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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81280	Mutatus Polemo revised, by some epistolary observations of a country minister, a friend to the Presbyterian government. Sent up to a reverend pastor in London. Whereunto is annexed a large tractate, discussing the causes betwixt Presbyter, Scotland, and Independent, England. As it was sent (in a letter inclosed) to the reviser, and penned by C.H. esquire.	C. H.; P. C.	1650 (1650)	Wing C95; Thomason E616_3; ESTC R206715	45,375	60

time ye have been King'd a little longer but by this I trow ye think ye shall pay us Ding-dong that ye have strucken us as dead as a Doore-nail you imagine you have out-witted us I pray bring me word about this time twelve month Yet Brethren we are not in despaire but hope still for your good that you may imitate that Enarchus who having as was believed for a while departed this life at last came again to himself and assured the standers by that he was well but that if he had continued a little longer in his extasie he had died in good earnest My Brethren Hear I beseech you what I say Do but you or any English seduc'd ones of your party with calme sights and uninteressed judgements consider affairs as they are now necessitated in the purity of their being and not behold them obliquely through those passions which perplex you and in the infection of a malicious avarice which so alters you and o' my soul ye would soon come to us in a Christian brotherly and amicable composure and eftsoon with us turn enemies to all Usurpers of the Liberties of their Country what stupidity is it in you to suffer your Country to be devasted eternally ruined and to let out so much of your own heart blood and all for the humor and support of a wicked youth and an unlucky family what senselesness is it in you to invent all possible wayes to lose your own rest so as ye may be but able to disquiet anothers But know ye poor silly hearts it is not so with us All the advantages we expect from our victories over you is but a common felicity both to you and us even an universall good that Justice may raign in both our Nations that Piety may be extolled Liberty enlarged Oppression cut off and lastly nothing but what may procure us Reputation abroad and a good Conscience at home But ' should seem our war in Scotland can neither be ended by Treaty nor Victory not by the first ye will accept of no overtures of Peace we make unto you and when we conclude about Trivials as Prisoners or the like ye will keep your word no longer with us then ye have the first occasion to break it ye will make our General affraid to treat with you when hereafter ye may be enforc'd to beg it at his hand fye on this every way perfidiousness and secondly you will never be quiet but when ye are not able to stir alas your hearts for the most part and yet I say we hope there are some amongst you that are not so are clearly bent against Gods people ye have an inveterate malice against us but be assured its the infallible Oracle of Truth That wisdom enters not into malicious souls ye are the children of this generation which pass in the world for wiser ones then the children of light yet surely your wisdom is foolishooss with God and there is no more prudence without his fear then a building without a foundation which if the world be not mightily deceived is your now new clouted Monarchy though we will also be ready to confess that for the particular part of your Stuart he hath not in all things plaid the fool though in most things the Knave but like him we reade of in Lukes Gospel Luke 16.8 though he hath been unjust he is to be commended because he hath done so wisely for himself in so strangely befooling you No doubt but his fancy ran the same way the other unjust Stewards did and said with himself Ver. 3. as ver 3. what shall I do I cannot digg and to beg I am ashamed Ver. 4. ver 4. I know what I will do that when I am put out of the Stewardship they may receive me into their houses which ye have done and I suppose will hardly get him out again without our help Thus wise hath the Boy been to get an house over his head but let us have a care that we reckon not Cheaters amongst men of skill and that we do not call Cunning Vertue or Deceit Wisdom without question the Times and his Tutors have taught him the Legerdemane even the very Art of Fallacy 't is impossible as his education hath been but that he is endued with a certain learned and disciplined kinde of naughtiness and State-Knavery even a System of Machavilian Rules and Precepts to help him aspire to his pernicious ends the villany of all the Runnagate Scots in Europe is not able to compose and impose one Covenant Oath Abjuration or Declaration so damnably bitter though it were to execrate his father friends for damned murderers but he is doctrinated and resolved to down with it O the conscience of a wicked man much more of a debauch'd bankrupt youth what will it not reach to T is written of Hippolitus that Euripides made him cry out