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england_n	grace_n	ireland_n	lord_n	3,218	5	3.2488	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91231	The generall junto or The councell of union, chosen equally out of England, Scotland, and Ireland, for the better compacting of three nations into one monarchy, &c.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1642 (1642)	Wing P402; Thomason 669.f.18[1]; ESTC R211946	15,931	40

and have but one Head they are not separable justly as Scotland is Conquest and Consent both have conjoyned them and except the same nothing can dilacerate them And thus upon the Norman Conquest England lost it's Independence and became One with Normandy for if nothing but the hand of War twisted their Titles nothing else can untwist them Against the enemies of Ireland which object the right of Conquest as some did lately at my Lord of Straffords Tryall to justifie his cruell oppressions I shall maintain That the right of Conquest doth not afford any true Warrant for Oppression In Conquest three things ought to be searched into Whether it be just totall and pure or no If it be just as we will suppose the Normans to be it onely ejects the Desseisor and it ought to look no further then the Prostration of the Competitor If Harold will not do right to William but by Compulsion this shall not inslave the whole English Nation nay Harold being in possession those of the English which take up Arms and wait the Decision of the sword in a case to them doubtfull cannot justly be charged of Treason T was not sufficient that William did forbear to dispossesse those of our Ancestors which had born no Arms against him he ought to have holden his hands also from those which had been Active in their former Masters Service the Cause of both being disputable Of unjust Conquests nothing needs to be said In the next Place also if Conquest extend it self over a whole Nation if the Conqueror have no Considerable Party therein to favour his Claym if he enter without any Professions of Clemency as scarce any Prince ever entred yet even thus he is not disobliged and acquitted of the Laws of God and Nature nor is entitled to a Right of spoyling wasting and inthralling of Gods People Gods Law is indefinite and reacheth to all Kings as well clayming by the Sword as by any other Paction That they shall not heap up Treasure or multiply Horses or lift up Themselves against their Brethren Our Magna Charta doth not limit our English Kings so farre it restrains not from filling the Exchequer or encreasing their Guards and if they will arrogantly contemn us as slaves and not embrace us as Brethren it affords us no cleer Remedy But we see Gods Charter intimates that Princes were ordained for the Protection of the People and not the People created for the Drudgery of Princes And therefore it doth not onely prohibite all Actuall oppression as the Law of England doth but it further restrains from all Power of Oppression nay it curbs all haughty thoughts the very seeds of Oppression Parasites may ascribe nothing but Divinity to Princes and insult over Subjects as meer Beasts of labour and so as a main Axiome of State above all things inculcate the raising of Money and Ammunition and dejecting of the People But God prescribes the Contrary His Law aims at the humbling of Monarchs and endearing of their Charge to them and disswading from all strength and Confidence but in the unfailing Magazin of the Peoples hearts Of that Conquest then which is not Vniversall and without all Assistance from the Countrey Conquered ' little needs be said for it is most evident that neither England nor Ireland was ever so over-run The last thing to be enquired after in Conquest is it's Absolutenesse from all Quarter and freedome from Conditions offered or accepted and if it be the most pure Conquest that can be imagined yet it doth not absolve the Winners from the ties of common Piety and Civility I need not instance in Religious Moses who out of zeal to save the Community from destruction offered to forgoe his Interest in Heaven or in holy David who to exempt Gods Flock from the raging Plague prayed that it might be diverted upon him their Shepherd Paganisme may instruct us sufficiently in this Alexanders Conquests in the East were as pure and unmixt as any yet it is a great Addition to his fame That he treated the Persians with the same indulgence as the Macedonians shewing himself an equally tender Shepherd to both and complying therein rather with Plato's Politiques then Aristotles Adrian also an Emperour as unlimited as any confessing himself born for his Countrey not for Himself made these words good Ita se Rempublicam gesturum ut sciret populi rem esse non Propriam Pastor populi non sui-ipsius sed subditorum quaerit commodum Officio suo semper fungitur utilitati consulens societati I wish a Christian had spoke this or that no Christian did disapprove it it were vain to pursue this further Howsoever I deny not the due Operation of a just totall and unmixt Conquest though I scarce ever read of any such for Conquerors coming in by Violence cannot be assured in a strange Nation without some Violence at first but that which is Policy before Establishment is not Justice after it And secondly Though Victors ought not to induce any Conditions contrary to Gods Law or grievous to the Conquered yet perhaps they are not bound to restore all former extraordinary Immunities in so ample a manner as they were before enjoyed And thirdly Conquests have great force in taking away Competitions and extinguishing concurrent pretence of Titles and as to the Crown it self they cut off all independency as is now apparant in Ireland and in other parts of England now incorporated and consolidated into one numericall Masse thereby But they are most wretched Politicians that ground upon Conquest be it rightfull totall and without Conditions granted by the Conqueror or contracted by the Conquered or not a Right of destroying and inthralling and an exemption from all Law for the present And yet they which by Conquest abolish all Rights of the People and that beyond all Power of Restitution for the future are further opposers of truth and Enemies to Mankinde Had the Conquests of England and Ireland at first been just over the whole Nations and that without all Pactions of Grace as they were not and without all Consent of the People yet that therefore all subsequent Oathes and Grants of our Kings and Agreements of the Nations should be utterly voyd and all the Laws of God and Nature of no Vertue but that our Kings are left still to their own Discretions and Arbitrary Absoute Prerogatives is an inference to be wondered at amongst Rationall Creatures The second thing that qualifies Ireland for Vnion is That the Protestant Religion is so farre dilated and known there The well-wishers of Popery pretend for the upholding of their own blinde superstition That Conscience is not to be forced and that without Bloody force Papists are not to be reduced This weak Pretence hath done unspeakable Mischief both in England and Ireland as appears this day by our unnaturall Wars and we have been not onely very ignorant but very wicked I fear and very guilty in admitting it That

