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A40962	An expedient for the king, or, King Charls his peace-offering, sacrificed at the altar of peace, for a safe and well-grounded peace the welfare and happiness of all in generall, and every subject in particular, of his kingdom of England Behold! all ye that passe by, stand stil, and see the wonderful salvation of the Lord, which he hath wrought for the people of this kingdom, by his servant King Charls : Blessed are the peace-makers for they shall be called the children of God : Aske of the King, and he shal give you not stones, for bread, nor scorpions, for fish / studied and published for the honour of the King, and his posterity, and the universall happiness of the whole kingdom of England, by Richard Farrar, Esq.	Farrar, Richard, Esq.	1648 (1648)	Wing F520; ESTC R8687	30,129	43

Bloody Designs and Self-Interests and had you of the Clergy proceeded thus far you had done but your duty to God the King and the People and I am confident both sides would have stood at a gaze and not have been so forward as they were perhaps not at all proceeded to pass through such a Sea of blood as they have done and how many of both sides have perished in that red Sea from this world at the best I judg not of the next But was this course taken by you or if by some for I tax not all yet I never heard of any O no wo is me in stead of imitating our Saviour in these three particulars which all good Christians must imitate him in in his Life in his Love and in his Doctrine all of them imitated strictly by the Apostles I say in all these three the Clergy generally to our view have opposed our Saviour Christ in a strange manner First in his Life that was poverty and contempt all along from the Cradle to the Cross Yours as full of Glory Jollity and Honor as you can advance it Secondly in his Love he was all Love he preached it he practised it My Peace I leave with you That was Christs Legacy How well have you disposed of it or what executors are you of this his last Will and Testament He abrogates the old Law in that particular where it was said of old An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth c. But I say unto you it shall be so no more You shall love your enemies c. And behold I bring you a new Commandment that you love one another This was spoken to all the world of Beleevers much more to you who profess to be the Embassadors of Christ as you do You take Texts out of the Old Testament in opposition to Christ Curse ye Merosh and you incourage to fight and cry The Cause is good it is Gods I speak to both sides yea and you conjure the people to fight in the name of the Lord tell them they are Martyrs they cannot miss Heaven if they dye for the Cause such Martyrdom God deliver me from The Conscience not the Cause makes a Martyr and if that be not purged by the blood of Christ in true Faith and Repentance though a man suffers Martyrdom for Christ he is no Martyr He whom God calls to be a Martyr he fits him first and makes him a Martyr to the world in crucifying the lusts of it and sure men that fight for power though Kings or Subjects for Priviledges Liberty are not so wel seasoned with Self-Denial as is requisite to make a Martyr And for the Doctrine of Christ it was humility Learn of me for I am humble meek OGod have you of the Clergy practised this humility and meekness Nay have you not boldly to the world exprest the contrary in most of your conversations Had there been a Palsie in your tongues your tongues set on fire from hell as the Apostle speaks and in your hands this Kingdom had been happy Ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi Did I say you do You ever did and you will do till the time come that Malachi the Prophet speaks of I hope neerer at hand then you beleeve were you true Prophets you would tremble at the Text and by the Spirit of Prophesie discern the time Malachi 3. 3. He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of Silver and he shall purifie the sons of Levi And doubtless that is not the Reformation that you pretend to you do but take up the Stone and turn the other side It is you that have put us all in a flame your Tribe hath done and doth it all the world over Is there any evil in a Kingdom or rather this great evil in this Kingdom and have not you done it You have either done it or had the greatest share in doing it or not hindered it when you might you seek your own and not the things of God God forgive you why do you not imitate Saint Paul Be ye f●llowers of me as I am of Christ if he had erred that way which he could hardly do yet he forbids to follow it and must we follow you when you command things contrary to Christ But great is your Diana and you voyce her high up she is for all your roaring but an Idol she cannot stand she is falling she is falling Our Saviour says He that is greatest amongst you shall be the least and he that is least among you in the Clergy would be greater then the Civil Magistrate if he could Oh the ambition of the Priesthood Read the Prophets of old against the Priests and is not the Priesthood of these times worse compare them together What Aaron before Moses it was not so of old Nor will God ever have it so where his Spirit governs The Luciferian Pride Ambition and Covetousness of the Clergy is not the least quarrel God hath with this Nation what will you say