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A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

conscience and dutie towards God whose command i● when thou art converted strengthen thy Luke 22 32. brethren That Subjects owe obedience to their Soveraign the whole consent of Scripture doth agree The Psalmist resembleth Kings to Gods upon earth and indeed they have their rule and Ps 82. 6. power by Gods appointment Prov. 8. 15. By me Kings reign and therefore to such as rebell against them it may be said as God said to Samuel touching the Israelites They have not cast ● Sam. 8. 7. thee away but they have cast me away that I should not reign over them I hope none are so impudent to compare our King to Saul rejected of God but if any such be had they any touch of the grace in Davids heart then would they yet pray with him Lord keep me from laying mine hands upon the Lords anointed let me intreat them with a single eye and humble spirit to read ● Sam. 26 the historie of Davids carriage towards Saul and to remember the wise counsels of Solomon My sonne fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their calamity shall rise suddenly The fear of a King is as the roaring of Prov. 20. 2. 3. a Lion who so provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul it is an honour for a man to cease from strife but every fool will be medling an evil man seeketh only rebellion therefore a cruel messenger Pr 17. ●● shall be sent against him The wrath of a King is as the messenger Prov. 16 14. 15● of death but a wise man will pacifie it for in the light of the Kings countenance is life and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain And again in Eccl. I counsell thee to keep the Kings commandement and Ecc. 8. 3. ● 4. ● that in regard of the Oath of God be not hastie to go out of his sight stand not in an evil thing for he doth whatsoever pleaseth him where the word of a King is there is power and who may say unto him what dost thou Let us never forget that divine precept of our Saviour the King of Kings set down in three of the Evangelists Give unto Caesar the thing that are Caesars Remember the Apostle of the Circumcision Fear God Honour the King and submit your 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 17. selves to all manner of Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be unto the King as unto the Superior or unto the Governours as those that are sent of him Observe the decree of the Doctor of the Gentiles writing to the Romans then governed by Nero a most cruell Tirant Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers Rom. 13. ● 2. for there is no power but of God whosoever resisteth the Power resists the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Condemnation And in the Marginall Notes upon the old Translation it is well observed that because God is the Author of this Order therefore Rebells must know that they make war with God himself and cannot but purchase to themselves great misery and calamity For though the King hath not Power over the Conscience of man yet seeing he is Gods Minister he cannot be resisted by any good Conscience And in his Epistle to Ti●us he gives a special memento Put them in mind that they be subject to the higher Powers and that they Tit 3. 1. be obedient and the like in divers places of his Epistles The King of England is an absolute Imperiall Monarch by the Law yet he is to govern his Subjects by the Laws and Antient Customes of his Kingdome But the King is the only supreme Power next under God and so acknowledged by all Parliaments and the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance do prove as much And by a Statute made in 1 of Elizabeth any man is disabled to sit as a Member in the house of Commons untill he hath taken a solemn Oath upon the Evangelists whereby he doth acknowledge the King to be the only Supreme Governour of these Realmes in all Cases whatsoever And also promiseth that he will to the best of his Power assist and defend all his Majesties Royal Priviledges Pr●heminences and Jurisdictions graunted or annexed to his Imperiall Crown and yield his Obedience thereunto Which Oath how faithfully some do now observe I leave to the Judgement of God and their own Consciences It is confessed by all knowing men that a Parliament truly understood is a Court of the highest Nature and Authority in this Kingdome and that it hath power to make and alter Lawes And that matters there in question are to be decided or agreed on by the Major part of Voices But it must not be a Parliament without a Head not a Parliament rent in pieces that hath power to do this For to make any Obligatory Act to bind the Subject absolutely either in Life Liberty or Goods there must be a concurrence of the Major part of both Houses with the Kings Royall Assent added thereunto in whom the Legislative power doth alone consist And therefore I know not how any such thing can now be done at Westminster the King being absent and the farr greater part of both houses nay almost all the Lords being also departed and now joyning themselves with the King in all his designes But it will be objected that many things may be done by Ordinance of Parliament I will not deny but that both Houses of Parliament joyntly assembled may possibly have power to make Ordinances for the present good of the Common wealth And that these Ordinances may be binding during the time of that Session Provided that they ●e no wayes contradictory to the known Laws of the Land For the Subject enjoyeth his Life his Liberty his Lands by the antient Customes and Statutes of this Kingdome which are indeed the fundamentall Lawes thereof And therefore the Subject cannot be deprived of these rights but by a Law of as high a nature and that must be a Statute Law at the least How then can any man by an Ordinance contradictory to Law be legally dispossessed of his Liberty or Goods which he doth enjoy by the Power of the Law But some say that these things may be done by Priviledge of Parliament And if there be such a Priviledge come to light that doth over-top all Law Reason and Religion then much may be done But I beeleeve that if any such Priviledge be now found out that it is as new as the inventers thereof for venerable antiquity their betters in learning and knowledge never yet heard of any such matter It is known to all that have but smelt of the Law that both by the Common and Statutes Lawes of this Kingdome it is high Treason to levie Armes against the King or to be Adherent or Assistant to the Kings Enemies and these Laws when they be once

