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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

above the rest was in these sad and suspitious times unseasonably moved by His party for they having conplained of late of extraordinary wrongs and losses befaln His Majesty His Treasure and Revenues denyed unto Him His Houses and Castles spoyled His Woods cut down and wasted c. It will now be feared That to repair and make whole those losses His Subjects Estates and Lands must satisfie most mens demeanor questioned when He shall have totally Conquered His peoples faults and negligences set out to the full to render the owners culpable or else His Majesty cannot but be the greatest Sufferer Nor to be the last no man can think His Majesty will survive the losse of all His people a good Subjects Prayer ought to be with a small insertion in the Poets addresse to his Maecenas Serus in caelum redeat c. serus é terra then in caelum redeat diuque laeto fruatur nomine And if it were possible without insolency to wish that many days may be yet added to those of His which God hath numbred to the end that He may live to see a new Generation spring up of stout and constant English Hearts to succeed in the room of those whom this unnatural War hath wasted But these exceptions moved by the Assembly at OXFORD of too curious and suspitious spirit are proposterous to the pursuit of Peace their Imputations of Treason and the like Crimes to render their fellow-Members sitting at WESTMINSTER odious to their fellow Subjects are no fit preparatives to Peace nor their calling the Parliaments Intentions so deeply protested to be real Counterfeit Neither is this Contention by the Sword alone but by the Pen on which side whither on the Kings or the Parliaments the Arguers in print touching the subject of this War since it first began have wrote the more solidly and rationally concerning it which have more candidly and succinctly without railing or expatiating terms set down the Arguments the Reader is to compare the difference and judge For Rhetorique and strength of Wit or for a sublimate and fine stile of Expression the Assembly at OXFORD as having the more youthful facere and nimble Wits in their party and Quarters the help and influence of the pregnant conceits and nimble Fancies in the University there may seem to have the start But let the Writings on both sides be examined according to Reason and Judgement and the Reader will judge the difference Let it be instanced in three or four the most remarkable Messages in Writing and the Answers thereunto no other being so opposite to each other as these here mentioned First The Letter to the Governor and Counsel of See the Letter and the answer War at BRISTOL from the Lord General of His Majesties Forces demanding a forbearing of putting to death the two Citizens there with the Governors Answer thereunto The Answer is for-judged already and the Reader saved his pains of judging it by being termed by the Kings party The Governors * In a Book of an unknown Author called The States Martyr insolent Answer when as it is adjudged by other more impartial Readers to be a well weighed apposite sober Answer Secondly That for the Marques of Argyle and Sir William Armyne the Commissioners from both Kingdoms fully and in few words delivering their See their Message and Sir Thomas his answer Intentions and Reasons thereof to Sir Thomas Glenham a Commander in chief in His Majesties Army with His Answer unto them full also of words and of suspition Which in a Treaty sincerely meant should be left out and the Objections answered with Reason and Judgement no perverting or wresting of the sense against the Authors meaning no total and universal dislike had by His Majesties party to every thing which the Parliament shall declare or do And it is requisite withal that the matter of a Treaty to be disputed to and fro should have an equal and free passage and reciprocal intercourse which the Parliament judgeth to be denyed to them sitting at WESTMINSTER that when Declarations have been published and set forth against them they are by His Majesties Proclamation inhibiting all Trade and Traffique thither denyed their reasonable Answer to be likewise published so they cannot be heard nor set forth to the world what they can say in defence of themselves so the Accusations from the one side His Majesties party are bitter concluding and offensive whatsoever the War is and their Challenges in print not to be answered by their fellow-Members for the reason above recited One other intercourse of Messages between both parties of a latter time this April the Summons sent by the Committee of both Kingdoms to the Lord Bellasis Governor of NEWARK for surrendring that Town and Fort the Summons expressing perswasive and important Motives to surrender * See His Majesties Letter dated Mar. 23. and the Secretaries Answer to the Committees summons Apr 1. 