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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67624	An answer to certain observations of W. Bridges, concerning the present warre against His Majestie whereby hee pretends to justifie it against that hexapla of considerations, viz. theologicall, historicall, legall, criticall, melancholy, and foolish : wherein, as he saith, it is look't upon by the squint-eyed multitude.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1643 (1643)	Wing W879; ESTC R38489	56,563	74

Kingdome under the successive and sucesfull raignes of three gracious Monarchs without interruption untill now so if you hinder not His sacred Majesty hath given us good assurance and wee have good witnesse of it even God himselfe besides many thousands upon earth that it shall not be killed nor quelled but maintained and if ever any thing fall out otherwise I am perswaded wee shall have to thanke such as you for it which God forbid And for those other things that walke under the name of Religious I hope His Majesty will by Gods assistance take some good course for quelling of them as well Popery as Brownisme and the rest of that rabble that wee can scarce tell what to call Both God and his good people doe expect from His Majesty that He will be vigilant for the extirpation of these by all due and lawfull meanes and that He will not admit of the least shew of a toleration of them but yet wee doe beleeve His Majesty will finde out more proper wayes than the sword for the rooting out of those errors from amongst us and if they can be but quiet and keepe themselves from sedition and corruption of others it's like His Majesty will shed no mans bloud meerely for His opinion but will rather take care for the application of the due meanes for their conversion and so leave them to the mercy of the Lord for wee beleeve His Majesty hath other principles and those farre more gracious and god-like than those that you seeme to walke by Though he be never so zealous for Gods house yet wee conceive He doth not think that He should have any thanke from God if He should build up Sion with bloud His Majesty we hope will rather remember that David was not suffered to build the Lord a Temple because his hands had been imbrued in bloud that the Temple was to be built by a Solomon a King of Peace and in a raigne of Peace and in a peaceable manner without all noyse and tumult not so much as the noyse of an axe or an hammer to be heard in that holy businesse much lesse of a Sword or Speare or of those thunder-emulating instruments which have beene the brood of cruelty of these last times of the world wee beleeve His Majesty will not willingly make use of any such instruments as these in that worke unlesse the malice of the adversaries compell Him to it Indeed it may fall out that Sanballat and Tobiah with their complices of Arabians Ammonites and Ashdodites may put Nehemiah's work-men to their weapons as well as their tooles in the building of the Walls of Jerusalem and to set them upon the businesse with a Trowell in one hand and a Sword in the other that the builders should have their weapons girded by their sides and so build and that Nehemiah may be enforced to set a Trumpeter by him but this was onely for the defence of the worke not to offer any violence to any but to repell it in case it were offered by any unto them neither doe wee know of any violence intended of that sort you seeme to suspect either against you or your religion as you call it be it what it will if you will be but quiet and not rayse tumults in Church or Common-wealth nor quarrell with other men because forsooth they will not put out their eyes that they may be as blind as you if you can 〈…〉 alone and be quiet you may if you will needs be let alone and be quiet in your folly for any matter of bloud or the like And yet wee beleeve His Majesty will not let England become an Amsterdam Truth shall have more encouragement then Errour it is fit that those dotards that will persist should be made sensible it is mercy not to let them perish upon too easie termes this is not to cut them off from the clemency of God but to hasten them unto it and this may be done without killing I hope and therefore wee beleeve you fright the people in vaine and make bugbeares of your owne fancies when you seeme to perswade them they shall find a bloudy persecution for religion but I hope they will be wiser then to thinke it is any good warrant for them to be rebellious because you are pleased to be fearefull and suspicious It is no wisedome for them to cast their goods out of their vessells because you are pleased to dreame of a storme they might likely provide much more for their safety by casting out such a rebellious Prophet as you are that have out-run the errand the Lord sent you on are become a fugitive from his work like Jonas who when the Lord sent him to Niniveh runnes to Joppa and from thence is bound for Tarshish It were happy for you if some storme or other might but send you into