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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

same persons might not be adjudge fit to possess them but of this only by the way however this is a lamentation and shall be for a Lamentation The people of England as they had Liberties which were their birthright and precious to them so also had the King as one of the Nation for his being King and so Supreme although it added much to him beyond other men yet it abridged him of nothing that was his as a man It was right the King should have Liberty in his Confirmation of what the Peers and Commons presented to him for his Royall ascent or else they might if ever both estates could agree at their pleasure dethrone him or limit or alter his successors or what not injurious to him as a man but much more as a King So likewise the Nobles of the Land how should they be represented Barely to be chosen among the Commoners If so what inconvenience of necessity must thence arise and how absurd it would be a shallow discretion might easily apprehend for first they exceeding for the Generallity the Commons in estate would be much more popular and so if they could be courted so farre out of their honour as to accept of popular elections what Parliament could we expect but the majority of them would be Nobles and by this means they which in our present constitution are only revisers and approvers of the Laws would soon become the Law-framers and Enactors Or if you should imagine that few only of them would be chosen as of late two of the house of Peers were Rumpers what inequality and absurdity would there be when a small Borough shall elect two Burgesses and he who is Lord perhaps of twenty or more Burroughs and the chief man in three or four Counties as to estate shall only be represented by his own single voice and some not at all What siding and factions this must necessarily produce Our Government then Mr Milton needed none of your Art to mend it no more then the Law of Marriage needed your Divinity to explain and limit it and as by the latter you gained little credit among the Ladyes or such prudent sober men who made a Conscience of their Vow in Marriage so the former is lesse acceptable to true loyall breasts and will be exibilated by the vulgar when once the fury of our former madness is a little allayed T was strange that you could imagine no subordinate ingagement to a single person but what is accompanyed with Vassalage when it is certain in faith that among the three persons Christ the Sonne and the Holy Spirit who are God blessed for evermore are both Subordinately related as Persons to the Father and yet there is that blessed freedome and Liberty that among them is unity But we will come to humane Governments for concerning them will lye the question In society the first subordination is aeconomical of children to Parents and for to provide the better for a mans family and to carry on things more comfortably comes in another relation of servant and Master Now although the Man and Wife be head of the family yet not separately but unitedly and the Wife her self is suborainate being above all the rest only inferiour to her husband although in some cases equall This state of society admits no Democrasie nay it is accounted a misery for a servant to have more then one Master insomuch that Christ saith it is impossible to serve two masters and addes for a reason that he will hate that one and love the other he will cleave to the one and despise the other It was the Complaint of Cyrus in the Comaedy that he did not know who nor how many were his Masters and though he be brought in as a slave yet this he laments as aggravating his bondage Here Mr Milton may observe divers subordinations to one and yet no bondage but all make up on free family and live in peace and Love and plenty together The Wife is subject to her husband one to one yet no Vassal unlesse Mr Miltons doctrine of divorce may be admitted that he may turn her off as soone or as oft as his wayward spirit can find no delight in her The Children are subject to their Parents yet no slaves and although they ow obedience to both yet their father is in the family chief and he makes and usually executes all Lawes in his family nevertheless no tyranny can be charged upon the Father nor Vassalage imputed to the Sonnes The Master and Servant is another relation the Servant bound by his own Consent and to be at the Masters command in lawful and possible things yet would scorne the title of a slave or Vassal What need I instance in other societies of Schools of Learning where one Pedagogue is found the best expedient though he have Vshers under him so in Colledges one Chancellour over an Vniversity one Rector or President over a Hall or Colledge so in a Ship one Master over a Company one Captain over a Regiment one Collonel over an Army one Generall and yet no slavery nor Vassalage But to come nearer in a family where are perhaps many Sonnes and Daughters and a multitude of Servants upon the death of the Father doth not the supremacy as I may call it or chief rule descend to the first born both by light of Nature and divine Commandement Surely Mr Milton never studied the dignity and authority of the r●ght of Primogeniture and that by Natures Law and divine Institution upon the score of sleighting and selling whereof Esau gained the title of prophane and was rejected nor