in one of his Tragedies I have sworn with my tongue but not with my minde judge ye whether he hath not after this sort swallowed down your Covenant without doubt the poor young man is cordially converted to you and hath satisfied his holy Father so much therein that he cannot in equity deny him a Dispensation for any future compliance of his with you O grievous how obdurate and seared is his conscience that it can suffer any weight upon it or that it can recede from any thing how fundamental soever which his conscience dictates to be just and eagerly pursue and follow on the contrary He hath not wanted some English Prelatical Casuists I dare say such as his Father had concerning a business of blood who could finde out very godly reasons no doubt wherefore it might be thus lawful for him to play the Devil and Hypocrite and perswade him that he shall be innocent let him be ever so guilty O Lord Can the rest and quiet of any mans soul who is not purely Infidel be establish'd by such soft-easie means as this will the poor soul of a man depend on the subtilty of a Knave Doctor A Prince that made the glory of God his object in the most advantageous business which could be proposed to him if he already were assured of the prosperity of the success and were not grounded in the goodness of the cause would surely make a stop upon this very difficulty and stoutly refuse both Crowns and Scepters were they presented to him and laid down at his feet But t is true many men become pretty Physitians they think so at least by the frequency and strength of their own diseases and questionless this young man hath gotten that miserable Science which many men learn by their faults and misfortunes that is if not better'd by them to do or turn any thing for advantage for whom misery makes not better it makes worse Certainly the fortune of this House of Stuarts having assembled so many fatal events and call'd down divine judgements upon almost each soul of and Part-taker with the

conceive you suppose they may thank you for and yet truly Sir I have an opinion that as basely fraudulent as they have ever been with England they are surely now more rationall then to expect that from a Republique which they were used to receive at the hands of Kings that we should not only thank them for the wrong they have done us but pay them also for their pains That 's for your first Quaery 2. I much muse at those whose Covenanting consciences can permit them to take part with Danish Swedish Scotch French Irish I know not how many forreign Enemies against their own Native friends Alas what is' t you would have Government well is that it or else you will resolve not to be governed If ye cannot have all ye would ye will yet still keep a stir for more then ye should or can in reason expect Nay I will put the case higher suppose it were as ye insinuate even forbidden to make profession of some certain truths Methinks men should not by and by turn Trayterous Rebels and oppose themselves to an establisht order of a Common-wealth But what truths are ye prohibited the profession of shew them and if you have not Remedy then continue Traytors in Gods Name I will not say but with a witness for my own part I would be or at least reputed to be so obedient a Commonwealths man as to yeeld to some Laws though the dictate of my reason should tell me they were perverse but it should be by my silence But blessed be the holy Name of God we are not reduced to this praedicament there is none of you but if ye will may enjoy the dearly purchased liberty of our times That 's for your second 3 Though you seem to be merry concerning some passages at our last conference yet let me tell you perchance I am not less then you seemingly take me for To speak truth I am a very good Englishman and do passionately love my Countrey maugre Covenanting pretensions to delude me but whether I am fit to be reputed as you would fain have me think you do a sound Polititian or how I should come acquainted with State Affairs by sometimes reading a Diurnall as you do this I know not questionless I have more courage then strength more zeal then knowledge to serve the Publike but were I arrived to so noble a Culmen as to say I could advance the Publike good by my single Pen which I neither dare nor can beleeve or that I could clearly demonstrate to our neighbour Hollanders or the miserably poor envassaled slaves of France that in England all things are now changed into the better under so blessed an Alteration as that of a Kingly Tyranny into a free State which hath confirmed us in a most pretious Liberty and that it is not onely apparent that in a few yeers triall it will enrich us but make us also more formidable and much encrease our courage when it shall be seen we fight not so much for the glorious advancing of one single Family as the preservation of a Publike Interest Religion and Liberty yet all this while there is not so great a praise redounds to me as you are pleased to bestow but I must wholly ascribe it to the felicity of the Times in which we