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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

Bloud and thou O righteous God give them Bloud to drink and let that be their portion for they are worthy of it But by the way I question not but the sober modest and pious Presbyterians will see your Delusion You urge not Queen Elizabeths aversenesse to their Reformation as accounting it to be indeed Reformation Your contrivance to eject Hirelings out of the Church by taking away Tythes shewes how well you like them or any other true Gospel Preachers when you discover it to be your design to have all Maintenance for the Ministry to be paid out of the publique Exchequer for so what could be expected more from such Preachers then was found in Ahabs Prophets who eat their Bread at his Wife Jezabels Table It is a fatal Plot against Religion to have the Maintenance of all its Ministers to proceed as a State Gratuity bestowed upon them in requital of their pains and labour For what could be hoped in such a case but that all must turn State-pleasing Preachers or begge and who upon that score would educate their Children that they might be capable of the Ministry or what conscientious man durst adventure on that Profession in which he must goe against the light of his Conscience or begge But I shall leave this as having I suppose spoken to it satisfactorily your next whining complaint against Monarchy is that Episcopacy and it are inseparable To which an Answer is ready that Mr. Milton is grossly mistaken It is certain that Monarchy is where Bishops have no place not are so much as known witnesse the Persian Tartarian Turkish and Indian Monarchies and Bishops on the other hand have been for many years owned and acknowledged and to this day are in place and esteem among those who are not under Kings witnesse the Popish Cantons in Switzerland the Venetians Genoeses and Hamburghers which last are a kinde of Republique although they owe and pay Homage to the King of Denmark By which it is evident that the Crown may return without readmitting the Mitre and it is likely that Episcopal Lordly power will hardly get footing again in the Nation the Barons and other Nobles in Parliament who were alwayes firm to Monarchy still opposing and endeavouring to lift out the Lords Spiritual from having jurisdiction among them as is evident by very many of their Speeches to that purpose to this day publiquely extant yea and his Majesty consented to the divesting them of all but their Title and Office submitting their Lordly Jurisdiction and Revenues to the disposall of the Parliament Concerning whose Office and extent of Power it is not now convenient nor seasonable to argue and dispute nor Wisdome to determine without Disputation only I shall adde that if Monarchy and Episcopacy were necessarily inseparably link'd it were a strong argument for the excellency of that sort of Church Government but the contrary is most manifest namely that what Government Kings most approve is by them chiefly countenanced or at least what the consent of most Divines under their Jurisdiction confirms as most agreeable to Scripture that is permitted and allowed So the Presbytery prevailed in Scotland to the ruine of Episcopacy yet Kingly Government was not upon that account rejected by them Adde to this that most of the Presbyters in the Nation interceded for the Kings life protested and Remonstranced against his Death and the Scotch Nation the most strict Presbyters reputed treated with received and Crowned our Hereditary now living King Charles the Second Son to his murdered Father and yet readmitted not Episcopacy This only I shall say that as a just splendid Monarchy may be limited so as to consist together with the most absolute and reall true Freedome of a flourishing State so a pious Church overseeing Episcopacy and a Godly moderate Presbytery are res diversae nomine tantum only nominally differing but really the same Call the Bishop and the Presbyter by one name and let the wisest gravest and most Exemplary pious be reputed the Moderator of the rest and let him be accounted worthy of double honour and have it and I see no remaining reall ground of animosity but that both like Christian Brethren may goe hand in hand together to oppose the common Enemies of the Church both Popish and Sectarian As for that blessing which you take notice of Mr. Milton that the Plague hath been for so long a time a stranger to London it is a great mercy and so to be acknowledged but I suppose your conclusion from thence that our Government during this time hath been more well-pleasing to God then formerly is most pitifully extorted and therefore for shame you do but obscurely bring i● in however it is clearly to be collected from your words that you mean so Gods usage with his People is not to be expounded recording to that Pattern of yours His own people the Jewes before they were to enjoy the Blessing promised to Abraham Isaac and Jacob to them and their seed after them were first brought down into Egypt and there indured sore bondage before this Promise came to be accomplished That a great Plague began the Reign of King James and a greater the Reign of his murthered Son Charles in Gods usual way of dealing with his people if it were significant might argue an Elation of spirit in those two Princes in respect to the numerousnesse of the Subjects of the Kingdome of England which was lately united to the Scottish Diadem in King James the first Scotch King that swayed the English Scepter But withall it argued those Princes with David to be persons in esteem with God and therefore to chastise them he took them into his own hand cutting off many of their Subjects which went very near to their hearts as being the Fathers of the Nation and so they were affected with the Death of their Subjects as a Parent is with the Funerals of his children But when the Nation waxed wanton against God through surfetting on his blessings and rendred him not the thanks that was due to his Name for so happy an union of two Protestant Nations and increase of Mercy in the successive Reigns of three scarce before parallel'd Princes in our Nations at least so succeeding one another and so long continued the last being for wisdome piety true valour and yet Christian patience not to be matched by any that went before him to whom as under God the main prop and hope of our happinesse the Lord had graciously given a plentifull and most promising Off-spring we I say being not only brutishly ingratefull for but profanely despising these so rare Mercies it pleased God to deprive us of them suffering this our Josiah to be not slain by Pharaoh necho but murdered by his own Subjects and as much as in them lay branch and root to be cut off in one day blowing in his anger at once both in Church and State taking away the antient and honourable in both and suffering the

