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A42647
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The modest cavallieres advice together with a letter to the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight where His Sacred Majesty is now remaining.
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C. G. (Charles Gerbier)
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1647
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Wing G583B; ESTC R36541
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The Modest CAVALLIERES ADVICE Together with a Letter to the Inhabitants of the Isle of VVight where his Sacred MAIESTY Is now remaining Printed in the Yeare 1647. The Modest Cavaliers Advice together with a Letter to the Inhabitants of the Isle of VVight where His Sacred Majesty is now remaining I Shall present this little Pamphlet unto your view in this doubtfull and dangerous time not only to shew you the dependency betwixt our King and Kingdome but also to comfort and strengthen you against all feares that are or may be interjected by the subtlety and mallice of our Adversaries or our owne misconceit or diffidence for as I finde the enemy busily practising to discourage us and to raise false fires to affright us so wee our selves as melancholly persons are apt to misconstrue all things and to imagine the worst upon the sight of every shaddow there are many that labour to effect a division betwixt us by offering faire resemblances and great promises of preferments but I trust the generall disposition of an honest hearted Cavalier is not to waver that is to simile those persons which are light of love who desire to shift their old approved friends for fresh Sutors and prefer the change of an adulterous bed before the marryed if any there be which by chance may be allured by this strumpet of the night I verily believe in the morning their eyes will be enlightened and take it to be but a fit or throw of passion which wil be easily cast off with more loathing and detestation then it was pursued with longing I write not this to detect any of unconstancy but only to stand as a Centinell or Watchman to give warning at the comming of so many blood thirsty deceivers And for the State it selfe I meane that maine Axeltree whereon our Kingdome turnes which is the sincerity of our King to his friends I doe assure my selfe it is the same it was and that wee onely move whilst he remaines constant many may imagine otherwise as simple Passengers sailing swiftly by the shoares or continent suppose the Trees Steeples and Towers to goe backwards Let us not be distracted and affrighted with our owne shaddowes ignorance makes us Infidells lo wee are brethren yet I must confesse that Brethren oftentimes wax suspicious each of other but let us agree for suspition raiseth rumours and those rumours though false may in time beget and nourish a dangerous hate betwixt us that which I write may make us more confident of each others love or at least shall have that effect in us untill we behold the issue which I hope at the last will be happy The Bell rings out and I heare the sound and report it gives on both sides upon the Parliament side all men feare the passages and carriages of all things and considering these things are very liberall and free in their discourses and making their feares great as indeede the cause requires On the other side some shallow brained Traytours are doubtfull of the King and being filled with mad jealousies and feares prosecute his Majesty with all kinde of Calumny Reproaches and Pasquills are day by day invented huancries countenanced and the inventers of them rewarded base Libells and Scandalls are cast abroad thick and threefold one upon the neck of another wherein not only the King Queene and all their Royall Progeny but also all his Majesties Loyall Subjects are very basely abused This comforts me and assures me that they persecute none of their owne and therefore behold his Majesty and all that love him to be their utter enemies Theeves and Traytours have alwaies a knawing in their consciences and as the Phrase is simile simile gavdent they can't endure any that displayes their plots and will not bee Adjutators in these bloody designes Let this assure us that his Majestie is the sâ—me we would have him but for my owne part I comfort my selfe especially and desire you would be comforted against all feares or plots layed or plotted against us out of two considerations First the goodnesse and mercy of our God Secondly the wisedome and pollicy of our King First let us consider wee have a good and glorious God watching over us who will not suffer his truth to be extinguished but as he hath hitherto miraculously preserved it so still he will continue to doe the same The Lord visits the transgressions of his children with the rod yet will he not utterly take his mercy from them nor suffer his truth to faile Let us then rest in peace for hee that keepeth us doth neither slumber nor sleepe and let the remembrance of those many former deliverances which he hath wrought for us assure us of the like fatherly care and protection still if wee faithfully and constantly depend upon his mercifull promise Secondly remember the wisdome of our King which is so renowned as for it he is admired of all and let this comfort us and assure us that God hath not given him so much light for nothing much lesse for evill Let us thinke that since he hath beene served by us with so much obedience that hee will so much neglect his owne honour and safety or our lives and liberties as to leave us in the hands of our enemies or abase us in the eyes of Rebells to leade us or suffer us to be led into temporall or spirituall captivity Let us thinke alwayes he cannot forget those rebellious persons which have fought severall times against him nor yet the many attempts and practises which they have used against his Person Crowne Dignity and the truth he professeth nor that God will suffer him to sleepe securely in the armes of such as he knowes watch only for opportunity to destroy both Church and State as also him and his Our love to his Royall Progeny must needes assure our love to him and the hate of others to them assure their inward hate against him and for such as perswade otherwise that our love to the King or his children and hate to the adverse Party proceedes either out of discontent or a vaine humour in us leading to disloyalty let their lies turne upon their owne pates and let evill happen to them that evill thinke there are subtile enemies which labour to breed jealousies betwixt him and his Subjects knowing it to be for their greatest advantage and the only and chiefest plot to blemish and cloude the glory and magnificence of Monarchy they would alienate the heart of the King from his people the people from the King and friends from each other yet thinke it cannot sinke into his Majesties breast that such friends and servants who have not onely spent and lost their estates but hazarded their lives dayly and hourely should intend the least hurt to him who is the defender of their faith it is for Turkes and Heathens to become bloody Traytors and it is for Tyrants to suspect their friends Good Princes who are Fathers of the Common-wealth