force which borders upon Cruelty is not to be used I would not that it should be done to Babel by way of Retaliation as Babel hath done to us But certainly Magistrates are responsible for all those souls whom they may reclaim by Politique severity and do not and we see what effects Politique severity hath produced in Denmarke Sweden Scotland c. without effusion of blood and he that will deny the same that it might have been as effectuall in England and Ireland must alleadge some strange or unexpected Reason 'T is not so difficult to draw from falsity as from truth to make a Turk a Christian as a Christian a Turk And as for the Populacy of any Nation we know they are to be driven by Shoals almost into any Religion where the Magistrate and Spirituall Minister co-operate together The frequent and suddain Conversions and Perversions of sundry Nations in all Ages testifie this to be a matter of no great difficulty And as for some few of the more knowing and Conscientious sort the meer want of a Toleration their own Paucity if some other Encouragement be not supplyed by Connivence c. in some reasonable time would wear them out And if the breeding of their children within these last 60 yeers had not been omitted nay if countenance under hand had not been afforded to Papists these Wars had never happened But now things so standing 't is just in God that Papists be so cruell to Us in Temporalls as we have been to Them in Spiritualls 'T were Advantagious for Vnion that we were All of One but more especially of the true pious charitable Protestant Religion And though this Advantage hath been hitherto neglected yet still we have Power enough by the Grace of God to provide better for the future The third help to Vnion is That Nature hath placed both our Islands like twins in a remote Angle of the World and as if she intended more to estrange Ireland then England she hath further seated her from the Commerce of forraigne Nations and it may be supposed that they are both divorced from Others that they may be wedded to Themselves And surely as Ireland's love and vicinity is very usefull unto England so Englands cherishing fidelity must needs be totally necessary unto Ireland Did the Irish depend upon the Protection of Spain or some other distant Countrey to guard them from the Forces and Armado's of England that Protection could not but cost them very dear for besides the Calamities of endlesse War in a Nation so intermingled the very Burdens of Protectors would perhaps prove as grievous as the encounters of their Assaylants Flanders now by its subjection to Spain is made the Theatre of affliction almost beyond hope of Redresse and though she draw from Spain many Millions for her defence yet without doubt she is more wretched by serving Philip then Philip is weakned by supporting her It is fourthly probable that both Nations were antiently descended from the same originall Plantations and Colonies and if the name of Hiberno-Britaines may not be applyed to the Irish as Cambro-Britaines is to the Welsh yet now Scottish English Welsh and the mixt Irish being so indifferently blended in Ireland and congregated as it were at a generall determinate Randevouz and the same Language being so generally current and the temperature of the Clime and the Congruity of the Antient Natives in disposition so inclining to Vnion it must be wilfull neglect in Us if we do not close yet more amiably together Fifthly In Laws Customes and Constitutions for Peace and War there are lively Resemblances Facies non una duabus Nec diversa tamen qualem decet esse sororum Nay if there be not altogether the same Lineaments in both yet there is more then a Sisterly correspondence Sixthly Though some execrable Offices have of late been done in Ireland against our Nation yet we must account that Quarrell to be Religious not Nationall for we see they have not spared the Scots they have not spared the English Irish they have been cruell to all Protestants of what Countrey soever The same Whorish Inchantresse also which is now bloody in Ireland hath ever been so in all Countryes the Scripture characters her by making her self drunk with the blood of the Saints and dipping her Garments in the same Dye The same false Religion hath formerly made England flame with mercilesse Executions and Spain grone under Diabolicall Tortures and France swim in inhumane Massacres Quae Regio in Terris Nostri non plena cruoris Let Cruelty be the certain Test of false religion and let England and Ireland and all Nations abide the tryall of the same For Protestants are so farre from destroying their known Enemies that they are cruell to themselves in sparing where they hope lesse of being spared Protestants are not bound alwayes from doing as they have been done to by their enemies or from disabling and repressing future Malice in their enemies yet Ireland is a witnesse this day that they are more prone to favour unappeasable foes then to prevent the most horrid treasons But I leave this as remediable hereafter As for the separation and divulsion of that Sea which runs betwixt England and Ireland I conceive it to be no considerable hinderance of Vnion for we see Venice and Cyprus and divers other Countries by the Art and happinesse of just Government love and embrace at a further distance though other People are also interjacent as are not here And if any other heart-burning or distaste have happened of late betwixt the Nations by Injustice or Mis-government as perhaps hath befallen as eminently amongst our selves the Redresse and Cure thereof will not be hopelesse 3. I come now to my Overture it self whereby further Vnion may be promoted and confirmed amongst us That Ordinance of State which shall most equally diffuse and breath abroad into all Nations governed under the same Scepter the self-same Measure of right and benefit shall be most effectuall and vertuous to unite those Nations Now it seems to me that such an Ordinance is now wanting in England Scotland and Ireland and yet that neverthelesse it is not difficult to be framed and reduced into Act. In England there are divers Courts of Iustice and Councells of State whereby Government riseth from the Basis to the Pyramis by a farre Symmetricall Conus and there is not any matter of concernment to the Crown of England for which there is not a proper Place appointed and proper Persons assigned to attend and transact the same for and under or together with the King The same Policy also is in Scotland and Ireland for matters peculiar to Scotland and Ireland but in England Scotland and Ireland for matters concerning all three Kingdomes or that remain in debate betwixt any two of them besides the Kings sole Brest thereby too much over-burthened there is not any other Judicature assistant and common to all the Nations to which the same may