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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67701	A letter to Mr. Speaker Lenthall shewing that it were better to comply with His Maiesties offers and desires of peace, then to pursue the destruction of this land in the continuance of this unnatural warre.	Warwick, Philip, Sir, 1609-1683.	1646 (1646)	Wing W992; ESTC R33564	7,292	12

of the Publique Debts of His Scots Subjects Citty of London and others The Government of the Church according to the best daies of Queen Elizabeth and King James with full Liberty for the ease of their Consciences who will not communicate in that Service established by Law And likewise for the free and publique use of the Directory to such as shall desire to use the same To give content in the choyce of the Lord Admirall and Officers of State and others with many Reasons as well as Professions of his confidence of a good accord And lastly of disbanding His Armies and slighting His Garrisons c. I know your obvtous reply I but this was late this was necessitated Not late for from the beginning you see how much was offered had He met with any compliance at least such a one as might have satisfied Him what He parted with should not have been turned to His and His Peoples harme but security undoubtedly they had had more and that sooner Besides remember what was pretended too was another mans Right and which of us without more reluctance and delay would not have deferred the granting more to them to whom so much gave so slender satisfaction I perceive the last Answer to His Majesty is a negative to all His desires and offers and referres all to Propositions to be sent How can I hope they will be reasonable when your party hath been so unreasonable in their rejecting His Majesties Messages How can I think they are trully meant that have been so long deferred I know not which party prevailes most with you but I am afraid it 's too true what I have heard a great Independent said lately to a Confident of his That there was two things they must pretend which they would never doe The one was to set up the Presbytery the other to send down Propositions Or if they meant the last it must be reserved for a season when they will have a prevailing Army to back their unreasonablenesse and insolency Ah Sir doth your party pretend the Law and so forget it what is become of the Statute that forbids all men to come up with force to Parliament was it not that nothing might either be or seem to be Coerc't there what is become of the great security he Subject had against the King and by the King Against the King That no Law could be made but their consent must first be had by the King That no prevailing part in one or both Houses could make a Law no not an Order without His consent who was first plac'd by God over them Then whose Personall experience in Government or if a Minor His Councell was likely to know best what suited with the publick good Am I Sir any whit the freer that the King cannot but the two Houses may nay after they have driven diverse of their Members from them make a Law at their Pleasure Am I Sir the freer Subject he King can not presse me the Two Houses may The King cannot use Martiall Law the two Houses may The King cannot impose on my Estate the two Houses may The King cannot make other crimes Treason then those mentioned in the Statutes the two Houses may nay may make them none And others not mentioned there to be Treason for as a Dilemma must lye upon the Subjects lives and good If the King prevaile the Statutes and Lawes too condemne them if the Two Houses their Declarations and Ordinances rise up in place of Lawes against them What am I the better the King swears to Magna Charta and the Petition of Right if neither of these be to be observed by the Houses If you Answer yes but they 'l doe you no harme they are of your own body Pray tell me may not I as justly say my Head will not Harme me as my hand Is it in nature a man cannot hurt himselfe sure it is nor we have caily enperience of Felons and Man-slayers of themselves And I am sure there is more of tendernesse and bowells of an Individuall man to his own body then there is of a representative body to the body represented I cannot hurt my selfe but I must feele I may another and be the better for it warme my selfe by the burning my Neighbours house God grant that at this day though the Kings party are not very guilty of it Divitiae pro criminibus non habeantur that some honest men estates make them not Delinquents That the sence of the guilt of one Party make not the same men so rigid to inflict punishment upon another and so flatter themselves or at leas t satisfie the Vulgar Justice is done when like the Custome in the education of Princes the Page is whipt for the Princes fault The Innocent is punisht and the Offend or scapes Sir I will conclude all Ne glorietur accinctus aeque ut discinctus Presume not on the Kings weaknesse it led you into the Warre nor your own strength it may faile you before you come to your journey's end While you may temper your succesles by wisdome to a dutifull compliance with your Soveraigne Let your heart smite you you pursue His life so violently Zimti had no Peace and Zadock that presu med all he did was by the spirit found Micaiah told him true That he should find it otherwise when he should flye into the inner Parler to save himselfe The Canon of Scripture must be the Rule the Spirit is to be tryed by the doctrine not the doctrine by the Spirit No though an Angell whether Tutelary to a Presbyterian or Independent bring it you have Christs word for it He that takes the Sword shall perish by it Mat. 26.52 Perish not only by being killed but perish I am loath to write it Everlastingly for killing Were your quarrell just your mannaging of it ought to be more dutifull to your Superiors more mercifull to your Brethren you should love the Peace of the Land more then the pursuit of a few Non hoe tantum respicite quas ob causas paenas sitis exacturi sed qui sint de quibus sumenda sit paena Qui not ipsi quis justus panarum modus Remember who you are and who we are Remember he that slayes an Innocent man hastens his glory and his own judgement Leave off therefore more for your own sakes then ours to be cruell Think with what unrempered Morter you build How many forc'd into you and not of you are among you How many from you How many of you that cement not together and leave to destroy your firme and ancient foundations your King and Church so may we once againe see the Structures of our Temples and Iudgement-Halls repaired The King on His Throne and every man sitting under his owne Vine This from Your