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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75465	An antidote against an infectious aire. Or a short reply of wel-wishers unto the good and peace of this kingdome; unto the declaration of the 11th of February, 1647.		1648 (1648)	Wing A3491; Thomason E427_18; ESTC R22836	7,032	8

AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST An Infectious Aire OR A Short Reply of Wel-wishers unto the Good and Peace of this Kingdome Vnto the Declaration of the 11th of February 1647. Is it fit to say unto a King thou art wicked or to Princes ye are ungodly Job 34.18 Printed in the Yeare MDCXLVII A briefe Reply to the Declaration of the House of Commons VVE have read your Declaration and have thought good to give you this short account of those impressions that it hath left with us Wee find it of that nature that it would faine prompt others to thinke more than it selfe dares speake or utter and yet speakes much more than it proves But though we should take all insinuations for assertions and all assertions for probations we cannot see how all together would be sufficient to bring home the conclusions neither that which is expresly set downe as the professed drift of the whole Booke nor yet those that it is farther to usher in The great sinew of that Body The maine wheele or spring of your Engine which if any thing must doe your feat of dis-uniting the hearts of the Kingdome from his Majesty and justifying your professed rejection of him is that which concerneth the death of the late King A matter in deed of a very high nature and though you are loth to expresse your selves therein yet it is not hard to discerne what thoughts you would thereby commend unto us But if you can clearly make good what you intend why did you not speake it plainly If you cannot why doe you goe about by malicious art to insinuate that which you are not able to make good Men that are under the power of others use indeed sometimes to speake timorous verities But where men armed with greatnesse and strength speake fearefully there the Truth is in danger But doe you beleeve or can you thinke to perswade us that the honour of so great a King or his just power and Rights are to be laid under foot upon surmises upon quodlibeticall and uncertaine conjectures whose grounds and foundations are rather in the conceits and apprehensions of men variable according to the variety of their affections than in the reality of things or actions When events are liable to divers causes and those that have their residence within the breasts of men to fixe them upon one without any sound reason for the choice but because it appearres most serviceable to our purposes is a fallacy of too open a collusion That we should trust our judgements with it in so great a matter and therefore since you have proved nothing against his Majesty in that particular we cannot but inferre that all that you want of evidence against him lyeth against your selves and doth convince you to have committed as high an offence against the duty of Subjects at against the candour of Christians As for us The pious life of his Majesty His exemplary carriage in the whole demeanour of his life The quiet and undisturbed temper of his mind notwithstanding the surly stormes wherewith he hath been attempted His mercy toward others even toward his enemies unlikely to consist with such horrid cruelty towards his owne His constancy and undauntednesse of spirit in his sufferings together with his great and commemorable patience assisted with the great improbability of the act as having in it too little an hire of advantage to procure the undertaking of so high an impietie as that which brought a farre greater addition of burden than honour upon his back The consideration of the deare affection between him and his Royall Father never interrupted by any distaste likely to hatch such a viper in so noble a breast These and many more together with the highest engagement of Christian charity to our King as they doe bind us and even inforce us to abhominate and abhorre the thought of that thought which you seeme to desire to infuse into us and to keep our breasts armed and grounded however you have or may disarme us otherwise against any insinuations that may lead us therunto So when we consider the rules and practices of some Politicians and the nature of man which is observed to be such as it is apt to hate those whom they have wronged and to wrong them more when we consider what hath been done already what is dayly done and what it is some mens interest as the world judgeth of Interests to do we cannot but encline to adhere rather unto this choice to beleeve it much more likely that such a thing may be forged by some against him than that he could commit such a thing against his Father without any such inducements either of revenge or interest and where the guilt of this is now let the world judge and which is the greater offence of the two But secondly in case it could be proved and so fully so demonstratively proved as is requisite to overcome that large portion of Charity which is due unto a King above all other sorts of men and to him for ought we know above all other Kings much the more for the sad condition wherein you keepe him so clearly as to be victorions over so many and so disswasive improbabilities that present themselves in array against it we should indeed even then admit it with great reluctancy as a truth that it might be thought a kind of impiety to understand wee should then when we must needs looke upon it as a sad and great affliction unto our Nation and as a great cause of humiliation not of triumph or insulting unto us That God should suffer our King to fall into such a depth of impiety for the sins of the Magistrate as of the Minister are usually the judgements of the people for their sins But yet neverthelesse we should hold it our duty even in that case to cry out with the holy Prophet Micha 7.9 We will beare the indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him c. And to let our selves to the duties of Fasting and Prayers and Teares for the lamentation and expiation of so horrid an iniquity from his Majestie and the Kingdome But we could not be perswaded that it were a Christian course for us to make His iniquity the countenance or excuse of ours or admit it as a supersedeas or discharge of the bond of our allegeance though it should render it indeed much discomfortable unto us for as a Child owes his filiall honour and obedience not to a good Father but to a Father be he good or bad so Subjects their allegrance not to a good King but to the King and though wee deny not but Potentates may forfeit their Crownes by their impieties yet the holy Word of God leades us to beleeve that none is thereby enabled to take that forfeiture but God Saul forfeited his Crowne by his Sacrilegious intrusion into the Office and Function of the Priesthood 1 Sam. 13 8. c. and doubled that forfeiture by his disobedience

