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A85989	The prelatical Cavalier catechized, and the Protestant souldier incouraged. By a missive sent to King Charles in the name of the Protestants beyond seas. Wherein these three questions are resolved. Viz. First, how inconsistent a prelaticall government is with the true Protestant religion, and with the peace and welfare of this kingdome. Secondly, how absolutely necessary it is for King Charles and his associats, to entertain peace with the Parliament at any hand, if ever he hopeth to recover or enjoy any glory or splendour of his royalty. Thirdly, which are the best means King Charles, &c. can use for obtayning an honourable peace for the present, and improving and continuing the same in time to come. Much conducing to encourage and confirme all true Protestants in the truth of the Protestant cause, especially all souldiers that are for King and Parliament. ... Presented to the Honorable Councels of Great Britain, now sitting in Parliament; and the rest of the Kings Majesties subjects. / By Eleazer Gilbert, a minister of Gods Word. Printed, and published according to order.	Gilbert, Eleazer.	1645 (1645)	Wing G706; Thomason E296_28; ESTC R200215	22,248	25

9. 6 7 8 verses and in Exod. 25. 40. hee is expresly charged by God not to make the Tabernacle after any other fashion then was shewed him in the mountain but also Christ himself who was Moses prototype whom God in the 18 of Deuteronomy 15. did promise to raise up as a Prophet like unto Moses although much more excellent for Moses as a servant but Christ as a sonne Heb. 3. 5 6. Did dispose and regulate his little flock according to the will of his Father not according to the will of man nor according to his owne will as he was man but according to the will of his Father for as himself witnesseth John 5. 30. He came not to seeke his own will but the will of his heavenly Father and this kinde of government revealed in his Gospel without all question he will continue and have amongst all his chosen people to be continued untill his second comming whose voice all Christians but especially all Protestants or reformed Christians must obey unlesse they will deny Christ to be their Prophet or derogate from the worthinesle of his propheticall office one principall part whereof was not only to reveal unto his people his Fathers will concerning their redemption but also to govern and rule them in the performance and execution of that will unto the end of the world wherefore to draw the frame and authenticalnesse of a Church government from any other pattern then from Christ and his Apostles is no other then to deny both the Propheticall and Regall office of the Sonne of God who if he be a King over his people why should he not be able both to prescribe laws unto them and also guide and rule them according to these Laws so far as may conduce to his owngory and their happinesse Surely they that draw the frame and government of an Evangelicall Church under the Gospel from any other authority or build the same too much upon the placets and inventions of men who are not onely vain but vanity it selfe nor subject to deceive but also to be deceived doe but take their marks by the moon build their house upon the sand preferring Eleazer the servant to Isaac the sonne and Moses the messenger unto Christ the master and Judge of all the earth In a word to say that Christ is not as carefull of his Christian Church under the Gospel as Moses was of the Church of the Jews and that he hath not in his Gospel prescribed what kind of Magistrates Ministers and Officers hee would have and by what Laws he would have them to be governed were to make him more negligent of his people then was Numa of the Romans Solon of the Lydians or Lycurgus of the Lacedemonians all which although Heathens did prescribe wholsome Laws unto their Common-wealth which so much as to thinke of the Lord Jesus in whom were hiden all treasures of wisdome and knowledge were most damnable and blasphemous So much of the first Question viz. How inconsistent your late Church government was with the Gospel and how far it hath been of late years in your Kingdoms abused The second Question HOw inconsistent this kind of Church government is unto your Highness safety and prosperity of the Republick and consequently what a preposterous thing it is to continue the same in these Kingdoms This Question is easily resolved if you will suffer your judgment without partiality but to reflect upon these three Objects viz. First the disposition and affections of your own Subjects Secondly the reputation and expectation of Protestant Princes and Professors amongst us beyond the Seas Thirdly the condition and nature of the true Protestant Religion and Protestant Professors established and regulated by a Presbytery which without all peradventure of all Christian professions this day in the World is that which is most sound and orthodox in it self as being most free from corruption and most safe for a true Protestant Prince which undertaketh to mayntain not a Protestant Religion for so do the Kings of Poland Sweden and Denmark although corrupted with the Roman and Lutheran Superstitions but the Protestant Religion which onely is most consonant with the doctrine and practice of Christ and his Apostles and most agreeable to that pattern of wholsome doctrine expressed in the Gospel the patronage whereof no Prince can deny that is a true Protestant unlesse it be such a Prince that affecteth tyranny and would make under the cloak of Relgion not the Word of God and welfare of his people but worldly policy and private respects to be rule of his government First then May it please your Highnesse and Confederates to cast your eyes upon the people we mean not such people whom malice corruption or covetousnes without any respect to the Word of God or a good conscience have drawne