having once despised his birth-right could he get the blessing afterward though he sought it with tears But old Isaack subjected him to his brother Jacob that he should serve him and bow down to him and yet was he no slave Nor were the Sonnes of Jacob who were twelve and his Grandsonnes then a numerous multitude Slaves though all subjected to Judah the first-born by divine praeheminence and old Jacobs appointment Ruben having by his incontinency in defiling his own Fathers bed forfeited that priviledge which was next to death which he deserved therefore a heavy matchlesse punishment One would thing that if ever a Republique had been necessary and usefull now it was when twelve Brethren all living and fatherlesse had under them a multitude of Sonnes and Daughters Grand-children Servants and handmaids yet then one Judah is appointed Law-giver to them all and so confirmed untill the coming of Shiloh to whom the gathering of the Nations should be And this is not a Boorish way of a Dwindling Common-wealth But the Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law-giver in the singular number mark that from between his feet c. Yea was not this part of the promise of God to Abraham when his name was changed unto Abraham That Kings should come out of his Loynes Before he had blessed him with fruitfulnesse that he should be the

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

time as shewing that God dwelt not but did then only Sojourn as it were with them sure til the time of Solomon then first among the Israelites was Religion not only in purity but also flourished Gods name was not only known to be great and holy but it also appeared most glorious Then did truth appear triumphant in the Beauty of Holynesse After Solomon in the hands of severall successive Kings the Government continued untill the Captivity although God to chastise the sinnes of Solomon according to his Covenant with David his Father in case his sonnes should forsake his Law rent tenne tribe from his Sonne Rehoboam and his seed yet continued he the Government of Kings till the Captivity unto them among whom some were more eminently good prosperous and famous as especially Hezekiah and Josiah others wicked and Idolatrous forsakers of Gods Lawes and therefore afflicted After the Captivity in the time of the second Temple the Jewes had many changes of Governours and Conditions as is largely related in the history of Flavius Josephus but flourished under none comparably to Monarchichal Government and although for a long time the High Priest was and ruled as their Prince however he changed not the Kingly Constitution into that of a Republique as Historians will fully satisfie any man that desires information therein Yea and during the second Temple before Christ it is certain that then was their time most troublesome their Condition most lamentable and to be pityed their distractions almost ruinous when the true succession from Shealtiel to Zerobabel c. was interrupted then were they sold as it were for a prey to the neighbouring Grecians and to other enemies who by frequent incursions and in a manner devastations of them almost ruined them only now and then God sent them Princes who were deliverers and famous Captaines such as the Machabes and others of whom Josephus in his H●story instituted de bello Judaico gives a cleer large and full account To this agrees that the Jewes alwaies did expect the Messaih to be a Prince a great Ruler and deliverer and to use the disciples words to Christ when he was about to leave the World One who should restore the Kingdome unto Israel And so although in another form then the Carnall Jews expected him Christ is come the true King of Jews which he denyed not unto Pilate when it was asked of him If or no he were a King but answered It was so and added that for this end he came into the World to bear witnesse unto the truth with truth the blind Jewes not perceiving rejected him and in him their own mercy yea they crucified him and in him their true KING the Lord of Glory And now Mr. Milton I am come to that which you seem most willing to be at viz. the Command and example of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which as you conceive expresly prohibits Kingship to any of his disciples branding it with the marke of Gentilisme Surely Sir the Proverb is in you veryfied None so blind as he that will not see I speak not this of your Corporall blindnesse for that God is my Judge I pity but of your better eyes viz. the understanding which methinks cannot be so palpably blinded as you would make appear it is We shall easily grant you that Christ there speaks of temporall dominion but he speaks to his Disciples or rather Apostles who were his family and houshold who to the very day of his assention knew not but that he intended at last to appear a temporall Prince Now Christs Kingdome was not of this World as he himself testyfied when he was betrayed if it had been his servants would have fought for him those daies of his converse upon earth were the daies of his humiliation in which his Kingdome though reall was invisible the Captain of our Salvation being to be made perfect by sufferings So that the check his Disciples received from him concerning their ambi●ious desire not only disalow Kingly Authority among them but all temporall power For it is apparent that the two Sonnes of Zebede by their Mothers intercession did