again armed with power will have a very large construction by the Judges of the Law There is a Parliament to be found in historie that did seem to wage warr against a King in this Realm but what ill successe it had I had rather the Historian should tell you then my self sure I am there is an ignominious brand laid upon is to all posterity for it is still stiled Parliamentum insanum Let no man hate instruction nor be too wise in his own conceit be Prov. 3. not high-minded but fear a prudent man saith Solomon foreseeth Prov. 27. 12. Numb 16. the evil and hideth himself but fools passe on and are punished forget not what became of Korah Dathan and Abiram that rebelled against Moses yet were they no obscure persons but princes of their families and men of great estimation amongst the vulgar remember what was Absolons portion for rebelling 2 Sam. 18. ● Sam 20 against David and what became of Sheba the sonne of ●ichri that lifted up his hand against the King and many such examples in holy Writ Nay look but into our Chronicles here at home and observe how Gods judgements have still prosecuted all them and their posteritie that have had any hand in the deposing or opposing of Kings upon any fair pretence whatsoever To abuse the picture of an earthly King hath been taken to be a great indignity how then shall the God of heaven take it at the hands of such as despitefully use and contemn the King himself a good King that is Gods image and Vicegerent upon earth but the times are come that the Apostles foretold that ● Tim. 3. 4. 2 Pet. 2. 10 Jude 8. many in the latter dayes would be traitors headie and high-minded presumptuous and stand in their own conceit despise Government and not fear to speak evil of them that are in dignity But some say that this war is not against the King neither do they intend him any wrong indeed they ought not to wish him the least hurt for God commands us not so much as to think an evil Eccl. 10 20. thought of the King but these men do more then think for they openly reviled the King by reproachfull and scandalous speeches saying that he is led by bad counsell and intends to set up Poperie and can there be any greater aspersion laid upon a Prince for Solomon saith A divine sentence is in the lips of the King and his mouth transgresseth not in judgement And it is Prov. 16. 19 20. abomination to Kings to commit wickednesse for the throne is established by righteousnesse It is the part of a Christian to judge charitably both of King and of people but where the subjects go about in hostile manner to invade their Soveraign and his friends and forces under his command and also use with extreme crueltie such of the Kings faithfull subjects friends as they can get into their power and yet will aver and maintain that they warr not against the King neither intend him any wrong What to make of their reason or argument I know not but a meer solecism yet the late Oathes imposed upon such as had so little Grace to take them do make the meaning both of the matter and manner of their evil intentions of proceeding to be somwhat more plain to be perceived It is most true that the King and many of his true Subjects are much abused for truth is hid in darknesse and it is the misery of miseries that men are so wilfully blinded and besotted as their eares are stopped to all good Counsell Wise men that know the truth of things are much discouraged to impart the same to others because they see many are so wedded to their wilfull Errours that he which in charity goes about to advise them for the best may sooner himself fall into a snare for his good will then pull any of them out of the danger that hangs over their heads for he that now a dayes dares venture to speak the truth is presently snapt at for a Malignant But God that knoweth all things knows that the Kings Majesty hath raised his Forces and doth maintain this War only for the beating down o● Faction Schism and Sedition and for the upholding of the true Protestant Religion established in Queen Elizabeths dayes and under which this Kingdom hath long flourished and for the setting and maintaining of the true and genuine Laws of this Kingdom But some dream of a great Reformation now in hand I am sure there is already a great Deformation both in Church and Common-wealth I wish these Reformers would in time un-hoodwink themselves and see what successe they have had and learn ere it be too late to be obedient to God and their Prince following the counsell the Angel gave to Hagar Return to thy Mistris and Gen. 1● 9. humble thy self under her hands and let them ende● vour the due Execution of the good Laws that are now in force lest while they fondly presume to amend that which is well already they make the word Parliament have an ill savour and open a gap to greater desolation and so marre all Indeed it were to be wished there were a more generall Reformation from sin and God when it pleaseth him will afford us that happinesse and incline the Kings heart to all occasions plyable thereunto For the Kings heart is in the hand Prov. 21. 1. 25. ●5 of God as the Rivers of Water he turneth it whither soever he will And by long forbearing a Prince is perswaded we must therefore wait the Lords leisure and seek no Reformation by unlawfull means for we must not do evil that good may Rom. 3. 8. come thereof But some will now be wiser then Gods word or at least take Gods power upon themselves they will have the Kings heart in their hands and the Government in Church and State must be turned upside down at their beck and the most deserving bodies in the Kingdom left without heads at their command and pleasure or else to Armes they must forgetting the counsell of the wise With good advice Prov. 24 6. Exod. 7. 12. 2 Tim. 3. 8 9 Prov. 21. 30. shalt thou make Warr Alas these men may a while resist the King and in the King Gods Ordinance but it will be to as little purpose as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses for there is no wisdome power nor policy against the Lord of Hosts And if God for the sins of this Nation should lay that heavy scourge upon us to take away the Kings Majesties life and the lives of all his posterity and alliance which the Lord in his mercy forbid then may these men have some likelihood to prevail in their purposes or otherwise never Beloved Countrymen delude not your selves any longer the Kings Majesty hath sent forth many Declarations to open the eyes of your understandings and to inform you in the truth and equity of