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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88535	A looking-glasse for the vvell-affected in the city of London. Wherein they may behold those dangers and miseries which are ready to fall upon them if they do not speedily make a firm combination against the common enemy.		1648 (1648)	Wing L3033; Thomason E460_26; ESTC R205130	10,172	18

this be effected If not effected How did the Army impead the Kings coming home If their coming to London in a warlike manner were a disturbance to the Kingdomes quiet why was not that party in the City esteemed as great disturbers as the Army who subscribed great and considerable summs chose a Generall listed souldiers prepared a new Army to destroy the old wherefore a necessary engagement lay upon them to march to London to extinguish those already raised Garboiles those new kindled Coales of combustions if any fled from the Houses it was their fearfulness not the Armies Dreadfulnesse which could cause them to foster such over suspicious jealousies Though to speake plainly the raising of an Army without sufficient authority is an action which carryeth little lesse then Treason in the forehead then a tincture of Rebillon in its very complexion But I could wish rationally to be informed what the estate condition of our affaires would have been if the Army had been shuffled off with a small Pittance of money debentures thrust into their hands so sent packing homewards whether would the King have instantly granted our Propositions or no if this The oppsition betwixt the Parliament and his Majestie would have continued for whose release the Cavaliers would have acted all their now begun designes and many more against us by how much greater opportunity had been offered upon their dissolution every one would be willing to engage in such Clandestine Contrivances where a small or almost no visible force appeared to thwart and strangle their new Plotted Conspiracies Now that the King upon their disbanding would have yeilded to our Propositions is meerly improbable Considering the hopes he might cherish of a new resurrection of his party this army suffering a dissolution And fortune who had for a long time drawne a curtaine betwixt her self and his Majestie might seeme now to withdraw it and refresh him with the smiles of her for so many moneths Clouded Countenance Againe if he refused to signe the Bills in his lowest and halfe desperate condition at Carisbrook would he have signed them in his best Condition at Holdenby wherefore the Army refusing to disband shewed both wit and fortune ioyned with a notable discerning judgement Teaching that weake Common-wealths for that they know not how to resolve never take any good resolution except perforce and some others must procure their good for them even against their wills Now therefore should any man well affected to the Parliaments Proceedings behold this Army with Basilisks eyes be stoned by any of the well-affected unlesse it be for their good deeds their Noble acts of Chivalry it mounteth above the spheare of my Intelligence wherefore the Lieutenant Generall who by his noble exploits and atchievements hath mawled the Kings Party been a Scanderbag to their stoutest Cohorts and Legions wherefore I say should he be the subject of our obliquie or his Honour darkened with our black aspertions I do not know unlesse the cause be the fatall inconstancy of the unpolitick and giddi-headed Multitude who exalt some and labour to depresse others who love to day hate to morrow whose resolutions are orbicular their actions like wind-mill sayles turning upon the blast of ever winde never constant with themselves and therefore cannot persevere in Constancy towards others However I will not labour to defend all whatsoever hath been acted by the Parliament and Army unlesse they were of the Heavenly race not of the dust of the Earth unlesse begot of Jupiters Braine and not of the flowers of the field Thus much I know that all their errours be veniall sinnes and therefore excusable not sins against the holy Ghost and therefore unpardonable But however the case stands seeing such infinite stormes and troubles doe on all hands assayle us and the Billowes of raging warrs are ready to overwhelme us wisdome willeth that we joyne hand in hand live love and be brethren still And seeing all our differences are but about Circumstantials either concerning Church or State ordinary Policy and Common safety enjoyneth us that we do not so violently contend lest we totally exceed the litmits of Circumstantiall differences we are like two Earthen pots floating in the sea Si Collidimur frangimur like Meleager and his fatall firebrand the one surviveth not the other The Cavaliers cannot breake our Array unlesse we open ranke and file to double distance They cannot disarme us of our rapiers unlesse we set Crablocks upon them nor uncase us of our Buff-coats unlesse our Companions helpe to unlase them If all these before mentioned dangers to Parliament City Kingdome which threaten not only an invasion but an extirpation of our Religion and liberties will not be sufficient to incorporate our affections and draw our swords one in defence of another it is a sad presage our ruine is at the door our destruction sleepeth not but in the midst of our quarrels will throw us out of our Houses Lands Religion Liberties and whatsoever is dearly prized and esteemed of us Let not the Cavaliers glozing speeches bore out your eyes to whom if you wagg the tayle give sugred words and sawning carriage oleum operum per didistis you but carry water in a riddle no safety from them to be expected though you offered a thousand sacrifices on his Majesties Altar at Carisbrooke if before you offered up but a Wax Candle to the Parlia shrine at Westminster Could any thing charme their bloody hands unlesse they were first washed with your blood I should think it no miracle if the Lambe lay by the Lion untouched the Sheep by the Woolfe undevoured the Goose by the Fox unworried can there be continued a near union amongst us a neraer union will be effected betwixt a Cavaliers neck and Tyborne This they know and are afraid of what they deserve and therefore all flie from London and bandy themselves together in remote or neare adjacent Counties fearing if they be taken such Hoggs as they are like to be sold to those Butchers whereof Gregory is one of the fraternity And the Divell with Machiavell his chiefe Secretary have dictated this project unto them divide impera either alienate them and so successively Conquer them or cause them to sheath their Swords in one anothers Bowels and then Moab up to the spoile If our contentions about Church Government be laid aside and lulled asleep we may be happie if this unfortunately begotten Childe be rocked so long in its cradle untill it have taken up its lodgings in deaths pavilions if otherwaies it awaken the hope is we being all Christians and of the houshold of Christ Iesus may friendly compose the occasions of honest mens grudgings and disastrous quarrellings when the common enemy hath whipped us we shall be wise and joyne together dearly rewarding them for their Tyrannous behaviours and audacions presumptions Why should we runne a whoring after a Personall Treaty That new smoking which the Commissioners of Scotland first voydded out of their ingenious breeches and now the Cavaliers of England offer it up unto your Nostrils as a sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour As though Poyson were wholsome Physicke for Naturall bodies Or that any thing so violently prosecuted by the Cavaliers of Engl. would prove a cordiall for our differences a remedy to advance or a Pillar to underproppe the Tottering state of our Religion and Liberties Nay rather let us all be unanimous as formerly if we can be but joyned into one bundle of rods we need not to doubt but we shall soundly whip these lying dissembling Scots these more then falsehearted Cavaliers The great Capt. Julius Caesar quieted his mutinous Countrymen with eight Letters all making one word Quirites It were a shame for us in these our dissensions who are all Christians not to stop one anothers querulous tongues and clamorous mouthes with that of Moses to his dissenting Hebrews why do we contend seeing we are all Brethren the Turks can take up a debate with a Fie Musselman Fie fall out and all the Controversie is dashed in pieces And shall not we who are indeed the true beleevers more easily be appeased and joyne hands then a Crew of execrable Mahometans and ungodly Infidels To conclude this my earnest exhortatiōto old friends though somewhat estranged in affections This know for a certaine God is highly displeased at your quarrellings seeing you give the enemies occasion to blaspheme the name of your God If you will not yet be appeased one towards another but cause more rents and holes in the Lords Coate God himself one day will severely reckon with you for that you have endangered his Church Honour It may be remove your Candlestick when you your selves have been the Occasion wherefore that glorious and bright shining Lamp hath been extinguished by the Haters of his Glory FINIS