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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

what our Saviour saith Matth. 24. 48. But if that evil servant shall say in his heart my lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to smite his fellow servants c. The Lord of that servant shall come in a day that he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him assunder and appoint him his portion with Hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Our Saviour denonneeth all this woe but for smiting of a fellow servant what would he have said of Plundering Murdering Ravishing utterly ruining the poor the Fatherlesse and the widows This is violence in a high degree and how Guilty the Souldiers of this land on both sides King and Parliament have been in all this seven years war I leave to God to judge and those to lament it who have seen and felt it I know will the common question shall we stand still and have our Throates cut I say not so I know offences must come Christ says it but he likewise saith woe be to them by whom offences doe come And the Apostle sayes have Peace with all men if it be possible he doeth not for all that add but if you cannot have Peace Peacefully fight kill c. O no he could not preach such a doctrine how easy were it to spend sheets of paper to prove this by very texts of Scripture viz. the unlawfulnesse and wickednesse of war yet I am no Anabaptist Are the works of war from the Principles of light and love if so well and good happy your souls if not and there be self-interest in it Pride Malice Rage Revenge Ill yea ill indeed is it with your souls without Repentance no man repents who forsakes not the evill way●● I am sure those works come out of the Principle of Fire and darknesse out of Hell it self And such a people such a God saith the Psalmist His servants ye are whom ye obey with the froward thou art Froward and with the holy thou art holy saith the Psalmist speaking of God God still But God in his Excellency is Love for God saith the Apostle is Love and for certain the Children of God are the sons of Peace My Peace I leave with you was our Saviours Legacy To conclude no man I say no Man must doe evil that good may come of it and I am sure our war for these eight years hath done no good in Church or state though God knows best where a True Church is and we poor subjects can at the present scarce discern where the state is involved on all hands with misteries and ruines And for any man be he Emperour or King State or Republick I am confident the sin as great yea greater then great in the eyes of God to begin a War and if the hearts of such were searched as God can doth and will it would be found it is Self-Interest let them plead and say what they wil and to fight for Religion for Reformation be they who they will they have no true Christian Religion in them Religion by all Kings since Christs time hath been made but the stalking horse to catch up their other ends in the world Without holiness no man shall see God Is there holiness in War be not deceived God will not be mocked Let the Souldier therefore lay by all Self-Interest in your Declarations you have professed it and seek the Peace of the Kingdom the setling of the King in his just Rights Him and his Children the Parliament in their Priviledges the Subject in their true Liberties from Tyrannical Government and Arbitrary too You have promised it do it and the King I beleeve is ready to perform his part but do it by Love by Peace and God shall bless you and you shall find rest to your souls but if you proceed to do it by blood on that you will have a Peace of your own moulding I pray remember your own words p. 4. nothing more abhorring to you then a new flame of War I fear that will not discover the practise of Self-Denial to be yet embraced of you and had you all your desires for this world as I am confident the Souldiers profession Kings and Subjects have rarely or never obtained their hopes the reason is the blood that is by them spilt which God abhors Look upon the King of Swede see his end kil'd in a Battel by one of his own side it is thought and see yet how his people fare and what rest have they or when are they like to have any Yet what shall it profit a man saith Christ beleeve him ye men of War to win the whole world that 's more then a Kingdom and lose his own soul I speak to all who adore and dote on that Heathen God Mars War rightly interpreted according to the Dialect of the Holy Ghost by the Apostles in divers places the very Devil himself Now the works of the flesh saith S. Paul Gal. 5. 19. are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witcheraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers Drunkenness Revelings and such like of the which I tell you now as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not wherit the Kingdom of God But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit Let us not be desirous of vain-glory provoking one another envying one another You have held out Reformation in Church and State take heed of Deformation in both or rather utter ruin of all where is your Commission to proceed in blood Learn of me saith Christ for I am humble and meek Is there meekness in War He that taketh up the sword shall perish with the sword saith Christ I know well he once asked his Disciples for a sword he was answered there were two he said it was enough and perhaps thought it too much he did not bid them use it nor did he ever make use of it or command it but the contrary You are Subjects as well as I am remember you are so and you are or were Servants also to the Parliament who employed you Act both parts according to Reason and Religion and then this bleeding Kingdom shall ow no small share of its happiness to you but if you fail to do it assure your selves the end cannot be good Love is the fulfilling of the Law Now the God of Peace and the Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the Fear and Love of God c. So prays he that beleeves no man should dare to say the Lords Prayer Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us if he wash his hands in the