or answer When God comes to make inquisition for blood where is the Vrim and Thummim in Aarons brest-plate it was purity of Doctrine and Integrity of Life I fear it is not to be found in your hearts in your Doctrine nor Life Open your eyes the time is yet Repent and amend Great would be the joy in Heaven for such sinners more then for any and great would your glory be here and hereafter Return O Shulamite return return and be not ashamed to do it Your example on all hands I am perswaded if sincere would strongly build us up in a better way A worse then you have taught us and a worse then we are in out of hell is not If the Apostle say Contention strife debate is carnal earthly divellish What is Plundering Murdering Ravishing Robbing and Confounding How can a man of God appear in a Pulpit and not Preach and speak against it pray against it print against it and lo you have done the contrary Shall I praise you I praise you not God forgive you with my soul I beg it To conclude for Gods sake inform me I am a poor weak man What warrant in Religion to Fast for strife and to give thanks for Victories and shedding blood both sides King and Parliament have done it God have mercy on them for it How can you approve of it ye sons of Levi Look into your Consciences those Glasses which will not cannot flatter and say How comes this to pass Where are you O God That I a poor ignorant man am forced to tell you and the world this Amend and that suddenly Preach love and practise it Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he comes shall finde so doing or as the sin now lies at your door and the whole Kingdom it is to be feared will curse you for it so a heavy and sad unexpected punishment here and hereafter must happen to you without Repentance

what our Saviour saith Matth. 24. 48. But if that evil servant shall say in his heart my lord delayeth his coming and shall begin to smite his fellow servants c. The Lord of that servant shall come in a day that he looketh not for him and in an hour that he is not aware of and shall cut him assunder and appoint him his portion with Hypocrites there shall be weeping and gnashing of Teeth Our Saviour denonneeth all this woe but for smiting of a fellow servant what would he have said of Plundering Murdering Ravishing utterly ruining the poor the Fatherlesse and the widows This is violence in a high degree and how Guilty the Souldiers of this land on both sides King and Parliament have been in all this seven years war I leave to God to judge and those to lament it who have seen and felt it I know will the common question shall we stand still and have our Throates cut I say not so I know offences must come Christ says it but he likewise saith woe be to them by whom offences doe come And the Apostle sayes have Peace with all men if it be possible he doeth not for all that add but if you cannot have Peace Peacefully fight kill c. O no he could not preach such a doctrine how easy were it to spend sheets of paper to prove this by very texts of Scripture viz. the unlawfulnesse and wickednesse of war yet I am no Anabaptist Are the works of war from the Principles of light and love if so well and good happy your souls if not and there be self-interest in it Pride Malice Rage Revenge Ill yea ill indeed is it with your souls without Repentance no man repents who forsakes not the evill way●● I am sure those works come out of the Principle of Fire and darknesse out of Hell it self And such a people such a God saith the Psalmist His servants ye are whom ye obey with the froward thou art Froward and with the holy thou art holy saith the Psalmist speaking of God God still But God in his Excellency is Love for God saith the Apostle is Love and for certain the Children of God are the sons of Peace My Peace I leave with you was our Saviours Legacy To conclude no man I say no Man must doe evil that good may come of it and I am sure our war for these eight years hath done no good in Church or state though God knows best where a True Church is and we poor subjects can at the present scarce discern where the state is involved on all hands with misteries and ruines And for any man be he Emperour or King State or Republick I am confident the sin as great yea greater then great in the eyes of God to begin a War and if the hearts of such were searched as God can doth and will it would be found it is Self-Interest let them plead and say what they wil and to fight for Religion for Reformation be they who they will they have no true Christian Religion in them Religion by all Kings since Christs time hath been made but the stalking horse to catch up their other ends in the world Without holiness no man shall see God Is there holiness in War be not deceived God will not be mocked Let the Souldier therefore lay by all Self-Interest in your Declarations you have professed it and seek the Peace of the Kingdom the setling of the King in his just Rights Him and his Children the Parliament in their Priviledges the Subject in their true Liberties from Tyrannical Government and Arbitrary too You have promised it do it and the King I beleeve is ready to perform his part but do it by Love by Peace and God shall bless you and you shall find rest to your souls but if you proceed to do it by blood on that you will have a Peace of your own moulding I pray remember your own words p. 4. nothing more