1646. The Governor his Secretary's Answer full of good Language Courage and strength of Wit wherein mentioning His Majesties Letter sent the 23 of March last past unto both Houses of Parliament he urges the Kings most gracious conditions in that He will disband His Forces dismantle His Garisons The Secretary recites not all the Kings proposals of having His Friends pardoned the Sequestrations taken from their Estates Either the Secretary saw not the Kings whole Letter whereof he recites one part only or else he smiles in his sleeve thinking by his short Comment on the Letter to satisfie the Committee there and the whole Kingdom besides His Majesties Letter is full and genuine in its meaning to be taken collectively not apart as of disbanding dismantling c. without pardoning c. and such collective maner of speaking is alwayes conditional the one to be done on the one if the rest be performed on the other side The Secretaries reciting them is short of His Majesties meaning and mentions it as the Tempter in the Gospel tels our Saviour All these will I give thee which was as much as his eye could behold but on what condition If Christ would fall down and worship him The condition which he annexes to his promise annihilates the gift The conditions which the Secretary cals Gracious in His Majesties Letter of disbanding His Forces c. if nothing else were to be expected are in every mans judgement as in the Secretaries most gracious But to have His Friends His party pardoned the Sequestrations wholly taken off from their Estates were to put them whom the Parliament accounteth offendors and their Enemies into a better condition then their own Friends The Secretary if knowing His Majesties whole Letter and would contract it into parts reciting that only which serves his turn the Committee being presumed to be solid and able men will follow their own Judgement without replying to that Answer This sophisticate and defective manner of Arguings abates the merit of their cause and

the power of both is indivisible so intermixt that when the Court of Parliament the end of whose Councels is to establish Justice Peace industriously intends the same when we desert our duty unto them we are wanting to our selves unthankful unto them The Government of England as in these latter times it stands since Laws and a setled Forme established since Religion and Laws have met together flourished like couples in a building each supporting other and God honoured in both is not simply a Subordinative but a Co-ordinative and mixt Monarchy yea the highest supremacy it self is compounded of three estates Co-ordinate King Lords and Commons now it is true Subordinata non pugnant but Co-ordinata invicem supplent Fundamentals are equal and all Principals alike Rex est universis minor Bracton the great Lawyer saith Rex habet superiorem sc Deum Legem per quam factus est Rex Curiam sc Comites Barones The agitating this and the like Questions incident hereunto hath disturbed the mindes of men and cost much blood as which hath the Preheminence which ought to bear the greater sway the King or the whole number of the people in their collective Body which the Court of Parliament doth represent Another Question is which is the certain and proper Parliament as the case now stands that summoned by his Majesties Writ to Westminster or that by a latter command to Oxford whither the Principles of the Subjects Peace Religion justice have been of late and before this Quarrel in danger of being born down And whither the conflict in the Quarrel undertaken by those who have endeavoured to provide against that danger be Rebellion The King and His Party whither in their own defence See His Majesties Declarations and Messages since Ianuary 1641. The Oxford Mercury moves the jealousie making the Kings sincerity questionable for whilest the Mercury knowing the Dyet and full digest of the Kings party there cals the Parliament whensoever he names them The Rebels at Westminster notwithstanding the King cals them The Parliament and words of professing Friendship and Complacency being more uncertain then words of Hatred and Defiance although His Majesty terms them now a Parliament a Phrase of Truth and Credit he m●y reserve unto himself more bitter thoughts of Anger and future Accusation according to what the Mercury expresseth towards them or not hereafter have sought against them as being Rebels The King not alwayes and constantly calling them so as his Party doth for sometimes he calleth them the Parliament sometimes Rebels whether in sincerity or reservednesse of heart He varieth the phrase His own heart can witnesse It is the note of the wisest of Kings on Earth that the Heavens for height the Earth in depth and the Kings heart no man can finde out not that a King is therefore more transcendently wise or perfect above and beyond all other men nor that his heart is more Divinely inspired or illuminated from above more incomprehensible or His ways like Gods past finding out the Text bears no such construction the frailty and uncertainty of all Kings Actions do evidence the contrary although their Flatterers may peradventure vainly infuse such Doctrine into their ears and from this place of Scripture instruct a King with the necessity and excellency of dissembling the meanest and worst part of wisdom although resembling