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A35045 A letter to a freind [sic] shewing the illegall proceedings of the two houses of Parliament and observing God's aversenesse to their actions, which caused the authours returne to the king and his alleagiance. Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. 1645 (1645) Wing C7; ESTC R13193 10,170 22

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A LETTER TO A FREIND Shewing The illegall proceedings of the two Houses of PARLIAMENT And observing GOD's aversenesse to their Actions Which caused the Authours returne to the KING and His Alleagiance LONDON Printed in the yeare M. DC XLV A Letter to a Freind shewing the illegall proceedings of the Two Houses of PARLIAMENT Cosen YOu know how earnestly and with what charge I opposed the illegall demands of Ship money and loanes how I hated Court Monopolies and arbitrary Justice in the Star-chamber Councell Table and Marshalls Court how I abhorred the exorbitance of the High Commission all which the King readily rectified in the begining of this Parliament You know with what cheerefullnesse I tendred my purse my person being unserviceable for the Reformation of Religion the suppressing Popery the establishment of our liberties and properties the removing of evill Counsellors the reducing the King to his great Counsell the Parliament and the uniting of the Sister Countries in a Brotherly Union You remember how willingly we declared and protested that for the safety of the Kings person the defence of the Houses of Parliament the Protestant Religion established the Lawes Liberty and Peace of the Kingdome we would live and dye with the Earle of Essex And this being first commanded by the houses of Parliament then seconded by the Pulpit carried the face of Law and the voice of Religion so that with us was all Israel from Dan to Beersheba We possest all the walled Cities while the King like David in the mountaines had not a Towne to retreate to We had thousands of the choice men strongly armed while the King had only a handfull of out law'd Cavaliers as we call them and them naked not a musket scarce a sword among them We had all the Crowne revenue all the City plate to bodkins and thimbles even talents of gold and silver and the King scarce enough to buy his dinner Our magazines swelled with Armes Ordnance and Ammunition of all sorts while the King the Houses having seized his wanted all And lest he should have supplies from beyond-Sea we possest all his navie all his Port-Townes and left him not a Cock-boate not a Haven And better then all these we had the advantage of a just Cause fighting for God and reformation of Religion as our Preachers taught us for the defence of the Kings Person our Lawes the properties and liberties as the two Houses told us of Subjects and these backed with the pious Fastes and humiliations of Sanctified Congregations with humble and earnest prayers for successe And could so just a Cause so piously mannaged by such religious Patriots can such miscarry or want successe Especially while on the other-side the Kings small Army was unarmed Idolatrous and Popish Cavaliers their Cause justifying of Idolatry Popery Superstition maintenance of Bishops Rebellion against the Parliament and Subversion of the fundamentall lawes their prayers if any for successe but supplications out of a Popish Liturgy And what can such Armies such Persons such a Cause such Prayers expect but destruction Thus both Pulpit and Parliament misse-led me untill of late I considered the successe of both sides and do you weigh them indifferently and then tell me where we can boast a Victory For if we consider the Battailes we most bragg of those at Keinton Alresford Lansdowne Yorke Newbury we shall finde the successe such as if heaven rather intended both sides vanquished then us Victors On the other side examine the Actions at Runawaydowne Newbury Newarke Cropready Lestishiell Pontfract and elsewhere weigh the disproportions and disadvantages the Kings Armies fought with and then view their successe and you will finde it so farre beyond the expectation of reason as it is scarce within the reach of our beleife Inquire what plenty of Men Armes Ordinance great Townes and strong Holds the King now hath and so many have we lost Consider how many thousands of men how many armies my Lord of Essex my Lord of Manchester and Sir William Waller have lost how much treasure they have exhausted how our navy is decayed how many of our ships and men drowned while we had no enemy at Sea but heaven Nay how many of our Ships with their lading have the windes siding against us carried in to the Kings aide and our destruction And can these argue lesse then Gods displeasure against our proceedings These ill successes made me looke backe upon our State Actors that sit at the helme and direct all things and among them even those that were best reputed of for Reformation and integrity to the Common-wealth as Master Hampden that first raised Armes against the King when as we thought out of danger you shall finde him shot in Chalgrove field where the yeare before he had first taken up his Armes You may see Patriot Pym whom the people for his Speech applaud like Herod like Herod eaten up of Lice The Lord Brooke armed as Death could not enter him and at a distance danger could not reach breathing out threats against the Church is before the Church with a single bullet shot in the eye My Lord Say whom heaven cannot hurt if the plot hold hath one Sonne scorned for being a Coward in so good a bad Cause his other Sonne condemned to be hanged for being honester then his Father in delivering Bristol Sir John Hotham and his sonne whom the Houses justified for treason against the King the Houses to maintaine their priviledge execute first the Sonne then the Father by a Court of Warre for thinking to be honest And as if the same method were to be observed for the whole House they are hanging young Waineman to come to my Lord his Father The Earle of Essex whom the first yeare they salute with Hosanna's passe votes for his thanks and trophies but now decrie and as much as they dare scorne and neglect him Warwicke Manchester like Tinker Fox and rag-man Phips must now be squeezed as orenges to make sauce for the Juncto palates they are rich Others there be deserve observation While I contemplated these great active men and their misfortunes I could not thinke them lesse then farthing sparrowes which fall not without the Divine Providence therefore strictly examined our Cause by the rules of Law and Gospell and in a matter of this consequence I have taken the best opinions both of Divines and Lawyers and of both the most moderate yet such as were rather engaged on ours then on the Kings side All the Divines agree our Kings to have their power from God and therefore Saint Peter commands obedience to Kings as to the Supreame Saint Paul to the higher powers for there is no power but from God and therefore saith he pay ye tribute And they observe that these commands were to Christians the obedience commanded to be given to Pagans to heathenish Kings as the Romans those of Pontus Asia Bithynia c. The Divines observe that Saint Peters Epistle was to Strangers