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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

own what they acted but would seem to lye under the Armyes Force when indeed they and the Rebellious part of the Army mutually complotted and contrived the whole businesse as it was after acted where was their Magnanimity If the Action was good and just and honourable why would they seem unwillingly compelled to it Why did they so oft send to the Army and demand the readmission of their Members since they did not desire nor intend it why did they pretend to desire it Was that a part of their valour and Magnanimity To pretend a fear and affrightment from unarmed Petitioning London Apprentices who seized not a person of them nor offered the least violence no nor yet menacing words not daring to oppose the insulting Soldiery if they really disliked their Actions nor yet having confidence enough to own their Actions if they did as since it appeared undenyably approve of what they did who but Mr. Milton would style this a Magnanimous Action If Perjury Treachery breach of Vowes Murther Vsurpation Oppression and Sacriledge be the demonstrations of a just action if to be chosen for the good of the Counties Cities or Burroughs choosing in a joynt not divided way with not without the House of Peers to consult with the KING not to depose and murther him and yet to do contrary to all for which they were Elected If to be returned by Indentures to advise with the King about matters of great concernment to be sworn at admission into the House to be true to the King his Heirs c. to maintain him and all his just Priviledges and to confirm this Oath by several after Oaths and Covenants and Protestations and yet to butcher the same King make Warre against and proclaim Traytor his Son expell him out of one of his Hereditary Kingdomes and wherein he was Crowned make it Treason to relieve him in Exile yea Malignity to pray for him publiquely If to make an Invasive Warre on Scotland for Crowning a King to whom and which they were bound by Oath without their consent who had murthered the Father not only without but contrary to theirs and contrary to their own re-iterated Oaths and Duty If I say all these and ten times as many the like Actions which all concur to and center in the abolishing of Kingship be just then next to the Devil the Rumpers shall have my Voyce to applaud their Justice And as for their Magnanimity let them commend it who know not or will not believe how perfidiously they wrought with their own stipendiary Servants to rebell against those from whom they derived their power and by whom payd It was the major part of the Commons and the Peers that alwayes acted empowered ordered and disposed of all things which how magnanimously the Rump could usurp to themselves we have seen having an Army at hand to back them but so cowardly they were that they durst not own themselves to have a hand in any of these Transactions but like a Puppet-player drew the Curtain of a rebellious mutinous Souldiery before the eys of the spectators though quicker sights easily at first perceived the juggle 'T wil now not be unseasonable to consider the experience which the worthy Patriots the restorers of us to Liberty had of Kingship which is no more then what themselves expressed in their Resolvs and Votes as is at large related by learned Mr Walker in his History of Independency and the same is here laid down by Mr M●lton their Champion for the ground of this their abolishing the same They had found it by long experience burdensome expensive uselesse and dangerous so also they judged the House of Peers unnecessary c. Concerning this I have spoken already and yet I must repeat the same arguments although not the same words since that maxime in oratory holds ever true Nunquam nimis dicitur quod non satis intelligitur Let us consider things then and if we want not memory we shall not want instances enough to convince as well the Rump as this their Champion that this their old discovery was but a new forgery and an expresly sinning against the light of their Conscience would any that had read the Speakers Speech to the KING made on the fifth of November 1640 at the first convention of this Parliament beleive that he then had found Kingship or Kingly Government such as the Rump since declare to the world their experience thereof nevertheless the same William Lenthal though he then protested his Judgment that the welfare of these Nations under God depended on his Majesty and his Royall issue and acknowledged with pretended gratefulnesse how under him and his Father this Kingdome had flourished yet eight years after behold and stand in admiration the same man with a perjurd tongue and double mind sits Speaker to the Rump and they pretend their long experience not only of the burthen and uselesness but the danger of Kingly Government Of Sir Henry Mildmay and both the Vanes Cornelius Holland and severall others this I may say and wrong neither them nor the truth That if ever Servants had a good Master and he in requital false wicked servants they and their murdered Master may be cited as ful and clear Examples And yet these will needs be Saints in opposition to the Apostle Paul who saith that perhaps for a good Master some servant may dare to dye never supposing or imagining there should be such desperately treacherous Servants to circumvent and Murther their Master As for the burthensomnesse of Monarchy which I presume we are to interpret concerning our own Government by Kings and more particularly of that excellently accomplished and first english royall Martyr King CHARLES How expensive I pray you how burdensome was he Could he or any other KING before him rayse monys without a Parliament As for his Family expense did ever any man before you taxe him with profusenesse Did he or could he make warre without the advise of those Nobles who were of his Privy Counsell Nay on the other hand was not his Father so farre given to peace and peace-making that he gave for his Motto Beati Pacifici and reckoned it his honor to be accounted one of that number Was not the imputation laid upon him by those who make it their business to bark at Majesty and to speak evill of dominion that he was a Coward and one who would rather choose to buy a dishonourable peace then to make and manage an honourable Warre was not he by the invitation of his allyes the Bohemian Protestants as well as those of Rochell the instigation of his Peers the addresses and incouragement of all his loving Subjects stirred up to a Warre in defence of both the Bohemians and Rochellians In prosecution of which was not his treasure exhausted and a Warre left from the Father to the Sonne to the pursuing whereof Conscience Religion and reputation bound him and yet how slack were the Parliaments for his supply