be convicted we hold it therefore most unjust and unreasonable for us to admit any of those aspersions which you have laid upon His Majesty into our beliefe or to make any results at all upon them in the least degree prejudiciall to His Majestie in our opinions untill we shall see as well what His Majestie can answer as what you have objected against Him for since it is a justice not to be denied to the meanest of Subjects nay to the greatest slaves that they have liberty to speake for themselves before judgment be given upon their accusation we must tell you that we hold it a thing against all equity and right for you to take the freed●●●e to say what you please against His Majesty and in the meane time to keepe Him in that restraint that He can neither know what you have objected nor hath liberty to make His Answer thereunto We do therefore desire it of you in point of justice to His Majestie and in regard of satisfaction to our selves that this Declaration of yours may be speedily communicated to His Majestie and that He may have free liberty with the helpe of such Secretaries and others that shall be needfull to helpe His Memorie and to do Him other requisite service therein to make what Answer He shall thinke fit thereunto and that the said Answer may be as freely published and perused as this your Declaration If you shall deny us this we shall have so much the more reason to continue and augment our suspitions That there was too much gall in that inke that wrote those lines which you have sent abroad and that they are not of such solid matter as to endure the examination and tryall of a just Reply and shall therfore endeavour to banish all other impressions thereof from us but of hatred unto such unrighteous practises and that which we shall now briefly set downe First that we beleeve it not impossible nor a thing to be much wondred 〈◊〉 by us or to stick by us in any great prejudice to his Majesty That the sad condition and manifold difficulties wherewith his Majesty hath encountred through the miscarriages of others have found him a man and therefore possibly have driven him some times into some refuges that were not so proper for him at other times and in another temper of things as we have observed many miscarriages perhaps in others on lesse temptations 2. That in the mannage of such affaires which his Majesty hath been put upon and in such a crowd of extraordinary and various exigents it was not alwaies possible for His Majestie to do all things with His owne hand or to examine all things by His owne are or judgement that have passed as His Acts many things were necessary to be committed to the trust of others and if perhaps any of them have failed therein we dare not lay this to the charge of His Majestie 3. Therfore we conceive in all equity that his Majesty ought not to be judged of by us or his people by the passages that have fallen out in this distemper of his Raign As we judge not of the complexion of bodies in their distempers but in their naturall and healthfull constitutions and therfore we conceive all or the greatest part that hath fallen out in this busines though it did appeare as it doth not ought to have bin left out of your Declaration 4. And then fourthly we can remember or find so little before these times that hath not been repaired abundantly or satisfied by his Majesty that we can find nothing to rest an evill thought against him justly thereupon 5. That wee find in the recollection unto our memories of divers passages that have of late fallen from his Majesty That you have no such cause as you pretend to complaine of his obstruction of Peace since we have found him willing as appeareth by his late Messages unto you To sacrifice all his owne power and greatnesse upon the matter more for ought we find than ever any King yet offered to the peace and preservation of us his people And that the maine things that he stands upon are the interest of his people in Religion and Liberty and the interest of his sonne and not his own and we should be most unthankfull should we desert him for seeking to guard as in those things which are so precious unto us 6. That we are upon good grounds so well perswaded of his Majesty that we doubt not but very much of what is charged against him will fall short of evidence and are the issues of her of mis-information or mis-interpretation And lastly we desire to let you know that our Allegiance is yet unmoved by this battery so farre that we doe yet desire of you the restitution of our King and that his may be admitted to a personall Treaty that we may enjoy againe the benefit of that happy Government which hath 〈◊〉 so prosperous and comfortable unto us And that you will not to make good your own ends and purposes expose us unto the hazard or another bloudy warre lest your selves be partakers of the evils thereof Assuring you that although we know not what God may permit you to force us unto otherwise by that power which you have with other colours and profession gotten into your hands Yet in this we shall not falle by Gods helpe In endeavouring to preserve our Allegeance to His Majestie and our fidelity to His Posterity after Him Desiting only t● be tesolved of this one question by you as the latter ends Why the House of Lords was waved in a matter of so great concernment to the Kingdome We beseech God of his infinite mercy to restore His Majesty in His good time from that sad 〈◊〉 of affliction He is in not only to the great hurt but dishonour also of this Nation and that he will put some softnesse into your hearts that you may yet thinke upon those courses that may be for the preservation of this poore abused and bleeding Kingdome from an utter and finall destruction FINIS