to your side but the mayn body of the two of your best Kingdoms of England and Scotland for the most and best part how exasperatly and uncontrolable are they set against this way mayntayning it for a maxime as your Associates doe No Bishop no King so they No Bishops no Popery where by the word Bishop they do not understand any of Pauls Bishops mentioned in the Epistle to Timothy and Titus for such Bishops as these they seek for and their Petition unto your Highnesse is Da nobis tales Timothaeos nos eos cib abimus auro potabimus balsamo Such Bishops as these may be well consistent with the Presbyteriall Government and by the prayers and suffrages of such Bishops before ever hee medled with a Hierarchy your Royall Father King James did enjoy many peaceable and happy days which if it had pleased our Great Land-lord might have been continued unto your Highnesse and your posterity and which wee beseech the Almighty mangre the unhappinesse of your present distempers may be continued unto you and yours as long as the Sun and Moon endureth But by a Bishop your people for the most part understand a domineering temporizing and self-seeking prelate where by the word Bishop or prelate they doe not so much conceive one particular office or individuall person of one Clergy man but collectively all his subordinate Officers Assistants and Attendants such as Deans Archdeacons Prebends Surrogates Chancelours Commissaries Registers Proctors Apparitors Chaunters Choristers Canons Pety-Canons Vergers and all their Ecclesiasticall Courts Laws Canons Orders Innovations and Ceremonies which although they were in themselves never so indifferent decent or commendable yet the Commons for the most part of both these Kingdomes are perswaded and hold it for Maxim irrefragible that dictates such a Bishop we say not such a Prines mayntaining or approving such persons or things is no other then a relike of popery a limbe of Antichrist a Wenne upon the face or a Boyle upon the blest of a true Protestant Reformed Church Nay there be many thousands of Husbandmen Artificers and Tradesmen besides people of greater quality if we be not much misinformed

event of any temporall occurrence all things falling out to all to them that sweare as to them that fear an oath we will neither think the worse of them because of their present afflictions nor the better of their enemies because of their atchieved victories The Almighty hath his own fulnesse of time for the managing and disposing all important passages under the Sunne but especially for such as doe more immediately concerne his own glory and the good of his Church and although he hath suffered the Roman Antichrist and his Catholick children for these thirty or forty years past to ride over the bellies plow and make long furrows upon the backs of these and some other Protestant Princes Psal 129. 3. yet as God is just and his Gospel true the feet of all the enemies of Protestant Religion shall slide in due time Yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not tarry Deut. 32. 35. For when That seven-headed and ten-horned monster having caused the Kings of the earth to commit fornication with her Rev. 18. 3. and stirred them up by policie and machiavilisme to fight against the Lamb Revel. 17. 14. so soon as shee shall be fully drunk with the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs of Jesus Christ and also hath made these Kings drunken with the wine of the wrath of her fornication in a word when shee hath for a long time sitten upon that septicolled Citie like a Queen saying and domineering over it I am no widdow and shall see no mourning then shall there come upon her a sodain alarm as there did upon Samson Up Samson the Philistims are upon thee Up Romish Babylon for all thy strength and cunning a Lambe shal overcome thee and these Kings which thou cast been so much in love with and have been so much in love with thee they shall stand afar off because of thy torment saying alas Alas for that great City for in one houre is thy judgement come If therefore your Highnesse and your Confederates have not already given your names to this Beast and if you be not yet drunke with the wine of the wrath of her fornication For the Lords sake come out of her let not your souls come into her counsels neither be ye joyned with her Assemblies lest partaking of her truelty you partake also of her plagues For as the Lambe overcommeth and destroyeth all such as oppose and contradict him in the truth and purity of his worship so doth he in his appointed time honour crown and blesse all that in syncerity and simplicity of heart joyne with him for the mayntenance of the purity and truth of his Ordinances of which number are not onely these noble Princes so many of them as have declined that broad way and embraced this narrow way one that leads to the new Jerusalem but also the mayn body of Great Britain England and Scotland which have mutually and interchangeably Hungary ingaged themselves besides a considerable number of Reformed Protestants beyond the Seas yea and the Luther an Protestants also in Denmarke Sweden Germany Prussia c. besides the protestants of the Greek Church inhabiting the Territories of Muscovia white Russia in Poland and other places who are almost allequally engaged with us towards the curtaling of the horns of the Romish Bishop all which as we conceive if there were any firme complyance betwixt you and your Great Counsell of State might here be brought easily to reconciliable minds towards us to joyne with us in one common cause for the abandoning and abolishing all Antichristian and and unlimited Jurisdiction from the protestant Churches throughout Europe So that in all places and Dominions of Christendome there may be but one Shepherd and one sheepfold every severall Kingdome and Province thereof through the annuall and mutuall correspondence of their Princes