have lived to see this change And yet if in high State matters my modesty bids me say I am unworthy to obtain a rank amongst politike men there is none of our Governors can deny me one amongst Commonwealths-men if my capacity be inconsiderable my publike zeal at least deserves not to be rejected briefly Sir for an answer to this third of yours I onely tell you it pittifully grieves me to see so many such English spirits as your self who are so vexed at their own good and cannot indure their happiness but would again fain be under their old yoke of Regal Tyranny any Governors but the present should seem would please you all present transactions thwarts your Politicks it would not be blasphemy for me to say that God himself cannot make the Presbytery Governors to please them because the more they are after his own heart the less will he be after theirs so much for that 4. And fourthly I cannot but vex to see how you torture men with that other Quaerie of yours not with the strength but poorness of it What had we to do what need had we to invade or make war with our Brethren Rebels of Ireland and Scotland Could not our Ambition be sated with one Kingdom Ah Sir But if our Governors had been dormant if our Cromwel had still staid at London then when all our throats had been ready to be cut ye would have roar'd louder that it had been an infatuation in them to have been so supine as to suffer the common or a forraign enemy to over run and come up to us But you have done well to stitch this Querie with a wonder from God if your men cannot beat us your children shall your little boy at York which you have made grow out of the belly of this Quaerie who cries Stale bear for want of a King is not he enough to convince us forsooth In very deed a goodly childish question and thus ye fight against our States managing of Affairs like foolish Welchmen with old Proverbs and like besotted Englishmen with new miracles because ye cannot touch it with good reasons but next ye make a Resolve upon this Quaerie and take it for granted that now surely it cannot be otherwise but that Scotland must be the Aceldama for Independents so that truly to me it seems an hard definition whether ye err more out of a pusillanimous infirmity or inveterate malice or whether ye stand more in need of the remedies of Physick or that of the Laws certainly ye are mad and ye must be whipt Really Sir it grieves me to see how ye abuse that benefit of liberty meerly against those who have procured it for ye that 's for that 5. But ye come powdring with your fifth in all post haste ye object and tell me that the States must needs receive a very great disadvantage from the rigor used towards and so consequently the discontent of a very considerably numerous party of formerly our Brethren here in England which by our harshness have been necessitated to separate from amongst us shew us where the rigor was and tell us what you mean by this word Harshness or else I shall be inforced to answer you harshly in a word It is much better to have a weak cowardly enemy to contest with then an ambitious-cold-brawling friend to preserve 6. For your sixt Sir Methinks when I maturely excogitate with my self the Slavery we have waded through and the Liberty we now may injoy those passed pains should be our present contentments either the good which now we may upon sure grounds hope for should much solace our imaginations or at least the Royall evils

drowzy cowardliness Shall that for ever hereafter be spoken of the Scots which was related of the people of Asia That for freemen they were of no reckoning or account but that they made very excellent slaves and were very good to uphold an insupportable Tyranny for want of having the valour to resist it Because their King is not yet come to his highest pin or that they have hitherto had a pretty nimble way to cut them off in their career or because they are reserved for the last Act of the Tragedy after Independents and Cavaleers too as they think therefore they absolutely conclude themselves perpetually secure Because the poyson of Popery and Cavalerisme hath not yet disperst over all their Members and intrencht upon their very heart and that very death doth not yet gripe them they imagine they are in very good state and condition Because the Pope doth not openly declare what he hopes and intends to bring to pass by him who its thought is really his Proselyte will they be so mad as to think or is it that they know themselves to be so slighted scorned and inconsiderable a people that he doth not so much as dream of them as well as that sweet morsel of England Assuredly if they should see in Edinburgh a man providing great store of all sorts of materials for a structure and forthwith make ready a place in a very fair seat to employ those utensils without doubt they would say that surely he meant to erect a very fair house though they saw neither the walls set up or foundations laid and can they be so perversly wilful that notwithstanding they see such huge Popeling preparations in almost