your right course againe But I would faine have done with you you cannot make it appeare that the King or His Party hath any mind to kill you or yours nor to quell the true Protestant Religion no nor yet to divorce you from any of your phantasies by the sword admit any of His Army would yet I am confident you may looke for more mercy from His Majesty and if you hinder not He may have power answerable to His goodnesse but your Kingdome is in danger they would quell the Kingdome who are those I beseech you if you will not tell me I can tell you who they are even they that go about to demolish or diminish the majesty and authority of the kingly Throne for so much as they take from the power and eminency of the King so much they quell and destroy the Kingdome for it is the King and the regall power that gives it the name of a Kingdome they than that goe about to turne the King into an empty stile or a meere shadow of regaity and to change the regall Government into a popular State or Aristocraticall those are they that go about indeed to destroy the very essence of a Kingdome looke than who they are that are against the King and against Monarchy those are they that go about to quell the Kingdome but perhaps you meane not by the Kingdome this or that forme of Government but the people and inhabitants and in this sense who are they that would quell the Kingdome but even they that have beene the Authors of this most bloudy and unnaturall Warre against His Majesty that have divided the Kingdome against it selfe that have most mercilessely sacrificed the lives of the poore seduced people of the Land to their passionate and ambitious or malicious designes they that have abused both Parliament and people by endeavouring to make them flaves to their humorous resolutions against their duty both to King and people they that have stricken at the very foundation of the State and Government and brought the Common-wealth into a meere Chaos and a confusion these these are they that would

may there see him as it were deriding at them and laughing at their grave and prudent madnesse whilest they with such confidence sit together as if all the wisedome in the world were in their breasts striving to breake off from themselves and others the bonds and cords of the Lords Anointed Little do they see how he blasts all their consultations how he damps all their purposes even as fast as they give them issue reade Is 8.9 10. Oh that they would at length be wise indeed and remember that woe of the Prophet Is 29.15 Woe be to them that seeke deepe to hide their counsell from the Lord and their workes are in the darke and they say Who seeth us and who knoweth us Surely your turning of things upside downe shall be esteemed as the potters clay But is this to maintaine the priviledges of Parliament to devest the Members of that power and trust reposed in them by His Majestie and the people and to commit the managing of the affaires of the Kingdome to your new device of a close Committee And to make them not onely the Masters of the rest of the Members of the Houses and them their slaves and shadowes but to make them Lords Paramount over the King and the whole Kingdome to require oathes of Allegeance unto them as of late hath most insolently and impiously beene done in London if wee are not mis-informed and to put the lives liberties and estates of all the people of the Land into the disposing of a matter of 15 men that have no such power given them either by King or Subjects and those for ought we know neither Angels nor Saints nor of the best sort of men that they may sacrifice all at their pleasure to their passions and no man must so much as aske a reason of them for feare of pressing into a secret of State Was there ever a Nation so befooled Was there ever a people brought to such a passe Is the famous and flourishing Government of this Nation by the King and the States of the Kingdome under him brought now to an Oligarchy a meere usurpation a most tyrannicall and arbitrary rule of 15 men that are made as it were absolute Lords of the Lawes the liberties the lives and estates of the whole Nation Sure they have played their cards well they have shewed themselves excellent projectors so handsomely and undescried to set up a Monopoly in themselves both of Regall and Parliamentary power a Monopoly upon the point of all the wealth and estates of the Kingdome They have carried the businesse very cunningly to bring things unto this passe and when they have done to make such fooles of the poore people whom they ride in the businesse and likely enough laugh at them in their sleeves to see how silly and simple the poore fooles are to be led so gently by the nose of them as to get them out of conscience to undoe themselves their wives and children to furnish them with money and to expose their lives unto the greatest dangers to the losse of so many thousands of them and all to make good their owne bondage and slavery to these Masters of the Close Committee En quo discordia cives