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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28916	Plaine English, or, A discourse concerning the accommodation, the armie, the association	Bowles, Edward, 1613-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing B3878; ESTC R9421	29,388	30

praferr● pud●ri Et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas I am ashamed that any man that understands these lines should not so far understand himself as to count all things losse and dung to gain the price that is now in his hand and let him be ashamed too with a shame that puts on to amendment We have long pretended a zeale against idolatry while in the mean time we are all become one idoll We have eyes and see not c. We have eyes and see not an Army of papists not only with permission allowed to use their own religion but with commission appointed in event to destroy ours we have eares and heare not the continual blasphemies against our God the reproches and slanders against our Parliament It cannot indeed be said we have mouths and speak not for they that do least commonly speake most But I am sure I may say feet have we and march not hands have we and handle not the sword and shield We talke of want of armes its want of hearts had we no Smith in England as once in Israel if men had had their true English protestant spirits and well timed their attempts their enemies had beene meat to them though many of them as they that viewed the carcasses at Kint●n say rotten meat But I am weary of complaint let me turne to advice Besides those foggy mists of ignorance and misinformation that have at once blinded mens eyes and dull'd their spirits the great disadvantage of this great body of the people which I now speake to from doing great things hath been the disunion of them many twigs have been broken which if bound up together would have made a rod for the severe correction if not destruction of their enemies Let it therefore be considered whether an Association well and warily laid may not be a great advantage for the recollection of these loose and distracted spirits which united might be so serviceable An Association I say well and firmely laid An Association not subject to Equivocation an Association more particular then the Protestation which like the net in the Gospel brought up fishes good and bad and stones as well as fishes And here let the children of this generation for I hope they shall never see the next the Bishops be taken into example for the manner though not the matter of the act When they went to contrive an Oath they did it to the purpose a sifting distinguishing oath that should have scarcely left an honest minister in the Kingdome Therefore I say let this Association be wisely laid so as to give us to know our friends from our enemies yet not so strictly as to engage to things impossible or too many but something to this purpose To the maintenance of our establish'd Religion and law with all possible improvement to the maintenance of this army raised under the conduct of the truly noble and valiant Earle of Essex Captaine Generall by purse and person against the opposite faction and to bring delinquents so voted by the once sacred votes and consent of Parliament to condigne punishments But I am now beyond my owne line I know there hath bin paines taken in this businesse the speculation of it hath been more fully studied by others then my desire of practise will for the present allow me to do This businesse as it must be well laid so warily and religiously entred into There is a great deale of danger in promissary oathes I would have no man lose his soul to save a Kingdome which he that knows well the price of soules having paid for so many prefers to a whole world This Association especially in the Easterne and Southerne parts of the Kingdome that enjoy the benefit of the now raisd Army in all reason must be for a contribution to the maintainance of it To agree for the preservation of their own counties by their native power had been sufficient it may be before an opposite army raised but it will be now found most concerningly necessary to looke at the present army raised in the defence of the Kingdome as the best groundworke of safety and I doubt not but they will so approve themselves when the spring of action comes There are a generation of men too fruitfull who though the Arke and Israel lye in tents yet they must go in and eat and drink and lie with their wives of whom good use may yet be made let them pay for an indulgence for this their indulgency these are well-woulders to the Parliament and Kingdome let the impediments of their action their wives and children be content to purchase the presence of their husbands and parents with the want of those accomplishments which in these times may be well spared and by this meanes I doubt a summe too considerable may be raised The benefit of such an Association would be doubtlesse great It would concenter and determine the loose and languishing affections of men and propound them a particular marke of action It would be a good second string in case the Parliament should unhappily miscarry whereas otherwise we should be found as sheepe scattered a fit pray for the Wolves of these times Much more might be said to this purpose but a litle done were better then a great deale said Let therefore thoughts and words put on action the love of Christ prevaile as much in Protestants for a confederacy as the zeale for Antichrist hath done in Papists for a Conspiracy When Theeves and murtherers say Let us all have one purse let us lay wait for bloud doth it not concerne true men men of truth to say Let us have one heart let us go out as it was said of the children of Israel as one man against them Let us therefore lay aside our particular interests and embarque our selves in this common cause of Religion law and liberty all the paines we otherwise take is but building without a foundation It is in vaine for an honest man to thinke of prosperity or security in this Nation but in the successe of this present businesse It s true there are great unavoidable difficulties propound themselves on every side but let us doe our duty and wait on God even the God of our salvation who may answer us by terrible things in his righteousnesse which we lookd not for God hath put us to many a losse that we might have opportunity of seeking and finding him His way is in the sea and his pathes in the great waters his footsteps are not knowne Yet he led and will still lead on his people toward a land flowing with milke and honey the sincere milke of truth the sweet honey of peace FINIS Whatsoever errors have escaped the Authour or Printer as the commission of them speaks a man so let the pardon shew a good man I meant Plaine English its like he meant true Veniam pro laude 2 Kin. 24. 4. Ier. 47. ● 〈◊〉 3. 15.

