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B29779 A short discourse, tending to the pacification of all unhappy differences, between His Majesty and His Parliament shewing the meanes whereby the same may speedily be done, and that it rests in His Maiesties sole power to effect it : presented to the consideration of all those that love the truth and peace / by a Friend and servant to both. Friend and servant to both. 1642 (1642) Wing S3587 5,744 9

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for his Maiesty best knows who those men are and deliver them to the Parliament to iustifie their doings which as it will most magnifie the honour of his Maiesty to the love of truth and iustice so will it be the clearest manifestation His Maiesty can give of the reallity of his Royall intention to His people and lay the greatest obligation of duty love and obedience upon them and all good Subiects that his Marestie can expect from a loyall and true hearted people which untill his Maiesty grant their feares will keep them restlesse These most humble desires the Commons conceive to be so iust equall seasonable and fuitable to his Maiesties gracious disposition that in honour and iustice he will not deny them to His People being as they think the most hopefull meanes under heaven to secure his Maiesty his people from the approaching dangers and miseries of a bloody Warre and to settle a firme and lasting peace between his Maiesty his Parliament and People which is that his Maiesty hath so often taken the Almighty God to witnesse is the thing he so much desires wherein the Commons are confident and will expect that the Lords and others of his Maiesties most honourable Privie Councell and all the Peers of this Realme and others attending his Maiesty who desire the safety peace and prosperity of his Maiesty his People and Kingdoms wil ioyn with them and according to their relations offices places neernesse and credit with His Maiesty will put forth their uttermost strength Counsells and indeavours to preferre and accomplish these their humble d●sires to His Maiesty otherwise they must think as they may have iust cause they are of the Malignant party more willing to behold all of them and this whole Kingdome streaming in blood then relinquish their owne pernitious Councels and ends and be ready to execute the Commands of the Parliament against them The differences themselves between His Maiesty and His Parliament in His Maiesties Declarations appeare to be Foure First Detaining His Towne and Magazine of Hull Secondly removing the Magazine and Armes thence to other places and the like in other parts of the Kingdome Thirdly Putting the Militia in execution contrary to His Maiesties Proclamation Fourthly Making of Leavies and raising of Men Horse and Money And these all done by Orders and Ordinances of Par-liament and as His Maiesties Declaration saith against His Maiesties pleasure because it is against the law and His Maiesties Prerogative warranted by the law The only question then is Whether these proceedings by both Houses of Parliament in this time of danger His Maiestie having refused to ioyne with them be against the fundamentall lawes of the Land and His Maiesties Prerogative warranted by those lawes and above the power and priviledge of Parliament to meddle in for the safety of his Maiesties Royall Person His Kingdome and people The Commons doe all know His Maiestie to be no expounder of lawes for so his Maiestie is pleased to professe as belonging neither to his Person nor office but therein to be guided by the iudgement and councells of others to whom His Maiestie doth commit that trust To give right iudgement betwixt His Maiestie and people and what Councellors his Maiesty hath had and what expositions of Laws and Statutes have been made during this present Parliament and how iniuriously His Maiesty His Parliament and People have been dealt with therein is like to appeare in the Kingdomes confusion if His Maiesties goodnesse and wisdome in casting off such Councells and speedy ioyning with his Parliament prevent it not And what service such evill Councellors have done to this Kingdome in former ●ime and what exposition of Laws they have made let the Petition of Right granted by his Maiestie to all his Subiects in ease of their Grievances witnesse And what Councells they have given and exposstion of Laws they have made ssnce that Petition granted let Ship money coat and Co●auct money and many other uniust and illegall impositions layed upon His Maiesties Subiects and Declared in the Parliaments Remonstrances witnesse also And into what condition such pernitious Councells and Councellors have brought this Kingdome and His Maiesties Kingdome of Ireland at this present let the consuming flames in the one and the kindled fire in the other testifie The Parliament the Commons doe know and their Councells Votes Ordinances Expositions and Declarations to His Maiestie and his People they heare and see attested under the authority of one or both Houses and therefore are bound in reason and duty to beleeve their Proceedings are warranted by the Fundamentall laws of the