the Grave and Sea They may also very well be termed the Snuffe of the House of Commons the State of England during the Commotions being properly compared to a Taper which being melted by the fire of Warre and wasting it self with its own light which was blown aside by the blasts of Rebellion ran down much of its waxe into the Socket and declined apace This snuffe at last preying upon what was run down by the heat of Warre and the winde of Rebellion blazed a long time till all that fed it was consumed and then went out in a most insufferable stink But I shall leave them to their own melancholy thoughts which perhaps may now check them and as Josephs brethren after almost twenty years security in that great sin which for ought they knew they were guilty of to wit their brothers bloud when they were reduced to a great extremity began to accuse themselves one to another We are verily guilty of the bloud of our Brother So these Regicides I hope in this their extremity may be alarmed by their consciences with such like thoughts We are questionlesse guilty of the bloud of our KING when our own hearts told us that his person was sacred and we our selves were guilty of what we charged upon him but he was innocent and therefore now his bloud is required This is the worst I wish them if it were Gods will but their black fact I would have abhorred and detested for ever and damned to the pit of hell where first it was hatched The last Engine by which Mr. Milton endeavours to hinder our much expected settlement is to perswade the people that our present hereditary King hath been from his Cradle trained up in Popish Principles having lived so long and received his subsistance among and from them this if it were true is a bad argument to keep him from his Crown if it be as certainly it is his hereditary right and due It was the unanimous resolve of the true Protestant Christians in Queen Maries dayes that notwithstanding the desire of pious King Edward to the contrary she and not the Lady Jane should be Crowned Queen although she was known to be a resolved Papist and of a most furious spirit in requital of whom she sent many of them to Heaven in Triumphant fiery Chariots Now were it to be admitted that our King were of the Romish Religion yet his sweet inclination and disposition might take all suspition of danger from him Had he been educated with the greatest indulgence and care that were possible in the true Orthodox Religion and yet been seduced accidentally by the fraud and policy of some Romish Agents it had yet been our duty to have prayed for him as became true Christians but withall to have submitted to him for Gods sake as became the true Children and Successors of those Primitive Apostolike Saints who did the like to Heathen Emperors and Governors But when God knowes this Nation hath by unparallel'd Rebellion and Treason cut off the Father with that impious solemnity as was never yet done by the worst of Pagans and neglected the Children with as much inhumanity as unrighteousnesse dividing as a spoyl among themselves the ample Revenues belonging to Majesty and neither allowing the posterity any subsistance themselves nor permitting any other to do it but upon penalty of high Treason forbidding all relief to the Royal Orphans and Widow when I say the Nation hath done this pardon me that I say the Nation for I must lay the blame on the Nation till the Nation hath wiped off the blot if the King in consideration of these monstrous impieties perpetrated against his Father and continued against himself had imputed the fault of the Professors to the profession it self and imbraced Popery rather then refined KING killing Soveraign-despising Protestanisme it had been our duty to have been humbled for what was past and by a more exact Obedience to have testified our detestation of such principles in order to the convincing his judgement but to have rejected him on this score had I confidently perswade my self been adding impenitency unto sinne which is the greatest aggravation thereof For without doubt the whole Nation cannot wash their hands from the guilt of our great sins committed against Gods Vicegerent our undoubted Head and Soveraign Lord and his Royall Issue for fear of man at least or cowardly declining their endanger'd King and his Royall line was their fault While Vowes Covenants Oathes and Protestations were made for his preservation and happinesse it is no great wonder that fair words and promises insnared the simple since I perswade my self that those who made such promises were themselves beguiled by the subtilty of the ringleading Rumpers and the Rebellious Souldiery but when Oaths were palpably broken and Majesty not only contemned and in hazard but upon the very point of ruine had all who were cordially loyall then appeared against such monstrous impiety and villany had they been not only unarmed and naked but even sick and wounded men they had undoubtedly given a check to the Rumpers rage and malicious barbarous bloudy impiety In which respect our Humiliation ought to be Nationall and serious since not only Dogs Sorcerers and such like but the fearfull and unbelieving shall be shut out of the heavenly Jerusalem Yea and when Christ was crucified it was not the whole Nation that did it but the High-priest and Scribes and some zealous Pharisees nor the majority of the people that consented to it for they who plotted his death durst not put their designs in execution on the Feast-day least there should be an Uproar among the people who most of them accounted Christ as a good holy man and a great Prophet Yet none appearing on his side when it was put in execution that was long before plotted his bloud lay upon the whole Nation and dismal calamities many years after came upon all for the actual sin of some So in likenesse of our Saviours sufferings behold a pious Protestant King not carefull of his own life that by his bloud he might seal his peoples Liberties and the priviledges of Parliament behold him I say arraign'd with scorn reproach and contempt condemned with impudence and the height of indignity and executed with the full measure of malice tyranny and cruelty yea and after his death the Injuries done to the Father as it were intayl'd upon the Son and extended to the whole Royall Issue and Relations Behold a young Prince no sooner by villanous violence made a a lawfull KING but persecuted to the death Warre being made with all who gave him entertainment nor peace concluded with any but upon condition of his being proscribed and ejected out of all their Dominions and Jurisdiction his naturall Subjects prohibited but upon condition of utter ruine to own or relieve him and yet see the mercy and goodnesse to this poor Nation in this our King his constancy in the true Protestant Religion