and States and the strength of a generall Councell by their authority seasonably convocated being perswaded and throughly informed in the truth of all essentiall points that may any ways concerne our salvation and finally all that professe the name of Christ may be brought to consent together to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace that there may be but one Faith one Lord and one Baptisine one Father in us all through us all and for us all and then what an easie thing it were for a Christian King that is Defender of the Faith Inot onely to enlarge his Dominions but also to improve his just splendour and priviledges both for himself and for all that he hath relation to throughout the known world we leave to the censure of the indifferent reader But if wilfulnesse and prejudicacie have so much preposessed you and your associates that you will not thinke of any other or better way to prevent your own and your Kinsmens ruine then that which you have now in hand Wee have no more to say to you but what Mordecay said to Ester Ester 4. 13. Deliverance will be brought another way For as God is true you will finde this certain that so many of your kindred and other Protestant Princes and States that doe justly suffer for the cause of Religion if they persevere unto the end God will exalt and raise them by the same Religion and work their deliverance by no other means then by the same whereby they have suffered The fourth and last motive which we shall mention at this time is the duty which by the Law of God you owe to your people which is to shew your chiefest care and use your best means for the preservation of their lives and liberties especially seeing they are all members of that politicall body whereof your Highnesse professeth your selfe to be the head and seeing also that in them viz. in then good affections health and welfare doth consist as Samsons did in his locks your great strength and livelihood For if there be a sympathy and fellow-feeling in the body naturall in so much as when the foot is trod upon or any other member hurt the head will complain as if the injury were done unto it and so likewise in the true Church of Christ or body mysticall as the Apostle emplyeth when he biddeth us rejoyce with them that rejoyce and weep with them that weep Rom. 12. 15. And be like affectioned one towards another And again Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended and I burn not if wee say there is such a sympathy in the mysticall and naturall body why should not the same be also in the body politicall if therefore any or many members of the body of Great Britain be diseased or distempered through malignant humours which may perhaps not onely work obstructions in the pipes of government but also make the head complain and cry out for pain yet are not these members by war or any other means of this nature to be cut off from the head unlesse they prove so poysoned putrified

all contenteth himself with a part even with such a part as he may quietly and honourably possesse with the suffrages of his people for if the greedy appetite be not satiated a poore shepherd shall finde more hearts case in a beggars cottage then a great Emperour if ambitious in a Princely Palace Let Kings therefore consider that the more they abound with worldly wealth the more doe abound their cares for when goods increase they are increased that eat them and the best way for a King to be rich is to know when he hath enough and not to improve his revenues through pilling and polling his Subjects by sordid and unnecessary Taxations and Monopolies for hereby hee doth not strengthen his Crowne but bewray his tyranny nor increase his honour but call in question that love which he oweth to his people O what great grief it is to loyall and loving Subjects to see their Sovereigne undoe himself for the enriching a company of unworthy temporizing and self-seeking Parasites Who perhaps if his back should be at the wall would turn their backs upon him and like a shadow follow him no longer then the Sun shineth or if he should stand in need of their counsell could give him none better then that of Achitophel That any Prince should thus mistarry is grievous and lamentable but for such a King as your Highnesse should be who have so often smarted through the Machiavillick impostures of the Roman Antichrist and his Abettors for such kind of men expose yourself your posterity and Crowns to such extream exigencies Quis talia fando temp●ret à lachermis Be wise therefore ye Kings and be learned yee Judges of the earth be carefull as to have the wicked removed so also to have your desires moderated seek no more then is enough either for your selves or others for then certainly you shall finde in your Thro●e more cares then comforts and in your Crowns more thorns then Diamonds for he that loveth silver shall never be satisfied with silver nor he that loveth abundance with increase as wealth cannot fill mans heart so cannot grace his purse naturall desires are finite but the desires of the soul are infinite which when they are not watched but let goe loose roving up and down and not composed and limited according to the rules of godlinesse have brought men even Kings and Princes into infinite labyrinths and anxieties witnesse that insatiable conquerour whose unlimited ambition the Poet thus bemoneth Unus Pellaeo Juveni non sufficit orbis Aestuat infoelix angusto limite mundi And many also of the Roman Caesars whose time wee may read in their insatiable affections and whose covetousnesse hath brought their Titles and Diadems unto their uttermost period of whom we may almost say etiam perire animae that little of them that is left is perished in a word therefore happy is the man be he King or Subject that delighteth more in piety then in pelfe in heavenly goodnesse then in worldly goods Cui paternum Splendet in mensa