perduxit miseros We have quarrelled our selves into a pretty condition But shall we be mad still Have the people of the Land abjured their senses and reason with their consciences Will they never be weary of such a miserable slavery Now for the Liberty of the Subject and the Lawes of the Kingdome you may easily guesse what becomes of them when the Priviledges of Parliament are trampled on by their owne feet Qui sibi nequam cui bonus if they make so bold with their owne you may well imagine what they doe with ours Or where I beseech you is the Magna Charta is not that a Law of the Kingdome When contrary to the very first words of that Charter the liberties of the Church are professedly invaded c. Or what is become of the Petition of Right which was so much talk't of heretofore when at the pleasure of these men without any due processe at Law the estates nay the lives of the Subject must be taken away by force and violence witnesse the late murder of His Majesties Subjects at Bristol and at London by Martiall Law which no Law putteth into their hands either without or against His Majesties Authority for that loyall designe of theirs to have delivered up those Cities unto His Majestie Or where is the Law for the Militia or for the taking away of His Majesties Ships and Forts Or where is there any Law to enable them to command any of the Kings Subjects to take up Armes against the King whose Subjects they themselves confesse themselves to be in their language though they do indeed most clearly deny it in their practise Or is it subjection to seek the ruine of a Princes Authority and His life by open force and hostility if this be subjection I pray you tell me what is rebellion or why doe they dissemble with God and man in stiling themselves His Majesties most humble and obedient Subjects when they are in actuall opposition against Him and will neither obey Him nor the Law by which hee governes if this be subjection Jacke Cade had a great deale of wrong and Wat Tyler too And Percy and Catesby were a couple of fooles that they would not come in to justifie themselves to be the Kings humble and obedient Subjects But it seemes it is no wrong at all done by the people to themselves when they obey the most unlawfull and most unreasonable commands of your party But if you obey the King against the Law you consent unto your owne wrong but we cannot so much forget our reason as to beleeve it Or doe you meane to bring in a new reason as well as a new religion But I beseech you what if I am not bound to obey him nay what if I am bound not to obey him as in some cases I confesse I am if His Majestie should command me contrary to the Law of God c. must I needs then take up Armes no certainly in such case I must submit to His Authority in the willing suffering of that punishment he shall inflict as is afore-said Or did our Saviour wrong himselfe in submitting unto Pilate or did those good Christians in the Primitive times wrong themselves when they glorified God so much in their chearfull sufferings upon this very ground If you may be Judge they shall all have actions of the case against themselves and were Martyrs in their owne wrong indeed I doubt you 'le never be guilty of such a sinne And so I have done with your first Proposition that you propose to the Malignants as you most malignantly stile them that are the Kings good Subjects And now let us see what instruction you give us in your second Cum bonis avibus What is it The great

offence of Authority is whatsoever is committed against the State spoken like a Politician And what is this to your purpose The great offence of Authority you say is whatsoever is committed against the security of the State And I say so too and inferre upon it that therefore that designe which you are about and would justifie is one of the great offences against Authority for what greater offence against the security of the State then to incense a people to rebell against their Governour or to teach them to trample under foot that supreame power of the Magistrate and those Lawes of the Kingdome upon which the safety and security of the State is established Talke what you will of the danger and oppression of a tyranny you may see if you will in the fruit of this your bloudy designe that one rebellion and civill warre may bring in more mischiefe against the safety and security of the State then halfe a dozen Tyrants would likely have done for shew me any Tyrant that ever reigned in this or any other Kingdome that by his single oppression brought a Kingdome to the sixth part of that consusion that this ungodly designe now on foot hath brought our Kingdome unto Great complaint there was of the tyranny of Ship-money and Loanes c. and are they not all reduced But for my part I care not who knowes my minde though I cannot justifie the things nor those that advised them yet I conceive it had beene much better for us to have borne Ship-money Loanes Monopolies and many more oppressions then to have changed those burdens for such a confusion