all Catholick parts yet they will not understand what kind of fabrick is in time hoped to be set up both with them and us To be sure if they suffer the yong Popified blade to manage his work a little further till it be compleatly accomplished that is if they go on to accept of his formal Recantations for which without doubt as in time may be proved he hath Dispensations sufficient it will then no longer be in their power to oppose him for that all his retractations are indeed disguised deceitfull and complementall and verily it is impossible as he hath been principled under his father and since beyond sea to live under him and in liberty they must of necessity be put to this Dilemma and chuse one of these two things either to be his vassals or his enemies and see which they love best an intolerable long slavery or a short just war Yet indeed though at present the face of things look so oddly in Scotland affairs are not so incurably altered in that Region as some suppose and wish Nature surely hath preserved some remainder of good seed she can yet raise up some stout and couragious spirits from that ancient principle of libert which may not as yet be totally extinguished from amongst them They have as great quondam experience of throwing Tyrants overboard as any people under heaven I say methinks nature and experience might distill some drops of blood purely Brittish amongst them amidst that corrupted mass it now labours under It cannot be but sometimes they call to mind the neat feats their fathers have been forced to use to get off those iron yokes from about their necks It cannot be that the ingenuity of that Northern people should suffer them to lie stil under that heavy pressure of Regality it s a shame that the learned abilities of that people should now be converted to meer nought else but to flatter and smooth up a young Tyrant which they ought to make use of to excite people to recover their liberties It s a shame that they are active and valiant onely for another not themselves and that their spirit and courage should take pains only to strengthen a dominion that will finally oppress them if peradventure they undertake actions which from an accidentall success be reputed full of gallantry it is the glory but of one man not of them by this they gain nothing but companions in slavery they render not the state of their Country to a better plight but make the power of a forraigner more formidable their chains become more gltitering and strong not lighter and more loose And now Sir I hope the Lord will put it into some of their hearts that they may make some reflection hereupon and that all that I have said may not fall to the ground perchance that magnanimity which in times of yore was known to be in the Scot and now supposed to be dead is but dormant perhaps the sick the seduced ones will at length get up and the heart of that people return from its swounings let them but once begin to add vigor to that prudence they have been observed to have and to arm good counsels and they shall soon find that the fury with which they are possest against the English Brethren shall not so much over-ballance their reason as for some few years by-past it hath hitherto done then will they speedily be induced with much courage and generosity to accompany their sister England in those excellent wise managements whereof she reads Lectures of Heroick gallantry to all Christendome Our Cromwell hath a resolution too magnanimous and sublime to do any low thing in this occasion if they will but call unto him Those miracles of victories which the Lord hath wrought by him which even his very old enemies with horror and submission confess and admire those Declarations of his often sent unto you which breathe nothing but liberty and love of your Country the abode he long since made with you at Edinburgh when at your beck he posted for your succor his noble comportment and pious conversation amongst you can furnish you with none but fair hopes and auspicious presages if ye will embrace his proffers Thus we your Brethren Englishmen think fit to call upon you yea to cry on high That liberty is not defended by fear nor will the future violences of your Prince be ever repelled by a secure softness But you urge we are Presbyterians and you are not you are Independents but we are not Ah brethren is it not convenient that we unite our selves against a common enemy against him who is not for any zeal to Religion but the Kingly Interest of a Crown and revenge both upon you and us He doth not covet as the Apostle did the unbelievers but those things which are theirs Have ye never read of that Stoick and Epicure two men who made profession of a contrary Phlosophy and were of two opposite Sects and that in a most violent manner yet could presently be brought to accord when there was a question of delivering their Country from slavery and for a while could lay their opinions aside to joyn their interests together would to God we could do so yet there is none desires you to relinquish your opinions