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kingdom_n	england_n	king_n	time_n	11,245	5	3.7746	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83957	Englands division, and Irelands distraction. The feares and disasters of the one, the teares and distresses of the other; being the just cause and sad occasion of both kingdomes deploration. Containing a declaration, or remonstrance of the present state and condition of this realme of England, and that of Ireland. Written by one, who in unfained love to his native countrey, and entire affection to the neighbour-nation, would sacrifice his life for the peace of either.		1642 (1642)	Wing E2961; Thomason E124_9; ESTC R4856	3,981	8

Englands Division AND Irelands Distraction The feares and disasters of the one The teares and distresses of the other Being the just cause and sad occasion of both Kingdomes Deploration CONTAINING A Declaration Or Remonstrance of the present state and condition of this Realme of ENGLAND and that of IRELAND Written by one who in unfained love to his Native Countrey and entire affection to the Neighbour-Nation would sacrifice his life for the peace of either LONDON Printed for Thomas Bates 1642. DOCTRINA PARIT VIRTVTEM Englands Division AND Irelands Distraction VErsamur in prelio we are in a sot-battell Death is already marched into the field and a universall desolation like a Meteor hangs over our heads Such are the growing mischiefes of the two Kingdomes of England and Ireland that if these destructive warres continue without Gods great mercy all in the common Fate will inevitably be involved Ireland is sufficiently dyed in skarlet and England lackes but a graine of it Our sences of seeing and hearing are taken up with Armes and Amunition Powder and Shot Drums and Trumpets Pikes and Muskets skirmishes and battels fights and overthrowes Each houre is an Herault of homicides each day a messenger of mischiefes each weeke a Diurnall of dangers each moneth a Motto of misery this whole yeare but march and no language now amongst us but war In being victors we are victed in Overcomming we are overcome and in winning lives we lose lives In bellis civilibus omnia sunt misera nihil miserius quam ipsa victoria It was the saying of Cicero the Roman Oratour Omnis pax bello civils prastantior any peace is better then a civill war In civill wars indeed the most uncivill and barbarous of all other the Father sights against the Sonne and the Sonne against the Father Brother against Brother Kinsman against Kinsman These massacres are most inhumane and unnaturall wherein all bonds of affinity consanguinity and humanity are violently broken and dissolved Thus in the civill wars between the two Houses of Saul and David between Israel and Judah and of later times betwixt the white Rose and the red the two Houses of Yorke and Lancaster the Kings owne friends and loyall Subjects have been constrained to march into the field against him and have there dyed in that fight In the Raigne of Edward the fourth there were no lesse then nine civill and bloudy battels fought in England whereby most of the Nobility and Gentry of the Kingdome either fell by the sword of the souldier in the field or by the Axe of the Executioner on the scaffold Of all war the civill war is the worst And if ever it was bad it is most malignant at this time For it is a fatall war in the very bowels of the Nation with our owne Brethren and Countrey-men in the flesh and will be most destructive to the whole Kingdome It hath been a long time begun and end when it will end it will be bitternesse in the latter end as Abner once said to Ioah and if it longer continue as it doth at this present without a pacification it will bring repentance enough with it when it is too late both to the vanquished and to the victor What horrid slaughters of mankinde doc accompany this kind of bloudy war the History of these times doth sufficiently restifie The losse of goods estates liberties lands and lives this dismall shower of war raines downe upon the sonnes of men to their ruine and confusion Manifold are the sad and blacke calamities which wait upon this illegall and unnaturall war It makes the breaches wider and the wounds deeper These water-breaches that have been so long broken in upon us if they be not speedily stopped but given way unto will lamentably prove an inundation and deluge of destruction to the whole Kingdome It exposes a people to the fury of a forraigne Nation that whilest we are together by the eares amongst our selves our adversaries have the advantage and opportunity to come upon our backs so that besides being liable to the pitty of onr friends the derision and malignity of our foes in this respect we may say as David said in another case unto Gad we are in a great straight Bellum Dei Flagellum War is the scourge of God It is one of the Arrowes which the Almighty hath in the quiver of his Justice which he shoots at a Nation for the iniquity of the people And what mischiefes doe not accompany war It never comes single but is attended upon by all the imaginable evils that are in the world which like those Eumenides the hags and suries of Hell doe torture men to their perpetuall ruine Nulla salus bello there is no safety in war When the Dye of war is once throwne it is a great hazard and what the issue and chance of it is is most uncertaine The sword regards neither high nor low noble nor ignoble rich nor poore the King in his Throne nor the Beggar in the street When Ahab warred at Ramoth Gilead a certaine man drew a bow at adventure and smote the King of Israel as he was in his Chariot Ye may reade the Story at your leisure in the 1 Kin. 22. 34. where ye may take notice of these remarkable circumstances first of a certaine man some obscure or ignote fellow God knowes who or what he was it seemes not worth the naming only a certaine man drew a bow at adventure light where it will light he shoots at randome and aymes at no man but smites the King of Israel Where note that the basest coward or villaine in the Army of the Assyrians peradventure smites the noblest From which premisses the inserence that I deduct is this that in war the Lords anointed who is Pater Patrioe the Father of his Countrey and is better then ten thousand may fall as soone as the basest what soever to the great hazard of the State and to the grievous crime of those that shall expose His Majesty to that perill The consideration hereof made the people of King David say when Ishabenob the Gyant in a battell had like to have slaine David but that some of his Wortnies rescued him from that danger Thou shall no more goe forth with us to bat tell lest thou quench the light of Israel 2 Sam. 21. 17. For thou art better then ten thousand of us 2 Sam. 18. 3. Nay not onely the people of the King but the Prophet of the Lord the King of Kings speaking of a King and none of the best neither makes this one maine part of his sorrow and lamentation The breath of our mostrils the Lords anointed under whose shadow we had rest was taken in their pit by the Babylonians in their wars against Ierusalem In the time of civill or rather uncivill war not only the King but the whole Kingdome is in danger If I could reckon up all the mischieses and miseries that ever were or will be among men in