Bloody Designs and Self-Interests and had you of the Clergy proceeded thus far you had done but your duty to God the King and the People and I am confident both sides would have stood at a gaze and not have been so forward as they were perhaps not at all proceeded to pass through such a Sea of blood as they have done and how many of both sides have perished in that red Sea from this world at the best I judg not of the next But was this course taken by you or if by some for I tax not all yet I never heard of any O no wo is me in stead of imitating our Saviour in these three particulars which all good Christians must imitate him in in his Life in his Love and in his Doctrine all of them imitated strictly by the Apostles I say in all these three the Clergy generally to our view have opposed our Saviour Christ in a strange manner First in his Life that was poverty and contempt all along from the Cradle to the Cross Yours as full of Glory Jollity and Honor as you can advance it Secondly in his Love he was all Love he preached it he practised it My Peace I leave with you That was Christs Legacy How well have you disposed of it or what executors are you of this his last Will and Testament He abrogates the old Law in that particular where it was said of old An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth c. But I say unto you it shall be so no more You shall love your enemies c. And behold I bring you a new Commandment that you love one another This was spoken to all the world of Beleevers much more to you who profess to be the Embassadors of Christ as you do You take Texts out of the Old Testament in opposition to Christ Curse ye Merosh and you incourage to fight and cry The Cause is good it is Gods I speak to both sides yea and you conjure the people to fight in the name of the Lord tell them they are Martyrs they cannot miss Heaven if they dye for the Cause such Martyrdom God deliver me from The Conscience not the Cause makes a Martyr and if that be not purged by the blood of Christ in true Faith and Repentance though a man suffers Martyrdom for Christ he is no Martyr He whom God calls to be a Martyr he fits him first and makes him a Martyr to the world in crucifying the lusts of it and sure men that fight for power though Kings or Subjects for Priviledges Liberty are not so wel seasoned with Self-Denial as is requisite to make a Martyr And for the Doctrine of Christ it was humility Learn of me for I am humble meek OGod have you of the Clergy practised this humility and meekness Nay have you not boldly to the world exprest the contrary in most of your conversations Had there been a Palsie in your tongues your tongues set on fire from hell as the Apostle speaks and in your hands this Kingdom had been happy Ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi Did I say you do You ever did and you will do till the time come that Malachi the Prophet speaks of I hope neerer at hand then you beleeve were you true Prophets you would tremble at the Text and by the Spirit of Prophesie discern the time Malachi 3. 3. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of Silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi And doubtless that is not the Reformation that you pretend to you do but take up the Stone and turn the other side It is you that have put us all in a flame your Tribe hath done and doth it all the world over Is there any evil in a Kingdom or rather this great evil in this Kingdom and have not you done it You have either done it or had the greatest share in doing it or not hindered it when you might you seek your own and not the things of God God forgive you why do you not imitate Saint Paul Be ye f●llowers of me as I am of Christ if he had erred that way which he could hardly do yet he forbids to follow it and must we follow you when you command things contrary to Christ But great is your Diana and you voyce her high up she is for all your roaring but an Idol she cannot stand she is falling she is falling Our Saviour says He that is greatest amongst you shall be the least and he that is least among you in the Clergy would be greater then the Civil Magistrate if he could Oh the ambition of the Priesthood Read the Prophets of old against the Priests and is not the Priesthood of these times worse compare them together What Aaron before Moses it was not so of old Nor will God ever have it so where his Spirit governs The Luciferian Pride Ambition and Covetousness of the Clergy is not the least quarrel God hath with this Nation what will you say or answer When God comes to make inquisition for blood where is the Vrim and Thummim in Aarons brest-plate it was purity of Doctrine and Integrity of Life I fear it is not to be found in your hearts in your Doctrine nor Life Open your eyes the time is yet Repent and amend Great would be the joy in Heaven for such sinners more then for any and great would your glory be here and hereafter Return O Shulamite return return and be not ashamed to do it Your example on all hands I am perswaded if sincere would strongly build us up in a better way A worse then you have taught us and a worse then we are in out of hell is not If the Apostle say Contention strife debate is carnal earthly divellish What is Plundering Murdering Ravishing Robbing and Confounding How can a man of God appear in a Pulpit and not Preach and speak against it pray against it print against it and lo you have done the contrary Shall I praise you I praise you not God forgive you with my soul I beg it To conclude for Gods sake inform me I am a poor weak man What warrant in Religion to Fast for strife and to give thanks for Victories and shedding blood both sides King and Parliament have done it God have mercy on them for it How can you approve of it ye sons of Levi Look into your Consciences those Glasses which will not cannot flatter and say How comes this to pass Where are you O God That I a poor ignorant man am forced to tell you and the world this Amend and that suddenly Preach love and practise it Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he comes shall finde so doing or as the sin now lies at your door and the whole Kingdom it is to be feared will curse you for it so a heavy and sad unexpected punishment here and hereafter must happen to you without Repentance