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A93763	The reason of the war, with the progress and accidents thereof. / Written by an English subject. VVherein also the most material passages of the two books printed at Oxford (in which His Majesties party do undertake to justifie their proceedings) are briefly examined; viz. The [brace] declaration, entituled, Tending to peace; relation of the passages at the meeting at Uxbridge. July 1. 1646. Imprimatur Na: Brent.	Stafford, William, 1593-1684.	1646 (1646)	Wing S5152; Thomason E350_8; ESTC R201041	87,456	156

divers Towns in several parts of the Kingdom On which his Friends and Party fix a Miracle reckoning it an extraordinary Act of Gods Favor shewed to him in the sudden increase of his Party that from an handful as it were he hath raised Forces to such numbers when as the Miracle may be retorted and rather turned the other way That his Majesty being so Pious Just and Protestant a Prince as his party contends and an * See the Oath tendred at Oxford 1643. Oath to that purpose hath been tendred to divers of late within his Quarters there should be notwithstanding such a defection from him in his Subjects so many thousand also not engaged nor seduced men of sufficiency and worth mistaken in what is Loyalty Neither is Victory in a Civil War any evident note of the Almighty's favor when as it is obtained on such hard terms as the Ruine and Destruction of a flourishing Land rather in the Event it will prove an angry Judgement of Gods punishing the Authors of this Ruine in suffering * See the Message of both Houses March 9. 1643. above and beyond all others a Civil War consuming and overthrowing the Body Politique as a pestilent Feaver doth the Natural with its distempered heat As for the Towns the Kings party gained whether by His Commanders wit and Stratagem allowable in War or by falshood in point of parly and of trust odious and scorned even in Forrain Wars is hereafter examinable and to be tryed by the Sword alone yet one word what that falshood is when a Commander or Officer in chief shall Swear by Solemn Oath and Vow to perform what he never means and after a trust committed and an agreement made break and falsifie the same And whether it be Treachery and falshood or Stratagem and Policy doth rest upon this Question Whether the Parliaments Proceedings be Rebellious unbecoming Subjects or just and Loyal If Rebellious then it may seem Stratagem and duty to the King in such Commanders entrusted by the Parliament to renounce their trust and serve the Enemy If the Parliament be good and faithful Subjects as they will rather sacrifice their lives to the Justice of their Cause then fail to Vindicate their Credit from the stain of Rebellion then it is Treachery in those Commanders to undertake afterwards to desert such Trust That such foul dealing hath been practised occasioning the protraction of this War is manifest on which side most future Ages or the Sword will manifest If it be answered by way of excuse as no crimes whatsoever shall want a patron in these divided times That such dealing is a vertue practisable in relation to a Kings Safety in danger to be destroyed and that breach of Faith of Trust never so Solemnly made or any other the like means may be used in Order to His preservation Answer This Argument may be Fallacy à petitione Principii or à non concessis which manner of disputing can enlarge ad infinitum and as the Logicians speak The reply thereto may be unto such an Argument that there is no such detestable and desperate design in being or known or granted Where by the way and to prevent the mistake ☞ of our duty and Allegiance which we should owe to our Soveraign if any exquisite wits of a more nimble discerning reach then their fellow Subjects pretending a greater care to His Majesties welfare have heretofore found out by privy and dark passages by any secrecy of contrivance any such wicked and execrable intendments against the Kings Person or Honor or deeming all others not partaking in their sagacity Ignorant in State affairs dull and vulgar spirited Let them make known unto their fellow Subjects the time the means and manner of that intendment before the whole Land be totally destroyed or a full Conquest be obtained for afterwards all writers will report one way in favour of the Victors side then also the victory not the Cause will point out and set forth the Rebel That two or three Gentlemen since Members of the House of Commons together with a Noble Peer in the House of Lords dwelling in neighbouring Counties each to other and sojourning about seven or eight years since with a Gentleman a neighbour and friend of theirs did during the time of their sojourning there therefore agree to overthrow Monarchial Government or intend any thing against the Honor or Person of the King if neither of these appeared by their discourse Letters or other Acts in writing the Arguer shews more his spleen against those Gentlemen then his Reason in deducing any good Connexion between the Antecedent and Conclusion Observe on the other side one among many other presumptions of some Design in hand from the advers party then let the Reader judge on which side is the more weighty and vehement presumption of Acting