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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97172	The preparative for London. Be mercifull to your selves. An hearty and friendly premonition to the City of London, before their meeting in a Common-Hall, which is now to be called, by the good providence of God, upon Saturday the 24. June. VVhereby they have, if they neglect it not, a gracious opportunity offered them to become the happy instruments of their owne safety, and the peace and preservation of these kingdoms. / By Thomas Warmestry. D. D.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W887; Thomason E449_26	11,417	16

throughout the Kingdom which will be much more easily undergon much more willingly by all good men than that the whole Kingdome should be ruined or an happy peace and reconciliation obstructed for want of it it will be an honourable a Christian purchase to buy the peace of our King and Nation though it is not so honourable in them that sell it 6. That his Majesty be desired to grant a free and generall pardon unto all with an act of perpetuall oblivion and that an oath may be framed by act of Parliament to be taken by all Members of succedent Parliaments never to revive the memory thereof nor to call any passages of these times into question with such limitations and exceptions onely as shall be found extreamely necessary to the preservation of the King and Kingdome which pardon to have its full effect as long as they shall not attempt any new disturbances otherwise to become voyd the Lawes of the Kingdome to proceed against such as shall be actors therein And that there may be likewise an act of Parliament made for the utter abolishment of all odious names tearms of opposition as Cavaliers Malignants Roundheads Committee-men c. Vnder some great penalty that the mention thereof may neither preserve nor revive the quarrells hereafter among us 6. That out of this pardon onely those may be excepted that shall be found to have had an hand in that late horrid designe of poysoning his Majesty 7. That there may be a set time appointed for the dissolution of this present Parliament after the granting of the aforesaid pardon and the enacting of those Lawes onely which shall be found necessary for the present peace and that his Majesty may engage himselfe by such engagements as may satisfy to call another free Parliament within two months after the dissolution of this 8. That all Armies may be speedily disbanded before the dissolution of this present Parliament with the payment of some competent portion of their Arreares And that the Scots be desired to returne having such satisfaction given them as may be reasonably desired and that these and all other such like payments may be made by the publike charge That the Militia of the City may be placed in such hands as his Majesty the Parliament the city shal agree on for a time untill the streames maybe reduced to their former channells 10. That immediately the Government of the Kingdome may be mannaged by the knowne Lawes of the Kingdome and all illegall powers dissolved and all illegall proceedings made voyd every man that is not disseized by legall course being restored unto his owne possessions And the Ministry unto their livings and that those Ministers that have left their owne livings and taken others may be restored to their own againe upon engagement not to disturbe the peace of the Church and Kingdome 11. That the Government and service of the Church may stand for the present as it is established by law witn such liberty onely allowed unto those that are otherwise minded as shall be found necessary untill upon the calling of another Parliament such alterations shall be legally made as shall stand with Gods glory the Truth of his Word and may conduce to the peace of this Church and Nation allowing all that liberty to tender consciences that doe not encounter these 12. That His Majesty may be moved to engage himselfe upon the beginning of the next Parliament to call a Nationall Synod consisting of a convenient number of the moderatest spirits of all Parties and that there may be an oath administred unto them against partiality and siding and all turbulent designes and that by a faire and free debate in this Synod there may be a reconciliation of judgements attempted First by declaring their consent in those things wherein all agree in terminis Secondly by assaying an union in those things wherein the tearms are opposite by a faire and charitable interpretation And if neither of these courses can end the contentions That it may be considered whether the questions that remain are in the Conclusions of either part necessary to be stood upon if not that the questions themselves may be abolished and silenced And that where there remaineth any difference unreconcileable in things necessary The judgement of some learned and moderate forraigne Divines may be desired Lastly That his majesty having given such satisfaction to the desires of all sides as is necessary for the security of a well-grounded Peace He may be restored to his royall power and all his Revenue and state The Queen Prince and the Duke of Yorke and the Lady called home and received with honour and safety And that all may be concluded with a generall humiliation to God first for our sinnes And then a generall Thanks-giving for his mercies and deliverances FINIS