it Amidst the many Doubts and Jealousies the Suggestions and Machinations at home and abroad against the Peace and well-being of the Kingdom it concerns the Court of Parliament to look unto and prevent in as much as in them lyes the growth of approaching Danger which are then Dangers only when near and in sight when they are instant and befallen they and the opportunity of preventing them is past and become above the name of Dangers Calamity Seeing therefore the Parliament are by Gods special providence met together entrusted in their Countries welfare their courage and unanimity is requisite in perfecting that work for which they were assembled viz. the Maintenance of Gods worship the Kings honour the Subjects Liberty these two the Kings Honour and the Subjects Liberty propagating each other when as it is a larger accesse of dignity to be a King of a free people then of Slaves unlesse He shall in the pursuit of this War reckon to purge the Kingdom of the worst and most enslaved of His people which as the case now stands will otherwise fall out and prove as in letting blood the natural body the best the most free and spirituous to be wasted and spilt as well as that which His Majestie doth in His own sence call the worst Where by the way Gods immediate hand of Providence manifested to his people in the preservation of his glory is especially to be taken notice of that whereas his chiefest End in the creation of Mankinde hath been his own true Worship and the salvation of his people of which he hath a peculiar care seen even in the disposing and ordering of humane affairs as a second and subservient means to his own Decrees That at the same time the Subjects Liberty should be invaded when the Protestant Religion the subversion of which was probably first and principally aimed at howbeit in the managery thereof the Enemies to Both Religion Liberty were ill advised in that the Power and Priviledge of Parliament the Fabrick of all Laws the Subjects Right should be overthrown and fall together with the Protestant Religion Arist Polit cited in the like case by Sir Walter Raughleigh in his Dialogue between a Councellour of state and a Iustice of Peace The Philosopher observes that Homines minus timent injustum pati à Principe quem cultorem Dei putant had they singled out either Religion the Subjects Liberty or the Priviledge of Parliament to be destroyed apart many it is like especially among the common sort of men might have failed in their zeal to the one yet have endeavoured the preservation of the other so the Enemies Design might have better thrived in the successe if Religion singly or the Subjects Liberty alone had been left unshaken without a complication of both to fall together at the same time and by the same power The Parliaments next endeavour is to maintain entire and against all opposition the Power Priviledge and Dignity of their Court no so sure a way as by their constant accord and unity which if overthrown by an advers Power all Parliaments are in danger of languishing in their esteem and must either comply or submit to the Arbitrary will of the Prince who conventeth them at His pleasure and so lose their Freedom What then follows a discontinuance of enacting Laws a dull carelesse and obsolete use for want of due execution of such Laws as are in Being thence an Arbitrary and unlimitted way of Government that Force or the Sword must be the Umpire besides a certain although a remoter consequence a failer of that well-breeding the

already in derision The Cause Secondly In that a forraign Enemy upon a total devastation of this Realm without which the King cannot probably prevail will be induced to believe and accordingly make use of it that it hath happened through the soft and tender breeding of the English their unfitnesse to endure the hardship of a War and so invade and by degrees implant this Kingdom And what a Forraigner implanted here his Demeanour may prove towards our King not naturally their liege Lord every good English Subject will fear the worst when as especially this Kingdom must be kept as NAPLES by a Sir VValter Raughleigh in his Dialogue betwixt a Councellor of state and a Iustice of peace Garison of another Nation so that the King shall be enforced as former Kings have been to compound with Rogues and Rebels yea to pardon them thereby Himself the whole Nobility yea the State of Monarchy to fall together To state the differences of Forces on either part when the quarrel first began the Parliament had far the greater * The number of the Friends and Adversaries unto either part are calculated and their several Forts discerned about the middle of this Book and which part was in probability like to finde the greater opposition the King or the Parliament as matters were then in being in which it will appear that the Parliament had the more Enemies or their Enemies the more Friends number the King having but few yet more then the Parliament had Towns of Fort as his party have Calculated and hyperbolically reported otherwise most mens hearts being bent to defend their Rights and Liberties which they thought were of late encroached