not desire to be both Kings but only his chief favourites in his approaching Kingdome which they carnally imagined was near that one might sit at his right the other at his left hand therein Upon which he teacheth them the nature of his Kingdome that it was at present to be begun and carryed on with suffering Upon the indignation of the other tenne when they heard this follows this discourse of Christ in which he speaks not only of Kings that bear dominion but of those that are great and grandees and are therefore called gracious Lords Not unlike to the Hoghen Moghen Heer 's of Holland What you insinuate of a Free Common-wealth Comming nearest as you conceive this Pattern and Precept I conceive you would have it understood of our blessed Republique from 48 to 53. Wherein our humble Servants as you term them who were also if we be so mad as to believe them the servants of God served both God and the Nation whom they pretended equally to be serviceable to a scurvy trick and in an ill-favoured way breaking their Oaths and Vowes with one and their ingagements with the other But as for their serving at their own costs and charge I wish you would be so farre a friend to Church and State as to make that true I am sure for that lamentable service they did for God in silencing his Ministers and almost destroying his Worship they took from him whatever for many ages past had been piously dedicated to the maintenance of his service and for the never to be forgotten service done to the Nations they did what they could both to ruine and beggar Majesty undid the Nobility and most of the Gentry and squeezed the Commons till they wrung out from them their radicall moisture and almost their heart-bloud As for their walking the streets like other men it would be well for them as the case now stands blessed be God for it if they could do so having deserved so much hate and vengeance from all But to return to your Scripture you are not ignorant Sir I make no question that many things which Christ said to his Apostles and which he gave them in Precept was but for the time and suited to the present occasion as when he commanded them to go forth without Provision of Clothes Meat or Money or Staffe yet afterwards he commanded or rather advised them That he who had Money should make use of it and he who had no sword should sell his Garment and buy one He that expounds that precept of Christ as given to all Christians and to be perpetually binding which was by you cited I dare promise him he shall not stop at Kingly Government but upon the same rule shall in fine reject all Authority For at that time Mr. Milton you know many of the Gentiles were

admit many they fear would dwell among them who might make a Conscience of keeping Allegiance inviolable and would urge against their Protestanisme that ungospellike rejecting their lawfull King although provoked by persecution and would cite the practise of the Primitive Church unanswerably discountenancing and their profession and Doctrine loudly and openly condemning the same by which means the multitude might be brought about to be undeceived and willing to entertain or at least desire their former Loyalty So that Policy not Conscience excluded from among them the Popish and a sordid desire of Gain set open the Flood-gates to all other Religions Among which if that may be accounted a Religion Athiesme is not excluded but findes its Sanctuary Now I pray you Sir where is the Magnanimity of Spirit that you boast of herein When nothing that bears the face or carries the name of Religion is disallowed but that only which is the only publique Religion of their former Prince lest by entertaining it his Friends should be let in therewith to the shaking of their new layd foundation the chief security of which seems to consist in their Nationall abjuring their formerly sworn to Soveraign not minding in the mean while the dishonour done to Gods name by those multitudes of abominable heresies yea damnable blasphemous Doctrines which swarm in those Countreys Amsterdam especially as Frogs swarmed in the Land of Egypt and yet they the more the pity are not at all troubled thereat because they bring profit and commerce along with them but I wish they do not hereby heap up to themselves wrath which may be powred forth upon them in the day of Gods Vengeance When no King was in Israel and every man did what was good in his own eyes then Micah made his graven and molten Image his Ephod and his Teraphim and hired a Levite to be his Priest Then was every man at his liberty what Religion he would follow a King only being so generous spirited and noble as to Engage that Religion publiquely to be professed which appears to him and his most learned Divines the true and most agreeable to the pattern and precepts of Gods Word and prohibit whatever strikes at this foundation nor to suffer any Rents or Schismes in the Church the inlets generally of farre greater mischiefs both in Church and State whereas a Common-wealth being but a puny Authority is compelled to tolerate this and that and twenty Heresies because some rich men or other are Favourites to all and nothing keeps the most rustick Peasant from being created the Greatest Heer or Lord among them but want of a competent quantity of Silver Gold or Merchandise Kings therefore in Scripture are promised to be nursing Fathers and Queens nursing Mothers to the Church but no such