abhorring to you then a new flame of War I fear that will not discover the practise of Self-Denial to be yet embraced of you and had you all your desires for this world as I am confident the Souldiers profession Kings and Subjects have rarely or never obtained their hopes the reason is the blood that is by them spilt which God abhors Look upon the King of Swede see his end kil'd in a Battel by one of his own side it is thought and see yet how his people fare and what rest have they or when are they like to have any Yet what shall it profit a man saith Christ beleeve him ye men of War to win the whole world that 's more then a Kingdom and lose his own soul I speak to all who adore and dote on that Heathen God Mars War rightly interpreted according to the Dialect of the Holy Ghost by the Apostles in divers places the very Devil himself Now the works of the flesh saith S. Paul Gal. 5. 19. are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witcheraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envyings Murthers Drunkenness Revelings and such like of the which I tell you now as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not wherit the Kingdom of God But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit Let us not be desirous of vain-glory provoking one another envying one another You have held out Reformation in Church and State take heed of Deformation in both or rather utter ruin of all where is your Commission to proceed in blood Learn of me saith Christ for I am humble and meek Is there meekness in War He that taketh up the sword shall perish with the sword saith Christ I know well he once asked his Disciples for a sword he was answered there were two he said it was enough and perhaps thought it too much he did not bid them use it nor did he ever make use of it or command it but the contrary You are Subjects as well as I am remember you are so and you are or were Servants also to the Parliament who employed you Act both parts according to Reason and Religion and then this bleeding Kingdom shall ow no small share of its happiness to you but if you fail to do it assure your selves the end cannot be good Love is the fulfilling of the Law Now the God of Peace and the Peace of God which passeth all understanding keep your hearts and minds in the Fear and Love of God c. So prays he that beleeves no man should dare to say the Lords Prayer Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us if he wash his hands in the

blood of another by War Who is My Lord Your Excellencies most humble Servant Richard Farrar TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE Lord Major The Right Worshipfull the Aldermen the Worshipfull the Common Counsel and every Free-man of the Citie of LONDON THis great M●tropolis of yours lifts not up her head so high but that having so boldly adventured upon the Clemency of his Sacred Majestie the patience of the two Honorable houses of Parliament the Freedom of my speech to the Clergy the high priests Scribes and Pharisees of this Kingdom and the hazard of distasting the Army An Army and such an Army as hath made your proud walls shake at the very sight of it and for ought I know or you eith●r the earth-quake 〈◊〉 yet past I may presume to crie aloud in your gates and to proclaim in your streets that if any citie in the Christian world had need to be summoned to Self-Denyall It is this great citie whose Inhabitants were grown so proud with prosperity that they said in their hearts 〈◊〉 least and too much exprest it in their words and actions a Babylon did Revel. 18. 7. Shee said in her heart I sit a Queen I am no widow ●nd shall see no sorrow therefore shall her 〈…〉 c. And did not you eight or ten years since sit as a Queen in your bed of State and rest but lo Almighty God brought war into your gates and the sword into your Stately Palaces and your young men felt it you made but a sport of it at the first you courted the sons of Mars and you discovered all your wealth unto them as Hezekiah did to those that were sent from Babylon read the place the 20. Chapter of the second of Kings beginning at the 1● verse untill the 20. I pray God it have no allusion in time to your citie and now after seven years Apprenticeship are you not weary would you not be made free Remember those dayes of peace when every man did eat of his own vine and sate under his own fig-tree did you make good use of it no you grew wanton with ease and proud with folly and therefore God sent war amongst you your hearts were alwayes various from the wayes of God and therefore God suffered you to be diversly minded to make way for your destruction and now at last for your wickednesse hath suffered the spirit of giddinesse and divisions to be even in the midst of your citie yea in every corner of it and it is just with you for you were so far from Self-Denyall that you denyed your selves nothing you had a mind to I passe by the excesse of pride in apparell like Princes rather then Apprentises and for Gluttony and Luxury the world could not match you I say nothing of your Epicurisme every way with your neglect of the poor that dayly beg'd at your doors I speak not this to all I am confident God hath a Remnant in this Citie who serve him most faithfully and who are not onely free from those sins but dayly lament them in others who stand in the Gap and for whose sake this Citie hath