upon and indeed the Off-spring of this Quarrel and the Parliaments Friends believing the Justice of that Court and of their Cause in a carelesse way of affording Ayd threw all upon the chance of War without using the ordinary means concurrent to their defence not foreseeing what would be the end and mischief of their backwardness and neglect to be repented of not remedied They were willing enough to have redresse for their late-past grievances to have the work done and the Parliament speed well at their Neighbours charge so themselves be saved harmlesse but to lay out money and purchase the name of a Rebel in case the Kings party should prevail was both a chargeable and double Crime Then their unwillingnesse to be exposed to the hardship of a War to which they were altogether unaccustomed believing in the goodnesse and sufficiency of their Cause to have it made good in an extraordinary way by Miracles without laying to their assisting hand so casting the whole burden upon God and his Omnipotency did wish well and pray peradventure for the Parliaments Successe For now every short enjoyment of their quiet every small respite from the Enemies cruelty although the next bordering Counties unto them be infested round about with their cruelty makes these men apprehend that the War is ended because their Coast is for the present clear and they feel no instant smart It is true Gods Providence is in all things to be observed it is as his Omnipotency Infinite and Superintendent to every Creature No one hair falls from a mans head nor a Sparrow from the house top without his Providence The same Almighty power which could rescue his three Servants out of the fiery Furnace and provide strength of the mouthes of Infant Babes is able but whether he will or not his works being unsearchable and his ways past finding out give successe according to the peoples wishing without the ordinary means to be used by Instruments that is left to his secret and determinate Councel There is a time for War and a time for Peace the Lord is a man of War his Name is JEHOVAH and Fighting in a qualified sence as Praying is a duty DAVID blessed God for teaching his hands to War c. And Prayer is a Christians a contrite and good mans Arms. Had we in Unity and Humblenesse of Spirit in the Power without the Form of Godlinesse besought Almighty God to be delivered from Famine Battel Murder and from Sudden death as the Church directs These Calamities had not in likelihood come nigh which threaten now to come upon us like an Armed man Beseeching God by Prayer might peradventure be the Peoples sacrifice alone neglecting otherwise their own endeavors and carelesly trusting if at all upon God his Providence they think sufficient which is confest In which they may alike consider That if the Kings party shall prevail or the whole Land be consumed and reduced even to a handful It is all within the compasse of Gods power The Lot is cast but the disposing is of the Lord And certainly that side which useth the best and most concurrent means to his dispose the Justice of the Cause is challenged by either party is likely to have the upper hand Praying and relying on the Almighty goodness seldom fails the Petitioner God ever giving what he prayeth for what suffices or what is better then he asks but the means must be added to the prayer Qui ordinat finem ordinat etiam media tendentia ad finem Moses at the coming of the Amalakites besought the Lord by prayer yet commanded Joshua to choose out men to fight with Amalck God is in all things the first Mover by whom we move and have our being he the Super-eminent and first cause yet working by subservient and second means we are his People and Members of his Church Militant against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail In the Creation his own glory was the effect of his chief care manifested unto us his Creatures his next affording us all necessaries for our support and good he looks to be sought unto and trusted upon in that course of obedience which he hath ordained in conveying that unto us which we look for at his hands otherwise he is rather slighted then trusted on Had the people been so liberal in Contributing to to their own Defence so provident to have foreseen that within one year after their improvidence they should have been thus opprest in the progress of one year more undone they would questionlesse have been more liberal and concurred more cheerfully in Contributing to their own Assistance For within a few Moneths after the War began many in the Kingdom fell off from the Parliament and under fear and the notion of being reputed Rebels thought it made against their present safety to wish well to the Parliament a Court scarce known in the Countrey and discontinued in the Kingdom much more to fight for it And hearing of divers invective Threats and Menaces to that purpose as if their Endeavors for the Parliament did make against the King and so resemble a Rebellion thought it altogether unsafe to adhere to the Parliament So the Kings strength increasing through the fear and revolt of many formerly engaged to the other part he gained