Promise concerning Republican Lords let them be never so high and mighty Nor is this degenerate basenesse of spirit visible only in Religious but as well and as much in Civil yea Ordinary concernments and there is a naturall reason for it since according to the Proverb According to a mans meeting so is his greeting Vulgar deportments find but vulgar respect nor is it fit or likely that he who puts little value upon himself should have greater put upon him by others that are about him Majesty and state may be kept without adoration but not without humble and due submissive respect Too much familiarity in all relations breeds Contempt The state and distance which Solomon kept between him and his subjects we finde registred by the Penmen of Sacred Histories as part of his magnificence and no small portion of Gods temporall blessings cast upon him as an additional Supplement to that for which he requested to wit Wisedome And I finde Paul the famous Apostle appealing to Caesar from Festus who was a subordinate Deputy to the Emperor hoping for greater shelter as to Religion from the Head of all Majesty Caesar himself then from an inferior Substitute or Lieutenant unto him And we read in the last Chapter of the Acts how long and how free he lived considering him in bonds at Rome being arrived in prosecution of his Appeal an evident argument that he expected and doubtlesse found more freedome under the Wing of Majesty then probably he should have had from an Inferior Governor neerer allyed to the common rank of men And as in the persecution of Religion the greatest favour is to be found in probability from Majesty it self so in the protection incouragement and advancement of Religion Kings and Emperors are unparallel'd Fathers and Nurses thereof Witnesse of old David Solomon Hezekiah and Josiah with many other godly pious Princes And of late since Christ Constantine and Theodosius with severall glorious truly Christian and famous Emperours And among us Edward the sixth Queen Elizabeth King James and without regard to your rayling black mouth our unparallel'd Martyr King CHARLES under whom how glorious was our Church to the admiration of many and envy of some of our Neighbours During whose pious Reigns if we will be poring only upon what was defective and whining after what was to be desired in our Church Discipline we shew our selves very ungratefull to God and men but if with thankfull hearts we could have enjoyed and prized what really was our Lot beyond all who were about us we might have said truly Our lot was fallen to us in a pleasant place and we had a goodly Inheritance God not so dealing with every Nation as he had with us who therefore might be named the darling of the Lord. It is the glory happinesse and true beauty of a Nation professing Religion when the face of man is not feared but God is so far exalted that none is acknowledged beside him King in the Church and therefore not only Caterpillers and Locusts are destroyed and Cattell which browse upon the Vynes kept out but the Foxes the little Foxes are taken that spoyl the Vynes they having on them tender Grapes How glorious a thing is it for a truly zealous and pious P●ince to countenance and encourage the Priests and Levites such I mean who oversee and manage the service of the Lord that out of the Church may be excluded not only the abominable and the unclean but likewise every thing that offendeth What more dangerous in the Church which is the Garden of the Lord then Factions and Heresies but what so fatall as the plucking up its Hedge and throwing down its Wall which is not as many imagine a foolish agreement or Covenant of the people one with another but a Christian and conscientious submission for the Lords sake to those who by Divine right are appointed and set over them to maintain which pale inviolable the King when a true nursing Father of the Church as blessed be God we had many such is next to God the greatest defense on earth on which score not without cause our Kings have had and deserved the name several of them of Defenders of

how earnestly on the other hand did he desire it and yet factious spirits being crept into these grand Counsailes how was time spent in vain and nothing effected I speak not now as an Historian but as an Oratour my present task is to urge matters granted not to relate but for things of fact I shall recommend the Reader to the larger history of Mr Sanderson and the briefer of Lambert Wood Gent both relating the full substance of what was done and suffered by our happy had we known our happiness King CHARLES the First whole happiness as to himself is I question not beyond mortall capacity and whose glory honour and renown for his Conquest in his sufferings exceeds the most famous of all our former English Monarchs Our Kings before these reforming times had a splendid Revenue accommodated to the Majesty of a Court although much short of the expense which a warlike Camp and navy Call for to the former our Kings estate was fitted of the latter he was himself uncapable without the assistance of his Subjects nor was this to be had of them without their free consents in Parliament where neither the Lords nor Commons alone but both together were in a capacity to furnish the King Good Sir what burden was here But moneys you say were commonly extorted out of the Commons no just cause appearing to them Strange that Mr Milton should write such