stood so long and doth yet stand Great hath been your Diana of profit and you have sacrificed so long at her shryne out of hope or fear that if God open not your eyes and that you suddenly repent your destruction is at hand Go into Self-Denyall or you shall have no peace lay aside all private and self-interests that of the Publicke Faith disbursements for Ireland Bishops Lands Excise Custome house c. and repent nor upbraid your for wardnesse at the first to help on the work had it been holy and pious The end shews plain now and it did long since appear you did it for your own ends it was fear or hope of profit put you on not the Zeal of Gods Glory the Honor of the King or the good of the kingdom I speak not this to all but to the most and chiefly to those whose private interests engage them now so hotly in the progresse of a war that the whole Kingdom is in hazard of utter Ruine look into your own hearts and say how true or false I speak if true make good use of it that is repent and amend and that not with cast down looks but humble hearts You petition for Peace it is well so you did once for War God forgive you but do you desire and pray that God will give you Peaceful minds one towards the other Do you endevor it Have you not like the rest of the world Peace in your mouths War in your hearts I wish I could forget that not many years since you cryed one day Hosanna and Crucifig the next If so you cannot 〈◊〉 deceive not your selves nor be you deceived by others that misguide you pray to God to open your eyes you are blind your wealth blinds you you cannot see where your safety lies Not in your selves not in your strength that is already proved not in your wealth you do but hoord it up for others unless God give you open and repentant hearts your safety lies in your Self-Denial and in your suffering not your doing away with all warlike and bloody designs you will be lost here and for ever by them add not to your former evils blood to blood there is no ill so great which you are not guilty of you have done like the rest of the Kingdom or rather you were their example You have sought your own and not the things of God nay you have fought for them more then once And now it is just with God to leave you a prey to your enemies Yet let me tell you your greatest enemies are not only within your walls but within your own brests It is your Treachery to God and to some body else hath betrayed you to hourly fears You look down to the earth you grovel there lift up your heads lift up your hands too but chiefly lift up your hearts to God from whom alone must come your salvation Do all you can for Peace in a godly way not by plots and strife We must not do ill that good may come of it This City hath a great account to give when God shall make inquisition for blood There is no worldly Counsel meer worldly can do you good God alone must do it by turning your hearts to him and to your lawful King and in your love to your fellow Subjects but add no more blood to blood The Militia of good consciences is better and safer for you then al your Arms or the Army if it were yours in the day of Trouble you will find it so If there be any means or power in you by Prayers to God Petitions to men or the opening of your purses in a peaceful way to procure Peace forbear not to do it Sero sapient Phryges Do it and that quickly for Gods sake for the Kings sake for your own sake for the whole Kingdoms sake

how you will answer when God shall come to make inquisition for Blood I know not how will you answer it you blood Subjects of this bleeding Nation who joy and delight in Blood and Revenge who regard not the cryes and the Teares of those poor Innocents which your swords make Widows and Orphans whose cryes yet ascend up into heaven and must without sudden repentance bring done a most unheard-of judgement upon this Nation For you the Subjects of this land who are not Souldiers are equally guilty in your willing Contribution to bothsides and how many of you are ruined by your own party to whom you gave assistance And it is just with God it should so be A Land so defiled with Blood that professed such purity of Christianity and hath practised on all hands the most horrid and barbarous Acts that ever were read of The Father against the Son the Son against the Father c. And doe you expect Peace by going on in Blood b●leeve no Minister that preacheth War lawfull Read my Epistle to the Clergy when they preach such stuff that 's some of the leaven which those Scribes and Pharisees mingle with their other good Doctrine and so spoile the whole Lump Alas did they not mix some good things with the bad who would come neer them Christ taught the contrary viz. Love one another by suffering never came ill but much ill by resisting beleeve Christ and follow his precepts and example he that teacheth you other is an Antichrist This Kingdom is highly guilty of all the sins that all the Prophets denounced judgements against in the old Testament Israel Judah or any other Nation I shall not need to name them Prov 6. 17. God hates hands that shed innocent blood Isa. 59. 