or unsetled in their Constant Resolutions toward you for whose prosperity and speedy Restitution to your Just Hereditary Rights and long and happy injoyment of the same hath been is and shall be God assisting the constant Prayer of Most Illustrious Prince Your Majesties most faithfull And Loyall Subject And humble Orator G. S. A Serious and Seasonable WORD TO A Sober People BEfore I come to what I intend shall be the subject of this ensuing Discourse I think it very necessary to make way for what I shall hereafter say by removing in the first place whatever in probability may raise a prejudice against what I am about to write that so nothing of exception may lye against any circumstance after once the matter of my Discourse is allowed First I question not but my person will be enquired after and perhaps soon found out and known and it may be wondred at therefore why I do not as well set down my name as the two first letters of it If so let me crave of thee Reader not to harbour any Prejudice against the subject matter of the following Treatise therefore which I did for the end to avoyd prejudice thereby For I am not ignorant of the ability of Mr. Milton whom the Rump which was well stored with men of pregnant although pernicious Wits made choyce of before others to write their Defense against Salmasius one of the greatest Learned men of this Age both for reality and reputation who therefore was Royal prefessor of Philosophy as I take it but will not be positive herein in the Vnited Provinces and at his Majesties the present Scotch and Hereditary English King's request undertook the Defense of our Protoroyall English Martyr against those of his Subjects who with as much Treachery as Perjury and with as much cruel inhumanity as both murther'd him at his own Gate in the face of the Sun and in the presence of that God and before many thousands of that people by whom and before whom they had sworn with lifted up hands that they would with their lives defend his person Posterity and just Power with many other particulars contained in their Oath as may appear by it self known formerly by the name of The Solemn League and Covenant taken by all the Members of both Houses that remained sitting at Westminster after such who had left them were withdrawn and convened at Oxford Nor seemed it enough to them to take it themselves but it was by their authority tendred yea strictly imposed and upon severe penalties injoyned to thousands of men all the Kingdome over besides a Vow and Protestation equally sacred and binding to the same things which in the League and Covenant were upon Oath promised all which notwithstanding this their Liege King was murthered being sentenced and executed by those very men that had sworn to defend him the Parliament Garbled as to the Commons House and dismembred as to the House of Lords by those very men who had sworn to maintain and defend its Rights and Priviledges and severall both Nobles and Commoners lost their lives being sentenced by an High Court of Justice a stranger and contrary to our known Fundamental L●ws which was chosen and impowred by those who had Covenanted and sworn to maintain with their Lives and Fortunes the Fundamental Lawes of the Land And yet these men thus acting call themselves by the name of Gods people and the faithfull adherers to the work of Reformation and the Good Old Cause although nothing appear in their actions but Treachery Perjury Murder and Cruelty Against which Rebellious hypocrisie the most learned Salmosius under the borrowed name of Claudius Anonymus inveighed most justly and truly as well as Oratorically and no lesse deservedly then Eloquently Which Defense of his no lesse judicious then well-composed as for Language did render the deserevdly abominable Actors both notorious and odious among the foraign Nations of Europe the fame thereof by this Learned mans Eloquence being written in the Latine Tongue sounding far and neer To remedy which inconvenience if it might be done the Rump which now began to stink in the nostrils of every honest and wise man this bloudy butchery of theirs vying with yea out-doing not only the actions but the worst of the Jesuites professed Tenents and therefore to the perpetual ignominy of the Reforming Protestants justifying the fraternity of Loyola and silencing the others make choyce of Mr. Milton to be their Champion to answer Salmasius who as may be conceived not vulgarly rewarded for this service undertakes it with as much Learning and Performance as could be expected from the most able and acute Scholar living Concerning whose Answer thus much must be confessed that nothing could be therein desired which either a shrewd Wit could prompt or a fluent elegant style could expresse And indeed to give him his due in whatever he vomited out against his Majesty formerly or now declames against Monarchy in behalf of a Republique he then did and doth now want nothing on his side but Truth and the honesty of his Cause or Subject on which he did or doth discourse So that it was wisdome as I judge it in me being to reply to so acute and universally owned a learned man to conceal my Name at least not to expose it obvious at the first view that the prejudice which the known inequality of the Antagonists at the first sight begets in a Reader causing many Tractates to be thrown aside without reading being taken away or at least suspended till the Treatise is read the thing contended about may be judged according to the weight of the Arguments on either side and not according to the estimate of the persons allowing then Mr. Milton all the advantages which an acute wit ready invention much reading and copious expression will give him I shall only trust to the goodnesse of the Cause for which I plead in which had there been any proportion or equality between that which he and that which I contend for I should not only doubt but despair of conquest of which as the case falls out I am assuredly confident But expecting to be known both who and what I am I must expect to meet with such Questions as these What need you meddle with affairs not only out of but so far distant from your Sphere your profession much differing from Politicks and the Concernments of Majesty being far above your station This Objection if not satisfied because it may much prejudice the acceptance of what I write in the opinion and esteem of many Readers I shall therefore first speak to it before I proceed in my intended task and whether what I shall say prove satisfactory or no I shall leave to the judgement of the Candid Reader sl●ghting in the mean while the dissatisfaction of the obstinately or rashly censorious I answer therefore first that though the affairs of politick forms are besides my practise yet not besides my cognisance and

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