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A77694	A key to the Kings cabinet; or Animadversions upon the three printed speeches, of Mr Lisle, Mr Tate, and Mr Browne, spoken at a common-hall in London, 3. July, 1645. Detecting the malice and falshood of their blasphemous observations made upon the King and Queenes letters.	Browne, Thomas, 1604?-1673.	1645 (1645)	Wing B5181A; Thomason E297_10; ESTC R200224	40,321	55

you nothing but Men or Womens Faces but being turn'd the other way is as full of horned Beasts or Divells And then as touching the Kings Protestations which have been often made to maintaine the Lawes of this Kingdome for God's sake what of them If they meane That because the King protesteth to maintaine the Lawes of the Kingdome therefore he cannot repeale any one of those Lawes whom he hath protested to maintaine why then doe they presse him to repeale divers and sundry Laws made concerning Episcopacy and the Book of Common Prayer seeing they are Lawes which he is bound to maintaine by this Protestation But if the meaning of those wordes be That the King protesteth to maintaine the Law which is establisht for Law to be ruled by that Law and to doe nothing in an arbitrary way contrary to that Law as no doubt that is the meaning of his words then does not the repealing and abrogating of any Law thwart and crosse his Protestation of maintaining the Law because when it is Repealed it is no longer a Law And as the Divines use to say that our Saviour when he came and touched the dead mans Coffin offended not against the Law which holds such Persons uncleane because he purposed to restore him againe to life So does not the king offend against His Protestation of maintaining the Law of the Land if upon good occasion offered he should a little suspend the Execution of those Lawes made against Recusants for the present which hereafter a free Convention of Parliament will find as good occasion wholly to take away if their Assistance of the King in this his present exigence and necessity shall appeare to them so vigorous and hearty to deserve so great a Favour Mr Lisle The third thing Gentlemen that I shall observe to you is concerning the use and the ends that have been made which you may observe out of these Letters of a Treaty with the Parliament I shall read His Majesties words to you in a Letter of the fifteenth of Febr. 1645. a Letter to the Queene And be confident that in making Peace I shall ever shew my Constancy in adhering to Bishops and to all our Friends and not forget to put a short period to this perpetuall Parliament And in his Letter to the Queene of the ninth of Febr. 1644. there is this passage Be confident I will never quit Episcopacy nor the Sword We did all hope that the end of a Treaty had been to settle a happy Peace a firme and a well grounded Peace But now we see by the Kings Letter that his Resolutions are still to keep the Sword in his owne hands We did all hope that the end of a Treaty was to settle Church-Government according to the Protestation the Solemne Vow and Covenant which we have all taken But you see by the Kings Letters that he avowes to the Queene that he will never quit Episcopacy We did all hope that the end of a Treaty was rather to confirme the Parliament then to dissolve it But the King sayes in his owne Letter that he will not forget at this Treaty to put a short period to this perpetuall Parliament Animadversions Here is a very fine Rhetoricall Rainbow much is represented in shewe nought in substance Mr Lisle knew well enough to whom he spake to the common sort of People Qui frequentèr in hoc ipsum fallendi sunt ne errent as Quintilian speakes of them who are alwayes to be cousened and even for this very purpose often That they may not be deceiv'd For I dare say Mr Lisle is no more perswaded in himselfe of the truth of these particular Aspersions which are here cast upon the King then Theopompus when he changed cloathes with his wife and scaped out of prison could beleive himselfe a woman because he made the keepers to beleive it We will only divide a little between his Conclusions and his Clouds and then you will the more easily perceive it One of the Conclusions which he takes upon him to perswade and worke in the minds and affections of the people is this That the King never intended Peace in the last Treaty The Cloud which is cast about that Conclusion to cover it from their understandings is this Because his Resolutions are still to keep the Sword in his owne hands Now the People can doe no lesse then subscribe to this Proposition as being necessarily true He that is resolved to keep the Sword still in his hands is resolved not to have a Peace But the double acceptation of that notion the Sword would easily dispell this Cloud and spread it into nothing For the word Sword as well in Sacred as in Civill Writers as it sometimes implyeth the materiall Sword that Instrument of violence wherewith one private man smites and hurts another of which our Saviour Christ speaks in the Gospell when he saies unto S. Peter Put up thy Sword So doth it other whiles imply the Civill Sword or that power and administration of Iustice which resides in the Supreme Magistrate and inflicts severall punishments on severall persons according to their severall offences of which S. Paul speaks in his Epistle when he saies of Nero the Emperour that He beareth not the Sword in vain Now nothing can be playner then that the King useth that word Sword in this latter Acceptation and as by Episcopacy They cannot but acknowledg that the King understands that old Forme of Hierarchicall Government in the Church now establisht which he tells the Queene he will not quit for that of the Presbytery which is the new Fangle So they cannot deny without denying their reason that by the Sword which the King there joyneth with Episcopacy He meanes that Monarchicall Forme of Government in the State now establisht which He tells the Queene He will never quit for a Democracy which the Rebels labour so hard to superinduce upon him And then this horrid Conclusion having broken thus through the Cloud resolves into lesse then a mans Hand for it resolves into no more but this The King never intended to change the present Government of the Church or the present Government of the State Therefore the King in the last Treaty never intended Peace But what needed the Queenes Letters to be broken up for this Did not the King's Commissioners when they were at Vxbridge tell you the very same thing twenty dayes together that the King would not alter the Government of the Church or State unlesse there were better Reasons urged then your bare wills how comes this then halfe a yeare afterwards to be told the good Citizens of London for such newes Alas you must thinke They have brought up the men of London who by nature were never very fierce to such a tamenesse of understanding that they must needs think every thing a great Secret and of some mysterious Consequence in the Queenes Letters and therefore they care not at how deare a price of Inhumanity they purchase