7. Their feet run to evil they make haste to shed innocent Blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and destruction are in their paths the way of peace they know not c. read on to the end of the 15. verse and behold the Prophet speaks what we with our eyes have seen and do see daily acted by Authority on both sides in this miserable Land And now as if that it were not enough that the Land hath been made drunk with our Blood and God knows how much innocent The other Element of Water the Sea that must be died of a bloody Colour Preparations on all hands And for that sin of oppression of the poor and innocent never the like that hath been on both sides within these seven years and yet is In a word the crie of the sins of this Kingdom is gone up to Heaven like that of Sodom and Gomorrah without sudden repentance we must expect the like plagues had there not been and were there not still some righteous Lots amongst us sure we had been destroyed long since and when those righteous Souls dye away or depart Gods wrath will suddenly raine done upon us without Repentance to our utter Confusion Repent therefore and that suddenly and as I said before go into Self-Denyall be quiet let no man force you to fight on either side much lesss be forward to go your selves as too many have done and paid dear for it Pray but fight not fight against your lusts and worldly corruptions against all self-interests whatsoever that's Self-Denyall and then all will be well the Peacefull-minded their prayers with the Widows and Orphans if they prevaile not with God to turn the hearts of the wicked shall at one time or other prove of such strength that like the Angel that destroyed the host of Sennacherib in one night so shall Gods Judgements find hunt out and destroy the wicked out of the land who hate the Children of Peace and laugh at them for the Children of God are the Sons of Peace What would you have would you have a King a good King the best of Kings and would you have Peace Behold he brings you the Olive-branch of Peace by his Self-Denyall he denies or will deny himself for your good as never King did were the best of you a King it would not be found an easy thing you are Subjects and yet you cannot part with your petty private Interests Molehills to the Mountains of those of a King Look upon the Kings Picture of Mercy and Love in my first Expedient and upon his Covenant in this tract you are equally safe with himself A better safety then the Militia Look every Subject into his own heart for I write to all and deny himself but half as much for a Subject as the King for a King and I dare say we shall have Peace a blessed and a happy Peace a Pious Peace away with a Politick Peace it will never hold we shall have a Confident Peace on all sides away with a Jealous Peace a distrusted Peace Think of no Peace but what comes by the security of Self-Denial on all hands it is above all your Militia's and casts down all Malice If no Peace must be till the fearful hearts and guilty consciences of all men be satisfied then we must never look for Peace In what a condition are you then in O ye Inhabitants of this Land I write unto you all Consider of it And let those men be branded to all posterity who will take or receive no security but what is beyond all history or example as this truly is nay beyond all reason and thereby render themselves the progeny of Cain himself I say once more Consider of it To conclude if speaking truth to his Majesty to the Parliament no lye to the Synod orthodox Divinity to the Army what Christ himself preached to the City what their own Consciences know to be true and to you all the Subjects of the whole Kingdom of England I except none what you are most of you highly guilty of even by the very Word of God I say if This be Treason I am a Traytor a Traytor against all and let me suffer for it but let my Tryal be at the Judgment-seat of Love at the Bar of the New Testament my Saviour my Judg the Apostles my Jury and then proceed I fear not You have all of you King Priests and People pursued your own ends your Self-Interests and you must cast away your Babylonish garment and wedg of gold or God who can do it will spue you all out and give this Land to a more deserving People Not the Scots or Irish alas their Graves must be digg'd before your Funeral be fully solemnized or perhaps to some of your poor innocent babes who are not old like you in sins and iniquities they may perhaps partake of that blessed Peace you would but cannot have so long as you wilfully resist God in your abominable sins of Malice Envy Revenge Hatred Blood-thirstiness Covetousness and that which is the Center of all and contains all the mischief that is Self-Interest the only venom that hath of late years poysoned this goodly and once flourishing Kingdom Christ denyed himself who should not The King denies himself and you will not Oh beloved Countrymen I speak to the whole Kingdom I wish every Ear heard me look your selves in this glass that I have here presented you with it is not of so pure a chrystal as it might have been made but it will shew you plainly the ugliness of your painted holiness and rotten-heartedness to God your King and fellow-Subjects that so by a true Repentance forsaking the evil and doing the good you may come to a sight of your grievous sins of Gods infinite Mercy of your Kings abundant Love and your own future happiness which is uncessantly prayed for at the hand of God by The greatest Sinner of you all yet ready to sacrifice himself for a safe and wel-grounded PEACE Richard Farrar Errata Page 6. line 7. read fought for sought Pag. 29. l. 36. read that lives FINIS