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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52751	The case of the kingdom stated according to the proper interests of the severall parties ingaged : I. Touching the interest of the King and his party, II. The interest of the Presbyterian party, III. The interest of the Independent party, IV. The interest of the citie of London, V. The interest of Scotland, not extant before now : a peece of rare observation and contexture, wherin all men are equally concerned.	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1647 (1647)	Wing N380; ESTC R40043	15,667	18

The Case of the KINGDOM STATED According to the Proper Interests of the severall Parties INGAGED I. Touching the Interest of the KING and his Party II. The Interest of the Presbyterian Party III. The Interest of the Independent Party IV. The Interest of the Citie of LONDON V. The Interest of SCOTLAND not extant before now A peece of rare Observation and Contexture wherin all men are equally Concerned The Third Edition with Addition by the Author M. N. Dulce decorum est pro Patriâ London Printed Anno Dom. 1647. To the KING SIR AFter so many storms I know you would willingly attain the wished Haven but then you must imbarque a new and not in the old Shipwrack't design And since it is no Flattery to wish you well for your own sake and many others pray take this Pamphlet to steer your course by and account him as good a friend to your self and the Kingdom as any you have bin acquainted with these seven yeers who first delivers it into your hands For I am confident were you abroad among your old Councell you should not reap so much of the truth of your Interest as you may in these poor sheets which are but the Gleanings of observation To the PRESBYTERS Sweet SIRS Let not your Jealousie accuse this Paper of a Plot against the State Truly I have added your Interest out of pitty to your condition that since you cannot attain your Jure divino you may at least open your eyes and preserve your selves if you please in a handsome equipage Jure humano To the INDEPENDENTS FRIENDS You who are Listed more immediatly under the Prince of Peace ought not so to prosecute your Interest as to begin a War upon it but only to remain on the defensive till your just Liberty be confirmed and the Prince's due right restored since Conscience must needs remain quieter where the power is invested in one King than in an Hydra of Presbyters Above all things you must not be Anti-parliamentary but exercise wisdome with patience and the countenance of that Authority cannot long be wanting A word to the wise To the CITY SIRS My desire is that you may flourish which cannot be unlesse you minde only your peculiar Interest of Trade If you resolve to live and die with Presbytery consider that you can ill Bandy against the other two Parties since it cannot be unknown that they are the major part of your selves A City divided against it self cannot stand To the SCOTS Friends and Confederates Take this brief draught of your Interest wherewith I here present you with the same Ingenuity and Candor that I wrote it God shall bear me record that I lay nothing open here with intent to work division it being contrary to my obligation by Covenant but onely to satisfie the world in truth concerning you and your selves in what concerns your own happinesse safety and advantage by a wise demeanour in order to the Conservaton of Peace in these Kingdoms Honi soit qui mal y pense And now Gentlemen but one word more to all I suppose none can take just offence since I state the Interests of all indifferently pointing out to each the way to advance and preserve their own Party and I shall commend to them what the Duke of Rohan saith of the States of Europe that according as they follow their proper Interests they thrive or faile in Successes so the Parties now on Foot in this Kingdom must looke to stand or fall upon the same Ground The Case of the Kingdom stated c. First touching the Interest of the KING and his Partie THE King as the case lately stood with him was a very Prisoner and so being fallen from the height of fortune must remit much of the height of his designe and what hath been lost by bandying he ought to Salve by a wary Compliance That this he may effect in a short time is very probable since what Machiavell sets downe as a sure Principle towards the purchase of Empire is acted ready to his hands by the mutuall expence of Spleene in his opposites against each other so that all he hath to doe is to sit still to foment and blow the Fire and give the humours time to toyle till being tyred in extreames there appeare a necessity of one Third to rest in which can be no other but himselfe and then his onely Interest will be to close with that Party which gives most hope of Indulgence to his Prerogative greatest probability of favor to his Friends That neither of these can be expected from the Presbyterian is evident for many Reasons And first touching the Prerogative their Government in the nature of it derogates not onely from the Civill in generall but carries with it a more speciall enmity against Monarchie so that they which intend to found the one must raze the Fundamentals of the other in any Kingdome whatsoever Politique assertions of this kinde should be strengthned by Observations out of History But the tender age of this Vpstart Hierarchy and the Little entertainment it hath found in the World yeelds us nothing of moment to observe unlesse in our own Island For if we looke abroad we finde it but stragling up and downe in France and Germany and in such places onely as acknowledge little or none at all of Kingly power so that Scotland is the onely visible Kingome where this Pest is Epidemicall and it was first Scotch Charity to Baptize it as Christian into the name and priviledge of a Nationall Forme This was done during the minority of King James when the Lords and Clergie ruling all as they listed at length parted stakes though the Clergie then got and still hold the better that when He came to age he found the Fable of Ixion's Juno moralized upon himself for as he instead of a Goddesse imbraced a Cloud so the King when he thought to grasp his Scepter laid hold on a Manacle which kept his hands so fast during his abode there that he could never Act but when they pleased to let him according to their own Directory of Kirk and State And in processe of time this heat of Presbytery proved such an Hectique in the body Politique of Scotland that the Substance of Kingly power was utterly consumed and nothing left as we see at this day but the bare bones the very Ek●leton of a Monarchie Witnesse the unlimited power of the Convention of Estates and Generall Assembly but especially of this latter which like to the Rod of Aaron is in such a budding thriving condition that it hath devoured the Rod of Moses as his did the Magicians of Aegypt and proves a Scourge to the Magistracie and People This is a sufficient Instance being also the onely one in the World to manifest the Antipathie betwixt a Nationall Presbytery and the civill power of Common weales and Kingdomes wherein whosoever desires further satisfaction needs doe no more but take a strict survey of