as is now brought into the State which is like without Gods great mercy to end in the ruine and destruction of the Nation And therefore you are no good Counsellor for the safety and security of the State for though that grand principle which is so much abused be admitted for true That Salus populi suprema lex yet I can tell you it will make little for your purpose since it is no way for the safety of the people as you see written in bloud before your eyes upon Edge-hill and at Braynceford many other places that they should enabled to take up Armes against their Prince as often as they shall fancy or be perswaded by any others that meane to plough with them for a crop to their owne ambition That the Prince hath broken his covenant with them or transgressed the limits and bounds of his Government The peoples safety is never at greater hazzard then when it is put into their owne hands shew me a Common-wealth that ever suffered so much in the gripe of a Tyrant as many have done by the feet of a multitude otherwise your Observation will be turned against your self And your owne penne will condemne you for a great offender against the security of the State when you incense the people to maintaine Sedition you see the Malignants are but little the wiser for this your second Proposition I come to your third Heathens tell us that the wise must give as much to the Law as may be but to the Law-giver as little for sayes he he is a man subject to passions may be miscarried c. Had I a minde to cavill I could quarrell at your Grammer But let that passe Heathens tell us you say Well said it is very well done Heathens are fit Authors for such an heathenish businesse But yet you must deale electively amongst them you may not take them all at adventure some are too honest to countenance your businesse and that 's not well where Heathens must correct Christians And truely I doubt you have mistaken your choice here for what I pray you doe these Heathens tell you That the wise must give as much to the Law as may be but to the Law-giver as little because he is a man subject to passions What doe you meane by the Law if you meane the authenticall constitutions of the Kingdome made by the King with advice of the two Houses of Parliament The quarrell is then His Majesties and ours who doe complaine that there is too little given unto the Lawes That they are vilified and despised battered downe and demolished by I know not what arbitrary and illegall Ordinances give you and your party the Law its due and there will be quickly an end of the quarrell then the King shall have His Rights and praeeminences acknowledged which the Lawes doe give Him and the Subjects shall have their rights and liberties made good and their lives secured from plunder and violence which the Lawes allow them then those offenders that have violated the Lawes shall be brought to condigne punishment Then Brownists and Separatists depravers of the Common-Prayer-Booke and all rebellious and seditious people shall have their due portions that the Law gives them and in that distribution I doubt you would have little cause to rejoyce Then the Militia of the Kingdome shall be restored into His hands unto whose trust the Law hath committed it Then new Lawes shall not be made without the royall assent of His Majestie Then treason shall be treason againe and loyalty shall be loyalty againe Then the good Subjects of His Majestie shall not be imprisoned or spoyled of their goods or deprived of their lives without a due and a legall tryall Then there shall be no Supersedeas'es sent out to prohibit or interdict a legall proceeding against any routs or riots in Southwarke Then Habeas Corpus'es shall be granted unto the Subject upon just and legall causes without any quarrell against the Judges But alas that 's the cause that we groane that you give so little to the Law I would you were so good an Advocate as to perswade those whose part you seeme to act to re-establish the Law in its full and authenticall force and I thinke the King and his party will aske no more of you But you deale deceitfully with the Law as well as with His Majestie you talke much of it you speake it faire you give it good words but in the meane time you make too little account of the force of it it is with your party no better then Sampsons withes or cords at best you use it but as a leaden Lesbian rule bending it and bowing it to your owne purposes and things never go right when the structure is made the measure of the rule But I would faine know what you here meane by the Law-giver whose portion you would have to be so straitened as little as may be to be given unto him Doe you meane by the Law-giver the King I thanke you for that then for sure that is your meaning But truely in my opinion you deserve to be complained of to the Close Committee for giving so much as that stile imports unto His Majestie for if the King be the Law-giver then the Legislative power is not in the Houses but in the King for there must be but one Law-giver