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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93763	The reason of the war, with the progress and accidents thereof. / Written by an English subject. VVherein also the most material passages of the two books printed at Oxford (in which His Majesties party do undertake to justifie their proceedings) are briefly examined; viz. The [brace] declaration, entituled, Tending to peace; relation of the passages at the meeting at Uxbridge. July 1. 1646. Imprimatur Na: Brent.	Stafford, William, 1593-1684.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5152; Thomason E350_8; ESTC R201041	87,456	156

should depend thereupon which if the demands on either side were granted by the other might haply have determined into Peace The reason for demanding on the one side as for refusing on the other are too tedious for this Discourse The OXFORD Relator hath by a large Discourse taken pains to satisfie the world of the justice of their own demands the Parliaments experience and wisdom in the transaction of matters incident to this Quarrel declares the reason for their demands here to be insisted on To the first that is to say the Protestant Religion exercised rather in Manners and Doctrine then in Church discipline comprehends and secures the second the businesse concerning IRELAND for unlesse a discreet and saving hand be had in reducing as of Governing that Kingdom and managed by a most choise wisdom the increase of the Papists and Rebels there will endanger the subversion of the first the Protestant Religion so these two first PROPOSITONS demanded on the Parliaments part having a mutual connexion and depency seem to attract each other in the maintenance of justice and the Subjects Right Religion being the ground of justice as justice is of Peace In matter of Church-Discipline or in the forms of Hierom. Zanch. in quartum Mandatum quod multiplex genus est Christi Ministrorum pag. 950. probat Presbyter Episcop idem esse Edw. Leigh Armig. in libro titul Sacrar Critic novi Testam in nomine Episcop ubi recenset Plutarch in Numâ vocat custodem Sacrarum Virgin Episcop citat Septuaginta vertere Episcop in Ezek. Hosea legit a Watchman Paulo post dicit Episcop esse qui verbo gubernat pr●erat puta Doctior Pastor Presbyter pag. 158. Neither is there so great and material a Difference betwixt the two subdivided parts of the Parliament side The Presbyterian and Independent as for a quarrel to continue and depend upon The wisdom of that Court hath taken away the virulency of any quarrel which might happen betwixt them two by constituting the one yet with respect had to the tendernesse of Conscience in the other Although the one be fully declared for by the Lords and Commons in the Parliament in their solid and satisfactory Declaration this present April yet with a due regard had to Tender consciences not differing in Fundamentals of Religion that they also may be provided for c. wherefore it is rather Luxury Pride of Wit and contempt of Authority then any object of a real difference which animates and maintains these quarrels Divine Worship that which His Majesty demands of Episcopal Government differs little from what the Parliament doth intend of Presbyterial Bishops and Presbyters in their primitive Institution being all one In the Forms of Divine Worship the Directory injoyned by the Parliament not really differing in the material parts thereof from the Common-Prayer-Book required by the King onely the one expugning for the present what the other doth contain That being more painful to the Minister not more declaring his Abilities This the more easie as being dictated unto him either may be of use either behoofful to the Auditory as meeting with all the necessities and deprecating the contingency of all afflictions incident to man-kinde the Common-Prayer-Book compiled by sound and learned Divines and accordingly ordained by an ancient Law the Directory framed by the like learned men and Ordained by a Modern Authority to be made use of for the present season or so long as Authority shall think good But that which abates the value of this is the weaknesse of the Argument in the defender thereof preferring it therefore before the Common-Prayer because the use of the Directory sets forth the gifts and Abilities of the Preacher beyond his reading or exercise of Common-Prayer which is digested already into a Form when as that rather denotes the best Abilities and parts of Schollership in point of Science Study Judgement which is able to perform the hardest work to dispence Gods Mysteries aright to set them forth in a hansome and polite stile the power of the spirit is no whit checked or blemished by an eloquent expression to raise and apply sound Doctrine winning the Attention and edifying the hearer is harder then to conceive and utter Prayer One other reason for using the Directory is that seeing we and the Scots are United by a Solemn League and Brotherhood and they not using the Lyturgy of our Church we should therefore abstain from using the same Answ They and we are born and Governed under different and distinct Laws their Manners and Customs differ much from ours The Union betwixt the Nations will serve for support aid of both being under one and the same Dominion in case of either infested by an enemy but for the same numerical Form of Divine Worship to be performed after the self same kinde this Arguing seems rather an Illustration then a proof God is an uncircumscribed and incomprehensible Spirit to be Worshipped in truth and spirit he cares not whether by heart without book or in a book opened so he be Worshipped with the heart This onely by the way to shew as there is no identity of Form betwixt the Directory and Common-Prayer-Book so no such Discrepancy unlesse in the persons using them as to heighten or continue these unnatural differences The reasons given by His Majesties Commissioners for making a Cessation betwixt Him and the Irish Rebels and the Parliaments Commissioners contending to have such Cessation void are of greater moment the Kings urging it dishonorable on His part to vacate the Cessation wishing also that it were in See the Relation pag. 131. His power to do it But why dishonorable or how comes it to passe that it is out of His Majesties Power to suppresse the Rebellion there as his Commissioners urge unlesse by employing and making use of his strength against this he abates and lessens it as against that Kingdom His Commissioners their reasons given for both are answered in what follows and the judgement in deciding the Question to be given according to the late past occurrences which the Declarations and Remonstrances within these few years published have set forth If His Majesty did make the Cessation to the end to save the Remainder of His Protestant Subjects there it was an Honorable and Pious care in him towards those his Subjects but if from a more principal and ultimate end of making such Cessation to make use of the contending parties in that Kingdom against his Subjects called Rebels in this the Parliaments Commissioners had reason to presse the vacating of such Cessation They farther insisting thereon that if the Cessation had not been made in the time of the Rebels their greatest wants and the Forces imployed then and there against them not drawn off they might in probability have been subdued and this War even finished They also urge that if the Cloaths going into IRELAND for the supply of the Protestants and Army there