mischief of complotting alterations in matter of Government which the more rational Consequence that instance which went before even now recited or this which follows namely the building strong and high walls by a great Peer of this Realm to his house no other notice taken until now save of beautifying and adorning the house for his private use and splendour the divers Pieces of Ammunition credibly informed to be caried thither by little and little for these many years last past and now one of the strongest Holds the Kings party hath in all South-Wales to infest and oppose the Parliaments party Whilest the truth of such Plot of overthrowing Monarchial Government of some mischievous intendment against the Kings Majesty if any such there be suggested is no more manifested to the World it may be an Imposture framed and obtruded on the Parliament by some offenders who to save themselves have contrived this Calumny and Falshood on purpose to engage the King to rescue them The Parliament when this report was first given consisted of above Five hundred Members in both Houses And whether they having all Protested for the Kings Honor Person and Estate would against the dictate of their own Conscience against their natural and sworn Allegiance infringe this Vow to commit wilful Perjury and Treason Or that if it be objected That the Design was the drift only of some few accused and stiled factious persons solliciting and awing others then to assign who those few persons were and rather to blame the Counties and Corporations chusing such Questionlesse when first chosen their chusers suspected no such Crime in them and whether men known and chosen for their vertue would accumulate such Villanies as those Such a Design must be given out at least to save the credit of some revolting who having undertaken the charge and care of their several Counties to them deputed were at first active in their Musterings and Military practises Soon after whether wrought by Friends Allies or for some other respect did desist charging the Parliament or some of them in general terms with some strange intended Plot against the King

already in derision The Cause Secondly In that a forraign Enemy upon a total devastation of this Realm without which the King cannot probably prevail will be induced to believe and accordingly make use of it that it hath happened through the soft and tender breeding of the English their unfitnesse to endure the hardship of a War and so invade and by degrees implant this Kingdom And what a Forraigner implanted here his Demeanour may prove towards our King not naturally their liege Lord every good English Subject will fear the worst when as especially this Kingdom must be kept as NAPLES by a Sir VValter Raughleigh in his Dialogue betwixt a Councellor of state and a Iustice of peace Garison of another Nation so that the King shall be enforced as former Kings have been to compound with Rogues and Rebels yea to pardon them thereby Himself the whole Nobility yea the State of Monarchy to fall together To state the differences of Forces on either part when the quarrel first began the Parliament had far the greater * The number of the Friends and Adversaries unto either part are calculated and their several Forts discerned about the middle of this Book and which part was in probability like to finde the greater opposition the King or the Parliament as matters were then in being in which it will appear that the Parliament had the more Enemies or their Enemies the more Friends number the King having but few yet more then the Parliament had Towns of Fort as his party have Calculated and hyperbolically reported otherwise most mens hearts being bent to defend their Rights and Liberties which they thought were of late encroached upon and indeed the Off-spring of this Quarrel and the Parliaments Friends believing the Justice of that Court and of their Cause in a carelesse way of affording Ayd threw all upon the chance of War without using the ordinary means concurrent to their defence not foreseeing what would be the end and mischief of their backwardness and neglect to be repented of not remedied They were willing enough to have redresse for their late-past grievances to have the work done and the Parliament speed well at their Neighbours charge so themselves be saved harmlesse but to lay out money and purchase the name of a Rebel in case the Kings party should prevail was both a chargeable and double Crime Then their unwillingnesse to be exposed to the hardship of a War to which they were altogether unaccustomed believing in the goodnesse and sufficiency of their Cause to have it made good in an extraordinary way by Miracles without laying to their assisting hand so casting the whole burden upon God and his Omnipotency did wish well and pray peradventure for the Parliaments Successe For now every short enjoyment of their quiet every small respite from the Enemies cruelty although the next bordering Counties unto them be infested round about with their cruelty makes these men apprehend that the War is ended because their Coast is for the present clear and they feel no instant smart It is true Gods Providence is in all things to be observed it is as his Omnipotency Infinite and