would not agree but would be at war amongst your selves about the very event that you should choose But in case you could as the case now stands with you that you have in either part or in whole displeased all parties at one time or another What event can you expect that will not in probability make the spoile of your City if by that time you shall be extant or have any thing left that is worth the plundring the center of the motion and the reward and triumph of the victory If the King prevaile it 's true he is gracious and hath learnt no doubt by his own sufferings great lessons of mercy and compassion towards others But the sons of Zerviah may be too hard for him and perhaps he may have much adoe to conquer the rage of his incensed Army that he may be mercifull unto you The Scots are hungry The Army full of fury and offence and when they are gotten into power your cold courtesies will be taken for injuries what you have done will be forgotten and what you have denyed will be remembred The Houses have received diverse discontents from you The Presbyterian Party hath been deserted by you and many of them chased away and others imprisoned by your admission of the Army you are a body made up of such variety of complexions and have shewed your selves so variable in your actions That you have left room enough for every side to pick a quarrell to make advantage of their power against you and that Sword that shall be up will hardly be disputed with each of them will finde their severall enemies amongst you which may engage the whole unto disaster or if they could finde none yet it is no hard matter for arbitrary Conquerours to make enemies that they may make use of their successes Though you be Guelph yet your goods will be Gibellines No way in the world to secure you in any degree but a timely peace Consider the small number of moments that is allowed you for the dispatch of this great businesse and the prevention of such important mischiefes which calleth upon you to delay it no longer consider the great and horrid impiety that is now discovered by the great mercy of God in the designe to have poysoned his Sacred Majesty which should have been the crown of the rest of those hellish cruelties which have been exercised against Him The God of Heaven look upon the authors and complices and put it into your hearts to separate your selves from all complyance with such devilish and atheisticall undertakers and to seek the deliverance of Him out of their hands Consider I beseech you seriously to consider that happy oppertunity which hath been heretofore denyed you though many of you have desired it and now God by the forelaid plot of his Divine disposition and goodnesse hath by the seasonable returne and the course of times put into your hands by the necessary publike meeting of your City at this time an opportunity which you should looke upon as a call from heaven to set you about this blessed businesse an opportunity which if you now neglect the Lord knowes whether ever you shall have the like againe for ought you know it may be the last offer that ever God will make you for the procurement of your own preservation for ought you know if you shall despise this mercifull concession of the Lord unto you before another such a season shall returne and you know how hard it is to procure such a meeting out of course The flame of your City may be the funerall pile of your selves and your Wives and Children and the Ashes thereof may be left as the greate trophee or monument of your stupid folly and impiety and of the mine of this whole Nation The Lord of his mercy give you wisdome to prevent it I know there are variety of opinions amongst you I know it too well and I grieve to thinke on 't The Lord in his good time make an end of all differences He is able to do it and I hope he will do it in some good measure and in his good time If we disappoint not our selves of so great a blessing But in the mean time I beseech you let not any difference in judgement so quite extinguish the flame of Christian Charity which is a robe large enough to hide a multitude of errours as well as fins as to make us forget all compassion unto one another at least not to forget to have compassion upon our selves let us repaire the breaches in our affections which I dare be bold to say no diversity of judgement whatsoever hath Commission from God utterly to dissolve then we may well hope that God will take his season to make up the differences that are in our apprehensions since it is his promise to the meeke that he will guide them in judgement Psal 25.9 The unity of our hearts must be the foundation to set up the building of our united judgements for froward thoughts separate from God and wisdome is a loving spirit is canonicall truth though it be in an Apocryphall booke The want of mutuall love puts us out of the school of Christ since it is the very livery of his Disciples to love one another John 13.35 This is the right method of union and I wish it were better thought on and then the mutuall conversation and peaceable and Christian communion and conference with one another might be a great meanes to unite us in our judgements but our Wars and fightings come from our evill lusts James 4.1 In the meane time do not henceforth hold your opinions at so deare a rate as to make them the purchase of the ruine and destruction of your selves and these whole Kingdomes and Nations It is a truth wherein nothing can divide you but inexcusable compliance with corruption that you all ought to joyne the utmost of your force and wisdome to prevent ruine and destruction to that body whereof you are now Members and the word of God layes no impediments in your way If any carnall interests and ingagements do I am sure they are held at so high a price by those that stand upon them at this time that if they understood it they would not thinke it their interest to maintaine such interest The asserting of private advantage with the perdition of the publike is as if a man should pull a board out of the maine bottome to preserve the beauty or integrity of a Cabin which with all its ornament and entirenesse sinkes unto the bottome in the drowning of the ship The truth is whatever the Articles be that are proposed there is inequality and injustice in the very capitulation whensoever the publike is enforced to a treaty with private concernments for the preserving of it self since no particular goods is at all considerable where it stands in counter to a publike in the same or a higher kinde And those Members have rather need