrees tempted either secretly to comply with the party tempting them if not to be wrought off yet to make them lesse zealous and constant to their own party The various wayes of tempting are not unknown and it is much that neither the fair promisings nor angry threatnings have more generally wrought In this continued course of their Accusings which they print at OXFORD and set forth to the publique view to possesse the world with the Justice of their Cause the Injustice of their Adversaries a Treaty notwithstanding is proposed for the composure of these differences for the setling a firm and happy Peace Commissioners appointed on either part and a place named for the dispatch thereof How the Treaty was carryed an OXFORD See the Book called A Relation of the Treaty at Vxbridge printed at Oxford Writer hath undertaken to state it truly which he might more easily then the Commissioners deputed to the businesse could carve out even terms whereon to ground a Peace when as there must be in every Quarrel one offending part one suffering more or lesse yet both seem willing by their meeting to conclude a Peace each party the Kings the Parliaments could not but discern the War would prove chargeable to the Subject the payments for maintaining it prove irksome unto all that many of their Friends would grow weary and fall off upon every light occasion or surmise of their being grieved and taxed with payments in case the War should last long they having no other reward of their Assistance but the uncertain event of a hoped for Peace That other of their Friends to avoid the miseries of a Civil War in this Kingdom would transplant themselves transport their Estates beyond Sea That there may be many Motives to desist from farther contending for the requiring an Accord and Peace many revolutions and vicissitudes of successe in War Prosperous begets Security keeps off a farther pursuit of Concurrency and Assistance as if the victory were already had and the War ended Advers breeds Discouragement in the common Souldier especially in a Civil War where they are inconstant to their own party and many of them ignorant of what they fight for Besides in the managing of an Army there be many Contingencies and crosse Accidents to impair their strength Commanders may want Fidelity common Souldiers pay or victual few or none an excuse to leave off the Service the War the longer it continues the more implacable and fierce the Enmity and that Friends do fall by the Sword as well as Enemies Each party might be unwilling to put it to the hazzard of a total Conquest by the Sword the contests about which could not but bring forth a total ruine and in the pursuit thereof the more the Conquering party shall prevail the more subject they are to divide and contend within themselves Victory being by nature * Victoria natura insolens superba Cicer. proud and by pride Contention cometh and the more potent and stout the Conquered party hath been the more prone to pride the Conquering will be That the War would not be alwayes doubtfully carried but that one side would sometimes have the upper hand and which side should begin to have the prevailing power must to continue and maintain that power do many things harsh Irksome and detrimental to the Subject as levying and imposing Taxes forcing the people even to the provoking displeasing of those who were not their Enemies withal that the weaker and more conquered party having lost their strength whether through Gods Judgement upon the injustice of their Cause or for some humane and more visible reasons would notwithstanding try all wayes and leave none unassayed to reinforce their strength the thirsting after Conquest being so extream and vehement either in plotting wicked or contriving fained and false pretexts that what honest and good means could not false and hellish must according to that desperate resolve of the Wretch in the Poet Flectere si nequeant superos Acheronta movebunt not caring though their wicked Machinations and attempts adde yet to the filling up the vials of Gods Wrath upon this Nation wherein they live These and the like considerations necessarily to have been foreseen might have moved against the wageing of a War at first much more against the continuing this War these and the Arguments above recited might after the effusion of much blood move to treat to prevent the shedding more A Treaty hath been agreed upon and PROPOSITIONS suited whereon to Treat the one side real and sincere to conclude a Peace exposed to the Publique view nothing to be objected against the reality of their meaning If on the other side there were reservations of fraud and a pretence only of Peace set forth to gain advantage by as there be presumptions to prove the same the pretenders can answer for themselves All ways are honest and fraud and falshood are vertues in Adversaries to Rebellion contending to subdue and scatter Rebels Peace is a pledge of Friendship and Friendship hath no other terms of intercourse then goodness as that there cannot be just * Amicitia est tantum inter bonos Arist Ethic. friendship had betwixt a good Subject and a Rebel no more then between an honest a leud man These Arguments of excusing this fraud may please and satisfie the party framing them and whether the Parliament and their Assistants in this War be Rebels needs no farther Treatise But to the PROPOSITIONS whereon the Treaty was to work and the Difference between those sent by the King and those sent by the Parliament Those that His Majesty insists upon are three 1. Church-Government by Episcopacy 2. Lyturgy and Common-Prayer Book 3. The Clergy to enjoy for a time their several Livings All which are matters of Form accidental and private concernment in respect of what the Parliament demands necessary for the Publique good namely The Protestant Religion The Businesse concerning IRELAND The Militia the security of the whole So the Contention rather the mistake grows about granting or refusing these betwixt the subject of which two demands there cannot be so great a difference as betwixt natural humanity to spare from killing and unnatural cruelty to persist in killing or so important as that Peace and War