a foolish absurdity and yet considering him the Author of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the defense of the people against English Salmasius and the Paradoxes concerning divorce the subject meethinks befits the pen. How is it possible for money to be extorted from the Commons in Parliament without their Consent When neither the Lords nor King both concurring could impose one Subsidy upon the Commons Nor was it ever known that the Commoners sate in Parliament under a visible compelling force untill these times of mysterious reformation It is certain the major part of the house of Commons must vote a subsidy or subsidys or else the King must go without them and this must passe the house upon a full debate of the question Now to imagine that monys voluntarily given should be extorted and where the question is put and each man without compassion hath liberty of giving his Ay or No without further rendring an account of the reason of his dissent more then he is free to or if he have reason as you insinuate and gave it he is not liable to the least question for any freedom used in expressing his mind in the house who but a man compounded and made up of ignorance and impudence would say that such moneys so given upon such debate and the question so oft put no man being bound up to either consent or dissent but as his judgment and Conscience gave him were extorted without any reasonable Cause appearing To this I know what you would reply namely That the House of Commons had within its Walls a Court faction and without both King and Lords who were his Creatures and all labouring to their utmost to supplant the sincere part of the Commons who were zealous in defense of the Peoples Liberty This Mr. Milton is soon said and Machiavell teacheth you no lesse but not so easily to be admitted The Commons are chosen by the Counties Cities and Burroughs for which they serve who usually choose such whom they most confide in to the Electors they are ingaged by Indenture or Covenant and so where a Free Choyce is there is less fear that men chosen by all impowered by all and representing all and willingly ingaging their Faith and Credit to all should contrary to their Trust betray all and comply with the Royall Interest to the prejudice of those who Elected and intrusted them to Represent themselves We know Mr. Milton that Elections then were Free and no Prohibition laid upon any that were by Law capable either from Electing or being Elected True since our Yoak as you term it hath been shook off and none are under restraint but only such who fear an Oath and make Conscience to keep those sacred tyes inviolable which judicially and conscientiously they took we have had at least nine parts of ten restrained from either choosing or being chosen so that the tenth part only hath had liberty of Ordering the Election and the other nine parts must upon penalty of being plundred sit still and call this a Free Parliament in such a House of Commons as this I doubt not but many may be found who will betray their Trust pretended to be committed to them because they indeed are not Elected by but Obtruded upon the people Thus we have had not only Knights but also Citizens and Burgesses more then formally yea really men cum accinctis Gladiis with their Swords girt for Army Officers have not seldome been the major part of the House or else such with the Officers who held places of great profit under the then ruling or rather Domineering Vsurpers But if really these men had as you say experimentally found and that upon long proof Kingly Government to be expensive and burdensome what can they pretend in excuse that they should Declare publiquely their intent to be to make this Kings Rvenue Larger and more Splendid Was this intent reall or did they make use of it as a decoy pretense to ingage the Common people of their side without whom they could not perform their work Yea I will appeal only to themselves had they not declared protested covenanted vowed and used all sacred and solemn means to perswade the Nation that their reall intent was only to remove some bad Counsellors from about the King and to bring them to Justice but that to his Majesties Person and Royall Issue they bore firm and inviolable Allegiance nor ever minded to abridge his just Prerogative only with it to confirm and secure and settle the Liberty and Priviledge of the Subject if I say they had not Declared this do they think that ever Money had been lent and raised or so many men would have ingaged their Lives and Fortunes No verily those turbulent spirits without these specious shewes had been left at first stript of all Friends and Abettors to the hand of Justice to have had their hot spirits cooled with deserved Imprisonment or perhaps with a Hempen Preservative against future infection with a treasonable Rebellious Spirit Well then if the People by such pretences were cheated into a Rebellious War it cannot so much be imputed to them considering what the Parliament with sacred solemnity vowed and swore enough to induce any but very discerning Judgements to side with them but the blame must for ever lie at their dores who have acted so rebelliously and perfidiously on one hand and dissemblingly on the other Consider I pray you things upon the account of Justice for Sir there is Justice among Thieves and High-way men if they share their Booty fairly and equally could these