tenui salinum Nec leves somnos timor aut cupido Sordidus aufort Secondly for the obtaining an honourable and lasting peace and performing this work of righteousnesse your Highnesse must look well to the rightnesse of Religion viz. that the Religion which you establish be made choice of not according as to the eye it seemeth gayest but as it is most free from and most contrary to all corruption of mans life and manners such as is grounded not upon mens invention but divine direction That your Highnesse give way to such a kinde of divine worship as is not according to the nature and will of man but according to the will of God who being a Spirit loveth best to be worshiped in spirit and truth and not in or by any painted or graven images outward pomps gaudie cloaths or superstitious representations of any thing that is in heaven above or in earth beneath such as all false Religions abound withall and whereby hereticall and Idolatrous Priests delude and dazle the eyes of simple people who are naturally inclined to affect that soonest which to the eye seemeth gayest making them believe that these dumb shews and pictures are lay mens books in the mean time hiding from them the power of Christ in the work of the ministry And seeing there is no difference between your Highnesse and us in points of doctrine the word of God being preached by us both in as great purity and orthodoxnesse as can be consistent with a militant Church our request unto your Highnesse is as you tender either your own or our peace to admit with us the same reformation and purity in matters of discipline as is implyed in the premises for certainly Sir solong as the discipline of your Church remaineth unpurged the members and professors thereof can never properly be said to be of the true Protestant Religion well they may be called Protestants and said to be of a Protestant Religion viz. comparatively as they have relation to Eutherans or Nicholuitans or some other sect of Protestanisme but to be Protestants indeed that is true Protestants of the true reformed Protestant Religion they cannot because their Religion is reformed onely in part viz. in matter of doctrine the discipline remaining and being retained in the same corruption and superstition as they received it from the Roman Church whereas the true Protestant Religion exercised in the Presbyteriall government is equally reformed as well in discipline as in doctrine depencing absolutely upon the word of God without any excessive or scandalous mixture other then accords with Christian simplicity decencie and charity of humane inventions or superstitious innovations But if you Highnesse will needs maintain some disparity amongst Ministers preferring some before others who in respect of their eminent parts may seem to deserve better we will not discommend it providing that your Highnesse remember well your Fathers Councell in his Basilicon Doron pag 44. viz. so to charge and change them with such bonds as may preserve them from creeping into corruption A third mean to procure an honourable and lasting peace is to unite the people as well as the Countreys of England and Scotland which can never be effected by your Highnesse so long as you stand in opposition to the Parliament But and if you can be so happy as to come in then we conceive it may easily be wrought in this manner viz. First by making an universall act of oblivion in both Parliaments for all Nationall quarrels and deadly feuds which have been a prohibition from all which in time to come may acrew betwixt the natives of either Kingdome by reason of any occurrence or passage of preceding or future times Secondly by abolishing the respective names of English or Scotish men which in respect of the great controversies and differences which have been between the two Kingdoms doe still continue names of prejudice to the great exasperating of the affections of both sides and possessing them with rigid and implacable mindes one against another upon the least and most slender occasionall distastes and that all the inhabitants of this one Island may be called by one name of East West South or North Britains with some aditionall title of the Shire or County prefixed for disinction sake Thirdly by engaging an equall number of both Kingdoms in their fellowship at armes in some publick and fortunate lawfull war beyond the Seas where their honour and danger may be equally divided and no jealousies nor contention arise amongst them but of wel doing certainly one victory obtained by the sound valour of the Scots and English wheresoever it be so it be not at home let it be in Bohemia France Spain or where your great Councell will think fiting will make a stronger and more indissoluble knot of union both between them and your Highnesse and amongst themselves then ever your Highnesse could make by choosing your Minions alternatively out of each Nation or by making Scotch men Lords of England English men Lords of Scotland or yet by mixture of marriage for although marriage may make two persons one yet can it not make two people to be one certainly all these are too weak ingrediences to compound a love-potion for them that were wont to thirst after one anothers blood it must be something more energeticall and vertuous that must qualifie and chain the different humors of these two Nations and make them forget whose fortune it was to be envied and whose to be contemned in times past and to speak ingenuously never had King a fairer oportunity to effect this as your Highnesse hath now all the Kingdoms in Christendome almost being now by the ears together especially if in this your day your Highnesse would resipiscere and come to your self and so much tender your own health and welfare as to apply unto your almost gangreen and incurable wounds a salving playster of Parliamentary Union FINIS Transilvania France Ireland Aristot Ethic. lib. 5.