Superintendent to every Creature No one hair falls from a mans head nor a Sparrow from the house top without his Providence The same Almighty power which could rescue his three Servants out of the fiery Furnace and provide strength of the mouthes of Infant Babes is able but whether he will or not his works being unsearchable and his ways past finding out give successe according to the peoples wishing without the ordinary means to be used by Instruments that is left to his secret and determinate Councel There is a time for War and a time for Peace the Lord is a man of War his Name is JEHOVAH and Fighting in a qualified sence as Praying is a duty DAVID blessed God for teaching his hands to War c. And Prayer is a Christians a contrite and good mans Arms. Had we in Unity and Humblenesse of Spirit in the Power without the Form of Godlinesse besought Almighty God to be delivered from Famine Battel Murder and from Sudden death as the Church directs These Calamities had not in likelihood come nigh which threaten now to come upon us like an Armed man Beseeching God by Prayer might peradventure be the Peoples sacrifice alone neglecting otherwise their own endeavors and carelesly trusting if at all upon God his Providence they think sufficient which is confest In which they may alike consider That if the Kings party shall prevail or the whole Land be consumed and reduced even to a handful It is all within the compasse of Gods power The Lot is cast but the disposing is of the Lord And certainly that side which useth the best and most concurrent means to his dispose the Justice of the Cause is challenged by either party is likely to have the upper hand Praying and relying on the Almighty goodness seldom fails the Petitioner God ever giving what he prayeth for what suffices or what is better then he asks but the means must be added to the prayer Qui ordinat finem ordinat etiam media tendentia ad finem Moses at the coming of the Amalakites besought the Lord by prayer yet commanded Joshua to choose out men to fight with Amalck God is in all things the first Mover by whom we move and have our being he the Super-eminent and first cause yet working by subservient and second means we are his People and Members of his Church Militant against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail In the Creation his own glory was the effect of his chief care manifested unto us his Creatures his next affording us all necessaries for our support and good he looks to be sought unto and trusted upon in that course of obedience which he hath ordained in conveying that unto us which we look for at his hands otherwise he is rather slighted then trusted on Had the people been so liberal in Contributing to to their own Defence so provident to have foreseen that within one year after their improvidence they should have been thus opprest in the progress of one year more undone they would questionlesse have been more liberal and concurred more cheerfully in Contributing to their own Assistance For within a few Moneths after the War began many in the Kingdom fell off from the Parliament and under fear and the notion of being reputed Rebels thought it made against their present safety to wish well to the Parliament a Court scarce known in the Countrey and discontinued in the Kingdom much more to fight for it And hearing of divers invective Threats and Menaces to that purpose as if their Endeavors for the Parliament did make against the King and so resemble a Rebellion thought it altogether unsafe to adhere to the Parliament So the Kings strength increasing through the fear and revolt of many formerly engaged to the other part he gained

the common good of the place wherein they live do negotiate and privily drive the Enemies interest like a viperous brood eating out the bowels of their parent by whom and under whose protection they live and have their being The mercy shewn to these is Cruelty to the rest and these mens mercies in case their party shall prevail will exceed what is called Cruelty The Concord should be as the Obligation is general and reciprocal for the mutual safety of the whole Body Politique the City hath a long time been as famous as any in EUROPE for their * More remarkably manifested in this instant happy and well framed Vnion and Agreement prudently preventing the mischiefs which might have befallen in case they had not agreed as an entire society notwithstanding the many and several sorts of divisions occasioned by these Commotions wisdom in all things expedient for their state dignity in their mutual traffique with all parts of Christendom and they are unworthy of their protection or to be entertained within their Limits who wisheth not their continual flourishing To divide thereby to lose so great a stake as the Publique good were a blemish to their Prudence Wisdom is more prone then folly to Dissention having in it a particle of Pride and self-conceit and naturally busie and curious in projecting in suspecting when as folly rests and contents it self with its own privations it faring commonly amongst the wiser sort of men as with the learneder of Physitians meeting to consult a Patients sicknesse Nomine eorum idem consente ne videatur Plinie accessio alterius until their dissenting