Land and are according to the Power and Priviledge of Parliament untill the like or better authority appeare to the contrary For those who expound the Laws to his Maiesty and are his Counsellors they know not their Persons or names neither see their hands attesting the Counsels they give nor Expositions they make which makes them suspect they are Men of darknesse and such as flee from the light of Parliament Wherefore it is the most humble desire of all His Maiesties good Subiects that His Maiestie will put no longer confidence in their Councels or expositions of Laws but hearken to the advise of his great Councell the Parliament And whether it bee more meet safe iust and honourable for his Maiestie and his Subiects to put confidence in the Councells and iudgements of such Councellors and the exposition they make of Lawes and the Power and Priviledges of Parliament or in the Parliament themselves being the great Counsell of the Kingdome and the makers of all Laws the Commons beseech His Maiestie and all the World to iudge As it is farre from the heart of every good Subiect to diminish the least part of His Maiesties Royall Prerogative due by the Laws and Statutes of the Realme being part of the inheritance of His Crowne and descended to His Maiestie from His Royall Progenitors Kings of this Realme so are all Subiects bound to maintain the Liberties Rights and Priviledges due and belonging to the Parliament and People of England and the Lawes that defend and preserve the same the one as being the iust and undoubted inheritance of His Maiestie the other as their inheritance as iust and undoubtedly due to themselves their Posterities granted to their Predecessors more then five hundred Years past conrfimed to their Ancestors in all ages and not questioned or attempted to be violated untill of late by the wicked Councell and fraud of ill Ministers and Councellors who for their owne ends and to obtain the favour of Princes have taken upon them the boldnesse to advance the Prerogative above Law and endeavoured to bring the Lawes and the Power and Priviledges of Parliament to such construction themselves would make thereby at once breaking in upon the Priviledges of Parliament and the inheritance of the Subiect and so by pretence of Law to root up the foundation of Law the Parliament it selfe The Commons do therefore most humbly beseech His Maiestie that the distractions griefes and feares of so many thousand thousands of His Loyall Subiects layed before his Maiesty in this time of danger may prevaile with His Maiesty speedily to return to His Parliament and there in the way of iustice to examine all misinformations his Maiesty hath had both of Persons and Causes and let all Offenders whatsoever tast the severity of his Maiesties iustice who have been Counsellors instruments or actors to make so great a breach betwixt His Maiestie and His Parliament and put his Kingdome and People into so much danger and so many losses in their estates by the long decay of their Trading in all parts caused by those divisions For the tumults which His Maiesty seemeth to flee from the Commons doubt not His Maiestie will find his Parliament and all good Subiects most willing to suppresse and punish all unlawfull tumults and disorders caused by any Persons whatsoever when it shall please His Maiesty to ioyne with his Parliament in securing this and His other Kingdomes from the plots and designes of Jesuites Papists and other instruments of theirs whose worke it is now to disturbe the peace of his Maiesties Dominions for preservation of their Spanish Monarchy and Popish Tyranny by suppressing or destroying of Prince Parliament and People that stand in their way For the Commons would that all the world should know They are English Protestants whose Religion is not founded either upon Superstirious Vanities or Schismaticall Fancies but upon the revealed will and well warranted word of God consonant to the sound and Orthodoxe Doctrine of the Church of England whereunto They will allwayes submit provided it may be purged from what gives iust occasion of scandall or offence and not so mixed or adorned with Rights and Ceremonies that whilest the Body is drest the Soule of Religion which is life and power should be lost For God is a Spirit and will be worshiped in Spirit and in Truth which is the Freedome they aske without which the Protestant Religion is but Protestant Profession will make men but seeming Saints while Devils and set them but half the way to Heaven And if His Majestie shall not be pleased to hearken to these most humble desires of His People and make some present returne for putting out those Fires now kindled in this Kingdome the wofull spectacle of their poore Brethren in Ireland will cause Them all that are able to joyne with his Parliament in obedience to their Commands for the preservation of his Majesty his Kingdome and themselves from utter Ruine nature it selfe having taught Beasts when stormes are rising to provide for their owne safetie But in hope of His Maiesties gracious Answer they will waite and pray for the long life and happie and peaceable Reigne of his Majestie FINJS