for so constant experience tels the persons were ever worse by the office the office never better by the persons An Accommodation honourable in regard of God must be such as may cleanse the land from bloud that innocent and precious bloud which cryes to be avenged by our Parliament or upon it That Accommodation which should be honourable in regard of our selves must be such as might put that part of the Kingdome which have stood up in the defence of it into such a condition as to be f●●e from the insufferable insolence and scorne as they will alwayes lye under from their unsuppressed enemies but that is the least Such an Accommodation shall we account honourable which may be so in regard of the Parliament such as may retract the strange indignities offered that supreme Court and vindicate their honour and power and enable them to discharge that great debt which they have undertaken for lest publique faith be justly accounted no better then publique fraud which is the highest dishonour for so high a Court If it be here interposed where is your care for the Kings honour in the Accommodation I answer I thinke it more necessary to the welfare of this Kingdome that the honour of this Supreme Court be kept unstaind then of any particular person whatsoever I could wish the members of it would thinke so too and avoyd those retreats which wise men have already observed in their proceedings and will in a short time appeare to every body His Majestie hath fairer wayes out of his reall mistakes then the Parliament out of their supposed He is though a great yet but one person in whom an errour is more tolerable he is supposed to act according to the misinformation of evill counsels about him let them beare the blame and shame If it be so stood upon that his Majestie scornes any such evasion and as he hath already been perswaded to doe take all upon himselfe why should we endanger our selves by a solicitude for the reparations of that honour which they whom it most concernes are not at all For the Parliament to doe what hath been required and it may be is expected I had almost said what some of themselves are about to doe were to make them ridiculous and vile in the eyes of discerning people as the relinquishing their orders retracting their Declarations deserting their friends For the King to doe what they have desired though at another time it would have been unreasonably asked and dishonourably granted is now both reasonable and honourable to a true judgement if it bee honour in a Prince to promote by all possible meanes the happinesse and security of his people it were but to doe that of which there might be Examples given in other cases where Princes have not thought it dishonourable because they have done it to give satisfaction to people to retract calumnies to sacrifice delinquents or at least receive them as a gratuity though not worth the giving or taking The next great Question is whether we are likely by a treaty to obtaine from his Majestie a reall grant of such propositions as may stand with the safety of the Kingdome the honour of God of the Parliament and Nation And here the former particulars must be resumed First is it likely that during this unpretended danger we should obtain a settlement of the power of the Kingdome princip●lly of the Ships Forts and Armes in the hands of them who are knowne friends of publique safety or Liberty taking it granted that we could finde them Here is a double doubt to be made first whether he will secondly whether hee considered in his present condition can doe what may be for our securitie His constant Declaration of himselfe seemes to expresse that he hath received two Principles against it The one suggested by them who see no way of security or at least of thriving but in a way of violence who endevour to possesse his Majestie that he cannot be safe in the Armes of his Parliament and people because they cannot that there are inclinations to a defection in his people and to an innovation of Government even in the greatest points of it in the Parliament or many considerable persons in it and thence inferre that there is no way for his Majestie to keepe his priviledges nor his person and Crowne but by force of armes and therefore must have them placed in hands that his confidence so contrary to ours may be put in How farre such suggestions have prevail'd with his Majestie appeares by his late answer to the Parliaments vaine repetition of a Petition of returne in which he saith that to come up and trust them were but tamely to lay downe his Crowne which by force they saw they could not take from him I do not know of any such inclinations in his people but I am sure such counsels and such carriages are the way to beget them He is further told or needs no telling that he parts with the Flowers of his Crowne which it is not reasonable nay not lawfull for him to doe in regard of posteritie But see here how indifferent these men are as he for one who wrote the late Answer to the Observations printed by Command at Oxford It is lawfull nay necessary for us to invest his Majestie with what right God hath given us a right in our selves we may part with yet more of our liberty and lawfully and profitably make our selves slaves but it is not lawfull for the King to part with an inch of Prerogative or abate a jot of power though for that end for which all his power was given him his peoples good and given him by us He cannot doe it without wrong to his issue This will but give us occasion to discusse how farre we are obliged by any acts or grants of our ancestours giving away their and our liberty and determine for our advantage Doubtlesse his Majesties thoughts remaining as they have of late appeared to be it cannot be expected that had we the hearts to aske it which some say unworthily begin to faile men and make them faile their trust hee should intrust the power of the Kingdome in those hands whom we can only trust that is such as in this present businesse have shewed themselves faithfull to the Kingdom The case of constituting a power to see the Lawes duly executed or at least of placing the present power in better hands is the like These counsellours tell him there can be no new power but what is cut out of his and the disposing of the former power is likewise his that if it be not disposed by him or else under-hand by some body for him it will be an insufferable diminution of his observance and authority And no wonder though many endevour thus to possesse him because they looke to have this power placed in themselves to use it as they have done His Majestie hath been alwayes observed to be too true to his owne