in opinion disturbs and overthrows the Patients recovering hopes The City may differ in opinion about the means without disagreeing in their affections to the end the Common good and their own security involved therein least by crossing each others Acts and Councels they gain that to their Enemy which he thirsting for beyond and above half the Kingdom else cannot by his own wit and power As to their latter reason of these mens displeasure against the Parliament viz. their feeling of heavy payments or of one mans peradventure more heavy then his Neighbors It is a blessing and so it is termed that they and other parts of the Kingdom within the Jurisdiction of the Parliament do enjoy Peace within their Walls and Plenteousness within their Precincts as a Reward due for their Association and Accord although they pay for it whereas many Towns and Countreys elsewhere pay for dearly even to their undoings yet want that happinesse If amongst the rest of the partakers in this Quarrel Schollars the Clergy or a great part of them seem more Loyal more Affectionate to the King consequently the opposition being grown to the height more invective more advers to the Parliament upon a mistake had of the reason and end of the Parliaments proceedings concerning the Clergy the mistake is soon set right The Parliament in their just Estimate of what concerns the Clergy might have promoted the encouragement of Learning in a more equal distribution of Church-Livings then now it is without taking away the right of presentation from the true Patron yet by providing against the Lyon-like fellowship as the Proverb is Some all some never a whit or which is as bad that the more lazy and unlearned may not abound with what the more painful and learned want No indifferent man will think that there can be such an envy and disproportionate dealing in a prudent Laity endeavoring to Reform towards a learned Clergy the instrumental means of Reformation as that the one should check or discourage the growth and study of the other The wise and pious judgement of King James is yet fresh in memory which He left as a Legacy to Posterity of the esteem and reverence due and not to be denied to the Clergy of this Land speaking in His discourse of the Laws of this Kingdom of Gods own Laws which His Majesty did then complain were too much neglected and Church-men had too His speech in Star-Chamber in the 16. year of his Raign much in contempt for saith he great men Lords Judges and People of all sorts from the highest to the lowest have too much contemned them And God will not blesse us in our own Laws if we do not reverence his Law which cannot be except the Interpreters of it be respected and it is a sign of the later days drawing on even the contempt of the Church and of the Governors and Teachers thereof now in the Church of ENGLAND But of these kinde of advers persons last mentioned there be two sorts the one an ignorant and proud which commonly go together the more ignorant the more proud The Gale of their empty Tumour were retarded in their aspiring Course if their Bottoms were Ballassed with the solid part of man Humility The other a learned and judicious sort some of whom also may be Enemies making it a common Cause of engaging all Schollars against that Court on this surmise even now cleared That by the Parliaments endeavoring to restrain the Plurality of Church-Livings and the personal corruptions of Bishops all learning and the Seminaries thereof the Universities are discountenanced If the Universities partake of this adversnesse and disaffection as conceiving the Parliament would have made a more strict Inquisition into their Demeanor then the Visitors of Colledges their remisse Indulgency hath of latter times afforded The corruptions of those Seminaries is not so much of it self as of the negligent and discontinued over-sight in those whose proper charge it is to super-intend their course and maners Their Founders Munificent and Pious care from the first Institution of their benign intendments did purpose nothing more then an industrious and profitable course of life in the educating youth and fitting Schollars for the Church and Common-wealth which if the Founders purposes be through neglect and corruption of times perverted and that many the Fellows of Colledges there degenerating into a lazy and unprofitable life contrary to the Founders intent it were a blemish to the Government of a prudent and wise State finding out the Malady to passe it by without enquiring into the Cure Amongst the number of the parties in this Quarrel all mens Actions or Affections being engaged there be others advers enough although warily carrying it and disaffecting the one side to the heigth yet lying at a more subtile and close lock the Priscilianists Tu omnes Te nemo they know all men no man them and in their own eye play their game most cunningly contented to temper and tune their Tongues suitable to the persons with whom they do converse and to comply for the present with that side which they disaffect yet reserve an advers heart when opportunity shall serve These men should not take it ill if that side when prevailing shall deal with them in the like kinde to give them good words yet know them for their Enemies